Comments by "zjeee" (@zjeee) on "PolyMatter" channel.

  1. China is still buying Australian products in a way. Australia sells it to a nation that acts as a middle man that turns around and sells it to China for a profit. China is saving face but having to fork out a premium for it.
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  2. It's a big win for the west, Europe is looking for alternative sources of energy. Germany is opening up it's nuclear power plants again and starting to burn coal becoming less dependant on Russian natural gas and oil. Sure it hurts in the short run but in the long run we develop new sources of energy that doesn't include the Russians which in the long run is very good for our national security. It's the same with China, even Chinese companies have started moving their factories to Vietnam as it's more profitable. It's already started after the COVID shutdowns and electricity crisis in China. Especially after the Shanghai lockdown now companies have started to leave China. Sanctioning China will hurt the supply chain until everyone sets up all the factories in other countries as they have already started to do and then life continues as normal for us while China is wrecked.
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  3. In terms of economics it's true.
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  4. Yes rare earth is not actually rare it's just very costly on the local environment to refine and the Chinese state massively subsidize it to the point it would not be profitable to refine it outside China.
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  5. Videos critical of China are great for views, millions of internet warriors from China will tune on and push the viewcount up rapidly.
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  6.  @dirremoire  I am pretty sure that you use a definition of democracy that makes it impossible for any country to qualify as a democracy. IF you say there are no democracies in the west then that's the same as saying there are no democracies in the world.
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  7.  @Tounguepunchfartbox  Yep exactly right. It will hurt until the factories are set up in new countries then it's business as usual with maybe a 2% price increase to account for the increased salary costs.
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  8. Let's not exaggerate it's hard to measure the true aftermath of Russian sanctions as a lot of the reason for the recession comes from a 2 year on/off COVID lockdown and government policies. There would be a economic recession regardless of the war and sanctions.
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  9. They also lost like 30-50 million people to starvation.
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  10. Because the NATO countries are amongst the richest most powerful countries in the world? How on earth would you go about sanctioning the US and Europe? Sanctioning the US and Europe would bring your country back to the middle ages, obviously nobody in their right mind would do that and that's why it hasn't been done.
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  11.  @dnialx9  America's invasion? You do realize the Iraq war had more countries than just the US? They had UN support for that war. Do you think China can get UN support for the invasion of Taiwan?
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  12. You forget advanced weapons systems rely heavily on those semiconductor chips. If China wishes to face US with 30 years old weapons technology then they are free to do so I suppose.
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  13. Yes of course, Africa would be totally devastated by the ensuing increases in prices though.
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  14. Of course, it will hurt but the world won't end.
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  15. You are free to do so
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  16. It's better to sanction a country than to declare war though. Would you rather see the EU and US conduct military operations on their adversaries?
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  17. You live in a modern world, if you don't like Capitalism you have every opportunity in the world to move to a country that rejects it. I mean I am pretty sure North Korea and Venezuela doesn't do capitalism. I am sure there are more countries out there.
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  18. ​ @johannesgutsmiedl366  Yeah but if focus is shifted from China to another country say India their economy will increase and grow to become a market that will eventually replace the lost Chinese market as the Chinese market will inevitably crumble without access to the European and American markets.
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  19. What? Xinjiang - Lanzhou was built to have a capacity of 320 daily trains and run only 8.... 8!!! Prestige... convenience... ? Why build to accommodate 320 trains when you only run 8 and cannot even cover the electricity cost. I do agree with the video that some lines are a great investment but the Xinjiang - Lanzhou is just pure incompetence... any politician in charge of any normal country would lose their head over such a decision.
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  20. What do you mean 900 billion "good saving" that's a debt that they LOAN money to repay making that number higher and higher each year. It's quite the opposite of a good saving LOL it's an expense that keeps growing. Some lines are great, nobody denies that - the big problem are lines like the Xinjiang - Lanzhou line that's been dragging the whole project down.
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  21. And how successful are these new people that "took" their investments? It's too early to say nothing has changed.
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  22. Good, we don't miss you. Make sure you convince your brothers and sisters that are fleeing Russia everyday to Europe about the improved situation so they can go back.
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  23. I don't think the US would shy away from blocking their enemies.
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  24. Not true, Asian countries in general are far more favorable to the US than they are to China. You really think countries like Japan, Korea, Vietnam, India etc is going to side with China over the US? I mean yeah sure North Korea will surely pick China over the US but that's about it. China doesn't have many friends in Asia.
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  25. why are you so offended man it's just a video, he is not pretending to be an expert having all the answers this is just their take on the matter you don't have to agree with it.
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  26. Because those are well documented events that happened hundreds of years ago that has been talked and written about for years and years and years. There are tens of thousands of books and research into that area. The rise of China is a current day phenomenon and rehashing 400 year old history every week is not going to generate a lot of interest. There are plenty of shows and books about that already. China generates more interest as it's a current issue that people are interested in.
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  27. You are talking about the party that was responsible for "the great leap forward" with 10s of millions of people dying of starvation as a result. If they can survive a blunder like that then throwing trillions of dollars into a blackhole is nothing. Meh... didn't go as plan I guess.. oh well what can you do... next project!
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  28. China can make their own microwaves and TVS yes, anything more advanced needed for high tech military equipment and 5G is a no go though. They can make the same chips that were invented 20 years ago though that is true.
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  29. Yes and Taiwan is not China so the point still stands. The world will survive without China and China will survive without the world, sure both our standards of living will take a turn but life will go on for both China and the rest of the world.
