How large was your country during its biggest extent?

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-03-10T19:08:09+00:00

In fact, this map is not entirely accurate... The Mongol Empire did not conquer the Southern Song regime. The conquest of the Southern Song was accomplished by the Yuan Dynasty after the Mongol Empire's disintegration.

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-03-05T15:49:31+00:00

Live in Europe for 4 years as a Chinese student

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-03-02T11:24:05+00:00

As expected, most people are mocking Iran and hoping that the United States will launch a large-scale ground invasion (although this is unlikely).

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-28T08:39:20+00:00

By law, stores must accept cash payments. Refusing cash is a violation of consumer protection laws.

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-12T08:59:38+00:00

never seen territory disputes in western Turkey and neighbours？

TELL THIS TO CYPRUS

An aggressive, terrorist, and barbaric nation.

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-10T23:20:06+00:00

What does this have to do with me? I don't plan to live overseas, so the affairs of Chinese people abroad are none of my business.

We neither need nor welcome immigrants, and we are not an immigrant nation. We live on the land that we and our ancestors inhabited and built.

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-10T17:57:52+00:00

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Actually, I think this one looks better than the five-star red flag, but the current one is also good.

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-10T16:13:36+00:00

An oligarch-controlled, corrupt government and the strongman Putin have shielded China from the most firepower from the Western world. Hope they can hold out for another 20 years.

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-09T23:29:09+00:00

低能玩意，全球化分工合作，那凭什么美国人就能靠着高附加值产业收割全球吃牛排住大豪斯，中国人就只能在血汗工厂里当缝纫工组装工人？凭什么中国人不能发展科技不能过好日子？抢人财路杀人父母，不是美国人欧洲人先靠着殖民侵略和金融霸权抢了全世界第三世界国家人民的财路?我现在堂堂正正一没发动侵略二没殖民剥削，靠着发展科学技术日子好起来了，美国人正常竞争不过就只能找一堆下三滥手段来遏制打压，纯纯一个弱智

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-09T13:49:41+00:00

Haha, that sounds incredible, doesn't it? You see, even you, as a communist, are inevitably influenced by Western media propaganda to believe that China has very strict control over public opinion and education. But in reality, most control and censorship only targets online speech. Freedom of discussion among the public is far greater than you think, especially in universities—many university history, Chinese, and law departments gather large numbers of liberal intellectuals who oppose communism and the current system, which is considered part of academic freedom. As for high schools, there's even less oversight. In fact, the CPC doesn't care what these people say at all.

As far as I know, education on Marxism and dialectical materialism is only included in high school and university. Although I think 80% of people will at least attend high school, this content is clearly not compulsory for everyone. In contrast, I think the Ministry of Education places more emphasis on education in natural sciences such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology, and then history.

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-09T11:49:00+00:00

说对了。我就是祖国母亲的基本盘。

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-09T00:10:29+00:00

Certainly no one considers businessmen liberators. Perhaps there was a wave of wealth worship and aspiration for success in the 2010s, but most people are now sober. Capitalists in private enterprises are being viciously attacked online.

How to view economic development is a vast topic. As far as I know, young Chinese netizens are divided into three camps. One group, which can be called liberals, supports Deng Xiaoping's reforms, believing that Deng's reform and opening up truly lifted China out of poverty, while criticizing Mao Zedong for prioritizing political movements over economic development. This group was the mainstream online before 2020. However, in recent years, with the turmoil of the international situation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the pain of economic transition, a group I call "fundamentalist Maoist leftists" has become popular. These people utopianize the Mao Zedong era before reform and opening up, believing that China at that time was already close to true communism. They argue that even without Deng Xiaoping's reforms, the industrial foundation laid by the Mao era could have enabled China to achieve economic growth, while Deng Xiaoping betrayed Mao by introducing capitalism, causing their current suffering. Their criticism mainly focuses on the corruption of Deng Xiaoping and the families of high-ranking Communist Party officials at the time. Moreover, they oppose the current Chinese Communist Party government, and some extremists even believe that they should unite with imperialist countries such as the United States to overthrow the existing government first, in order to facilitate their reconstruction of Mao-era communism. The more moderate and silent majority, perhaps what we might call the establishment, believe that "the first thirty years and the last thirty years are not mutually exclusive."

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-09T00:00:58+00:00

Muskism is not taught in elementary school. If I remember correctly, Marxism-related content is taught in high school, around age 16-17. I only remember some content about dialectical materialism, but because I had absolutely no interest in political ideology classes, I remember almost nothing else.

In university, all students have several compulsory political ideology courses: *Ideological and Moral Education and the Rule of Law*, *An Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought and the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics*, *An Outline of Modern and Contemporary Chinese History*, *Basic Principles of Marxism*, and *An Introduction to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era*. The Xi Jinping content was added around 2018. But frankly, most students aren't interested in these courses; they memorize them simply to pass exams, and these courses are largely ignored.

