Whatever you can stick to over time is really the best option, since you won’t learn if the method you chose doesn’t work for you.

That said, anki flashcards are great for learning and remembering new words. They work well if you are studying slowly over time or have to cram over a few weeks e.g. for an HSK test in the case of Chinese.

May you Find X8, Oppo.

Classic

Mullvad works, sometimes with some issues, but make sure you set it up before you go. Otherwise there is shadowsocks which is more of a proxy than a VPN. It doesn’t help anonymize you as well in the US, but is more reliable in China. You can use an app called clash which works for most devices, there are others eg nekkoray which works on linux. These are mostly just different graphical user interfaces, the main thing is to make sure you either get or set up the proxy and have an app that uses an up to date protocol for it.

Also worth noting, if you have a US sim card, it will probably work for foreign websites and the like while in China. Depending on your data plan, eg. You might have unlimited but very slow data abroad, that can be a good backup in case something is not working.

On a similar note, you could look into getting a sim card from Hong Kong, which should allow you to use it for stuff in China while also having fast data and access to blocked websites.

Congrats on going to China, Chengdu is a great city. Make sure you take the opportunity to visit other places too, with the high speed train (and regular train if you want to save money) it’s really easy to visit other cities & provinces and definitely worth taking advantage of.

Are you okay? Did a random video online hurt your feelings? Maybe you should reexamine what makes you reject when a country is making positive advancements.

To be honest, top picture should have some counties in between US/China, and then after tarifs around China.

I was going to post this since I was wondering why no one on Lemmygrad was talking about it.

Comrade Chang seemingly makes growth in China increase each time he predicts collapse.

But they where doing so well… Wait a second, tariffs didn’t hurt China’s exports? Oh nooooes

Hey don’t put the US down like that, they have about similar infrastructure as sparsely populated Qinghai…

Makes much sense, half = 50%. They are making the tariffs half. Yes. Makes sense. definitely didn’t say they will half 145% which would be something else entirely. No not at all.

China (15.7% in 2023) is currently near the world median youth unemployment rate. The CIA world Factbook has it at 93/201. What does that mean? You have to look at more that just that figure. Do Cuba (3%) and Liberia (2.3%) have similar economies? What about Italy (28.7%) and Iran (28.8%)?

Youth unemployment is defined as the percent of 15-24 year old persons who are seeking work but can’t find it. Keep in mind 75% of youth is enrolled in tertiary education in China (World Bank) and the MoE says senior high enrollment is 91.6% in 2022 with an increasing trend.

So 15.7% of youth that can’t find jobs is only out of those not already in school/university, and of course only counting those searching.

I can’t point to the causal reason for a relative increase over previous years, but looking at increasing rates of education could explain less otherwise employed youth is getting their education, making the percent of unemployed youth greater. I’d have to look deeper at the statistics, but the point is don’t look at a headline “China has this one bad stat” and make assumptions.

@cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml you might find the stats interesting as well given your comment.

Edit: typo

Well, Biden (more likely his advisors and entourage) did try to have some mesure of an industrial policy and preemptive measures such as the CHIPS act. Obviously they where insufficient, poorly executed, inefficient, etc. so you are right in that they dialed to make similar preparations. That said we shouldn’t discount the US, it is incompetent but still dangerous and attempting to find solutions to preserve it’s hegemony. Let’s hope it fails.

Ideally China could perfectly neutralize any nuke. But realistically, even a single nuke hitting a Chinese city would kill tens of millions in seconds. Not to mention, China would have to respond. The loss of life would be horrendous even if China had a very robust defense, the possibility of it failing and the magnitude of a single nuke getting by isn’t worth it. The US, unfortunately, has a lot of nukes.

Well, don’t tell US policy makers, they might have an aneurysm… Actually maybe tell them.

Increasingly incompetent administrations are heralding in a new multipolar world, let’s just hope they don’t resort to nukes.

It’s interesting to see just how asymmetrical the repercussions are so far. Bodes well for China.

Sounds almost like a union, sans being able to use their collective organization to bargain for more support from the Russian government.

That might be misleading. It’s pretty easy to get a work visa, which you can use to stay indefinitely, got to renew it though. Getting permanent residence is harder to qualify for, but if you’ve been in China for a while it’s easier. lots of people just stay in China very long periods of time on work visas.

They really took “if you can’t beat them, join them” to heart, and by them I mean the Nazis joining their inspiration.

Meanwhile, taking the UK as an example, productivity has grown exponentially. Goes to show how exploited the working class is. If production was more evenly distributed, and part of the growth in productivity was allowed to be returned as free time, imagine how much better quality of life would be.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-productivity-per-hour