Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Can Mexico Become the New China?" video.

@fallencielo2701 There is no body in the US congress that wants to invade Mexico. That is just nonsense. There are members who want the cartels dealt with but that is in context with working with Mexico. Taking snippets of statements made in the heat of the moment is not the same as policy.
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The US is not that exposed to China. The US has more trade with Mexico than it does with China. When Mexico and Canada are combined as a trade enity trade is twice that of China. I think people are confusing the mass production of cheap plastic junk from China with all economic activity.
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The US is a designed political system that makes it very difficult for politicians to mess up. They may talk about it but never are they allowed to achieve it.
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Mexico GDP has grown by 50% in the last few decades and that is only starting to accelerate. Blaming the US for mexico problem is typical nonsense.
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@hurrdurrmurrgurr That is nonsense.
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Africa is not a consumer market and will never replace the western consumer market.
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There is already large amounts of manufacturing in Mexico that is based on NAFTA and that is only going to keep growing.
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@michaelwittkopp3379 Germany is gas and oil reliant on Russia. The US is pretty much energy independent and has everything it needs to maintain its trade and population levels. China does not project international power and its only leverage is that the west does not want a war to start so hey will tolerate certain activities to avoid that conflict. Russia on the other hand has oil and gas with a military that has nuclear weapons hence why it can get away with far more than what China can. The vast majority of US trade is internal and even gave up its markets freely to certain nations to buy it favors. The US treats trade as a means of stability on the global stage.
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That is fantasy. Taiwan as a chip manufacturing centre only functions because it is based on US industry. All those chips are licensed by US industry. Even ASML which is a dutch company functions via US industry. The only way China sort this out is to go out of its way to repair its US relationship. Is China ready for that?
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That is fantasy. The Cartel does not influence the industrial centers in Mexico. It has no control of places like Mexico CIty.
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@billc6762 Right now there is a series of restrictions being placed on microchips going to China an that will probably end up doing that.
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The has already shored more of its manufacturing in Mexico that that of China and that number is only going to keep growing. The main difference between the two places is that in Mexican culture the government does not see it self as the owner of production.
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@williamlloyd3769 I also think that Mexico will be more creative from a business point of view than China has been. I suspect you will start to see lots of Mexican branded products as well in the US. China is just an assembly manufacturing region. China cannot do any of the high tech production. People have been pointing out how China has made a big deal out of the fact that it just in the last decade figured out how to manufacture their own ball point pens.
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No it is not as lawless as you imagine. The main manufacturing centers are not situated in the bandit regions. And they would never tolerate any of the cartels. What has allowed the cartels to function is that they operate within regions that are remote and they do not interfere in the main power regions. The Cartels rarely for example get involved in Mexico city politics or industry. I am not saying they are not active but they do not cause trouble in the same away. If Mexico was to become an industrialized country the cartels would probably end up becoming involved in business at some point. The money and power in that is just too tempting.
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@fallencielo2701 US weapons industry is struggling to meet the demand for their equipment world wide. That is not a new problem by any account. Even when the orders are in for US military equipment it takes time for the delivery even though no cash has passed hands.
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@jaybee4577 We can see it right now. No need to wait decades it is right in front of us.
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@theforsakeen177 China GDP is built on western consumerism and western industrial infrastructural investment. Africa has a population of 1.2 billion and the GDP for the whole of Africa per capita is about $2000. That will never be a consumer market for China never mind the fact China does not even have a consumer market of its own.
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@MrEvilshaggy GDP is not a measure of income. It is a measure of goods produced at market value. It has nothing to do with income.
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@MrEvilshaggy It is an indicator of the productivity of the economy. You are just playing these ideas in your head out of context.
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@michaelwittkopp3379 China cannot projector power and because of its behaviors over the last decade it has damaged its standing in the world. The west is about to pivot away from China and that means it will not be able to get to the next level to enable it to exert influence. So China has three intersecting problems on the horizon that are already starting to take shape. Those are its demographic decline, lack of market economics and a very poor industrial base. To become a market economy is not just as simple as declarations it requires that a culture has certain features to allow it to develop. The only thing of concern in regards China is that its collapse could trigger it to start a major conflict in the Asian and pacific regions which could result in several hundred million deaths. It is one of the reasons why the West does not want to push China over the edge. No body wants to see that happen. The problem is that China is at the chess board but its positions are very poor and it cannot see that it has already lost.
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90% of US economic activity is based in internal trade. The US has very little exposure to China. The US is only exposed to 2% of trade to China. US relationships with China is nothing like German and Russia.
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@williamthebonquerer9181 Contracts are just bits of paper nothing else. China is just an assembly centre and nothing else.
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Chinese investments are like monopoly in that they are really worthless and just a game. Any country that is foolish enough to get involved in the Chinese financial system is stupid enough to not see what is coming.
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@Commievn You are really over playing it. Biden has ratified Trumps trade deals with China hence why the Chinese CP are whining like kids at the moment. Biden is not some radical president who does surprise policy that is innovative. He is the sort of presidential administration that follows through on laid out policy. I am not saying the Biden administration is good or historical but I am not either saying it is terrible like many are saying.
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@antoniomromo The Jim Crow south was dealt with. The Democratic party there suffered for decades because of their Jim Crow politics. America tends to air its laundry in public for the world to see. There are very few other countries that do that. It can be messy at times but it is in public.
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@Imtiredofthisgrandpa I am afraid the Nixon scandal, Clinton scandal would say otherwise. The US airs its views in open hence why there is considered a political divide.
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@cowboyCWOLF I do not think they will do it either but they can do it if they want to. They would need to start doing lots of favors for the US and its various allies. It would need a regime change and an effort to liberalize its culture. There may come a point when China tries to do something to repair that relationship but it will be too late to save them self.
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Not every company as the resources to do it but those that are will do it.
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