Chinese shenanigans

[kurogane]

that being said, ppl maybe say "made in taiwan" already reached the level. i agree with it and i think made in taiwan even has higher quallity than made in japan in some fields. but its because their mentality is japanized to some extent in their colonial era.

Taiwan is light years ahead of China in homebrewed quality...but calling it "Japanized?"

The Taiwanese themselves claim this so it's not that far fetched.

Yes they do, but it is. Far fetched. I can't remember the exact percentage but about 90% of Taiwanese became so after 1949, and the Kuomintang were hardly pro-Japanese in attitude or orientation. I think this recent revision is just them sucking up, though the infrastructural investments Japan made in the colonial era must have helped them get a leg up when it came time to build up Taiwan.

I think a lot of the Taiwan cheerleading is because they're Chinese but not Commies; they're Chinese it's okay to like. I find them really nice people, and much, much nicer than continentals or even Hong Kongers, but I have heard Taiwan itself is still a bit of a shithole. And I bought some Subaru parts from Taiwan and they didn't even fit, and yes, I checked the catalogue and all that. It wasn't worth sending them back so that was a waste of $100.

PS That Ramen story sounds like media BS, or the kid was a typical noodle slurping nancy. Do normal people actually think of that stuff as food? Even snack food? Fuck, have some potato chips. At least there's food in them.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I've been to Taiwan three times in the past few years. I was surprised at just how much it still had that developing country feel relative to South Korea. It's definitely a lot more run down overall and the people seem to be poorer. The Taiwanese are quiet, polite, and clean which is how they differ from the Chinese. Like the Chinese they're pretty boring socially. They don't drink much and don't really seem to know how to party. Of course those are only my impressions based on some short visits but most people I've spoken too seem to agree with me so I don't think I'm just pulling that stuff out of my ass.

Taiwan has had a bad guy in China to focus on since their "independence" so they didn't need to dwell on Japan's sins. They do seem to believe they learned their manners from the Japanese but I wonder if it's more of a case of China losing her manners during the Cultural Revolution.

[kurogane]

Yes to that. All the Taiwanese that moved to Vancouver seem to make lovely neighbours. A bit Bible-ish, but that can be ignored.
BTW, Is Korea not still a bit of a dive or a shithole? I haven't been there since 1987 and it was god awful when I was there except for those few square blocks around the old Imperial Palace or whatever it was that seems to be the focal point of all the Those Bad Japanese memorials.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Yes to that. All the Taiwanese that moved to Vancouver seem to make lovely neighbours. A bit Bible-ish, but that can be ignored.
BTW, Is Korea not still a bit of a dive or a shithole? I haven't been there since 1987 and it was god awful when I was there except for those few square blocks around the old Imperial Palace or whatever it was that seems to be the focal point of all the Those Bad Japanese memorials.

I was surprised by just how active the different temples were in Taiwan on a random afternoon. I don't mean Japanese-style superstitious fake praying either. I mean crowds of people singing hymns, lighting candles, and giving offerings to their pagan gods.

I've been to SK 9 or 10 time since my fist visit in '99 and it's definitely changed a lot. The people are a lot more polite, the streets cleaner, there's lot's of new development, and the overall vibe feels more first world than it used to. You also don't have to worry some racist prick with a chip on his shoulder is going to fight you for talking to their women which was pretty normal in the past. Prices are are unfortunately first world now too. Except hotels. They were much cheaper than in Taiwan. Even in Seoul you can get a nice clean room in a hotel that most people use as a love hotel for $30-$40 a night. In Taipei anything decent seemed to start at about $80.

[Takechanpoo]

China is allegedly using 'honeytraps' to get top secret info from British intelligence officials.

They are reportedly deploying "hundreds of beautiful women" who lure ex-MI6 officers into bed.

Intelligence chiefs have told Prime Minister David Cameron that spies from the Far East powerhouse pose a bigger threat to national security than the Islamic State.

A top secret MI6 memo claims Chinese spies are “aggressively” targeting members officials and their families.

It claims there's a particular focus on former officials with ongoing business or social interests in mainland China and Hong Kong.

But the highly classified documents warns other former officials could be targeted.

Several senior ex-spies have reportedly been propositioned by Chinese women.

Our source told the Daily Star : “The Chinese spy network has hundreds of beautiful women who tempt lonely men into bed, offer them great sex then engage in pillow talk. If that doesn’t work they will also use blackmail.”

Sources claim the Chinese Foreign Intelligence Service is also using cybercrime in a bid to steal secrets.

