Board 8 > Holy crap, China attempts to arrest Batman

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http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=35955

tl;dr Christian Bale is in China to promote the premiere of a movie where he saves Chinese girls from Japanese soldiers in the 1930s. He hears about and tries to meet a civil rights activist and four cops chase him for forty minutes before his car breaks down.

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The actor hoped to raise awareness of the Chinese civil rights movement and Chen himself

mission accomplished

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Good for Bale. The saddest thing in the world right now is how everyone seems to turn a blind eye to one of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in history-- Modern Red China.

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did he meet liam neeson and get recruited into the league of shadows

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Good for Bale. The saddest thing in the world right now is how everyone seems to turn a blind eye to one of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in history-- Modern Red China.

Because everyone is scared, and it's in no one's economic interest to mess with them. And I wouldn't call it one of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in history. The whole thing is very subtly done. You can visit family in China for weeks and not feel any oppressive government presence. The government maintains control, but intrudes very little into people's lives so that most people don't notice.

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red sox 777 posted...
Good for Bale. The saddest thing in the world right now is how everyone seems to turn a blind eye to one of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in history-- Modern Red China.

Because everyone is scared, and it's in no one's economic interest to mess with them. And I wouldn't call it one of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in history. The whole thing is very subtly done. You can visit family in China for weeks and not feel any oppressive government presence. The government maintains control, but intrudes very little into people's lives so that most people don't notice.

Yeah except when they, you know, force abortions and outlaw religious worship.

If I were President I would put a blockade on China. SE Asia has cheaper labor for our products anyway.

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Way to start WW3 Mer

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Mershaaay posted...
Yeah except when they, you know, force abortions and outlaw religious worship.

Outlawing religious worship? There are regimes that do much worse. Religious though I am, I could probably move to China and set that part of my life asside--same way I don't get to go ice skating very often when I move away from Canada. Sure I miss it, but oh well.

Forced abortions sounds a bit more oppressive, but I've known plenty of kids that were originally born in China and immigrated elsewhere with their parents. So...obviously they're not forcing every child to be aborted. Under what circumstances do they have forced abortions?

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Don't they have some sort of "one child per family" thing? Or am I totally wrong?

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Ace_Killjoy posted...
Don't they have some sort of "one child per family" thing? Or am I totally wrong?

As I undertstand that policy, it's more just high taxes if you have more than one kid. (Kind-of the reverse of how France has tax incentives for having a lot of kids). Which basically just means poor people can't have tons of kids. Which...honestly doesn't bother me too much as a policy >_>

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Ace_Killjoy posted...
Don't they have some sort of "one child per family" thing? Or am I totally wrong?

Depends. one child policy is only applied to ethnic Han Chinese. And a lot of places are starting to relax on the policy now, because people have realized that if they keep up the one child policy, Chinese society is going to be like an inverted triangle. Very few young people having to support a massive elder population.

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Viktor Vaughn posted...
The actor hoped to raise awareness of the Chinese civil rights movement and Chen himself

mission accomplished

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Mershaaay posted...
If I were President I would put a blockade on China. SE Asia has cheaper labor for our products anyway.

Terrible idea. China holds an enormous amount of our debt. Politicians have done their very best to put the US's metaphorical testicles into China's vice grip.

Uglyface2 posted...
Mershaaay posted...
If I were President I would put a blockade on China. SE Asia has cheaper labor for our products anyway.

Terrible idea. China holds an enormous amount of our debt. Politicians have done their very best to put the US's metaphorical testicles into China's vice grip.

LOL at anyone thinking debt matters. Europe said "**** it" and never paid us back their debt from WWI and WWII and they managed just fine.

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metroid composite posted...
Mershaaay posted...
Forced abortions sounds a bit more oppressive, but I've known plenty of kids that were originally born in China and immigrated elsewhere with their parents. So...obviously they're not forcing every child to be aborted. Under what circumstances do they have forced abortions?

The dude who "Batman" was trying to meet was put in jail for exposing China's forced abortion policy

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China holds an enormous amount of our debt.

This does not matter. China cannot demand immediate repayment. We can continue to pay off the debt according to the terms made when the bonds were sold.

Embargo would hurt China more than the US, because their economy is more dependent on the US than ours is on theirs. Everything China exports to us we can buy from other countries, or produce in the US. The US has several things China needs: capital, business/technology know-how, and most importantly, customers. China's economic growth is built on selling cheap things to American consumers.

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red sox 777 posted...
China holds an enormous amount of our debt.

This does not matter. China cannot demand immediate repayment. We can continue to pay off the debt according to the terms made when the bonds were sold.

Embargo would hurt China more than the US, because their economy is more dependent on the US than ours is on theirs. Everything China exports to us we can buy from other countries, or produce in the US. The US has several things China needs: capital, business/technology know-how, and most importantly, customers. China's economic growth is built on selling cheap things to American consumers.

I said blockade, not embargo. I would mean such srs biznas if I were President.

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The way the one child policy works is those with one child or less receive a lot of government aid, but having one more child after that if you live especially in eastern, industrial China (which is fairly overcrowded as is), a lot of the aid is reduced or removed. There's probably exemptions to the rule in the case of more than one child being born at a time.

From what I understand, if you live in western China, the one child policy doesn't apply to you because the area is less overpopulated.

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