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I have been living in China for 34 years and am still living in Guangzhou, China is much more developed than it was even 10 years ago. The urban streets are spotless these days, 10 years ago they were not as clean as it is now. This is the biggest change visible to the eyes, the public cleanliness. Also on the technological side, the changes are also equally visible, 10 years ago, the urban street landscape didn't look as high-tech as they are now. The next visible change is car ownership. Even in the countryside, all the roads have solar-powered lamps nowadays and car ownership in the countryside is astonishingly high, in the front of every home parks a car (few households have home garages though, they just park cars in front of their houses). In the cities, the car ownership is actually lower as parking spaces are tighter. Ths is also one of the biggest changes in comparison to 10 years ago, the high prevalence of car ownership in the countryside. Another change is the metro system in the cities, for example, Guangzhou Metro now has an operating mileage of over 1,000km, can you believe it? 1,000 km-long subway lines in a single city! The new lines are also incredibly fast, like the Line 18 and the Line 22, which are operating at 160km/hour, almost approaching high speed rail standard.
As an individual witness of the Chinese Development Miracle while growing up since the 90s, I think China's transformation was the fastest in the 1990s to 2010s but the last 10 years still brought drastic changes to us, which are still very fast development. In fact, there are visible changes for the better even between now and pre-pandemic 2019, which are quite recent.
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I noticed that the Japanese, Indians and Middle Easterners never used English names but insisting on the use of their native names at all times, such as Tanaka Suzuki, Satoshi Fukatsu, Abhishek Kumar, Vishwajeet Gupta, Muhammad Hanza, Ibrahim Ali.....
But we Chinese tend to use English names blindly, like Jason Wang/Wong, Kevin Li, Catherine Zhang/Chang, Sophia Liu.... especially when engaging with foreigners. This has even prompted some Indians to ask me " What is your real Chinese name? Why do you have to use a Western name?“
I think about it and realize we Chinese (both those born in China and those born in Southeast Asia), Koreans and Vietnamese have such an unhealthy mentality of overlooking their native names and adopting Western names blindly, but not the Japanese (I have never seen names like John Tanaka, Joseph Sotoshi, Christina Yamaguchi), the Indians (I have never seen names like Austin Kumar, Michael Vijay) and Middle Easterners (I have never seen names like James Muhammad, Olivia Khadija). Chinese people should use their native names more often when engaging with foreigners.
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China is now a world leader in both clean energy sectors (solar, wind, hydro and nuclear power) and power transmission technologies (especially the ultra high voltage transmission technology), as well as power storage technologies (industrial batteries ).
In solar and wind power industries, China is currently controling the whole supply chains from mineral extraction to manufacturing to installation (in the deserts and the nearshore seas).
In hydro power, China has been a strong player for many years, especially for the build of the well-known Three Gorges Dam, which has even become a often-mentioned military target by Taiwan and the US.
in nuclear power, China has developed the fourth generation nuclear power plant technologies, which puts China at the forefront in this sector.
In power transmission, as China is a continent-sized country where most of the population live in the eastern part of the country but most of the power-generating resources are in the west and the north, generated power must be sent over thousands of kilometers to the end users, therefore China has developed the very advanced Ultra High-voltage Electricity Transmission technology (UHV electricity transmission) to boost efficiency of power transmission and reduce electricity losses. This technology has also been applied in Brazil as Brazil is also a vast country with very-long-distance eletricity transmission needs in the projects built by China.
In power storage, China also controls the whole supply chain and has remarkable storage technologies to absorb, mantain and release tremendous amounts of electricity in the dedicated power storage plants.
It's said that if China covered 30% of thesurface of the expansive Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang with solar panels (China has already built solar power plants in deserts), the country's energy needs would be totally fufilled without the need to rely on any other power alternative, in the year of 2065 and China would still have many electricity surplus.
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China has stopped using the word Tibet, which is a British colonial name and adopted Xizang, the Chinese name for the region in English-language publications these days. Xizang literally means "Western treasure" in Chinese, which has been the official name for the region since 1727. In the Yuan and the Ming dynasties (The region was annexed into China during the Yuan dynasty in the 1200s), the region was called Wusizang in Chinese, a transliteration of "dbus gtsang", the local name for the region. In the Qing dynasty, when the region was under China's full administration, the Qing court took the "Zang" part from the older Chinese name Wusizang and add "Western" (or "Xi") to form Xizang. Gtsang is from the local language but the Chinese character for Zang happens to mean "treasure", so the name Xizang became literally ‘Western treasure" in Chinese. It's a name with a combination of both Han Chinese and the local-language parts. Xizang has been used in China as the name for the reigion since 1727. The British tried to steal the region from the Qing-dynasty China and incorporate it into British India by invading it twice in 1888 and 1903 but failed, at the same time Russia was also encroaching into the region from the North ( by invading Xinjiang, China) and West ( by invading Afghanistan), the British therefore decided to leave Tibet as a buffer zone. China successfully expelled the Russians from Xinjiang later and kept Xizang as well.
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Chinese Brands
TV:
TCL, Hisense, Skyworth, Changhong, Konka
TV Box:
Xiaomi, Huawei, Skyworth, Hisense
Refrigerator:
Midea, Haier, Meling, Hisense
Aircon:
Midea, Gree, Haier, AUX, Chigo
Mobile Phone:
Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, One Plus, Realme, Techno, iQoo, Honor, Meizu
PC:
Lenovo, Huawei, Xiaomi, Hasee, Honor, ASUS (Taiwan), Acer (Taiwan)
Router:
TP-Link, Huawei, Tenda, Honor, D-Link(Taiwan), Linksys (Taiwan), ASUS (Taiwan)
Car:
Great Wall Motor, BYD, Dongfeng Motor, Geely, Brilliance Auto Group, Chery, Li Auto, NIO, XPeng, BAIC Group, GAC Group, SAIC Motor, Hongqi, JAC, Beijing Automotive Industry Corporation, FAW, Hanteng Autos, Byton, First Automobile Works, Foton, Guangzhou Automobile Group, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, SAIC-GM-Wuling, Chang'an
IT:
Alibaba, Byte Dance, Baidu, Tencent, NetEasy, Kuaishou, Meituan, Ctrip, DiDi
Telecom Hardware:
Huawei, ZTE, Datang, FiberHome, Dahua, Hikvision Digital, Coolpad
Drone:
DJI, Ehang, AutoFlight, Aviation Industry Corporation of China, DAMODA, Huimingjie, China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics, Geneinno, Grepow, High Great, XAG
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Xinjiang was not a land of Uyghurs alone, there were many races and ethnicities living in Xinjiang, e.g. Han, Hui, Kazak, Tajik, Tatar, Xibo (derived from Manchu), Mongolian....etc. Traditionally (in the last 500 years, as the demographics in Xinjiang was always changing as the territory changed hands all the time in prior ages), the Uyghurs were living in South of the Taklamakan Desert or Southern Xinjiang and the Dzungar (Oriat branch of Mongols) were living in Northern Xinjiang. The Dzungar enslaved the Uygurs by constant invasions and conquest wars. Then the expansionism of the Dzungar threatened the Qing dynasty of China and China had many wars with the Dzungar for three generations of Qing emperors. At that time, most of the Mongolian branches were already living under the Qing empire but they were fragmented. The Qing intentionally reinforced the fragmentation of the Mongolian branches so that they couldn't unite into a single force which the Qing deemed as a grave threat considering the Mongol Yuan dynasty as a historical lesson.
As the Dzungar grew weaker and weaker and the Qing eradicated them from Northern Xinjiang altogether. Later, Russia was also looking to expand into Xinjiang. The Qing defeated Russia in Xinjiang and secured its sovereignty over this land. China named the province "Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region" which is a misnomer, because it is made as if the land is Uyghur only when there are so many races and ethnicities living there, although Uyghur is the largest group making up 44.96% of the total population, Han Chinese also makes up 42.24%, Kazak 5.15%, Hui 3.96%,Mongolian 0.84%...as per the 2020 China Population Nationwide Census.
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China has caught up in industries with South Korea and now becomes the biggest competitor to South Korea in all industries. The future for South Korea is gloomy as China has the tremendous domestic market South Korea doesn't have. and South Korea deeply relies on the Chinese market in the past 30 years. South Korea even lodged a trade deficit with China recently (the first turn of pages in 30 years) which was a very dangerous signal to South Korea. Thanks to the tightened US sanctions on China, South Korea had some sort of temporary relief but China has been expediting technological leaps even under severe US sanctions, according to Korean media reports in the last few days, the "last bastion" of South Korea, the memory chips (DRAM and NAND) have been busted by China, after China overtook South Korea in LCD/OLED display panel technologies (South Korea was forced to give up LCD due to Chinese competitions), shipbuilding technologies (South Korea cannot build large cruising liners but China has built one and is immediately building the second one) , automobiles especially in the EV..... even in animation and gaming technologies, China has surpassed South Korea, the only strong spot South Korea still has against China is: 1. chip fab beyond 7nm (as South Korea can access EUV lithograpy machines but China is sanctioned and cannot access EUV), 2. Entertainment and music (Even in music and movie industries, China is progressing fast).
There is a huge crisis looming on for South Korea as it cannot compete with China in more and more industries. You cannot blame South Korea though, because it is China who is progressing too fast.
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Guizhou has long been the poorest province in China due to its unforgiving moutainous terrains and poor accessibility to other regions (there used to be a lack of bridges and many many suspension bridges between moutains were needed to be built) and it is inhabited by 40% ethnic minorities (like the Buyi, the Miao, the Shui, the Dong, the Yao, The Yi, the Tujia....) and 60% Han Chinese, there used to be an exggerated saying about Guizhou in China: "The land is not flat within 3 inches, the weather is not sunny within 3 days and the people has no 3 pennies in the pocket"(it's rhythmic in Chinese). I'm glad Guizhou has now transformed so much, even the rural villages are so clean now and full of cars, the cities like Guiyang (the capital) look very modern and cosmopolitan, it actually makes many Chinese people outside the region surprised because in our memories, Guizhou was very poor. It certainly has made a lot of progresses. Although it is still one of the poorest provinces in China, it's not that bad now.
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Yes, the Indian Parliament had a controvesial mural carved at the wall of its headquater at centering places, called Undivided India, where it showed an expansive Indian map annexing all the neighouring countries including China's Tibet, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldive and even Afghanistan. I think a strong India will definitely be a huge disaster for the region as they would behave as if they were the British Empire. Even now when India isn't very strong, they are already arrogant and complacent enough in front of their neighours demanding servitudes.
Bhutan is a sovereign state in the Tibetan Plateau but its military and diplomacy have been hijacked by India for decades, therefore Bhutan hasn't established diplomacy with China yet despite being immediate neighours. India is very angry when China and Bhutan carries out state-to-state normal exchanges, you can see what India regards the sovereign state Bhutan as. Maldive is not even contiguous with India by land as it's an archipelogo in the middle of the ocean and Maldive often sources living supplies from India (most of them are Chinese products in origin and India just trades them as a middleman), this material dependence gives India the idea of controlling Maldive and they forcefully occupied the island country with military bases with the justification of repairing ships and safeguarding peace in the region. In recent years, Maldive is increasingly walking close to China and India is not happy about it, the island country asked India to withdraw its military base from Maldive immediately but India didn't respond as requested until Maldive became hysterical. After reluctantly retreating its military base, India immediately built a new military base on its island close to Maldive, threatening the sovereign state. I think a strong India will definitely not be a blessing for the rest of the world.
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I have been living in China for 34 years and am still living in Guangzhou, China is much more developed than it was even 10 years ago. The urban streets are spotless these days, 10 years ago they were not as clean as it is now. This is the biggest change visible to the eyes, the public cleanliness. Also on the technological side, the changes are also equally visible, 10 years ago, the urban street landscape didn't look as high-tech as they are now. The next visible change is car ownership. Even in the countryside, all the roads have solar-powered lamps nowadays and car ownership in the countryside is astonishingly high, in the front of every home parks a car (few households have home garages though, they just park cars in front of their houses). In the cities, the car ownership is actually lower as parking spaces are tighter. Ths is also one of the biggest changes in comparison to 10 years ago, the high prevalence of car ownership in the countryside. Another change is the metro system in the cities, for example, Guangzhou Metro now has an operating mileage of over 1,000km, can you believe it? 1,000 km-long subway lines in a single city! The new lines are also incredibly fast, like the Line 18 and the Line 22, which are operating at 160km/hour, almost approaching high speed rail standard.
As an individual witness of the Chinese Development Miracle while growing up since the 90s, I think China's transformation was the fastest in the 1990s to 2010s but the last 10 years still brought drastic changes to us, which are still very fast development. In fact, there are visible changes for the better even between now and pre-pandemic 2019, which are quite recent.
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Almost all of the industries in which Japan once had an advantage, such as semiconductors, electronics, home appliances, automobiles, shipbuilding, machine tools, and robots, are being or have already been overtaken by China and South Korea, and the only industry in which Japan still leads is the AV industry. Lol.
