What is your opinion on the state of the East Asia? How do you feel about the direction the countries are facing geopolitically? Maybe what do you think are the biggest challenges facing the various nations right now?
I know I stole ts, but people were complaining the US and Europe topics were getting racist, so I wanted to talk about something that's on my home turf that has REAL racism.
run down of Asian politics to the best of my knowledge:
- Americans are really fucking pompous and spoiled, crying about "we live in the most racist and fascist country on earth". they have no idea what real racism and fascism is like. if they lived under real fascism, they would already be dead.
- anyone who is still supporting communism is an absolute retard who does not pay attention to history. China knows this, which is why they rewrite history all the fucking time.
- Vietnam's economy is totally fucked. Communism is so bad that somehow their economy got worse after WINNING a war. Vietnams economy is so fucked that politicians are incentivized to take bribes because they cant even afford to pay rent in the cities they run. The biggest nail was that issue a few years back with that banking fraud that caused the country to lose $24B USD, which is 6% lost in the country's GDP
- China is still trying to invade the South East Asia sea, claiming as their own because "we owned it thousands of years ago". Calling the territory "the nine-dash line". China wants it for fishing, mining, drilling, trade control, and strategic positioning. All the South East Asian countries, and even Japan, are working together to stop China from encroaching. China has been using the loophole of "we own the sea surrounding any of our islands" so they've been building a bunch of artificial islands. About a year back, Chinese navy got into a scuffle with Filipino ships, the ships crashed into each otehr and cause one of the fishers to lose a finger. If anyone would have died, The Philippines would have declared war.
- Similar to how Americans are complaining about "invasion by immigrants", we are ACTUALLY suffering that. China has been trying to force their citizens loyal to the CCP to live overseas and gain citizenship or sympathy in order to sway politicians that are pro-Chinese. Its the absolute worse in Taiwan because they think they fucking own us.
- idk enough about Myammar. All i know is that they currently have a civil war because the military took over as a fascist regime. I have a Myammar colleague and I hate him. I heard the military is holding his family hostage in order to convince him to go back to get drafted. He's currently sending money back home to "pay for their war efforts" so that they wont hurt his family. It sounds awful, but hes a POS so i dont feel so bad.
- Robot Kanye is Japanese so he can speak more on this, but Japan has their new female prime minister, and she hates immigrants. Makes sense when they are a peaceful country that's being bombarded by Johnny Somali, Logan Paul, and other assholes who dont have basic etiquette. Also Japan is rebuilding their navy, first time since WW2, in order to prepare for the possible attack from China. Japan promised to help defend us since we have a fairly strong army but weak navy (which i doubt would be much help either since itll likely be missile warfare. what we need are interceptors)
- if you do not know already, Taiwan specialized in semiconductors, aka computer chips. Nearly all the computer chips on each come from us. China wants to take over not just because they think they own us, but because they want the edge in computer chips. due to embargos placed by the US, China has no access to Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing technology. In short, we just say that theyre 15 years behind because every new tech they make has the same specs as tech we made 15 years ago (its why DeepSeek is so valued because its AI that can run on weaker hardware compared to the overbloated mess that is ChatGTP)
- recently, co-founder of SuperMicron was trying to smuggle supercomputers into China and got caught. Pissed me off cause i had shares in SuperMicron, but not as pissed as my family still living in the US who lost thousands (literally saw him throw glass at the wall)
- Korea is depressing as fuck. they have known sex-offenders and traffikers but they cant do anything about it because those rapists are crucial to Korea's economy. actually moving towards the cyberpunk dystopia.
- both Korean and Japanese government are run by a bunch of boomers who are stuck in their 80s hayday, and focus on appealing to other boomers instead of young adults who are looking for work. Both youths just give up on life. Korea had a feminism movement called the 4th wave to combat the rampant sexism in Korea, causing increased sexism and drastic decrease in couples.
- China's real estate economy collapsed, literally. For the last decade, they have been skimping out and cutting corners on their construction, which is now causing nearly every building built within the last 10 years to collapse. Homes are no longer worth buying and people who pre-paid their mortgages are not getting their money back.
- China's young adult population has also given up on life. China is full of homeless streamers, literally streamers sitting on the street doing make-up tutorials and shit.
- China's internally collapsing economy may either mean they are more likely to invade Taiwan for a boost in economic and moral, or they are now less likely to invade to focus on internal conflict.