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  30. hahaha no.. have you travelled on Chinese rails, why are the slower trains packed but the high speed rail is almost never at full capacity? That is because the slower trains are cheaper. So the ticket price is 33% of the west, that doesn't matter when Chinese people make so much less than the west. The average salary in my country in Europe is 22.000 RMB. My wife's hometown of Hefei which is a provincial capital city in the Chinese province of Anhui which is in the middle of the Rich - poor spectrum in China is 5000 RMB. On the country side the salary is even lower. 33% of the ticket price in the west is still a lot if your salary is 80% lower than your western counter parts. The Chinese state owned company can't increase the price, the trains are not running at full capacity except on the most popular routes due to most travellers already considering it to be too expensive as it is.
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  31. It's not a "fun thought exercise" it's a very realistic scenario since the CCP has said over and over again they want Taiwan. Once they decide to pull the trigger on Taiwan which could well happen within the coming 5 year period then these sanctions would become reality. It's very probable that this will happen within our lifetime.
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  32. @DearlyBelovedofGod Civil war in Sweden, yeah right. I will believe it when I see it lol.
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  33. Taiwan?
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  34. Yeah just the US and EU ONLY around 70% of the world Economy, not that much really - just a dent. They are lucky North Korea didn't join the sanctions damn that would have HURT.
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  35. It's CCP not CPC. You would rather have inefficient, expensive bullet trains than nukes? Well with China you get both, China has a lot of nukes man.
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  36.  @AlexTrout79  He is right it's all about the Chinese law from 2017 that force Chinese based companies and citizens to give any information or obtain information should the Chinese state ask them to failure to comply is illegal. No search warrant or probable cause needed, nothing. As a reference Apple refused to unlock the Pensacola shooter's Iphone when the US AG requested it, you even think about refusing a request from the Chinese government you'd face a lengthy prison term. You are basically comparing a country with a dictatorship and complete disregard of the rule of law (they are the law) with a democracy with a separate independent judiciary system. I don't know about you but I would chose an American court any day of the week over a Chinese court should I be accused of something, maybe that is just me being crazy. And of course you have the fact that China has completely shut western apps out of their market and don't care when Chinese companies just basically puts out the same app with a Chinese name. I don't think a ban is the way to go but knowing it's a ban on a Chinese app that doesn't let foreign companies into their market and when they do they are heavily disadvantaged compared to Chinese companies kind of matters. Meanwhile Chinese companies have been getting free access to both the US and EU on equal terms as any other country. The best solution would be both sides just treat any foreign company the same as their domestic companies but that is something the Chinese government will never allow.
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  37.  @AlexTrout79  Because the US government needs to go through an independent justice system to access said data. Which means they need to have a reason that is backed up by current laws and open to insight and accountability. Furthermore the companies that store the data can refuse the request and take it to court. China on the other hand doesn't need a reason at all they can access said data at will. If a company should refuse their deciding body risk getting a 10-20 year prison sentence. That is why I personally am okay with American companies storing data in the US and why I am worried about Chinese companies sending data to China.
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  38.  @bot6349  Yeah the government and the judiciary system in China are one of the same. There is no way for a Chinese company to refuse the government.
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  39.  @playnite2188  Considering the US congress and Senate have been bashing the google CEO and facebook CEO these last weeks in congress I would say probably not.
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  40.  @lilwitchschierke2530  Google, Facebook, twitter and so on are actively working against the president and refuse to work with the American military out of "ethical concerns". They even get called up to congress. It's pretty clear the US gov and these social media companies are not on the same side. So no I am not really that concerned seeing they are companies that tries their hardest NOT to cooperate with an elected government and an independent judiciary. Compared to China where the CEO of bytedance writes a letter apologizing for not working hard enough to preserve communist ideals and social harmony and promises to work closer to the government on those issues. Yeah easy pick for me, that is not saying it's all perfect and rose gardens on the US side but compared to China it is like heaven.
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  41.  @lilwitchschierke2530  Hahahaha China is like heaven compared to the US? Trump, the man with the highest office in the land is not part of the real government? So you are into conspiracy theories huh, what is it an Alien pulling the strings or some Resident Evil Umbrella Corp like company? America is not my country, I am European having spent 6 years living in China I don't even like America that much but if I have to pick between China and America it is going to be America every single time. It's a very easy choice if you know the difference between a communist dictatorship and a western democracy.
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  42.  @randomname931  Good, then Russia can stop threatening us saying economic sanctions are acts of war and stop threaten nuclear war soon?
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  43. If you make a route and a train fleet of 100s of trains for a specific route and build it to have that capacity and then end up using less than 10% of those trains and that capacity like the case of the Xinjiang route then yes it is a waste of money. Whoever made the decision to build that route made a massive miscalculation wasting a lot of tax-payer money to build and run that. If you run a route at half of it's capacity then I mean that is one thing it's good to have some extra room for those occasions where people will fill up the rest of the 50% like Chinese new year. But less than 10% of it's intended capacity and capability? that's just a waste of public funds. Just because it's a public project doesn't mean it's impossible to squander waste tax-payer money.
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  44. Of course, it will hurt but the world won't end.
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  45. yes but it will happen eventually so it's just a matter of time.
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  46. Not really - the US has already played with the idea of de-coupling under Trump and the following trade war hurt China a hell of a lot more than it did America.
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  47.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  China sits on 10% of the world's arable land with 20% of the population. They are totally dependent on imports to feed their population. Sure should their population shrink by half then this becomes a non-issue but still that would be 700 million people starving. Not a pretty sight.
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  48.  @FarsightAE  I think it's the opposite Russia has raw material that the west needs such as food production fertilizers oil etc so it hurts to sanctions them. China on the other hand have factories and cheap labors which can always be moved to somewhere else.
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  49.  @pepsisupremacy5533  Biden was going down even before the war. Besides Biden losing the next Election is a good thing for the US. He's a very weak president.
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  50. You should sue them.
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