In terms of science research, China now dominates all fields except medical science in the international science journals.
In terms of science application, China files almost half of the world's tech patents, the US files only half of China's and Japan files only a tiny fraction of China's.
Japan is no longer relevant in front of a powerful China today.
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China has caught up in industries with South Korea and now becomes the biggest competitor to South Korea in all industries. The future for South Korea is gloomy as China has the tremendous domestic market South Korea doesn't have. and South Korea deeply relies on the Chinese market in the past 30 years. South Korea even lodged a trade deficit with China recently (the first turn of pages in 30 years) which was a very dangerous signal to South Korea. Thanks to the tightened US sanctions on China, South Korea had some sort of temporary relief but China has been expediting technological leaps even under severe US sanctions, according to Korean media reports in the last few days, the "last bastion" of South Korea, the memory chips (DRAM and NAND) have been busted by China, after China overtook South Korea in LCD/OLED display panel technologies (South Korea was forced to give up LCD due to Chinese competitions), shipbuilding technologies (South Korea cannot build large cruising liners but China has built one and is immediately building the second one) , automobiles especially in the EV..... even in animation and gaming technologies, China has surpassed South Korea, the only strong spot South Korea still has against China is: 1. chip fab beyond 7nm (as South Korea can access EUV lithograpy machines but China is sanctioned and cannot access EUV), 2. Entertainment and music (Even in music and movie industries, China is progressing fast).
There is a huge crisis looming on for South Korea as it cannot compete with China in more and more industries. You cannot blame South Korea though, because it is China who is progressing too fast.
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Hong Kong may have a higher income than Shenzhen temporarily but from technological perspective, Hong Kong is far far behind Shenzhen. Shenzhen hosts the most cutting-edge tech industries in China, you know, Huawei, ZTE, BYD, DJI, TCL, Tencent, Konka, Luxshare Precision, Han's Laser....are all headquatered in Shenzhen. Shenzhen is also an IT tech hub and one of the financial centers in China.(Shenzhen hosts one of China's stock exchange markets, along with Shanghai).
To be honest, I have never heard of any hi-tech company from Hong Kong. In fact, Hong Kong's economy is still heavily reliant on finance (which Shenzhen, Shanghai and now Beijing(the third stock exchange market had inaugurated in Beijing 1 or 2 years ago) are all vigorously developing as China's new financial centers) and logistics. It lacks a hi-tech industry which is the guarantee of sustainable growth in the long term, China's own first-tier cities and Singapore are all competing with Hong Kong for the existing industry of finance and logistics, if Hong Kong still can't incubate a new industry (hi-tech industry), it will be inevitably thrown further behind by neighbouring Shenzhen. The income gap between the two cities won't persist for too long.
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Bo: 800 million shirts for one Airbus A380
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-05-05 05:50
PARIS: To cover the cost of buying just one Airbus A380 China would need to sell 800 million shirts - those were the figures quoted by Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai on Tuesday as he tried to put Europe's concerns over textile exports into perspective.
Bo made the remarks at a Sino-French seminar in Paris amid fears in the European Union that its textile industry is being harmed by the surge in Chinese products that followed the ending of global textile import quotas on January 1.
Bo said: "Because of the low profit margins of Chinese textile products, China needs to export 800 million shirts in order to buy one Airbus A380," referring to the latest aircraft being developed by European aircraft consortium Airbus. China Southern Airlines ordered five A380s in an April deal.
China exported textile products worth US$400 million to France in the first quarter of the year, a small fraction of China's overall textile exports, Bo said, adding that he hoped current tensions would not affect the overall good trade situation between the two countries, the China News Service reported.
According to Bo, China and France are facing more trade opportunities than confrontations and any problems can be solved calmly.
He encouraged French companies to invest in China, saying the two countries have broad possibilities for co-operation across the business spectrum.
Meeting with French counterpart Francois Loos, also on Tuesday, Bo assured France that China had already taken effective measures, such as a limitation on investment in the textile sector, to stem the surge in textile exports.
China is a responsible player in world trade and wants to "soften any shock wave that might provoke massive exports of Chinese apparel," he said.
Loos said he agreed China was a responsible country and that it "could undertake important steps in order not to disrupt the market."
Bo said economic co-operation between China and France had not yet realized its full potential. In 2004, Chinese trade with France was far below that with the United States, Japan, Germany and South Korea.
French Finance Minister Thierry Breton also met with Bo on Tuesday.
The EU executive commission last Thursday decided to open an inquiry into Chinese exports to Europe covering nine categories of textile products. Four EU textile producers, France, Italy, Greece and Spain, have asked the commission to apply emergency procedures that would speed up implementation of restrictions.
(China Daily 05/05/2005)
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Taiwan doesn't have:
1. the lithography machine technologies, relying on imports of finished machine units from foreign countries.
2. the raw materials, relying on imports of raw materials from foreign countries
3. the home market, relying on exports of the fabricated chips to foreign countries
4. needed softwares such as EDA, relying on imports from foreign countries
It only has the fab tech, which can be overtaken by other rivals in the future.
Even Taiwan can fab advanced chips, they lack the real hardcore technologies that is associated with the real-life application of chips in most of sectors, such as 5G, memory chips, cars, CPU, GPU..... All they do is contract chip fabrication, the behind-the-stage role, instead of the direct R&D of product technologies (including not only chips) and the commercial front brands that directly produce consumer products.
Meanwhile the US, China and South Korea have the hands in both. China is developing a full domestic supply chain in semiconductors from raw materials to machines to fabrication to brand products (the US forced them to do so, they have no other ways if they want to survive). It also developed the domestic memory chips in NAND and DRAM sectors, long dominated by South Korea who also competes with China in shipbuilding, home appliances, mobile phones and cars. China also competes with the US in mobile phones, operating systems, cars, 5G chips, CPU, GPU..., it competes with Japan and Germany in machine tools and cars.
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The US sanctions on China have actually accelerated China's speed of tech self-sufficiency. China filed several critical patents on EUV lithography machines in the recent 3 years. They can already make 65nm DUV lithography machines domestically, as per the Chinese govt's industrial guidelines in September 2024. It's only a matter of time before China can make 28nm DUV machines and EUV machines with full homeland-based supply chains.
In memory chips (NAND and DRAM), China's YMTC and CXMT have already caught up with the front-runners in the field like Samsung and SK Hynix. In the past, China imported all memory chips from South Korea ( Samsung and SK Hynix) and the US (Micron) leading to that China imported more chips than oil in terms of monetary values each year (before US sanctions). Now they don't have to. The US also banned equipments used for specifically manufacturing memory chips to China, but China managed to build domestic supply chains for making such equipments themselves.
The latest news:
Chinese DRAM Giant CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% DDR5 Yield, Targeting 90% by 2025.
As China successfully moved up the industrial chain, the first player to be knocked down is South Korea, whose hi-tech industries are all now in intensive competitions with China's, from shipbuilding to automobiles to mobile phones to memory chips. Just a few years ago, South Korea was still cheering joyfully for surpassing Japan in industries, now they are being surpassed by China. Changes come too quickly. Of course, Japan and Germany and the US also are increasingly being challenged by China in their traditionally strongest fields. For example, China is also competing with Japan and Germany in machine tools, high speed rails and robotics, China is also competing with the US in AI, quantum,supercomputer, artifical sun, the fourth generation nuclear reactor, brain-computer interface, gene editing, low-orbit internet satellite, low-altitude passenger vehicles, drones, passenger aircraft, IT, space exploration....
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@Hkchinese888 In rural China, people judge your family if you haven't owned a car yet these days, because families around you all have cars. Many Chinese farmers just bought cars and parked at their house gates without driving much a month due to the lack of needs to travel far often, as they say in the Chinese countryside, "you can park there and don't drive but you must have it!" People don't like to be judged by their neighbours, you know.
You can call this mindset as shallow, superficial or materialistic but China is a country of capitalistic materialism, and as a man, young or old, if you haven't bought a house and a car in the cities, no girls will be interersted in you in the marriage market in China, and this "new marriage culture" has been around in China for at least 15 years now, it's not a latest phenomenon only.
Sometimes you have to say China is too much of a capitalism, everything is valued by money and transactions. Communism is long dead. But materialism actually propels the Chinese economy forward as it stimulates domestic spending and consumption.
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In fact, Britain's first want was the Chusan Island (Zhoushan today) instead of Hong Kong after the First Opium War. Zhoushan was a quite large island at the mouth of the Yangtze river, from which, Britain could easily steer its vessels deep into the Chinese hinterland for colonial purposes, therefore it was of great significance to the British with the intention of colonizing China. Hong Kong, meanwhile, was a remote moutainous area without anything meaningful there at that time and far from China's hinterland.
However, the Qing dynasty denied at all costs the possibility of ceding Zhoushan to the British as the regions along the Yangtze river were the richest regions of all China contributing to the largest share of the Qing dynasty's tax revenues.
The British envoy compromised and accepted Hong Kong unwillingly and when the news came back to London, the British govt was very angry and sacked the British envoy immediately.
Unable to secure the grip over Zhoushan, all the colonial powers found Shanghai, the town sitting right at the mouth of the Yangtze, particularly important if they wanted to colonize China. So they all set up bases in Shanghai and from there their ships went deep into China from the Yangtze river to collect intelligences in preparation of fully colonizing China. However, this didn't occur as planned. As the encroachment of the West triggered the Boxer Rebellion movement and other similar movements across China, the colonial powers realized it was not feasible to conquer the Chinese people, who were already 400 million strong at that time, with such levels of resistances.
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As of August 9, 2024:
The Chinese (China, Hong Kong China, Chinese Taipei, Macau China) 30 + 2 + 1 + 0 = 33 golds
The Chinese Civilization Circle or Sinosphere (China, Hong Kong China, Chinese Taipei, Macau China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam): 30 + 2 + 1 + 0 + 13 + 13 + 0 + 0 = 59 golds
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Taiwan doesn't have:
1. the lithography machine technologies, relying on imports of finished machine units from foreign countries.
2. the raw materials, relying on imports of raw materials from foreign countries
3. the home market, relying on exports of the fabricated chips to foreign countries
4. needed softwares such as EDA, relying on imports from foreign countries
It only has the fab tech, which can be overtaken by other rivals in the future.
Even Taiwan can fab advanced chips, they lack the real hardcore technologies that is associated with the real-life application of chips in most of sectors, such as 5G, memory chips, cars, CPU, GPU..... All they do is contract chip fabrication, the behind-the-stage role, instead of the direct R&D of product technologies (including not only chips) and the commercial front brands that directly produce consumer products.
Meanwhile the US, China and South Korea have the hands in both. China is developing a full domestic supply chain in semiconductors from raw materials to machines to fabrication to brand products (the US forced them to do so, they have no other ways if they want to survive). It also developed the domestic memory chips in NAND and DRAM sectors, long dominated by South Korea who also competes with China in shipbuilding, home appliances, mobile phones and cars. China also competes with the US in mobile phones, operating systems, cars, 5G chips, CPU, GPU..., it competes with Japan and Germany in machine tools and cars.
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China has caught up in industries with South Korea and now becomes the biggest competitor to South Korea in all industries. The future for South Korea is gloomy as China has the tremendous domestic market South Korea doesn't have. and South Korea deeply relies on the Chinese market in the past 30 years. South Korea even lodged a trade deficit with China recently (the first turn of pages in 30 years) which was a very dangerous signal to South Korea. Thanks to the tightened US sanctions on China, South Korea had some sort of temporary relief but China has been expediting technological leaps even under severe US sanctions, according to Korean media reports in the last few days, the "last bastion" of South Korea, the memory chips (DRAM and NAND) have been busted by China, after China overtook South Korea in LCD/OLED display panel technologies (South Korea was forced to give up LCD due to Chinese competitions), shipbuilding technologies (South Korea cannot build large cruising liners but China has built one and is immediately building the second one) , automobiles especially in the EV..... even in animation and gaming technologies, China has surpassed South Korea, the only strong spot South Korea still has against China is: 1. chip fab beyond 7nm (as South Korea can access EUV lithograpy machines but China is sanctioned and cannot access EUV), 2. Entertainment and music (Even in music and movie industries, China is progressing fast).
There is a huge crisis looming on for South Korea as it cannot compete with China in more and more industries. You cannot blame South Korea though, because it is China who is progressing too fast.
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This is a misconception, if you look at the history of origin of foreign investment into China, throughout the entire 1980s and 1990s, only the ethnic Chinese from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan were willing to invest heavily in mainland China, especially in the manufacturing sector. Other non-ethnic-Chinese societies were not interested in investing in China yet. Due to China's two decades of fast growth, by the 2000s, especially after China entered the WTO in 2001, foreign investors started to diversify with Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, the US, Germany and Britain as the top 8 sources of foreign investment to China. Asian investments still far outsized Western investments to China. Ethnic Chinese investment from the overseas in China are mostly in the manufacturing sector, meanwhile US and other Western investments in China have rarely been about manufacturing, which was considered ‘low" in their eyes and more importantly very slow in returns, US investments in China are mainly in food, drinks, household toiletries, fashion, services and financial products.
