65: New China's Anniversary

[TaiShang]

People's republic at 65. National Day celebrated across China.

 

[Speeder 2]

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The economics historian who originally made this graph is discredited.

This graph is nonsense, mainly because of "India`, and some other highly questionable historical assumptions used.

There was no country called `India` before 1947, not even an unfied political entity in the S Asia for 1000s of years, unlike China.

To use `India` in such a historical way is no different from using entire Europe or South America or Africa together instead of individual modern nations.

Supa powa Indians and some dickhead Westerners frequently use, abuse actually, this graph to showcase that India has been somehow more or less just another China. It was not, it is not, and it won't be.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

The economics historian who originally made this graph is discredited.

This graph is nonsense, mainly because of "India`, and some other highly questionable historical assumptions used.

There was no country called `India` before 1947, not even an unfied political entity in the S Asia for 1000s of years, unlike China.

To use `India` in such a historical way is no different from using entire Europe or South America or Africa together instead of individual modern nations.

Supa powa Indians and some dickhead Westerners frequently use, abuse actually, this graph to showcase that India has been somehow more or less just another China. It was not, it is not, and it won't be.

I can't find any articles discrediting him other than some people saying his chart (shown below) isn't scaled properly so the Economist fixed it (the picture above).

 

[Speeder 2]

I can't find any articles discrediting him other than some people saying his chart (shown below) isn't scaled properly so the Economist fixed it (the picture above).

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Some of my buddies were from the same university he's from. All of them said that the guy is an idiot.

Many of the world's most important english-speaking media are controlled by the British. Since India was, and still is, a part of the British empire/CommonWealth, for the grace of the Queen, most British media have been hyping up its biggest overseas colony India for literally hundres of years now on its history, economy, ancient inventions (e.g "India invented Chess" bullcrap), etc., many of which (like this "india's historic GDP") being ludicrously based on hersays.

The British used to puzzle about the sheer lack of any written history there after arrived. They found out, that just like Sub Sahara Africans, "India"'s history is mostly based on orally-passed on hersays and "legends". "india's historic GDP" is based on a sea of legendary assumptions told by modern Indians on their total population levels, economic wealth etc at different historic times. And we all know that on average the strongest forte of the modern Indians is their mouth... so there you go

 

[Fattyacids]

I can't find any articles discrediting him other than some people saying his chart (shown below) isn't scaled properly so the Economist fixed it (the picture above).

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Economics study can hardly be qualified as scientific without empirical data. Angus Maddison's work is pure guesstimate. None of his research on ancient world economy is based on empirical evidence. Never mind that he didn't even correctly define the country and its boundary.

Gregory Clark, Economics Department, University of California, Davis
Angus Maddison: Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD. Essays in Macro-Economic History. Oxford 2007. - H-Soz-u-Kult / Rezensionen / Bücher

Angus Maddison has built over many decades a worldwide franchise as “Political Arithmetician,” producing estimates of the basic statistics of economic growth on a global scale for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.....There is, however, a problem at the core of this book, and indeed at the core at the whole Maddison project of the last ten years. The numbers Maddison estimates for the years before 1820 are fictions. They are based not on empirical evidence, but on unsubstantiated and demonstrably implausible theories of the nature of life in pre-industrial societies. Even some of the post 1820 estimates have an equivalently dubious provenance.

 

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[TaiShang]

People rally to honor and remember the deceased national heroes at the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tian'anmen Square, downtown Beijing, capital of China, on the occasion of the first Martyrs' Day. China's top legislature set Sept. 30 as Martyrs' Day last month. (Photos/Xinhua)

 

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[TaiShang]

国庆节快乐！。。。

 

[cirr]

Toronto，Canada：

《多伦多·中国心》快闪迎国庆高清版—在线播放—优酷网，视频高清在线观看

Viewing strongly recommended。

 

[jkroo]

Guys, happy national day!
Wish our motherland become more and more prosperous and powerful.
Enjoy your holiday!

 

[Al Bhatti]

祝中国永远兴盛步步高升。

Recently I was at a Chinese event and a CCTV reporter asked me a couple of questions in Chinese which I answered in Chinese and it was recorded. Next day the very short interview was broadcasted on one of the non-chinese language CCTV channels.

 

[cirr]

祝中国永远兴盛步步高升。

Recently I was at a Chinese event and a CCTV reporter asked me a couple of questions in Chinese which I answered in Chinese and it was recorded. Next day the very short interview was broadcasted on one of the non-chinese language CCTV channels.

CCTV Channel 35？

 

[Al Bhatti]

CCTV Channel 35？

No. It is a secret.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Happy Birthday, China!