I am a Chinese(in mainland China),you can ask me some questions other than the government -

[UnKillShredDur]

What's your favorite Winnie the Pooh story?

Mine is the one where he climbs into the Taiwan nest and decides that the bees living there deserve to be independent from him and the rest of the hundred acre ccpwoods, and then he gives Christopher Robin a bad social credit score for disagreeing with him.

Also, I know General Tsao is a legendary Chinese hero, but does his chicken taste any better in actual China? It tastes like shit here in America.

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

Have you ever read of the book stating that Winnie the Pooh lives by Taoism?

 

[Bastard_Call]

Why fortune cookie always wrong?

 

[TheRetardKing]

Oh my god, it's Jackie Chan!

 

[JudgementKazzy]

A few questions about Chinese students coming to the US:
-Why do they come to the US to study? Is it because of the prestige?
-Are students that are coming to the US tend to be more pro-Western and anti-CCP? And if so, how much?
-Xi Jinping's daughter went to Harvard under a fake name and low-profile. Do you know if other CCP officials do the same with their children?
-And if so, if I date a Chinese student, what are the chances that I would be dating a daughter of a CCP official and how do I deal with this?

 

[Least Concern]

-And if so, if I date a Chinese student, what are the chances that I would be dating a daughter of a CCP official and how do I deal with this?

Ha, that'd be pretty cool, actually. Marry her and you'd be set for life.

Or at least until a different faction comes into power and the next round of purges of "corrupt officials" and "traitors of the people" happen.

 

[JudgementKazzy]

Ha, that'd be pretty cool, actually. Marry her and you'd be set for life.

Or at least until a different faction comes into power and the next round of purges of "corrupt officials" and "traitors of the people" happen.

Yeah I don't know man... being politically connected to China might have some interesting, rare opportunities but I'd be in the crosshairs if I somehow piss her off or the latter happens.

 

[Lollipop Head]

Nice to meet you! Sorry, what I said may offend you, but I can only repeat what I have observed on the Internet. I don't know enough about Vietnam, so I can't guarantee that it is comprehensive and objective.

I know what you said about the history of Vietnam, but I'm sorry I didn't understand the meaning of this paragraph "that really funny because the vietnamese people manage to resist cynicisation by revolt when......."

Oh no, don't worry about me being offended,I really don't care about being offended. People that offended for the littlest of things are devoid of humor and are generally avoided as possible.

"I'm sorry I didn't understand the meaning of this paragraph "that really funny because the vietnamese people manage to resist cynicisation by revolt when.......""
What do you not understand about it? I'm sorry if I didn't worded properly because my english is decent but not perfect.

With regard to Vietnam, our attitude towards this country is actually very interesting, because Vietnam implements a socialist system similar to that of China, and the latter reform has become a market economy, so there are many similarities with China. On our network, there is a Chinese who has lived in Vietnam for many years. He often publishes videos introducing Vietnam in Chinese. In the videos, he criticizes Vietnam's system, economy, women's rights and other issues. But in fact, people who often watch his videos all know that he is using Vietnam to imply China, and the Vietnam issues he mentions will make people think that he is talking about China. Another meme on the Internet is to use the word "Vietnam" instead of "China" to express satire on China. For example, to say "this is Vietnam News" under China's negative news and to replace China with Vietnam in articles criticizing China's problems. Sorry, you may be angry about this, but it's a way for people to evade word censorship, The main Satirized irony is also China itself。

That is very informative,thank you for sharing. I like to respond that Vietnam "implements a socialist system similar to that of China, and the latter reform has become a market economy, so there are many similarities with China",that is true to some extent because Ho Chi Minh did go to China before the French Revolution but it's not the same kind of socialism like in China to the point that Stalin and Mao initially distrusted Ho for his unwillingness to make class warfare a class warfare a priority above national freedom that american observers celebrated alongside the peasant
Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. I do say I consider Ho Chi Minh like a hero but my answer centres on the sentiments in Vietnam. Outside of Vietnam, the sentiment is more complex. Most people associated with the war-time Republic of Vietnam (Southern Vietnam) generally consider him to be evil. Those with a strong tie to post-war Vietnam generally have a positive to neutral regard for him. That is how politics work, there are always many sides to a story.But saying he is an evil, not really true enough. In fact, it all depends on which type of people. For Vietnamese in Vietnam, Eastern Europe, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Qatar, India and Malaysia, he is an admired figure. But for Vietnamese in Western Europe, the U.S., Canada, Australia and Latin America, he is the demon of humanity and the dirt of Vietnam.

Next point is that it's interesting that to use the word "Vietnam" instead of "China" to express satire on China for people to evade word censorship and that is fine by me or anyone for all that matter.Probably nobody in Vietnam care.Sorry if my answer are shallow.

