Posts by jetmasters

  • The Story of Lelush: Russian Guy Can't Leave China's Produce 101!

    Quote from VVisual

    He's number 10

    He can't simply quite without paying a penalty!


    "Alas, his contract binds him to stay on the show or else he would be obliged to pay a hefty fine - an article of the contract Ivanov, who is now known under his stage name Lelush, apparently did not read closely."

    Yeah pretty much contract obligations his company signed. I wondered how Kazuma left though. Maybe everyone is under different contract terms.

  • Jackson, Dilireba, Yang Mi & more cut ties with Adidas!!

    Quote from MidnightKpop

    The reality does not jive with what the western government and media have portray the Xinjiang region and everyone here and west it seems buy into it hook line and sinker. The facts are that for the last 40 years the standard of living improved in that region 200 times that's 20000% improvements. The population in Xinjiang also doubled over that period where the rest of China basically grew single digit. The one child policy that was institute did not apply to minority groups such as Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The chinese money even have these ethnic groups on it and minority people even get preferential treatment in schools as they are given extra points for university entrance exams to make it a little easier to get in. The hypocrisy of US government in dealing with muslim by bombing, killing, invading muslim countries over decades nonstop and then turn around and fabricate lies about China's treatment Xinjiang. The US policy over two decades of attack in these muslim countries have destabilize the region such as in Afghanistan a muslim country which border the region of Xinjiang which caused terrorisms in Xinjiang over decade and half. Instead of US policy of destruction destabilization, China wanted to stabilize Xinjiang region by educating people and raising their standard of living. When people are content and educated they are much less likely to become extremist. So their policy was to educate the people with mandarin and teach them vocational skills in camps, so that they can better compete/get jobs in Xinjiang or outside if they so choose because they can now speak mandarin the national language. They build infrastructures(belt & road), and housings for poor and modernizing Xinjiang cities. Through these policies, the region had no terrorists' attacks for several years now. People can freely move around the entire China and the fact is over 200 million people have visited Xinjiang in 2019 alone. If there were these so called atrocities there, you can't possibly let this amount of people visit think about the logistic and policing that would be involved. Many of these so called atrocities are satellite photos that turned out to be normal schools and other buildings and anecdotal personal accounts many of which were proven false and made up. What I have are statistical data over many years which can't be easily fabricated or manipulated like personal accounts. In the court of law, personal testimonies are worst kind of evidence. Since 2003 every year, the independent Harvard University have done study on approval ratings on Chinese government from Chinese people. It has risen since then to over 93% or so approval rating! This coincide with rapid improvement across all sectors and have made China soon to be number one economy in the world in a few years. 93% approval rating means that the people are happy themselves in general and everything that comes along with happiness such as plentiful food, shelter, sense of safety, sense of freedom, community, family, and optimism for the future and personal fulfillment. This versus US historical approval rating of around 50%. All this just doesn't jive with what is portrayed by US media and western government/media in general. It just annoys me how one sided this all is and it's shocking to see how biased kpop community is without any critical reflection.

    We are conditioned to hate on certain countries through media brainwashing for years so it's not surprising of the anti China bias in western countries and its allies. I mean about 95% of the world's medias are controlled by few corporations, all under US/Israel umbrella. Here is an example of such brainwashing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo

    US has been trying to destabilize Xinjiang for years through terrorism. That failed as you mentioned. So they are coming up with new strategies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N385vKhXYQ

    You will just be called a wumao, ccp shill, etc. People trying to show the truth through social media will get banned, censored, demonetized, or any other kind of suppression. Nothing new.

  • Asia's Hollywood

    In order to achieve a big Asian market, large population countries need to get rich. Second is politics. Too many problems in that department to get any unity, especially for East Asia.

  • Asia's Hollywood

    Quote from VVisual

    I was reading that two films premiering on the same weekend and each making over $600M is unprecedented. "Hi Mom!" made over $810M and its popularity was completely word of mouth! Unlike Detective Chinatown, it is not a franchise and is instead a family oriented comedy so it was a real big surprise.


    Without "Mom", DC3 could have crossed $1B. Maybe DC4 will :)

    DC3 had a $400 million opening weekend but failed to make $300 million total after that. It broke a lot of records but I don't think it would have broken 1 billion even if Hi Mom was not there. It was the worst received film of the franchise. New Year curse exists when the number 1 debut film didn't win the box office just like Chuang center curse.

  • Asia's Hollywood

    Total revenue is already in billions. I am referring to per film basis. I mean China alone can get to 1 billion gross per film if the scenario is right. Detective Chinatown 3 had all the hype but word of mouth prevented it from becoming the first 1 billion usd grosser in a single territory.

  • Produce Camp 2021 - episode 4 released with Eng subs - it's theme song time!

    Government guidelines can easily be bypassed. Look at time traveling, BL, and other stuff. We see all of these genres in Cdramas. Remember the hair color ban? If there is a real ban, you won't make it to TV at all.

  • Asians are short? Not this Chinese generation

    Shanghai is in East China region but it is considered as southern part of China. I think height increase has to do with nutrition as China is getting wealthier. Tall genes have already existed in China. Average terracotta warrior height is 185cm and records and bones have shown ancient people to be taller than modern people.

  • Produce Camp 2021 - episode 4 released with Eng subs - it's theme song time!

    Don't need to worry about those rumors. If the government wants to get rid of feminine idols, just ban these shows all together. Only way Liu Yu is out is Tencent already got a fixed lineup from the start. Most of these shows are rigged anyway so I won't be surprised if he does not debut.