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I'm from China, I need to point out that these were all built in the early 2000s. Before 2010, there was a hot trend of imitating Europe/America in the Chinese property market as Chinese people had the Western-lifestye-worshipping mentality back then and the property developers did not only build fake European looking towns but also many regular high-rise residential compounds in China were given very western names like California Sunshine, Seattle Love, Good Manhattan, England Castle, Canada Garden, Milan Impression, Paris Fragrance, Roman Palace, Oriental Hawaii.....
This trend quickly waned in the 2010s and in recent years due to the geopolitical hostilities between China and the West, many residential compounds changed their Western-admiring names to neutral sounding names, e.g. England Creativity was changed to Creative Garden, Venice Onshore was changed to Lakeview Peninsular, etc.
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what about all the unequal treaties imposed on China by ALL industrialized powers back then??? Even Belgium and Austria were among the industrialized powers asking for interests inside China after seeing the big players were doing so at that time.
In 1919, Germany lost the WWI and therefore lost its concession in Tsingtao(Qingdao today), Shandong province, China. In the Paris Conference, the Powers decided to transfer Tsingtao to Japan instead of returning it to China, when the outrageous news spread back to China, triggering the historically significant May Fourth Movement where mercants struck markets, workers struck works and students struck classes nationwide protesting the decision and pressurizing the Beiyang Chinese govt not to sign the protocol (some high-ranking leaders' mansions were torched down by the angry university students in Peking as they were seen as traitors), the Chinese intellectuals started to attack all the traditional Chinese culture, which were seen as the causes of holding China back and making China backward, Confucius suddenly became the biggest criminal for his poisonous Confucianist ideas. (This mentality led to the Cultural Revolution in the 70s, some 50 years later as well where traditional Chinese culture were further destroyed), cultural westernization was promoted and communism was introduced into China. Communism was very attractive to the Chinese people back then under the oppression of the West.
In 1918, there was a painful sign at the gates of Huangpu Park in Shanghai which said ""No Chinese and XXX allowed" in Chinese. A lot of Chinese intellectuals were said to have seen the sign and popularized it to the public awareness, triggering the nationwide outrage and new heights of nationalism. (Its impact is very long-lasting in the collective mindset of the Chinese people, urging all the Chinese people to work harder to make their country strong for generations to come). According to the English sign, it said "1. This park is only open to the foreign communities. 4. No dogs are allowed to enter."
In Hong Kong, the British practised a strong racial seggregation policy mirroring the Apartheid in South Africa for 100 years, which only started to fade after the WWII.
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Well, this is the 21st century, not the 19th century. The whole EU is filing less patents than little South Korea each year, how can you compete with China in science and technology? China files half of the world's IPs each year, twice the US, six times Japan or South Korea and seven times the EU patent volumes as per the WIPO's official reports. (welcome to verify if you are not convinced)
In terms of research performances , as per the latest Nature Index 2024, released by the science journal Nature not too long ago, 8 out of the top 10 science research institutes that published the most high-quality research outputs were from China (welcome to verify if you are not convinced). How can the West compete with China in science and technology today?
If you look at the names of the participants of the Team US, Canada, the UK and Australia in each round of International Mathmatics/Physics/Chemistry Olympiads, they always sent Chinese Americans, Chinese Canadians....to these Olympaids. These Chinese Americans, Chinese Australians....still cannot compete with the China Chinese.
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We in China are also tired of the US craps in China, like KFC, MacDonalds, Starbucks, Coca cola, Pepsi, Nike, Gillete, Clear, Pantene, Head & Shoulders, iPhone, HP, Dell, Microsoft, IBM, Ford, GM...
These American brands all earn tremendous profits from China every year and we have domestic Chinese alternatives available for all of them. We need to ban these American brands too.
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China has caught up in industries with South Korea and now becomes the biggest competitor to South Korea in all industries. The future for South Korea is gloomy as China has the tremendous domestic market South Korea doesn't have. and South Korea deeply relies on the Chinese market in the past 30 years. South Korea even lodged a trade deficit with China recently (the first turn of pages in 30 years) which was a very dangerous signal to South Korea. Thanks to the tightened US sanctions on China, South Korea had some sort of temporary relief but China has been expediting technological leaps even under severe US sanctions, according to Korean media reports in the last few days, the "last bastion" of South Korea, the memory chips (DRAM and NAND) have been busted by China, after China overtook South Korea in LCD/OLED display panel technologies (South Korea was forced to give up LCD due to Chinese competitions), shipbuilding technologies (South Korea cannot build large cruising liners but China has built one and is immediately building the second one) , automobiles especially in the EV..... even in animation and gaming technologies, China has surpassed South Korea, the only strong spot South Korea still has against China is: 1. chip fab beyond 7nm (as South Korea can access EUV lithograpy machines but China is sanctioned and cannot access EUV), 2. Entertainment and music (Even in music and movie industries, China is progressing fast).
There is a huge crisis looming on for South Korea as it cannot compete with China in more and more industries. You cannot blame South Korea though, because it is China who is progressing too fast.
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China allowed iphones, ford, buick, KFC, MacDonalds, Tesla, Starbucks, Coca cola.... to make tremendous amounts of money from China each day, why can't the US allow Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, ZTE, DJI, BYD, TP-Link....to make money in the US???
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Almost all of the industries in which Japan once had an advantage, such as semiconductors, electronics, home appliances, automobiles, shipbuilding, machine tools, and robots, are being or have already been overtaken by China and South Korea, and the only industry in which Japan still leads is the AV industry. Lol.
In terms of science research, China now dominates all fields except medical science in the international science journals.
In terms of science application, China is filing almost half of the world's tech patents each year, the US is filing only half of China's and Japan is filing only a tiny fraction of China's.
Japan is no longer relevant in front of a powerful China today.
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China has near-term plans (the five-year development plans), middle-term plans (for example, 2020-GDP-doubling-that-of-2010 plan, "made in China 2025" plan, both are 10-year development plans) and long-term plans (the Republic's centenary birthday plan: "build China into a moderately developed nation by 2049", which is quite humbly worded, so to speak). Each Chinese leadership team have been working towards these SAME goals in both near and long terms. That's why China can develop so fast. Meanwhile in the so-called democracies, preseidency change hands every 4-5 years and the incumbent president tend to topple most of, if not all of, the policies of his predecessors no matter how good they are. In other words, there is no persistence and consistence in policies in these so-called democratic countries, so they can by no means run as fast and efficiently as China. China's rapid rise is based on a highly efficient and visionary govt and a smart and hardworking populance.
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Taiwan doesn't have:
1. the lithography machine technologies, relying on imports of finished machine units from foreign countries.
2. the raw materials, relying on imports of raw materials from foreign countries
3. the home market, relying on exports of the fabricated chips to foreign countries
4. needed softwares such as EDA, relying on imports from foreign countries
It only has the fab tech, which can be overtaken by other rivals in the future.
Even Taiwan can fab advanced chips, they lack the real hardcore technologies that is associated with the real-life application of chips in most of sectors, such as 5G, memory chips, cars, CPU, GPU..... All they do is contract chip fabrication, the behind-the-stage role, instead of the R&D of product technologies (including not only chips) and the commercial front brands that directly produce consumer products.
Meanwhile the US, China and South Korea have the hand in both. China is developing a full domestic supply chain in semiconductors from raw materials to machines to fabrication to brand products (the US forced them to do so, they have no other ways if they want to survive). It also developed the domestic memory chips in NAND and DRAM sectors, long dominated by South Korea who also competes with China in shipbuilding, home appliances, mobile phones and cars. China also competes with the US in mobile phones, operating systems, cars, 5G chips, CPU, GPU..., it competes with Japan and Germany in machine tools and cars.
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Will whyte men and women sacrifice their lives, which are easy and comfortable at home, for a remote and tiny rebellious Chinese island 12,000km away from home? I doubt it. You should know the US-led so-called UN armies couldn't win against China even 75 years ago in the Korean Peninsular when China was still an agrarian country. Now, 75 years later, China has evolved into the most industrialized powerhouse in the world with the strongest industrial might of building all, building fully and building fast. The West has undergone a de-industrialization path for so many decades. You can't manufacture stuffs. For example, the US govt adimitted China's shipbuilding capacity is over 200 times of that of the US. Look at the Russia and Ukraine war, a war today, by its essense, is a fast wrestling of industrial capacities, which China absolutely has the upper hand over. What's more, both the US and Europe are over 10,000km away from Taiwan whereas China is just off the coast. When your replenishing weapons shipped to the region, China had already reunified the island for a long time, lol.
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China allowed iphones, ford, buick, KFC, MacDonalds, Tesla, Starbucks, Coca cola.... to make tremendous amounts of money from China each day, why can't the US allow Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, ZTE, DJI, BYD, TP-Link....to make money in the US???
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@Hkchinese888 China: 32 golds now, let me update:face-blue-smiling:
The Chinese (China, Hong Kong China, Chinese Taipei, Macau China) 32 + 2 + 1 + 0 = 35 golds
The Chinese Civilization Circle or Sinosphere (China, Hong Kong China, Chinese Taipei, Macau China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam): 32 + 2 + 1 + 0 + 13 + 13 + 0 + 0 = 61 golds
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@Bubba-z4s Hong Kong may have a higher income than Shenzhen temporarily but from technological perspective, Hong Kong is far far behind Shenzhen. Shenzhen hosts the most cutting-edge tech industries in China, you know, Huawei, ZTE, BYD, DJI, TCL, Tencent, Konka, Luxshare Precision, Han's Laser....are all headquatered in Shenzhen. Shenzhen is also an IT tech hub and one of the financial centers in China.(Shenzhen hosts one of China's stock exchange markets, along with Shanghai).
To be honest, I have never heard of any hi-tech company from Hong Kong. In fact, Hong Kong's economy is still heavily reliant on finance (which Shenzhen, Shanghai and now Beijing(the third stock exchange market had inaugurated in Beijing 1 or 2 years ago) are all vigorously developing as China's new financial centers) and logistics. It lacks a hi-tech industry which is the guarantee of sustainable growth in the long term, China's own first-tier cities and Singapore are all competing with Hong Kong for the existing industry of finance and logistics, if Hong Kong still can't incubate a new industry (hi-tech industry), it will be inevitably thrown further behind by neighbouring Shenzhen. The income gap between the two cities won't persist for too long.
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Many roads in Taiwan are named after mainland Chinese provinces and cities, such as Sichuan Road, Hebei Road, Hubei Road, Shandong Road, Hunan Road, Fujian Road, Guangdong Road, Guangxi Road.....; Peking Road, Nanking Road, Shanghai Road, Chungking Road, Tientsin Road, Wuhan Road, Hankow Road, Changsha Road.....
These mainland Chinese province and city names are all over the island in terms of the names of bounevards, streets and roads in both urban and rural settings.
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@LizardSpork
1. Without the one child policy, China's population would have been 2-3 billion today, which would require most of the earth's resources to feed and would pull down the living standard of everybody else on earth.
2. The local govt debts in China are all internal debts which the central govt could have easily bailed out with, if they chose to, but the central govt chose not to in order to keep the local govt work hard instead of being lax and slack without any pressures. Also, most of the debts of the local govts were spent on the infrastructures to make the life better for average Chinese citizens. Chinese bus and subway services haven't raised their ticket fares for decades and elderly citizens over 60 have free ride previlleges on buses across China, these wouldn't have been possible without the local govt's vigorous subsidises. In other words, the debts of the local govts are a result of improving Chinese people's living standards.
3. The weakness in the property sector is a result of the govt's restrictive policies to reduce the price bubbles in properties as the apartments in China become too expensive for the average income earners to afford.
4. High youth uneployment is a direct result of the US ruthless sanctions and high tariffs against Chinese products, which impacts the overall economy but China's technological breakthroughs are occurring at an accelerated pace, which is exactly the opposite of the US's goals. lol.
5. If the CCP were really as incompetent and incapable as you said, what would the US be so mad and hysterical for? lol. Biden's last agende as the leaving president and Trump's top agenda as a new president is all about China China China. Why? lol.
