“It would be completely misguided for Britain to view China as a competitor… what do China and Britain compete with?”
The British government should not “overestimate its impact on the global scene,” spokesperson for the [Communist Party of China], Victor Gao, tells [British propagandist].
Translation: You’re too irrelevant for us to even view you as a competitor. You produce nothing.
They’re pretty good at making television shows that get remade into better television shows by Americans. That’s something, I guess.
They excelled at generations of cultural bitterness toward a world that threw off their colonial yokes and started to heal from all the slaughter their empire caused.
Yes, this includes shit they pulled with China, especially when pushing opium.
Like what?
The Office. I never watched either version but supposedly the English version was a flop.
Wow really? I prefer the original version. The original was very dry, and then Steve Carell… I like his comedy, but he just turned the show’s comedy into more Steve Carell comedy. It didn’t capture the original’s dry wit at all.
I can’t comment on it I just heard that the ratings weren’t great. Which makes sense if you consider that Office UK had 2 Seasons and Office US had 9.
This of course doesn’t necessarily speak about the quality of content.
IT crowd is better than the british office anyway.
I tried watching that show but I just remember that in episode 2 or 3 it had already decided to fall back on “uh…women love shoes, am I right?” so I decided to seek out other shows that had a better sense for comedy than a drunk middle aged man at an open mic night.
That’s really down to the casting more than anything else
He starts off so polite as well. The presenter does not look happy at the end lol
Western presenters rarely allow an interviewee to speak for so long uninterrupted if the guest is saying something against the accepted Western narrative. Dude was either in shock to too mad to talk.
As a party spokesperson, Gao will probably stay at plausible deniability levels of subtlety with his burns. Like his statement here is obvs saying Britain isn’t competitive, but he can easily claim that he’s just saying they don’t compete with each other.
Chen has a bit more of a free hand with which to openly slap faces.
Yeah but does Choina produce a proper shite beer that gets exported to the world?
Choiner
Choiner, mate
Uh yeah Snow beer is literally the most sold beer in the world lmao.
Victor Gao (Gao Zhikai) was an interpreter for Deng Xiaoping, but he is not a CPC member, but rather a member of China Democratic League.
Here’s Victor Gao talking about China’s whole-process people’s democracy: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-11-07/How-does-whole-process-people-s-democracy-work--1eJSwwxCtji/index.html
Some foreign news agencies even called me a spokesperson of the Communist Party of China, which is not true. In reality, I’m not a CPC member. I’m a member of a democratic party of China.
Westoid Journalist: “So tell us about the insidious schemes of the CEE CEE PEE.”
Gao: “Actually, I’m not a CPC member, I’m a member of one of several other political parties recognized by-”
Westoid Journalist: “DOES NOT COMPUTE. CEE CEE PEE SINGLE PARTY AUTHORITARIANISM TEN TRILLION DEAD WEEEGURTS. DOES NOT COMPUTE DOES NOT COMPUTE.”
I remember the debate some rando fox journalist had with an anchor for CGTN where the anchor stated in the beginning that she is not part of the communist party and her opinion doesn’t reflect the party line and the fox channel lady just keeps referring her as a communist party member
Never mind, they know so little about us that if I were the director of the CIA, I would fire all the employees.Although I am from China, I still feel that the taxes paid by Americans are in vain.
That is an impressive burn, and an icy one too.
What do they produce?
Uh, I don’t know, haven’t you ever heard of English Tea?
Stolen from India and best used for dumping in harbors.
That was Chinese only, British sent a spy in China to steal the secrets of Tea harvesting and brought it in Darjeeling which is now called the Darjeeling tea worldwide.
Yorkshire Tea specifically!
Ah yes, the vast fields of tea plants that grow in Yorkshire…
I hope that one day I, too, will be able to deliver such devastating burns in such an eloquent manner.
