Comments by "AQuietNight" (@AQuietNight) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. I haven't observed South Korean politics too closely but there did seem to be moments where there was less sophisticated democratic action and more bar fights. The South Korean government missed a significant amount of revenue by not selling tickets.
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  2. China was producing some very good films up until 2000 when the government started censoring more for content. Actress Gong Li built her reputation on commentary films like Ju Duo, Raise The Red Lantern, Farewell My Concubine. These films hold up well today.
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  3. After the war the Japanese economy was in pretty rough shape. The idea seemed to be reduce the control of industry by a few but not go as far as to make the economy worse.
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  4. Chiang Kai-shek did seem to have an ego and at times during World War 2 rubbed the American government the wrong way. He was fondly referred to as "Cash The Check", a play on his name by State Department and Department of War people. Soong Mei-ling, his wife seemed to be a woman of great social skills and abilities would then step in to do damage control after her husband worked his special magic.
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  5. RCA got the CMOS religion very early on and pushed the technology like crazy. The low value yen made it very difficult to compete with Japanese companies and if I recall correctly the exchange rate was $1= ¥240.
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  6. Funny how the Chinese always finds people stealing state secrets when ever a deal doesn't go their way.
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  7. Years ago I bought a 35 mm camera made in the Soviet Union. It took decent pictures but was a bulky clunker, very dowdy when placed next to a Nikon made in the same period. Clearly an item not designed by a profit seeking entity but if you needed a camera that could double as a club for self defense, the Soviet Union had you covered!
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  8. More like balancing things out. Japan was difficult to sell to while the U.S. market was relatively open.
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  9. The Soviets did have the NKVD and the KGB and both were very effective and the population knew they were very effective.
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  10. Japan's economy was in a sort of freefall after the war and social turmoil ensued. MacArthur was very concerned about stability and a little less so with economic growth. Part of Japan's resurgence was support Washington, DC gave to a group of Japanese economists who drew up proposals to get the Japanese economy to grow again. Considering Japan became the second largest economy in the world, the economist's plans worked quite well and the Washington, DC was smart enough to let their plan work.
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  11. The fine print should be included.
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  12. The Asians had in demand minerals. You can be complete screws up and still make money.
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  13. Kotkin is possessed! The question is, will he live long enough to finish his biography of Josef Stalin?
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  14.  @reapermadness7196  Effectively every film made becomes "past looking". That doesn't invalidate the fact the films I mentioned are part of the lore of Chinese society and a view of that society at the time the films were made and that the films were watchable, sometimes memorable.
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  15. I tend to think business in Asia is a Squid game. Dog eat dog, more so than the west, which also is dog eat dog but with slightly less vicious dogs. With China going into mass production and with lower pricing this put a lot of pressure on the pre-existing players in industry. Add automation and you should expect to see job loss and lower wages.
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  16. The RCA better level tv's were excellent. Sony was no slouch.
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  17. "We're All Screwed" has been playing for over 7,000 years. We are just in Act 2021.
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  18. For all the sets I have viewed, I thought the RCA XL series offered the best picture. The XL line was highly engineered and was RCA's best effort models. My friend's father was a professional tv watcher and spared no expense at getting the best out his RCA's. Picture quality was amazing. I will say SONY was a worthy competitor and they never gave any of their competitors any rest.
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  19. A business you can lose much money on yet you must remain in it.
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  20. I should mention I had seen some Sony's that were taken apart and the build quality was remarkable. Those sets were built to last a long time.
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  21.  @steinwaldmadchen  There seemed to be a go easy approach on Japan after the war ended. Reduced to rubble Japan needed an economic boost to rebuild it's economy. By the 1980's this help was no longer needed as the Japanese were doing quite nicely. Changes in the rules were needed. The Japanese resisted at first but they adapted including doing things like putting up factories in the United States. China on the other hand is a system whose politics and even economics are counter to the U.S. or even Europe. Trade with Japan had economic issues, trade with China has economic and political issues.
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  22. In regards to #2, western companies can stop purchasing Asian goods and return to more domestically made goods. This would be politically wise. This would be a fair offset to a variety of problems dealing with Asian countries. This would have a dramatic effect on Asian economies as well when they start losing major export markets.
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  23. One problem is American industry has to compete with the large banking and industry combines of other countries. As for Japan, the companies John had spoken of, they still exist and they are still huge and they still act like kingdoms of a sort.
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  24. So the iPhone 13 Pro has lots of teeth.
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