Why is China instituting "do not overeat" totalitarian laws Now?

[mayfly13]

The new legislation cracks down on various kinds of food waste.
It goes from common sense suggestions, to extreme totalitarian measures:
fining ($15,451) vloggers who eat in excess on youtube, encouraging restaurants to issue fees to diners if they leave large amounts of food uneaten, fining vendors who encourage customers to order more food than they really need, over the top "be thrifty, don't waste food" advertising on newly installed LED screens .


So why now?
Xi Jinping is a totalitarian despot, but these laws go far beyond that.
Famine-prevention ? Are they foreseeing cold war with the West or real war in the Asian region?


P.S.
nobody posts in my threads, so I might as well emoji-se them like Rory.

 

[mayfly13]

A bit of relevant background:

COVID aftermath, floods
August2020: "China grapples with overlapping crises including a shaky economy and severe floods that have left large swaths of the country’s farmland under water.
Food prices climbed about 13 percent in July compared with a year ago, according to official statistics."

This measure mirrors Mao Zedong's in 1958
"Austerity campaigns were common in the era of Mao Zedong, when the People’s Daily would urge citizens to “eat only two meals a day, one of which should be soft and liquid.”
Wang Yaqin, a 79-year-old retiree in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, remembers the several years of famine precipitated by Mao’s disastrous Great Leap Forward campaign from 1958 to 1962. In that campaign, in which Mao ordered peasants to reorganize into communes and build backyard steel furnaces to catch up with the West, food supplies plummeted, officials falsely inflated grain harvests, and by some estimates 45 million people starved."

Geopolitical tensions
August2020: "Mr. Xi’s edict is part of a broader message from the leadership in recent weeks about the importance of self-reliance in a time of tensions with the United States and other economic partners. The concern is that import disruptions caused by the global geopolitical turmoil, the pandemic and trade tensions with the Trump administration, as well as some of China’s worst floods this year, could cut into food supplies.

As tensions with other countries have risen, the party has been girding itself for the possibility of being cut off internationally — and making sure it can produce enough food to feed China’s 1.4 billion people."

part of a longer-term plan?
"The warnings from Xi and other leaders against complacency also reflect sustained efforts to improve food security and enhance China’s “food power”, through investment in overseas agricultural projects, diversification of imports and developing China’s agricultural business around the world. Calling for national action against waste does not just invoke the proverb “waste not, want not”. It is relevant to the food security of the world’s biggest national population and to regional and global stability."


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/world/asia/china-food-waste-xi.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...e-xi-jinping-makes-food-waste-his-next-target

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3097281/call-xi-jinping-end-waste-food-thought

 

[Philthy_Phil]

They're running out of dog meat.

 

[mayfly13]

They're running out of dog meat.

lol...

Over the last year I've naturally become more interested in China.
Like most people I guess, following the covid clusterfuck & Trump's & Australia's anti-China rhetoric.
Also starting with when when Australia unmasked China's attempt to infiltrate Australia's government in 2019, then how they directed firms based in Australia to plundered tons of PP equipment from Australia while lying to the world about covid.

So basically anti-Chinese (as in anti-CCP) analysts claim that the current CCP's ambitions are to revive "The Great China" as an imperialistic global superpower. First the yuen, then the Belt initiative, then economic takeover of Africa, now trying to bank on the West's post-pandemic free-fall by taking over economies, and the military takeover of the South China Sea.

 

[mayfly13]

N.B. Another weird piece of news about CCP China, similar to the anti-gluttony law was this:


"Is China really leading in the global war for patents?

"A global war for patents is underway -- to control the future of innovation.
China is now hoarding patents. This comes from the world intellectual property organisation.

In February, officials from China were leading at least four global standards organisations. This includes the international telecommunication union. It's a United Nations body that governs phone and internet connectivity; a body that will define how the next generation of technologies, like how 5G, will operate.
China wants to have a say in such decisions.

So where do patents come in? Here's what the plan looks like:
The government offers incentives. For example, just by filing patents, Chinese companies can get cash bonuses and subsidies even a lower tax rate.
If they hold the patents, the world will have to turn to them for future technologies."

https://www.wionews.com/world/is-china-really-leading-in-the-global-war-for-patents-367769"

 

[CornusKousa]

Sooooo 'progressive' that guy Xi.

 

[Rightguide]

The new legislation cracks down on various kinds of food waste.
It goes from common sense suggestions, to extreme totalitarian measures:
fining ($15,451) vloggers who eat in excess on youtube, encouraging restaurants to issue fees to diners if they leave large amounts of food uneaten, fining vendors who encourage customers to order more food than they really need, over the top "be thrifty, don't waste food" advertising on newly installed LED screens .