- Bangladesh government collapse, thats all i know
- Korea placed Johnny Somali in 30 years in prison with hard labor. But because he is also a registered sex-offender, he is not allowed to work on a farm. he has to stay indoors at all times working in a factory. Everyone in Asia is happy about this.
- Hong Kong had that revolt some year back that they lost. Which is a shame. Now Hong Kong is more or less a part of China. Hopefully we aren't like that
Mb i meant south asia , mainly the indian subcontinent, which im most familiar with
feel free to add your takes. idk enough about south asia other than:
- india and pakistanis hate each other
-inda and china have a melee fight once every few months
- zoomers from Nepal took over the government with the power of Discord and the One Piece
Gonna be honest, not reading all that, but I skimmed and yeah, most of Asia is actually hell.
I cant talk about most of your points, like Chinese immigrants, real estate, and birth declining, but I can say we shouldn't compare dick sizes about who has it worse. Everyone's in the shit together.
everywhere has it pretty bad, but I think we tend to talk so little about Asia it gets out of hand, specially because of the "Place, Japan" phenomena
Oh yeah definitely, Asia's had some of the worst governments and a lot of social issues thay are going down hill. I was just saying not to talk down to people from other countries because they want to talk about their arising problems.
Like I'm American and I grew up in the south. The racism towards anyone with a darker skin color than pale white and the rising political movement using every method used by fascists, as well as dehumanizing and shipping off people who oppose them is very apparent.
I dont like the fact that someone is telling me my problems are bullshit because they are also going through stuff country wide just as bad, if not worse. We can speak of our problems and not tell others they're pompous and spoiled.
But that's just my opinion.
sorry, i just had a crash out because i keep seeing bullshit about Americans running the "No King Protest", especially when many of them defended the Ayatollah and actually demonized the Hong Kong protest.
Valid reason, but remember that that is the small, small minority.
Millions of people protested (because thats all they can do other than violence) and of course certain people will be douche bags.
That does in no way represent the protesters, the rallies, or the American mind set as a whole. People just want a better country and not a king.
America is the nation of freedom. i know you guys dont think your country is free, but it can be a WHOLE lot fucking worse and it pisses me off when some Americans dont realize that. You have the power of free speech and press. You guys could petition to your council or actually just hold dialogue in the street. literally just be left-wing versions of Charlie Kirk. And there is a difference between choosing not to commit violence and being incapable of committing violence. The worse you guys can do is throw bricks, spray graffiti, and rob a store. If the police wanted to mow you all down and turn the streets to red mist, they easily would. The existence of your protest is at the mercy of the very people you are against. Despite being the nation of guns, I hardly ever see a protestor have guns except for gangbangers who just use the chaos to rob stores.
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I compare this to what I saw in Hong Kong. People would have literatlly killed themselves if it mean they could speak out against the government without impunity, they would have killed to get the right to own guns. The Chinese government brought in the military to mow them down, and protestors fought back with improvised explosives and welded weapons and barricades. People in Hong Kong have not only been killed, but deleted from existance for doing much less than the No Kings Protest.
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I cant speak for the whole world, but i can say with certainty that everyone in east asia thinks the No Kings Protest are a bunch of clowns. In mandarin, we have a derogatory word for you guys called 白左 (pronounced bai-zuo, literal "white left"). there was an attempt at an anti-trump protest in Japan by a bunch of American tourists, and the police shut that shit down SO fast. You are not smart enough to use peaceful dialogue and you are not strong enough to use violence, so instead you guys just resort to being mildly annoying.
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sorry i got into a rant
I dont keep up with this stuff but what is the "No King Protest" as i cant find a straight answer on google
The No Kings Protest is a very big anti-trump protest, and it's about how Americans won't serve a king again after the Revolutionary War. Its not doing much of anything, but it is a nice reminder that people here do what they can and protest what they can't
once a year (actually theyve only done this twice now, first time was last year), all the nutcases in the US (and the UK for some reason idk) who hate Donald Trump and have too much free time will go march onto the streets to show how much they hate Donald Trump. This is under the logic that Donald Trump is acting like a king and that they dont like it. Very often they block traffic or commit vandalism/arson, which just pisses off every normal person not involved.
- what does this achieve? I have no fucking idea and i dont think they know either. Ive tried asking a few of them on twitter and facebook and i just get called a nazi and a white sympathizer for asking.