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In Europe, only Germany is still revelant in tangible manufacturing and hi-tech industries, the others like Britain, France, Italy... are all de-industrialized to the degree they sell virtual financial services like stocks and insurance products as well as pharmaceuticals (Britain), tourism, perfumes, overvalued LV bags (France), pizza, pasta, macroni and tourism (Italy) ...... They are not relevant with the tangible hi-tech industries, especially the emerging hi-tech ones in the 21st century. Australia and New Zealand are just agricultural countries that sell sheep wools, mutton, beef, milk powder and earth minerals. Canada is...sorry, never heard of any hi-tech companies or even any products from Canada, it has a poor sense of presence when talking about technologies and stuffs. Japan is still somewhat a strong player but it is stagnant for too long and it's becoming not very competitive in more and more industries facing South Korea and China's tech rise. South Korea is increasingly competitive in hi-tech but in the emerging ones like AI, EV, automatic driving, brain-computer interface, quantum, 6G..., it is still largely irrelavant, the real black horse is China. China and the US are the true players in these emerging and disruptive technologies that will shape the future. So far, the US lacks industrial power in conventional hi-tech industries like shipbuidling, steel-making, semiconductor manufacturing, trucks, cranes and heavy machines manufacturing and others. China, on the other hand, is becoming a full-MVP player in both conventional and disruptive high technologies.
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south asia and the philippines are not investable at least in the manufacturing sectors, otherwise they would have been invested decades ago. vietnam is investable but vietnam's infrastructure is still lacking, like shortage of electricity and lack of transportation facilities making logistic costs high. the costs of industrial electricity and logistics in china are much lower than those in vietnam, the philippines and south asia. vietnam is still buying a large volume of electricity from china's guangxi province so how can its electricity costs be lower? vietnam or india currently can only assemble up intermediate goods imported from china. they can't make the components locally yet. even if they can in the future, the overall costs there will still be higher than those in china because these countries don't have the reserves of natural minerals and tech portfolios that china has. china is currently using its national policies to relocate chinese manufacturing companies from the coastal provinces to the hinterland provinces which have lower labour costs but still with great infrastructures. most of the manufacturing capacities are under the control of chinese companies in the world, so if chinese factories in the upper, medium and lower supply chains refuse to leave china, other countries will have no chances. also, china is now automating its manufacturing sectors with self-developed industrial robots, which will further undercut the costs for chinese products, how can the human workers in southeast asia and south asia compete with the robots in china?
you are right that there is probably an upcoming war involving china in the future, that's why the chinese govt is so smart by relocating the manufacturing capacities into the deep innerlands like Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei.... beforehand. these provinces have the shipping luxury of the yangtze river with direct access to the ocean but is located in the hinterlands safe from the potential coastal attacks.
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south asia and the philippines are not investable at least in the manufacturing sectors, otherwise they would have been invested decades ago. vietnam is investable but vietnam's infrastructure is still lacking, like shortage of electricity and lack of transportation facilities making logistic costs high. the costs of industrial electricity and logistics in china are much lower than those in vietnam, the philippines and south asia. vietnam is still buying a large volume of electricity from china's guangxi province so how can its electricity costs be lower? vietnam or india currently can only assemble up intermediate goods imported from china. they can't make the components locally yet. even if they can in the future, the overall costs there will still be higher than those in china because these countries don't have the reserves of natural minerals and tech portfolios that china has. china is currently using its national policies to relocate chinese manufacturing companies from the coastal provinces to the hinterland provinces which have lower labour costs but still with great infrastructures. most of the manufacturing capacities are under the control of chinese companies in the world, so if chinese factories in the upper, medium and lower supply chains refuse to leave china, other countries will have no chances. also, china is now automating its manufacturing sectors with self-developed industrial robots, which will further undercut the costs for chinese products, how can the human workers in southeast asia and south asia compete with the robots in china?
you are right that there is probably an upcoming war involving china in the future, that's why the chinese govt is so smart by relocating the manufacturing capacities into the deep innerlands like Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei.... beforehand. these provinces have the shipping luxury of the yangtze river with direct access to the ocean but is located in the hinterlands safe from the potential coastal attacks. also, china's economy is now supported more and more dominantly by domestic consumptions, the manufacturing bases in the hinterlands can reduce delivery costs to local customers.
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It is in the best interests of the world to have more than one dominant power on this planet. The hegemony of the United States has proven to be dangerous and harmful to the interests of non-Western countries, which make up the majority of the earth's members. The United States is abusing its power every day, endangering the Middle East, East Asia, and other regions. For example, Iraq was brutally invaded by the United States in 2003. The United States used a small vial of what was seemingly household washing powder to justify the invasion by accusing it of being a weapon of mass destruction. When no other powers could restrain the United States in this case, it led to the loss of millions of lives, homes, and properties in Iraq. And after failing to find any trace of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the United States did not face any consequences in terms of legal trials and international sanctions. This situation must change. The world welcomes China to join the ranks of dominant powers to counterbalance the absolute arrogance, manipulation, control, and ruthlessness of the United States.
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@Justsaying-cg2nz The West has an pre-set psychology about China, that is that you can only produce cheap garments, shoes, toys and assemble electronics with critical parts sourced from the West and you MUST NOT cross this boundary by all chances! You can BY NO MEANS climb up the tech and industrial value chain, that is a big no-no! A dangerous red line! When China made the "Made In China 2025" Plan back in 2015, it directly triggered the US to launch the tech war, trade war and info war that are still ongoing today and the Chinese govt stopped talking about "Made In China 2025" publicly eversince after 2018. The US cannot even tolerate Tik Tok, a Chinese app belonging to the higher-valued IT industry , let lone it can tolerate any Chinese progress in hardware technologies. Europe has the same mentality, it cannot watch Chinese EV cars leading the clean energy drive and even make money from themselves, that is outrageously offensive. That's why they will impede anything associated with tech progress of China, even though it means to violate the long-preached western values of free market economy, non-interventionism, anti-protectionism and pro-globalization. They had no problem when Western companies were making a fortune in China but when Chinese companies start to find some successes in the West, they cannot sit still any more and will do everything within their reach to destroy them.
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I'm from China, Temu's Chinese version Pinduduo (owned by Temu's parent group) is a tremendous success in China(Maybe their China success lead them to expand the same model in the overseas). Now most of Chinese customers have abandoned Taobao (owned by Alibaba) and used Pinduoduo exclusively. Alibaba used 15 years to build the Taobao empire, now it is overtaken by Pinduoduo founded only a few years ago and it's only a mobile app. My mother is now a shopping addict on the app. They not only sell merchandises at lower-than-market prices but also sell fresh produces (vegetables, meat, fruits, bakery, seafood, riverfood) delivered the next morning to the nearest service spot from you (the delivery is very soon, arrival at just the next morning even if you place the order at the previous night, but have to be before 23:00. The trade-off is that they don't deliver to your door but to your nearest service spot for self pickup, which is usually within 100-meter walk from you. They have signed the cooperations with billions of grocery stores, convenience stores and mom-pop stores to serve as their service spot network across China). They also leaned towards the customers in any conflict involving the customer and the seller and would forcefully refund you even if the seller don't agree!
Taobao, after being outcompeted in China, started to copy Pinduoduo's model, they now also offer the cheaper-than-market-price product catalogs and next-morning fresh produces delivery, but Pinduoduo is winning the market. The happiest ones are the customers. I think you will like Temu a lot as a customer/a factory owner but hate it a lot as a small business vendor.
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According to Hong Kong and Singaporean media reports recently, China has achieved over 86% of the goals set in the "Made in China 2025" Plan made by the Chinese govt in 2015, which triggered intensive fears in the US who then waged the tech war, trade war and info war against China since 2018. It was only 8 months aways from 2025, as per the reports, China is likely to achieve most of the rest goals, too.
Now China has it own large passenger planes, CPU, GPU, PC and mobile operating systems, NAND and DRAM memory chips, DUV lithography machines (28nm), permenant space station, AI, brain-port interface technology, shipbuilding capacities that is 200 times those of America (as per US govt statements), industrial automation including in the military industrial sector (According to China's state-owned TV reports in 2021, China had completely automated its military industries and was capable of producing 1,000 missles of different-range types in 24 hours), EV, solar power technology and hydrogen energy technology, vibrant domestic IT ecosystem..... Back in 2015, when the "Made in China 2025" Plan was made, China wasn't able to do most of these yet. The technological progresses in China are too mindblowing. No wonder the US is so deperate and hysterical nowadays.
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I'm from China, the video shows the manufacturing of just powerbanks but in the Chinese market there are more popular products that are more than just powerbanks, which are the hybrid of a mobile WiFi device and a powerbank. It usually includes an IoT card (Internet of Things card, issued by Chinese telcos, which looks identical to SIM card by physical appearances), built-in antenna for communicating with the telco towers and WiFi signal remitter and relevant chips and a 10,000mAh powerbank. The powerbank can recharge your phone and at the same time, it can act as a portable WiFi source. The internet data plans for IoT cards in China are much much cheaper than those for SIM cards. You can have 300GB data for just 2-3 US dollars a month! So with the powerbank and WiFi in one device, you can roam far from home without worrying about power and data shortages. Such devices are very popular now in China, it seems you guys haven't got such devices in your countries yet.
Well, it relies entirely on the IoT cards issued by your local Telcos for data plans (the WiFi feature), so if you don't have these in your country, then this all-in-one powerbank won't be for you.
In China, the telcos are pushing for the development of the Internet of Things, a futuristic-world plan to enable all devices such as the home appliances, the vending machines, kiosks, watches, CCTV cameras, cars.... to communicate with each other by data, so they have issued IoT cards (look the same with SIM cards) which have outrageously low pricings for large volumes of internet data in contrast to the expensive ones offered for SIM cards. The powerbank manufactuerers bought these IoT cards to integrate them into the power banks. That's how the hybrid WiFi and powerbank products are born. And who doesn't love them???!!!
You may ask why not buy IoT cards and put them directly into your phone? You can't because the telecos will ban your IoT cards right away as they can detect the types of devices these IoT cards are being used for (whether from mobile phones or not).
I think sooner or later, the Chinese telecos will ban IoT cards in powerbanks, because these products are taking away a lot of profits from them as more and more customers no longer buy their expensive internet data plans for phones. Before that happens, at least we can enjoy some great benefits for the time being.😉😚🤪
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@tooltalk In Europe, only Germany is still revelant in tangible manufacturing and hi-tech industries, the others like Britain, France, Italy... are all de-industrialized to the degree they sell virtual financial services like stocks and insurance products as well as pharmaceuticals (Britain), tourism, perfumes, overvalued LV bags (France), pizza, pasta, macroni and tourism (Italy) ...... They are not relevant with the tangible hi-tech industries, especially the emerging hi-tech ones in the 21st century. Australia and New Zealand are just agricultural countries that sell sheep wools, mutton, beef, milk powder and earth minerals. Canada is...sorry, never heard of any hi-tech companies or even any products from Canada, it has a poor sense of presence when talking about technologies and stuffs. Japan is still somewhat a strong player but it is stagnant for too long and it's becoming not very competitive in more and more industries facing South Korea and China's tech rise. South Korea is increasingly competitive in hi-tech but in the emerging ones like AI, EV, automatic driving, brain-computer interface, quantum, 6G..., it is still largely irrelavant, the real black horse is China. China and the US are the true players in these emerging and disruptive technologies that will shape the future. So far, the US lacks industrial power in conventional hi-tech industries like shipbuidling, semiconductor manufacturing, trucks, cranes and heavy machines and others. China, on the other hand, it is becoming a full-MVP player in both conventional and disruptive high technologies.
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According to Hong Kong and Singaporean media reports recently, China has achieved over 86% of the goals set in the "Made in China 2025" Plan made by the Chinese govt in 2015, which had triggered intensive fears in the US who then waged the tech war, trade war and info war against China since 2018. It was only 8 months aways from 2025, as per the reports, China was likely to achieve most of the rest goals, too.
Now China has it own large passenger planes, CPU, GPU, PC and mobile operating systems, NAND and DRAM memory chips, DUV lithography machines (28nm), permenant space station, AI, brain-port interface technology, shipbuilding capacities that is 200 times those of America (as per US govt statements), industrial automation including in the military industrial sector (According to China's state-owned TV reports in 2021, China had completely automated its military industries and was capable of producing 1,000 missles of different-range types in 24 hours😮😮😮😮), EV, solar power technology and hydrogen energy technology, vibrant domestic IT ecosystem, even the gaming and animation technology (Nowadays a lot of Chinese games topped the charts of many countries especially in mobile device realm. Chinese animes have attracted a lot of viewerships on youtube, you can search it if you are unconvinced).......
Back in 2015, when the "Made in China 2025" Plan was made, China wasn't able to do most of these yet. The technological progresses in China are too mindblowing. No wonder the US is so deperate and hysterical nowadays.
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I'm from China. Well, a regular Chinese speaker can read and get 60% or more of the info on Japanese newspapers but not the case in the other way around, a regular Japanese speaker can only get about 20% or less of the info on Chinese newspapers. Because Chinese speakers obviously know much more Chinese characters (Hanzi/Kanji) than their Japanese counterparts and about 60% of Japanese vocabularies are Kanji words (especially the academic and advanced vocabularies), which are all understood by Chinese speakers. However, there are many Hanzi used in Chinese that are not commonly used in Japanese so their comprehension rate is much lower. Besides, the Chinese sentence order is SVO, the same with English but Japanese is SOV, which can also hinder Japanese speakers from understanding Chinese texts. Usually it's easier for Japanese speakers to understand Chinese words and phrases than to understand Chinese sentences, also among the words and phrases, they can understand Chinese nouns better than verbs. On the contrary, Chinese speakers can understand Japanese sentences better than words and phrases. The longer and more complicated and more academic the sentences are, the better a regular Chinese speaker can understand the Japanese texts. The more informal and colloquial the sentences are, the less a regular Chinese speaker can understand the Japanese texts, as formal and academic Japanese sentences uses more Kanji.
