Comments by "Bill Petersen" (@billpetersen298) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. Another related aspect. We recently visited Taiwan. The people are grounded and polite. They seem to have a connection with their past, and a cultural depth. The Mao era, didn’t tear apart their culture. Leaving them in a state of shock, for dictatorship, to demean them. After, my wife went to her home town of Beijing, for a month. She was appalled, at her old friends. They had no souls. The conversation was always around, food, possessions, and money. She did exclaim, that the Taiwanese were much nicer, than the Chinese. A high trust society. Taiwan is the hope, for China’s future. As an example.
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  2. So if they are cutting off Venezuelan heavy. They are then, more reliant on Canadian heavy. While threatening Canadian sovereignty? Can these guys, complete more than one thought at a time?
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  3. Next, we will be hearing about Moses. From the top of the mountain.
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  4. Anything that gets us to freedom for Tibet, and East Turkestan. Is morally correct, but unlikely anytime soon.
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  5. Go talk to the CCP. Tell them to play nice.
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  6. You missed one. Their best “friend”, is always ready for more land and resources. Chinas latest new map, includes more territory of surrounding counties. Including a bit of Russia. You know, putting a toe on the water.
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  7.  @aconlin The irony, we had to lower our food standards to the Americans, letting in their dairy products etc.
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  8.  @rosstocher  Fish raised in pollution, or stolen from other countries, packaged as Chinese. Sells for way cheaper, than local fish, in Canada. It’s time to recognize Taiwan, and stand up for a lot of things, that are wrong.
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  9. Now that’s interesting. That should have been easy.
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  10. Let’s hope, he doesn’t top Mao, in “effectiveness”.
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  11. Like with Covid, it’ll hurt me, but it’ll hurt you more. Remember, it also shut down the Hong Kong protests, pretty quickly.
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  12. Why are you guys so critical. We don’t know Aleks’s story. Before telling someone to go be canon fodder. What are you doing to de-escalate this stupid war. Or prevent another, in free Taiwan.
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  13.  @TheDaeroner If china copied Taiwan. If it became democratic peaceful and prosperous, I’m all for it. There would be no need, to counter their aggression.
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  14. He didn’t say globally.
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  15. The whole time, I was waiting to hear. If Argentina can shift politically. Into what that will look like. Not about, what we already know.
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  16.  @JimNZ  Yes, that’s what i wanted to hear. With the election of Milei. How much power does he have, how much opposition? Is he just a different kind of crazy? His policy sounds good. But pulling off big change, wont be easy. There will be pushback, when cuts happen. Interesting times.
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  17. The good old days.
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  18. Pipelines please. The gulf refiners, need the landlocked heavy oil, in Alberta.
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  19. Sounds just like, Canada.
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  20. But then when he says something you don’t like? That’s good too? (I do agree about China) The more we can slow their colonialism, the better.
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  21. Yes,,,but. Define renewable? Most of the components are made in China. Where the rare earth processing is extremely polluting. For power they are still building the worst of all. More coal fired plants at home, and in belt n road countries. All of our manufactured goods, require energy and resources. It’s only in degrees, nothing we do is “green”.
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  22. But it will be the biggest and best ever, screwup.
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  23.  @plebius  Guess that's also why, Taiwan cables have been cut. It also works as intimidation.
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  24. Such irony, that a billion isn’t enough. When from a long term environmental perspective, millions is too many.
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  25.  @SigFigNewton  They are also leading the world, in new coal plants. That's the part, that the Chinese state media doesn't promote. They also do it everywhere they go, in other countries. While showing good face. It's called the cheapest fastest way, to market dominance.
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  26. The four olds. It was policy.
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  27. But Christie has a brain, and a conscience. That should still count for something? No?
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  28.  @kth6736  The point about Chile, was. If they process it themselves, they benefit from it's increased value. Much better than someone grabbing your resources, and leaving you with an environmental disaster, as payment.
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  29. If China wanted to, they could have environmental laws too. But putting any competition out of business, is more important. When you want to control an industry, and through it, others. If they cared, they wouldn’t be building so many coal power plants, either.
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  30. Wow, so scammy.
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  31. Taiwan, study the Finns. (Except for the snow bit).
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  32.  @Milzan30 Why we need immigrant workers, they have always been hungry enough to do the work.
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  33. Ok, but do we ever get to freedom for East Turkestan, and Tibet?
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  34. The Chinese are not only building more coal plants at home, but around the world. Why isn’t it a huge story?? Like all the other crap they are doing.
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  35. You should worry. We need teamwork, to counter Chinese expansionism. If not, they can just pick us off, one by one.
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  36. The world needs a strong USA. Look at how china eliminates the religious and ethnic peoples in its occupied territories.
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  37. If you can only cover the interest payment. You’ve been using credit, to pay for consumables. (Like cars, or bad investments). Eventually you have to face the music. We have been running ever larger deficits for 70 years.
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  38. I think recognition from other places, is more important. So it's not just a USA vs China, thing. We need to work together. If we don't want our kids, in labour/education camps.
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  39. Even though he gets called sleepy Joe. This is the first administration in a long time. To actually do, foreign diplomacy. It’s about time.
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  40. Let’s count all the votes, and see who won?
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  41. This makes opposing Russia and China real. Look at what the Chinese do to the people in their occupied territories. Yet we are buying their EV’s, solar panels, and other junk.
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  42. Didn’t they sign a free trade with Taiwan?
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  43.  @worndown8280  Do you think the PLA worries about its men or the environment? They have always used, “a wall of meat”.
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  44. Your Peter, won’t like it.
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  45.  @kuyre2239 Never. But we into west, thought they were. As my Chinese wife says, Chinese always take advantage.
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  46. Make legal entry an option.
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  47. Good news, for Ukraine. Fantastic news, for Taiwan.
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  48. You could also say, that China never misses a chance to embarrass itself. 💩🍯
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  49.  @TheDaeroner  He does sound interesting, I'll head over to my favourite used book store. I am emotionally reactive. To China's pervasive surveillance, propaganda machine, and military buildout. In context, to their expansionism, how they treat the people in their occupied territories, lack of environmental concern, and that I have kids. We do need a better way, to make the world safer. Taiwan is awesome, it's a shining light, surrounded by darkness.
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  50. Amount of Defense spending, is like GDP. It doesn’t prioritize value, or quality. In the USA, bang for buck, needs to be fixed. We beat Germany on production of units. China is doing that now.
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