So, who said China ban traditional Chinese festival, Chinese people never abandoned their culture and China government never ban China festival. China even celebrate Western festival too, like Halloween and Christmas. 😊😊😊China are more open than Western. 😮😮
There must be a way to measure the level of commercial exploitation of all such events. I cannot believe it has not been attempted. One can easily compare Halloween vs. Christmas, for example, anchored on some measure of the event's cultural/religious authenticity. The Commercialization Index (or CI) will probably say that CI(Halloween vs. Christmas) is 300% (of something) and it varies from 800% in Taiwan to 100% in Britain. Just saying.
It is great to see that you enjoy watching the dragon boat race events, Jerry. Put a dragon head & tail on your bicycle & you will be riding a dragon bike as a Jerry Signature across the vastness of China. Cheers!
I was very active in the dragon boat scene in Singapore over a decade ago, but I competed in the "corporate" category (teams representing individual companies). There were some Australian teams that visited, but they were no match for the locals. Before I left Singapore for Australia, the last dragon boat activity I did was to work with out-of-school youth to train them in the sport. We even competed together at one festival held at Kallang River back in 2016. The best team hands down that I saw participate in a dragon boat event in Singapore was a team of firefighters/volunteers from Hong Kong. Their mixed team was defeating teams of all-male lineups, they were that good.
It is really fun to row a dragon boat. I tried some thirty years ago in Tai Po (HK). The vibe was so great and it was full of fun, sweat, tears and joy. Hope that everyone in the world loves dragon boat racing.
haha, thank you - I was happy to have a friend with a good camera come over for the weekend from Guangdong TV - I wrote the script for this, but he made the video
Saluting all the participants working to keep our culture alive and passed down to the next generation. Happy Dragon Boat Festival to One and ALL. Remember to eat plenty of Zongzi!
I really hope that my daughter will get to see this some time soon! So much to come to China for. We all want to make a trip happening in the near future! Thanks for sharing this!
Chinese traditions has spread throughout the World!! Diaspora Chinese also play a major part to promote the culture and tradition of our Motherland!! Enjoy China!! 🇨🇳🇨🇳💯💯👍👍
We also had our dragon boat race here in Kota Kinabalu Sabah Borneo last week. It was from Friday to Sunday. There were local dragon boats, and the international event in which Australia sends a team or two, male and female, to this event. The event is held every year at this time.
5th day of 5th month has a religious significance. The dragon boat festival evolved from the zongzi or rice dumpling river offering in memory of Qu Yuan, a politician who lived 2000 years ago.
As a Cantonese born (born in Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong province) Chinese American growing up in Boston and living here in Los Angeles, I was having fun watching some video shorts comparing northeast teams (from Liaoning province) sinking their boats to the Cantonese teams and Fujian province teams. Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280AD) with the Battle of the Red Cliff already predicted that northerners aren’t good at fighting wars in the water. The videos show northeast teams sinking and having to be rescued out of the water, while the Cantonese teams from Guangdong province are doing sudden brakes, abrupt turns, etc. The commentators say “the Cantonese teams race to rescue Qu Yuan. The northeast teams sink down to accompany Qu Yuan while the rest of China commemorates Qu Yuan of the Warring State Period (who committed suicide when he saw he couldn’t rescue his kingdom Chu from being annexed). 😂😂😂. Happy Duanwu Festival and enjoy your zongzi in Zhongshan. Greetings from Los Angeles. 🎉🎉🎉
I used to watch dragon boat races when I lived in Leiden, the Netherlands. They take place in late June and are held on the canal right below my old apartment in the city centre.
I will try, I plan to get out on my bike a lot more and do some but need a little more equipment before it's possible, I was only able to do this because I had friends visiting who helped me with the camerawork - hopefully, I'll be able to do more with a "selfie camera"
I actually was one of those rower, back 40 some years ago. My Chinese dentist started that tradition in the greater Los Angeles area. Back then, I did it only that one time and more for fun, not athletically. I heard it’s really competitive these days. Los Angeles team goes to USA competition and then to China for international competition.
