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The Chinese Treasure Fleet in 15th century Philippines
* It was the people of our archipelago who discovered Magellan and the Europeans in 1521, not the other way around, as most Filipinos were taught by our grade-school textbooks. Our islands and their inhabitants were well-known to a larger, richer world that of Chinese emperors and scholars and Arab traders, as early as the 9th, even 6th centuries. And certainly by 1000 A.D., our shores were regular ports of call in the trade with China, then the most powerful nation on earth.
Chinese chronicles, European archaeologists and the diggings in our pre-colonial burial grounds prove that those ancient Filipinos used fine porcelain, weights and measures imported from China, and recorded written contracts. Chao-Ju-Kua reported that Chinese traders visited Ma-I (Luzon) regularly, leaving silks, porcelain and metal utensils on the beaches of designated islands, and returning weeks later to collect payment in the form of beeswax, gold dust, carabao horn, ginger, cinnamon or garlic. It was an import-export system run on a reliable honor system with unquestioned good faith.
* When Magellanâs Spanish Armada hove into view in March 1521, the natives of Homonhon in the Visayas must have taken pity on the small black ships with tattered sails and scruffy, starving, disoriented sailors, for they sent a small rowboat packed with rice, coconuts and bananas to their rescue. On the next island, the white, bearded strangers were feted in a bamboo palace with a banquet of roast fish, pork, turtle eggs and palm wine, by a native king whose queen wore a black-and-white gown, red lips and nails, while a quartet of young, topless damsels played music on various gongs and drums.
Those early Filipinos had been more accustomed to the tall, prosperous, Chinese ships with a trio of feathery sails stiffened with battens, for the China trade had been in place for at least 500 years. During the Ming Dynasty, Filipinos enjoyed the visits of the Treasure Fleet (1405-1500) of Admiral Cheng Ho (Zhen He) a huge, 7-ft tall, powerful eunuch, who had built 1,500 massive, 500-ft ships in a giant shipyard in Nanking with the help of 30,000 workers. The luxurious ships, each manned by 1,000 sailors ruled the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
* But the Chinese were not interested in conquest or territorial aggrandizement. Their purposes were trade and diplomacy. That was what our ancestors expected when they first saw the Spanish Armada.
Filipinos had never seen white men before Magellan and never thought the strangers would be as rapacious and predatory as they would prove to be. They assumed the new foreigners to be poor and needy because they had only glass beads, a string of little bells and a red cap (Magellanâs gifts) to reciprocate the native prodigality. The white men were, in fact, so dazzled by the earrings, chains, armlets and anklets, of pure gold, worn by both the native men and women that Magellan had to warn them against showing their covetousness.
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* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese
Where their Government was trying to get their people to switch to homegrown chips before the sanctions
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have themselves and their allies, lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When there is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world copied from them
And China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing over 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year, within the products they export
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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A bit of empathy might even be in order. One hundred and fifty years ago, even America's closest trade partners were despairing about our cheating ways. Charles Dickens, who visited in 1842, was, like many Britons, stunned by the economic ambition of our nation's inhabitants, and appalled by what they would do for the sake of profit. When he first stepped off the boat in Boston, he found the city's bookstores rife with pirated copies of his novels, along with those of his countrymen. Dickens would later deliver lectures decrying the practice, and wrote home in outrage: "my blood so boiled as I thought of the monstrous injustice."
In the United States of the early 19th century, capitalism as we know it today was still very much in its infancy. Most people still lived on small farms, and despite the persistent myth that America was the land of laissez-faire, there were plenty of laws on the books aimed at keeping tight reins on the market economy. But as commerce became more complex, and stretched over greater distances, this patchwork system of local and state-level regulations was gradually overwhelmed by a new generation of wheeler-dealer entrepreneurs.
Taking a page from the British, who had pioneered many ingenious methods of adulteration a generation or two earlier, American manufacturers, distributors, and vendors of food began tampering with their products en masse -- bulking out supplies with cheap filler, using dangerous additives to mask spoilage or to give foodstuffs a more appealing color.
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Yes Philippines made a claim in the 1960s go read up on it
Using the maps from the 15th century from their former Spanish Colonizers
China made a claim in the 12th Century before the Philippines was even made a country by their Spanish colonizers
But then get your facts straight
The Philippines makes a proximity claim and disputes the Chinese historical claim. Arguing against a historical claim and using proximity as its argument
The irony is the Philippines makes a historical claim against Malaysia over Sabah land given to them by a previous Sultan for their participation in a war
Thatâs because Sabah is attached to Malaysia and there is a sea that separates the Philippines from Sabah
Plus if we are talking proximity
I would argue there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines right now that are closer to Malaysia than they are the Philippines
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The two main sultanates in the region at the time were Sulu and Brunei. In 1658, the Sultan of Brunei gave Sabah to the Sultan of Sulu - either as a dowry or because troops from Sulu had helped him quell a rebellion.
More than 350 years later, the sultan's heirs have come to remind Malaysians that they still consider Sabah to be part of Sulu and, by extension, part of the Philippines.
"Sabah is our home," they said simply when asked why they had come.
But history is not that simple and of course Malaysia has no intention of giving up Sabah to this little band of Filipinos.
The crux of their disagreement lies in a contract made in 1878, between the Sultanate of Sulu and the British North Borneo Company.
Under this contract known as pajak, the company could occupy Sabah in perpetuity as long as it paid a regular sum of money.
Even today, Malaysia pays about 5,000 Malaysian ringgit (ÂŁ1,000, $1,500) a year to the Sultanate of Sulu.
But the British and, after that an independent Malaysia, interpreted pajak to mean sale, while the Sulu Sultanate has always maintained it means lease.
"In my opinion, this is more consistent with a lease rather than a sale, because you can't have a purchase price which is not fixed and which is payable until kingdom come," said Harry Roque, a law professor at the University of the Philippines.
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Do China's ghost cities offer a solution to Europe's migrant crisis?
By Wade Shepard
* Even though there are between 20 and 45 million unoccupied homes across China, which account for roughly 600 million square meters of uninhabited floor space - enough to completely cover Madrid - these places are not the urban wastelands they are often posited to be. While many of China's new cities and urban districts are deficient in people they are not deficient in owners. Nearly every apartment that goes on the market in China is quickly purchased, often at exorbitant prices that commonly range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Far from being unwanted infrastructure that could seamlessly be doled out to refugees, those arrays of vacant high-rises are actually the proud possessions of people who paid a lot of money for them.
* A huge portion of the homes that are purchased in China function very much like stocks or a trade-able commodity. As an incredible number of new apartments are sold as unfinished concrete cavities without any interior fit out or even windows, they are in no way immediately livable.
Strange as it may seem, they are very actively bought and sold in this bare-bones form. In fact, investors often prefer them that way. In many ways they are purely economic entities, quantifiable placeholders of value that are traded on the open market akin to precious metals. Just as one doesn't need to mold a piece of gold into something usable, like a piece of jewelry, for it to have value and an economic function, an apartment in China doesn't need to have people living in it for it to be economically viable.
"Empty units leave flexibility for quick sales in a changing market or need to cash in quickly," said Barry Wilson, the founding director of Barry Wilson Project Initiatives, a Hong Kong-based urban design firm.
Another reason for the sheer number of unused apartments in China is the fact that there is often little financial incentive for owners to do anything with them after purchase. There is no yearly property tax in China, so vacant properties are not a financial drain on their owners. While the potential returns that could be had from renting them out (1 percent or so) is often not worth the hassle - especially because it costs tens of thousands of dollars to construct the interiors of new apartments in preparation for tenants.
This is combined with the fact that Chinese homeowners, especially investors who have multiple properties, are remarkably un-leveraged. According to Mark Tanner, over 80 percent of homes in China are owned outright. This means that most homeowners, especially the big investors with multiple properties, generally don't have any mortgages to pay off or any other leans, so there isn't as much financial pressure to make a profit from these homes in the short term.
Additionally many empty apartments have owners who intend to occupy them at some point. A huge number of China's new apartments are located in new development areas, which are, by definition, new. The thinking is if you buy property in these emerging new areas early, you can get a better price. So it's common for people to purchase homes in places that are not yet ready to support a large population with the understanding that they won't be able to inhabit them for many years.
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The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese Government trying to get their people to use homegrown chips
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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European Economic Review
Volume 144, May 2022, 104079
Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Among typical applicants, Asian Americans actually have a slightly higher unconditional admit rate than whites. But as we show in Section 3, these unconditional admit rates mask substantial differences in qualifications between the two groups.
While it is widely understood that Asian American applicants are academically stronger than whites, it is startling just how much stronger they are. During the period we analyze, there were 42% more white applicants than Asian American applicants overall.
Yet, among those who were in the top ten percent of applicants based on grades and test scores, Asian American applicants outnumbered white applicants by more than 45%.2
Of course, Harvard values more than just academics. And here, too, Asian American applicants as a whole perform as well or better than white applicants on most of Harvardâs ratings.
But Harvardâs ratings may also be affected by racial preferences and penalties. Indeed, Harvard acknowledges that race, in the form of preferences for under-represented minority groups (URMs), is one of the inputs into the overall rating (Day 4 Trial Transcript, p. 50).3
Consistent with this, we find large racial gaps in the assignment of the overall rating conditional on academic strength. Similar patterns hold for the personal rating, suggesting that this measure is also directly influenced by race.
Further, we show that racial groups who have observed characteristics associated with lower overall and personal ratings score higher on these ratings, again suggesting a direct role of race
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The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese Government trying to get their people to use homegrown chips
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year
đ
How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Why do you Americans always say the same thing
My reply is their debt is mostly internal debt
You will reply debt is debt
I will reply there is a big difference between internal debt and external debt
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Difference Between Internal Debt and External Debt!
The basic character of an internal debt is quite different from that of the external debt. In external debt, at the time of repayment there is a real transfer of resources.
In case of internal debt, however, since it is borrowed from individuals and institutions within the country repayment will constitute only a re-distribution of resources without causing any change in the total resources of the community.
There can, thus, be no direct money burden caused by internal debts since all payments cancel each other out in the aggregate community as a whole. Whatever is taxed from one section of the community servicing the debts is distributed among the bond-holders by way of repayment of loans and interest; and quite often, the tax-payer and the bond-holder may be the same person.
At the most, to the extent that the incomes of tax-payers (in a sense, debtors) are reduced, so will the incomes of creditors/ bond-holders increase, but the aggregate position of the community will, nevertheless, remain the same.
However, internal debt may involve a direct real burden on the community according to the nature of the series of transfer of incomes from tax payers to the public creditors. To the extent the tax-payers and the bond-holders are the same, the distribution of wealth will remain unaltered; hence there will not be any net real burden on the community.
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 @WG55 he is pointing out the cost of tariffs will be put on the US consumer
What most people like you donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Sure the Americans may have lost 7 million manufacturing jobs from the height of their manufacturing days.
But they gained 53 million service sector jobs
33 million of them higher paying jobs than their manufacturing jobs
So with more jobs, more higher paying jobs, and added saving from imported goods
did the average American Invest,save, or even throw that money under the mattress?????
No
they spent those added earnings, and then borrowed to spend some more
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The U.S. Lost 7 Million Manufacturing Jobs--And Added 33 Million Higher-Paying Service Jobs
Itâs also nonsense. The truth is that America has lost some 7 million manufacturing jobs and added some 53 million jobs in services. This is just what happens with advanced economiesâitâs easier to increase productivity in manufacturing than it is in services, this is the heart of Baumolâs Cost Disease. As it was easier to increase productivity in agriculture through mechanising it than it was in manufacturing. Thus, over time, the proportion of the workforce engaged in agriculture falls, so too does the proportion in manufacturing. And given that services (with a couple of small adjustments for mining, construction and utilities) is the name we give to all the rest of the economy therefore an increasing portion of the labour force ends up in services.
Further, of those 53 million new jobs some 62% of them were in higher paying occupations than those âhigh paying good jobsâ in manufacturing we lost. Yes, really, 33 million higher paying jobs came along to replace those 7 million lost. Which does, when you look at those numbers properly, seem like rather a good deal.
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Sabah clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines
(In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute stems with the fact they make a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE
Historical claim that the Philippines dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Sabah clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines
(In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute stems with the fact they make a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE
Historical claim that the Philippines dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Sabah clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines
(In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute stems with the fact they make a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE
Historical claim that the Philippines dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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another way to look at it China has managed to make a homegrown Lithography machine albeit one that creates legacy type/level 28nm chips
Where they are using their proprietary layering/patterning technique to get down to that 7nm/5nm
So yes one could argue they are behind from a sanctioning standpoint But from an all out war standpoint where a Country has been cut off from inputs from other countries?
I look at it as a China is ahead Because really that is the worst case scenario the USA/West is envisioning.
As that being the reason they have sanctioned/cut off China right now
Thatâs the biased criteria we put on China they need to be making that 100% homemade semiconductor chip From that 100% homemade lithography machine right down to the screws and Rare Earths required to make the lithography machines in the first place
Where the Dutch company ASML sources 85% of what goes into making their lithography machines from around the world. As ASML cuts off China from its technology/patents
But then no one thought to go back even farther. Forgetting about the fact 85% of the components are sourced from other places/countries
They should have been asking what goes into making those components or the patents on what goes into that component in the first place?
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Applications in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Lasers and Lithography
Lasers are indispensable in semiconductor manufacturing, especially in advanced lithography. REEs like neodymium are used in Nd:YAG lasers, which are critical for UV light generation in lithography processes.
Laser Cleaning
As semiconductor components shrink, traditional cleaning methods become less effective. Lasers, particularly those using REEs, offer a solution by dislodging particles adhered to wafers through Van Der Waal forces.
Magnets and Plasma Material Processing
Permanent magnets, often made from REEs like neodymium, are used in plasma material processing systems. These systems are essential for thin film growth and patterning.
Coatings and Abrasives
REEs like yttrium oxide are used for coatings in plasma etch chambers, reducing maintenance costs. Cerium dioxide abrasives are used in the Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process to achieve extremely flat wafer surfaces.
The Impact on Adjacent Technologies
Optoelectronics and LEDs
REEs like cerium and yttrium are vital for the production of white LEDs. These LEDs are increasingly used in various applications, from displays to therapeutics.
Silicon Photonics
In the emerging field of silicon photonics, REEs like erbium are being studied for their potential to enable silicon to emit light, thus making monolithic silicon photonics chips a possibility.
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Philippines under UNCLOS had every right to request a tribunal as a resolution
But
China under UNCLOS had every right not to accept the tribunal as a resolution
No one other than Taiwan accepts that 9 dash line claim. Which the tribunal did rule against
The tribunal did not rule on ownership of the disputed islands or waters
But what the tribunal did state was ... No one exhibited continuous control over the islands, reefs, water in dispute
That means all the other countries who also have their land and water disputes including China and the Philippines
Have dug into the land and water they control. And are basically saying talk to us in few hundred years
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Article 287
Choice of procedure
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein.
2. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall not affect or be affected by the obligation of a State Party to accept the jurisdiction of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the extent and in the manner provided for in Part XI, section 5.
3. A State Party, which is a party to a dispute not covered by a declaration in force, shall be deemed to have accepted arbitration in accordance with Annex VII.
4. If the parties to a dispute have accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to that procedure, unless the parties otherwise agree.
5. If the parties to a dispute have not accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to arbitration in accordance with Annex VII, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall remain in force until three months after notice of revocation has been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7. A new declaration, a notice of revocation or the expiry of a declaration does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
8. Declarations and notices referred to in this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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Article 299 Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
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Civilization state versus nation-state
15/01/11 - SĂźddeutsche Zeitung
China confronts Europe with an enormous problem: we do not understand it
Our western-centric value-judgements about China must no longer be allowed to act as a substitute for understanding the country in its own terms. This is no easy task. China is profoundly different from the West in the most basic of ways. Perhaps the most basic difference is that it is not a nation-state in the European sense of the term. Indeed, it has only described itself as such since around 1900. Anyone who knows anything about China is aware that it is a lot older than that. China, as we know it today, dates back to 221BC, in some respects much earlier. That date marked the end of the Warring States period, the victory of the Qin, and the birth of the Qin Empire whose borders embraced a considerable slice of what is today the eastern half of China and by far its most populous part.
For over two millennia, the Chinese thought of themselves as a civilization rather than a nation. The most fundamental defining features of China today, and which give the Chinese their sense of identity, emanate not from the last century when China has called itself a nation-state but from the previous two millennia when it can be best described as a civilization-state: the relationship between the state and society, a very distinctive notion of the family, ancestral worship, Confucian values, the network of personal relationships that we call guanxi, Chinese food and the traditions that surround it, and, of course, the Chinese language with its unusual relationship between the written and spoken form. The implications are profound: whereas national identity in Europe is overwhelmingly a product of the era of the nation-state â in the United States almost exclusively so â in China, on the contrary, the sense of identity has primarily been shaped by the countryâs history as a civilization-state. Although China describes itself today as a nation-state, it remains essentially a civilization-state in terms of history, culture, identity and ways of thinking. Chinaâs geological structure is that of a civilization-state; the nation-state accounts for little more than the top soil.
China, as a civilization-state, has two main characteristics. Firstly, there is its exceptional longevity, dating back to even before the break-up of the Roman Empire. Secondly, the sheer scale of China â both geographic and demographic â means that it embraces a huge diversity. Contrary to the Western belief that China is highly centralised, in fact in many respects the opposite is the case: indeed, it would have been impossible to govern the country â either now or in the dynastic period â on such a basis. It is simply too large. The implications in terms of the way the Chinese think are profound.
In 1997 Hong Kong was handed over to China by the British. The Chinese constitutional proposal was summed up in the phrase: âone country, two systemsâ. Barely anyone in the West gave this maxim much thought or indeed credence; the assumption was that Hong Kong would soon become like the rest of China. This was entirely wrong. The political and legal structure of Hong Kong remains as different now from the rest of China as in 1997. The reason we did not take the Chinese seriously is that the West is characterised by a nation-state mentality, hence when Germany was unified in 1990 it was done solely and exclusively on the basis of the Federal Republic; the DDR in effect disappeared. âOne nation-state, one systemâ is the nation-state way of thinking. But, as a civilization-state, the Chinese logic is quite different. Because China is so vast and embraces such diversity, as a matter of necessity it must be flexible: âone civilization, many systemsâ.
The idea of China as a civilization-state is a fundamental building block for understanding China in its own terms. And it has multifarious implications. The relationship between the state and society in China is very different to that in the West. Contrary to the overwhelming Western assumption that the Chinese state lacks legitimacy and is bereft of public support, in fact the Chinese state enjoys greater legitimacy than any Western state. We have come to assume that the legitimacy of the state overwhelmingly rests on the democratic process â universal suffrage, competing parties et al. But this is only one element: if it was the whole story, then the Italian state would enjoy a robust legitimacy rather than the reality, a chronic lack of it. And to explain this we have to go back to the Risorgimento as only a partially fulfilled project.