MI5 allegedly believes the cyber attacks against British companies originate from a secret cell within China’s People’s Liberation Army, known as Unit 61398.

The unit is thought to be staffed by hundreds of English-speaking computer experts who steal info from western powers.

The Chinese government denies the unit’s existence and refutes all allegations that it is involved in cyber espionage.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ch ... en-6747631

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japan as well should have been doing this kind of things...

[Samurai_Jerk]

3 teens from China will go to prison for a San Gabriel Valley attack on a classmate

Three Chinese students studying in the San Gabriel Valley will serve prison time for the kidnapping and assault of a classmate under a plea deal reached this week, ending a case that drew international headlines.

The attack in March of last year turned the spotlight on the growing number of so-called parachute kids — mostly Chinese students who live and attend school in Southern California while their parents remain in China.

Authorities alleged that Yunyao "Helen" Zhai, Yuhan "Coco" Yang and Xinlei "John" Zhang were part of a group of teens who forced Yiran "Camellia" Liu to use her hands to wipe cigarette butts and ice cream from the floor of a Rowland Heights ice cream parlor.

Liu, who was 18 at the time of the assault, testified that she was taken to a nearby park, stripped naked, kicked with high-heeled shoes, slapped and burned with cigarettes.

The three defendants, who are all now 19 years old, were charged with torture, kidnapping and assault. Attorneys for Zhai and Yang previously acknowledged that their clients participated in the attack. A lawyer for Zhang argued in court that his client was only a bystander.

At the preliminary hearing for the teens, a judge said the case reminded him of "Lord of the Flies," William Golding's 1954 novel about boys stranded on a deserted island.

Under the agreement with prosecutors, the trio will plead no contest to charges of kidnapping and assault, according to Deputy Dist. Atty. Casey Jarvis, who is prosecuting the case. Zhai will be sentenced to 13 years in prison, Yang to 10 and Zhang to six, he said.

Jarvis said his office agreed to drop the torture charge, which carries a sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole, because the teens had no criminal history.

"We felt in the interest of justice it was the right thing to do," Jarvis said.

[Takechanpoo]

in fukuoka and yamaguchi prefecture, police arrested 11 chinese youngers, who are college students and graduate students.
they entered addresses of vacant rooms of condos on the site of online shops, ordered digital cameras, laptops, tablets etc and scammed it.
the total amount of damage is allegedly 44 million yen.

http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/11042434/

[Taro Toporific]

The golden mega-Mao beheaded!

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'Mega Mao' no more as ridiculed golden statue destroyed
The Guardian | 2016/jan/08
Giant golden statue of Mao Zedong has been torn down in central China just days after the 36-metre effigy sparked an outpouring of criticism and ridicule. Photographs of Henan province’s “mega Mao”, which had reportedly been built in a rural corner of Tongxu county at a cost of 3m yuan (about £312,000), went viral this week after appearing on a Chinese website.
But a picture circulating on Friday showed that Mao was no more. The Great Helmsman’s hands, legs and feet appeared to have been hacked off, and a black cloth draped over his head.
More...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Chinese marines' desert operations point to long-range ambitions

BEIJING (Reuters) - Days after China passed a new law that for the first time permits its military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations, its marines began exercises in the western deserts of Xinjiang, more than 2,000 kilometers from the nearest ocean.

The continuing drills are an indication, analysts say, that the marines, who have traditionally trained for amphibious assault missions, are being honed into an elite force capable of deploying on land far from mainland China.

China's limited means to respond to threats abroad were highlighted by two incidents in November: when Islamic State executed a Chinese hostage, and the killing of three executives by Islamist militants who attacked a hotel in Mali.

China's new counter-terrorism law, passed in late December, is aimed at protecting its expanding global commercial and diplomatic interests. But China's military commanders are also trying to create a military in the likeness of the world's most dominant power projection force, analysts say.

"They study what the Americans have done very carefully and it's the mirror image effect," said Leszek Buszynski, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.

The cold weather training will improve the marines' ability to conduct "long-distance mobilization in unfamiliar regions", the deputy chief of staff of the Navy's South Sea fleet Li Xiaoyan said in a Ministry of Defense statement earlier this month.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Nanny nightmare: Chinese pair in French court over grisly murders

It started with a nannying job and ended with the parents chopped up in the bathtub: a Chinese couple go on trial in France Tuesday for a double murder worthy of a film plot.

