Comments by "Joe Qi" (@i6power30) on "VisualEconomik EN" channel.

@steinwaldmadchen goodwill by some Japanese people who feel remorse about what their predecessors have done in the past. I even know a couple of them personally .. Yes there are good Japanese people too. but does not seem to be majority of them. Most of them don't feel they need to acknowledge the horrors and atrocities of their ancestors as if it brings shame to themselves. Most of them just say war is terrible and let's not have any more wars. Never acknowledge it's Japans fault to start the war in the first place and commit the most atrocities.
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@dianapennepacker6854 American also dropped two nuKEs on Japan just a few decades ago. Now it is practically American "protecterate"
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@MelvinStaRita-yb2fm Democratic ideals that America forced upon Japan at gunpoint, or should I say at aToMic bomB point? If you look at Japanese culture and tradition, democracy is not really compatible with it. It's more rooted in authoriterianism and warrior spirit, that's why it caught on to Facism so easily. There was a brief communist movement post war Japan too but was quickly put down by the American backed government. Average Japanese poeple don't care about politics nor do they participate or even talk about politics all that much. Most just want to obey their superior and be like herd of sheep, very similar to other Asian cultures. Participation in democratic process is very low, so is voter turn out.
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@MelvinStaRita-yb2fm arts maybe not not science or technology. They are lagging in EV and battery tech behind even China now. And they have always lagged behind the US in other scientific fields.
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When Xi ousted Jack Ma, we thought Xi worked for the US. Now we think Trump works for the Chinese.
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Ban the honky-tonk pickup trucks commuting to office jobs daily
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The US let many Japanese war criminals slip through easy because they wanted Japan to be their East Asian partner to contain China and Soviet right after the war. Emperor Hirohito should have been prosecuted for his war crimes, but the US did nothing. They wanted to win hearts and minds of Japanese people to help them with their strategic goals to contain China and Soviet.
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Hahaha
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History does rhyme. In the 60-70s USA used Japan as cheap manufacturing hub, then its technology started ro rival and crush American companies. The US crushed Japan by Plaza accord and tariffs. Back then sentiment was blame Japan for everything. Japanese copy and steal patents and make better products based on American designs etc. Now It's China's turn. Blame everything on China. China's human rights violation didn't matter in the early 2000 when they weren't a threat to the US. Now that they are on the verge of technological rivalry, USA decided to bring out all the excuses to block Chinese businesses.
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@dodieodie498 Try to keep up. Chinese knock-offs on amazon has been going on for more than 10 years. The new reality is that some Chinese knockoffs are equal or better quality than the original brand names such as Lithium batteries and solar panels compared to Japanese or Korean brands. In not so distant future, there will be Vietnam / Indian knockoffs of Chinese brands. China is already way way passed trying to sell cheap knockoffs, exports only counts 15% of China GDP. They are trying to rival future techs with the West in areas such as semiconductors and AI.
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What a beacon and defender of democracy lol
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that ship has long sailed. US Japan will never catch up to China on battery, and EVs.
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@MelvinStaRita-yb2fm not just cheap, but more technologically advanced, and good quality.
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@steinwaldmadchen Vast of fires on BYD vehicles were their PHEVs, not BEVs which uses older generation of inferior batteries. The current and next gen. BYD blade batteries are extremely fire resistant, won't catch fire even penetrated with nail. Same with CATL ShenXing batteries. If you look at the statistics all cars by insurance institutes, BEV fires are 60 times less likely than ICE car fires, and PHEV fires are twice more likely than ICE car fires. and BYD makes a lot of PHEVs in China, but none of their BEV cars caught fire. I've owned 3 EVs since 2017, and here in Canada, 10% of Teslas sold used to come from China (though not anymore, since Canadian government just followed the US EV tarrifs on Chinese EVs.) I'm actively involved in EV community forums, and general consensus is that LFP batteries are superior to NMC chemistry despite slightly lower energy density, but the longevity and charging characteristics (you can charge to 100% without worrying about degradation) more than make up for it. In fact most Tesla buyers here ask how they can get their hands on Teslas made in Shanghai because they will come equipped with CATL LFP batteries, instead of regular Panasonic cells if it were made in the US. Why are Chinese still researching NMC and solid state chemistry? Because it's a big country with lots of brains! The same reason, the US researchers are researching all kinds of subjects in every directions. You never know where you will find the next breakthrough. LFP for now is clearly the leader and consumers choice when it comes to EV batteries
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@steinwaldmadchen how many exactly? There have been over 200 Tesla caught fire as of 2023. 69,000 Chevrolet bolt recalled due to defective LG chem batteries catching fire spontaneous. Just because a handful of BYD cars caught fire that we don't know any background why and how they happened, media likes to jump on it and use it to symbolize inferior Chinese quality? It's also old news, last generation of blade battery. The blade v2 are much safer and fire resistant. The fact is western EVs are even more likely to catch on fire according to hard statistics and gasoline cars are orders of magnitude more likely to catch fire then EVs in general . EV tech are still new but you have to admit Chinese are innovating much faster than Western counterparts and even if they had EV fires a couple years ago, the next gen batteries will be much safer while LG chem batteries found in Jaguar ipace recently had several fire incidents again. No innovation by Koreans and Japanese. US batteries are even more behind. Especially Japanese Toyota and Mazda are not even interested in EV adoption they want to ride their cushy ice business for as long as possible.
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@steinwaldmadchen you keep looking backward data. See the new LFP batteries that's much more fire resistant and can charge at 500 kw. Google geely e5 and zeekr 001 golden pack. Geely e5 LFP battery pretty eliminated thermal runaway.
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@SASMADBRUV7 that's an optimistic thought but I'm sure many of us that are less self motivated to pursue hobbies on their own still need to be supported and guided.
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@reasonablespeculation3893 In theory, but investing comes with risks. If you invested in a wrong tractor Co. your wealth would have been wiped out.
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Looks like a big fail for Brexit. Protectionism always backfires. US will be the next trying to block itself from China.
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Keep dreaming. There will be no reshoring. It's going to be re-globalization, factories just move from China to Vietnam, mexico and Africa, many of them will be owned bt Chinese companies.
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Universities have become the new Churches of the middle age where freedom of speech no longer exists and cancel culture is rampant. You are not allowed to question anything in the name of misinformation and trust in science etc.
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