[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can’t drink tap water in China. You’ve got to boil it first. Stick some tea leaves in there while you’re at it.

Was it really that bad in your experience? It seems hard to believe as someone who has not visited China but heard many great things about the nation.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    I recently purchased Skyrim, and I had a ton of fun; but I had began to realize a plethora of issues from game balancing to unimpressive story-telling that finally compelled me to quit. I spent a little less than 93 hours on it, which speaks great volume of how enjoyable the game can be, however.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    Entrepreneurship is good, though. Innovation is necessary to make progress in advancing society, especially now that the US and its' satellites are preventing the export of high-value technological products to the country.

    As for the crime, well, that's what happens when you live in the cradle of neoliberal rot and decay. The laws are no good if the ones writing and enforcing them are rats and maggots.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    This is a paraphrase of a comment that I posted on Reddit some time ago:

    China certainly exports ideology. For example, the notion of "mutually beneficial win-win cooperation" as opposed to the "zero-sum game". These types of ideals serve as the foundation for China-Global South (South-South) cooperation to industrialize and modernize former colonized and developing nations rather than simply exist as raw material exporters. This way, they can finally pry the grasp of the imperial core on their holdings and become an independent, sovereign power. You could consider that exporting "revolution" or "socialism".

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