The reason why the Chinese state enjoys a formidable legitimacy in the eyes of the Chinese has nothing to do with democracy but can be found in the relationship between the state and Chinese civilization. The state is seen as the embodiment, guardian and defender of Chinese civilization. Maintaining the unity, cohesion and integrity of Chinese civilization â of the civilization-state â is perceived as the highest political priority and is seen as the sacrosanct task of the Chinese state. Unlike in the West, where the state is viewed with varying degrees of suspicion, even hostility, and is regarded, as a consequence, as an outsider, in China the state is seen as an intimate, as part of the family, indeed as the head of the family; interestingly, in this context, the Chinese term for nation-state is ânation-familyâ.
Or consider a quite different example. Over 90 per cent of Chinese think of themselves as of one race, the Han. This is so different from the worldâs other most populous nations â India, United States, Indonesia and Brazil, all of which are highly multi-racial â as to be extraordinary. Of course, in reality the Han were a product of many different races, but the Han do not think of themselves like that. And the reason takes us back to the civilization-state and one of its defining characteristics, namely Chinaâs remarkable longevity. Over thousands of years, as a result of many processes, cultural, racial and ethnic, the differences between the many races that comprised the Han have been weakened to the point where they were no longer significant.
We will never make sense of China if we persist in treating it as if it is, or should be, a product of our own civilization. Our present attitude towards China is a function of arrogance and ignorance. And it threatens to leave us bewildered, confused and alienated. Our historical inheritance, and the mentality it has engendered, ill equips us for the very new world that is presently unfolding before us.
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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You are clueless and trying to make excusesâŚ
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China beating West in race for critical technologies, report says
China leads the world in 37 out of 44 critical technologies, according to a report by an Australian think tank.
China is in a position to become the worldâs top technology superpower, with its dominance already spanning defence, space, robotics, energy, the environment, biotechnology, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced materials and key quantum technology, according to the report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).
The key areas dominated by China include drones, machine learning, electric batteries, nuclear energy, photovoltaics, quantum sensors and critical minerals extraction, according to the Critical Technology Tracker released on Thursday.
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Even though there are between 20 and 45 million unoccupied homes across China, which account for roughly 600 million square meters of uninhabited floor space â enough to completely cover Madrid, these places are not the urban wastelands they are often posited to be. While many of Chinaâs new cities and urban districts are deficient in people they are not deficient in owners. Nearly every apartment that goes on the market in China is quickly purchased, often at exorbitant prices that commonly range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Far from being unwanted infrastructure that could seamlessly be doled out to refugees, those arrays of vacant high-rises are actually the proud possessions of people who paid a lot of money for them. So why would anyone spend incredible amounts of cash on houses they do not intent to use?
* A huge portion of the homes that are purchased in China function very much like stocks or a trade-able commodity. As an incredible amount of new apartments are sold as unfinished concrete cavities without any interior fit out or even windows, they are in no way immediately livable.
Although they are very actively bought and sold in this bare-bones form, which is often preferred by investors. In many ways they are purely economic entities, quantifiable placeholders of value that are traded on the open market akin to precious metals. Just as one doesnât need to mold a piece of gold into something usable like a piece of jewelry for it to have value and an economic function, an apartment in China doesnât need to have people living in it for it to be economically viable.
âEmpty units leave flexibility for quick sales in a changing market or need to cash in quickly,â said Barry Wilson, the founding director of Barry Wilson Project Initiatives, a Hong Kong based urban design firm. Another reason for the sheer amount of unused apartments in China is the fact that there is often little financial incentive for owners to do anything with them after purchase. There is no yearly property tax in China, so vacant properties are not a financial drain on their owners. While the potential returns that could be had from renting them out (1% or so) is often not worth the hassle â especially because it costs tens of thousands of dollars to construct the interiors of new apartments in preparation for tenants. This is combined with the fact that Chinese homeowners, especially investors who have multiple properties, are remarkably un-leveraged.
According to Mark Tanner, over 80% of homes in China are owned outright. This means that most homeowners, especially the big investors with multiple properties, generally donât have any mortgages to pay off or any other leans, so there isnât as much financial pressure to make a profit from these homes in the short term.
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Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979â1991)
When the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) withdrew from Vietnam in March 1979 after the war, China announced that they were not ambitious for "any square inch of the territory of Vietnam".[3] However, Chinese troops occupied an area of 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi), which was disputed land controlled by Vietnam before hostilities broke out.[4] In some places such as the area around Friendship Gate near the city of Lấng Sƥn, Chinese troops occupied territories which had little military value but important symbolic value. Elsewhere, Chinese troops occupied the strategic positions of military importance as springboards to attack Vietnam.[5]
The Chinese occupation of border territory angered Vietnam, and this ushered in a series of border conflicts between Vietnam and China to gain control of the area. These conflicts continued until 1988, peaking in the years 1984â1985.[6] By the early 1990s, along with the withdrawal of Vietnam from Cambodia and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the relationship between the two countries gradually returned to normality. By 1991, the two countries proclaimed the normalization of their diplomatic relations, thereby ending the border conflicts.
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Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979â1991)
When the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) withdrew from Vietnam in March 1979 after the war, China announced that they were not ambitious for "any square inch of the territory of Vietnam".[3] However, Chinese troops occupied an area of 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi), which was disputed land controlled by Vietnam before hostilities broke out.[4] In some places such as the area around Friendship Gate near the city of Lấng Sƥn, Chinese troops occupied territories which had little military value but important symbolic value. Elsewhere, Chinese troops occupied the strategic positions of military importance as springboards to attack Vietnam.[5]
The Chinese occupation of border territory angered Vietnam, and this ushered in a series of border conflicts between Vietnam and China to gain control of the area. These conflicts continued until 1988, peaking in the years 1984â1985.[6] By the early 1990s, along with the withdrawal of Vietnam from Cambodia and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the relationship between the two countries gradually returned to normality. By 1991, the two countries proclaimed the normalization of their diplomatic relations, thereby ending the border conflicts.
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In Defense of Socialism, 1990â1991
After the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, the VCP chief and defense minister sought an ideological alliance with China.
As Party Chief Nguyen Van Linh explained to the Chinese ambassador to Vietnam on June 5, 1990, the situation was marked by the Westâs offensive to eliminate socialismand concurrently the difficulties of the Soviet Union in defending socialism.
In this situation, Linh concluded,
âChina should raise high the banner of socialism and stick to Marxism-Leninism.â
Linh and Defense Minister Le Duc Anh hoped that China would take the leadership of the worldâs socialist forces;
they indicated to the ambassador that they were ready to meet Chinese leaders to discuss solidarity between the two states to fight imperialism.
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On September 2 that year, Vietnamâs Independence Day, the party and government chiefs did not stay in Hanoi to celebrate the 45th birthday of their state but instead flew to Chengdu, China, for a secret summit with Chinese leaders, the first since the mid-1970s.
The Vietnamese understood that their acceptance
of the time, place, and participants was a sign of deference to China.
Participants included Vietnamâs elder statesman Pham Van Dong but not Chinaâs paramount leader Deng Xiaoping; Foreign Minister Thach was excluded.
During the meeting, the Vietnamese also let the Chinese dictate the terms of negotiation;this should be seen against the background of a decade-long hostility between the two countries.
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The Vietnamese had urgent reasons for taking this approach. At the time, the counterweight of the Soviet Union was no longer available and Vietnam was still isolated, regionally and globally.
In China, Vietnam faced a disproportionately powerful neighbor, and in order to prevent Chinese aggression, Hanoi had to pay deference to Beijing.
It appeared to be the calculation of Pham Van
Dong and, to some extent, Prime Minister Do Muoi.
Yet, as discussed above, General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh had different concerns and priorities.
His primary intention at Chengdu was to discuss how to protect socialism from the West, led by the United States.
Although the Chinese refused to play the solidarity game, Linh and his successors over the next decade kept trying to reestablish the Sino-Vietnamese relationship on an ideological basis.
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Where do you get your info?
The people making the lions share of the money inflating those Chinese export numbers to the west? Are Multinational corporations, mostly US multinationals
Whose wholly owned factories and suppliers are using more and more illegal workers from SE Asia or more and more automation in those factories in China
Where the Chinese are sending their exports? to their belt and road partner countries
Mind you exports is not the biggest driver of their economy these days last I checked it was less than 18% of GDP
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position. China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD). Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie. But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Does it matter?
Ethnic Chinese dominate the economies of these countries.
And these countries are dependent on the Chinese economy
Plus when it comes to Asean countries
China has an ace up its sleeve
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China Is Winning the Race for Water
Security in Asia Great power competition in Asia is not only about control of critical waterways in the South China Sea, but also about who controls Asiaâs fresh water. The future of Asiaâs waterâupon which about four billion people dependâlies in Chinaâs hands.
Through its presence in Tibet, China controls the headwaters of ten of the eleven major rivers of Asia. So far, China has taken a relatively cooperative approach to sharing water with its neighbors as part of the systematic consolidation of its âsoft powerâ over downstream countries.
But climate change and rapid growth are threatening to upset this delicate diplomatic balance. What happens when Chinaâs own thirst outpaces its resources?
And how will Chinaâs choices affect U.S. interests in the strategic Asia-Pacific region? China has positioned itself as a world leader on climate change and set ambitious goals for environmental protection.
However, due to the pace of urban as well as industrial expansion and its often-lax enforcement of pollution control regulations, China continues to consume as much coal as the rest of the world combined. Its approach to combatting climate change and resource scarcity, which emphasizes engineering solutions over better resource management, has resulted in dramatic infrastructure projects.
These include a series of hydro-electric dams meant to address the countryâs severe water shortage challenges by giving it more control over the continentâs rivers, as well as to generate electricity. These construction projects mean China can bestow or withhold water as it sees fit, leaving downstream Asian countries vulnerable to Beijingâs decisions. For example, Chinese hydroelectric dams along the Brahmaputra River have proven to be a source of friction with India, exacerbating long-simmering border disputes.
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Sabah clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines
(In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute stems with the fact they make a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE
Historical claim that the Philippines dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis in China
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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 @stealthtowealth2167Â
seriously what is up with you?
You are either one of those people who does not believe in renewables, clean, green etc etc
Or you are one of those people who believes itâs all renewables, clean, green etc etc and nothing else
For meâŚ, I understand we need renewables, clean, green in the future etc etc
But itâs not going to happen overnight and ⌠for sure we canât just flip the switch
The Chinese just showed us how hard that is to do
If you really think the Chinese want to rely on burning coal in the future then you have no clue how they think
Most importantly there is no money in it for them in burning coal
There is money renewables, clean, green etc etc
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How China Became the Worldâs Leader on Renewable Energy
China has achieved stunning growth in its installed renewable capacity over the last two decades, far outpacing the rest of the world. But to end its continued dependence on fossil fuels, it must now move ahead with planned reforms to its national electricity system.
BY ISABEL HILTON
MARCH 13, 2024
In 2020, for example, China pledged to reach 1,200 gigawatts of renewables capacity by 2030, more than double its capacity at that time. At its present pace, it will meet that target by 2025, and could boast as much as 1,000 gigawatts of solar power alone by the end of 2026, an achievement that would make a substantial contribution to the 11,000 gigawatts of installed renewable capacity that the world needs to meet the 2030 targets of the Paris Agreement. Fossil fuels now make up less than half of Chinaâs total installed generation capacity, a dramatic reduction from a decade ago when fossil fuels accounted for two-thirds of its power capacity
When the International Energy Authority issued its assessment of the pledge to triple renewables globally by 2030, it pointed out that the 50 percent increase in global renewable installations in 2023 was largely driven by China. In 2022, China installed roughly as much solar photovoltaic capacity as the rest of the world combined, then went on in 2023 to double new solar installations, increase new wind capacity by 66 percent, and almost quadruple additions of energy storage.
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Do China's ghost cities offer a solution to Europe's migrant crisis?
By Wade Shepard
* Even though there are between 20 and 45 million unoccupied homes across China, which account for roughly 600 million square meters of uninhabited floor space - enough to completely cover Madrid - these places are not the urban wastelands they are often posited to be. While many of China's new cities and urban districts are deficient in people they are not deficient in owners. Nearly every apartment that goes on the market in China is quickly purchased, often at exorbitant prices that commonly range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Far from being unwanted infrastructure that could seamlessly be doled out to refugees, those arrays of vacant high-rises are actually the proud possessions of people who paid a lot of money for them.
* A huge portion of the homes that are purchased in China function very much like stocks or a trade-able commodity. As an incredible number of new apartments are sold as unfinished concrete cavities without any interior fit out or even windows, they are in no way immediately livable.
Strange as it may seem, they are very actively bought and sold in this bare-bones form. In fact, investors often prefer them that way. In many ways they are purely economic entities, quantifiable placeholders of value that are traded on the open market akin to precious metals. Just as one doesn't need to mold a piece of gold into something usable, like a piece of jewelry, for it to have value and an economic function, an apartment in China doesn't need to have people living in it for it to be economically viable.
"Empty units leave flexibility for quick sales in a changing market or need to cash in quickly," said Barry Wilson, the founding director of Barry Wilson Project Initiatives, a Hong Kong-based urban design firm.
Another reason for the sheer number of unused apartments in China is the fact that there is often little financial incentive for owners to do anything with them after purchase. There is no yearly property tax in China, so vacant properties are not a financial drain on their owners. While the potential returns that could be had from renting them out (1 percent or so) is often not worth the hassle - especially because it costs tens of thousands of dollars to construct the interiors of new apartments in preparation for tenants.
This is combined with the fact that Chinese homeowners, especially investors who have multiple properties, are remarkably un-leveraged. According to Mark Tanner, over 80 percent of homes in China are owned outright. This means that most homeowners, especially the big investors with multiple properties, generally don't have any mortgages to pay off or any other leans, so there isn't as much financial pressure to make a profit from these homes in the short term.
Additionally many empty apartments have owners who intend to occupy them at some point. A huge number of China's new apartments are located in new development areas, which are, by definition, new. The thinking is if you buy property in these emerging new areas early, you can get a better price. So it's common for people to purchase homes in places that are not yet ready to support a large population with the understanding that they won't be able to inhabit them for many years.
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Vietnam posts record 2022 trade surplus with U.S. as China deficit rises
* Vietnam's trade surplus with the United States widened to $94.9 billion last year, the highest level on record,
* Meanwhile, a trade deficit with China, which is the largest supplier of materials and equipment to Vietnam's labour-intensive manufacturing sector, widened to a record $60.2 billion in 2022 from $54.0 billion a year earlier,
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In 2022, Mexico's imports from China exceeded its exports by more than 100 billion U.S. dollars. In that year, the value of products imported from this Asian country reached approximately to 118 billion dollars, whereas exports totaled to about 10.8 billion dollars.
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In 2022, trade between Mexico and the United States reached USD 738 billion, with Mexico posting a surplus of near USD 208 billion.
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The western multinationals went to China at the time because of their weak labour laws, weak environmental laws, mass pool of cheap labour they could pay dollar a day wages to
And yes weak IP laws that went along with it
In exchange the western multinationals traded knowledge and investment
This was nothing new, the west goes to 3rd world or developing nation takes advantages of this country until the locals complain about wages, pollution, or environmental damages. Western multinationals pick up and run for it.
I would argue yes they expected the Chinese to buy 1 billion toothbrushes and 2 billion socks
But they didnât expect them to enrich themselves
My evidence is even before the west pushed for Chinese WTO inclusion the Top of the food chain 1%ters and their TooBigTooFail Investment Banks worked out the worst deal ever for themselves
Where these TooBigTooFail Investments Banks got a 33% interest in a âJoint Venture Chinese Investment Banking Subsidiary.â Where the Chinese Bank got a 67%
Difference is the Chinese didnât complain they put up with those dollar a day wages making 22 times less than what an average American worker made.
Yet saved 30% of those wages over 30 plus years. Indirectly loaning those saving to those Americans so they could spend their savings and borrow to spend some more.
While the Chinese invested or made a business with their savings
Where the Chinese lowered their standards of living while the Americans were able to raise their standards of living with those cheaper goods
If anything the Chinese were dragging their feet on the TRIPS agreement under the WTOâŚ.specifically regarding developing countries
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Developing countriesâ transition periods Provisions for developing countries, economies in transition from central planning, and least-developed countries
Developing countries and economies in transition from central planning did not have to apply most provisions of the TRIPS Agreement until 1 January 2000.
The provisions they did have to apply deal with non-discrimination.
Article 65.2 and 65.3
Least-developed countries were given until 1 January 2006.
Article 66.1.
Members have agreed to extend the deadline to 1 July 2034, or to the date a country is no longer âleast-developedâ, if that is earlier.
Pursuant to the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health, a separate transition period exists for pharmaceutical patents, which currently runs until 1 January 2033.
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Does it matter?
Ethnic Chinese dominate the economies of these countries.
And these countries are dependent on the Chinese economy
Plus when it comes to Asean countries
China has an ace up its sleeve
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China Is Winning the Race for Water
Security in Asia Great power competition in Asia is not only about control of critical waterways in the South China Sea, but also about who controls Asiaâs fresh water. The future of Asiaâs waterâupon which about four billion people dependâlies in Chinaâs hands.
Through its presence in Tibet, China controls the headwaters of ten of the eleven major rivers of Asia. So far, China has taken a relatively cooperative approach to sharing water with its neighbors as part of the systematic consolidation of its âsoft powerâ over downstream countries.
But climate change and rapid growth are threatening to upset this delicate diplomatic balance. What happens when Chinaâs own thirst outpaces its resources?
And how will Chinaâs choices affect U.S. interests in the strategic Asia-Pacific region? China has positioned itself as a world leader on climate change and set ambitious goals for environmental protection.
However, due to the pace of urban as well as industrial expansion and its often-lax enforcement of pollution control regulations, China continues to consume as much coal as the rest of the world combined. Its approach to combatting climate change and resource scarcity, which emphasizes engineering solutions over better resource management, has resulted in dramatic infrastructure projects.
These include a series of hydro-electric dams meant to address the countryâs severe water shortage challenges by giving it more control over the continentâs rivers, as well as to generate electricity. These construction projects mean China can bestow or withhold water as it sees fit, leaving downstream Asian countries vulnerable to Beijingâs decisions. For example, Chinese hydroelectric dams along the Brahmaputra River have proven to be a source of friction with India, exacerbating long-simmering border disputes.
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Sabah clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines
(In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute stems with the fact they make a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE
Historical claim that the Philippines dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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What most people donât get is the Philippines had every right to ask for arbitration
Itâs just China has every right not to accept arbitration
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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Article 299
Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
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No one says sheet in regards to the amount of hours Kobe Bryant and MJ put into their craft... How many kids destroy themselves trying to emulate what these hero's to them did.
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Why was China erased from Western memory
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
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âââ many are from failed ride hailing companies where there are still 300 left In China
No one is going to buy a used EV when they are obsolete, new EVs are affordable and have better tech
And for sure no one is going to start up a new Ride hailing company, using the EVs from a failed ride hailing company
Better to just recycle them
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China is way ahead
China is the world's biggest EV producer and market. It's also a leader in battery recycling.
China's EV battery recycling market is about 10 times larger than the EU's, Christoph Neef, a scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research in Germany, told DW.
China, a major producer and processor of key battery raw materials like lithium and graphite, could replace lithium obtained by mining with recycled lithium in EV batteries from 2059 onward, according to a study by the University of MĂźnster in Germany.