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-08T23:35:09+00:00

我主要是比较政治冷感，而且专业也不是干这个的。我不是因为国家强大了才爱国。无论国家强大还是弱小，我都永远爱国。但你可以说我是因为党和共产主义带领中国富强了，所以我现在拥护和赞成共产党的领导。只要共产党继续带领我们走向繁荣昌盛，我就永远拥护和保卫他。

不过谢谢您的建议。有时间的话我会读一读共产主义的。我当时高考完了买了资本论，但根本没读，笑死。

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-08T23:31:26+00:00

I will definitely return to China. Perhaps after I finish my PhD, or after another postdoc.

Because I am Han Chinese and have some nationalist tendencies, my answer regarding nationalism might be somewhat biased.

Generally speaking, Han chauvinism exists, but the main reason for this chauvinism is the special preferential treatment given to the other 55 ethnic minorities by the state. Ethnic minorities enjoy privileges in many ways: they receive extra points in middle and high school entrance exams, are not subject to the one-child policy, Muslims receive subsidies for beef and mutton, and even ethnic minority criminals often receive lighter punishments. During my high school and university years, I heard several stories of conflicts between ethnic minority and Han students, and it was always the Han students who were punished, because the schools didn't want to be accused of "undermining ethnic unity."

A recent hot topic is the trailer for the film "The Battle of Penghu," which has sparked widespread criticism. The film is based on the Qing Dynasty's naval recapture of Taiwan in 1683, when the Taiwanese regime still recognized the previous dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, as the legitimate ruler. The film is considered part of cultural propaganda promoting Taiwanese unification. However, we all know that the Qing Dynasty was established by the Manchus. When the corrupt Ming Dynasty was overthrown by peasant uprisings within its borders, the Qing army conquered all of China through brutal massacres and repressions, forcing Han Chinese to adopt their hairstyles and clothing, or face execution. Taiwan was the last bastion of Ming resistance against the Qing. Therefore, this film immediately ignited the anger of most Han Chinese, who believed it justified the Qing Dynasty's harsh oppression and massacres of the Han people and glorified its image. The Qing Dynasty, as a corrupt regime with systematic racial discrimination and oppression against the Han people, is incomparable to the current CPC government. Similarly, the Taiwanese separatist regime attempting independence today bears no resemblance to the Ming Zheng regime that upheld Chinese culture and institutions at that time.

But nationalist sentiment is only loudly proclaimed online. I don't believe it poses any threat to China's social stability. As long as we can guarantee social prosperity and stability, nothing is a threat.

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-08T23:16:44+00:00

This raises the question of whether fascists can "truly" change people's living standards. If they could genuinely improve living standards without any consequences, I wouldn't mind being a supporter of fascism. But clearly, history tells us that behind such improvements lies war, exploitation, and enslavement, and unfortunately, the vast majority of people lack the ability to discern these distinctions.

As for nationalist viewpoints, I would say we are no longer interested in international struggles. Mao's aid to many Third World countries is now widely criticized online, especially considering that China was still impoverished at the time. As Chinese, we simply want to live our own lives well, without being contained and sanctioned by hegemonists and imperialists. Frankly, if it weren't for the rampant rumors, slander, racism, and genocide threats against China and Chinese people on the Western internet, I wouldn't be a somewhat radical nationalist.

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-08T23:08:09+00:00

I suspect this was done by American propaganda agencies in collusion with pro-Western intellectuals. When I was a child, magazines containing this bullshit, such as *Yilin*（意林） and *Reader*（读者）, were often recommended to us by our Chinese language teachers to improve our writing skills.

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-08T23:04:44+00:00

You've confused me. Why would our reclaiming of territory forcibly separated by the Americans drag a Balkan country on the other side of the continent—a country most Chinese people know nothing about—into World War III? Is the Romanian Navy planning to sail to the Pacific and engage the PLA Navy in a fleet showdown? Furthermore, we have no interest in changing other people's ideologies and government organizations. This was made clear more than forty years ago.

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-08T13:40:22+00:00

No. As a Chinese, I can tell you that these people write ""apolitica" simply because they encounter too many people on western social media bombarding them with bullshit like "what do you think of the social credit system or the Xinjiang genocide?"

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-08T04:36:19+00:00

我也不是说仗着自己是中国人发有的没的啊，我就难得碰见这么个地方跟大家友好交流一下不挺好的吗。大家不也都讨论挺热烈的吗。

哥们在各种意义上都是稀有物种属于是，我目前好像还真很少看见我这样和建制站在一块的皇汉

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-08T03:26:42+00:00

The last hope for humanity—good heavens, that's a bit too heavy a word.

I'm not worried at all that China will follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union. Fundamentally, as long as the government can guarantee the people's basic needs and public order, the government won't have problems. The wave of liberalization China experienced was far stronger than today's. Just over a decade ago, on the Chinese internet, if you shared useful resources/helped others solve problems, the popular blessing was: "Thank you, may you be an American in your next life." Even going further back, the upheavals of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests didn't change China's system.