- how is Trump a king? according to them, its because hes doing a bunch of bad things they dont like despite winning the popular vote
- why is the UK taking part in the protest? i have no idea, but its clearly not in protest of King Charles, their ACTUAL king. Honestly i think the brits are more cooked than the Americans since those protestors dont even know they live in an ACTUAL fascist country.
I don't know how much is talked about it outside of the country, but the republic of Korea has been facing a problem that is swept under the rug constantly. The country has no fucking workers anymore, the economy is steadily decreasing, and may face negative growth this year, that's just counting the brute income, if we don't consider entertainment income, which was the government's latest attempt at digging itself out of the grave it dug for itself, it's really going to shit
also, the country is a disaster waiting to happen because of USA, North Korea and China like a pack of vultures around it
im just outside looking in and it already looks completely fucked. personally, i think you guys should have killed the CEO of samsung ages ago.
most people my age I've talked to there refer to samsung (samseong) as Samsyeo (which is like, "suck it", it's hard to translate), like the company is saying "suck it", anecdotal, but it's how most people see the company
ive also heard about that incident of a corrupt CEO or politicians (idk, some rich fat guy) had a ship that was too heavy to sail, which caused everyone to abandon ship but they left an entire class full of kids stuck inside.
it's even worse, it worked just fine, but (this is what my dad told me) it was basically "public transport", as in, it acted for the government as a ferry, but since it was the only ferry that acted in that route, it was quite expensive. to earn more and pay less, the company modified the ferry to carry more people, and at the time it sank, it was weighing 4 times the legal ammount. Unfortunately, that day was a school trip I think, which resulted in over 250 fatalities from it
From outside looking in, Samsung looks like Arasaka from Cyberpunk. I mean look at this bit from the Samsungs Wikipedia
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Didnt know that happened to johnny somali and its deserved honestly
they should just blow somali's brains out (epstein style) and say he was killed in a (particularly violent) prison brawl
nah, you cant enslave dead people. got to put him to work to pay back all the damages hes done.
The man created the forum post so he could say that.
It's good that you shared it; it's not healthy to keep all of that to yourself.
Absolutely no idea about any of it other than the ocassional corruption ig.
Nothing really to think about really, east asia looks about as fucked up as everywhere else. Slowly being drowned in incompetence and bureaucracy, I don't want to visit anymore because it feels like it's the only place people go on holiday that isn't somewhere in the west. I don't think asia is going to be a political force anytime soon, kind of nice aesthetically, nice food to eat once and awhile, the weebs have destroyed any sort of wonder I had for east asia.
I don't even know if there's anything to comment on; you'd have to make a division between East and West Asia.
Edit: It's best not to talk about Palestine anymore than we already have.
Now we just need to subsection it further to Middle east and Balkan then we have the best kinds of racism
niggas. You can't just say "no" to war crimes 
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run down of Asian politics to the best of my knowledge:
- Americans are really fucking pompous and spoiled, crying about "we live in the most racist and fascist country on earth". they have no idea what real racism and fascism is like. if they lived under real fascism, they would already be dead.
- anyone who is still supporting communism is an absolute retard who does not pay attention to history. China knows this, which is why they rewrite history all the fucking time.
- Vietnam's economy is totally fucked. Communism is so bad that somehow their economy got worse after WINNING a war. Vietnams economy is so fucked that politicians are incentivized to take bribes because they cant even afford to pay rent in the cities they run. The biggest nail was that issue a few years back with that banking fraud that caused the country to lose $24B USD, which is 6% lost in the country's GDP
- China is still trying to invade the South East Asia sea, claiming as their own because "we owned it thousands of years ago". Calling the territory "the nine-dash line". China wants it for fishing, mining, drilling, trade control, and strategic positioning. All the South East Asian countries, and even Japan, are working together to stop China from encroaching. China has been using the loophole of "we own the sea surrounding any of our islands" so they've been building a bunch of artificial islands. About a year back, Chinese navy got into a scuffle with Filipino ships, the ships crashed into each otehr and cause one of the fishers to lose a finger. If anyone would have died, The Philippines would have declared war.
- Similar to how Americans are complaining about "invasion by immigrants", we are ACTUALLY suffering that. China has been trying to force their citizens loyal to the CCP to live overseas and gain citizenship or sympathy in order to sway politicians that are pro-Chinese. Its the absolute worse in Taiwan because they think they fucking own us.
