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    You're really not missing by not understanding the Chinese.

    I'm guessing the thing about it being "Top Gun Inspired" refers to the remarkable level of homoeroticism.

    It's kind of a propaganda video, but it's also just an advert for AVIC, which refitted the Riga/Varyag before it was launched as the Liaoning, and which is involved in all areas of China's aviation industry.

    There's some pretty terrible CGI on there.

    I bet one of the 4m people who've watched it was my Shanghai office manager: he loves military stuff.
     
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    ^^^
    Thanks!

    Your post made me look up homoeroticism. I hadn't heard that word until today.

    Well, I guess if you've watched enough Jerry Bruckheimer films (e.g. Top Gun and Armageddon (some have called that a 2.5 hour long movie trailer)) and compare the aircraft carrier stuff, cuts, slow mo, camera work, shots in the sunset, barrel rolls, etc. you should be able to see the Top Gun resemblance...

    From 中国航母舰载机训练大片 - 高清在线观看 - 腾讯视频, it looks like it's up to over 19.4 million plays now. (Thanks to Google Translate.)
     
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    I picked this up at a conference yesterday. Sorry for the horrible quality - it's a phone photo of a PowerPoint handout.

    It shows the time it took for countries to go from a per-capita GDP of US$ 2,000 per year (as an equivalent of 2013 levels) to a per-capita GDP of US$ 8,000.

    It puts China's growth into context. It took the US more than 80 years to do this, and took Britain nearly 120. Japan did it in 17 years, but that's post-war reconstruction with a friendly colonial power, so that's different. And China did it in 16 years.

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    I saw Adultery, Ramadan, and puns—an incomplete list of the things China banned in 2014 – Quartz last night which pointed to These gilded government buildings explain exactly why Beijing is banning new ones – Quartz.

    The latter pointed to Photos: Harbin Pharmaceuticals subsidiary builds their own Versailles: Shanghaiist, which is INSANE, if accurate.

    I saw Free Boyfriend Rental in China: for Busy Career Women Trying to Prove They’re Not Gay | RocketNews24 awhile ago, and just now got around to posting it.
     
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    That's odd - I posted a pdf of the Guardian article in case you still couldn't read it, but that post has disappeared. Maybe it was a copyright-policy thing by the mods or something. And then another post by Bisco (I think) and response by me have disappeared too. All very weird.

    Anyway, I'm in Beijing now, and I can get into this article. Are you still having trouble?
     
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    I recall those too... I think. I wonder what happened?
     
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    thanks through various sources I have read about 'the tunnel'. I don't suppose that the excavations have yet begun.
     
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    Both this and the tunnel are part of a much broader thing - the Belt and Road strategy. The Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank ties in to this too. It's an interesting plan.
     
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    Flipping through local TV channels, a home shopping network type thing is selling a bedside oxygen generator. Suppose the core technology is water electrolysis, but that's not my point.

    To prove that it is really puttin' out the O2, they connect the output tube to a burning cigarette, and it...burns a lot faster. I found this highly amusing, given that the target audience has COPD or some sort of cardiopulmonary insufficiency.
     
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    More likely it concentrates oxygen from existing air, but yes, using cigarette is amusing. Guess a burning bed wouldn't help sales.
     
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    How would that work, Mr. Bait? By cryo? for $500 USD?
     
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    Honestly, 40-year-old meat sounds like an improvement on some of the newer meat.

    China Meat Scandal: Rat Meat Served as Mutton in Shanghai’s Famous Hotpot

    Another food scandal? KFC just cannot win - Jul. 31, 2014

    China: Fake Chicken Eggs Add to List of Fake-Food Scandals | TIME.com

    2008 Chinese milk scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/us/02toothpaste.html?_r=0

    And really, there are many more.
     
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    Oh yeah, I knew about the milk scandal. Re: the toothpaste w/anti-freeze, I'd heard of this via another TV show that focused on something else, mainly those selling counterfeit goods in the US, usually in Mexican communities. Counterfeits were all over the map, ranging from fake prescription drugs, to that toothpaste to fake jackets.
     
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