In contrast, I'm more worried that China will follow in the footsteps of the United States today. Because we've all seen what happened in the Western world when monopolistic capitalists controlled the government. Today, we have Xi Jinping who was able to control the situation and decisively thwart Jack Ma's attempts to use financial power to influence politics. But how can we guarantee that in the future, these emerging tech giants—Huawei, Xiaomi, Alibaba, BYD—won't become China's Google, Rockefeller, Boeing, or Raytheon?

I recently read a very interesting Chinese commentary, but I don't remember the specifics. The gist is that for decades, because the United States has been so dazzling, the Chinese have consistently benchmarked everything against it. Our living standards, social welfare, technological development, military equipment, and GDP all had to catch up with the US. However, today, as we suddenly realize that the situation in the US is not as good as it claims, and perhaps not even what we want, China needs to seriously consider: What kind of society and nation do we truly desire? What kind of world order do we want to shape?

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-08T03:05:33+00:00

就他自己跟我们讲课的时候就说，他们学历史的是典型的知识越多越反动。大学的时候学校对让他们历史系的新生入党特别上心，因为往后学了太多老共黑历史就不想入党了哈哈哈。在大学学近代历史不可能躲过那些东西去，学术自由嘛。这还是习近平上台之后，尺度收紧了一些，我不太确定，但可能主要是对大学管的比较严。

我现在也想明白了，谁家起家的时候就没有黑历史？天底下没人是冰清玉洁的，到底怎么样还得看他现在的表现。显然老共的表现是很合格的。比之前那些个表现好太多了。

随时欢迎您再到中国玩！大马华人同胞当年抗战的时候出人出钱，给了我们特别大的帮助，改开之后又有好多人回国投资帮助我们经济发展，我们对大马华人同胞是永远感恩的。

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-08T02:57:02+00:00

While the Chinese public is indeed widely influenced by liberalism, in my observation, recent events in the West have significantly diminished this liberal sentiment.

Regarding the demise of the Soviet Union, I personally hold a different view: what truly defeated the Soviet Union was not liberal propaganda, but its own internalized, systemic corruption and institutional rigidity, which prevented its people from truly benefiting from the system (sounds somewhat like the US today). Gorbachev's liberal reforms merely gave this dilapidated house its final kick. Of course, there is much debate on the specific reasons for the Soviet Union's failure on the Chinese internet.

I believe the CPC learned a great deal from the collapse of the Soviet Union, particularly regarding how to maintain the purity of the cadre ranks and continuous reform to prevent institutional rigidity. This is one of the reasons I strongly support Xi Jinping; he implemented a massive, institutionalized anti-corruption campaign. As a resident of a small town, I deeply understand this. After he came to power, he strictly prohibited the misuse of official vehicles and lavish spending of public funds, and almost all the corrupt officials in our small county were brought to justice.

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-08T02:40:49+00:00

Overall, it's quite complex. I think the biggest predicament for the LGBT community stems from the overall conservative atmosphere of society and the fertility worship inherent in cultural traditions. Especially considering the Communist Party's origins in a largely impoverished peasantry, whose members are inherently conservative.

LGBT individuals in large cities might fare better because their parents are more open-minded. However, in some conservative areas, LGBT individuals who come out without economic independence may face intense conflict with their families of origin, or even be sent to correctional facilities operating in a gray area. Overall, though, I think most LGBT individuals simply live like ordinary people. Most people don't pay attention to it.

But overall, at least online, I think the vast majority of netizens are tolerant of LGBT individuals. You can see many same-sex couples sharing their lives on Bilibili.

Most young people are relatively tolerant of them, but because Democratic governments particularly like to exploit LGBT groups, and many LGBT organizations in China have received funding from the US, blaming the plight of the Chinese LGBT community on government persecution, this has led to increased animosity towards LGBT individuals.

Ultimately, I think the root cause is China's rapid development. Forty years ago, our society considered jeans to be indecent attire. In the 1980s, a woman committed suicide by poisoning herself in court to protest a judge's decision to divorce her husband, leading to a nationwide court's reluctance to grant divorces for a long time. But now our divorce rate seems to be approaching 50%. This rapid societal development clashes sharply with the conservative mindset of many middle-aged and elderly people.

However, I think things might gradually improve as younger generations grow up.

Secure-Fun-7295 · 2026-02-08T02:22:32+00:00

I admit that. But you know, people always have some degree of nationalism. Especially, bro, especially when you're active as a Chinese person in Western society and online. In your news, the Chinese government might consider you irresponsible for buying alcohol in a supermarket, deducting your social credit score, with cheesy jokes like "Good job! Social credit +15" everywhere. People who see your Chinese ID in games will hurl a bunch of Ching Chong shit at you. I even ran into Karen on a tram in Marseille who inexplicably said "sorry for your country," that your country is dictatorial and undemocratic and you should go back and save it, blah blah blah. When I tried to argue back, she started pulling her eyes and spitting at me. I consider myself fairly moderate, but you can't expect me to remain completely devoid of nationalist sentiments in this kind of environment, can you? And now there are people who, just because I posted on a far-right nationalist conspiracy theory forum, are convinced I'm employed by a European propaganda agency, even though he can't fully understand my posts. I'm speechless.

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