We just had a great event here!! 78 boats on Thursday in Jinli, Gaoyao, and then the top 16 teams from Thursday competing in Gaoyao town this morning!! A great event!! In YunFu a few weeks back, I think they had 8 womens teams competing in the competition there!! I love watching those boats gliding through the water!! The boats in YunFu were 22 man crews, while here we had 48 man crews!!
Wow, that's great Scott, I missed that when I was in Yunfu - all I got there was a bout of pneumonia but a couple of nice days before heading home with a cough
It's a lot of fun, but that was only the pre-race, the real boats have up to 60 oars rowing - have a look around for some even better videos on it, it really is spectacular
It commemorates the great poet Qu Yuan, who was the most romantic poet China has ever seen. He lived circa 300 BC. Then, they rowed boats out into the Mi Luo river in a desperate attempt to save the drowning patriot, hence the boat racing we see today. There are some English translations for his works which I strongly recommend to fellow viewers. His timeless imagination never fails to amaze me till this modern day.
Ive done dragon boat racing in Greenwich in the UK about twice or 3 times now...... its exhilarating and its definitely teamwork.... its not even about power or individual power its all about the collective and being on time with the drummer... When the whole collective is moving as one, you wont even feel it, the whole thing glides! maybe a metaphor for China! Pretty appropriate i think! Also someone needs to report on the Barclays banks being targeted by pro palestine for the last 3 - 4 months in the UK..... the UK MSM is blackedout on it, only because of a CGTN social post did I connect the dots with my mum getting a text saying dont visit Barclays! Theres ZERO news or videos about Barclays bank in the UK...... 20 large chain Barclays banks in the UK have been vandalised.... you can guess why the mass blackout on the Barclays.... to avoid widespread panic and widespread withdrawal from Barclays! Youre going to have to search to find videos on it and none of the news is from outlets like SKY, BBC, SUN, Telegraph etc!!!! Barclays have been targeted for 4 months now!! And only because of a CGTN post have i found out how big of an issue it is
I didn't know about this but it confirma a point I made a few days ago, we are being informed only what someone in power wants us to be informed of - we're lied to by omission as often as by actual lies
Indeed it is, it's also the day they pray for rain, two overlapping stories - both legends or maybe even myths - who knows - it might be like Chritianity did, they borrowed an ancient festival to implant their story on it - Jesus was never born on December the 25th, but it slotted nicely over Yule
Please do, it's a great eperience seeing China for the first time and certainly a shock because everything you thought you know has changed to what they really have here
Theres also a video of dragonboat racing somewhere in China going viral i think of a Dragonboat drifting round a bend in a narrow waterway!!!!? its amazing!!!! Also mainland Chinese Dragonboat racing seriously on another level..... theyre proper fierce! And I thought HK was impressive as a UK resident
Dragon boat races are very inclusive. Yiu don't have to go to a posh public school or a university which has a rowing club. You can participate if you can hold a paddle.
Rare for me too Scott - it was nice but I'm not a "selfie guy" so it will depend on having a cameraman - although I do plan to do more from the bike soon
For international dragon boat competition, I think the Chinese team would win because there are no fat and heavy people lol. Like the Olympic diving...
My memory of the Dragon Boat Festivals, or more specifically the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese calendar, has always been HOT. It doesn't matter if we had a scorching sun all day, or endless drizzles, the common memory is HOT. Just bloody hot 🥵
True - I've usually been somewhere riding on this weekend and can attest to both rain and heat - certainly, it changed the temperature here, we're in the 30s every day
When I first arrived in Perth 4 decades ago dragon boat race have caught up with the residents of Perth. If I recalled Perth teams participated in overseas competitions. It has quiet down when Covid struck. With China leading the way bringing this colourful and happy event back to the International scene hopefully, Australia will join the happy celebration again.
The folklore has it: after Mr. Qu Yuan, the prime minister of one of the seven Chinese nation states at that time, drowned himself in the Chu River on the day his nation perished under foreign invasion people rushed to the river in desperate effort first try to save his life and then try to save his body, all in vain. to prevent his body consumed by fish people threw food into the river as an offer to the fish in order to preserve his body as well as his spirit. this is ultimate PATRIOTISM.