By comparison, Europe and the US are expected to reach that milestone only after 2070. As far as nickel is concerned, China can probably meet demand through recycling in 2046 at the earliest, with Europe following in 2058 and the US from 2064 onward.
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What most people donât get is the Philippines had every right to ask for arbitration
Itâs just China has every right not to accept arbitration
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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In addition, article 298, paragraph 1, allows States and entities to declare that they exclude the application of the compulsory binding procedures for the settlement of disputes under the Convention in respect of certain specified categories kinds of disputes. Article 298, paragraph 1, reads:
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Article 299
Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Ethnic Chinese/overseas Chinese were the biggest FDI investors into China during its 30 years of double digit growth. And serve as bridge these days for China FDI into ASEAN countries
Does it matter?
Ethnic Chinese dominate the economies of these countries.
And these countries are dependent on the Chinese economy
Plus when it comes to Asean countries
China has an ace up its sleeve
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China Is Winning the Race for Water
Security in Asia Great power competition in Asia is not only about control of critical waterways in the South China Sea, but also about who controls Asiaâs fresh water. The future of Asiaâs waterâupon which about four billion people dependâlies in Chinaâs hands.
Through its presence in Tibet, China controls the headwaters of ten of the eleven major rivers of Asia. So far, China has taken a relatively cooperative approach to sharing water with its neighbors as part of the systematic consolidation of its âsoft powerâ over downstream countries.
But climate change and rapid growth are threatening to upset this delicate diplomatic balance. What happens when Chinaâs own thirst outpaces its resources?
And how will Chinaâs choices affect U.S. interests in the strategic Asia-Pacific region? China has positioned itself as a world leader on climate change and set ambitious goals for environmental protection.
However, due to the pace of urban as well as industrial expansion and its often-lax enforcement of pollution control regulations, China continues to consume as much coal as the rest of the world combined. Its approach to combatting climate change and resource scarcity, which emphasizes engineering solutions over better resource management, has resulted in dramatic infrastructure projects.
These include a series of hydro-electric dams meant to address the countryâs severe water shortage challenges by giving it more control over the continentâs rivers, as well as to generate electricity. These construction projects mean China can bestow or withhold water as it sees fit, leaving downstream Asian countries vulnerable to Beijingâs decisions. For example, Chinese hydroelectric dams along the Brahmaputra River have proven to be a source of friction with India, exacerbating long-simmering border disputes.
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No one accepts the 9 dash line except China and Taiwan
No one is talking 9 dash line itâs the islands in dispute
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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whatâs the point in building another Gigafactory when Chinese EVs are cheaper, better quality and more innovative
Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
Indians donât understand thatâs a win for them as well if/when Tesla puts a Gigafactory in India
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese
Where their Government was trying to get their people to switch to homegrown chips before the sanctions
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have themselves and their allies, lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When there is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world copied from them
And China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing over 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year, within the products they export
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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This guy best explains it
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Do China's ghost cities offer a solution to Europe's migrant crisis?
By Wade Shepard
* Even though there are between 20 and 45 million unoccupied homes across China, which account for roughly 600 million square meters of uninhabited floor space - enough to completely cover Madrid - these places are not the urban wastelands they are often posited to be. While many of China's new cities and urban districts are deficient in people they are not deficient in owners. Nearly every apartment that goes on the market in China is quickly purchased, often at exorbitant prices that commonly range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Far from being unwanted infrastructure that could seamlessly be doled out to refugees, those arrays of vacant high-rises are actually the proud possessions of people who paid a lot of money for them.
* A huge portion of the homes that are purchased in China function very much like stocks or a trade-able commodity. As an incredible number of new apartments are sold as unfinished concrete cavities without any interior fit out or even windows, they are in no way immediately livable.
Strange as it may seem, they are very actively bought and sold in this bare-bones form. In fact, investors often prefer them that way. In many ways they are purely economic entities, quantifiable placeholders of value that are traded on the open market akin to precious metals. Just as one doesn't need to mold a piece of gold into something usable, like a piece of jewelry, for it to have value and an economic function, an apartment in China doesn't need to have people living in it for it to be economically viable.
"Empty units leave flexibility for quick sales in a changing market or need to cash in quickly," said Barry Wilson, the founding director of Barry Wilson Project Initiatives, a Hong Kong-based urban design firm.
Another reason for the sheer number of unused apartments in China is the fact that there is often little financial incentive for owners to do anything with them after purchase. There is no yearly property tax in China, so vacant properties are not a financial drain on their owners. While the potential returns that could be had from renting them out (1 percent or so) is often not worth the hassle - especially because it costs tens of thousands of dollars to construct the interiors of new apartments in preparation for tenants.
This is combined with the fact that Chinese homeowners, especially investors who have multiple properties, are remarkably un-leveraged. According to Mark Tanner, over 80 percent of homes in China are owned outright. This means that most homeowners, especially the big investors with multiple properties, generally don't have any mortgages to pay off or any other leans, so there isn't as much financial pressure to make a profit from these homes in the short term.
Additionally many empty apartments have owners who intend to occupy them at some point. A huge number of China's new apartments are located in new development areas, which are, by definition, new. The thinking is if you buy property in these emerging new areas early, you can get a better price. So it's common for people to purchase homes in places that are not yet ready to support a large population with the understanding that they won't be able to inhabit them for many years.
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Ethnic Chinese/overseas Chinese were the biggest FDI investors into China during its 30 years of double digit growth. And serve as bridge these days for China FDI into ASEAN countries
Does it matter?
Ethnic Chinese dominate the economies of these countries.
And these countries are dependent on the Chinese economy
Plus when it comes to Asean countries
China has an ace up its sleeve
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China Is Winning the Race for Water
Security in Asia Great power competition in Asia is not only about control of critical waterways in the South China Sea, but also about who controls Asiaâs fresh water. The future of Asiaâs waterâupon which about four billion people dependâlies in Chinaâs hands.
Through its presence in Tibet, China controls the headwaters of ten of the eleven major rivers of Asia. So far, China has taken a relatively cooperative approach to sharing water with its neighbors as part of the systematic consolidation of its âsoft powerâ over downstream countries.
But climate change and rapid growth are threatening to upset this delicate diplomatic balance. What happens when Chinaâs own thirst outpaces its resources?
And how will Chinaâs choices affect U.S. interests in the strategic Asia-Pacific region? China has positioned itself as a world leader on climate change and set ambitious goals for environmental protection.
However, due to the pace of urban as well as industrial expansion and its often-lax enforcement of pollution control regulations, China continues to consume as much coal as the rest of the world combined. Its approach to combatting climate change and resource scarcity, which emphasizes engineering solutions over better resource management, has resulted in dramatic infrastructure projects.
These include a series of hydro-electric dams meant to address the countryâs severe water shortage challenges by giving it more control over the continentâs rivers, as well as to generate electricity. These construction projects mean China can bestow or withhold water as it sees fit, leaving downstream Asian countries vulnerable to Beijingâs decisions. For example, Chinese hydroelectric dams along the Brahmaputra River have proven to be a source of friction with India, exacerbating long-simmering border disputes.
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In Defense of Socialism, 1990â1991
After the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, the VCP chief and defense minister sought an ideological alliance with China.
As Party Chief Nguyen Van Linh explained to the Chinese ambassador to Vietnam on June 5, 1990, the situation was marked by the Westâs offensive to eliminate socialismand concurrently the difficulties of the Soviet Union in defending socialism.
In this situation, Linh concluded,
âChina should raise high the banner of socialism and stick to Marxism-Leninism.â
Linh and Defense Minister Le Duc Anh hoped that China would take the leadership of the worldâs socialist forces;
they indicated to the ambassador that they were ready to meet Chinese leaders to discuss solidarity between the two states to fight imperialism.
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On September 2 that year, Vietnamâs Independence Day, the party and government chiefs did not stay in Hanoi to celebrate the 45th birthday of their state but instead flew to Chengdu, China, for a secret summit with Chinese leaders, the first since the mid-1970s.
The Vietnamese understood that their acceptance
of the time, place, and participants was a sign of deference to China.
Participants included Vietnamâs elder statesman Pham Van Dong but not Chinaâs paramount leader Deng Xiaoping; Foreign Minister Thach was excluded.
During the meeting, the Vietnamese also let the Chinese dictate the terms of negotiation;this should be seen against the background of a decade-long hostility between the two countries.
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The Vietnamese had urgent reasons for taking this approach. At the time, the counterweight of the Soviet Union was no longer available and Vietnam was still isolated, regionally and globally.
In China, Vietnam faced a disproportionately powerful neighbor, and in order to prevent Chinese aggression, Hanoi had to pay deference to Beijing.
It appeared to be the calculation of Pham Van
Dong and, to some extent, Prime Minister Do Muoi.
Yet, as discussed above, General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh had different concerns and priorities.
His primary intention at Chengdu was to discuss how to protect socialism from the West, led by the United States.
Although the Chinese refused to play the solidarity game, Linh and his successors over the next decade kept trying to reestablish the Sino-Vietnamese relationship on an ideological basis.
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Says the American living on indigenous land probably arguing how they were not the first and how they fought each other before the white man showed up
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979â1991)
When the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) withdrew from Vietnam in March 1979 after the war, China announced that they were not ambitious for "any square inch of the territory of Vietnam".[3] However, Chinese troops occupied an area of 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi), which was disputed land controlled by Vietnam before hostilities broke out.[4] In some places such as the area around Friendship Gate near the city of Lấng Sƥn, Chinese troops occupied territories which had little military value but important symbolic value. Elsewhere, Chinese troops occupied the strategic positions of military importance as springboards to attack Vietnam.[5]
The Chinese occupation of border territory angered Vietnam, and this ushered in a series of border conflicts between Vietnam and China to gain control of the area. These conflicts continued until 1988, peaking in the years 1984â1985.[6] By the early 1990s, along with the withdrawal of Vietnam from Cambodia and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the relationship between the two countries gradually returned to normality. By 1991, the two countries proclaimed the normalization of their diplomatic relations, thereby ending the border conflicts.
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UNCLOS????
Philippines under UNCLOS had every right to request a tribunal as a resolution
But
China under UNCLOS had every right not to accept the tribunal as a resolution
No one other than Taiwan accepts that 9 dash line claim.
But what the tribunal did state was ... No one exhibited continuous control over the islands, reefs, water in dispute
That means all the other countries who also have their land and water disputes including China and the Philippines
Have dug into the land and water they control. And are basically saying talk to us in few hundred years
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Article 287
Choice of procedure
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein.
2. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall not affect or be affected by the obligation of a State Party to accept the jurisdiction of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the extent and in the manner provided for in Part XI, section 5.
3. A State Party, which is a party to a dispute not covered by a declaration in force, shall be deemed to have accepted arbitration in accordance with Annex VII.
4. If the parties to a dispute have accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to that procedure, unless the parties otherwise agree.
5. If the parties to a dispute have not accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to arbitration in accordance with Annex VII, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall remain in force until three months after notice of revocation has been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7. A new declaration, a notice of revocation or the expiry of a declaration does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
8. Declarations and notices referred to in this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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Article 299 Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
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I donât think Filipinos with a grade 10 graduation (when you are 16 or some cases 15 )
can grasp what they are being told because once again
Philippines under UNCLOS had every right to request a tribunal as a resolution
BUT
China under UNCLOS had every right not to accept the tribunal as a resolution
You Filipinos went to shop for a sympathetic court once again
Thatâs like the Chinese going to a Russian court to see if by international law they can drop
A few nukes on you
No one other than Taiwan accepts that 9 dash line claim.
But what the tribunal did state was ... No one exhibited continuous control over the islands, reefs, water in dispute
That means all the other countries who also have their land and water disputes including China and the Philippines
Have dug into the land and water they control. And are basically saying talk to us in few hundred years
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Article 287
Choice of procedure
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein.
2. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall not affect or be affected by the obligation of a State Party to accept the jurisdiction of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the extent and in the manner provided for in Part XI, section 5.
3. A State Party, which is a party to a dispute not covered by a declaration in force, shall be deemed to have accepted arbitration in accordance with Annex VII.
4. If the parties to a dispute have accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to that procedure, unless the parties otherwise agree.
5. If the parties to a dispute have not accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to arbitration in accordance with Annex VII, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall remain in force until three months after notice of revocation has been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7. A new declaration, a notice of revocation or the expiry of a declaration does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
8. Declarations and notices referred to in this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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Article 299 Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
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You worked in China and you didnât know this
There is now a 27 book series on what the Chinese invented first?
that says we in the west copied or stole from them
If you took the time to read those books you will find in the vast majority of the cases,
there is no specific inventor(s) name(s) attributed to an invention
Rather it is the Chinese invented such and such in such in such a century
This guy explains it the best
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From Gongkai to Open Source
My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping.
Meanwhile, Western entrepreneurs often find themselves trapped in a spiderweb of IP frameworks, spending more money on lawyers than on tooling.
Further investigation taught me that the Chinese have a parallel system of traditions and ethics around sharing IP, which lead me to coin the term âgongkaiâ. This is deliberately not the Chinese word for âOpen Sourceâ, because that word (kaiyuan) refers to openness in a Western-style IP framework, which this not. Gongkai is more a reference to the fact that copyrighted documents, sometimes labeled âconfidentialâ and âproprietaryâ, are made known to the public and shared overtly, but not necessarily according to the letter of the law. However, this copying isnât a one-way flow of value, as it would be in the case of copied movies or music.
Rather, these documents are the knowledge base needed to build a phone using the copyright ownerâs chips, and as such, this sharing of documents helps to promote the sales of their chips. There is ultimately, if you will, a quid-pro-quo between the copyright holders and the copiers.
This fuzzy, gray relationship between companies and entrepreneurs is just one manifestation of a much broader cultural gap between the East and the West.
The West has a âbroadcastâ view of IP and ownership: good ideas and innovation are credited to a clearly specified set of authors or inventors, and society pays them a royalty for their initiative and good works.
China has a ânetworkâ view of IP and ownership: the far-sight necessary to create good ideas and innovations is attained by standing on the shoulders of others, and as such there is a network of people who trade these ideas as favors among each other.
In a system with such a loose attitude toward IP, sharing with the network is necessary as tomorrow it could be your friend standing on your shoulders, and youâll be looking to them for favors.
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 @verypleasantguy thanks for your opinion these are the facts
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Beyond as bridges: The role of the Chinese voluntary associations in Chinese outward foreign direct investment in Southeast Asia
Conclusion
This study focuses on the key research question of how CVAs organised and promoted by ethnic Chinese in host countries play a role in Chinese MNEs' OFDI in Southeast Asia. We address this question by adopting qualitative and comparative approaches to analyse the intermediary role of ethnic Chinese and CVAs involved in the OFDI process of Chinese MNEs and how their actions and interactions influence MNEs' local embeddedness.
First, from the perspective of âglobalâlocalâ interactions, we analyse the role of CVAs in promoting the globalisation and localisation of Chinese MNEs. On the one hand, Chinese MNEs can effectively obtain global resources and information through the global contact network formed by institutionalised links between CVAs and their close communications and interactions, such as the periodic global/regional association conferences. On the other hand, Chinese MNEs can successfully realise local embeddedness through CVAs' bidirectional facilitative capacity formed by their long-term cultivation in the locality. The essential role of CVAs serving as a âbridgeâ that connects the host country and China has been emphasised, which promotes mutual understanding and Chinese MNEs' local embeddedness. Second, considering the different types of CVAs, we unravel their different roles in promoting/hindering Chinese MNEs' OFDI. Comparatively speaking, the government-cooperative/sponsored CVAs and the privately-organised CVAs have their own advantages and disadvantages in shaping Chinese OFDI, while the ânewâ CVAs generally play a more significant role in the process of Chinese MNEs' OFDI.
This paper has demonstrated how Chinese MNEs' OFDI can achieve a âwin-winâ outcome through interaction with CVAs and ethnic Chinese by focusing on cooperation cases. Moreover, we highlight how recent changes in the leadership, economic orientation, and activities of CVAs point towards a trend of closer ties with China (Liu, 2023).
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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The $10,000 BYD Seagull EV is scaring the U.S. auto industry
China is the worldâs largest automotive market, and understandably so, an important one for electric vehicle (EV) makers like Tesla. Although competitive Chinese automaker BYD isnât yet slated to enter the U.S. market, the companyâs recent release of a city EV with a price tag under $10,000 has some worried for when it and other low-cost companies do.
BYD launched its Seagull, a small hatchback EV with a price tag starting at 69,800 yuan (~$9,773), at the Shanghai Auto Show last year. While BYD said just last month that it has no plans to enter the U.S. auto market anytime soon, some U.S. automotive groups have expressed concerns over the Seagull EV and other affordable mass-market EVs eventually coming to North America
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Why would you think the Chinese are looking to be trading in Gold?
they are buying Gold not to trade⌠but to stockpile at this point in time
Instead of buying US Sovereign Debt
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Chinaâs Gold Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Sabah clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines
(In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute stems with the fact they make a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE
Historical claim that the Philippines dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis in China
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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What most people donât get?
Is yes in âmostâ cases when you go to China to sell into their domestic markets you have to take a Joint Venture (JV) partner
And in âmostâ cases when you go to China to open up a factory, and export those goods back to your country you donât have to take on a JV partner
These days ?????
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
For one, it would crash the US economy
And the Chinese donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Yeah the last few years just like your claim came about 50 years ago
Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Malaysia clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines (In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines (off the shores of Malaysian land) if we are arguing strictly âproximityâ Malaysia wins in their dispute with the Philippines
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute in the SCS with China stems from the fact they made a formal proximity claim against China in 1971 on those disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE âhistorical claimâ that the Philippines formally dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal that the Filipinos unilaterally brought forth themselves
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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What most people donât get is the Philippines had every right to ask for arbitration
Itâs just China has every right not to accept arbitration
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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Article 299
Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
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Talk about a Bully
Imagine an unprovoked attack on Malaysia, killing Malaysians then seeking a court case against them
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How Malaysia ended up owing $15 billion to a sultan's heirs
* KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Malaysia is scrambling to protect its assets as the descendants of the last sultan of the remote Philippine region of Sulu look to enforce a $15 billion arbitration award in a dispute over a colonial-era land deal.
In 1878, two European colonists signed a deal with the sultan for the use of his territory in present-day Malaysia â an agreement that independent Malaysia honoured until 2013, paying the monarch's descendants about $1,000 a year.
Now, 144 years later after the original deal, Malaysia is on the hook for the second largest arbitration award on record for stopping the payments after a bloody incursion by supporters of Sultan Mohammed Jamalul Alam's heirs in which more than 50 people were killed.
For years, Malaysia largely dismissed the claims but in July, two Luxembourg-based subsidiaries of state energy firm Petronas were served with a seizure notice to enforce the award that the heirs won in February. read more
The arbitration ruling in France followed an eight-year legal effort by the heirs and $20 million in funds raised for them from unidentified third-party investors, according to interviews with main figures in the case and legal documents seen by Reuters.
*Malaysia did not participate in nor recognise the arbitration - allowing the heirs to present their case without rebuttal - despite warnings that it would be dangerous to ignore the process.
The claimants, including some retirees, are Filipino citizens leading middle-class lives, a far cry from their royal ancestors of the Sulu sultanate that once spanned rainforest-covered islands in the southern Philippines and parts of Borneo island.