- idk enough about Myammar. All i know is that they currently have a civil war because the military took over as a fascist regime. I have a Myammar colleague and I hate him. I heard the military is holding his family hostage in order to convince him to go back to get drafted. He's currently sending money back home to "pay for their war efforts" so that they wont hurt his family. It sounds awful, but hes a POS so i dont feel so bad.
- Robot Kanye is Japanese so he can speak more on this, but Japan has their new female prime minister, and she hates immigrants. Makes sense when they are a peaceful country that's being bombarded by Johnny Somali, Logan Paul, and other assholes who dont have basic etiquette. Also Japan is rebuilding their navy, first time since WW2, in order to prepare for the possible attack from China. Japan promised to help defend us since we have a fairly strong army but weak navy (which i doubt would be much help either since itll likely be missile warfare. what we need are interceptors)
- if you do not know already, Taiwan specialized in semiconductors, aka computer chips. Nearly all the computer chips on each come from us. China wants to take over not just because they think they own us, but because they want the edge in computer chips. due to embargos placed by the US, China has no access to Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing technology. In short, we just say that theyre 15 years behind because every new tech they make has the same specs as tech we made 15 years ago (its why DeepSeek is so valued because its AI that can run on weaker hardware compared to the overbloated mess that is ChatGTP)
- recently, co-founder of SuperMicron was trying to smuggle supercomputers into China and got caught. Pissed me off cause i had shares in SuperMicron, but not as pissed as my family still living in the US who lost thousands (literally saw him throw glass at the wall)
- Korea is depressing as fuck. they have known sex-offenders and traffikers but they cant do anything about it because those rapists are crucial to Korea's economy. actually moving towards the cyberpunk dystopia.
- both Korean and Japanese government are run by a bunch of boomers who are stuck in their 80s hayday, and focus on appealing to other boomers instead of young adults who are looking for work. Both youths just give up on life. Korea had a feminism movement called the 4th wave to combat the rampant sexism in Korea, causing increased sexism and drastic decrease in couples.
- China's real estate economy collapsed, literally. For the last decade, they have been skimping out and cutting corners on their construction, which is now causing nearly every building built within the last 10 years to collapse. Homes are no longer worth buying and people who pre-paid their mortgages are not getting their money back.
- China's young adult population has also given up on life. China is full of homeless streamers, literally streamers sitting on the street doing make-up tutorials and shit.
- China's internally collapsing economy may either mean they are more likely to invade Taiwan for a boost in economic and moral, or they are now less likely to invade to focus on internal conflict.
- Bangladesh government collapse, thats all i know
- Korea placed Johnny Somali in 30 years in prison with hard labor. But because he is also a registered sex-offender, he is not allowed to work on a farm. he has to stay indoors at all times working in a factory. Everyone in Asia is happy about this.
- Hong Kong had that revolt some year back that they lost. Which is a shame. Now Hong Kong is more or less a part of China. Hopefully we aren't like that
I don't know how much is talked about it outside of the country, but the republic of Korea has been facing a problem that is swept under the rug constantly. The country has no fucking workers anymore, the economy is steadily decreasing, and may face negative growth this year, that's just counting the brute income, if we don't consider entertainment income, which was the government's latest attempt at digging itself out of the grave it dug for itself, it's really going to shit
also, the country is a disaster waiting to happen because of USA, North Korea and China like a pack of vultures around it
im just outside looking in and it already looks completely fucked. personally, i think you guys should have killed the CEO of samsung ages ago.
most people my age I've talked to there refer to samsung (samseong) as Samsyeo (which is like, "suck it", it's hard to translate), like the company is saying "suck it", anecdotal, but it's how most people see the company
ive also heard about that incident of a corrupt CEO or politicians (idk, some rich fat guy) had a ship that was too heavy to sail, which caused everyone to abandon ship but they left an entire class full of kids stuck inside.
it's even worse, it worked just fine, but (this is what my dad told me) it was basically "public transport", as in, it acted for the government as a ferry, but since it was the only ferry that acted in that route, it was quite expensive. to earn more and pay less, the company modified the ferry to carry more people, and at the time it sank, it was weighing 4 times the legal ammount. Unfortunately, that day was a school trip I think, which resulted in over 250 fatalities from it