Hu Shi Xiong
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Quora to me is like the forum beside the market square where people of all kinds shout their ideas and ideals . I'm the guy strolling past , with a just bought breakfast listening to who might be aroun…
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Why are so many Chinese policies inscrutable? Why impose an export regime on rare earths? No one wants to be dependent on China anymore for anything.
They’re inscrutable because you don’t read Chinese and think everyone else should write their thinking in English? The US has been imposing export regime on China since basically post WW2, and only increasing in recent years. The US has literally embargoed Cuba for l…
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CHINA WOMEN DID IT AGAIN. The guys can't do it, but the other half are the heroines. I saw them beat mighty Germany, and now the skilful Brazilians. One sent off, and they still managed to score a stunning killer goal that sealed the win. 2–1 China wins. Dramatic competitive match between 2 very strong te…
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How can I encourage my 16-year-old son to go to school? He refuses every day.
We had the same problem. In the end, we let him drop out on the understanding he would learn a skill at college. He dropped out of that. He then said he really wanted to join the Army. We tried to talk him out of it, but in the end, agreed. He got to the end of basic training before dropping out of…
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Why didn't the USA attack North Korea to prevent it from having a nuclear bomb, as they did with Iran?
China has only one military alliance, that is North Korea. Both White House and Pentagon need to think twice before starting a war. Iran, on the other hand, is pro-west. Westerners may not know this due to their info-isolation. I do international trade, Iranians would only do business with us when there…
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What's a life lesson you learned too late?
I learned a life lesson when I was in the 6th grade so it wasn’t too late. I came home from school with furrowed brows. My cranky brows hadn’t disappeared by the time Daddy came home from work. After dinner, recognizing my frown hadn’t improved one tiny bit, he took me aside. I beat about the bush for…
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A Small Amusing Incident Today, on a Chinese domestic forum, I saw a netizen complaining. He lives in a border area and said that residents of a certain neighboring country are taking advantage of relaxed border policies to come to China to buy chemical fertilizer, then transport it back to their own…
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What is the name of the book that you have read lately?
I have read a book 古彭遗珍 徐州博物馆 馆藏文物精选, which could be translated in English as Treasures of Ancient Pengcheng: Selected Cultural Relics from Xuzhou Museum. Xuzhou, or 徐州 in Chinese, was known as Pengcheng, or 彭城 in Chinese, an important historical place, in ancient times. And Xuzhou is a city in Jian…
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What is something interesting that you know because of your career that other people might not?
I illustrate children's books used in schools worldwide. The publisher has a staff of editors to scrutinize the books before they go to press to ensure they are accurate and contain nothing that could be offensive to anyone. This often means that something that would be inoffensive or quite normal i…
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What scares you most about the future? Why?
That my children won’t be successful enough to live on their own by a reasonable age. Having children is a gamble. Each child is like a roll of the dice: will they be healthy? Will they be happy? Will they succeed? So far, we’ve been fortunate to have three healthy children. Since I used to work in sp…
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Why do Japan, Korea, and China have such low birth rates? In these countries, people rarely have children outside of marriage. As marriage declines, so do birth rates.
In these countries, people rarely have children outside of marriage. well …they do . People just don't celebrate it like the west do . People cheat like everywhere else . This happened here recently With better education you know how to prevent births from recreational…
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What was the moment that made you realize you weren’t being raised like others?
This is going to sound very strange to the vast majority of you but, keep in mind, I was raised in rural, central Ohio in the 50s & 60s. I was a freshman at college when I made a rather startling discovery. Other students knew, ahem, words that I’d never heard before. Yes, I was very much in the dark…
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Why do Chinese people with money want to leave their country or have a bolt-hole if life is so good in China under the CCP?
The simplest answer: China is a paradise for the lower and middle classes; but not for the rich. In China, you can't change policies through political donations, nor can you escape imprisonment with large sums of money. For example, Kris Wu, a Canadian citizen and a top-tier celebrity in China; he has…
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36-year-old left the U.S. for China—now pays $1,000 rent and $100 for groceries for family of 4: It’s my ‘version of the American Dream’ As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was born in California, but I’ve lived in Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina, Virginia, Montana and Oklahoma. I never had the chanc…
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What is the most despicable thing you have seen a lawyer do?
This is a really terrible one. A nasty custody fight. What I’ve seen people do to one another via divorce and custody fight has ultimately convinced me that, marriage is most times a blissfully disguised invitation of eventual nuclear bombings into your life. The ex-wife was a lawyer and represented h…
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What is the background to the deterioration in relations between China and Japan? How serious is the months-long diplomatic row?
Economy Japan is just a small piece of land that rose from the ocean only 6 million years ago. This means it has no resources—no oil, no minerals, nothing at all. It can’t even feed itself. But don’t you find it strange? This tiny country with nothing, at its peak, had a GDP greater than the entire Euro…
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What role did Rajput bravery and valor play in Indian history, despite their defeats, and why is this less emphasized in world history narratives?
This is primarily because Rajput Valor is very similar to Indian Military Successes between 2020–2026 It is 99% Tactical and 1% Strategic and Effective I. Bravery does not equal Success Rajputs were no doubt brave They were no doubt seasoned warriors who had talent with Swords, Spears and Horses However…
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