谁是中国真的朋友?/Who are China's Real Friends? [EN only]
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中国,谁是你真的朋友?
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
-Dom Helder Camara
This is one of my favorite quotes. As an RL American, I’m still taught that Communism is evil. Yet when I saw this quote, it really struck me that addressing the problem is considered saintly while addressing the cause is considered evil.
I thought of it again tonight, and something else about it struck me. Something that, in fact, has nothing to do with communism and everything with democracy, and is quite relevant to a recent event in the game that is rather obscure to most. I say that it’s time it took its rightful place in the spotlight.
“When I give an MPP to the meek, they call me a liberator. When I ask why the meek have no MPPs, they call me a troll.”
Of course, if you’re too busy attacking the cause to address the problem, the problem will continue to grow. Example: If you’re busy getting a food stamps program started and everyone stops giving food to the poor, the poor will not have enough money to feed themselves (hence the definition of poverty) and may starve. Or in eRepublik terms, if you’re busy addressing why a country suddenly has 4 MPPs when before they had none so you forget to offer your own MPP, the MPPs will expire and the suddenly vulnerable country may tempt an invasion from a vengeful neighbor *cough* Iran *cough*.
Less than two weeks ago, China was without MPPs. They had recently joined Peace’s training war.
Over a period of 3 days, China gained 4 MPPs with relatively large countries: France, the UK, the USA, and Romania. If China were a large country and a member of an alliance, (Sol doesn’t count) this wouldn’t be too out of the ordinary. A couple MPPs may just have been set to expire within a few days of each other, and would need to be renewed.
But China isn’t in an alliance. China is neutral, and maintains good relations with both Eden(Atlantis) and Peace. Throughout their history, they have been so neutral I would even go as far as to call them the Switzerland of eRepublik.
Several weeks ago, Iran offered to sign an MPP with China. China carefully considered the proposition, but in the end politely declined.
China’s refusal had nothing to do with Iran’s stance toward China, but was instead a refusal to be a Peace pawn once again. At that time, WWIII had already reached its peak in North America, and was winding down in Scandinavia. The next front could easily have been Korea. During the war, the Theocrats (who are now in South Korea) and the North Koreans had helped the USA, by signing MPPs in the Theocrats’ case or attempting to block Russia and sacrificing themselves in North Korea’s case.
Peace was visibly pissed at both Koreas. They wanted revenge, but hadn’t yet attacked South Korea, the home of Theocracy. If China signed an MPP with Iran, Indonesia, one of the most powerful members of Peace, could attack China under the pretense of a wargame. Even with Iran “fighting,” Indonesia would still overcome China combined with Iran easily.
They had two options of paths to Korea. They could go Henan -> Shandong -> Gyeonggi, or they could go Beijing -> and then region swapped Liaoning -> Pyongan ->Kangwon, which would also leave them open to attack Gyeonggi.
The obvious decision would be the first path. There would be fewer regions to go through. That means less gold spent and less things that can go wrong.
But there are benefits to the latter of the two paths. Beijing is the capital of China, and at the time was the only region in China with a Q5 Hospital. With a population over 2000, it would be very expensive to attack. (Coincidentally, Shandong was and is the only Q4 hospital in China, and the only other hospital above Q1 at the time.) However, Beijing has high oil and grain. Indonesia would recoup the costs of the attack through taxes on local companies within a few months.
Liaoning happens to be a high iron region, the only one left in Iran. Peace wouldn’t have hesitated to order Iran to give it to Indonesia. With a population near 1200 at the time, it would also be expensive to attack. However, it would be a region swap assuming that Iran would be cooperative. If not, Indonesia would attack it anyway, since Iran without any MPPs is powerless against Indonesia.
From there, they could region swap their way to Gyeonggi. Like in Beijing, Indonesia would recoup the costs of the attack on Liaoning within months through the boost their economy would receive from gaining control of a third high iron region.
Well, when I was in China, there was something I would always say:
“Beijing is China.”
Beijing is a valuable region. It’s about equivalent to California if you want to think in terms of American regions. But for China, it means so much more. It’s the only high resource region China has controlled since the Iranian invasion in January, and their only high grain and oil. It’s a developed region, and Indonesia taking it would be fatal to eChina as a whole.
