Posted On: Tuesday - November 14th 2023 11:26AM MST
In Topics: China Environmental Stupidity Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Now, with English Closed-Captioning!
Peak Stupidity has not forgotten our fairly recent excursion to the People's Republic(?) of China for blog-reporting purposes.* Here, we just present a short post about a few things I saw on Chinese TV - I assume it was the ubiquitous and all-knowing CCTV (not Closed Captioning but Chinese Central TV).
(No guarantees on the last part of that one.)
It's not as if I watched much TV there, what with the slight language barrier and all, but I captured a few scenes from a TV high up in the hotel breakfast area. The above illustrated to me one interesting point, that the Chinese are into the Woke propaganda too. Oh, yeah, I mean, we've got wind power here too. This image wasn't from a documentary though but just an advertisement for "out great Environmental Progress here in The Middle Kingdom". (My paraphrase of words I couldn't make out - people were too loud in the room - that's my excuse.)
Let's get real, though. The Chinese are burning coal like 1880s steam locomotive firemen. That's still the case at home in the non-modern homes, but I'm more thinking of coal-burning power plants that are springing up like sunflowers (probably NOT the best analogy). It's one energy resource that China has, or they can always order it up from their Australian colonies. China has been let to skate free of the now-dubbed Global Boiling panic treaties due to "developing". Yeah, developing alright! See our post China and the Climate Calamity™. No, they are not really concerned.
Why be concerned that the TV show China as a place out of a Greta Thunberg wet (wait..) dream? Is it for the foreign audience? I just don't see the Chinese people as being THAT awfully concerned over environment over productivity.
That was strange. What about this?
Here you have some ad glorifying a single-parent(?) sheep-raising family in the mountains that are not quite Han Chinese. I'm going by the dress more than the faces - hard to tell for me - to see that this is some promotion of the minority peoples. Now, that's Wokei!
I'm pretty sure this was not a travel ad. Though the CCP has taken Tibet long ago and has been force-assimilating the Uighur people out in the northwest (Xinjiang), they want to show that they are proud of THESE minority people. From my source, they are Mongolian. ("Could be Bulgarian..." - either way, "... send her to me."*) Now that I have the caption translated, I can see that for this 2nd CCTV ad, we got both kids of wokeness, Green AND Minority! What is the idea here? Is it also propaganda for World consumption?
In some provinces, the number of minority (their term) people is fairly significant. Here is a little either Meow (Miao?) or Yi girl - don't ask me! - visiting one of the tourist sites that had centuries old museum buildings showing how their local government used to work.
Very cute! I may pull up another picture later of some other people in the museum with us. They were regular Han people I assume, just sitting where you're not supposed to, reading their cell phones, checking stock indices, texts, and TikTok ...
PS:
* It really WAS the case, that last part, as I didn't have to go on this one. I made my decision based on my wanting to see what's changed since '17.
** OK, if you get that reference, you're a die-hard ________ fan! Fill in the blank in the comments.
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