The baffling case first came to light in June 2012 when two women jogging in the Vincennes forest east of Paris stumbled upon a human leg "cut off at the ankle", according to a judicial source. Two days later, a dog dug up part of a human torso.

Efforts to find the rest of the bodies were in vain, and all investigators could determine was that the body parts belonged to an Asian woman and man.

The discovery of the remains in the popular park came at the same time as Luka Rocco Magnotta, a Canadian convicted of killing and dismembering a Chinese student, was reported to have fled to Paris.

In an unusual twist, a Chinese couple turned themselves in to police just over a week after the macabre discovery, and admitted killing another Chinese couple, Ying Wang and her husband Liangsi Xu.

[matsuki]

Wow....why go through all that work and then turn yourselves in? Self Defense??

Psychological experts say Te Hu had no criminal leanings and Hui Zhang was "extremely intelligent" and dominated her husband.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Chinese airlines to unruly passengers: Enough is enough

Five Chinese airlines announced on Monday that they'll start putting restrictions on "uncivilized passengers," according to China's National Tourism Administration.

The five airlines -- Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Spring Airlines -- said in a joint statement that unruly passenger behaviors disrupting airline operations that resulted in administrative and criminal penalties will be recorded into a new list.

Those passengers whose behaviors are recorded in the list will face certain restrictions on their services, the airlines said.

The airlines said they'll also set up a new mechanism to share those recorded unruly passenger behaviors with airline and tourism authorities.

The move is an apparent attempt to improve tarnished images of Chinese air passengers due to occasional rowdy behaviors, as reported by CNN in the past.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Chinese military aircraft trespass into Japan, Korea airspace

Two Chinese military aircraft flew into South Korean and Japanese airspace, and Japan's Self-Defense Force fighter jets scrambled to intercept the planes.

Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff stated the two combat planes entered the Korea Air Defense Identification Zone, or KADIZ, on Sunday, Yonhap reported.

Kyodo News reported the aircraft were the Shaanxi Y-9 – a medium-size plane capable of transporting 25 tons of cargo.

The South Korea-identified airspace overlaps with China's, and China did not notify Seoul of its flight plans, South Korea said.

Jeon Ha-gyu, a spokesman for the South's Joint Chiefs, said South Korea detected the presence of unidentified aircraft in the area south of the peninsula. They were later identified as Chinese planes, and that they posed no military threat, Jeon said.

Jeon said Seoul took "necessary measures in surveillance and strategy" in response to China's planes, and that South Korea stands ready to respond to any incursions into exclusive South Korean airspace.

The two planes flew southwest of South Korea's Jeju Island, and after leaving KADIZ entered Japan's Air Defense Identification Zone, or JADIZ.

The planes flew over Tsushima Strait, an area between Korea and Japan before returning home, Kyodo News reported.

The Mainichi Shimbun reported Japanese fighter jets were dispatched to respond to the Chinese flying operation, and that it's likely the planes were on a mission to collect information on Japan's Aegis-class destroyers.

[matsuki]

They're probably looking for somewhere to move...

1/2 of China's surface water is untreatable for drinking and 1/4 of it is unusable for industrial uses. Also, it's estimated that 90% of underground water in China is polluted.

http://www.livescience.com/27862-china- ... blems.html

[Samurai_Jerk]

恭禧發財!!!

Hong Kong activists, police clash over holiday food stalls

Hong Kong’s Lunar New Year celebration descended into chaotic scenes as protesters and police, who fired warning shots into the air, clashed over a street market selling fish balls and other local holiday delicacies, leaving dozens injured and arrested.

The violence is the worst in Hong Kong since pro-democracy protests rocked the city in 2014, leaving a growing trust gap between the public and authorities.

Activists angered over authorities’ attempts to crack down on the food hawkers in a crowded Kowloon neighborhood held running battles with police into the early morning hours of Tuesday.

Protesters pelted officers with bottles and pieces of trash. Some threw garbage cans, plastic safety barriers and wood from shipping pallets at them. They also set fires on the street.

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying told reporters a mob had attacked police officers and journalists, and said the perpetrators would be prosecuted.

[Coligny]

HK !?

Kowlong...

How surprising...

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/gone... Not forgotten...

[Samurai_Jerk]

I looks like there was some monkey magic in China last week.

Entertainment
China Box Office Breaks World Record With $548M in One Week

China’s movie box office just smashed the world’s seven-day sales record for a single territory, racking up an astonishing $548 million in ticket sales over the Chinese New Year’s holiday period, plus Valentine’s Day on Sunday.

