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filoria@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Evergrande: China property giant and its founder accused of $78bn fraud

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filoria@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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Former billionaire Hui Ka Yan has been fined and faces being banned from the financial markets for life.
  • remotelove@lemmy.ca
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    You would think that multiple fake cities built out of the cheapest materials possible might have been a sign that something was fishy … I mean… How could anyone have known!!!

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      If you keep getting your understanding of China from Five Eyes propaganda and corporate media, you’ll keep being wrong.

      • CNN, 2017: China’s metro station in the middle of nowhere
      • 2023: This Is What the World’s Loneliest Metro Station Looks Like Today
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        China paints China in the worst possible light, actually. Hell, even their mass produced fake electronics paint a grim picture at the micro level of how that country operates.

        That’s also hysterical that you are bitching about western propaganda, when China is the undisputed king of bulk fake news.

        You sound like one of these shills, actually. You didn’t post anything useful, but rather, just regurgitated some random poor-China schtick.

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          Hell, even their mass produced fake electronics paint a grim picture at the micro level of how that country operates.

          Where do most iPhones and other smartphones and laptops come from? What country has more high speed rail trackage than every other country combined? Yes, they will also output cheap crap if companies are willing to sell them.

          That’s also hysterical that you are removed about western propaganda, when China is the undisputed king of bulk fake news.

          Where to start…

          A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink.

          “I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.

          “Thank you,” the KGB says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”

          The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”

          • Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
          • Propaganda model
          • Edward Bernays
          • Walter Lippmann

          .
          Below is a copypasta of my own comment last week, in response to someone’s weapons-grade gish gallop: “I’m pretty sure the Tiananmen square massacre was a bigger crime. Not to mention their genocide of the Uighur people, their oppression of Hong Kong, their attempts to steal Taiwan’s sovereignty.”


          Tiananmen square massacre

          • The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
          • 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots
          • A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
          • Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
          • ‘Tank Man’: the full footage. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989

          their genocide of the Uighur people

          This bullshit never ends, does it?

          • https://lemmy.ml/comment/8588979
          • A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China

          their oppression of Hong Kong

          Hong Kong was the product of the UK’s century of Chinese oppression, and their 99 year lease on oppressing Hong Kong ended in 1997.


          steal Taiwan’s sovereignty

          Taiwan is only considered sovereign by eleven countries, most of which are micronations like the Holy See, the Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan


          was a bigger crime

          • List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
          • Are We The Baddies?
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            This is a gish-gallop of garbage and mods can remove my posts all they want. I’m not registered on lemmy.ml and your rules mean nothing to me.

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            Reporter: [REDACTED]
            Reason: Tribalist reactionary

            Reporter, I’d like to know how an anti-imperialist stance is reactionary or how a debunking of Five Eyes propaganda is tribalist.

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            Nice Gish Gallop. Care to try again and not be a tanky stooge?

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              tankie stooge.

              The banality of liberalism.

              My country is manufacturing consent for a World War III that could end in nuclear winter, and I dissent.

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                Delete more of my posts you coward.

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            I guess some things just never actually happened.

            https://www.baidu.com/ssid=0/from=844b/s?word=Tienamen square&sa=tb&ts=0&t_kt=0&ie=utf-8&ms=1&rsv_t=3ecbt5Qz3m5O2saq%252Bqcf0AWtpfCzqsgZ8Q59uKMQ9QN5TYdzi72ph6Fl1A&rsv_pq=11013915656404850050&sugid=157230192542547&rfrom=1041839p&rchannel=1041839t&rqid=11013915656404850050

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            Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

            Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

            Are We The Baddies?

            Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

            I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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          Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

          one of these shills

          Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

          I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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        Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

        This Is What the World’s Loneliest Metro Station Looks Like Today

        Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

        I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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        There was enough pent up demand in the Chinese property market to fill these cities, but the national government saw overall demand would fall as early as 2021 when it started restricting some types of construction projects, like some skyscrapers and subway lines. You are also seeing some provinces adding in perks for buying property, like hokou registration.

        It seems like China has mostly cought up to a lot of its demand for urban residential property. This is a problem as most municipalities and provinces have relied on property development as a way to fund local services.

        The Chinese property crisis may end up being on post with the American mortgage crisis in 2007-2008. However, the Chinese crisis will look very different compared to the American one.

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      I challenge you to look up any of those “ghost cities” now. Literally all are filling up. People really don’t understand planning and building for the future?

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        Not really future proof when they’re being built with shit materials, you can literally crumble the concrete with your bare hands.

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          You’re assumption seems to be that the China of 40 years ago is the same as China of today.

          China has more high speed rail trackage than every other country combined. Where do most iPhones come from, or smartphones in general?

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          Can confirm, im a badly built house in China ghost town. My bad concrete hands crumbled after writing this

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          Imagine complaining about the build quality of Chinese apartments when your reference point is… American ones.

          No sheathing, drywall on inner walls, barely any insulation, plywood only for the minimum necessary to guarantee wind stability… Pot calling the kettle black, really. You can literally run through walls of new builds in the US.

          China builds housing for the market. While quality might be high in tier 1, 2 and even tier 3 cities, that’s not going to be as true for tier 4 cities that are designed to absorb the massive rural-to-urban migration of poor farmers… The market doesn’t demand it. You’re kidding yourself if you think even the shoddiest constructed apartment isn’t better than the average rural home which not only lacks building codes but lacks modern materials.

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            China builds housing for the market.

            Their stock market, maybe. There is a reason this company imploded and it was because of their investor market, not real demand. Those ghost cities were the product of an investment housing market gone wild. Right now, it’s the same failure mode, regardless of the country.

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      Poe’s law is real, @filoria@lemmy.ml.

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