I think many Chinese traditions had bigger events outside China once. That was probably due to the economy when the government didn't want to waste money on these sort of stuffs. Not any more. The hard part is the smaller cities when these boats have to make turns.
I guess most can but they are all obliged to wear a life jacket in case there's an accident, if they get hit on the head by a paddle for instance, they might not be capable of swimming, there are safety boats in the river on both sides too
HiJerry, Today I heard in the news that the Australian govt has coercively gave an order to a Chinese investor to divest all its shareholding ( which is 80%, of the total) in a major rare earths metals company in Australia within 60 days. Given that both China and Australia are members of the WTO , why wouldn't this coercive act by the Australian govt be seen as a blatant breach of the WTO rules? Is there any redress to this ultimatum from the Australian govt as any prospective buyer is likely to pay almost zero price to acquire the shares?
Yes, it's a coercive trade practice, the news is about a week old now and contravenes World Trade Organisation Rules but is no doubt supported by the worst offender in the WTO, the USA - of course, we can bet that the corporation that picks up the shares would be US controlled, influenced, or owned. Australia is in great danger of sacrificing its prosperity, in dealing with its largest and most friendly trading partner, the Premier of which will be in Australia next week, for security against a threat that does not exist from that partner. I can't explain it without a very long explanation of how the entire Australian economy, it's defence, its intelligence community, its financial industry, retail, communications, transportation, food security agriculture are all controlled by the USA - manufacturing in Australia hardly exists at all and they rely almost 100% on China for manufactured goods - why then place that at jeopardy? the only answer is that Australia is afraid that the US will abandon them to the "risk of invasion" that they believe is coming from China - it's completely ridiculous
Hi Jerry, this is a complete change of subject and wondered if it was of any interest to you? As British citizens living in China and living off the Government Pension plus private pensions, the British government has been overtaxing us for years. The Tax office assumes we are receiving the Government Pension increases each year, but in reality, our Government Pensions are frozen at amount we received on the day we left Britain. So, the total amount of income that the Tax Office is calculating our tax on is too high. In fact, I am paying tax on an additional £4,000 this year that I don’t receive. Having spoken to a fellow Britain living in the same city, the exact same is happening to him. The Tax Office say it is not their problem it’s the fault of the Pension Department and of course the Pension Department blame the Tax Office. The pension Department say is up to us to sort it out and will post the relevant information to us in China. As the envelope is addressed in English, we never receive it. This must be affecting thousands of retired British citizens living in China and elsewhere abroad.
Hi Ron, I don't have anything to offer here as I don't claim the British pension, I have a British police pension but as I only served 10 years, it's not enough to reach the tax threshold, so tax in the UK is never going to be an issue for me. One really important point about China is that they don't charge tax for pensioners - once you leave the workforce, your pension is tax free - that's a much better system If I were you, I'd hire a tax consultant but of course, there will be fees for that too - you' really can't win in the capitalist system!!!
pray for rain? isnt that to salvage the dead body and pray for fish not eat up a patriotic man who feel hopeless for his country and suicided? (qu yuan 屈原)
Different stories but yes, the day he walked into a river with a heavy rock, was the 5th of the 5th and that's always been the day to pray for rain for the harvest - the two things overlap as different stories
So, who said China ban traditional Chinese festival, Chinese people never abandoned their culture and China government never ban China festival. China even celebrate Western festival too, like Halloween and Christmas. 😊😊😊China are more open than Western. 😮😮
There must be a way to measure the level of commercial exploitation of all such events. I cannot believe it has not been attempted. One can easily compare Halloween vs. Christmas, for example, anchored on some measure of the event's cultural/religious authenticity. The Commercialization Index (or CI) will probably say that CI(Halloween vs. Christmas) is 300% (of something) and it varies from 800% in Taiwan to 100% in Britain. Just saying.
