Category: SCMP EXCERPTS
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A Peek Into Everyday China : A Potpourri by Lt Gen PR Shankar(R)
This is a potpourri of excerpts from the South China Morning Post with links given. There is no central theme to these excerpts but to give you a broad spectrum peek into every day China. There is a lot of Hype which normally comes out of Chinese media. However, many a time, the truth…
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A PEEK INTO EVERYDAY CHINA: DECLINING TIMES by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Previous Peeks into Everyday China by the Author : https://www.gunnersshot.com/2022/07/chinas-global-influence-is-waning. https://www.gunnersshot.com/2022/07/a-peek-into-everyday-china-great-bank.html htmlhttps://www.gunnersshot.com/2022/06/a-peek-into-everyday-china-emergence-of.html https://www.gunnersshot.com/2022/06/a-peek-into-everyday-china-geostrategic.html https://www.gunnersshot.com/2022/06/a-peek-into-every-day-china-dragon-on.html https://www.gunnersshot.com/2022/04/a-peep-into-everyday-china-dragon-on.html The second quarter GDP results of China are out…Hence this edition of ‘A Peek into Everyday China’ in double quick time…oh by the way…whatever is written in this article is not…
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A Peek Into Everyday China : The Great Bank Robbery
Watch this video. Worth it. Previous Peeks into Everyday China by the Author : https://www.gunnersshot.com/2022/07/chinas-global-influence-is-waning. htmlhttps://www.gunnersshot.com/2022/06/a-peek-into-everyday-china-emergence-of.html https://www.gunnersshot.com/2022/06/a-peek-into-everyday-china-geostrategic.html https://www.gunnersshot.com/2022/06/a-peek-into-every-day-china-dragon-on.html https://www.gunnersshot.com/2022/04/a-peep-into-everyday-china-dragon-on.html The major issue which has come out of China in the recent past is the Henan Bank Scandal. Along with it there are other rumblings. The overall financial system in China is under scrutiny. Issues appear…
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A Peek Into Everyday China : Emergence of the Fairweather Friend by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
China has become more assertive in its global forays despite a visibly slowing economy. The reasons for a slowing economy are many…omicron, failed common prosperity, reality melt down, isolation, ageing, internal politics, supply chain disruptions, higher input costs and more. Historically, Communist China has been assertive and aggressive when it was it was at its…
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A Peek Into Everyday China : The Geostrategic Forays by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
In my last two editions of A Peek Into Everyday China : Dragon on a Drip , Part 1 and 2,( @ https://www.gunnersshot.com/2022/06/a-peek-into-every-day-china-dragon-on.html and https://www.gunnersshot.com/2022/04/a-peep-into-everyday-china-dragon-on.html). I had outlined the economic difficulties which China was facing. One person commented on the articles and felt that I was ‘over optimistic’. However these articles are about getting the mood inside China based on…
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A Peep Into Everyday China : Dragon on a Drip
Aadi and I had a discussion on the crisis in Shanghai and then very next day all these headlines appeared in the South China Morning Post. When I opened the South China Morning Post App on 18 Apr, it was an eyeopener. So many sob stories on one day? Well, these days this seems…
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A Peek Into Every Day China : Shanghai – The Tip of The Covid Iceberg in China By Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
This is a follow up of my article @ https://www.gunnersshot.com/2022/04/a-peek-into-everyday-china-revenge-of.html China has a long and ugly history of famine, displacement, and civil unrest. The social contract between the government and the people is that the CCP ensures a steady improvement in quality of life, and people won’t quibble too much about the path that which takes…
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A Peek Into Everyday China : The Revenge of The Virus by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
See clip of Shanghai under lockdown @ https://youtu.be/7vOvHcS6Egg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ngYxAi86gU In May 2020, China Declared Victory over the Coronavirus. It was a rebuttal to all critics of the Communist Party and its system of governance. That was at a time when the rest of the world was beleaguered. What was happening in China seemed a miracle. Within a year…
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A Peek Into Everyday China : The Demographic Bomb
There is a need to take a break from Ukraine. The popular perception is that China will benefit the most from the Ukraine war. I doubt. A slowing economy, targeted decoupling, fast changing demographics, resource and energy deficiency, internal politics, and the resurgence of the Wuhan Virus in China are weighing it down irrespective of…
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A Peek Into Everyday China – Part 5 : Something Unusual by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Nothing like beginning a new year in China. The headlines in the last week of 2021 and on New Year’s Day give you a sense that all is not well in China…something is amiss…the pace at which ‘amiss’ is happening is increasing…These days when I read anything about China I get reminded about the famous…
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