Even if Indonesia decided to go through Shandong instead, it would still be a blow to China. China had been through enough abuse by Peace already.
China would have none of it, so they turned straight to Iran and said “Nuts!”
Well then Iran got pissed and threatened to invade China. The President of China, aliao, not being suicidal, resolved to obtain some MPPs. In the end, she got 4: UK, USA, France, and Romania. (Yes, aliao is a she)
For the purposes of this article, I’m going to completely disregard the UK. If Iran were to actually attack China, an MPP with the UK would be useless.
The debate area of the USA’s proposal leads to the somewhat famous (and ever-intimidating) Chinese Military Parade. It’s a fairly normal thing for the USA to link to youtube for just about everything as opposed to a forum link. It’s a rational thing to do considering that they prevote on every proposal before it is proposed ingame. If they link to youtube, it just means that they’ve approved it already and that it will pass. (There are exceptions to this rule, but it doesn’t belong in a discussion about China)
France’s debate area link leads to a public thread on their forum. Google translate link: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.erepublik.fr%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D86%26t%3D8784&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0=
So France has shown their intentions. Like Serbia, France is not truly China’s friend. They signed the MPP because they wanted to avoid pushing China to join Eden. They also talk about China asking for help with planning a baby boom. Well, if I were China, I wouldn’t be asking France how to have a baby boom, because we all know how that went.
Peace tries to act like they care about countries like China.
Of course if Peace really cared about China they would have Hungary or Indonesia sign the MPP, or maybe Russia. Russia has been friendly to China; in fact, they recently closed their open war. But of course Peace doesn’t care about China, so France and the UK sign MPPs with China.
Finally, there is Romania. Despite my location in Spain and Chinese citizenship, I am eRomanian. Not only am I eRomanian, I am the Romanian ambassador to China. When I speak, I speak on behalf of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Romania cares about China. We have no need for region swaps or resources or a puppet. We have no need for more regions , no desire to influence China’s policy, no ulterior motives in our relationship with China. What we want is friendship. We are sympathetic for China, after all the Peace TOs they have gone through. We feel that China is a good friend and dependable ally to have. We love China, even before this massive future baby boom the French were talking about.
We care for China. And that’s why we signed the MPP.
We are a true friend to China. 我们是 中国真 的朋友。
For too long, China has been held back by the restraints of TO, population, and ignorance. It’s time for the dragon to bear its claws.
We stand by China.
(~-pyroelectricity-~)
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Always look on the bright side of life.
Energizer bunny arrested, charged with battery.
御剣令治,我 知道日本是 中国真的朋 友。
我是 了一个游戏 。
打倒巨 车, 中国 万岁。
我 的笔丢了。
你会看这 个吗?
你 没有生活。 (哈哈,不 好意思)
洛杉矶比伦 敦很美。
End Chinese rant that makes little to no sense.
btw kosovo is uruguay
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/who-are-your-real-friends--986476/1/20
Comments
Pierwszy!
بچه ها خیلی طولانیه منکه حال خوندنش را نداشتم ، یکی بخونه به ما هم بگه که چی شد
Why is it that Atlantis/Fortis/Eden always think that they know what is best for everyone and always think that they need to tell people what to do? Cant you just respect the Chinese and let them make their own decisions? Do you have to constantly tell them what is best for them?
Tell that to Mimihitam, pejmaaan, food2rax, wizzie_don, Ras Tafari, and the entire SoM and Freed0m TO parties.
communist is the best and i am the communist!!!
So no answer? The best thing you came up with is to accuse other of doing the same. You acknowledge the fact that you know what is best for China more so than the Chinese, and other nations for that matter. It is good to know your intentions.
I never said that I know what is better for China than the Chinese. And I was just pointing out that accusing us of meddling in China's affairs is incredibly hypocritical.
If you think your article is not telling China that you are their real friends, then I guess there is no use in a discussion. By the way, even if you prove that it is hypocritical to accuse you of meddling in China's affairs, it doesnt mean it is ok for you to meddle. When you accuse someone of being a hypocrit, that doesnt mean that it is ok to do the same thing yourself, just that both of you are doing something wrong.
چی میگه؟
"accusing us of meddling in China's affairs is incredibly hypocritical."
