You're smart, I like you. What your saying is absolutely correct which is exactly why China by and large doesn't build the large sea crafts and instead focuses on littoral patrol ships. Even the US had noticed it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/11/05/yes-china-has-more-warships-than-the-usa-thats-because-chinese-ships-are-small/

The US states it's because the Chinese navy is focused on power at home and not power projection. I say it's for sales purposes.

Now, China also makes the large super ships. But those are made in small numbers. They have their type 55 destroyer that has been compared to the Agies which I think there are 8 and their 3 aircraft carriers. But those ships are basically marketing brochures. They catch the attention of the media and not much else. These you hear talked about all the time, and China sails them everywhere for photo ops.

I know it's weird, but it actually is easier to think of China as a corporation that's gone off the rails rather than a country.

You are absolutely right. I cannot rightfully call myself center-right anymore. The right has literally jumped off a cliff and I'm stuck here shaking my fists in anger at the sky. I probably am close to neo-lib. I would have used to call myself libertarian but whoo boy that went sideways. It's a sad reality for me. Maybe that's why I'm so upset about it all.

So here's a surprising thing about China's Navy. Besides small arms, naval ships are what China sells the most. There are a lot of weird political reasons for this, for example fighter jets and tanks are almost exclusively sold to close allies and allies just isn't China's thing. Just look what happened to Egypt's purchases of SU-35s as they got hit by CAATSA. So China decided to focus on a niche to get the word out that they're selling high end military equipment, not just small arms. Something that would go under the radar of many super powers (read USA) and would still be able to show off high end equipment. Secondly, you have to remember who China's buyers are. SE Asia is mostly island nations, so they don't go for the more conventional equipment that you're thinking of. They're islands, so they're more likely to buy maritime equipment rather than ground assault equipment that you would see pretty much everywhere else on the planet.

I mean just recently you have Thailand and Cambodia both buying Chinese Naval warships. Here's a super fun one, Malaysia is one of their customers. A country they're having a spat with over the SCS. So you have Malaysia buying Chinese warships to protect Malaysia from China.

https://www.voanews.com/a/malaysia-buying-chinese-ships-to-protect-waters-from-china-others/3780026.html

That all said times they are a changing. Egypt just signed a deal for J-10CE fighter jets and Algeria is ready to buy VT-4 tanks. Both are abandoning Russia in favor of Chinese military equipment for very obvious reasons. This is likely one of the reasons China is in no hurry to see the end of the war. Watching Russia destroy itself and having all of it's customer's go to China doesn't seem like it's against China's interests at the moment.

No I'm saying regardless of your opinion, you shouldn't have an opinion based on the source of the statement is what I'm saying. Yes MBS is trash, but I would still listen to what he has to say.

Look up "I like it" in Google. There are literal songs written for that response in English. Your understanding of cultural responses is so ignorant you have to question how little you know. Entire songs have been written that proves you don't know what your talking about.

How do you know so little about language. It's baffling. The whole point is in Chinese it would be odd to say I love it because love is reserved for living things. But that doesn't mean the word love doesn't exist in Chinese. That's why the McDonald's slogan was the way it was. And trust me, McDonald's team knows much more about translation than you do.

I am fluent in both languages. It is in no way strange to say I like it. I have no idea where you are getting that concept. Hell McDonald's had a whole campaign stating I'm loving it as an extreme version of I like it. Hell, a common response in English is I don't like it, I love it. Which again is an extension of I like it.

Your basic understanding of both languages is so ridiculously wrong I'm at a loss for words.

*Edit. Which by the way became 我就喜欢, in the Chinese McDonald's. So are you going to say Chinese doesn't have the word for love?

I don't think we have differing opinions actually. I'm saying there have been many countries that have stated they do not see the stuff USA talks about to make it reasonable to ban. They all shut up and followed the US after 2020 and individuals even started to say Huawei is more evil than American companies. Again without any particular evidence.

Would I argue that Google and Huawei do similar and equally bad things, yes absolutely. I'm just tired of people attacking Huawei and saying they're worse than American corps. That's all I'm trying to say here.

Where have you been? This is China's stance on literally everything. You don't need evidence because we are not beholden to you. That's what they've said about everything from Tiananmen, to the Uyghur situation, to Jack Ma, to what Xi ate for lunch.

Hey Jack Ma is dead right? He disappeared, and the west was going crazy as shit that they killed him. Oh but now he's in Japan, they were wrong. And China's response on all of that? Fuck you, it's none of your god damn business.

*Edit: Also 911 was an inside job right? Where's the proof it wasn't? And that's why China says fuck you. Because idiots like yourself will spout nonsense no matter what anyway.

What? I said back before 1989 the west was even shipping weapons into China, so weapons were pretty available. But they decided to stop because China cracked down and then became opaque. I don't even know what you're trying to say.

Violating human rights is something every nation does. Just ask Canada and the indigenous people. That said, I'm absolutely going to judge a country on how bad they violate it.

The fact that USA's propaganda system is really good and made that one tank photo famous, doesn't change the reality that the man actually didn't get ran over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU

He even got away with climbing onto the tank.

So the argument then becomes as it always does for Americans trying to accuse China. BUT WE DO IT, IT HAD TO HAPPEN.

It's called projection buddy.

It's weird, people say they won't trust the American government because their evil. Yet they'll trust anything the US says about China even if it runs contrary to what actual Muslims who visited the region say and even the UN. They totally distrust the US, unless it's about China. Then it's 100% true.

Interestingly it's perfectly safe to drink tap water in Hong Kong. But tradition and fear of the government keeps water boiling alive.

https://www.mychinainterpreter.com/china-travel-guide/can-you-drink-tap-water-in-hong-kong/

As opposed to say parts of the US where you really shouldn't drink tap water but everyone does anyway. Flint Michigan looking at you.