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Before the CCP came into power, China under th ROC was a weak meat preyed by the predatory powers. After the PRC was established, the first thing it did was to nullify all the unequal treaties forced upon China by the industrial powers as signed by the preceding Chinese regimes who were powerless and hopeless in front of the industrialized powers. All the extraterritorial concessions held by Western powers inside China were taken back to Chinese control and all the Westerners left China. China then fought a war with the United States and the so-called UN armies in 1950-1952 and won, then China fought a war with the Soviet Union in 1969 over a border island and won, it also fought a war with India in 1962 over the borders and won. PRC is making China great again, like the superpower it used to be in the pre-industrialization ages. China is now the most industrialized country in the world, it finds back its glory in the industrialized age too, thanks to the CCP's unrivaled competent and capable policy making in education, industry, economic, financial and military sectors, etc. The China Miracle is worthy of being studied by all countries in how to govern a country efficiently and effectively.
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@ I said "China was sleeping throughout the 19th century and most of the 20th century", am I wrong?
I am from China myself, of course I knew the Century of Humiliation, which is a phrase coined by Chinese intellectuals ourselves for concluding the period from 1840s to 1940s, this part of shameful history has always been repeatedly taught over and over again in Chinese textbooks from primary school to middle school to the university to evoke maximum levels of patriotism and nationalism in China. How can I not know? Even the textbook of Mao Zedong Thought, which is still a mandatory philosophy class in the university for all majors, started from the chapter of the Century of Humiliation and proceeded to teach us how the founding of the PRC changed everything by building a brand new China.
Even though China was weak at that time, China was still capable of resisting the encroachment of all the industrialized powers and avoiding being fully colonized. Other parts of the world were not so lucky, they were brutally colonized by the industrialized powers for varying periods of time and had to shed so much blood to fight for independence and liberation, freeing themselves from the subjagation by the industrialized powers. At least we were never a colony of the West. If China hadn't walked so many wrong paths in the 19th and 20th century, we would have been industrialized and become a superpower long time ago, we wouldn't need to wait to the 21st century to do so. The history of the world in the 20th century would have been totally different.
Given the level-playing enviornment, the West can't outcompete China and America knows this well, that's why they are so mad and hysterical and ban this and that out of no other options. lol.
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@ China was indeed sleeping at those time because the Industrial Revolution started in England in the late 18th century and spread to Belgium then to the rest of West Europe and then America in early 19th century. Japan and Russia started to learn the industrial know-how from West Europe since the 1860s and achieved industrialization by the early 20th century. But China was too proud and complacent at that time, refusing to learn from the foreign "barbarians" and therefore being left behind fast. In the 20th century, the Qing dyansty collapsed, China was caught in constant civil wars between regional warlords. Then invaded by Japan for 14 years and the civil war temporarily paused. After Japan surrendered, the civil wars immediately resumed again between the Communists and Nationalists. Then China was trapped in Communism for 30 years. Thanks to Deng Xiaoping, China re-embraced capitalism in 1980 and started fast industrialization to this day.
If China had started industrialization in the early 20th century immediately after the Qing dynasty was over, it would have become a superpower by the mid-20th century already, no need to wait to today. Do you understand? Napoleon said "China is a sleeping giant, let her sleep, because once she woke up, the world would tremble." What's wrong with the word "sleep"?
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@angelobandal7112 Without affordable Chinese products in all areas, Filipinos would have even worse living standard. Now you wanna stop all the trades with China, but you can't find alternatives, even if you do, you can't afford them.
I find it weird that even though the Philippines is just next to China but the shipping time and costs between the two countries are much higher than those between China and Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. The Sino-Philippines trades have also not been as active as the trades between China and other ASEAN members (not due to recent feud in the SCS), China's top trading partners in ASEAN is
1.Vietnam
2.Malaysia
3. Indonesia
4. Thailand
5. Singapore.
The Philippines only ranks 6th despite the large population in terms of trade volumes with China. China has invested a lot of manufacturing capacities in Vietnam,Cambodia and Indonesia which could have been invested in the Philippines but the latter has not-so-friendly policies (too strict labour and environmental laws and corruptions). The Philippines still needs to import most of finished goods from the overseas and unemployment has been staggering for a long time, your govt should learn from Vietnam in how to develop its manufacturing industry which can absorb many manpower solving the employment problems and pumping up economic growth. Vietnam's GDP per capita used to be much lower than that of the Philippines but has surpassed yours in recent years.
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Are you living in 2004? This is 2024. China is now filing nearly half of the world's tech patents each year. In 2022, China filed 46.8% of the world's patents in all categories, according to the official reports from WIPO. (welcome to search if you are unconvinced). BYD is currently holding a patent pool that is 16 times that of Tesla, as per the western and japanese news reports.
According to the science journal Nature, Chinese institutions now dominate the research of all science fields except medical science, which is still headed by the US and China comes the second. In fact, in the Nature Index 2023 released by Nature, half of the top 20 institutions that published the most high-impact research results are from China, including the top runner, the Chinese Academy of Science. ( again, welcome to search if you are unconvinced)
Now you know why the US is so desperate and hysterical against China all day everyday, don't you?
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Yes, since China is so poor, it certainly doesn't pose a threat to the power of the rich United States, why should the rich US be so mad at this poor China, I can't get the logic straight. the rich US should stop the bans, crackdowns, sanctions, attacks, trade war, tech war and info war against the poor China immediately, because the poor China is by no means a threat to the power of the rich US. There is no need for the rich US to be this desperate and hysterical, right?
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@TeeHee-vo1bn Yes, since China is so poor, it certainly doesn't pose a threat to the power of the rich United States, why should the rich US be so mad at this poor China, I can't get the logic straight. the rich US should stop the bans, crackdowns, sanctions, attacks, trade war, tech war and info war against the poor China immediately, because the poor China is by no means a threat to the power of the rich US. There is no need for the rich US to be this desperate and hysterical, right?
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@brendanly8687 who forces you to buy low quality products at cheap prices? There are many good quality Chinese products at high prices as well. After all, China has landed on the moon and built a space station of its own and its own GPS system and more, so from technological capabilities perspective, China is capable of offering products of the highest quality. Otherwise, what else do you think the US is worrying for? Again, you can't pay only 10 dollars and expect 100 dollar-level quality, can you? Huawei's latest tri-screen foldable phone is around 4000 USD, can you afford it? BYD's Yangwang U8 (capable of driving in rivers) is around 150,000 USD, can you afford it? DJI's Inspire 3 drone is 16,500 USD, can you afford it?
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Mao was not an economist nor a scientist but a military strategist and a poet. He was good at commanding wars and writing classical Chinese poems and he indeed made grave mistakes in his economic policies due to the lack of knowledge in economics and science. Back then, China was still an agrarian society and didn't have much industrial knowhow, Mao said in 1954, "What can we China make? We can make tables and chairs, teapots and bowls, we can grow grains and grind wheat into flour, we can make the paper....but we can't make a car, a plane, a tank, not even a tractor." At that time, the West placed a seal-tight ban on everything over China and China relied on the Soviet Union for the guidance to industrialization. The Soviet Union transferred some industrial knowhow to China in the forms of assistance programs but the honeymoon was very short-lived as China and the Soviet Union rifted over ideologies and became enemies overnight in the late 1950s and the Soviets recalled all the assistance programs to China. Suddenly China was blocked by both the Western Bloc and the Communist Bloc. Mao was indeed a big fool. Thanks to Deng Xiaoping, China was able to walk onto the normalized path like other countries and became industralized fast in the past 40 years and now China is starting to lead science and technology in the world, who would have thought of this a few decades ago?
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nobody points a gun at your head to buy Chinese products, you can choose not to buy, why do you interfere with other people's businesses? It's their freedom to buy Chinese products or not. None of your business, who do you think you are? What else can you do besides being jealous of the alarming progresses in science and technology in China but cannot do anything about it? As a Chinese school crew, let me tell you, right now the Chinese kids are studying 12 hours a day in school, what about their counterparts in your country? if you don't wanna China to overtake you, ask your countrymen to study and work harder. If Chinese kids study 12 hours a day, your kids can study 15 hours a day, can't they? If they can't, then it's their problem, why do you blame China for working so hard?
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SYDNEY, March 2 (Reuters) - China has a "stunning lead" in 37 out of 44 critical and emerging technologies as Western democracies lose a global competition for research output, a security think tank said on Thursday after tracking defence, space, energy and biotechnology.
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) said its study showed that, in some fields, all of the world's top 10 research institutions are based in China.
The study, funded by the United States State Department, found the United States was often second-ranked, although it led global research in high-performance computing, quantum computing, small satellites and vaccines.
"Western democracies are losing the global technological competition, including the race for scientific and research breakthroughs," the report said, urging greater research investment by governments.
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As a Chinese who read and watch both domestic and international media, I think international media are highly biased and intentionally negative about China (some of them even go far to use gray filters to make China look polluted and depressing while reporting from China), therefore leaving people misinformed and when foreigners visit China by person, they feel totally shocked, stunned and cheated by their media as China is far better than what they have expected.
People may know that China has changed a lot in the last 30 years and few know that in the last 10 years alone (2013-now), the changes are STILL substantial and profound in every sector. ESPECIALLY in terms of the public cleanliness of the cities and the car ownership rates, nowadays Chinese cities are spotlessly clean and even the rural villages have quite impressive car ownership rates, but 10 years ago, it was not like this. You can compare the drive tour videos of China filmed 10 years ago with those filmed now, can't you?
I also want to mention that HK's SCMP is just another BBC/CNN and even worse, they love to pick up some trivial negative news in China and make it a big international news, like a refusal to offer seat in a train, a small street fight, or a quarrel between two strangers in somewhere in China. At least BBC/CNN doesn't report trivial cat fights in China 24/7. But both sides are very misleading.
*Note: The BBC/CNN here is a representative umbrella term in reference to all the MSM in the West, it doesn't limit to the two individual media outlets alone.
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What about the unequal treaties that were imposed on China by ALL the industrialized nations during that period? Even countries like Belgium and Austria-Hungary, who were industrialized, sought their own interests in China after witnessing the larger countries doing the same.
In 1919, Germany was defeated in WWI and as a result, it relinquished its control over Tsingtao (now known as Qingdao) in China's Shandong province. During the Paris Conference, the Powers opted to transfer Tsingtao to Japan rather than returning it to China. This decision sparked the May Fourth Movement, a historically significant event in which merchants struck markets, workers struck works and students struck classes nationwide, protesting against the decision made by Powers, and it aimed to pressure the Beiyang Chinese government into not signing the protocol. In Peking, angry university students even set fire to the mansions of high-ranking leaders whom they saw as traitors. This event also prompted Chinese intellectuals to launch strong attacks on traditional Chinese culture, viewing it as the cause of China's stagnation and backwardness. Confucius, in particular, was singled out as the primary culprit for his purportedly poisonous Confucianist ideas. (The mindset eventually resulted in the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s, which led to the further destruction of traditional Chinese culture.) There was a push for embracing Western culture and at this time communism was introduced into China. During the time when China was under the oppression of the West, the idea of Communism held great appeal for its citizens.
In Shanghai's Huangpu Park in 1918, there was a painful notice written in Chinese that stated, "Chinese and XXX are not allowed." Many Chinese intellectuals were believed to have witnessed the sign and played a significant role in spreading its message to the general public, resulting in nationwide outrages and new heights of nationalism throughout the country. The influence of this message has a profound and enduring effect on the Chinese population's collective mindset, motivating them to strive harder for the future strength and prosperity of their nation for many generations to come. According to the English sign, it said "1. This park is only open to the foreign communities. 4. No dogs are allowed to enter."
In Hong Kong, the British practised a strong racial seggregation policy mirroring the Apartheid in South Africa for a century, which only started to fade after the WWII.
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@LWRC "In China, most companies work a 996 schedule. 9 AM to 9 PM 6 days a week", this is not true, only some IT companies have such a schedule. It was popularized by Alibaba since 10 years ago and many other IT companies followed suits. Then it started to be exeggerated by some Chinese netizens. Then 996 started to become a phrase everybody was talking about in China, although many private-owned companies in China do ask for 6 workdays a week or a rotation cycle-based weekend off (e.g. 2 days off this week and 1 day off next week, then cycles on), it's called "the big-and-small week schedule" in China, quite prevalent among private-owned companies. Some private-owned companies have 5.5 weekday schedule.