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Malaysia Wins Court Battle Over $15 Billion Sulu Heirs Award
The ruling by the French Court of Appeal questioned the jurisdiction of Spanish arbitrator Gustavo Stampa, who ordered last yearâs eye-watering payout.
The âpartial awardâ was subsequently nullified by the Spanish High Court of Justice in June 2021, when it ruled that Malaysia had not been properly served ahead of Stampaâs appointment in 2019. In September, however, Stampa took the seemingly unusual step of transferring the arbitration proceeding to Paris, where he would go on to render the final award.
Critics of Stampa and the Sulu heirs have accused them of âforum shoppingâ â of âhopping from one foreign jurisdiction to the next to find a court that was willing to hear their claim,â as two Malaysian writers put it in these pages last year.
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The Commie invasion of Vietnam was never about colonization of Vietnam and you know it
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Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979â1991)
When the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) withdrew from Vietnam in March 1979 after the war, China announced that they were not ambitious for "any square inch of the territory of Vietnam".[3] However, Chinese troops occupied an area of 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi), which was disputed land controlled by Vietnam before hostilities broke out.[4] In some places such as the area around Friendship Gate near the city of Lấng Sƥn, Chinese troops occupied territories which had little military value but important symbolic value. Elsewhere, Chinese troops occupied the strategic positions of military importance as springboards to attack Vietnam.[5]
The Chinese occupation of border territory angered Vietnam, and this ushered in a series of border conflicts between Vietnam and China to gain control of the area. These conflicts continued until 1988, peaking in the years 1984â1985.[6] By the early 1990s, along with the withdrawal of Vietnam from Cambodia and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the relationship between the two countries gradually returned to normality. By 1991, the two countries proclaimed the normalization of their diplomatic relations, thereby ending the border conflicts.
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Letâs face it when the Chinese showed up 1000 years ago to trade
they had to go to Luzon to find Filipinos
Not these disputed islands you claimed in 1971
2 years after oil was found
At that time your ancestors must have went the islands you sailed by are yours????
okay na lang thank you sir come again siiiiiirrrr
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The Chinese Treasure Fleet in 15th century Philippines
* It was the people of our archipelago who discovered Magellan and the Europeans in 1521, not the other way around, as most Filipinos were taught by our grade-school textbooks. Our islands and their inhabitants were well-known to a larger, richer world that of Chinese emperors and scholars and Arab traders, as early as the 9th, even 6th centuries. And certainly by 1000 A.D., our shores were regular ports of call in the trade with China, then the most powerful nation on earth.
Chinese chronicles, European archaeologists and the diggings in our pre-colonial burial grounds prove that those ancient Filipinos used fine porcelain, weights and measures imported from China, and recorded written contracts. Chao-Ju-Kua reported that Chinese traders visited Ma-I (Luzon) regularly, leaving silks, porcelain and metal utensils on the beaches of designated islands, and returning weeks later to collect payment in the form of beeswax, gold dust, carabao horn, ginger, cinnamon or garlic. It was an import-export system run on a reliable honor system with unquestioned good faith.
* When Magellanâs Spanish Armada hove into view in March 1521, the natives of Homonhon in the Visayas must have taken pity on the small black ships with tattered sails and scruffy, starving, disoriented sailors, for they sent a small rowboat packed with rice, coconuts and bananas to their rescue. On the next island, the white, bearded strangers were feted in a bamboo palace with a banquet of roast fish, pork, turtle eggs and palm wine, by a native king whose queen wore a black-and-white gown, red lips and nails, while a quartet of young, topless damsels played music on various gongs and drums.
Those early Filipinos had been more accustomed to the tall, prosperous, Chinese ships with a trio of feathery sails stiffened with battens, for the China trade had been in place for at least 500 years. During the Ming Dynasty, Filipinos enjoyed the visits of the Treasure Fleet (1405-1500) of Admiral Cheng Ho (Zhen He) a huge, 7-ft tall, powerful eunuch, who had built 1,500 massive, 500-ft ships in a giant shipyard in Nanking with the help of 30,000 workers. The luxurious ships, each manned by 1,000 sailors ruled the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
* But the Chinese were not interested in conquest or territorial aggrandizement. Their purposes were trade and diplomacy. That was what our ancestors expected when they first saw the Spanish Armada.
Filipinos had never seen white men before Magellan and never thought the strangers would be as rapacious and predatory as they would prove to be. They assumed the new foreigners to be poor and needy because they had only glass beads, a string of little bells and a red cap (Magellanâs gifts) to reciprocate the native prodigality. The white men were, in fact, so dazzled by the earrings, chains, armlets and anklets, of pure gold, worn by both the native men and women that Magellan had to warn them against showing their covetousness.
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This Week at War: An Arms Race America CanâtWin
The United States has no chance in ship-for-shipshowdown with China. Luckily, it shouldn't have to have one.
Of course, counting ships does not tell the whole story. Even more critical are the missions assigned to these ships and the conditions under which they will fight. In a hypothetical conflict between the United States and China for control of the South and East China Seas, the continental power would enjoy substantial structural advantages over U.S. forces.
China, for instance, would be able to use its land-based air power, located at many dispersed and hardened bases, against naval targets. The ONI forecasts Chinaâs inventory of maritime strike aircraft rising from 145 in 2009 to 348 by 2020. U.S. land-based air power in the Western Pacific operates from just a few bases, which are vulnerable to missile attack from China (the Cold War-era Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty prevents the United States from developing theater-based surface-to-surface missiles with ranges sufficient to put Chinese bases at risk). A comparison of ship counts similarly does not include Chinaâs land-based anti-shipcruise missiles, fired from mobile truck launchers. Nor does it account for Chinaâs fleet of coastal patrol boats, also armed with anti-ship cruise missiles.
The Air-Sea Battle concept began as an effort to improve staff coordination and planning between the Navy and the Air Force in an effort to address the structural disadvantages these forces would have when going up against a well-armed continental power like China. The concept is about creating operational synergies between the services. An example of this synergy occurred in last yearâs campaign against Libya, when U.S. Navy cruise missiles destroyed Libyaâs air defense system, clearing the way for the U.S. Air Force to operate freely over the country.
But Air-Sea Battle still faces enormous challenges in overcoming the "home court" advantage a continental power enjoys deploying its missile forces from hidden, dispersed, and hardened sites. In addition, the United States faces a steep "marginal cost" problem with an opponent like China; additional defenses for U.S. ships are more expensive than additional Chinese missiles. And China can acquire hundreds or even thousands of missiles for the cost of one major U.S. warship.
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War with China would be an unmitigated strategic catastrophe
The United States too often suffers from historical amnesia and technological hubris. One striking example proves this point.
Since World War II ended, America has lost every war it started. Yes, America has lost every war it started â Vietnam, Afghanistan and the second Iraq War. And it won the Cold War, which it did not start.
Saddam Husseinâs 1990 invasion of Kuwait provoked an overwhelming response by a large international coalition led by the U.S. After Sept. 11, the U.S. did not have to invade Afghanistan to destroy al Qaeda or kill Osama bin Laden. After all, where was bin Laden killed? In Pakistan, not Afghanistan.
Now the U.S. is repeating these huge misjudgments in its strategic thinking and planning for national security and defense. Since Barack Obamaâs strategic pivot to Asia, both the Trump and Biden administrations have followed suit. As a result, the U.S. now has a military force designed to fight one war, presumably against China, at a cost of about $900 billion a year.
And this is a war the U.S. will not or cannot win for many reasons. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was correct when he warned that anyone considering fighting a land war in Asia âneeded to have his or her mind examined.â
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 @philgooddr.7850 China is still considered a developing country
by the WTO
A decade ago people were complaining about China being the worlds biggest polluter
Now itâs China subsidized this plus that and over capacity đ
Maybe itâs time for these richer countries to put even more money into fixing the climate change they fear so much
Because letâs get one thing straight every country is subsidizing their auto industries
Plus worldwide oil subsidies hit 7 trillion in 2023
If they donât have an auto industry then their clean, green, renewable etc etc etc
Itâs just the Chinese are doing it on a massive scale
Maybe you want your grandkids to go back to the cart and horse 50 years from now
Because worldwide oil reserves are projected to last 50 years. And there ainât looking to be any better options right now
While worldwide Rare Earths deposits are expected to last 400 years. China just found another new RareEarth deposit expected to last 120 more years on top of that
Plus when it comes to lithium and Nickel. China can replace the mining of those minerals through recycling within 25 years
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JANUARY 30, 2023
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China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing
Nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF. The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of Chinaâs economic growth in 2023
Other key findings of the analysis include:
Clean-energy investment rose 40% year-on-year to 6.3tn yuan ($890bn), with the growth accounting for all of the investment growth across the Chinese economy in 2023.
Chinaâs $890bn investment in clean-energy sectors is almost as large as total global investments in fossil fuel supply in 2023 â and similar to the GDP of Switzerland or Turkey.
Including the value of production, clean-energy sectors contributed 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to the Chinese economy in 2023, up 30% year-on-year.
Clean-energy sectors, as a result, were the largest driver of Chinaâ economic growth overall, accounting for 40% of the expansion of GDP in 2023.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, Chinaâs GDP would have missed the governmentâs growth target of âaround 5%â, rising by only 3.0%
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China already has robotaxis
Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis in China
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel. Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city. The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates. In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year. Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Because your only other Filipino claim other than a proximity claim in 1971????
Is based on your Spanish Colonizer claim in the 1500s
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Article 287
Choice of procedure
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein.
2. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall not affect or be affected by the obligation of a State Party to accept the jurisdiction of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the extent and in the manner provided for in Part XI, section 5.
3. A State Party, which is a party to a dispute not covered by a declaration in force, shall be deemed to have accepted arbitration in accordance with Annex VII.
4. If the parties to a dispute have accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to that procedure, unless the parties otherwise agree.
5. If the parties to a dispute have not accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to arbitration in accordance with Annex VII, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall remain in force until three months after notice of revocation has been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7. A new declaration, a notice of revocation or the expiry of a declaration does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
8. Declarations and notices referred to in this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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China has an 820 billion dollar trade surplus with the world the vast majority of that would be in USDs
I think they are doing just fine with limiting their dollar/debt exposure
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Chinaâs Gold Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Malaysia clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines (In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines (off the shores of Malaysian land) if we are arguing strictly âproximityâ Malaysia wins in their dispute with the Philippines
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute in the SCS with China stems from the fact they made a formal proximity claim against China in 1971 on those disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE âhistorical claimâ that the Philippines formally dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal that the Filipinos unilaterally brought forth themselves
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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You are about as dum down as the Americans
The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese people and Government
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter
instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Philippines under UNCLOS had every right to request a tribunal as a resolution
But
China under UNCLOS had every right not to accept the tribunal as a resolution
No one other than Taiwan accepts that 9 dash line claim.
But what the tribunal did state was ... No one exhibited continuous control over the islands, reefs, water in dispute
That means all the other countries who also have their land and water disputes including China and the Philippines
Have dug into the land and water they control. And are basically saying talk to us in few hundred years
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Article 287
Choice of procedure
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein.
2. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall not affect or be affected by the obligation of a State Party to accept the jurisdiction of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the extent and in the manner provided for in Part XI, section 5.
3. A State Party, which is a party to a dispute not covered by a declaration in force, shall be deemed to have accepted arbitration in accordance with Annex VII.
4. If the parties to a dispute have accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to that procedure, unless the parties otherwise agree.
5. If the parties to a dispute have not accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to arbitration in accordance with Annex VII, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall remain in force until three months after notice of revocation has been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7. A new declaration, a notice of revocation or the expiry of a declaration does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
8. Declarations and notices referred to in this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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Article 299 Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
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The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese Government trying to get their people to use homegrown chips
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Philippines under UNCLOS had every right to request a tribunal as a resolution
But
China under UNCLOS had every right not to accept the tribunal as a resolution
No one other than Taiwan accepts that 9 dash line claim.
But what the tribunal did state was ... No one exhibited continuous control over the islands, reefs, water in dispute
That means all the other countries who also have their land and water disputes including China and the Philippines
Have dug into the land and water they control. And are basically saying talk to us in few hundred years
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Article 287
Choice of procedure
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein.
2. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall not affect or be affected by the obligation of a State Party to accept the jurisdiction of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the extent and in the manner provided for in Part XI, section 5.
3. A State Party, which is a party to a dispute not covered by a declaration in force, shall be deemed to have accepted arbitration in accordance with Annex VII.
4. If the parties to a dispute have accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to that procedure, unless the parties otherwise agree.
5. If the parties to a dispute have not accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to arbitration in accordance with Annex VII, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall remain in force until three months after notice of revocation has been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7. A new declaration, a notice of revocation or the expiry of a declaration does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
8. Declarations and notices referred to in this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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In addition, article 298, paragraph 1, allows States and entities to declare that they exclude the application of the compulsory binding procedures for the settlement of disputes under the Convention in respect of certain specified categories kinds of disputes. Article 298, paragraph 1, reads:
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Article 299 Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
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 @Justthe_facts yes and this
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Trump made his first round of controversial comments on the subject on Thursday at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, at an event on fighting antisemitism. Trump was speaking about billionaire Miriam Adelson, the widow of major Republican donor Sheldon Adelson and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Trump said the civilian award is âactually much better because everyone [who] gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, theyâre soldiers. Theyâre either in very bad shape because theyâve been hit so many times by bullets, or theyâre dead.â Speaking about Miriam Adelson, Trump said: âShe gets it, and sheâs a healthy, beautiful woman, and theyâre rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom.â
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Such a fake news people these days
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Difference Between Internal Debt and External Debt!
The basic character of an internal debt is quite different from that of the external debt. In external debt, at the time of repayment there is a real transfer of resources.
In case of internal debt, however, since it is borrowed from individuals and institutions within the country repayment will constitute only a re-distribution of resources without causing any change in the total resources of the community.
There can, thus, be no direct money burden caused by internal debts since all payments cancel each other out in the aggregate community as a whole. Whatever is taxed from one section of the community servicing the debts is distributed among the bond-holders by way of repayment of loans and interest; and quite often, the tax-payer and the bond-holder may be the same person.
At the most, to the extent that the incomes of tax-payers (in a sense, debtors) are reduced, so will the incomes of creditors/ bond-holders increase, but the aggregate position of the community will, nevertheless, remain the same.
However, internal debt may involve a direct real burden on the community according to the nature of the series of transfer of incomes from tax payers to the public creditors. To the extent the tax-payers and the bond-holders are the same, the distribution of wealth will remain unaltered; hence there will not be any net real burden on the community.
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This Week at War: An Arms Race America Canât Win
The United States has no chance in ship-for-ship showdown with China. Luckily, it shouldn't have to have one.
Of course, counting ships does not tell the whole story. Even more critical are the missions assigned to these ships and the conditions under which they will fight. In a hypothetical conflict between the United States and China for control of the South and East China Seas, the continental power would enjoy substantial structural advantages over U.S. forces.
China, for instance, would be able to use its land-based air power, located at many dispersed and hardened bases, against naval targets. The ONI forecasts Chinaâs inventory of maritime strike aircraft rising from 145 in 2009 to 348 by 2020. U.S. land-based air power in the Western Pacific operates from just a few bases, which are vulnerable to missile attack from China (the Cold War-era Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty prevents the United States from developing theater-based surface-to-surface missiles with ranges sufficient to put Chinese bases at risk). A comparison of ship counts similarly does not include Chinaâs and-based anti-ship cruise missiles, fired from mobile truck launchers. Nor does it account for Chinaâs fleet of coastal patrol
boats, also armed with anti-ship cruise missiles.
The Air-Sea Battle concept began as an effort to improve staff coordination and planning between the Navy and the Air Force in an effort to address the structural disadvantages these forces would have when going up against a well-armed continental power like China. The concept is about creating operational synergies between the services. An example of this synergy occurred in last yearâs campaign against Libya,when U.S. Navy cruise missiles destroyed Libyaâs air defense system,
clearing the way for the U.S. Air Force to operate freely over the
country.
But Air-Sea Battle still faces enormous challenges in overcoming the"home court" advantage a continental power enjoys deploying its missile forces from hidden, dispersed, and hardened sites. In addition, the United States faces a steep "marginal cost" problem with an opponent like China; additional defenses for U.S. ships are more expensive than additional Chinese missiles. And China can acquire hundreds or even
thousands of missiles for the cost of one major U.S. warship.
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Study on battery recycling shows China is in 1st place
China is ahead of Europe and the US in using recycling to meet its needs for lithium, cobalt and nickel for batteries for electric vehicles
Prof. Stephan von Delft from the University of MĂźnster (Germany) heads a team of researchers from the fields of science and the automotive and battery industries who have therefore been investigating when the demand for the three most important raw materials for batteries â lithium, cobalt and nickel â can be met entirely through recycling in Europe, the US and China; in other words, when a completely circular economy will be possible in these regions. The teamâs conclusion is that China will achieve this first, followed by Europe and the US.
In detail, the results show that China is expected to be able to employ recycling to meet its own demand for primary lithium for electric vehicles, obtained through mining, from 2059 onwards; in Europe and the US, this will not happen until after 2070. As far as cobalt is concerned, recycling is expected to ensure that China will be able to meet its needs after 2045, at the earliest; in Europe this will happen in 2052 and in the US not until 2056. As regards nickel: China can probably meet demand through recycling in 2046 at the earliest, with Europe following in 2058 and the US from 2064 onwards.
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 @stefan2796 what people in the west probably do care about is affordability
O wait
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U.S. raises tariffs significantly on EVs, other goods from China
Tariffs, to be phased in over next 3 years, include on EVs, solar cells, steel, aluminum
The Associated Press
Posted: May 14, 2024
Under the findings of a four-year review on trade with China, the tax rate on imported Chinese EVs is to rise to 102.5 per cent this year, up from total levels of 27.5 per cent. The review was undertaken under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which allows the government to retaliate against trade practices deemed in violation of global standards.
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 @Believerin3Â
âââ whatâs the point in building another Gigafactory when Chinese EVs are cheaper, better quality and more innovative
Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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With that said the Philippines did not make official claim on those disputed islands until 1971
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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there was another reason there was that border incursion
Around the same time even Russia was pushing for a Chinese vote to allow India to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council
If China really wanted that disputed land???
they could have damned up the river upstream and made that a dried up river bed
China just found another 120 years worth of Rare Earths at (todayâs consumption levels) near the border upstream from the rivers that feed India
the Chinese could just announce the plan to mine and refine the highly polluting process of refining rare earths. (1 ton of rare earths produces 2000 tons of toxic waste water)
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China has claimed express ownership over Tibetâs waters, making it an upstream controller of seven of South Asiaâs mightiest rivers â the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Yangtze and Mekong. These rivers flow into Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, and form the largest river run-off from any single location. It is estimated that 718 billion cubic meters of surface water flows out of the Tibetan plateau and the Chinese-administered regions of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia to neighbouring countries each year.
Nearly half that water, 48%, runs directly into India.
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What most people like you donât get?
Is it is mostly US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
For one, it would crash the US Economy
And the Chinese donât believe in a zero-sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Yes local Governments for example could start charging property taxes
The smart people would have moved already
Still a lot better than western countries sticking that debt into their Sovereign external debt.
