r/interestingasfuck • u/Red_Lotus_Alchemist • 2d ago

/r/all A Chinese earthquake rescue team deployed drones to light up the night and aid search and rescue operations after the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar.

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u/Amonamission 2d ago

Congrats America, you gave China the moral victory for the foreseeable future.

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u/RepeatRepeatR- 2d ago

There are countries in the world other than America and China, you know

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u/furthememes 2d ago

And they are not deploying light tower drones either

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u/heart-aroni 2d ago

Many countries but 2 "leaders" ahead in most metrics.

One of them retreating from the world and gradually closing itself off (US), and the other steadily opening up and expanding it's contribution and influence (China).

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u/diegoasecas 2d ago

they pretty much don't matter tbh

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u/BedBubbly317 2d ago

That have a very minor effect on the global scale in comparison to these two, as well as Russia. The truth is there’s really only 3 countries that truly run the world at this current moment, and every other country is more or less merely along for the ride.

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u/Not_a_real_ghost 2d ago

Yes, but let's face it: these countries are irrelevant to certain things. When the US decided to pull its support for Ukraine, it mattered because the entire war would change because of this. This is also why the EU is scrambling to reorganise because they are unfortunately unprepared. This is why China and the US are so significant. Everything they do will have a global effect.

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u/demlet 2d ago

This is just the beginning. In ten years America will be a political and cultural backwater and China will be running the world. America wants to be isolationist, well that's fair enough, and there may be good reasons to do it, but there will be consequences.

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u/LordBrandon 1d ago

RemindMe! 10 years

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u/demlet 1d ago

I mean sure, but I'm just a random Redditor. I have no idea what will happen if we're being completely honest. Hopefully not what I predicted in a particular pessimistic moment of frustration!

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u/LordBrandon 4h ago

Rough seas are coming, but several trends are likely to continue despite political instability. US relevance in movies, music, TV shows, video games, software, phones, is self sustaining. It will continue unless it is intentionally destroyed. China has demonstrated no ability to cultivate allies, and is itself very insular. It perpetually antagonizes every one of it's neighbors, with the possible exception of North Korea which antagonizes it. Even when it attempts things like the belt and road iniative, it has a hard time generating good will because of the terms it imposes. Since there is, as far as I can tell, now way to govern the whole world without a great deal of consent, China will continue to struggle with extending it's reach beyond it's immediate region.

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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 2d ago

I doubt the juntas will let western countries enter their borders, but your point stay very valid, America sabotaged their soft power in world records.

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u/847RandomNumbers345 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah, when someone tries to argue, I need to point out...

Do you know how many people were killed in Iraq? Total death toll was over a million. This was a invasion done entirely on false premises.

And there's the massive amount of destruction done against the Palestinians by the American sponsored Israel. Is china treating the Uyghurs the best? No. I don't know how bad it is. But they aren't massacring the minorities like Israel is. And even the most Pro-American propogandists aren't claiming China is massacring the Uyghurs.

Has china threatened [Insert Country]? Perhaps, but they aren't killing thousands if not millions of people, then making movies about how the killer soldiers are the real victims.

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u/Impossible-Bet-223 2d ago

Bring a civil engineer with you to this building .. he will see what corruption looks like.

I promise you there building codes are either ours or similar.

If they where built to code. We might have alot more alive citizens right now.

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u/dyorite 2d ago

The earthquake didn’t occur in China, it occurred in Myanmar, a country which has a lot of challenges with respect to government, public safety, etc., to say the least. Unclear what your comment has to do with the comment you’re replying to.

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u/SG4 2d ago

The building that collapsed was being built by a Chinese company.

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u/Ceron 2d ago

Damn, and I bet American companies follow US law in every country they operate in.

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u/BedBubbly317 2d ago

They don’t even follow them here.

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u/somersault_dolphin 2d ago

That's kind of ironic when the only building that collapsed in Bangkok was built by a Chinese company.

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u/carbon14th 2d ago

Well the key word should be 'being built'. There are a lot of buildings completely built by Chinese companies that did not collapse.

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u/SG4 2d ago edited 2d ago

The building was almost completed. It should've been able to withstand an earthquake just fine at that point. Here's a video on the subject.