The state-owned companies, government jobs, banks, hospitals and some good private-owned companies have the 5 weekday schedule. Overall, the working time in China is indeed longer than that in many countries.
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Chinese Brands
TV:
TCL, Hisense, Skyworth, Changhong, Konka
TV Box:
Xiaomi, Huawei, Skyworth, Hisense
Refrigerator:
Midea, Haier, Meling, Hisense
Aircon:
Midea, Gree, Haier, AUX, Chigo
Mobile Phone:
Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, One Plus, Realme, Techno, iQoo, Honor, Meizu
PC:
Lenovo, Huawei, Xiaomi, Hasee, Honor, ASUS (Taiwan), Acer (Taiwan)
Router:
TP-Link, Huawei, Tenda, Honor, D-Link(Taiwan), Linksys (Taiwan), ASUS (Taiwan)
Car:
Great Wall Motor, BYD, Dongfeng Motor, Geely, Brilliance Auto Group, Chery, Li Auto, NIO, XPeng, BAIC Group, GAC Group, SAIC Motor, Hongqi, JAC, Beijing Automotive Industry Corporation, FAW, Hanteng Autos, Byton, First Automobile Works, Foton, Guangzhou Automobile Group, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, SAIC-GM-Wuling, Chang'an
IT:
Alibaba, Byte Dance, Baidu, Tencent, NetEasy, Kuaishou, Meituan, Ctrip, DiDi
Telecom Hardware:
Huawei, ZTE, Datang, FiberHome, Dahua, Hikvision Digital, Coolpad
Drone:
DJI, Ehang, AutoFlight, Aviation Industry Corporation of China, DAMODA, Huimingjie, China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics, Geneinno, Grepow, High Great, XAG
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@DaveJones-100 I'm from China, as you may have known, China was sleeping throughout the industrial revolution ongoing in the other parts of the world in the entire 19th and most of the 20th centuries. Although in the very short-lived Sino-Soviet honeymoon period in the early 1950s, the Soviet assisted China for the start of some military sector industries (they later withdrew due to the deterioration of ties between the two countries in 1961, which became so sour that we became hostile enemies and fought a border war over some island in the border river and China won the war in 1969), we didn't officially start industrialization until the 1980s when we re-embraced capitalism thanks to Deng Xiaoping. China used only 40 years to have nearly caught up with the West and Japan in industrialization levels, who started the game 200 years earlier and 100 years earlier than China respectively.
When China introduced the reform-and-opening-up policy in 1980, our GDP per capita was even lower than sub-sahara Africa and only two or three African countries were even poorer than China in the whole world. At that time, it was not the Americans or Europeans who invested in China but the Overseas Chinese, especially those from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. They brought the industrial expertise and manufacturing capacities into China. Hong Kong relocated all its manufacturing industry into Guangdong province up north. Taiwan relocated large volumes of manufacturing capacities into China. China learnt how the finance and property sectors work from Hong Kong by setting up the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange and privatizing the property markets, it then learnt urban planning from Hong Kong and Singapore. My uncle was a govt official who was sent to Singapore to learn urban planning at that time. On TV and cassete tapes and VCD/DVDs, most of the drama series, movies and pop songs were from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore in the 1980s to 2000s in China.
Then in the 1990s, the Japanese investment came in, later the American and Europeans and then Koreans. I was a kid in the 1990s, most of the commercials on TV and advertisements in the streets I saw were from these foreign countries. Local Chinese products were not in shape yet until the end of 1990s and early 2000s. After China joined the WTO in 2001, the changes became dramatic on a daily basis and China was on a rocket mode in terms of industrial development, by the 2010s, Chinese local products were already competitive against international ones and China was very well-industrialized in all sectors. By the 2020s, Chinese products are starting to overtake their international counterparts thanks to China's rapid tech advancement.
The idea of tech transfer via joint ventures between international companies and local Chinese companies in the past was proven to not work as intended, because these international companies were not fools, they were very smart and calculating, so they wouldn't give us the goodies, what they could offer us were all old and obsolete tech they didn't mind letting you know anyway. Many people mocked "made in China" in the past because China started everything from the scratch by working from the ground all the way up to where they were now, from the texiles all the way up to the increasingly high-value-added industries now. No countries can industrialize by relying on the mercy of foreigners, they must depend on themselves.
In the past, China couldn't compete with the established players in gasoline cars due to their patent barriers so we decided to change the course in starting the EV revolution by investing tremendously in EV technologies 10 years ago and it is now proven to be right. EV is just a tip of the iceberg, China has also been foresighting in many other sectors and now it's the fruitation period.
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@DaveJones-100 In 1976, Mao Zedong died and the Cultural Revolution that ravaged China for a decade ended. Deng Xiaoping, who was purged twice by Mao and was sent in exile, rose to the top leader status, after winning the power struggle against Mao's wife, Jiang Qing (known as Madam Mao in English media back then) and her Gang of Four clique (When Jiang was young, she was a third-class actress in the international city Shanghai in the 1930s, she was too broke to afford the rents so she went straight ahead to Yan'an and joined the Communist revolutionists and later became Mao's wife. After her husband died in 1976, she wanted to replace him as the paramount leader herself but failed.)
Deng Xiaoping was one of the few Chinese leaders who had lived in the West for some time so he was more open-minded.
In the 1920s, Deng, along with other Chinese kids, was sent to France by the then-Chinese govt to learn some know-how to empower China as China was very weak at that time. The night before his departure, Deng's father took his son aside and asked him what he hoped to learn in France. He repeated the words he had learned from his teachers: "To learn knowledge and truth from the West in order to save China." Deng was aware that China was suffering greatly, and that the Chinese people must have a modern education to save their country.
The voyage set off from Shanghai and stopped over in Singapore, a Chinese-majority British colony, for a couple of days. In France, Deng worked in a steel plant and studied middle school courses at night, where he was introduced to Communism and became a Communist. Later, Deng travelled to the university in Moscow to further his studies and was in the same class with Chiang Ching Kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's son, who would rule Taiwan for decades later as they escaped from mainland China after losing the civil war in 1949.
Fast forward to 1978, Deng visited Singapore again and was utterly shocked by the great transformations there, in strong contrast to the Singapore he remembered in the 1920s. Lee Kwan Yew told him "We Singaporeans are the offsprings of illiterate Chinese peasants who migrated here from Southern China for survival 100 years ago and we can achieve all these, you have the best brains in China, you should have done better than us." Deng Xiaoping was speechless.
Deng then visited Japan in 1978 and the US in 1979 and was overwhelmed by how far China was behind. After coming back to China, he started the reform-and-opening-up policy and China re-embraced capitalism. His decision was actually met with strong resistances from pro-Mao leaders at that time. So he designated Shenzhen, a poor rural town next to Hong Kong, as the experimental ground for capitalism in 1979. And boom! In no time was Shenzhen soaring into a metropolis and developing like crazy. That convinced all the doubters and by the early 1990s, all of China embraced capitalism.
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@DaveJones-100 In 1976, Mao Zedong passed away and the Cultural Revolution that ravaged China for a decade ended. Deng Xiaoping, who was purged twice by Mao and was sent in exile, rose to the top leader status, after winning the power struggle against Mao's wife, Jiang Qing (Madam Mao) and her Gang of Four clique (When Jiang was young, she was a small actress in the international city Shanghai in the 1930s, she was too broke to afford the rents so she went straight ahead to Yan'an and joined the Communist revolutionists and later became Mao's wife. After her husband passed away in 1976, she wanted to replace him as the paramount leader herself but failed.) Deng Xiaoping was one of the few Chinese leaders who had lived in the West for some time so he was more open-minded. In the 1920s, Deng, along with other Chinese kids, was sent to France by the then-Chinese govt to learn some know-how to empower China as China was very weak at that time. The night before his departure, Deng's father took his son aside and asked him what he hoped to learn in France. He repeated the words he had learned from his teachers: "To learn knowledge and truth from the West in order to save China." Deng was aware that China was suffering greatly, and that the Chinese people must have a modern education to save their country. The voyage set off from Shanghai and stopped over in Singapore, a Chinese-majority British colony, for a couple of days. In France, Deng worked in a steel plant and studied middle school courses at night, where he was introduced to Communism and became a Communist. Later, Deng travelled to the university in Moscow to further his studies and was in the same class with Chiang Ching Kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's son, who would rule Taiwan for decades later as they escaped from mainland China after losing the civil war in 1949.
Fast forward to 1978, Deng visited Singapore again and was utterly shocked by the great transformations there, in strong contrast to the Singapore he remembered in the 1920s. Lee Kwan Yew told him "We Singaporeans are the offsprings of illiterate peasants who migrated here from Southern China generations ago and we can achieve all these, you have the best brains in China, you should have done better than us." Deng Xiaoping was speechless. Deng then visited Japan in 1978 and the US in 1979 and was overwhelmed by how far China was behind. After coming back to China, he started the reform-and-opening-up policy and China re-embraced capitalism. His decision was actually met with strong resistances from pro-Mao leaders at that time. So he designated Shenzhen, a poor rural town next to Hong Kong, as the experimental ground for capitalism in 1979. And boom! In no time was Shenzhen soaring into a metropolis and developing like crazy. That convinced all the doubters and by the early 1990s, all of China embraced capitalism.
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Well, this is the 21st century, not the 19th century. The whole EU is filing less patents than little South Korea each year, how can you compete with China in science and technology? China files half of the world's IPs each year, twice the US and seve times the EU patent volumes as per the WIPO's official reports,
In terms of research performances , as per the latest Nature Index 2024, released by the science journal Nature not too long ago, 8 out of the top 10 science research institutes that published the most high-quality research outputs were from China. How can the West compete with China in science and technology today?
If you look at the names of the participants of the Team US, Canada, the UK and Australia in each round of International Mathmatics/Physics/Chemistry Olympiads, they always sent Chinese Americans, Chinese Canadians....to these Olympaids. These Chinese Americans, Chinese Australians....still cannot compete with the China Chinese.
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In Europe, only Germany is still revelant in tangible manufacturing and hi-tech industries, the others like Britain, France, Italy... are all de-industrialized to the degree they sell virtual financial services like stocks and insurance products as well as pharmaceuticals (Britain), tourism, perfumes, overvalued LV bags (France), pizza, pasta, macroni and tourism (Italy) ...... They are not relevant with the tangible hi-tech industries, especially the emerging hi-tech ones in the 21st century. Australia and New Zealand are just agricultural countries that sell sheep wools, mutton, beef, milk powder and earth minerals. Canada is...sorry, never heard of any hi-tech companies or even any products from Canada, it has a poor sense of presence when talking about technologies and stuffs. Japan is still somewhat a strong player but it is stagnant for too long and it's becoming not very competitive in more and more industries facing South Korea and China's tech rise. South Korea is increasingly competitive in hi-tech but in the emerging ones like AI, EV, automatic driving, brain-computer interface, quantum, 6G..., it is still largely irrelavant, the real black horse is China. China and the US are the true players in these emerging and disruptive technologies that will shape the future. So far, the US lacks industrial power in conventional hi-tech industries like shipbuidling, steel-making, semiconductor manufacturing, trucks, cranes and heavy machines manufacturing and others. China, on the other hand, is becoming a full-MVP player in both conventional and disruptive high technologies.
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Will whyte men and women sacrifice their lives, which are easy and comfortable at home, for a remote and tiny rebellious Chinese island 12,000km away from home? I doubt it. You should know the US-led so-called UN armies couldn't win against China even 75 years ago in the Korean Peninsular when China was still an agrarian country. Now, 75 years later, China has evolved into the most industrialized powerhouse in the world with the strongest industrial might of building all, building fully and building fast. The West has undergone a de-industrialization path for so many decades. You can't manufacture stuffs. For example, the US govt adimitted China's shipbuilding capacity is over 200 times of that of the US. Look at the Russia and Ukraine war, a war today, by its essense, is a fast wrestling of industrial capacities, which China absolutely has the upper hand over. What's more, both the US and Europe are over 10,000km away from Taiwan whereas China is just off the coast. When your replenishing weapons shipped to the region, China had already reunified the island for a long time, lol.
