Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼 @Alexthetrainboo Twitter profile

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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I have lived in china my whole life. This does not represent the median Chinese building

Swann Marcus

@SwannMarcus89

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The median Chinese building 5 years after completion

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

2 months

Imagine being an American soldier and finding out you have to invade this

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

3 months

Let's do a thread about some of china's building efforts, as seen from space

Protege

@Protege612

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@tankie_think We’re building massively in every city 🏙️ You’re lost son.

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@Alexthetrainboo

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@TrueSlazac The pla commander:

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

5 months

The Chinese. Invaded Hong Kong THE CHINESE INVADED HONG KONG??? FROM WHO? THE BRITISH?!

Jihad al-Haqq ۞ جهاد الحق

@JihadalHaqq

5 months

The typical example is China: Han Chinese are native to East Asia, but they're still colonizers when they invaded Korea, Vietnam, Xinjiang, Taiwan, Hongkong, etc. One of them isn't "more indigenous" because they have "more real culture" or because aspects of their culture....

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@Dywizjon161 you guys are in the uk, maybe actually contribute something against the current govt rather than fighting LARP wars with a miniscule communist party

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

5 months

@RegimeTwink Leftism, a fringe reddit theory

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

2 months

Or god forbid this

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

26 days

@Dywizjon161 Wow, amazing. So when are you going to meaningfully challenge the unelected government in London?

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

26 days

@Dywizjon161 Hey, I don't like the cpgb much either. But this contributes little

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

5 months

@fairhair96 Voting for genocide is bad

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

2 months

Imagine being a us marine and having to go through dishui lake... Then Pudong airport.. then Pudong.. then puxi.. then hongqiao.. then anting.. then kunshan... Then eastern Suzhou... Then central Suzhou (canal crossings galore in Suzhou generally).. then west Suzhou (mountains)..

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

2 months

And to be clear this is a shitpost. Neither country is invading the other.

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

2 months

@Kernel_Korn_ They probably wouldn't. Same for Chinese soldiers para dropping appalachia

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

2 months

Responses to this really make you think

Professional Retard

@HKslap69

2 months

@Alexthetrainboo Imagine being an American soldier and finding out you get to blow this up

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

24 days

@aurorachaang the world doesn't revolve around the us but it's influential enough to fund your workplace, so..

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

2 months

China and the us were both on the winning side of both world wars. China contributed lots in ww2 as well.

Heather Swanson

@BladeJaggart

2 months

What's the record China? America 2 - China 0

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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Yushu, Qinghai in 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

2 months

Be an American soldier Get para dropped here Surrounded by factories and high rise apartments

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

3 months

@JeremiahDJohns globe emojis when international solidarity:

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

2 months

Then wuxi new district.. then central wuxi.. then maybe changzhou.. before finally finishing up the Yangtze delta. and most of these areas are heavily industrialized

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

3 months

Lanzhou, Gansu in 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022 My mum actually went here in '89, I think lots of it was also rebuilt

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@aurorachaang @aurorachaang if you realize this, how come you work for a us government funded organization?

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

4 months

@Chen_YenHan What does the c stand for?

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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Yinchuan, Ningxia in 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

4 months

@NONAMEWEEBUN How is Xinjiang ethnic cleansing at all?

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

2 months

@anon_DAOT the PLA in 1945.. a disorganized guerilla force

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

3 months

Let's zoom out a bit though. This is the Yangtze Delta in 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022 Granted, this is one of the regions which has recieved lots of investment, but still insane to see

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@AnimarchyYT the air force in question:

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

3 months

Suzhou, Jiangsu in 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022 Basically one massive urban sprawl from Shanghai to Wuxi now

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

3 months

Funnily enough I walked all the way from Suzhou to wuxi a couple days ago. It definitely becomes more rural in the stretch between but barely any of this will have been there 30 years ago

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@JeremiahDJohns So since you think the progressives in the us are irrelevant, you don't mind them not voting?

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

3 months

Hotan, Xinjiang in 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022 Unfortunately the old town there is being rebuilt and xinjiang does have its own issues, however these images do show the scale of building taking place across china.

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

3 months

@Ravvenrotth @TrueSlazac @The5thGoblin Because all 100+ million Russians and other people who speak Russian including Russian diasporas are invading Ukraine

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@PunishedAG @hammeredheadpe2 @Halcius_ @bunnie__bunnie Get that flag out of your bio, mate

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@Indiazero666 @li_dawei98 Larp

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

1 month

@bengrossbg Why do they need to be a liberal democracy? Because you think it would be nice?

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@What46HasDone Will voting harder stop the Israel Palestine conflict and the usas support for it? And did voting harder lead to concerted success against police brutality?

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

5 months

Hkers are not distinct people. They are a city, not a country and have as much legitimacy for independence as heyuan or Guangzhou.

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@TrueSlazac Noo Ukrainians can't have any agency or desire to reclaim what's been part of their country for ages nooo!

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@JihadalHaqq Invaded Hong Kong. Chinese Invaded Hong Kong

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@TrueSlazac @Leannenist This is not the only indicator of leftism

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@hobobob8 @Dywizjon161 Why?