Even then take the US Internal debt at 300 trillion. Where they have already borrowed 34 trillion externally
At least the Chinese could go borrow externally if all else fails
The USA is where people should be worried if itâs about debt
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China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debt might be hidden now.
The majority of bank loans, says Jubak, went to state-owned companies -- about 70% of the total. The collapse of China's export trade following the crisis meant that its banks were suddenly sitting on billions in debts that were clearly never going to be paid. But that was when China's largest banks were trying to raise capital by selling stock in Hong Kong and New York, and no bank could go public with that much bad debt on its books.
The creative solution? The Beijing government set up special-purpose asset management companies for the four largest state-owned banks, the equivalent of the "special purpose vehicles" designed by Wall Street to funnel real estate loans off U.S. bank books. The Chinese entities ultimately bought $287 billion in bad loans from state-owned banks. To pay for the loans, they issued bonds to the banks, on which they paid interest. The state-owned banks thus got $287 billion in toxic debt off their books and turned the bad loans into an income stream from the bonds.
Sound familiar? Wall Street did the same thing in the 2008 bailout, with the U.S. government underwriting the deal. The difference was that China's largest banks were owned by the government, so the government rather than a private banking cartel got the benefit of the arrangement. According to British economist Samah El-Shahat, writing in Al Jazeera in August 2009:
China hasn't allowed its banking sector to become so powerful, so influential, and so big that it can call the shots or highjack the bailout. In simple terms, the government preferred to answer to its people and put their interests first before that of any vested interest or group. And that is why Chinese banks are lending to the people and their businesses in record numbers.
In the US and UK, by contrast:
banks have captured all the money from the taxpayers and the cheap money from quantitative easing from central banks. They are using it to shore up, and clean up their balance sheets rather than lend it to the people. The money has been hijacked by the banks, and our governments are doing absolutely nothing about that. In fact, they have been complicit in allowing this to happen
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Yes local Governments for example could start charging property taxes
The smart people would have moved already
Still a lot better than western countries sticking that debt into their Sovereign external debt.
Even then take the US Internal debt at 300 trillion. Where they have already borrowed 34 trillion externally
At least the Chinese could go borrow externally if all else fails
The USA is where people should be worried if itâs about debt
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China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debt might be hidden now.
The majority of bank loans, says Jubak, went to state-owned companies -- about 70% of the total. The collapse of China's export trade following the crisis meant that its banks were suddenly sitting on billions in debts that were clearly never going to be paid. But that was when China's largest banks were trying to raise capital by selling stock in Hong Kong and New York, and no bank could go public with that much bad debt on its books.
The creative solution? The Beijing government set up special-purpose asset management companies for the four largest state-owned banks, the equivalent of the "special purpose vehicles" designed by Wall Street to funnel real estate loans off U.S. bank books. The Chinese entities ultimately bought $287 billion in bad loans from state-owned banks. To pay for the loans, they issued bonds to the banks, on which they paid interest. The state-owned banks thus got $287 billion in toxic debt off their books and turned the bad loans into an income stream from the bonds.
Sound familiar? Wall Street did the same thing in the 2008 bailout, with the U.S. government underwriting the deal. The difference was that China's largest banks were owned by the government, so the government rather than a private banking cartel got the benefit of the arrangement. According to British economist Samah El-Shahat, writing in Al Jazeera in August 2009:
China hasn't allowed its banking sector to become so powerful, so influential, and so big that it can call the shots or highjack the bailout. In simple terms, the government preferred to answer to its people and put their interests first before that of any vested interest or group. And that is why Chinese banks are lending to the people and their businesses in record numbers.
In the US and UK, by contrast:
banks have captured all the money from the taxpayers and the cheap money from quantitative easing from central banks. They are using it to shore up, and clean up their balance sheets rather than lend it to the people. The money has been hijacked by the banks, and our governments are doing absolutely nothing about that. In fact, they have been complicit in allowing this to happen
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Do China's ghost cities offer a solution to Europe's migrant crisis?
By Wade Shepard
* Even though there are between 20 and 45 million unoccupied homes across China, which account for roughly 600 million square meters of uninhabited floor space - enough to completely cover Madrid - these places are not the urban wastelands they are often posited to be. While many of China's new cities and urban districts are deficient in people they are not deficient in owners. Nearly every apartment that goes on the market in China is quickly purchased, often at exorbitant prices that commonly range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Far from being unwanted infrastructure that could seamlessly be doled out to refugees, those arrays of vacant high-rises are actually the proud possessions of people who paid a lot of money for them.
* A huge portion of the homes that are purchased in China function very much like stocks or a trade-able commodity. As an incredible number of new apartments are sold as unfinished concrete cavities without any interior fit out or even windows, they are in no way immediately livable.
Strange as it may seem, they are very actively bought and sold in this bare-bones form. In fact, investors often prefer them that way. In many ways they are purely economic entities, quantifiable placeholders of value that are traded on the open market akin to precious metals. Just as one doesn't need to mold a piece of gold into something usable, like a piece of jewelry, for it to have value and an economic function, an apartment in China doesn't need to have people living in it for it to be economically viable.
"Empty units leave flexibility for quick sales in a changing market or need to cash in quickly," said Barry Wilson, the founding director of Barry Wilson Project Initiatives, a Hong Kong-based urban design firm.
Another reason for the sheer number of unused apartments in China is the fact that there is often little financial incentive for owners to do anything with them after purchase. There is no yearly property tax in China, so vacant properties are not a financial drain on their owners. While the potential returns that could be had from renting them out (1 percent or so) is often not worth the hassle - especially because it costs tens of thousands of dollars to construct the interiors of new apartments in preparation for tenants.
This is combined with the fact that Chinese homeowners, especially investors who have multiple properties, are remarkably un-leveraged. According to Mark Tanner, over 80 percent of homes in China are owned outright. This means that most homeowners, especially the big investors with multiple properties, generally don't have any mortgages to pay off or any other leans, so there isn't as much financial pressure to make a profit from these homes in the short term.
Additionally many empty apartments have owners who intend to occupy them at some point. A huge number of China's new apartments are located in new development areas, which are, by definition, new. The thinking is if you buy property in these emerging new areas early, you can get a better price. So it's common for people to purchase homes in places that are not yet ready to support a large population with the understanding that they won't be able to inhabit them for many years.
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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To me what ever it is? Rent or the Sale of the land???
Malaysia has the right to pay you Filipinos in âperpetuityâ
Certainly does not give you the right to invade
As for China just because there is a change in Government does not mean the country does not exist where did you get your education
Even with that strange logic then Taiwan should control those disputed islands
And the commies in China established in 1949 still made a claim to to those islands before the Philippines did in 1971 a few years after oil was found
As for the Manchu Dynasty that only shows what has already been argued in court that China did not show continuous control over the disputed islands
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Weaponizing Water: How China Controls the Mekong
Despite these record lows for the Mekong river in Southeast Asia, the upper Mekong in Chinaâs Yunnan province received above-normal rainfall. Even though climate change does play a role in the Mekongâs fading banks, it is the construction of dams, not a lack of rain, that is most detrimental.
As of now, China has completed 11 dams with many more at various levels of planning and competition. Laos has two operational dams on the river with plans to build at least seven more while Cambodia has two in various stages of construction. The dams in both Laos and Cambodia are financially backed by China through its Belt and Road Initiative and intend to export much of this electricity to China. This shows Chinaâs influence and determination to produce electricity from the river at any cost and its ability to pressure other nations, whose people want the river undammed, to comply.
Through the damming of the Mekong, China is using what has been termed âhydro-diplomacyâ to exert control over Southeast Asia, bringing the threat of further economic and environmental ruin to its southern neighbors. With Chinaâs dams in the Yunnan province alone, China can withhold some 47 million cubic meters of water from flowing downstream. This has the potential to cripple the lifeline of much of Southeast Asia in one swing which China both knows and utilizes to influence the region â especially when it comes to exerting power over America.
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Btw you are Tesla owner
There are many America YouTube Channels where they are very hostile to Teslas as I donât think Chinese EVs will be a thing in the USA unless they sneak them in
Where in the USA there are pole showing growing resistance to anything Green,Clean, Renewable
And Teslas you really should go to those sites and debate with those folks
Downright ignorant and hostile people
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Ford receives $9.2 billion government loan for EV battery factory projects / The eye-popping sum represents the biggest government investment in the auto industry since the bailouts from the Great Recession.
By Andrew J. Hawkins, transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State.
Jun 22, 2023
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Ford receives $9.2 billion government loan for EV battery factory projects / The eye-popping sum represents the biggest government investment in the auto industry since the bailouts from the Great Recession.
By Andrew J. Hawkins, transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State.
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So these days what most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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These were property developers cut off from money flow by their Central Government 14 years ago
But they were recently saved as their Junk Bonds started to become hot commodities these last few years
So as a Developer what to you do when you get an influx of Cash????
You buildâŚ.
This is what was happening before this
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* Even though there are between 20 and 45 million unoccupied homes across China, which account for roughly 600 million square meters of uninhabited floor space â enough to completely cover Madrid, these places are not the urban wastelands they are often posited to be. While many of Chinaâs new cities and urban districts are deficient in people they are not deficient in owners. Nearly every apartment that goes on the market in China is quickly purchased, often at exorbitant prices that commonly range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Far from being unwanted infrastructure that could seamlessly be doled out to refugees, those arrays of vacant high-rises are actually the proud possessions of people who paid a lot of money for them. So why would anyone spend incredible amounts of cash on houses they do not intent to use?
* A huge portion of the homes that are purchased in China function very much like stocks or a trade-able commodity. As an incredible amount of new apartments are sold as unfinished concrete cavities without any interior fit out or even windows, they are in no way immediately livable.
Although they are very actively bought and sold in this bare-bones form, which is often preferred by investors. In many ways they are purely economic entities, quantifiable placeholders of value that are traded on the open market akin to precious metals. Just as one doesnât need to mold a piece of gold into something usable like a piece of jewelry for it to have value and an economic function, an apartment in China doesnât need to have people living in it for it to be economically viable.
âEmpty units leave flexibility for quick sales in a changing market or need to cash in quickly,â said Barry Wilson, the founding director of Barry Wilson Project Initiatives, a Hong Kong based urban design firm. Another reason for the sheer amount of unused apartments in China is the fact that there is often little financial incentive for owners to do anything with them after purchase. There is no yearly property tax in China, so vacant properties are not a financial drain on their owners. While the potential returns that could be had from renting them out (1% or so) is often not worth the hassle â especially because it costs tens of thousands of dollars to construct the interiors of new apartments in preparation for tenants. This is combined with the fact that Chinese homeowners, especially investors who have multiple properties, are remarkably un-leveraged.
According to Mark Tanner, over 80% of homes in China are owned outright. This means that most homeowners, especially the big investors with multiple properties, generally donât have any mortgages to pay off or any other leans, so there isnât as much financial pressure to make a profit from these homes in the short term.
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Does it matter Ethnic Chinese dominate the economies of these countries. And these countries are dependent on the Chinese economy
Plus when it comes to Asean countries
China has an ace up its sleeve
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China Is Winning the Race for Water
Security in Asia Great power competition in Asia is not only about control of critical waterways in the South China Sea, but also about who controls Asiaâs fresh water. The future of Asiaâs waterâupon which about four billion people dependâlies in Chinaâs hands.
Through its presence in Tibet, China controls the headwaters of ten of the eleven major rivers of Asia. So far, China has taken a relatively cooperative approach to sharing water with its neighbors as part of the systematic consolidation of its âsoft powerâ over downstream countries.
But climate change and rapid growth are threatening to upset this delicate diplomatic balance. What happens when Chinaâs own thirst outpaces its resources?
And how will Chinaâs choices affect U.S. interests in the strategic Asia-Pacific region? China has positioned itself as a world leader on climate change and set ambitious goals for environmental protection.
However, due to the pace of urban as well as industrial expansion and its often-lax enforcement of pollution control regulations, China continues to consume as much coal as the rest of the world combined. Its approach to combatting climate change and resource scarcity, which emphasizes engineering solutions over better resource management, has resulted in dramatic infrastructure projects.
These include a series of hydro-electric dams meant to address the countryâs severe water shortage challenges by giving it more control over the continentâs rivers, as well as to generate electricity. These construction projects mean China can bestow or withhold water as it sees fit, leaving downstream Asian countries vulnerable to Beijingâs decisions. For example, Chinese hydroelectric dams along the Brahmaputra River have proven to be a source of friction with India, exacerbating long-simmering border disputes.
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China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is an unlikely option
Sunce Fentanyl is a legal substance, used in US Hospitals
Plus without those Chinese drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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 @eugenechin2863Â
if it was happening to the Chinese instead, of the Americans
I would say the same thing
You can complainâŚ. but that wonât change a thing because bottom line is, you canât compete
But then we already know that wouldnât happen the East Asian mindset they might complain but then in the end they would try harder, work harder
The Western mindset/American mindset is to complain then give up when they are losing
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What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When we don't know enough to know what we don't know.
* So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence.
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Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
* Meanwhile, other researchers are studying the subjective nature of self-assessment from other angles. For example, Steven Heine, PhD, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, is showing that self-inflation tends to be more of a Western than a universal phenomenon.
* In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
* First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
* Heine adds. If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it. East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
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Difference Between Internal Debt and External Debt!
The basic character of an internal debt is quite different from that of the external debt. In external debt, at the time of repayment there is a real transfer of resources.
In case of internal debt, however, since it is borrowed from individuals and institutions within the country repayment will constitute only a re-distribution of resources without causing any change in the total resources of the community.
There can, thus, be no direct money burden caused by internal debts since all payments cancel each other out in the aggregate community as a whole. Whatever is taxed from one section of the community servicing the debts is distributed among the bond-holders by way of repayment of loans and interest; and quite often, the tax-payer and the bond-holder may be the same person.
At the most, to the extent that the incomes of tax-payers (in a sense, debtors) are reduced, so will the incomes of creditors/ bond-holders increase, but the aggregate position of the community will, nevertheless, remain the same.
However, internal debt may involve a direct real burden on the community according to the nature of the series of transfer of incomes from tax payers to the public creditors. To the extent the tax-payers and the bond-holders are the same, the distribution of wealth will remain unaltered; hence there will not be any net real burden on the community.
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Difference Between Internal Debt and External Debt!
The basic character of an internal debt is quite different from that of the external debt. In external debt, at the time of repayment there is a real transfer of resources.
In case of internal debt, however, since it is borrowed from individuals and institutions within the country repayment will constitute only a re-distribution of resources without causing any change in the total resources of the community.
There can, thus, be no direct money burden caused by internal debts since all payments cancel each other out in the aggregate community as a whole. Whatever is taxed from one section of the community servicing the debts is distributed among the bond-holders by way of repayment of loans and interest; and quite often, the tax-payer and the bond-holder may be the same person.
At the most, to the extent that the incomes of tax-payers (in a sense, debtors) are reduced, so will the incomes of creditors/ bond-holders increase, but the aggregate position of the community will, nevertheless, remain the same.
However, internal debt may involve a direct real burden on the community according to the nature of the series of transfer of incomes from tax payers to the public creditors. To the extent the tax-payers and the bond-holders are the same, the distribution of wealth will remain unaltered; hence there will not be any net real burden on the community.
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Once again
Take for example the USA has 212 trillion in unfunded liabilities, which is internal debt
when was the last time you heard that figured included with that 34 trillion external sovereign debt figure?????
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China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
What is China's secret? According to financial commentator Jim Jubak, it may just be "creative accounting" -- the sort of accounting for which Wall Street is notorious, in which debts are swept off the books and turned into "assets." China is able to pull this off because it does not owe its debts to foreign creditors. The banks doing the funding are state-owned, and the state can write off its own debts.
Jubak observes:
China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debt might be hidden now.
The majority of bank loans, says Jubak, went to state-owned companies -- about 70% of the total. The collapse of China's export trade following the crisis meant that its banks were suddenly sitting on billions in debts that were clearly never going to be paid. But that was when China's largest banks were trying to raise capital by selling stock in Hong Kong and New York, and no bank could go public with that much bad debt on its books.
The creative solution? The Beijing government set up special-purpose asset management companies for the four largest state-owned banks, the equivalent of the "special purpose vehicles" designed by Wall Street to funnel real estate loans off U.S. bank books.
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The Chinese Government cut off money flow to these Developers on 2010
Thatâs all the warning people needed
2 years ago was when it was mostly âSophisticated Foreign Investors â
Who were buying these Property Developers Junk bonds
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Huge Price Cuts Rumored From Chinese Developers Due To Collapsing Demand
Vincent Fernando, CFA May 29, 2010
Demand is falling since China's central government announced stricter regulations for property transactions during the middle of April. These involve higher down payments and mortgage rates for the purchase of second home, and act which is seen as potential speculation. Such tightening is reducing buying demand.
Thus a moderately bearish view is that property prices need to come down, since demand is likely down yet supply is the same. This challenge isn't limited to Shanghai:
China Vanke Co, the country's largest publicly listed developer, may cut apartment prices by 10 to 30 percent within three months, the Beijing News said yesterday, citing an unidentified sales agent. Local Vanke officials declined to comment yesterday.
Yet Shanghai is where things could get the ugliest, the earliest. This is because the local Shanghai government is planning to clamp down on speculation even harder than China's central government already has:
Chen Qiwei, a spokesman for the Shanghai municipal government, did not preclude the possibility of levying property tax when asked about this issue at a press conference on Friday.
"Shanghai will take more strict measures in line with the central government policy," Chen said, adding that more efforts will be made in building economically affordable houses and cracking down on speculative house purchasing.
Other cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Shenzen could have similar additional taxes, but Shanghai is the first to make an official comment such as above according to China Daily. Thing is, any action from Shanghai will likely need approval from the central government.
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China Increases Banksâ Reserve Ratios to Cool Prices
By Bloomberg News
December 10, 2010 at 4:08 AM PST
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China raises banks' reserve ratios again
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December 10, 20104:27 AM PSTUpdated 13 years ago
Dec 10, 2010 â The 50 basis point increase, which takes effect on Dec 20, will leave required reserve ratios at 18.5 percent
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China Property Market âBubbleâ Set to Burst, Xie Says
By Bloomberg News
February 1, 2010 at 11:51 PM PST
Chinaâs property market âbubbleâ is set to burst as the government curbs credit growth and clamps down on speculation, according to independent economist Andy Xie.
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China cracks down on speculators to cool prices
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NOV. 23, 2010
The government has ordered banks twice in the past three weeks to raise the amount of money they hold in reserves to rein in lending growth.
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China cracks down on property speculation Source:Global Times Published: 2010
The Chinese government has raised the down payment for second-home buyers to a minimum 50 percent of the value from 40 percent, in a bid to curb property speculation.
The decision was announced in a statement released Thursday after conclusion of an executive meeting of the State Council, the Cabinet, presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, on Wednesday.
First-home buyers must pay no less than 30 percent of the the property price if the area is above 90 square meters, the statement said.
The government was stepping up the introduction of tax policies to influence purchases and adjust property investment returns, said the statement.
Nationwide, land use for the construction of low-income housing, shanty town renovation and small and medium-sized homes (below 90 square meters) should account for at least 70 percent of the land approved for property development, the statement said.
