This is interesting The World Cup is turning into the World Farce

The BBC finally getting something right for a change I wonder why the British population's trust in media is so low?

For a very brief period in time, we were riding at 37KPH, sometimes higher, without touching the pedals and on the flat This is what winds on the Tibetan Plateau at 3200m above sea level can do Unfortunately, at this time of year, they prevail against us, this was an anaomaly

Despite the nastiness of the BBC, this is actually good news for China Cults shouldn't be welcome anywhere, they most certainly are not in China

Very well said @RobbieBarwick note that 2 of the committee members clapped in approval and the 3rd member, Retd Admiral Barrie, confirmed your stance ASPI has gone awry. I suggest ASPI be disbanded and reformed with academics and experts not commercial (for profit) management

He's right again!

I love the way @RobbieBarwick challenges these so called experts @SamRoggeveen has never seen this instruction - we know this for a fact because it's never been given Therefore Sam is either lying or he's mistaken and his publication needs to issue a retraction and apology

Four books on poverty alleviation in China. I have about 30 more. The best of these is "China's Poverty Alleviation Operations" by Huang Chengwei, and published by China Intercontinental Press. It does an excellent job of showing how there were actually about 250 million people living in abject poverty in 1978. Sometimes people use 2011 poverty lines and project them backwards to 1980 with the false claim that there were 800 million people living in extreme poverty at that time. But this book gets the statistics right. But all the books have extremely useful information and use different villages and examples to explain the incredible work done by the people of China, and the Communist Party of China to end extreme poverty in 2020. They also discuss the contemporary efforts to continue this process to both prevent backward sliding and also to raise the poorest people's living standards eve further.

Anyone with any sense would realise they're being sold a lemon when the numbers look like this 43,200 views with only 39 likes??? Also, the entire quota of reposts are criticisms We're being sold lemons on China and X is one of the worst sales departments doing it

I just crossed the same region on the ground, on a bike We have a lot of stroeis to share when both our trips are done @commiepommie

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This'll stop sleepy drivers🤣🤣

So much of the US claims of "freedom of navigation" Bloody hypocrites!

People interested in how hard it is to ride a bike in Qinghai, on the Tibetan Plateau might be interested in my latest video from the "Roof of the World" We're only one day into a 1,950 kilometre expedition by bike to Xinjiang youtu.be/doCXiOhPt9Q

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This is extraordinarily rare. In fact, according to a key figure in the German business community (who is a dear friend of mine), it's unprecedented. An op-ed, two pages, centerpiece, in Germany’s most important economic newspaper (the Handelsblatt) that begs the German establishment to stop looking at China via the prism of propaganda. And it's by their Shanghai bureau chief - not some outside contributor. The title is "The China debate cannot continue like this!" and the article makes the case that it's suicidal, from a German and European standpoint, to keep reducing China to false caricatures rather than facts. In effect it's rubbish in, rubbish out: if you tell people lies about China - whichever direction they go (anti or pro) - then obviously the policies that come out will be rubbish, designed for a mirage of a country that exists only in people's imagination. Needless to say, this is absolutely music to my ears because it's literally the main point I've been making in my advocacy around China for now almost 10 years. Some are finally seeing the light... I also believe, as I argued in my article "Are Western media turning China-friendly?" last year (arnaudbertrand.substack.com/…) that this type of coverage was bound to happen, and there will be more and more of it. Why? For a very simple structural reason: China is now too powerful to coerce. The West, and Europe in particular, just don't have the leverage anymore. Which means that if you tell China to do something and they don't want to, they just won't do it. Period. In this situation, incapable of coercing, your only remaining choice is... convincing. And what do you need if you want to convince someone? Well, you need to understand them: understand how they think, how they behave, what drives them, what they actually want. In other words: the moment coercion stops being an option, not only does propaganda stop being useful, it begins to be actively harmful as genuine understand becomes a strategic necessity. Reality is finally becoming profitable again. Which means, if you're a journalist reading this and you're peddling some of your usual lies, describing China as some sort of cartoonish dictatorial dystopia that's simultaneously on the verge of collapse yet a "threat" to the whole world (in short, if you write on China for The Economist or the FT), be on notice: the real threat to your country isn't China. It's you.

Imagine China hosted a World Cup, the media would spin everything as propaganda but then fans visiting would be like: “travelling to different stadiums is sooo cheap and fast” “wait its ok to walk alone at night?” “why is the metro less than $1!?” “I can literally order anything to my hotel room within 20 minutes!?” would genuinely be one of the most powerful soft-power events of the century and make the fake version of China so much harder to sell.

I agree with this but find the comments below interesting (and amusing) In order to agree with it, I'm either paid by Putin or Xi, apparently, I'm not allowed to agree because I happen to think it's right No, I don't want to live in DPRK, I like China too much but will visit

What's really embarrassing about this is not that it happened but not one person had the guts to tell the world that it happened And this is the media we're supposed to believe - it comes out after Pelly's termination as a sour grapes story THE NEWS WE'RE SUPPOSED TO TRUST

China has officially broken ground on a major new waterway along the Yangtze River. Wondering why another lock system is needed when the Three Gorges Dam already exists? You’re not alone. Let’s break down the facts.