shonkyminister,

Lying through your teeth again, where is your evidence that the CCP admitted unemployment was 4% in China. YOU MADE IT UP! Stop reading far right trash, and get the real facts. You make all these lying claims about China, yet provide no evidence, you are a joke. As I said its your Thread with your "Facts" but no evidence.

Pauliar,

You disgusting lying piece of crap, here is the latest evidence of and statistics from China of the "registered" unemployed not close to the underemployed.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/226141/unemployment-rate-in-china-by-quarter/

"Quarterly unemployment rate in China Q3 2016-Q3 2021
Published by C. Textor, Nov 1, 2021
The graph shows the quarterly registered unemployment rate in urban regions of China from the third quarter of 2016 to the third quarter of 2021. During the third quarter of 2021, around 3.88 percent of the Chinese urban labor force had been unemployed. The monthly surveyed unemployment rate of urban areas in China, which is normally higher than the registered unemployment rate, ranged at 4.9 percent in September 2021. It did not indicate a lasting effect of the coronavirus pandemic on unemployment rates in China."

Pauliar,

Now you have to eat a huge pile of crow when you could have simply looked up the statistics. Next time try this before making yourself look like an ignorant twat.

China's unemployment compares more than favorably with the West. Full employment is not reached at zero percent unemployed, as there is always an allowence of 2% for shifts in employment. The use of "urban" unemployment figures and not national figures like in the US is designed to inflate the actual numbers.

China's economy and people has done extremely well during Covid, due to a robust health and economic response from government. Unlike the United States where your folk hero Dangerous Doctor Donald, killed a million citizens, and threw millions more on the scrap heap.

Pauliar,

Thanks for admitting that you were lying through your teeth claiming that there was 0% unemployment in China.

With the collapse of the property market, things have turned much worse in China with millions being laid off in either the direct construction market or in the much larger network of suppliers. What hasn't helped is Xi's crackdown on the tech, film and training organisations.

The $bns flowing from the property market used to support state and federal governments and have now vanished to the point where previously safe government jobs are being slashed or pay reduced.

I can go on, but just look yourself.

"The closure of Hong Kong’s last two dissident media voices affirms the importance of the decision by major democracies, including Australia, to observe a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing next month. The Chinese Communist Party’s unrelenting assault on press freedom and free thought was clear in last week’s snuffing out of the Stand News website and Sunday’s closure of Citizen News. Stand News was Hong Kong’s most influential pro-democracy news site following the closure of Jimmy Lai’s Apple Daily last June.

In September last year, prominent pro-Beijing Hong Kong politician Regina Ip trumpeted the continued existence of Stand News as showing “freedom of expression is still alive and well” in the territory. She little understood the malice of the regime; 200 armed police stormed Stand News’s offices last week, arresting seven staff. The site was charged with sedition and “inciting hatred against the Hong Kong government”.

The raid also sounded the death knell for Citizen News which, in a Facebook post on Sunday, announced it was shutting down. “We have always loved this land, but at present, we are helpless as we are not only facing wind and rain but tornadoes and huge waves,” it told readers. In a final jab at Beijing, Stand News published a list of 50 independent media organisations that had been forced to shut in Hong Kong in the past year. Nothing better sums up the communist assault on the institutions that made Hong Kong Asia’s globally admired media hub.

While the plight of China’s Uighurs was the initial motivator for the diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics, outrages committed in Hong Kong also should be a factor. Watching the Games without taking a stand over Beijing’s destruction of basic freedoms would have been unconscionable. More countries should join the boycott."