I had the privilege of being a drummer on a Shekou all-expats team in Shenzhen. 😀
Wow, what a great experience
It is great to see that you enjoy watching the dragon boat race events, Jerry. Put a dragon head & tail on your bicycle & you will be riding a dragon bike as a Jerry Signature across the vastness of China. Cheers!
Great idea Donat, I'll give it a try :-))
So cute the little kids on the dragon boats ❤ 🎉 Thanks for sharing Jerry 🙏
Hard work, discipline, pulling together as a team. Those are the values that you learn from this sport. Hope the Chinese nation never forgets it.
I was very active in the dragon boat scene in Singapore over a decade ago, but I competed in the "corporate" category (teams representing individual companies). There were some Australian teams that visited, but they were no match for the locals. Before I left Singapore for Australia, the last dragon boat activity I did was to work with out-of-school youth to train them in the sport. We even competed together at one festival held at Kallang River back in 2016.
The best team hands down that I saw participate in a dragon boat event in Singapore was a team of firefighters/volunteers from Hong Kong. Their mixed team was defeating teams of all-male lineups, they were that good.
It is really fun to row a dragon boat. I tried some thirty years ago in Tai Po (HK). The vibe was so great and it was full of fun, sweat, tears and joy. Hope that everyone in the world loves dragon boat racing.
I ❤ Tai Po Market, I lived there in 95 to 97....
Jerry, thank you 🙏🙏for this interesting commentary. You sound like a professional sports commentator! Well done!👏👏
haha, thank you - I was happy to have a friend with a good camera come over for the weekend from Guangdong TV - I wrote the script for this, but he made the video
Thank you Jerry for fun info about DuanWu festival & Dragon boat race!
It's a really fun day out Nancy but boy, was it crowded
Turku Finland, have had privilidge to accommodate 1st seat in our '100 Dragon" race. It was tough job 👍 loved it 😍
Saluting all the participants working to keep our culture alive and passed down to the next generation. Happy Dragon Boat Festival to One and ALL. Remember to eat plenty of Zongzi!
I really hope that my daughter will get to see this some time soon! So much to come to China for. We all want to make a trip happening in the near future! Thanks for sharing this!
I hope so too Isa
Chinese traditions has spread throughout the World!! Diaspora Chinese also play a major part to promote the culture and tradition of our Motherland!! Enjoy China!! 🇨🇳🇨🇳💯💯👍👍
We also had our dragon boat race here in Kota Kinabalu Sabah Borneo last week. It was from Friday to Sunday.
There were local dragon boats, and the international event in which Australia sends a team or two, male and female, to this event.
The event is held every year at this time.
In some village, the prize is a Goat. I like the fact that people participate for the joy, fun and festival atmosphere.
5th day of 5th month has a religious significance. The dragon boat festival evolved from the zongzi or rice dumpling river offering in memory of Qu Yuan, a politician who lived 2000 years ago.
Actually, they probably celebrated this festival before his death by drowning.
This is a happy occasion to see a celebration from several thousand years ago continue to this day. Great. Forward China👍👍👏👏🥇🥇
Stunning beautiful freedoms anicent great China 🇨🇳 in the world 🌎 ❤
As a Cantonese born (born in Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong province) Chinese American growing up in Boston and living here in Los Angeles, I was having fun watching some video shorts comparing northeast teams (from Liaoning province) sinking their boats to the Cantonese teams and Fujian province teams. Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280AD) with the Battle of the Red Cliff already predicted that northerners aren’t good at fighting wars in the water. The videos show northeast teams sinking and having to be rescued out of the water, while the Cantonese teams from Guangdong province are doing sudden brakes, abrupt turns, etc. The commentators say “the Cantonese teams race to rescue Qu Yuan. The northeast teams sink down to accompany Qu Yuan while the rest of China commemorates Qu Yuan of the Warring State Period (who committed suicide when he saw he couldn’t rescue his kingdom Chu from being annexed). 😂😂😂. Happy Duanwu Festival and enjoy your zongzi in Zhongshan. Greetings from Los Angeles. 🎉🎉🎉
You have a great history there - I'm living a few miles from your birthplace in Zhongshan, so I get the Cantonese version of events :-)
I saw the LA competition in Long Beach once, with the drumming, pretty bad ass competition.
