China news, memes, and shitposts

The only question would be, would you be able to tolerate the scent of rotting flesh yourself?

for 12K I would certainly give it my best shot. I am pretty good with controlling the gag reflex and hiding my disgust.

Ghost brides? That doesn't sound too weird when you think about it.....

How did this ever even get to the testing phase to begin with? I would like to be a fly on the wall when somebody pitched this idea to their bosses.

Top trending China news stories of 2020

Amateur porn vid at Ikea. Zookeeper killed by a bear in public. China reacts to Trump getting Covid. And many more!

The cat and dog meat ban, hmm.
In principle, I have nothing against eating cat or dog, but the emotional, psychological connection we have with them as pets and companions is a decent justification for the ban. (I'm not keen to try cat or dog myself, not when rabbit and goat is tasty!)

I tried dog meat in South Korea, a decade ago. It's gotten rarer and more controversial there too.

I'm not a dog person, but I love cats. My family has always had cats as pets. And still I'd eat cat meat if I had the chance.

By "had the chance", what did you have in mind?

There’s definitely cat meat at street food stalls around China, along with many other bizarre things as we all learned from corona-drama. I just haven’t bothered with it specifically. Yet.

I popped into multiple McD stores looking for this, but either it’s only in select locations or it’s not real.

China's GDP to overtake the US around 2028

The date has now been moved up due to pandemic-related realities, but back in the 00's economists were predicting 2020. So who knows when it will actually happen.

Certainly not economists.

Today I am one lucky Chinaman.

Don't go stealing rugs.

I wonder how many posters here will get that?

Near enough

Finish your food! There are people starving in China!

Not these days.

Half of Chinese adults overweight (BBC)

The other half are in the far west, Gobi, and Tibet?

Happy Chinese/Lunar New Year!

Sorry about the pandemic thing. Lulz

H&M et al. get cancelled in China for their criticism of Xinjiang. Even Apple Maps disappeared their local stores.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/9811...ainst-clothing-brands-after-western-sanctions

Interesting article and thread.

China close to approving the German BioNTech vaccine

The Chinese vaccines (Sinovac and Sinopharm) became available to me this month, but I'd rather not take my chances. They haven't been approved by the WHO or any major world government.

But an EU-approved vaccine would be welcome.

Granted, there is no realistic chance of catching the virus in China these days, but if I ever want to leave China and return, it will be necessary.

As Anc's above article mentions, they have been playing a game of vaccine nationalism. Vaccination for immigration has, until this month, been considered only if the vaccines were Chinese, despite the problems with efficacy. But now the ship is turning (hopefully).

Communist China finds its roots, goes to bat for labor, cracking down on excessive overtime at corporations

Could the pressure be getting to them?