It also urged local authorities to accelerate housing construction approvals to ensure effective land supply, and crack down on land hoarding and speculatory behavior.
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China attempts to deflate its unstable property bubble
China is to spend $200bn on low-cost homes as part of a series of measures to slow the rapidly rising prices of urban houses
Tania Branigan in Beijing
Wed 9 Mar 2011 19.24 GMT
Chinese officials are blaming speculators for soaring property prices and are vowing to build 36m affordable homes over the next five years. There are already widespread concerns about China's booming property market and the threat it poses to the country's expanding economy.
China would spend nearly $200bn (ÂŁ123bn) on an affordable homes and social housing scheme, said deputy housing minister Qi Ji in Beijing .
The pledge came a few days after premier Wen Jiabao promised to "resolutely" curb speculation to tackle excessively rapid price increases
The authorities have taken various steps since spring last year to dampen the property market. These include raising interest rates, increasing the minimum downpayment required on second homes and restricting the rights of foreigners to buy property. Two Chinese cities are now imposing sales tax on property deals.
While the measures have slowed growth, many fear it remains too high. In March 2010, urban housing prices shot up by 11.7% year-on-year, according to figures from the national bureau of statistics. December saw the lowest increase in more than a year, but it still stood at 6.4%.
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* Even though there are between 20 and 45 million unoccupied homes across China, which account for roughly 600 million square meters of uninhabited floor space - enough to completely cover Madrid - these places are not the urban wastelands they are often posited to be. While many of Chinaâs new cities and urban districts are deficient in people they are not deficient in owners. Nearly every apartment that goes on the market in China is quickly purchased, often at exorbitant prices that commonly range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Far from being unwanted infrastructure that could seamlessly be doled out to refugees, those arrays of vacant high-rises are actually the proud possessions of people who paid a lot of money for them.
So why would anyone spend incredible amounts of cash on houses they do not intent to use?
* A huge portion of the homes that are purchased in China function very much like stocks or a trade-able commodity. As an incredible number of new apartments are sold as unfinished concrete cavities without any interior fit out or even windows, they are in no way immediately livable. Strange as it may seem, they are very actively bought and sold in this bare-bones form. In fact, investors often prefer them that way. In many ways they are purely economic entities, quantifiable placeholders of value that are traded on the open market akin to precious metals. Just as one doesnât need to mold a piece of gold into something usable, like a piece of jewelry, for it to have value and an economic function, an apartment in China doesnât need to have people living in it for it to be economically viable.
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China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is a option
But then even Fentanyl is legal substance in Canada, and used in our hospitals
Itâs looks like drug addicts have no self control and abuse these drugs
Plus without those drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into Fentanyl and go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is a option
But then even Fentanyl is a legal substance in these countries, and used in our hospitals
Itâs looks like drug addicts in Canada have no self control and abuse these drugs
Plus without those drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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Nvidia cuts China AI chip prices amid competition from Huawei-
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Among the three, the H20, which is the most powerful, was seeing subdued demand in China, and in some cases, was being sold at an over 10% discount to a similar offering from Huawei- the Ascend 910B, the Reuters report said.
The Ascend 910B was also seeing substantially more orders than the H20 from state-backed enterprises, Reuters said, citing limited government data. This came following a mandate from Beijing for state enterprises to use China-made silicon.
The 910B is the most advanced Chinese AI chip, and has shot up in popularity in the country following U.S. sanctions that attempted to block Chinaâs access to the latest AI advancements.
Its popularity in China presents more headwinds for Nvidiaâs business in the country. The chipmaker has struggled to maintain its foothold in Chinese markets following the U.S. sanctions.
During its first quarter earnings this week, the company warned that China was becoming an increasingly competitive market, and that the firmâs data center revenue in China fell âsignificantly.â
Steep discounts on the H20 also present more margin pressure for Nvidia.
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 @ChickenSouvlaki777 Agreed
But everyone is to blame on both sides âŚ.
Not just the suddenly woah oak lefties
This is a Conservative Canadian Supreme Court Justice, appointed by a Conservative PM Harper,
in our top Canadian Supreme Court, dominated by Conservative Justices since 2012. The majority of these Justices also appointed by Harper .
Striking down this law introduced by Harpers Conservative Government
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Supreme Court strikes down âdegradingâ parole ineligibility law for mass murders
By Betsy Powell Courts Reporter
Fri., May 27, 2022
But in Fridayâs much-anticipated ruling, Chief Justice Richard Wagner said Section 745.51 of the Criminal Code violates section 12 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in a way that cannot be justified in a free and democratic society. Section 12 guarantees the right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.
What is at stake is our commitment, as a society, to respect human dignity and the inherent worth of every individual,â the decision states.
Striking down the law should not be seen as devaluing the lives of innocent victims, the court said.
âEveryone would agree that multiple murders are inherently despicable acts and are the most serious crimes, with consequences that last forever. This appeal is not about the value of each human life, but rather about the limits on the stateâs power to punish offenders, which, in a society founded on the rule of law, must be exercised in a manner consistent with the Constitution.â
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I think most Americans are under educated and susceptible to being drug addicted these days
China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is an unlikely option
Since Fentanyl is a legal substance, used in US Hospitals
Plus without those Chinese drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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Not as bad as your USA being 500 trillion in debt
China cut off money flow to Vanke 14 years ago
It was Sophisticated Foteign Investors buying these Property Developers junk bonds these last few years
what do you think these Property Developers did with that sudden influx of moneyâŚ.
They built more higher end housing
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Huge Price Cuts Rumored From Chinese Developers Due To Collapsing Demand
Vincent Fernando, CFA May 29, 2010
Demand is falling since China's central government announced stricter regulations for property transactions during the middle of April. These involve higher down payments and mortgage rates for the purchase of second home, and act which is seen as potential speculation. Such tightening is reducing buying demand.
Thus a moderately bearish view is that property prices need to come down, since demand is likely down yet supply is the same. This challenge isn't limited to Shanghai:
China Vanke Co, the country's largest publicly listed developer, may cut apartment prices by 10 to 30 percent within three months, the Beijing News said yesterday, citing an unidentified sales agent. Local Vanke officials declined to comment yesterday.
Yet Shanghai is where things could get the ugliest, the earliest. This is because the local Shanghai government is planning to clamp down on speculation even harder than China's central government already has:
Chen Qiwei, a spokesman for the Shanghai municipal government, did not preclude the possibility of levying property tax when asked about this issue at a press conference on Friday.
"Shanghai will take more strict measures in line with the central government policy," Chen said, adding that more efforts will be made in building economically affordable houses and cracking down on speculative house purchasing.
Other cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Shenzen could have similar additional taxes, but Shanghai is the first to make an official comment such as above according to China Daily. Thing is, any action from Shanghai will likely need approval from the central government.
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Sabah clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines
(In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute stems with the fact they make a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE
Historical claim that the Philippines dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Nice fake narrative. You are always spouting off the same slogans even when proven wrong
You for sure are not well educated
And worse off than the Hong Kongers who ran off believing all we need is
freedom !!!!
Yeah you have the freedom to work at McDonaldâs hoisting loogers into my burgers and fries đđđđđ
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BN(O) visa immigrants: Study reveals 50% unemployment rate among Hong Kongers under 65 in the U.K., 99% have no plans to return
2nd November 2023 â (London) A recent study conducted by the âWelcoming Committee for Hong Kongersâ organisation, which assists Hong Kongers who have immigrated to the U.K. through the BN(O) Visa, has shed light on the employment situation of these individuals. The study surveyed over 2,000 Hong Kong immigrants and found that only 50% of those under the age of 65 were able to secure employment, indicating a significant unemployment rate among this group. Many Hong Kongers attribute their difficulty in finding employment to factors such as a lack of recognition for their English language skills and qualifications.
The study also highlighted the educational background of BN(O) Hong Kongers in the U.K. It revealed that 36% of the surveyed individuals held a masterâs or doctoral degree, while 23% had a postgraduate degree. These figures indicate that BN(O) Hong Kongers in the U.K are nearly twice as well-educated as the average UK population.
However, despite their educational qualifications, many BN(O) Hong Kongers are facing difficulties in securing employment that matches their skills and experience. Among those surveyed who were employed, 47% felt that their job did not align with their qualifications, and 20% felt that their workload was excessive.
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thatâs the difference
The USA thinks in zero-sum game ways. The Chinese do not
during US/China trade war. While the USA put tariffs on even us here in Canada calling Canada a national security threat
the Chinese were lowering their tariffs to most other countries
Infact if the Chinese brought out their real trade wea pons with the USA
Just stopped exporting?
we in the west would have been dropping like flies
without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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China's lock on drugs
Two pillars of Trump administration policy â combating the soaring prices for prescription drugs and equalizing the U.S. trade imbalance with China â appear to be on a collision course, drug and foreign policy experts say.
That's because the key ingredients for so many essential drugs, from antibiotics and birth control pills to treatments for cancer, depression, high cholesterol and HIV/AIDS, are purchased from China, says Rosemary Gibson, co-author with Janardan Prasad Singh of a new book called "ChinaRx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine."
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There is now a 27 book series on what the Chinese invented first?
that says we in the west copied or stole from them
If you took the time to read those books you will find in the vast majority of the cases,
there is no specific inventor(s) name(s) attributed to an invention
Rather it is the Chinese invented such and such in such in such a century
This guy explains it the best
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From Gongkai to Open Source
My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping.
Meanwhile, Western entrepreneurs often find themselves trapped in a spiderweb of IP frameworks, spending more money on lawyers than on tooling.
Further investigation taught me that the Chinese have a parallel system of traditions and ethics around sharing IP, which lead me to coin the term âgongkaiâ. This is deliberately not the Chinese word for âOpen Sourceâ, because that word (kaiyuan) refers to openness in a Western-style IP framework, which this not. Gongkai is more a reference to the fact that copyrighted documents, sometimes labeled âconfidentialâ and âproprietaryâ, are made known to the public and shared overtly, but not necessarily according to the letter of the law. However, this copying isnât a one-way flow of value, as it would be in the case of copied movies or music.
Rather, these documents are the knowledge base needed to build a phone using the copyright ownerâs chips, and as such, this sharing of documents helps to promote the sales of their chips. There is ultimately, if you will, a quid-pro-quo between the copyright holders and the copiers.
This fuzzy, gray relationship between companies and entrepreneurs is just one manifestation of a much broader cultural gap between the East and the West.
The West has a âbroadcastâ view of IP and ownership: good ideas and innovation are credited to a clearly specified set of authors or inventors, and society pays them a royalty for their initiative and good works.
China has a ânetworkâ view of IP and ownership: the far-sight necessary to create good ideas and innovations is attained by standing on the shoulders of others, and as such there is a network of people who trade these ideas as favors among each other.
In a system with such a loose attitude toward IP, sharing with the network is necessary as tomorrow it could be your friend standing on your shoulders, and youâll be looking to them for favors.
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There is now a 27 book series on what the Chinese invented first?
that says we in the west copied or stole from them
If you took the time to read those books you will find in the vast majority of the cases,
there is no specific inventor(s) name(s) attributed to an invention
Rather it is the Chinese invented such and such in such in such a century
This guy explains it the best
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From Gongkai to Open Source
My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping.
Meanwhile, Western entrepreneurs often find themselves trapped in a spiderweb of IP frameworks, spending more money on lawyers than on tooling.
Further investigation taught me that the Chinese have a parallel system of traditions and ethics around sharing IP, which lead me to coin the term âgongkaiâ. This is deliberately not the Chinese word for âOpen Sourceâ, because that word (kaiyuan) refers to openness in a Western-style IP framework, which this not. Gongkai is more a reference to the fact that copyrighted documents, sometimes labeled âconfidentialâ and âproprietaryâ, are made known to the public and shared overtly, but not necessarily according to the letter of the law. However, this copying isnât a one-way flow of value, as it would be in the case of copied movies or music.
Rather, these documents are the knowledge base needed to build a phone using the copyright ownerâs chips, and as such, this sharing of documents helps to promote the sales of their chips. There is ultimately, if you will, a quid-pro-quo between the copyright holders and the copiers.
This fuzzy, gray relationship between companies and entrepreneurs is just one manifestation of a much broader cultural gap between the East and the West.
The West has a âbroadcastâ view of IP and ownership: good ideas and innovation are credited to a clearly specified set of authors or inventors, and society pays them a royalty for their initiative and good works.
China has a ânetworkâ view of IP and ownership: the far-sight necessary to create good ideas and innovations is attained by standing on the shoulders of others, and as such there is a network of people who trade these ideas as favors among each other.
In a system with such a loose attitude toward IP, sharing with the network is necessary as tomorrow it could be your friend standing on your shoulders, and youâll be looking to them for favors.
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Such a dyuuuum down American
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A nation of outlaws
A century ago, that wasn't China -- it was us
One hundred and fifty years ago, even America's closest trade partners were despairing about our cheating ways. Charles Dickens, who visited in 1842, was, like many Britons, stunned by the economic ambition of our nation's inhabitants, and appalled by what they would do for the sake of profit. When he first stepped off the boat in Boston, he found the city's bookstores rife with pirated copies of his novels, along with those of his countrymen. Dickens would later deliver
lectures decrying the practice, and wrote home in outrage: "my blood so boiled as I thought of the monstrous injustice." In theUnited States of the early 19th century, capitalism as we know it today was still very much in its infancy. Most people still lived on small farms, and despite the persistent myth that America was the land of laissez-faire, there were plenty of laws on the books aimed at keeping tight reins on the market economy. But as commerce became more complex, and stretched over greater distances, this patchwork system of local and state-level regulations was gradually overwhelmed by a new generation of wheeler-dealer entrepreneurs.
Taking a page from the British, who had pioneered many ingenious methods of adulteration a generation or two earlier, American manufacturers, distributors, and vendors of food began tampering with their products en masse -- bulking out supplies with cheap filler, using dangerous additives to mask spoilage or to give foodstuffs a more appealing color.
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Annalee Saxenian, a UC Berkeley professor, whose scholarly research interests include the contribution of Chinese immigrants on America's high-technology realm carried out a study that showed that since 1998, one out of five high-tech start-ups in Silicon Valley were led by a Chinese American.
During the same year, 5 of the 8 fastest growing high-technology companies in Silicon Valley had a leading upper-level management executive who was of Chinese ancestry, except for Yahoo, whose Jerry Yang was a founder and owner, but was not serving in an executive leadership position. In Silicon Valley, several Chinese American community organizations, numbering from two to three dozen, actively strive to look out for and are committed to safeguarding the professional interests and well-being of the Chinese American community.
These organizations boast membership counts with at least 100 individual members, with one particularly influential group being the Committee of 100.[114] Immigrants from mainland China and Taiwan were key founders in 12.8% of all Silicon Valley start-ups between 1995 and 2005.[115] Almost 6% of the immigrants who founded companies in the innovation/manufacturing-related services field are from China.[116]
Research funded by the Public Policy Institute of California indicates that in 1996, 1,786 Silicon Valley technology companies with $12.5 billion in sales and 46,000 employees were run by executives of Indian or Chinese descent. Moreover, the pace of entrepreneurship among local immigrants has been increasing rapidly. While executives of Chinese or Indian origin were at the helm of 13% of the Silicon Valley technology businesses started between 1980 and 1985, they were also running 27% of the more than 4,000 businesses started between 1991 and 1996.[117] Start-up firms remain a primary source for new ideas and innovation for Chinese American internet entrepreneurs. Many of them are employed or directly engaged in new start-up activities. The proportional share of start-up firms by ethnic Chinese in Silicon Valley skyrocketed from 9% in 1980â1984 to about 20% between 1995 and 1998.[118]
By 2006, Chinese American high-technology entrepreneurs were behind 20 percent of all Silicon Valley start-up firms, leading 2000 Silicon Valley companies, and employing 58,000 workers.
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What most people like you donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
For one, it would crash the US Economy
And the Chinese donât believe in a zero-sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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China starts zero-tariff treatment for 6 least-developed African countries
Positive move to continue bolstering bilateral trade, show demonstration effect
By GT staff reporters Published: Dec 25, 2023 09:45 PM
The zero-tariff treatment China had granted for six least-developed African countries officially took effect on Monday. Experts and industry players noted that the move will bolster trade between China and Africa while showing a demonstration effect for China's cooperation with other markets. The Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, China's cabinet, announced on December 6 that 98 percent of taxable products from Angola, The Gambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Madagascar, Mali and Mauritania would be exempt from import tariffs starting on Monday. Sarah Wang, executive director of Beijing Wise Century Trading Co, which sells a range of African products, told the Global Times on Monday that such measures will have a huge implication for trade between these countries and China.
"With zero tariffs, these countries could expand the sales channels for their local produce, find new ways to generate foreign exchange reserves and create jobs," Wang said.
The implementation of the tax break is a significant move contributing to fulfilling the China-Africa comprehensive strategic and cooperative partnership, and realize its responsibility under the WTO-led Aid for Trade Initiative, Song Wei, a professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, told the Global Times on Monday.
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China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
* China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debt might be hidden now.
The majority of bank loans, says Jubak, went to state-owned companies -- about 70% of the total. The collapse of China's export trade following the crisis meant that its banks were suddenly sitting on billions in debts that were clearly never going to be paid. But that was when China's largest banks were trying to raise capital by selling stock in Hong Kong and New York, and no bank could go public with that much bad debt on its books.
The creative solution? The Beijing government set up special-purpose asset management companies for the four largest state-owned banks, the equivalent of the "special purpose vehicles" designed by Wall Street to funnel real estate loans off U.S. bank books.
* Sound familiar? Wall Street did the same thing in the 2008 bailout, with the U.S. government underwriting the deal. The difference was that China's largest banks were owned by the government, so the government rather than a private banking cartel got the benefit of the arrangement. According to British economist Samah El-Shahat, writing in Al Jazeera in August 2009:
China hasn't allowed its banking sector to become so powerful, so influential, and so big that it can call the shots or highjack the bailout. In simple terms, the government preferred to answer to its people and put their interests first before that of any vested interest or group. And that is why Chinese banks are lending to the people and their businesses in record numbers.
In the US and UK, by contrast:
banks have captured all the money from the taxpayers and the cheap money from quantitative easing from central banks. They are using it to shore up, and clean up their balance sheets rather than lend it to the people. The money has been hijacked by the banks, and our governments are doing absolutely nothing about that. In fact, they have been complicit in allowing this to happen.
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Fox News always trots out so called âChina expertsâ that are constantly wrong in China
Iâd like to get paid to spew out outdated or wrong info
There is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world copied from them
The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese
Where their Government was trying to get their people to switch to homegrown chips before the sanctions
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have themselves and their allies, lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
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At one point China was importing over 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year, within the products they export
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Disillusioned about Chinaâ, more Chinese aim for US via risky Darien Gap
In 2023, Chinese migrants become the largest group outside the Americas to cross the treacherous region to reach the US.
* Behind her, signs explaining the hotel prices and policies are written in Mandarin. Pots of spicy instant noodles imported from China are for sale next to bottles of water. Payments via the Chinese social media app WeChat are accepted.
* âThey move along in their own separate world,â Fernandez said.
