Category: China

Libodun Baby Fence: Teardown

Libodun baby fence: cute baby standing up. Made in China

Libodun baby fence: cute baby standing up. Made in China

My neighbour left a mess of long parts in a bag curbside, so out of curiosity I took it to try to figure out what it was and if I could use it for something else. The bag had metal tubes, metal brackets, padded baby blue metal bars and some plastic corner pieces. It looked like it had something to do with babies or small kids. It turned out to be a couple of sets of Libodun baby fence, used when a baby is small and prevents the kid from rolling off the edge of the bed.

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Moxibustion 艾灸 Chinese Medicine

Moxibustion 艾灸 ai4jiu3 is a type of Chines medicine where a dried herb, mugwort, is burned above the skin. I have never tried moxibustion.

If you do this at home, please be very careful and do not let the mugwort stick burn unattended, because it could cause a fire. If the ashes from moxa can cause burning, then it can cause a fire.

The risk associated with moxibustion is the accidental burn to the skin. After burning a moxa stick, the falling ash is at a high temperature. Anyone not paying attention to the ashes could be burned, so always remember to remove the ash from the moxa sticks during a moxibustion treatment

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Peter Zeihan’s Thoughts on the World Economy: US and China

This is the train of thought from Peter Zeihan, of the US, whom I have been watching for a long time. It outlines how the global economy got to where we are and how we may progress in the future. Of course this is a US-biased view. His views on China are mostly spot on.

US as World Police and Globalization
After WW2 the US has been the policeman of the world, providing security on the seas and at global hotspots. This has allowed each country to specialize and trade with each other, what we call “globalization”, and it has reduced costs and allowed for the growth of wealth globally.

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Dongguan Yixun Electronics Co., Ltd. 东莞市翊讯电子有限公司: Beware

Dongguan Yixun Electronics Co., Ltd. 东莞市翊讯电子有限公司
广东省东莞市大岭山镇杨屋东埔新村路116号1栋301室
email: 139527288@qq.com
Room 301, Building 1, No. 116 Dongpu Xincun Road, Yangwu, Dalingshan Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province
CEO: 高家雄 Gao Jiaxiong
-est: 2011-08-25
Industry: cable connectors accessories
-~40 employees

This company interview and promised a friend employment. The employment terms, from the CEO, were 5k RMB + payment of social insurance, 8 hrs a day/ 5 days/week, after a month the salary, excluding commission would rise to 7k RMB.

Further, the CEO Gao Jiaxiong told her he was from Taiwan. She found out on the first day that he is from Fujian. he claims to be connected with a Taiwanese company.

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Chatgpt On Chinese Social Media QQ

I have been on QQ Chinese social media for quite a number of years, and am now an administrator for a couple of QQ groups. Recently a couple of QQ groups have been able to use the Chatgpt API to connect with and allow Chinese group members to have a first-hand try at Chatgpt. Here are my observations.

QQ is one of China’s largest social media platform, where you can find friends, video chat, send pics and videos, participate in group chats, exchange money, listen to music, and more. The platform is less invasive than WeChat. Both are run by Tencent. I have become an administrator on a couple of English-only QQ groups.

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Searching for Information on the Web in China

I did not really think about the importance of searching the web. It seemed straight forward, just like a card catalogue library. You want something, there are available resources, you search those resources and find what you are looking for, or perhaps not. On Chinese social media there are a few other major issues to consider that, almost always, give you sub-optimal results.

Search Results are useful for China-internal content
There is Baidu search in China, their largest search engine. By all accounts this search engine is quite bad, where people in China often cannot find what they are looking for. Baidu is invariably only roughly effective in China, even though they have huge bots that scour the world’s web. I know this because I see it hitting my web sites on a daily basis.

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The Abandonment of Ukraine by Western Nations

The decimation wrought by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 2022 Feb 24 has been immense. Ukraine has crumbled, its economy severely damaged and its people scattered across the EU and the Western world. On one hand Ukraine has a bully neighbour intent on destroying it, while on the other Western countries have continued to provide Ukraine with enough weapons to continue its fight, the result being even more destruction of Ukraine. Ukraine’s predicament has had many other global implications, almost all bad.

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Counterfeit Canadian $2 Coin from China

China is without a doubt the fake manufacturer of the world. They can counterfeit almost anything. Here in Canada the newest item I’ve found is the Canadian $2 coin, commonly called a toonie.

Look for the right paw of the polar bear, where the toes splay out like a camel.

Fake counterfeit Canadian $2 coin, or toonie, Made in China. Look at the splayed right toe of the polar bear, or camel toe

Fake counterfeit Canadian $2 coin, or toonie, Made in China. Look at the splayed right toe of the polar bear, or camel toe

Real Canadian $2 coin, or toonie

Real Canadian $2 coin, or toonie

Please be aware and examine all toonies you receive. It looks like these are common now.

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Google is Pro-Communist Party Chinese, denies Free speech

It’s been well known that Youtubers who post anything against the Communist Party of China CCP will have their videos demonetized, thus denying them the ability to make a living.Youtube is owned by Alphabet, the parent company of Google.

I am not sure why Google would do the bidding of the CCP, as Google services are banned in China and cannot therefore make a profit. Perhaps Chinese advertisers pay Google for ads around the world, but just not in China, where they are banned.

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Michael Pettis: The China Economic Model

Michael Pettis, professor Beijing University

1930s Germany and Soviet Union,
China uses the Gerschenkron’s model
The model postulates that the more backward an economy is at the outset of economic development, the more likely certain conditions are to occur: Special institutions, including banks or the state, will be necessary to properly channel physical capital and human capital to industries. Gerschenkron’s model

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