rhino wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2021 at 2:52pm:


Ever seen aborigines drinking themselves to death on a Broome beach,  surrounded by broken beer bottles?

Genocide, Oz style.

Whereas China deals with the problem of terrorist Islamists by actually employing them in labour camps. Which is the better approach? 

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  .......didn't you read the SCMP article I posted yesterday,: Chinese students preferring to move back to China because of better living conditions there.

Here are some global comparisons.

(Google) Which is the No 1 University in China?

1. Tsinghua University. Staying in Beijing, this year's number one among the top universities in China is Tsinghua University, which was also ranked 17th (and first in China) in the QS World University Rankings® 2019.

cf ANU (Oz's highest in QS World University Rankings): 35th.

Belgarion wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2021 at 7:40pm:


Dirty western media always play dirty tricks. Chinese don't use Facebook in China. It's been blocked. Facebook pronounced "must die" (fei si bu ke) in Chinese and no one wanna to use.

Those accounts were actually created by so called dissident or western puppy. It's not a news and happened in 2019. BBC / Facebook is so rubbish and manipulated that again.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2021 at 8:39pm:


Nah. It's owned by Sina corp.

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2021 at 4:44pm:
Thought so, Uni student with zero life experience. Mate, Ive been to Broome and a thousand other places while you were still sh1tting in your nappies, Ive been to China , lived in SE Asia for a few years, I speak 3 languages and have lived in the equivalent  number of cultures, I can even understand quite a couple of hundred characters In Chinese, although I cant speak it, can you? Get back to me when you have some real life experience son . Bullsh1t doesnt work on me. Go to China, check out how happy they are to be living the dream. Until you have that experience you shouldnt even be in this conversation. Find another cause like free the gay whales or something.

rhino wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2021 at 10:22pm:


You jumped to the wrong conclusion. You said China is not advancing, I showed that China's top uni is now ranked much higher than Oz's top uni....generally a measure of how well a nation is advancing. Doesn't mean I'm a uni student with "zero life experience".


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And?  the aboriginal genocide in Broome I saw with my own eyes?  And the public in the NT who are driven mad by police who say "we can't do anything about aboriginal crime" because the judiciary always  puts the 'criminals'  back on the streets...

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What's any of that got to do with the nature and quality of a nation's governance?

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Eradication of absolute poverty among 700 million people, plus building a middle class larger than the entire US population. achieved in 30 years, cf with aboriginals drinking themselves to death, even now? And the exhilaration of the world's most extensive high speed rail network? etc etc. 

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2021 at 4:44pm:


International rankings of universities are big business and big news. These systems order universities on the basis of a variety of criteria such as student to staff ratio, income from industry, and reputation as captured through public surveys.

Universities around the world use their rankings as marketing material and parents and prospective students make life choices on the basis of them.

But the methodology underpinning the Quacquarelli Symonds and Times Higher Education ranking systems and others like them would be unlikely to pass as a third year student’s research project.
https://theconversation.com/university-rankings-dont-measure-what-matters-145425
There a lots of other papers on university ranking. If you look at the metrics of how ranking is calculated you'll see that you can buy better ranking relatively easily. Ranking is primarily a marketing exercise.  And it is about marketing to third world international students, mainly the Chinese, who are awed by this sort of eyewash.

China under 70 years of communist brainwashing has turned into a profoundly incurious, unsophisticated, mindless, philistine place. Its intellectual, artistic, creative elite has been murdered or gone into exile over the past 70 years. What is left is the peasant, hungry, elbowing everyone aside mentality. They have retained almost nothing of their past sophistication but all of the stupidest supersitions man has ever devised - that's what they now call their '3000 year old civilisation'.

Frank wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2021 at 4:14pm:


So these West-created rankings are mere profit-seeking garbage?  Hmm.

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On the way to being world leaders in AI and computing in the next five years, and creating common prosperity among  1.4 billion people. And the only nation with a space station, when the ISS is decommissioned mid decade. With all citizens able to explore their entire country, via the world's most extensive high-speed rail network. 

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For the record, Chinese history is no grander - or less ugly -
than the 'civilized' post-agricultural-revolution civilizations in the  M.E. or Europe.

But China today is certainly regaining the creative vitality witnessed in the Tang and Song dynasties.

Meanwhile the individual sovereignty delusion is destroying the West from within.   

Its lucky the Commonwealth of Australia shut down dictator Dan from the Chink Belts And Roads programme here.