The record gross crushes the prior record set by North America six weeks ago, when Star Wars: The Force Awakens lifted the territory to $529.6 million from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1.

The record one-week haul also is considerably more than the Chinese box office generated for the entire year just one decade ago. In 2006, China’s total box office was approximately $327.5 million.

Hong Kong hitmaker Stephen Chow’s latest comedy Mermaid helped fuel the historic total, grossing $275.1 million for the week, according to data from Beijing-based box office monitor Ent Group.

Wong Jing and Andrew Lau's From Vegas to Macau III, starring Chow Yun Fat, came in second, pulling in $119.6 million in seven days. Fantasy blockbuster sequel The Monkey King 2, starring Aaron Kwok and Gong Li, also raced past the $100 million mark, earning $116.2 million.

[kurogane]

TRIGGER ALERT: the following story could cause your heart to drop

Woman's body found in China lift a month after workers switched off power
Maintenance crew detained after finding corpse when they returned to carry out repairs in the residential building in Xi'an
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... power.html

Some commentators are linking this story to the rapid rise of China's economy and as a sign of falling levels of public health and safety, but more level headed commentators seem to be arguing that such tragedies are simply part of the ups and downs of any sort of rapid development.

[Samurai_Jerk]

TRIGGER ALERT: the following story could cause your heart to drop

Woman's body found in China lift a month after workers switched off power
Maintenance crew detained after finding corpse when they returned to carry out repairs in the residential building in Xi'an
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... power.html

Some commentators are linking this story to the rapid rise of China's economy and as a sign of falling levels of public health and safety, but more level headed commentators seem to be arguing that such tragedies are simply part of the ups and downs of any sort of rapid development.

Man, you are right. That is fucking sad.

[Coligny]

I looks like there was some monkey magic in China last week.

Entertainment
China Box Office Breaks World Record With $548M in One Week

China’s movie box office just smashed the world’s seven-day sales record for a single territory, racking up an astonishing $548 million in ticket sales over the Chinese New Year’s holiday period, plus Valentine’s Day on Sunday.

The record gross crushes the prior record set by North America six weeks ago, when Star Wars: The Force Awakens lifted the territory to $529.6 million from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1.

The record one-week haul also is considerably more than the Chinese box office generated for the entire year just one decade ago. In 2006, China’s total box office was approximately $327.5 million.

Hong Kong hitmaker Stephen Chow’s latest comedy Mermaid helped fuel the historic total, grossing $275.1 million for the week, according to data from Beijing-based box office monitor Ent Group.

Wong Jing and Andrew Lau's From Vegas to Macau III, starring Chow Yun Fat, came in second, pulling in $119.6 million in seven days. Fantasy blockbuster sequel The Monkey King 2, starring Aaron Kwok and Gong Li, also raced past the $100 million mark, earning $116.2 million.

help !!!

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[wagyl]

TRIGGER ALERT: the following story could cause your heart to drop

Woman's body found in China lift a month after workers switched off power
Maintenance crew detained after finding corpse when they returned to carry out repairs in the residential building in Xi'an
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... power.html

Some commentators are linking this story to the rapid rise of China's economy and as a sign of falling levels of public health and safety, but more level headed commentators seem to be arguing that such tragedies are simply part of the ups and downs of any sort of rapid development.

Man, you are right. That is fucking sad.

I put the blame on Getty Images for having a photo of the lift on file before the power was even switched off.

How the world has changed. You can't have a news article involving a lift without decorating it with a stock photo (which they pay for the rights to use) of any old lift. Back when I was at school, we used to get points off for spending too much time on decorating our work and not enough on substance.

[Takechanpoo]

its all thanks to their unprecedentedly extreme me-ism rather than the rapid development.
they cannot develop themselves as a community and cannot stand on a long-term viewpoint because of their extraordinarily excessive me-ism.
its the weakest point of contemporary chinese.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Chinese tourists criticized after video of them shoveling food with plates at buffet in Thailand goes viral

[Tsuru]

Tragedy of the commons right there...

[Takechanpoo]

they would keep using anti-japan card to avert world eyes from their escalating insolence.
http://thediplomat.com/2016/03/breaking ... a-islands/

[matsuki]

How long til it becomes common to simply sink illegal Chinese fishing vessels upon sight?

[matsuki]

[Coligny]

Sleep tight...

or not...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Chinese tourists criticized after video of them shoveling food with plates at buffet in Thailand goes viral

Are they waving little red books?

[Takechanpoo]