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As a Chinese, I shall say that actually human sacrifice was very common during the Shang dynasty (1600 BC – 1046 BC) in the Yellow River civilization (the major source of the Chinese Civilization) which was concurrent with the Shu Civilization in Sichuan as featured in this documentary. The people in the Shang dynasty created the Oracle-bone scripts (the earliest forms of Chinese characters) which they wrote on the bones and turtle shells for fortunate-telling and event-predicting rituals, which were a big part of their culture at that time. Even in the Spring and Autumn Period ( 770 to 481 BC) and Warring State Period (475 to 221 BC) when China was already a highly developed civilization, human sacrifice of servants and concubines was practised for the demised kings. After the Qin defeated the Six rival kingdoms and unified China ending the Warring State Period, the 37th king of Qin declared himself as the First Emperor of China, his mausoleum was an entire moutain and was not excavated yet except the Terracotta Warriors at the foot of the moutain, the large armies of Terracotta Warriors replaced humans as the artificial subjects of sacrifices, not sure if he used human sacrifices but he was known to be a ruthless tyrant. Generally speaking, human sacrifices were rare in China since the 200 BC, but were still practised by the neighbouring nomads like the Mongols, Khitan and Jurchen/Manchu in the following 1500 years. It was said that when Genghis Khan was dead in 1227, all of the people along the road where the procession of his funeral passed by were sacrificed. During the early Ming dynasty (in the 1390s-1440s), human sacrifice was shortly restored in China by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty probably due to the influences of the preceding Mongol-led Yuan-dynasty . The concubines and royal servants needed to continue to serve the demised emperors in their afterlifes so they were forced to commit suicides during the funerals of the emperors, which was extremely cruel and inhumane and was soon banned by the 4th emperor of the Ming dynasty in the 1440s.
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China knew it couldn't outcompete the Japanese and Western car makers in conventional gasoline cars so it invested heavily in new energy cars including EVs and hydrogen-fuelled cars when nobody was paying attention to these. Now it's the harvesting time as efforts start to pay off. Why do you blame them for being visionary and forward-thinking?
Actually in the past 30 years, not only foreign car markers made crazy fortunes in the Chinese market but also foreign investors of all the other industries.
KFC came to China earlier than Mac Donalds, and it was so successful in China that KFC was literally laughing all day long and counting cash. Mac Donalds came later and is still successful, just not as successful as KFC.
The Chinese toothpaste and shampoo markets have been monopolized by western brands, who made too much money because everybody of the 1.4 billion people needs to brush teeth and wash hairs everyday. Foreign skin care products have also made too much money in China.
Nike CEO says they cannot live without China because the money is too easy to make in China, as Nike shoes are very popular among the Chinese consumers.
30% of Apple's global profits came from China each year.
These western companies have made tremendous profits in China in the past 30 years, I think it's only fair for Chinese companies to make a lot of money in the West as well but when Chinese companies become successful in the West, like Huawei, Tik Tok, DJI, BYD...., the West starts to panic and try to ban them or set unbelievable traiffs on them. This is not fair at all!!! The West is faking the preach of free market when they are making a lot of money in China and when China starts to make money in their countries, they throw free market principles in the dusts. The typical only-I-can-and-you-can't mentality and double standardness and hypocrisy.
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I'm from China, Temu's Chinese version Pinduduo (owned by Temu's parent group) is a tremendous success in China(Maybe their China success lead them to expand the same model in the overseas). Now most of Chinese customers have abandoned Taobao (owned by Alibaba) and used Pinduoduo exclusively. Alibaba used 15 years to build the Taobao empire, now it is overtaken by Pinduoduo founded only a few years ago and it's only a mobile app. My mother is now a shopping addict on the app. They not only sell merchandises at lower-than-market prices but also sell fresh produces (vegetables, meat, fruits, bakery, seafood, riverfood) delivered the next morning to the nearest service spot from you (the delivery is very soon, arrival at just the next morning even if you place the order at the previous night, but have to be before 23:00. The trade-off is that they don't deliver to your door but to your nearest service spot for self pickup, which is usually within 150-meter walk from your residence. They have signed the cooperations with billions of grocery stores, convenience stores and mom-pop stores to serve as their service spot network across China). They also leaned towards the customers in any conflict involving the customer and the seller and would forcefully refund you even if the seller don't agree!
Taobao, after being outcompeted in China, started to copy Pinduoduo's model, they now also offer the cheaper-than-market-price product catalogs and next-morning fresh produces delivery, but Pinduoduo is winning the market. The happiest ones are the customers. I think you will like Temu a lot as a customer/a factory owner but hate it a lot as a small business vendor.
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Well, this is the 21st century, not the 19th century. The whole EU is filing less patents than little South Korea each year, how can you compete with China in science and technology? China files half of the world's IPs each year, twice the US, six times Japan or South Korea and seven times the EU patent volumes as per the WIPO's official reports. (welcome to verify if you are not convinced)
In terms of research performances , as per the latest Nature Index 2024, released by the science journal Nature not too long ago, 8 out of the top 10 science research institutes that published the most high-quality research outputs were from China (welcome to verify if you are not convinced). How can the West compete with China in science and technology today?
If you look at the names of the participants of the Team US, Canada, the UK and Australia in each round of International Mathmatics/Physics/Chemistry Olympiads, they always sent Chinese Americans, Chinese Canadians....to these Olympaids. These Chinese Americans, Chinese Australians....still cannot compete with the China Chinese.
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Most of us in China learn English as a mandatory subject in schools and tend to forget most of them some time after graduation, because if a language isn't being used in real life, it gets rusty in your brain and later you forget them. In China, English isn't being used in real life if you are not an English teacher or involved in international trades or affairs. Chinese people use Mandarin in real life and may speak their hometown dialects with their families or hometown fellows (most of these dialects are near-Mandarin and are largely mutually intelligible. However some eastern and southern dialects are way different and are not mutually intelligible with Mandarin, like Cantonese, Hokkien, Shanghaiese and others, but their native speakers can always choose to speak Mandarin as it is the only lingua franca in China). As urbanization is rapidly ongoing in China, many dialects are disappearing because the rural residents, when moved into cities, lost their linguistic enviornment for their dialects and have to speak Mandarin with others, their children grow up by speaking only Mandarin.
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I'm from China, thanks for your comments, you know Alibaba, right? It also owns the Alipay, which has the Ant Forest program, when you shop around by using Alipay, each time they will generate a small amount of Green Credit for you, which accumulates and when it reaches a certain amount, the program will fund its cooperatives to plant a new tree on your behalf in the deserts. This stimulates users to use their payment method and protect the environment at the same time, which is wonderful. Well, they may not be lying, because they claim their program's impact is visible by satellite and Ant Forest was indeed integrated into the network of China's state-sponsored afforestation programs in 2018 and it was recognized even by the UN with the conferment of the Champion of the Earth award in 2019. As of 2017, Ant Forest said they had planted 10.25 million saplings in the deserts in Western China, which by no means could we verify to be true or false. Anyway Jack Ma is doing something incredible for the environment, other billionnaires should learn from him.
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I'm from China, Temu's Chinese version Pinduduo (owned by Temu's parent group) is a tremendous success in China(Maybe their China success lead them to expand the same model in the overseas). Now most of Chinese customers have abandoned Taobao (owned by Alibaba) and used Pinduoduo exclusively. Alibaba used 15 years to build the Taobao empire, now it is overtaken by Pinduoduo founded only a few years ago and it's only a mobile app. My mother is now a shopping addict on the app. They not only sell merchandises at lower-than-market prices but also sell fresh produces (vegetables, meat, fruits, bakery, seafood, riverfood) delivered the next morning to the nearest service spot from you (the delivery is very soon, arrival at just the next morning even if you place the order at the previous night, but have to be before 23:00. The trade-off is that they don't deliver to your door but to your nearest service spot for self pickup, which is usually within 100-meter walk from you. They have signed the cooperations with billions of grocery stores, convenience stores and mom-pop stores to serve as their service spot network across China). They also leaned towards the customers in any conflict involving the customer and the seller and would forcefully refund you even if the seller don't agree!
Taobao, after being outcompeted in China, started to copy Pinduoduo's model, they now also offer the cheaper-than-market-price product catalogs and next-morning fresh produces delivery, but Pinduoduo is winning the market. The happiest ones are the customers. I think you will like Temu a lot as a customer/a factory owner but hate it a lot as a small business vendor.
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it's in the best interests of the the world to have more than one dominant power in this planet, the US hegemony is proven to be dangerous and detrimental to the interests of non-Western countries, which are the majority of the earth members. The US is abusing power everyday at the jeopardy of the Middle East, East Asia and beyond, for an instance, Iraq was brutally invaded by the US in 2003 as the US used a small vial of household washing powder to justify the invasion by accusing it as WEAPONS OF MASSIVE DESTRUCTION, when no other powers could restrain the US in this case, leading to the losses of millions of lives and homes and properties in Iraq, and the US didn't face any consequences of legal trials and international sanctions after it failed to find any trace of weapons of massive destruction in Iraq amid wreaking such a great hovac to the people of Iraq. This has to change, the world welcomes China to join the dominant power rank to counterbalance the absolute US arrogance, manipulation, controllingness and ruthlessness.
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As a Chinese who have been living in China for 34 years, I have not heard of the word Communism for a long long time, as it was only a buzzword in my grandfather's and my father's childhood era. It's so hilarious that these foreigners keep talking about Communism in front of us to define us. China is more capitalistic than anyone else as money worshipping is the only religion and it has all the good side and bad side of any capitalistic nations. The West is too ignorant of China today, they seem to stereotype China as if it were the same as the country in the Mao era or they intentionally distort the perception even if they know China today is different. Either way, we are everything but Communism in real life and our transformation is very very fast, in comparison to only 10 years ago, maybe your country doesn't change much but China has changed tremendously in terms of street cleanliness, the prevalence of car ownership in the countryside, subway mileage (Guangzhou, where I live, now has over 1,000km subway mileage, 1,000km in a single city!), technology application and everything visible to the eyes.
The Western media never let you know that China actually files almost half of the world's tech patents each year and has published more high-impact science research outputs than the US for quite a few years. Science and technology are the key to a country's development and it knows no ideologies. Whoever is smarter and more education-oriented will win the race. When the American kids are partying, Chinese kids are studying.
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China allowed iphones, ford, buick, KFC, MacDonalds, Tesla, Starbucks, Coca cola.... to make tremendous amounts of money from China each day, why can't the US allow Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, ZTE, DJI, BYD, TP-Link....to make money in the US???
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In Europe, only Germany is still revelant in tangible manufacturing and hi-tech industries, the others like Britain, France, Italy... are all de-industrialized to the degree they sell virtual financial services like stocks and insurance products as well as pharmaceuticals (Britain), tourism, perfumes, overvalued LV bags (France), pizza, pasta, macroni and tourism (Italy) ...... They are not relevant with the tangible hi-tech industries, especially the emerging hi-tech ones in the 21st century. Australia and New Zealand are just agricultural countries that sell sheep wools, mutton, beef, milk powder and earth minerals. Canada is...sorry, never heard of any hi-tech companies or even any products from Canada, it has a poor sense of presence when talking about technologies and stuffs. Japan is still somewhat a strong player but it is stagnant for too long and it's becoming not very competitive in more and more industries facing South Korea and China's tech rise. South Korea is increasingly competitive in hi-tech but in the emerging ones like AI, EV, automatic driving, brain-computer interface, quantum, 6G..., it is still largely irrelavant, the real black horse is China. China and the US are the true players in these emerging and disruptive technologies that will shape the future. So far, the US lacks industrial power in conventional hi-tech industries like shipbuidling, steel-making, semiconductor manufacturing, trucks, cranes and heavy machines manufacturing and others. China, on the other hand, is becoming a full-MVP player in both conventional and disruptive high technologies.
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Gree invested 6.2 billion yuan in R&D per year and Midea invested even more in R&D, at 13 billion yuan a year. Meanwhile Chigo invested only 100 million a year and was facing insolvency due to poor sales as Gree and Midea ruled the Chinese market. China exports a worshipping amount of 60 million AC units a year.
The printer market used to be monopolized by Japan and America, now China started to rise in the printer market as well. Pantum, a printer brand from China with its own technological patent portfolio (printer is actually highly tech intensive and with overwhelming patent barriers set up by early players from Japan and America, it's very very difficult to develop new tech bypassing such barriers, even Samsung gave up its printer businesses due to the existing tech barriers but China's Pantum succeeded to break through them), is quietly growing in presence at the printer markets in more and more countries.
If you look at the patent filing landscape of the world today, China is filing nearly 50% of the world's patents each year! (you can check the official data from WIPO). I think it is not surprising as China is now leading science research in all fields except medical science where the US is still leading and China comes at the second place with significant gaps with the US. According to the Nature Index 2024, released by the science journal Nature a few days ago, in overall science research, *7 out of the top 10 institutions in the world come from China, including the first runner, the Chinese Academy of Science*, however in the specific field of medical science, the US is still far ahead and China comes at the distant second place (the medical science is also the only field that the US is still ahead China).
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@yours_sincerely48 depends on specific products, you cannot generalize because there is no single rule. Chinese products today are certainly different from Chinese products 10 years ago and completely different from Chinese products 20 years ago, no matter in overall quality, in industrial value chain or in technological advancement. 20 years ago, China exported garments and shoes, toys and something like that, but ten years ago it exported smartphones, PCs, screen panels, telecom equipments, heavy machinaries.... in addition to garments, shoes, toys and others. Today, China is exporting EV cars, solar panels, telecom equipments, heavy machinaries, chips, PCs, every type of electronics, medical devices and equipments, high speed rails, airplanes in addition to garments, shoes, toys and others (these industries still exist).
