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I Spent 10 Days in China — It Changed How I See Wealth | Naval Ravikant

116K views · May 19, 2026 · People & Blogs

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@bimotok757 · 4 months ago
Every countries have their own problem, but western media lied and slandering other countries that they consider as enemy.
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@Wwain · 4 months ago
Lived and worked in Civil Construction in China for 9 years in the 1980"s. ....never had a day off for sickness...used their Chinese medicine practitioners. .... never had a single physical confrontation for 9 years as a foreigner .... The company sent me to learn CANTONESE (before  Mandarin was made single official language)..I was in my 40's and hopeless learning the 7 variant tones. Used to come back from lessons and the dozens dozens of Chinese employees would make me say what I had learnt...WOW..the word tones  all came out TERRIBLE but they all got a great laugh out of this "GWAI LOU" attempt to speak their speech. ...... The CHINESE were more interested in learning ENGLISH and what I was there for......to teach them in the construction  field. ..... terrific gentle polite people....so noticeable when I was on R&R in the west..... in that 9 years I saw the DOWNWARD SPIRAL of our western moral and values that were ONCE a mark of who we were.. ......  When on R & R would tell the westerners when asked " CHINA WILL BE THE TOP DOG in the WORLD before the 2030's. I was laughed at every time with remarks....."They are Communists.... they are ill educated....they are lazy....they are just "coolies" market gardeners and vege growers and are PEASANTS etc etc etc. Oh how the IGNORANCE in the west  is so demeaning...that was 30 odd years ago...... what has a westerners got to say NOW. Many westerners are Hate filled by the anti-China propaganda spewed out by the likes of western politicians Media and dumbed-out Yankee NGO's and the "white-man superiority crap". The only regret was not going to live/work in CHINA 20 years younger/ earlier.... in  the 1960's. I'd still be there now. Language was the only barrier BUT the CHINESE are on top of speaking/using ENGLISH plus other languages.
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@TheNathanielChan · 4 months ago
I spent a good part of my career with Western multinationals, including assignments to establish greenfield manufacturing operations in China and oversee technology transfers during the late 1990s and early 2000s. What struck me then was the Chinese appetite for learning. They were not merely receptive to new knowledge; they pursued it with remarkable speed, discipline, and intensity. Their ability to absorb, adapt, and improve upon imported technologies was both profound and relentless. Fast forward to today, and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that China has surged decades ahead in many areas where the West once assumed an unassailable lead. This progress is not confined to factories and laboratories; it has extended into infrastructure, digital ecosystems, and the broader social fabric. Many of China’s detractors remind me of the old Chinese saying about the “frog under the coconut husk” convinced that they have surveyed the world, when in fact they are peering at the sky through a very small opening. China today is, in many respects, the closest real-world approximation to the futuristic modernity we once encountered only on the bridge of the Star Trek’s USS Enterprise.
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@yingkleung1907 · 4 months ago
If a non democratic country can bring 800 million people out of poverty and produce phenomenal economic growth over the past 40 years, I think most low income people in west would prefer such a government.  They will happily forgo the psuedo democracy they have!
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@kezhouwang1884 · 4 months ago
Truth cannot be covered forever. Reality speaks for itself!
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@ashleymistletoe · 4 months ago
"In service of people". When I first travelled to China and found this phrase in a souvenir it touched me deeper than I expected. And I later realized that is the core spirit of New China (as vs old China in Taiwan, where I'm from) which I've never heard of, or believe to exist. I mean, yes, all candidates during election campaign shout and scream of what they'd do for people, but we all know it's a trade off, for power or money? we don't know, but instinctively everyone in an electoral society knows these people run for something of their own. "In service of people" 為人民服務，5 simple Chinese words in the background of an ancient and huge country... shines the purest spirit, the greatest humanity which represents a goodness that's lost in eveywhere else. It reminds me of all the ideals of lots of ancient Chinese philosophers as well as something deep within myself, and all human beings, I believe. China is hope for humanity, in ways deeper than the appearance.
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@richardgoh6697 · 4 months ago
China shall continue to grow and rise.. No one can stop it.. Don’t ever try..
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@honeybees3760 · 4 months ago (edited)
China has always been a nation of organisation for thousands of years, since Confucius, and this new wave of technology is no different, it’s the way they think about life, from Confucius to new dynasties that improved century after century, the government that suffered in order to survive organised politics with innovation and infrastructure in mind… for thousands of years China has always been a nation of organisation wisdom in good times and bad times, logically developed the thinking behaviour of its creators, the environment, the engineering, the design, and their culture that supports innovation… they were the First Nation to use paper money… and the rest of the world copied and wanted to be part of it’s system, but when the west abused and disrespected the internal structure of its society, it left a survival mode in demand for safety that will last for centuries to come… it will continue to evolve and the humiliation era of western interference will pass by like a weathered storm, but they will never forget what happened… they are protecting themselves with technology…
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@LolitaBoykins · 4 months ago
Chinese people are very resilient, extremely impressive
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@Shark81-x5b · 4 months ago
As an Indian living in China for the past 10 years i would never trade the quality of life and safety i have here for any other western country.
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@KS16699 · 4 months ago
A country, who frequently launches the war, cannot be named as the democratic country.
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