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u/Napoleons_Peen 2d ago

So do you have an engineer explaining it or just some YouTube influencer whose entire channel is anti-CCP? Haha. The bar is slow low for you guys

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u/Impossible-Bet-223 2d ago

Lol ever heard of ASCE 7? Let me introduce you, then. https://archive.org/details/asce-7-22-minimum-design-loads-and-associated-criteria-for-buildings/page/n8/mode/1up

Go stay on your island and go read it, to get your answer.

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u/addiktion 2d ago

Moral victory lol. I mean China hasn't be involve nearly the amount of wars America has (yet), but CCP has very little morality in how they treat their citizens. Soon America won't be either.

But I hear ya, China is going to take advantage of the situation and try to earn kudo points on the world stage no doubt.

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u/Marken66 2d ago

What do you mean? Majority of the buildings that collapsed were China propaganda buildings poorly build with fake earthquake ratings. Don’t mistake China for good country with any morals. They knew what they built and this rescue operation will be fully billed to the Government at cost or mining rights.

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u/TheFerrousFerret 2d ago

Do you have a source on the building claims? Genuinely curious

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u/Hakashi57 2d ago

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thai-watchdog-had-flagged-concerns-building-that-collapsed-earthquake-2025-03-31/

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250401-chinese-developer-under-scrutiny-over-bangkok-tower-quake-collapse

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2992846/substandard-steel-used-in-collapsed-bangkok-tower

https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/01/china-censors-online-debate-bangkok-collapse/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thailand-earthquake-bangkok-building-collapse-investigation-china-italy-firms/

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u/somersault_dolphin 2d ago

That's one single building in Bangkok, which is valid. However, this is Chinese rescuing people in Myammar with multiple collapsed buildings, being the epicenter and all. Wrong country.

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u/CaesiumReaction 2d ago

Citing RFA is crazy

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u/PainterRude1394 2d ago

Ignoring all the other sources to avoid discussing the point is pretty crazy.

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u/CaesiumReaction 2d ago

I'm not discrediting the other points, and I do agree with the shady history China has with the quality of their buildings. However, RFA is not the source to cite.

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u/PainterRude1394 2d ago

By ignoring all the points and trying to shift the conversation to "I don't like one of your many sources backing your point" you are discrediting his points.

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u/SuckenOnemToes 2d ago

You want to know what else is crazy? That's not his only source. Pretty crazy right?

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u/TheFerrousFerret 2d ago

Appreciate it, thanks mate

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u/UnremarkabklyUseless 2d ago

The guy above mentioning 'China propaganda buidlings' is clearly biased.

Just because a Surfside condominium collapsed in Florida kilking 98 due to substandard condominium construction and maintenance doesn't mean that US is a bad country.

Greedy & evil people who value money over safety exist everywhere.

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u/Somepotato 2d ago

I don't think anyone said the US doesn't have corruption

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u/Marken66 2d ago edited 2d ago

I found the Winnie the Poo Poo propaganda guy! That condo collapsed because the building was not doing the maintenance required. CCP is out there making futuristic tofu buildings that barely stand so they can say they developing and raising a quality of life in other countries in exchange for natural resources and good pr. Every major China project collapsed, look at the train station in Serbia built out of ramen noodles lol

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u/UnremarkabklyUseless 2d ago

Found the China-bad propaganda guy who thinks a private condominium project in Thailand is a government initiative.

Every major China project collapsed, look at

Source please?

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u/Marken66 2d ago

Just use google, we don’t censor it in the west https://apnews.com/article/serbia-roof-collapse-china-protests-3cfa282938b1ddec12c4795b9ecb3e95#

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u/UnremarkabklyUseless 2d ago

That is not really a conclusive example for 'every project by China has collapsed'.

This was a joint renovation work of a 60-year railway old railways station by both Serbia and China. Could have been due to sub-standard material or human error from either Chinese or Serbian side or just miscalculation of the integrity of existing roof structure. Nothing was conclusive there.

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u/Ryeballs 2d ago

I think they’re implying that most technology developments out of America lately have been focused on wealth extraction and not innovation

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u/CosmicJ 2d ago

No, they were talking about the recent cuts to USAID. There were skilled emergency response / disaster relief teams specially trained in earthquake response that were funded by USAID that were no longer in service because of the cuts.