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Meanwhile in China...

Last posted Oct 09, 2021 at 08:24PM EDT. Added Sep 02, 2021 at 09:23PM EDT
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Gilan wrote:

>With these new implementations the South China Morning Post notes that violent titles which allow players to be good or bad wouldn't be seen favorably.

>"Some games have blurred moral boundaries. Players can choose to be either good or evil … but we don't think that games should give players this choice … and this must be altered," said the memo.

Why is it that authoritarian regimes always has these little euphemisms? "It must be altered, needs must be accommodated, disruptive elements have been … removed".

RIP Chinese Game developers, for a while it seemed like they were developing into their own and actually becoming a force in their own right. More broadly, RIP most of China's cultural output, they've cracked down on films, books, series and now it's new media and games.

From what I've seen it's a trademark of specifically post-revolutionary authoritarian regimes that use that kind of "revolutionary language". It's to separate themselves from the excess state violence that the previous regime. Doing exactly the same thing but framing it in revolutionary rhetoric it makes it far more palatable to the masses that support the regime.

The future looks grim

No!! wrote:

The future looks grim

Grim in the short term. Not in the long term; unhappiness with the status quo breeds discontent, which leads to a change or replacement of it. Society, however it will be in the future, would eventually rediscover what truly makes people happy. If a generation of people hundreds or thousands of years ago were happy with their life, why wouldn't a generation hundreds or thousands of years later also be happy?

welcome to the fourth turning

I would like to point out on the part under Anime, pg 5, where it says "Change or modify history…"

Which is absolutely rich coming from China since this happened.

That also applies to Tibet, or Taiwan, or even the Uighur Muslims.

Last edited Oct 04, 2021 at 02:08AM EDT

China is doomed.
China is doomed because of it's horrible demographic problems.
There are almost 38 Million more men than there are women in China. Due to the one child policy, and due to the millennia long cultural relic of men being the social security policy families would rely on, tens of millions of girls were either murdered or aborted. History has shown that when there is a massive over-abundance of men vs women in a society violence and war is soon to follow.
But here's the rub. In China, a family's retirement plan is literally their sons. There is pressure to have sons because if one successful son can make his way in the world they will take care of the parents. It's the root of Confucianism – which has deep, deep historic and cultural impact on Chinese culture and society.
This makes it so China is extremely dependent on it's male population for work, production, and retirement. This is the single most greatest achilles heel of China and why it cannot invade Taiwan – it would mean the deaths of thousands of sons.

Much of China is dependent on migrant workers from it's rural areas. In fact, almost half of Beijing's population today are migrant workers. Today. There are more migrant workers in China than the entirety of the US population. And the central region where these migrant workers are coming from? Since 2017 has had their birthrates drop by half. HALF.

China is growing old.
And it is a country that only introduced a social security pension system in less than a decade ago.
You wonder why they are adamant about their population being productive? why they got to show how tough they are?
The one child policy was the most disastrous and evil policy set forth by a government. It will haunt the Chinese for centuries to come.

The refugee crisis of Aghanistan could become an opportunity to China to bridge that gap. My country has an aging population and taking in immigrants was how they fixed it for some time

Chewybunny wrote:

China is doomed.
China is doomed because of it's horrible demographic problems.
There are almost 38 Million more men than there are women in China. Due to the one child policy, and due to the millennia long cultural relic of men being the social security policy families would rely on, tens of millions of girls were either murdered or aborted. History has shown that when there is a massive over-abundance of men vs women in a society violence and war is soon to follow.
But here's the rub. In China, a family's retirement plan is literally their sons. There is pressure to have sons because if one successful son can make his way in the world they will take care of the parents. It's the root of Confucianism – which has deep, deep historic and cultural impact on Chinese culture and society.
This makes it so China is extremely dependent on it's male population for work, production, and retirement. This is the single most greatest achilles heel of China and why it cannot invade Taiwan – it would mean the deaths of thousands of sons.

Much of China is dependent on migrant workers from it's rural areas. In fact, almost half of Beijing's population today are migrant workers. Today. There are more migrant workers in China than the entirety of the US population. And the central region where these migrant workers are coming from? Since 2017 has had their birthrates drop by half. HALF.

China is growing old.
And it is a country that only introduced a social security pension system in less than a decade ago.
You wonder why they are adamant about their population being productive? why they got to show how tough they are?
The one child policy was the most disastrous and evil policy set forth by a government. It will haunt the Chinese for centuries to come.

Not to mention that in China, currently blue collar work is beginning to become really looked down upon and many young Chinese are aspiring for the white collar life. That in turn will start to effect the supply of lower cost labor which is one of the big advantage China has for Manufacturing.

And more so currently, China is having power issues ala California. This in turn has caused and even bigger constrain on manufacturing especially in some of the heavy industrial areas of China such as Guangdong. This in turn has created less production time for things such as steel, aluminum, semiconductors, machinery and other things such as clothing and textiles. The cutbacks have had some of the real power intensive manufacturing only able to work two days out of the week. .

Between both the US port and Chinese port backlogs and now the power outages, it could encourage even more manufacturing to leave for elsewhere further reducing jobs in China as well.

Also theIr cities being super polluted while a lot less significant, probably doesn't help

thebigguy123 wrote:

The refugee crisis of Aghanistan could become an opportunity to China to bridge that gap. My country has an aging population and taking in immigrants was how they fixed it for some time

Over here in Hong Kong southeast Asian workers on working visa makes up 10% of the workforce.

Of interesting note that some Chinese companies like TCL have started expanding their production in other countries such as india and africa. Moving the industry to tertiary has always been expected.

I however doubt that migration policies would open up anytime soon because females are also working on blue collar jobs unlike what Chewybunny said.

No!! wrote:

Also theIr cities being super polluted while a lot less significant, probably doesn't help

I wouldn't say it's that insignificant, the rates of infection of HBV, Liver Cancer and Lung diseases from the rampant pollution is actually quite bad for China, they've actually being trying to crack down since it'll probably hurt their already bad demographics.

They're not well accounted for, due to the concept of the 'Pollutome' but deaths from pollution is one of the leading causes of death, and usually kills more in one year than Covid ever has globally.

Deaths aren't the only issue, there's some theories that the high crime rate in the 1970's-1990's was due to leaded gasoline / TEL (yes, we made the same mistake as the Romans). China's pollution may haunt them for a long time, even if the CCP falls.

EDIT: Not to mention that it's actually suffering from a water scarcity ! Unwise usage of their waterways had led to drying riverbeds and aquifer collapses. Much of what remains is polluted, and will be polluted for a long time to come even with efforts to clean up. Of course, they won't be the only major power to suffer from water scarcity from environmental mismanagement, but it's a big threat for them in the near-future.

Last edited Oct 06, 2021 at 11:56PM EDT