Why? This article does exactly that.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-1-989703/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-1-9[..]/1/20
How many times do I have to say this: I'm not meddling in China's affairs.
China didn't ask to be invaded by Iran, but they did ask for help in screwing up Iran's plans. If this is anything, its meddling in Iran's affairs.
Yea, just leave China neutral. Sheesh.
Repeating something does not make it any more right. If what you were saying was right, it would have been the first time.
It is right, you just won't accept it.
Iran and Indonesia won't invade China again.
E VIVA COMUNISMO!!!
生活共产主义
LONG LIVE COMMUNISM!!!
ŽIVEO KOMUNIZAM!!!!
KOSOVO JE SRBIJA!!!
KOSOVO IS SERBIA!!!
Powerful argument. Amazing. Consider me convinced.
impressive
So you are gay now eh? 😃
Romanian propaganda!
KOSOVO IS SERBIA
good job
voted
"Like Serbia, France is not truly China’s friend. "
That's not true... You keep your distance, that's why we're not close, but our two nations have good relationship, even in RL... Of course, living in the US, you wouldn't have a clue about that, but during those dark 90-ies our only real friends where Russia and China... Make your choices here and stick by them...
ها ؟
wtf did eSerbia show to eChina?
wtf is your propagand point?
i've got such an aversion for this kind-a propaganda...
you could just write-americans love Chinees, join e/f..whisch would be a good move..this is so..i believe Chinees will decide for themselves without you...
don't write crap like this!
Propaganda
full of nonsense
no vote
no sub
Anyway, Thanks to pyroelectricity.
eChina respect and thanks those who want show us friendship and help us indeed. eChina keep nuetral policy and want to develop friendship with more countries.
We all know eChinese suffered many dark days in the past several months, be ignored,be occupied,be trolled, maybe the same fate as eIndia.
In the past few days, many diplomatic actions launched and many friends gave us hands. eChina will remember who help us.
As playing a game, eChinese want to create a good game circumstance for our newbies.
As creating an eWorld international relation, eChina want to set up friendship with any eNation under mutual respect and understanding.
Thank you all a lot.
MOFA of eChina
South Korea is the home of Theocracy? Get out of here! Any friend of Theocracy is an enemy of Asia, is an enemy of China.
eRussia has signed a treaty of peace with China. We have rejjected attempts from waremongers to attack China. I think that we have proven to be friends of China, and your President knows it. So... please not so biased, ok?
MoredanKantose
President of eRussia
China's best friends are of course Indonesia, Iran and Hungary.
China shares a common border with those countries and gave their best regions to Iran and Hungary out of pure friendship and love.
you can help it. they are Romanians. what do you expect?
lol
this guy is practissing his propaganda skills, he s always writhing BS, dont even try to talk about this crap..
Shut up
poor is your father.
The concerning authorities will reply this soon.
p.s. machine translated chinese makes no sense
LOL and what E/F wants from China??Dont blame other side for doing something,when you are doing the same thing as they do.If you are honoring China's neutrality then USA and Romania shouldnt sign MPP with China
Communism isn't bad,stalinism is bad.
Your article is about Indo, China, and Romania. It has nothing to do with Iran.
So, your simple mistake in publishing this article in Iran (and not China, or Romania, or even Spain for the friends to read) could be ignored. Right?
Since the rl government bans eRepublik in China, I don't see the problem with outsiders running for congress there and making that country vibrant. Otherwise it would be an empty shell.
The day that the rl gov't of China permits eRepublik is the day that PEACE gets it comeuppance.
eChina would PWN all of us, hands down.
James Kim wrote:
"China's best friends are of course Indonesia, Iran and Hungary.
China shares a common border with those countries and gave their best regions to Iran and Hungary out of pure friendship and love."
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I have not laughed that hard since eCanada PWND eIran in Yukon and NWT. Thanks man....lol
IGNORE THIS ROMANIAN PROPAGANDA!
Serbia and China are friends!
Kosovo is Serbia!
p.s. Transylvania is Hungary 😆
COmmunist government only available in Peace countries, so eChina should pro-Peace then, or at least not to make friends with anti-communists ones 😃
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too long!
یکی اینوترجمه کنه
یعنی چه؟
Stay in your stand by mode and don't talk. 🙂
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dude that was a long one,
although we will kick your butts in battles but voted