The Unseen China - Chapter 2

We follow labor researcher Zhang Yaozu as he visits laid-off workers in northeast China, once the nation's industrial hub and now due to the privatization of state-owned enterprises called China's Rust Belt.
Jiang Xueqin & Brian Keeley "The Unseen China" 2003

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[x6troy]

These stories are filled with sorrow. And yet China is rewarded constantly by the United Nations?

[ziggaza]

you are right... the revolution was it seems great yet like many revolutions it ended up selling its  ideals, quite literally indeed

[jazzyman1]

but foolish chinese don't know how to protest against authority !!!

[hejafish]

@jmintube I think the Chinese are scared of going down that road again! The only way to keep up with the world is to be capitalist like the most powerful countries. I see China as like an adult who was bullied as a child (imperialism/invasions) and has built up a defence for itself at any cost (suffering of working class) with the end result being "at least nobody will fuck with us again". Which is all good. But an adult who has suffered as a child should know not to make others suffer.

[jmintube]

@hejafish by this argument the only solution is to get rid of capitalism

[hejafish]

Where there is capitalism there is greed...where there is greed there is evil.

[Topazman12]

Yet, China is still pumping the media with stories that everyone is prospering in China. The New capitalism. Wealth and money is for everyone. Cities are also expanding. Which are now called Ghost Cities. Yet millions are spent to spying, arresting and killing people. Organ harvesting is rampant plus prisons are run by criminals.

[TKKTism]

This film makes no sense. It claims the acquisition of those factories to be blatant theft. But did the businesses acquire the factories through illegal means? It simply ignore such aspects. TBH, business are not charities nor do business shutdown profitable establishments. It is clear that these factories weren't profitable and probably the factories' previous survival was solely dependent on state budget. The only real problem is why the government didn't fulfill its pension scheme.

[jia2001]

@x6troy Dude do you know what the number 1,3 billion means? If 30 million people in China are suffering its a very bad thing I know and I hate watch it I am Chinese.

But think about how many is 30 million compared to 1,3 billion?

[PrimeTargetSecurity]

@truvianni thats if we only add the state owned debt thats on the books. why do u think we step aside so often to let china outbid us on major projects here and abroad? cuz we have to. its part of the payback for the undeclared debts. then theres the citizen owned US debt over there. TV ads for buying american houses and debts run on their TV all the time. Their stock analysts talk about buying american all the time. your right, but its so much more than 1 trillion.

[truvianni]

@PrimeTargetSecurity well they own a trillion dollars of US debt yet Obama thinks they should buy more perhaps he is the Manchurian candidate in that film

[truvianni]

@Topazman12 and that is if the person who makes it is lucky because if he or she is not then prison also awaits