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/jrm70210 2d ago

My cousin, a US Marine, just came back from vacation in China and told me that they're "100 years ahead of us."

This is what happens when you reinforce intelligence over ignorance.

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u/bion93 2d ago edited 1d ago

I have been in China last summer. I thought that China appears to my eyes just like the US appeared to my father in the ‘80-‘90s. Simply the future, amazing technology and social development. He was in the US very often at that time because he worked in the (small) Italian equivalent of NASA, so there were many shared job with NASA. He have always come back with stuffs that here in italy did not exist and it was always a WOW for me as a kid. Like the first mobile phone he bought in the US (here it was useless, there wasn’t a line still lol). Now, I have been in the same year in NYC and Shanghai. I don’t mean that NYC is a representation of the whole US, it’s just a city in a huge country. But I saw a decadent empire, a lot of social degradation (homeless, drugs, dirty, crazy traffic) versus the future: lights, cars showrooms, drone lights shows, absolute safety at every hour and efficiency.

It’s crazy that everyone marks chiana as a dictatorship and almost as a third world country. Yes, it’s not an example of democracy, but many people think that China is like Iran or North Korea. No way. People are happy there. Maybe our Eurocentric point of view of the history of the world makes us think that ours is the only possible form of government. It’s not. Is it the best? Maybe, but only future generations can tell. We should leave our idea that all world must be like the west!

EDIT: I can’t answer to every single comment, but I want to make clear that I’m not saying that China is perfect or everyone is happy there. I’m not saying that. I said that it’s different from our propaganda. People are free more than we think and regime is less oppressive than 30 years ago. For example the VPN ban is not strictly enforced and people can easily have instagram or google, but they simply don’t need our internet because they have better alternatives.

Also about the genocide of Uyghur: I don’t think that some genocides are better than others. A genocide is wrong, always. It’s a crime. “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone“ I would say. It’s better if we stop our crimes (see Palestine and the countless wars the western world caused in the last century) before talking about others with our superiority judgment. I am sure that also the smallest European country dropped more bombs than China in the last 100 years.

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u/WorldwearyMan 2d ago

I’ve travelled a lot over the last 35 years and when in China was amazed and surprised by how content/happy most people seemed to be compared to most countries I’ve visited. Just my impression. Side note, Russian people in the early ‘90s seemed the most unhappy

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u/Cheesefactory8669 2d ago

I don't think we're seeing the same people, from what I can see a lot of them work a 9 hour job 6 days a week they ain't that happy

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u/BigEarl139 2d ago

Lmao have you ever been to China?

Your only experience is internet propaganda from non-Chinese individuals. These guys are giving first hand experience on the ground and y’all still refuse to believe it.

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u/Beat_the_Deadites 2d ago

Happiness is relative though. If you've gone from working 60 or 70 hours a week to 54, you're going to be thrilled. If you've gone from working 40 hours a week to 54, you're going to be pissed and exhausted.

China has built up so much so fast, they leapfrogged a lot of the West. They look and feel powerful, which feels great. That also involved bulldozing a lot of history and displacing a lot of poorer people, things that aren't easily done in democracies. Individual human rights will keep western cities looking basically the same until there's enough blight that people not only accept change, but demand it.

By the time that happens, China's shine will have worn off, and maybe India or Nigeria or Indonesia will be the hot new thing. The cycles are long.

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u/Tomas2891 2d ago

This is the country that had suicide nets in their Foxconn plant. They are overworked

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u/SolidCake 2d ago

Lmao youre referring to foxconn in taiwan

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u/lxlxnde 2d ago

That was coming up on 15 years ago, and wages have since more than doubled over there. I encourage you to find an up to date argument.

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u/Darkmayday 2d ago

Foxconn is taiwan. This is how clueless Redditors are about China lmao. And yet you keep running your mouth

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u/Tomas2891 1d ago

It was in Longhua Shenzhen. Keep lying to yourself though if it makes your CCP happy.

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u/Darkmayday 1d ago edited 1d ago

And there are suicide nets on the golden gate bridge. Is everyone in san fran depressed? This is your brain on US red scare propaganda

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u/EducationalNinja3550 2d ago

Less suicides per capita than the US, but the americans don’t put up suicide nets

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u/Kellowip 2d ago

Yeah, I'm sure the Uighurs are very happy in their concentration camps

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u/heart-aroni 2d ago edited 2d ago

Have you ever seen videos from Xinjiang?

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u/Kellowip 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes i have https://youtu.be/4jbfLb7gS84?si=VEQkqMqlcUtS4xS5

Is a random YouTuber really the source that will form your opinion? Do you think they'll let these kind of travellers even close to any of the relevant camps? I don't doubt anything in the video, I'm sure Kashgar is nice and i would love to go there. But if you are watching any of the videos reporting on the camps one thing you will always see is people being followed by undercover agents and ultimately escorted off

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u/TrumpDesWillens 2d ago

You should go overthere now and report on what you see:

https://www.kayak.com/flights/NYC-URC/2025-05-01?ucs=19m6tl0

Flights from NYC to there, nobody is stopping you.

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u/medlzk 2d ago

Educate yourself https://uwidata.com/16190-10-imperialist-lies-about-chinas-uyghur-population-and-the-truth/

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u/CelestialFury 2d ago

Do you have an actual source? This Turkey registered website is extremely biased.

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u/medlzk 2d ago

Not the point, read the thing and follow the rabbit yourself. The Guardian or NYT are just as biased, if not more. Realize the occidental internet being full of occidental sources is de facto full of occidental propaganda. Xinjiang situation isn't perfectly clear and CCP isn't full of saints, but there is nuance out there that needs to be brought up.

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u/Kellowip 1d ago

Ok, here's Al Jazeera reporting on it: https://youtu.be/z9aLNxcokOE?si=U5WbsEKDd_jHKBwn

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u/CelestialFury 1d ago

Not the point,

lmao okay then

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u/Kellowip 1d ago

Lol, you are citing a Russian disinformation campaign by the man Prigozhin (of Wagner group fame) out of all people

"In 2020, media influence organization Project Lakhta, owned by Prigozhin, developed a new website, United World International (UWI)."

"United World International is an online news site which promotes pro-Russian disinformation. " https://sanctions.lursoft.lv/person/united-world-international/uk-15438

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u/Alternative-Mix7288 2d ago

How about the people the U.S. are currently putting in their concentration camps? I bet China's are far more humane, and not proper torture camps.

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u/Kellowip 1d ago

Two wrongs don't make a right

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u/Darkmayday 2d ago

Reeducation camps to fix radical Islam are better than the indiscriminate bombing and killing that US and Isreal love.

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u/Kellowip 1d ago

Two wrongs don't make a right

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u/Darkmayday 1d ago

Not wrong to curb extremist Islam through education. How else would you stop Islamic terrorist attacks? Through bombing them?

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u/Kellowip 1d ago

I doubt your assumption that the people imprisoned in those camps are extremist.

Also "education" is not what is happening in these types of camps.

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u/Darkmayday 1d ago

Then you clearly dont know about the terrorist attacks and rioting in Xinjiang. Do yourself a favour and get educated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China

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u/Kellowip 1d ago

It still does not warrant the imprisonment, torture and forced labour of a million Uyghurs. My point remains, your assumption that the camps are for mere "education" of "extremists" is very naive and clearly regurgitating CCP propaganda narrative

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