The group of middle-aged travellers, wearing hats and carrying tents and walking poles, are dressed for a trek. But not everything quite adds up. Many are wearing lightweight Crocs footwear, and their small backpacks are wrapped in plastic bags.
* Just over 25,000 of those migrants were Chinese, making them the fourth largest overall nationality and the largest outside of the Americas to making the crossing.
* Chinese migrants â unlike many of the other most common nationalities in the Darien, such as Venezuelans and Haitians â often take special âVIPâ routes across the jungle that are led by guides working for the Gulf Clan, Colombiaâs largest drug cartel, and are quicker and less strenuous for higher prices than the most basic routes.
Why we want to go to the United Statesâ
* âOur requirements are very simple: We can afford medical treatment, have a place to live, our children can afford to go to school and our family can be safe.â
* Some migrants interviewed by Zhou were misled to believe they could easily get a job for $10,000 in cash a month. However, the reality is that many are struggling to get jobs because employers are fearful of hiring undocumented workers.
* âI was forced to do this,â Sheng said while sipping a cup of tea at his hotel in Necocli. âItâs really difficult for most Chinese people to apply for a visa to America. But I feel disillusioned about China. Thatâs why weâre here in the jungle.â
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I think most Americans are under educated
China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is an unlikely option
Since Fentanyl is a legal substance, used in US Hospitals
Plus without those Chinese drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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Chinese EVs are beating Tesla in price, quality and innovation
Tesla is seen as a laggard in China these days and people are basically buying it because of brand name
As for the robotaxis
(Because we the average westerner is too lazy to read past a headline)
Go read just the recent headlines from Western Mainstream Media On Elon Muskâs Tesla trip to China
(before you read the rest of this)
Reading only those headlines
You would get the impression, Tesla is introducing FSD and Robotaxis into the Chinese domestic market
When Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
A simple search will tell you
Tesla is level 2 Autonomous
Baidu is level 4 Autonomous
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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This is where you Americans make your stand????
Teen shaking their a zzzzz to the W app dance on tictok
But not this
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How Much Money Does the World Owe China?
Our research, based on a comprehensive new data set, shows that China has extended many more loans to developing countries than previously known. This systematic underreporting of Chinese loans has created a âhidden debtâ problem â meaning that debtor countries and international institutions alike have an incomplete picture on how much countries around the world owe to China and under which conditions.
In total, the Chinese state and its subsidiaries have lent about $1.5 trillion in direct loans and trade credits to more than 150 countries around the globe. This has turned China into the worldâs largest official creditor â surpassing traditional, official lenders such as the World Bank, the IMF, or all OECD creditor governments combined.
Despite the large size of Chinaâs overseas lending boom, no official data exists on the resulting debt flows and stocks. China does not report on its international lending, and Chinese loans literally fall through the cracks of traditional data-gathering institutions. For example, credit rating agencies, such as Moodyâs or Standard & Poorâs, or data providers, such as Bloomberg, focus on private creditors, but Chinaâs lending is state sponsored, and therefore off their radar screen. Debtor countries themselves often do not collect data on debt owed by state-owned companies, which are the main recipients of Chinese loans. In addition, China is not a member of the Paris Club (an informal group of creditor nations) or the OECD, both of which collect data on lending by official creditors.
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But not this
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Chinaâs Gold Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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But not this
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China is hiding $3 trillion of foreign currency in 'shadow reserves,' adding unknown risks to the global economy, former Treasury official says
Filip De Mott Jun 30, 2023
Half of China's currency reserves are "hidden," a situation that may add risks to the global economy down the road, former Treasury Department official Brad Setser wrote.
While the country's State Administration of Foreign Exchange reported $3.12 trillion in foreign assets last December, Setser estimates that foreign exchange reserves actually sit at around $6 trillion.
"China is so big that how it manages its economy and currency matters enormously to the world," he wrote in The China Project. "Yet over time the way it manages its currency and its foreign exchange reserves has become much less transparent â creating new kinds of risks for the global economy."
A key indicator about China's reserves is a sudden pause in its reported activity. From 2002 to 2012, China's foreign exchange reserves steadily rose as the central bank bought US dollar assets to prevent China's yuan from appreciating too much, allowing exports to remain cheap.
But over the last 10 years, China's reserves stopped rising, which is puzzling as China's trade surplus has continued growing, and currently stands at an all-time high, he said.
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India has a younger workforce, a larger workforce, and lower wages. But a 100 billion a year trade deficit with China
China is investing heavily into clean, green, renewable
And the best we can do is complain overcapacity
Meaning our western Governments will do nothing. As this generations Sputnik moment
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China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing
Nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF.
The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of Chinaâs economic growth in 2023
Other key findings of the analysis include:
Clean-energy investment rose 40% year-on-year to 6.3tn yuan ($890bn), with the growth accounting for all of the investment growth across the Chinese economy in 2023.
Chinaâs $890bn investment in clean-energy sectors is almost as large as total global investments in fossil fuel supply in 2023 â and similar to the GDP of Switzerland or Turkey.
Including the value of production, clean-energy sectors contributed 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to the Chinese economy in 2023, up 30% year-on-year.
Clean-energy sectors, as a result, were the largest driver of Chinaâ economic growth overall, accounting for 40% of the expansion of GDP in 2023.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, Chinaâs GDP would have missed the governmentâs growth target of âaround 5%â, rising by only 3.0%
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The other option is rich Chinese buying their 4th and 5th homes right about nowâŚ.
China could easily over heat the markets/economy and have another decade of bubbles
The Chinese did that in 2008 as the US subprime prime crisis crashed the world markets
And put 27 million out of work and /shuttered 100 thousand factories in China
In response the Chinese Government got the banks to loan out 580 billion dollars
That created overheated bubbles where their Government had to come in and shutdown and regulate
That 580 billion created a big ball of money that went From Real Estate, Shadow Banks, Underground economy, Commodities, Stocks, Bonds and then back to Real Estate
In China in 2008 around 70% of the people in their real estate markets were buying their 1st homes in their cities
By 2018 around 70% of the people in their real estate markets were buying their 2nd and 3rd homes in their cities
Thatâs why you are hearing about problems with their property developers these days. Because back in 2010? Their Central Government started cutting of money flow to these developers.
Thus why you heard about Shadow Banks and Underground Economy back then, that their Government had to come into to shutdown or regulate.
Even then, It took them almost 14 years to get their overheated real estate under control
Heck they were about to introduce a nation wide property tax, but then trump started the trade war in 2018
Why is their Central Government doing this?
Because there are still a few hundred million poorer rural folk they still expect to move to the cities to join their more well off urban city folk countrymen.
Problem is these property developers were building higher end homes, and not building the affordable homes these rural migrants will need
In China
Owning a home in the city you migrate to? Affects your employment, health, education and even marriage prospects donât have a house you donât get married
Thus the common prosperity push and the crackdown on the overt displays of wealth in China
Their Government probably figured out you disenfranchise the people at the bottom of your society they are the ones most likely to act out in protest
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There is now a 27 book series on what the Chinese invented first?
that says we in the west copied or stole from them
If you took the time to read those books you will find in the vast majority of the cases,
there is no specific inventor(s) name(s) attributed to an invention
Rather it is the Chinese invented such and such in such in such a century
This guy explains it the best
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From Gongkai to Open Source
My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping.
Meanwhile, Western entrepreneurs often find themselves trapped in a spiderweb of IP frameworks, spending more money on lawyers than on tooling.
Further investigation taught me that the Chinese have a parallel system of traditions and ethics around sharing IP, which lead me to coin the term âgongkaiâ. This is deliberately not the Chinese word for âOpen Sourceâ, because that word (kaiyuan) refers to openness in a Western-style IP framework, which this not. Gongkai is more a reference to the fact that copyrighted documents, sometimes labeled âconfidentialâ and âproprietaryâ, are made known to the public and shared overtly, but not necessarily according to the letter of the law. However, this copying isnât a one-way flow of value, as it would be in the case of copied movies or music.
Rather, these documents are the knowledge base needed to build a phone using the copyright ownerâs chips, and as such, this sharing of documents helps to promote the sales of their chips. There is ultimately, if you will, a quid-pro-quo between the copyright holders and the copiers.
This fuzzy, gray relationship between companies and entrepreneurs is just one manifestation of a much broader cultural gap between the East and the West.
The West has a âbroadcastâ view of IP and ownership: good ideas and innovation are credited to a clearly specified set of authors or inventors, and society pays them a royalty for their initiative and good works.
China has a ânetworkâ view of IP and ownership: the far-sight necessary to create good ideas and innovations is attained by standing on the shoulders of others, and as such there is a network of people who trade these ideas as favors among each other.
In a system with such a loose attitude toward IP, sharing with the network is necessary as tomorrow it could be your friend standing on your shoulders, and youâll be looking to them for favors.
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 @vivliforia2262 everyone copies just some people complain about it more than others these daysâŚ. đ¤đ¤đ¤
There is now??? 27 books out there on what the Chinese invented that says we in the west copied from them
Even right now the Chinese are willing to share the samples they got from the far side of the moon. With you Americans of all people
Which no one has been able to send a spacecraft onto that far side except China twice in the last 6 years
Where no one else has demonstrated that have that same capability
As the Chinese plan to mine the far side of the moon for Helium-3
Which will power fusion reactors and power the space ships to explore the rest solar system, galaxy and universe
As that Helium-3 on the moon is expected to power the world for 10,000 years
But the Chinese copy our games!!!!
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
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âââ not if they wipeout the competition
Itâs going to be an Automated / A.I. future like it or not
Question you should be asking us will our countries be willing to give a basic income
Some Asian guy in your country advocated for itâŚBarely anyone voted for him, thought he was nuts
They transfer money assets and State owned corporations themselves âŚinto their National Pension Plan
We give tax breaks to private sector owned corporations who hide their money offshore in tax havens they have incorporated in
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Through a central coordination mechanism, over 930 billion yuan ($147.58 billion) from the national pool went to make up for the shortfalls of local pension schemes last year alone.
China's basic old-age insurance, a key program to ensure people's well-being after retirement, has been evolving to a larger-scale management system since its establishment in the 1990s. The central coordination mechanism was set up in 2018 as the first step prior to building a national system to further address unbalanced pension burdens nationwide.
But issues deriving from disparities in regional economic development and demographic structure still exist.
"Some regions have more surpluses, while the others with older populations are under heavier pressure to make pension payments," said Qi Tao, an official from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
In 2021, over 210 billion yuan from the coordination mechanism went to the central and western regions as well as the northeastern "rust belt" provinces, as a greying population weighs on their pension payments and growing labor outflows squeeze pension income.
Using a nationwide chessboard as a metaphor, the head of the China Association of Social Security Zheng Gongcheng said the new national system will make the pension benefits fairer. "People won't need to sacrifice their pensions for migrating to work, and retirees won't have to deal with the risks from local pension fund shortfalls."
Qi said a mechanism that assigns the respective expenditure responsibilities of central and local governments on pension funds will be built after the national program comes into force and the central government will not roll back its subsidy to the pension funds.
Apart from the coordination efforts and central subsidy, state assets totaling 1.68 trillion yuan from 93 centrally-administered enterprises and financial institutions have also been transferred to replenish the pension schemes.
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What most people like you donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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China starts zero-tariff treatment for 6 least-developed African countries
Positive move to continue bolstering bilateral trade, show demonstration effect
By GT staff reporters
Published: Dec 25, 2023 09:45 PM
The zero-tariff treatment China had granted for six least-developed African countries officially took effect on Monday. Experts and industry players noted that the move will bolster trade between China and Africa while showing a demonstration effect for China's cooperation with other markets.
The Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, China's cabinet, announced on December 6 that 98 percent of taxable products from Angola, The Gambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Madagascar, Mali and Mauritania would be exempt from import tariffs starting on Monday.
Sarah Wang, executive director of Beijing Wise Century Trading Co, which sells a range of African products, told the Global Times on Monday that such measures will have a huge implication for trade between these countries and China.
"With zero tariffs, these countries could expand the sales channels for their local produce, find new ways to generate foreign exchange reserves and create jobs," Wang said.
The implementation of the tax break is a significant move contributing to fulfilling the China-Africa comprehensive strategic and cooperative partnership, and realize its responsibility under the WTO-led Aid for Trade Initiative, Song Wei, a professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, told the Global Times on Monday.
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Now they have just turned us into brain wash.d dummm down westerners over them red book thumping com mies
When some Muslim Uyghur Chinese committed terrorist acts on Chinese streets
Where some Uyghur Chinese were thrown into re-education camps, and some mosques housing extremist were removed
The world called it cultural genocide
Where some Palestinians escaped their Gaza Ghettos committed terrorist acts on Israeli streets.
We in the world call that terrorism, justifying the bombing of Palestinian civilians in their Gaza Ghettos
Which begs the question China throws money at their ethnic Uyghur Chinese minority and gives them special rights over the Han majority.
(Like the ability to have more than 1 kid when the rule was still enforced back then. Preferential treatment for minorities when it comes to University Education etc)
like they do with all their ethnic minority people they consider as Chinese
What does Israel consider these Palestinian people as???
As they bomb them in those Gaza Ghettoes Israel forced them into.
Yet in this situation, we mostly stay silent on that genocide
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Imperialist media canât stop lying about mosques in China
* Firsthand report from Kashgar
On a recent visit to Kashgar, Xinjiang, home to about 80% of the ethnic Uygur population, this writer had a chance to speak to residents and learn about local architecture. Many of the buildings in Kashgar are 1,000 or more years old. These old buildings, while stunningly beautiful, were not built to standards that would be considered seismically safe today in areas with a risk of earthquakes. In the past, collapses and deaths were common.
* In 2020, the U.S. Mosque Survey counted 2,769 mosques in this country, compared to Chinaâs more than 35,000 mosques. This means that Chinese Muslims have nearly three times more mosques per capita than do Muslims in the U.S.
But the accusations donât stop at alleged demolition. The Western media have also claimed that the Chinese government is carrying out a process of âSinificationâ through the renovations, meaning that China is allegedly removing the Arabic aspects of mosques and replacing them with traditional Chinese architecture.
Mosques built in the traditional Chinese-style architecture are presented in the Western media as âevidenceâ of âcultural erasure,â when in reality mosques built in Chinese style have existed as far back as around 700 C.E. There are also many Muslim populations in China that are not Arabic in origin, such as the Hui population, who were originally descended from Han Chinese and are Chinese-speaking.
Because of the ancient Silk Road and the historical mixing of peoples from the Chinese coast with Arab, European and many other peoples, the blending of language, religion and architecture should not be seen as an attempt at Han hegemony, but rather as a natural blending of peoples living side-by-side in a multiethnic nation with more than 5,000 years of recorded history.
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Huge Price Cuts Rumored From Chinese Developers Due To Collapsing Demand
Vincent Fernando, CFA May 29, 2010
Demand is falling since China's central government announced stricter regulations for property transactions during the middle of April. These involve higher down payments and mortgage rates for the purchase of second home, and act which is seen as potential speculation. Such tightening is reducing buying demand.
Thus a moderately bearish view is that property prices need to come down, since demand is likely down yet supply is the same. This challenge isn't limited to Shanghai:
China Vanke Co, the country's largest publicly listed developer, may cut apartment prices by 10 to 30 percent within three months, the Beijing News said yesterday, citing an unidentified sales agent. Local Vanke officials declined to comment yesterday.
Yet Shanghai is where things could get the ugliest, the earliest. This is because the local Shanghai government is planning to clamp down on speculation even harder than China's central government already has:
Chen Qiwei, a spokesman for the Shanghai municipal government, did not preclude the possibility of levying property tax when asked about this issue at a press conference on Friday.
"Shanghai will take more strict measures in line with the central government policy," Chen said, adding that more efforts will be made in building economically affordable houses and cracking down on speculative house purchasing.
Other cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Shenzen could have similar additional taxes, but Shanghai is the first to make an official comment such as above according to China Daily. Thing is, any action from Shanghai will likely need approval from the central government.
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s why did you pick 1979?
1972 Nixon went to China to get them to open up their economy
Sure the Americans may have lost 7 million manufacturing jobs from the height of their manufacturing days.
But they gained 53 million service sector jobs
33 million of them higher paying jobs than their manufacturing jobs
So with more jobs, more higher paying jobs, and added savings from imported goods
did the average American Invest, save, or even throw that money under the mattress????
No
they spent those added earnings, and thenborrowed to spend some more
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The U.S. Lost 7 Million Manufacturing Jobs--And Added 33 Million Higher-Paying Service Jobs
Itâs also nonsense. The truth is that America has lost some 7 million manufacturing jobs and added some 53 million jobs in services. This is just what happens with advanced economiesâitâs easier to increase productivity in manufacturing than it is in services, this is the heart of Baumolâs Cost Disease. As it was easier to increase productivity in agriculture through mechanising it than it was in manufacturing. Thus, over time, the proportion of the workforce engaged in agriculture falls, so too does the proportion in manufacturing. And given that services (with a couple of small adjustments for mining, construction and utilities) is the name we give to all the rest of the economy therefore an increasing portion of the labour force ends up in services.
Further, of those 53 million new jobs some 62% of them were in higher paying occupations than those âhigh paying good jobsâ in manufacturing we lost. Yes, really, 33 million higher paying jobs came along to replace those 7 million lost. Which does, when you look at those numbers properly, seem like rather a good deal.
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Sure the Americans may have lost 7 million manufacturing jobs from the height of their manufacturing days.
But they gained 53 million service sector jobs
33 million of them higher paying jobs than their manufacturing jobs
So with more jobs, more higher paying jobs, and added savings from imported goods
did the average American Invest, save, or even throw that money under the mattress????
No
they spent those added earnings, and thenborrowed to spend some more
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The U.S. Lost 7 Million Manufacturing Jobs--And Added 33 Million Higher-Paying Service Jobs
Itâs also nonsense. The truth is that America has lost some 7 million manufacturing jobs and added some 53 million jobs in services. This is just what happens with advanced economiesâitâs easier to increase productivity in manufacturing than it is in services, this is the heart of Baumolâs Cost Disease. As it was easier to increase productivity in agriculture through mechanising it than it was in manufacturing. Thus, over time, the proportion of the workforce engaged in agriculture falls, so too does the proportion in manufacturing. And given that services (with a couple of small adjustments for mining, construction and utilities) is the name we give to all the rest of the economy therefore an increasing portion of the labour force ends up in services.
Further, of those 53 million new jobs some 62% of them were in higher paying occupations than those âhigh paying good jobsâ in manufacturing we lost. Yes, really, 33 million higher paying jobs came along to replace those 7 million lost. Which does, when you look at those numbers properly, seem like rather a good deal.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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 @user-ilelrjb Chinese EV makers send their cars up to test and race every year now
In conjunction with the ice castles, ice display winter festival in Harbin
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The 2nd Automotive Winter Testing Festival held in Heihe, Heilongjiang Province
NEWS PROVIDED BY
Publicity Department of the CPC Heihe Municipal Committee
Jan 09, 2023, 02:33 ET
* Themed "passion, speed, and vitality", the Winter Testing Festival joined hands with the China Mass Production Car Performance Challenge (hereinafter referred to as CCPC), attracting more than 10 teams and nearly 30 brands, according to the Publicity Department of the CPC Heihe Municipal Committee
The festival will promote the test season through a variety of activities, integrating test, racing and sales for the deep integration and development of China'sautomotive industry.
