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Yes, but the barriers to entry are higher for non-Chinese citizens & residents.

Saying someone's acting doesn't measure up to Li Qin's is like saying someone's height doesn't measure up to Yao Ming's.

Most of the international audience saying she looks old are Chen ZheYuan/Hidden Love fangirls, a highly disproportionate number of whom are K-drama & K-pop migrants that don't appreciate natural beauty. (without plastic surgery). They clearly suffer from internalized misogyny, on top of their poor taste and possible visual impairment. Deep down, they resent & envy her because they fantasize that Chen ZheYuan would actually give them the time of day.

I'd tell you, but I'm too picky in choosing which questions to answer. :(

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 , your Polish motherland has officially recognized the PRC as the sole legal representative government of China. Poland reaffirmed this position with China during diplomatic meetings between the two countries earlier this month.

This is a comments section, which by definition and intention, invites comments.

My comments enourage dialogue and silence no one. Quite the contrary. The koreaboos with which I engage in debate choose to silence themselves by deleting their own comments when I out-debate them.

Neither violent nor Marxist.

Moderate, soft paternalist.

According to the Taiwanese constitution, Taiwan & China are
one. FYI, Taiwan's official name is Republic of China.

International organizations such as the United Nations officially acknowledge the "One China Policy," which is why Taiwan doesn't have a seat at the UN table.

Aside from a dozen or so small countries (mostly Caribbean islands) every other nation on the face of this earth, including the United States & its military base & brothel, South Korea, officially acknowledges the "One China Policy."

Unlike "the old days" (is this a reference to the parts of the Ming & Qing dynasties during which Korea was a vassal state subordinate to China?), contemporary China doesn't want or need to make Korea their "red-headed stepchild b1tch" when the South Korean government does such a good job of pimping out its own women to its American oppas.


"In 2022, the [South Korean] women won a court ruling against their own government. South Korea's Supreme Court ordered the government to compensate dozens of women for the trauma they endured as "comfort women for the U.S. military," as they were once known."

Source: In a First, Korean Women Target U.S. Military in a Suit Over Prostitution
NYTimes 9/8/25

Yeah, but I can't express my grievances to the original source directly.

As I said, in retrospect, I should've taken it more easy.

Again, thanks for your thoughts.

Oh, I was just making an observation of what I see as MDL K-drama bias. I just think 3 C-netz segments involving one, single K-drama seem excessive. I guess I should've taken it more easy when I first started posting here. But alas, I fell into the rabbit hole and one thing led to another. Thanks for your take of the situation.

Even if true, so what?

Chinese entertainment companies operate on business models designed to maximize revenue & minimize risk. They use very advanced proprietary algorithms to accomplish this. They're not trying to suppress CY, or any other Chinese actor, for that matter.

Saying that C-ent platforms are suppressing this or that Chinese actor is as silly as saying that Netflix is suppressing this or that actor everytime it doesn't recommend said actor's dramas to its subscribers.

I appreciate your support of CY and all, but you're not helping him any by complaining about something that isn't true, and even if true, isn't something within your control, let alone will change any time in the foreseeable future.

Sigh. I wasn't being sarcastic. I was trying to pay you a compliment by suggesting I agree with you.

Not sure why you threw it back in my face. Maybe I was wrong to call you a "voice of reason," I guess.

Hi, @ra111ster. Remember me?

Cheng Yi is what led me to that rabbit hole. You see, Lily Alice wrote a couple of CY articles that didn't quite sit well with me. So I tried to look up this author's MDL background. Turns out she doesn't have a single C-drama on her watchlist; they were all Kdramas. It was sus, to say the least.

So I checked out her article about K-drama Tempest, which highlighted C-netz as the center of controversy. That's how I ended up there. Since then, she's written two other similar articles. Why not just write articles about the K-drama itself? Why keep bringing C-netz into it?

Wow...a voice of reason. I forgot I was on MDL for a second.

It makes sense.

Any reasonably intelligent, objective observer (by definition & default excluding koreaboos) can see who lacks reading comprehension & thinks like "sheep" and who doesn't.

1) I am not a Chinese citizen. I am an international C-drama fan;

2) I never said you said free speech is controlled in the whole world, I said you said the Chinese citizens THINK free speech is controlled in the whole world, which you did. Here are your words verbatim: "LoL Chinese THINK [my emphasis] free speech is controlled in the whole world by a one-party autocracy through chinese firewalls." This leads to a self-defeating argument because you say elsewhere that the Chinese are using VPN, which would lead them to think what is contrary to what you accuse them of thinking;

3) Has it ever occurred to you that millions of Chinese citizens study, work, & travel abroad, so can easily access Disney+ content without using VPN (legally or illegally)? Also, they can log onto Chinese social media from abroad. So can the millions of Chinese diaspora. So can international C-drama fans (including myself).

I used to be under the mistaken impression that the South Korean government was just looking the other way. I didn't know that it was pro-actively pimping out its own women. I guess I gave that government too much credit.

Yes, and he has some other 8.0+ dramas as well.

But judging from your choice of avatar, I'm not very surprised that we agree.