Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "China’s Tofu-Dreg Weapons Doom Bolivian Rebels: Armored Vehicles Break Down, Coup Fails in 3 Hours" video.

  1. Who is going to invade China? They have poor farmland, poor natural resources and all those Chinese. This is not the 1930s. China is even failing as a market for outsiders. That is a part of why so much foreign investment is pulling out. The original impetus for foreign investment was twofold. One attraction was cheap labor. The other was a large potential market. Their spending on the military can only be for two reasons. One is to repress their own people while the other is to carry out offensive operations elsewhere. I really feel that Xi is likely to do something like Mao did to solidify his control over the military. For Mao it was an invasion of India. Xi would like it to be Taiwan, but that is looking more and more difficult and unlikely. He may try to emulate Mao, but the Indian military of today is not what it was in the 1960s. Another thing I have been seeing is that the whole supply chain model involving China is breaking down. There was a recent article in the Wall Street Journal titled "GE Appliances Spins Stronger Sales from Supply Chain Overhaul" with a subtitle "The manufacturer has brought production into the U.S. and changed how it manages inventory". By the way, GE Appliances is a subsidiary of a Chinese company. Many products were built in China with a low-cost mentality using cheap labor. This labor consists, as many viewers of this channel know, of mostly uneducated peasants. That is what China has. There are several examples I have seen over the years where production was brought back to the US. The designs were changed so that production was not so labor intensive. The result was often better quality and higher profits, even with higher US labor costs. This seems to be bleeding over into the military sphere. China has poor quality in its products. I have seen it, both personally and in reviewing many other situations. In the military sphere the Chinese have not even come up to the level of the Soviets/Russians. The thing is, China doesn't have the money to waste on this stuff.
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