On the question of Vietnam, I would like to ask, because I have read the news that some people have been sentenced to more than ten years' imprisonment by Vietnam for the crime of subverting the state power. How much control does Vietnam have over speech? Will people be arrested for criticizing leaders? What do Vietnamese think of their own government and communism and Ho Chi Minh?

Yes that is true,the Communist Party does suppress blogs which it deems problematic by employs methods such as sending malware to bloggers, abusing the bloggers verbally or physically, and imprisoning the bloggers.
Unlike China, where censorship policies have managed to successfully block many foreign websites and created Chinese substitutes for major sites like Google and Facebook, Vietnam has been far less successful in Internet censorship in this regard In July 2020, a court sentenced a 29-year-old Facebook user, Nguyen Quoc Duc Vuong, to eight years in prison for making anti-government posts, including several criticising communist leader Ho Chi Minh.

I’m not very talkable and people poke fun of me for me being the quietest in the room.

The answers that are favored by many will be: corrupted, disgusting, and communist. I’m not going to echo that: we do not think of our government, we feel. We do not analyze things rationally or statistically. We feel. What you’ve seen, evidenced here in this answer session, is the feelings we hold towards some recent, media or social media events happening here in the country. Sadly, I have to admit I’m also guilty, sometimes I’m subject to selection bias that I thought all on the news was all there was.

That is as much generalization I can get. Personally, I think neutrally of the government. I think it’s bulky and inefficient in many ways, but there are good sides to it. They invest heavily in education, the direction I think is good, but the execution needs lots of improvement. What’s good about it is that our young generation has become a lot more open and receptive, much better at socializing and communicating at the global level. What’s bad is that it is leaning urban, we seem to forget 70% of the population in the countryside.

They also have a direction to focus on tourism, which is getting better at snail speed, but hey, at least we are moving. Vietnam has too much to offer, but we are not good at telling the world about it, and terrible at standardizing our service. Part of it wasn’t government fault. The people are not yet good at sustaining business. We are good at catching it, but sustainability is a word we have to learn.

Recently they switch to another direction of telecommunication and IT. I think it’s good because our people are very smart at STEM stuff (as a result of the heavy education we get). However, our online structure is developing too fast as compared to our physical infrastructure. For example, our online structure can support service such as ecommerce or uber. Our infrastructure is slow. Credit card payment is still limited in penetration. Roads are small and number of cars is increasing fast.

We have a lot to improve in our legal system. No-one is reading the law, which is sad. We complain about it, but we don’t read it. Our legal system is at least fairer to women than many other Asian countries. Women can work, have maternity leave of 6 months, can be promoted to leadership roles. The country is also not against same sex marriage (not yet for, but not totally against). But as many have pointed out, we lack a system to challenge authority, which can lead to many unfair treatments.

Media is still government controlled, which is not ideal. On the other hand, we are not China or North Korea. So facebook, youtube, google, you name it, we have it. I think the government is trying to be progressive here, listening here and there. What they are not yet good at is manipulating it (bad PR, obviously - our Ministry of Information and Communication is not the best there is). What’s fun in the States is that people seem to have media freedom, but in fact, I think the US government and politicians are just very good at using media to their advantage. The Vietnamese government is still catching up.

What I think is the weakest part of our current government is the ability to think long term (maybe it’s for our people as a whole). We fix things as they break, instead of preventing the breakage when we design things. And now that we have a huge system it’s difficult to change. I’m not just referring to political system, all the systems we have are rigid and old. What I am hopeful of is the younger generation who are smart, driven, more educated, and globally minded. I do think that we will, though very slowly, make change in the country and improve the government.

In addition, I don't know if you know Touhou. Domestic Touhou fans often call themselves "the Communist Party of Vietnam". The meme of the Communist Party of Vietnam comes from abroad. Because they are good at hiding in the woods for guerrilla warfare, it is used to describe those who often hide their identity but suddenly appear in large numbers at some times, This is used to describe the large number of touhou fans in China. By the way, this picture is a Chinese animation. The protagonist is also called the Communist Party of Vietnam because his T-shirt looks like the Vietnamese national flag。

I somewhat know Touhou due to media and I did beats touhou 7 and 8 on easy modes and yes we are excellent at guerrilla warfare due to history.That is really cool that Vietnam is being used as a symbol for anti government.Sorry if I'm misrepresenting.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

What is relationship between China and African countries really like is just business and to what extent?

Why fortune cookie always wrong?

Speaking of which I had a fortune cookie with no fortune in it just an empty shell. What does that mean?

 

[Bastard_Call]

Speaking of which I had a fortune cookie with no fortune in it just an empty shell. What does that mean?

It's a sign, you are the master of your own destiny. Become the ubermensch.