Wow! Some 'art' for a change 😂. Another great take..👍
Thanks! 😁
I used to watch dragon boat races when I lived in Leiden, the Netherlands. They take place in late June and are held on the canal right below my old apartment in the city centre.
Nice, June is probably about right, the Lunar calendar is a little later than the Gregorian calendar
Pls do more outdoor video like this Jerry. Looking healthy under the sun!
I will try, I plan to get out on my bike a lot more and do some but need a little more equipment before it's possible, I was only able to do this because I had friends visiting who helped me with the camerawork - hopefully, I'll be able to do more with a "selfie camera"
@@jerrystakeonchina799 Thanks and more power Jerry.
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I actually was one of those rower, back 40 some years ago. My Chinese dentist started that tradition in the greater Los Angeles area. Back then, I did it only that one time and more for fun, not athletically.
I heard it’s really competitive these days. Los Angeles team goes to USA competition and then to China for international competition.
Wow, I'd love to see a US team performing here too - there was an Australian team in Fuangzhou, I hard after making this video
We just had a great event here!! 78 boats on Thursday in Jinli, Gaoyao, and then the top 16 teams from Thursday competing in Gaoyao town this morning!! A great event!! In YunFu a few weeks back, I think they had 8 womens teams competing in the competition there!! I love watching those boats gliding through the water!! The boats in YunFu were 22 man crews, while here we had 48 man crews!!
Wow, that's great Scott, I missed that when I was in Yunfu - all I got there was a bout of pneumonia but a couple of nice days before heading home with a cough
This is so exciting! More please!
Unfortunately, I'm no great video maker, I need to rely on friends who are better than me and we don't see each other very often
Wow, looked grander than the Ox-Bridge Annual Boat Race!
It's a lot of fun, but that was only the pre-race, the real boats have up to 60 oars rowing - have a look around for some even better videos on it, it really is spectacular
It commemorates the great poet Qu Yuan, who was the most romantic poet China has ever seen. He lived circa 300 BC. Then, they rowed boats out into the Mi Luo river in a desperate attempt to save the drowning patriot, hence the boat racing we see today. There are some English translations for his works which I strongly recommend to fellow viewers. His timeless imagination never fails to amaze me till this modern day.
Wow! Awesome! 😊👏❤👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
What a great vid and nice departure from the norm! ❤️it!
Ive done dragon boat racing in Greenwich in the UK about twice or 3 times now...... its exhilarating and its definitely teamwork.... its not even about power or individual power its all about the collective and being on time with the drummer...
When the whole collective is moving as one, you wont even feel it, the whole thing glides! maybe a metaphor for China! Pretty appropriate i think!
Also someone needs to report on the Barclays banks being targeted by pro palestine for the last 3 - 4 months in the UK..... the UK MSM is blackedout on it, only because of a CGTN social post did I connect the dots with my mum getting a text saying dont visit Barclays!
Theres ZERO news or videos about Barclays bank in the UK...... 20 large chain Barclays banks in the UK have been vandalised.... you can guess why the mass blackout on the Barclays.... to avoid widespread panic and widespread withdrawal from Barclays!
Youre going to have to search to find videos on it and none of the news is from outlets like SKY, BBC, SUN, Telegraph etc!!!! Barclays have been targeted for 4 months now!! And only because of a CGTN post have i found out how big of an issue it is
I didn't know about this but it confirma a point I made a few days ago, we are being informed only what someone in power wants us to be informed of - we're lied to by omission as often as by actual lies
This is wonderful, Jerry gets to do a fun report. Now you can add sports reporter to your resume.
haha, maybe if the cameraman who is a friend of mine comes to visit again soon, we'll do it again
Great story we love it! We originally from Zhong Shan (中山）, currently lives in Melbourne. Hopefully catch up with you next time when we back 中山.