In fact, the "Made In China 2025" Plan, which was an ambitious and far-reaching industrial upgrade plan made by the Chinese govt back in 2015 and directly angered the West into the trade war and tech war with China since 2018, has been well-achieved for a large part, with over 86% of the industrial goals accomplished as of April 2024, as per Hong Kong media SCMP and Singapore media CNA reports a few weeks ago. I believe, there is no doubt that the "Made In China 2025" Plan can be achieved 90-95% by the end of 2025, with only the 70%-of-chips-being-domestic goal unable to be fulfilled.
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Singapore was forcefully kicked out by Malaysia against its will, it's not that Singapore didn't want to be a part of Malaysia. Lee Kwan Yew declared Singapore's unwanted independence in tears and choking voices. You need to get the facts straight first. Singapore's freshwater has been supplied by Malaysia as it doesn't have enough freshwater from its own land, they are collecting raindrops and desalination, which are too costly and unsustainable in the long run. That's why Singapore prefers to stay in Malaysia.
Do you know why Malaysia kicked out Singapore against its will? Because Singapore has been an overwhelming Chinese-majority region and at that time, Chinese in Malaya was at around 40% of the total demographics, drawing close to that of the Malays. The Malays thought they were the indigenous owner of Malaysia but they couldn't compete with the Chinese in economics. Since the Chinese had already controlled Malaya's economy and the Malays worried the political power would fall into their hands too, making them the unprevilleged in their own lands. So by kicking out Singapore, Malaysia maintained a Malay majority demographic and no matter how you vote your leaders, the political power will always be in the hands of Malays. Later, the Malaysian govt enacted many Malays-in-priority policies to undermine the economic power of the Chinese and the Chinese were not favored in govt jobs. All the racist policies caused a Chinese exodus, combined with a low birth rate, the Chinese population plunged significantly in Malaysia to merely 20%.
By the way, Singapore is not known to be pro-China, it's known to be pro-the West, and a lot of Singaporeans can't speak Chinese properly nowadays. On the contrary, it's the over-7 millions of Chinese Malaysians who are ardently pro-China. They still speak perfect Chinese and have a robust Chinese-language-delivered educational system from kindergartens to high schools across Malaysia. They love China more than they love Malaysia. Due to China's rapid rise and global influences, a lot of Malays and Indians also send their kids to Chinese-medium schools in Malaysia in the recent decade.
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Apple doesn't have any industrial know-how to manufacture anything, they contracted the manufacturing to the OEMs, and almost all of them along the full supply chain of iPhones are owned by the Chinese in mainland China and Taiwan. Apple is just doing the design of the CPU chip, phone shells and mostly the marketing hypes, lol. The only techy part Apple is doing about iPhone is the design of the CPU which is then manufactured by Taiwan's TSMC. Nowadays, even Xiaomi can design high-end CPU chips by itself, let alone the tech giant Huawei. According to the media reports in October 2024, China's phone brand Xiaomi had possessed capabilities of designing 3nm chips and was praised by the Beijing municipal govt (Xiaomi is headquatered in Beijing city), Xiaomi used to rely on the American company Qualcomm for phone CPU supplies (Qualcomm designed them and contracted to TSMC for manufacturing), now Xiaomi can break free from the dependence on Qualcomm and design its own CPUs and contracted TSMC for manufacturing. However, the US govt might add Xiaomi into the sanction list and Taiwan's TSMC may not dare to manufacture for Xiaomi as a result. Therefore, China must develop its own EUV lithography machines as soon as possible.
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south asia and the philippines are not investable at least in the manufacturing sectors, otherwise they would have been invested decades ago. vietnam is investable but vietnam's infrastructure is still lacking, like shortage of electricity and lack of transportation facilities making logistic costs high. the costs of industrial electricity and logistics in china are much lower than those in vietnam, the philippines and south asia. vietnam is still buying a large volume of electricity from china's guangxi province so how can its electricity costs be lower? vietnam or india currently can only assemble up intermediate goods imported from china. they can't make the components locally yet. even if they can in the future, the overall costs there will still be higher than those in china because these countries don't have the reserves of natural minerals and tech portfolios that china has. china is currently using its national policies to relocate chinese manufacturing companies from the coastal provinces to the hinterland provinces which have lower labour costs but still with great infrastructures. most of the manufacturing capacities are under the control of chinese companies in the world, so if chinese factories in the upper, medium and lower supply chains refuse to leave china, other countries will have no chances. also, china is now automating its manufacturing sectors with self-developed industrial robots, which will further undercut the costs for chinese products, how can the human workers in southeast asia and south asia compete with the robots in china?
you are right that there is probably an upcoming war involving china in the future, that's why the chinese govt is so smart by relocating the manufacturing capacities into the deep innerlands like Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei.... beforehand. these provinces have the shipping luxury of the yangtze river with direct access to the ocean but is located in the hinterlands safe from the potential coastal attacks.
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I'm from China, the video shows the manufacturing of just powerbanks but in the Chinese market there are more popular products that are more than just powerbanks, which are the hybrid of a mobile WiFi device and a powerbank. It usually includes an IoT card (Internet of Things card, issued by Chinese telcos, which looks identical to SIM card by physical appearances), built-in antenna for communicating with the telco towers and WiFi signal remitter and relevant chips and a 10,000mAh powerbank. The powerbank can recharge your phone and at the same time, it can act as a portable WiFi source. The internet data plans for IoT cards in China are much much cheaper than those for SIM cards. You can have 300GB data for just 2-3 US dollars a month! So with the powerbank and WiFi in one device, you can roam far from home without worrying about power and data shortages. Such devices are very popular now in China, it seems you guys haven't got such devices in your countries yet.
Well, it relies entirely on the IoT cards issued by your local Telcos for data plans (the WiFi feature), so if you don't have these in your country, then this all-in-one powerbank won't be for you.
In China, the telcos are pushing for the development of the Internet of Things, a futuristic-world plan to enable all devices such as the home appliances, the vending machines, kiosks, watches, CCTV cameras, cars.... to communicate with each other by data, so they have issued IoT cards (look the same with SIM cards) which have outrageously low pricings for large volumes of internet data in contrast to the expensive ones offered for SIM cards. The powerbank manufactuerers bought these IoT cards to integrate them into the power banks. That's how the hybrid WiFi and powerbank products are born. And who doesn't love them???!!!
You may ask why not buy IoT cards and put them directly into your phone? You can't because the telecos will ban your IoT cards right away as they can detect the types of devices these IoT cards are being used for (whether from mobile phones or not).
I think sooner or later, the Chinese telecos will ban IoT cards in powerbanks, because these products are taking away a lot of profits from them as more and more customers no longer buy their expensive internet data plans for phones. Before that happens, at least we can enjoy some great benefits for the time being. 😉😚🤪
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I'm from China, Temu's Chinese version Pinduduo (owned by Temu's parent group) is a tremendous success in China(Maybe their China success lead them to expand the same model in the overseas). Now most of Chinese customers have abandoned Taobao (owned by Alibaba) and used Pinduoduo exclusively. Alibaba used 15 years to build the Taobao empire, now it is overtaken by Pinduoduo founded only a few years ago and it's only a mobile app. My mother is now a shopping addict on the app. They not only sell merchandises at lower-than-market prices but also sell fresh produces (vegetables, meat, fruits, bakery, seafood, riverfood) delivered the next morning to the nearest service spot from you (the delivery is very soon, arrival at just the next morning even if you place the order at the previous night, but have to be before 23:00. The trade-off is that they don't deliver to your door but to your nearest service spot for self pickup, which is usually within 100-meter walk from you. They have signed the cooperations with billions of grocery stores, convenience stores and mom-pop stores to serve as their service spot network across China). They also leaned towards the customers in any conflict involving the customer and the seller and would forcefully refund you even if the seller don't agree!
Taobao, after being outcompeted in China, started to copy Pinduoduo's model, they now also offer the cheaper-than-market-price product catalogs and next-morning fresh produces delivery, but Pinduoduo is winning the market. The happiest ones are the customers. I think you will like Temu a lot as a customer/a factory owner but hate it a lot as a small business vendor.
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in terms of cars, maybe.
but in terms of other products, not really, there were far far less western manufacturers than asian ones (especially those of ethnic Chinese backgrounds) investing in China since the 1980s.
China embraced capitalism via the reform and open-door policy in 1980. All the factories from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia (mainly owned by ethnic Chinese) moved to China's Guangdong province to take advantage of the absurdly cheap labor (in 1980, China's GDP per capita ranked third from the bottom even in Sub-sahara Africa) and to support their Chinese fellows in their ancestral hometowns (Guangdong is the hometown to most of the ethnic Chinese living in the overseas). They brought the know-how to China.
At that time, there were many industries not yet existing in China, China sent lots of govt officials to learn stock markets, real estate principles and how capitalism worked from Hong Kong and urban planning from Singapore.
In the early 1990s, Japanese and European manufacturers started to invest in China by taking advantage of cheap labour and the tremendous market only.
In the late 1990s, the US companies joined the game to invest in China with the same incentives.
In the early 2000s, Korean manufacturers started to move some of their productions to China.
At that time, many Chinese workers were not satisfied by working for others forever, after they learnt how to do the businesses, they quit and started their own businesses. China also saw millions of college graduates each year and encouraged the talents to start up their own businesses with tax incentives. In the manufacturing sectors, the majority of Chinese workers were voluntary to work 15 hours a day without weekends off all year around in order to earn some more money than they could in a standard 8-hour-workday-with-2-days-off-a-weekschedule. They saved most of the money by spending minimum. They were also highly productive, which contributed to the tremendous industrial growth of China.
China's industries started to develop and mature in a very rapid manner. By the late 2000s, China already became a full player across all industrial spectrums. By the 2010s, Chinese industries started to compete with foreign ones in the global stages and by the early 2020s, they started to outcompete the foreign rivals.
The secrets of China's success in such a short period of time: competent goverment with all the best policies favable to development of all the industries, the smartness of the Chinese people and the hardworking ethics of the Chinese people, the education-loving culture and high expectation of parents and society, and the blatant money-worshipping culture (although it causes a moral decay) and high saving rates....
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As a Chinese who read and watch both domestic and international media, I think international media are highly biased and intentionally negative about China (some of them even go far to use gray filters to make China look polluted and depressing while reporting from China), therefore leaving people misinformed and when foreigners visit China by person, they feel totally shocked, stunned and cheated by their media as China is far better than what they have expected.
People may know that China has changed a lot in the last 30 years and few know that in the last 10 years alone (2013-now), the changes are STILL substantial and profound in every sector. ESPECIALLY in terms of the public cleanliness and the car ownership rates, nowadays Chinese cities are spotlessly clean and even the rural villages have quite impressive car ownership rates, but 10 years ago, it was not like this. You can compare the drive tour videos of China filmed 10 years ago with those filmed now, can't you?
I also want to mention that HK's SCMP is just another BBC/CNN and even worse, they love to pick up some trivial negative news in China and make it a big international news, like a refusal to offer seat in a train, a small street fight, or a quarrel between two strangers in somewhere in China. At least BBC/CNN doesn't report trivial cat fights in China 24/7. But both sides are very misleading.
*Note: In China, BBC/CNN is usually a representative umbrella term in reference to all the MSM in the West, it doesn't limit to the two individual media outlets alone.
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@lornamui1966 Hong Kong can't rely on finance forever because Chinese cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen as well as international cities like Singapore are also fighting over the limited financial resources from China and the rest of Asia as rivals to Hong Kong. Singapore has a much more diversified industrial structure than Hong Kong, they still maintained strong manufacturing and oil processing industries besides finance, and at the same time, they are also foraying into the hi-tech industry by investing tremendously in the IT, bio-pharma and semiconductor fields. If Hong Kong were not to diversify from its over-dependence on finance by shifting to a more sustainable ecosystem backed by hi-tech, it would inevitably fall behind neighbouring Shenzhen sooner or later. Shenzhen has a robust hi-tech industry where giants like Huawei, ZTE, Tencent, DJI, TCL, BYD, BGI, Konka, Han's Laser...are headquatered.
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I check the trade statistics, China is largest customer of Australian coal, minerals, milk powder, wines and everything the Australia is making money from. If you provoke your customer like what you are doing, your customer will bring his money elsewhere.
Australia isn't well-known for high-tech industries but for selling natural resources like coal and minerals and agricultural products like sheep wool and milk powders. In other words, Australia isn't that advanced at all. Don't overestimate yourself. The West is so hysterical towards China simply because China is becoming too strong, both economically and technologically (check the science journal Nature and WIPO's patent-filing-by-country report if you are unconvinced). Australia is far far weaker than China, it just serves as a running dog of its owner the US. The sanctions imposed on China by the US in the past 6 years actually accelerated China's technological progresses, which made the US even more panicking. lol. You cannot stop China, period.
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