So why now?
Xi Jinping is a totalitarian despot, but these laws go far beyond that.
Famine-prevention ? Are they foreseeing cold war with the West or real war in the Asian region?


P.S.
nobody posts in my threads, so I might as well emoji-se them like Rory.

I'm told their Ambassador took a walk down the sidewalk in DC and was alarmed at how many jumbo sized butts in yoga pants he saw gyrating in jellyroll fashion and became alarmed it might spread to his country.

 

[ishtat]

More interesting is that both western countries and China are starting to regulate Big Tech, particularly where they are behaving like Banks. Ali Baba and Amazon for examples are fundamentally similar, and both seem to be in the position of getting their wings clipped - in both right and left wing nations.

 

[mayfly13]

More interesting is that both western countries and China are starting to regulate Big Tech, particularly where they are behaving like Banks. Ali Baba and Amazon for examples are fundamentally similar, and both seem to be in the position of getting their wings clipped - in both right and left wing nations.

Yes, thank you. This is so much more interesting than mine.
or Australia's (and UK's) recent collision with Facebook, for not paying news agencies which their profit monetarily from.

I'm hoping that you, bellisarius & others will either comment on it, or restart posting geopolitical / op-ed threads in this forum.

Most massmedia that I regularly browse have become so repetitive and depressingly dull lately. They're 90% either covid lockdowns versus anti-maskers versus looming recession, or racists versus non-racists.

 

[Rightguide]

More interesting is that both western countries and China are starting to regulate Big Tech, particularly where they are behaving like Banks. Ali Baba and Amazon for examples are fundamentally similar, and both seem to be in the position of getting their wings clipped - in both right and left wing nations.

China has not only regulated American big tech but have enlisted them in surveilling and oppressing their population. They've done it from day one, been happening for years. They have been so successful at clamping down on their citizenry, American Democrats and Deep State operatives have conspired to do the same to our population as well.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

I'm told their Ambassador took a walk down the sidewalk in DC and was alarmed at how many jumbo sized butts in yoga pants he saw gyrating in jellyroll fashion and became alarmed it might spread to his country.

You and your President are both fat bastards, vette.

 

[mayfly13]

More interesting is that both western countries and China are starting to regulate Big Tech, particularly where they are behaving like Banks. Ali Baba and Amazon for examples are fundamentally similar, and both seem to be in the position of getting their wings clipped - in both right and left wing nations.

Also this just came up on my news feed:
(the comments to the article are just as interesting):



"Alarming new research into the online economy has found that just 10 domains command the majority of the world’s attention and are on course to grab even more in the coming years.

Almost 40% of new domains registered in 2006 survived their first five years. However, by contrast, just 3% of those created in 2015 have survived to the present day.

The researchers’ findings underscore a startling reality: it’s not just online businesses that are affected by the loss of online diversity, but the entire online economy.

For example, the competitive advantage traditionally afforded by a company’s physical real-world location no longer applies like it once did.
While businesses can establish themselves anywhere with a stable internet connection, their ability to scale in the face of emerging monopolies for any significant length of time and stand on their own two feet is increasingly under threat, especially with a lack of resources to relocate and find more favorable tax locations, as many of the world’s tech giants can.

The likelihood that an emerging successful online business, regardless of niche or customer base, will be subsumed by one of the few domains which dominate the online world seems to increase over time at an ever accelerating rate."


https://www.rt.com/news/522729-worlds-attention-ten-online-domains/


COMMENTS:

6 hours ago
It aligns well with the increasing consolidation of global wealth. Walton sold goods at a loss to kill the competition. Bezos was allowed to sell tax-free for years. Gates used every dirty trick in the book to abort competitors in the womb.

misfit123
6 hours ago
Just read the recent ICC study "The Economic Case for Global Vaccinations" that states that Gates and other pharma companies make an estimated $28 billion a year on vaccines in under developed countries. So whenever you hear someone say vaccines are never about money, reference that. It's always about money and power. It's a big club and we're not in it.

 

[mayfly13]

The research cited was conducted by two academics from UNSW and the University of Technology Sydney.
This, after Scott Morrison criticized several times over the last year the tech giants, and tried to push back against FB.

Also, recently Russia's anti-monopoly agency hit Apple with $12m fine for ‘anti-competitive’ policy.


Indeed, it seems that more countries are starting to push back against the global monopoly of the tech., retail and social media giants.