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

4 months

@patapackala @LinkofSunshine I don't think many leftists like this message either

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

3 months

This is Ejin Banner, Inner Mongolia with a total population of 30k people, in 1984, 2000, 2010, 2012 Hardly a large town but still insane growth. Went there in '21 and had a lovely meal at a very welcoming restaurant

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@hobobob8 @Dywizjon161 How's that relevant?

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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This is Khorgos, Xinjiang on the Sino-Kazakh border, which handles large amounts of freight going from China to Europe. 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

2 months

@pimgeon_ How's it hidden away? You can freely visit Xinjiang and I've done so before

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

3 months

I unfortunately haven't been, but the city is home to some really cool stuff so here's a great video on it, courtesy of @CurtExplores

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@CarolRobin45054 @nise_yoshimi ░X░I░ ░J░I░N░P░I░N░G░ ░T░H░O░U░G░H░T░ ░I░N░ ░B░I░O░

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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I think I'll keep adding cities from across China, so here's another border one: Manzhouli, near the Russian Border in Inner Mongolia and home to the world's largest Russian Nesting Doll.

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@BOLSHQIPVIK No central Asian languages. No Kazakh, Uyghur/uzbek, tajik, Kyrgyz.. doing the first two would help for much of Kazakhstan and xinjiang (as Uyghur and uzbek has high mutual intelligibility)

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@PunishedFredda You can find both in Tibet! Unfortunately me and my family never got to see a Pallas cat in the light

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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Kunming, Capital of Yunnan 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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Longyan, Fujian 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@CurtExplores On the note of chinese cities with Russian stuff, here's another Burqin, Xinjiang! 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022 Not as big as the others but still fascinating, redevelopment is taking place too.

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@GardenSocialist How is china worse than the us in terms of foreign policy?

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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Again, it's like if France took the isle of wight from the uk in an unequal treaty. Then people says the English colonized it after it got returned. That's the same argument as hong Kong. If anything, saying hk is a Chinese colony is supporting anglo colonial constructs

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@Ancommiey I get supporting china but Russia? Really? Plus posting a Wagner flag to claim Russia's socialist lmao

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@ali_ali_oxen @Lowkey0nline Don't disrespect middle schoolers like this, they might have the sense not to write it in english

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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Lincang, Yunnan 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@JamesLLandis @BolanosGArturo How were the Germans fighting in burma?

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@RazvenHK Literally how lol. Its indisputably part of china

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@kamenism Uyghuristan is honestly even worse as a name, it would be like calling Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and half of Kyrgyzstan and the Pamirs Uzbekistan

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@PunishedFredda What are you talking about? The allied liberation of Reichskommisariat Birma-Ostindien was the most important blow to Hitler's empire

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@stooksman @aurorachaang If she's taking money from the us to make milquetoast criticism her point is moot

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@3lfares @punishedmina I'm sorry, genocide? What proof do you have of that?

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@Ashebutler_ If the Dems are going to be this dismissive over a legitimate concern they deserve to lose. parties should bend for their voters. Not the other way around

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@CurtExplores Sanya, Hainan. A major tourist town in... 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

3 months

@orikron made this

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@hobobob8 @Dywizjon161 Once again, how's it relevant lol

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@CurtExplores Some interesting sights here..

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@TrueSlazac This would be cooler

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

2 months

@OnlyAWorldAway Ahhh, I remember this

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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Going back to Suzhou, what's funny is that this whole area is now prime land and the city's CBD. I live right by the Rectangle lake in the top left. 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@DanielDumbrill @fatimazsaid plus, this is the kind of stuff the israeli president said

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@CurtExplores Another town in Dzungaria (Xinjiang), Keketuohai/Koktokay. 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022. Met some really friendly Kazakhs there.

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@UyghurTruthProj @UyghurTruthProj I'll bite, what evidence is there of genocide in Xinjiang? Un definition

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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Another city which has shot up is Yiwu, Zhejiang, which has the largest small commodities market in the world, handling tons of global trade. 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@JihadalHaqq This is why I don't trust anarchists on china. this is just.. no

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

3 months

For those curious, this is the view from and around where I live. There was nothing here when Clinton was president

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@hobobob8 @Dywizjon161 Bahahahahahaha

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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Zunyi, Guizhou 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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Daxing Airport 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@JihadalHaqq In fact, I think I recall this guy rting the far east freedom youth league. How long before we get anarchist manchukuo apologia?

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan (which produces more steel than any other country) 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@CurtExplores Hefei, Capital of Anhui 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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I was born in 2006. Seeing the development even between then and now is crazy.

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

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@Quintonm612 i won't comment on that, honestly i'm just using this to channel my obsession with chinese construction. no hard feelings towards you or anything

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

3 months

@MaosGardener This is not china in reality With love from china

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Alex 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇲🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼

@Alexthetrainboo

3 months

Andong, Liaoning. The east of this river is North Korea. 1984, 2000, 2010, 2022

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@Alexthetrainboo

2 months

@OohSoRoyalty @TrueSlazac I mean here is safer than the us, it has better transport, better internet in many areas, better hard infrastructure, more EVs and chargers..

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@Alexthetrainboo

5 months

And efforts to artificially split their port city from the rest of southern China or china as a whole. It is the 21st century. We should have no need for city states (yes yes Singapore, but malaysia kicked them out). Hong Kong has as much of a right to independence as Suzhou.

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@Alexthetrainboo

2 months

@shmaleb588 That's gonna trigger a nuclear response

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