Sounds great, please do
Dragon boat festival in Toronto too love it
Good to see you letting your hair down, Jerry.... 👍👍👍
Awesome Coverage Jerry.. China's Dragon Boat Festival . Dragon Boat Racing is Far more intense than Rugby.. !!!
MAybe but a little less dangerous!
Hi Jerry, Duan Wu Festival is part of thousands years history remembering the patriotic of a general who loyal to the emperor.
Indeed it is, it's also the day they pray for rain, two overlapping stories - both legends or maybe even myths - who knows - it might be like Chritianity did, they borrowed an ancient festival to implant their story on it - Jesus was never born on December the 25th, but it slotted nicely over Yule
Woaaaaaw lucky you! I would love to see that! Actually I would love to see everything there 😂, that would be a dream coming true!
Please do, it's a great eperience seeing China for the first time and certainly a shock because everything you thought you know has changed to what they really have here
@@jerrystakeonchina799 trust me I really wish I can right now! I want to go to many places in there that I don’t even know where to start …
Those kids have their hair tied like dragon horn..... gosh they are cute
Theres also a video of dragonboat racing somewhere in China going viral i think of a Dragonboat drifting round a bend in a narrow waterway!!!!? its amazing!!!!
Also mainland Chinese Dragonboat racing seriously on another level..... theyre proper fierce!
And I thought HK was impressive as a UK resident
I've seen that one, it is very impressive
Excellent.
Dragon boat races are very inclusive. Yiu don't have to go to a posh public school or a university which has a rowing club. You can participate if you can hold a paddle.
Agreed, but that's true of most things in China too
Looks like a lot of fun, hope you had a great time.
Wow. The Chinese Oxford Boat Race.
Good to see you outside of your studio!! A rare privilege!!
Rare for me too Scott - it was nice but I'm not a "selfie guy" so it will depend on having a cameraman - although I do plan to do more from the bike soon
dragon boat racing is getting popular here in canada. we will have ours in august. love from canada.
I wonder why August - but at least you have it
Excellent stuff thank you Jerry 😊
For international dragon boat competition, I think the Chinese team would win because there are no fat and heavy people lol. Like the Olympic diving...
So awesome ❤❤❤❤
Thank you Jerry this cheered me up. 😊😊
My memory of the Dragon Boat Festivals, or more specifically the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese calendar, has always been HOT.
It doesn't matter if we had a scorching sun all day, or endless drizzles, the common memory is HOT.
Just bloody hot 🥵
True - I've usually been somewhere riding on this weekend and can attest to both rain and heat - certainly, it changed the temperature here, we're in the 30s every day
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Happy blessed healthy Dragon boat festival for Jerry and family 😊
Thank you Ai Zhong Wen
When I first arrived in Perth 4 decades ago dragon boat race have caught up with the residents of Perth. If I recalled Perth teams participated in overseas competitions. It has quiet down when Covid struck. With China leading the way bringing this colourful and happy event back to the International scene hopefully, Australia will join the happy celebration again.
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I guess it makes sense to do it in Chinese New Year in Sydney. It's the middle of winter there now.
That does make sense - I hadn't thought about that
The folklore has it:
after Mr. Qu Yuan, the prime minister of one of the seven Chinese nation states at that time, drowned himself in the Chu River on the day his nation perished under foreign invasion people rushed to the river in desperate effort first try to save his life and then try to save his body, all in vain. to prevent his body consumed by fish people threw food into the river as an offer to the fish in order to preserve his body as well as his spirit. this is ultimate PATRIOTISM.
I've seen those in Singapore and ASEAN since the 70s
So much man power must go incredibly fast
The big ones really do
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I think many Chinese traditions had bigger events outside China once. That was probably due to the economy when the government didn't want to waste money on these sort of stuffs. Not any more. The hard part is the smaller cities when these boats have to make turns.
I watched one in Foshan a few years ago and the have quite tight turns, it's impressive
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Wear head phones, you're shouting. The microphone is fine on pickup.
I don't think people need to wear headohones, it's a noisy environment, if it's too noisy on your player, turn the volume down
Can they swim?
I guess most can but they are all obliged to wear a life jacket in case there's an accident, if they get hit on the head by a paddle for instance, they might not be capable of swimming, there are safety boats in the river on both sides too
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And I thought you lived in an office. Ha ha.
I do spent a lot of time in the office but it's my plan to gt out more
HiJerry,
Today I heard in the news that the Australian govt has coercively gave an order to a Chinese investor to divest all its shareholding ( which is 80%, of the total) in a major rare earths metals company in Australia within 60 days. Given that both China and Australia are members of the WTO , why wouldn't this coercive act by the Australian govt be seen as a blatant breach of the WTO rules? Is there any redress to this ultimatum from the Australian govt as any prospective buyer is likely to pay almost zero price to acquire the shares?
Yes, it's a coercive trade practice, the news is about a week old now and contravenes World Trade Organisation Rules but is no doubt supported by the worst offender in the WTO, the USA - of course, we can bet that the corporation that picks up the shares would be US controlled, influenced, or owned.
Australia is in great danger of sacrificing its prosperity, in dealing with its largest and most friendly trading partner, the Premier of which will be in Australia next week, for security against a threat that does not exist from that partner.
I can't explain it without a very long explanation of how the entire Australian economy, it's defence, its intelligence community, its financial industry, retail, communications, transportation, food security agriculture are all controlled by the USA - manufacturing in Australia hardly exists at all and they rely almost 100% on China for manufactured goods - why then place that at jeopardy? the only answer is that Australia is afraid that the US will abandon them to the "risk of invasion" that they believe is coming from China - it's completely ridiculous
You mean 5 day of the Month of Chinese New Year!!
Yes, it was the fifth of the fifth
there were 160 teams in Stanley Hong Kong yeaterday
Wow, thats' impressive
I like to see the s.korean claim this one as theirs.
Did that in Portland Oregon
That's great, I've done it here in China and seen it in Australia too, but didn't participate there
Hi Jerry, this is a complete change of subject and wondered if it was of any interest to you? As British citizens living in China and living off the Government Pension plus private pensions, the British government has been overtaxing us for years. The Tax office assumes we are receiving the Government Pension increases each year, but in reality, our Government Pensions are frozen at amount we received on the day we left Britain. So, the total amount of income that the Tax Office is calculating our tax on is too high. In fact, I am paying tax on an additional £4,000 this year that I don’t receive. Having spoken to a fellow Britain living in the same city, the exact same is happening to him. The Tax Office say it is not their problem it’s the fault of the Pension Department and of course the Pension Department blame the Tax Office. The pension Department say is up to us to sort it out and will post the relevant information to us in China. As the envelope is addressed in English, we never receive it. This must be affecting thousands of retired British citizens living in China and elsewhere abroad.
Hi Ron, I don't have anything to offer here as I don't claim the British pension, I have a British police pension but as I only served 10 years, it's not enough to reach the tax threshold, so tax in the UK is never going to be an issue for me.
One really important point about China is that they don't charge tax for pensioners - once you leave the workforce, your pension is tax free - that's a much better system
If I were you, I'd hire a tax consultant but of course, there will be fees for that too - you' really can't win in the capitalist system!!!
@@jerrystakeonchina799 Exactly and thanks for your reply. Enjoyed your live chat with Nury.
pray for rain? isnt that to salvage the dead body and pray for fish not eat up a patriotic man who feel hopeless for his country and suicided? (qu yuan 屈原)
Different stories but yes, the day he walked into a river with a heavy rock, was the 5th of the 5th and that's always been the day to pray for rain for the harvest - the two things overlap as different stories
端午節比屈原還早，祈求風調雨順，後人將紀念屈原合二為一。
Hahaha, we can see that there is very crowd.😂🎉🎉🎉 We can even see you struggling to give us a live commentary. Hope you enjoy this.❤
It was the biggest crowd I've been in for a long time
The Dragon Boat Race originated to Honor an ancient minister who chose to kill himself rather than join the new empire.
And Koreans stole and claimed Duan Wu Festival is theirs'.
this channel beats bbs any time! ha..................
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