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The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America might lose.)
By MICHAEL HIRSH
06/09/2023 04:30 AM EDT
The war began in the early morning hours with a massive bombardment â Chinaâs version of âshock and awe.â
Chinese planes and rockets swiftly destroyed most of Taiwanâs navy and air force as the Peopleâs Liberation army and navy mounted a massive amphibious assault across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait.
Having taken seriously President Joe Bidenâs pledge to defend the island, Beijing also struck pre-emptively at U.S. and allied air bases and ships in the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. managed to even the odds for a time by deploying more sophisticated submarines as well as B-21 and B-2 stealth bombers to get inside Chinaâs air defense zones, but Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days and saw its network access severed.
The United States and its main ally, Japan, lost thousands of service members, dozens of ships, and hundreds of aircraft. Taiwanâs economy was devastated. And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild, taking years to replace ships as it reckoned with how shriveled its industrial base had become compared to Chinaâs.
The Chinese âjust ran rings around us,â said former Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten in one after-action report.
âThey knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it.â Dozens of versions of the above war-game scenario have been enacted over the last few years, most recently in April by the House Select Committee on competition with China.
And while the ultimate outcome in these exercises is not always clear â the U.S. does better in some than others â the cost is. In every exercise the U.S. uses up all its long-range air-to-surface missiles in a few days, with a substantial portion of its planes destroyed on the ground.
In every exercise the U.S. is not engaged in an abstract push-button war from 30,000 feet up like the ones Americans have come to expect since the end of the Cold War, but a horrifically bloody one. And thatâs assuming the U.S.-China war doesnât go nuclear.
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like I said there are 27 books out there on what the Chinese invented
If you were to take the time to read these books
You will rarely find a person named to that invention in China. More likely to read the Chinese invented this or that in such and such a century
Thatâs because they viewed IP differently from us in the west and still do
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From Gongkai to Open Source
Further investigation taught me that the Chinese have a parallel system of traditions and ethics around sharing IP, which lead me to coin the term âgongkaiâ. This is deliberately not the Chinese word for âOpen Sourceâ, because that word (kaiyuan) refers to openness in a Western-style IP framework, which this not. Gongkai is more a reference to the fact that copyrighted documents, sometimes labeled âconfidentialâ and âproprietaryâ, are made known to the public and shared overtly, but not necessarily according to the letter of the law. However, this copying isnât a one-way flow of value, as it would be in the case of copied movies or music.
Rather, these documents are the knowledge base needed to build a phone using the copyright ownerâs chips, and as such, this sharing of documents helps to promote the sales of their chips. There is ultimately, if you will, a quid-pro-quo between the copyright holders and the copiers.
This fuzzy, gray relationship between companies and entrepreneurs is just one manifestation of a much broader cultural gap between the East and the West.
The West has a âbroadcastâ view of IP and ownership: good ideas and innovation are credited to a clearly specified set of authors or inventors, and society pays them a royalty for their initiative and good works.
China has a ânetworkâ view of IP and ownership: the far-sight necessary to create good ideas and innovations is attained by standing on the shoulders of others, and as such there is a network of people who trade these ideas as favors among each other.
In a system with such a loose attitude toward IP, sharing with the network is necessary as tomorrow it could be your friend standing on your shoulders, and youâll be looking to them for favors.
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they have done war games/war scenarios over and over
Arming the Philippines would just make it a target when the Chinese can produce 1000 cruise missiles everyday. Thatâs how they plan to win a war with the USA. Out produce the Americans
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The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America might lose.)
By MICHAEL HIRSH
06/09/2023 04:30 AM EDT
The war began in the early morning hours with a massive bombardment â Chinaâs version of âshock and awe.â
Chinese planes and rockets swiftly destroyed most of Taiwanâs navy and air force as the Peopleâs Liberation army and navy mounted a massive amphibious assault across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait.
Having taken seriously President Joe Bidenâs pledge to defend the island, Beijing also struck pre-emptively at U.S. and allied air bases and ships in the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. managed to even the odds for a time by deploying more sophisticated submarines as well as B-21 and B-2 stealth bombers to get inside Chinaâs air defense zones, but Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days and saw its network access severed.
The United States and its main ally, Japan, lost thousands of service members, dozens of ships, and hundreds of aircraft. Taiwanâs economy was devastated. And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild, taking years to replace ships as it reckoned with how shriveled its industrial base had become compared to Chinaâs.
The Chinese âjust ran rings around us,â said former Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten in one after-action report.
âThey knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it.â Dozens of versions of the above war-game scenario have been enacted over the last few years, most recently in April by the House Select Committee on competition with China.
And while the ultimate outcome in these exercises is not always clear â the U.S. does better in some than others â the cost is. In every exercise the U.S. uses up all its long-range air-to-surface missiles in a few days, with a substantial portion of its planes destroyed on the ground.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Reuters
Among the three, the H20, which is the most powerful, was seeing subdued demand in China, and in some cases, was being sold at an over 10% discount to a similar offering from Huawei- the Ascend 910B, the Reuters report said.
The Ascend 910B was also seeing substantially more orders than the H20 from state-backed enterprises, Reuters said, citing limited government data. This came following a mandate from Beijing for state enterprises to use China-made silicon.
The 910B is the most advanced Chinese AI chip, and has shot up in popularity in the country following U.S. sanctions that attempted to block Chinaâs access to the latest AI advancements.
Its popularity in China presents more headwinds for Nvidiaâs business in the country. The chipmaker has struggled to maintain its foothold in Chinese markets following the U.S. sanctions.
During its first quarter earnings this week, the company warned that China was becoming an increasingly competitive market, and that the firmâs data center revenue in China fell âsignificantly.â
Steep discounts on the H20 also present more margin pressure for Nvidia.
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China wonât allow ByteDance to sell TikTok off
Especially to an American company.
Because
It is the algorithms that make the company
Itâs not like the Chinese Central Government actually wants a Social Media App that they canât control and regulate, or to be out there possibly with people giving their unfettered opinions on China anyways
They already cracked down on Douyin the sister version of TikTok in China
So itâs highly likely the Chinese Government will force ByteDance to have TikToc just leave the US market.
Like their Government stated they would do
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A forced sale of TikTok in the US amounts to a downgrade of the app, as the Chinese government wonât approve the sale of its algorithms,â said Alex Capri, a research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation and a lecturer at the National University of Singaporeâs Business School.
âIf TikTok is forced to stop operating in the US, ByteDanceâs prospects in other mostly liberal democracies will come under further scrutiny,â he said.
If the Chinese government wonât let ByteDance relinquish TikTokâs algorithm, it could block the sale outright. Alternatively, it may allow TikTok to be sold without the lucrative algorithm that forms the basis for its popularity.
A US ban, or a less powerful version of TikTok,would be a windfall
for YouTube, Google, Instagram and other TikTok competitors, as many of its customers may jump ship, Capri said. And it would be a major hit to the global ambitions of ByteDance.
âIt [a TikTok ban] would be the end of ByteDanceâs global expansion, as it would be a sign that the Chinese state values the algorithmâs security more than ByteDanceâs financial prosperity and global expansion,â said Richard Windsor, tech industry analyst and founder of Radio Free Mobile, a research company based in the US.
âThe implications are that the ideological struggle being fought in the technology industry will become more intense.â
A ban on TikTok is also likely to accelerate a shift that is splitting the worldâs tech landscape into two blocs, one centered on the US, the other embracing tech from China, according to Capri.
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 @Hkchinese888 I find you Hong Kongers to be Naive
Donât like the country you live in then leave if you think life is better somewhere else
But then you are probably an Indian pretending to be a hong Konger
But then it shows how sli my you are that you are at the same level as a Indian call centre sc am mer
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BN(O) visa immigrants: Study reveals 50% unemployment rate among Hong Kongers under 65 in the U.K., 99% have no plans to return
2nd November 2023 â (London) A recent study conducted by the âWelcoming Committee for Hong Kongersâ organisation, which assists Hong Kongers who have immigrated to the U.K. through the BN(O) Visa, has shed light on the employment situation of these individuals. The study surveyed over 2,000 Hong Kong immigrants and found that only 50% of those under the age of 65 were able to secure employment, indicating a significant unemployment rate among this group. Many Hong Kongers attribute their difficulty in finding employment to factors such as a lack of recognition for their English language skills and qualifications.
The study also highlighted the educational background of BN(O) Hong Kongers in the U.K. It revealed that 36% of the surveyed individuals held a masterâs or doctoral degree, while 23% had a postgraduate degree. These figures indicate that BN(O) Hong Kongers in the U.K are nearly twice as well-educated as the average UK population.
However, despite their educational qualifications, many BN(O) Hong Kongers are facing difficulties in securing employment that matches their skills and experience. Among those surveyed who were employed, 47% felt that their job did not align with their qualifications, and 20% felt that their workload was excessive.
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In Defense of Socialism, 1990â1991
After the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, the VCP chief and defense minister sought an ideological alliance with China.
As Party Chief Nguyen Van Linh explained to the Chineseambassador to Vietnam on June 5, 1990, the situation was marked by the Westâs offensive to eliminate socialismand concurrently the difficulties of the Soviet Union in defending socialism.
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âChina should raise high the banner of socialism and stick to Marxism-Leninism.â
Linh and Defense Minister Le Duc Anh hoped that Chinawould take the leadership of the worldâs socialist forces;
they indicated to the ambassador that they were ready to meet Chinese leaders to discuss solidarity between the two states to fight imperialism.
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On September 2 that year, Vietnamâs Independence Day, the party and government chiefs did not stay in Hanoi to celebrate the 45th birthday of their state but instead flew to Chengdu, China, for a secret summit with Chineseleaders, the first since the mid-1970s.
The Vietnamese understood that their acceptance
of the time, place, and participants was a sign of deference to China.
Participants included Vietnamâs elder statesman Pham Van Dong but not Chinaâs paramount leader Deng Xiaoping; Foreign Minister Thach was excluded.
During the meeting, the Vietnamese also let the Chinesedictate the terms of negotiation;this should be seen against the background of a decade-long hostility between the two countries.
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The Vietnamese had urgent reasons for taking this approach. At the time, the counterweight of the Soviet Union was no longer available and Vietnam was still isolated, regionally and globally.
In China, Vietnam faced a disproportionately powerful neighbor, and in order to prevent Chinese aggression, Hanoi had to pay deference to Beijing.
It appeared to be the calculation of Pham Van
Dong and, to some extent, Prime Minister Do Muoi.
Yet, as discussed above, General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh had different concerns and priorities.
His primary intention at Chengdu was to discuss how to protect socialism from the West, led by the United States.
Although the Chinese refused to play the solidarity game, Linh and his successors over the next decade kept trying to reestablish the Sino-Vietnamese relationship on an ideological basis.
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Plus it does not help that the USA decided to go after China in the one area they are behind in Semiconductors
Where 6 years ago they had virtually no advanced chip or chip making foundries
Blocking chip and chip making equipment forcing them to innovateâŚ.
Thinking they could not innovate when they lead the world in 37 of 44 critical technologies of the future
The smart thing to have doneâŚ
would have been to lower prices and dumped even more chips on the Chinese markets as they use to import 300 billion dollars worth of chips per year
About 210 billion of that total was legacy chips
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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 @usernobody I donât know why you Americans talk so big
You keep losing your wars
And your own military leaders donât think you have a chance against China
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The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America might lose.)
The war began in the early morning hours with a massive bombardment â Chinaâs version of âshock and awe.â
Chinese planes and rockets swiftly destroyed most of Taiwanâs navy and air force as the Peopleâs Liberation army and navy mounted a massive amphibious assault across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait.
Having taken seriously President Joe Bidenâs pledge to defend the island, Beijing also struck pre-emptively at U.S. and allied air bases and ships in the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. managed to even the odds for a time by deploying more sophisticated submarines as well as B-21 and B-2 stealth bombers to get inside Chinaâs air defense zones, but Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days and saw its network access severed.
The United States and its main ally, Japan, lost thousands of service members, dozens of ships, and hundreds of aircraft. Taiwanâs economy was devastated. And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild, taking years to replace ships as it reckoned with how shriveled its industrial base had become compared to Chinaâs.
The Chinese âjust ran rings around us,â said former Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten in one after-action report.
âThey knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it.â Dozens of versions of the above war-game scenario have been enacted over the last few years, most recently in April by the House Select Committee on competition with China.
And while the ultimate outcome in these exercises is not always clear â the U.S. does better in some than others â the cost is. In every exercise the U.S. uses up all its long-range air-to-surface missiles in a few days, with a substantial portion of its planes destroyed on the ground.
In every exercise the U.S. is not engaged in an abstract push-button war from 30,000 feet up like the ones Americans have come to expect since the end of the Cold War, but a horrifically bloody one. And thatâs assuming the U.S.-China war doesnât go nuclear.
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Imagine an unprovoked attack on Malaysia, killing Malaysians then seeking a court case against them
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How Malaysia ended up owing $15 billion to a sultan's heirs
* KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Malaysia is scrambling to protect its assets as the descendants of the last sultan of the remote Philippine region of Sulu look to enforce a $15 billion arbitration award in a dispute over a colonial-era land deal.
In 1878, two European colonists signed a deal with the sultan for the use of his territory in present-day Malaysia â an agreement that independent Malaysia honoured until 2013, paying the monarch's descendants about $1,000 a year.
Now, 144 years later after the original deal, Malaysia is on the hook for the second largest arbitration award on record for stopping the payments after a bloody incursion by supporters of Sultan Mohammed Jamalul Alam's heirs in which more than 50 people were killed.
For years, Malaysia largely dismissed the claims but in July, two Luxembourg-based subsidiaries of state energy firm Petronas were served with a seizure notice to enforce the award that the heirs won in February. read more
The arbitration ruling in France followed an eight-year legal effort by the heirs and $20 million in funds raised for them from unidentified third-party investors, according to interviews with main figures in the case and legal documents seen by Reuters.
*Malaysia did not participate in nor recognise the arbitration - allowing the heirs to present their case without rebuttal - despite warnings that it would be dangerous to ignore the process.
The claimants, including some retirees, are Filipino citizens leading middle-class lives, a far cry from their royal ancestors of the Sulu sultanate that once spanned rainforest-covered islands in the southern Philippines and parts of Borneo island.
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Malaysia Wins Court Battle Over $15 Billion Sulu Heirs Award
The ruling by the French Court of Appeal questioned the jurisdiction of Spanish arbitrator Gustavo Stampa, who ordered last yearâs eye-watering payout.
The âpartial awardâ was subsequently nullified by the Spanish High Court of Justice in June 2021, when it ruled that Malaysia had not been properly served ahead of Stampaâs appointment in 2019. In September, however, Stampa took the seemingly unusual step of transferring the arbitration proceeding to Paris, where he would go on to render the final award.
Critics of Stampa and the Sulu heirs have accused them of âforum shoppingâ â of âhopping from one foreign jurisdiction to the next to find a court that was willing to hear their claim,â as two Malaysian writers put it in these pages last year.
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
How Washington's sanctions boosted China's semiconductor sector
CHENG TING-FANG and LAULY LI, Nikkei staff writers
MAY 5, 2021 06:16 JST
Plan B
So far, Yangtze Memory, also known as YMTC, has remained under the radar of the U.S. government. But the company is taking no chances. With the guidance of Beijing, it has launched a massive review of its supply chain in an effort to find local suppliers -- or, at least, non-U.S. ones -- to replace the current dependence on American technology.
The collective effort has occupied over 800 people, full time, and including staff from its multiple local suppliers, for two years. And they have not finished yet.
YMTC is seeking to learn as much as it can about the origin of everything that goes into its products, from production equipment and chemicals to the tiny lenses, screws, nuts and bearings in chipmaking machinery and production lines, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. The audit extends not only to YMTC's own production lines, but also to suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, and so on.
"The review is as meticulous as knowing where the screws and nuts are coming from, the lead time, and if those parts have alternatives," one person familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia.
Each supplier is assigned a score for geopolitical risk, identified in many pages of documents detailing the components they use in its machines. YMTC has sent engineers to audit local equipment suppliers' production sites to verify that the origins of parts have been truthfully reported, one of the people told Nikkei.
American-made parts are scored highest for risk, followed by parts bought from Japan, Europe and those made locally, the person said. Meanwhile, suppliers are asked to provide corrective action reports to explain how they can together diversify procurement and find alternatives.
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 @taylorc2542Â
What most people donât get?
Is yes in âmostâ cases when you go to China to sell into their domestic markets you have to take a Joint Venture (JV) partner
And in âmostâ cases when you go to China to open up a factory, and export those goods back to your country you donât have to take on a JV partner
These days ?????
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
For one, it would crash the US Economy
And the Chinese donât believe in a zero-sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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The western multinationals went to China at the time because of their weak labour laws, weak environmental laws, mass pool of cheap labour they could pay dollar a day wages to
And yes weak IP laws that went along with it
In exchange the western multinationals traded knowledge and investment
This was nothing new, the west goes to 3rd world or developing nation takes advantages of this country until the locals complain about wages, pollution, or environmental damages. Western multinationals pick up and run for it.
I would argue yes they expected the Chinese to buy 1 billion toothbrushes and 2 billion socks
But they didnât expect them to enrich themselves
My evidence is even before the west pushed for Chinese WTO inclusion the Top of the food chain 1%ters and their TooBigTooFail Investment Banks worked out the worst deal ever for themselves
Where these TooBigTooFail Investments Banks got a 33% interest in a âJoint Venture Chinese Investment Banking Subsidiary.â Where the Chinese Bank got a 67%
Difference is the Chinese didnât complain they put up with those dollar a day wages making 22 times less than what an average American worker made. Yet saved 30% of those wages over 30 plus years. Indirectly loaning those saving to those Americans so they could spend their savings and borrow to spend some more.
While the Chinese invested or made a business with their savings
Where the Chinese lowered their standards of living while the Americans were able to raise their standards of living with those cheaper goods
If anything the Chinese were dragging their feet on the TRIPS agreement under the WTOâŚ.specifically regarding developing countries
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Developing countriesâ transition periods Provisions for developing countries, economies in transition from central planning, and least-developed countries
Developing countries and economies in transition from central planning did not have to apply most provisions of the TRIPS Agreement until 1 January 2000.
The provisions they did have to apply deal with non-discrimination.
Article 65.2 and 65.3
Least-developed countries were given until 1 January 2006.
Article 66.1.
Members have agreed to extend the deadline to 1 July 2034, or to the date a country is no longer âleast-developedâ, if that is earlier.
Pursuant to the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health, a separate transition period exists for pharmaceutical patents, which currently runs until 1 January 2033.
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(Because we the average westerner is too lazy to read past a headline)
Go read just the recent headlines from Western Mainstream Media On Elon Muskâs Tesla trip to China
(before you read the rest of this)
Reading only those headlines
You would get the impression, Tesla is introducing FSD and Robotaxis into the Chinese domestic market
When Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Divesting to where, the companies that did leave China during the trade war
only 5% went back to the USA
The majority went to SE Asia and the majority of those companies to Vietnam
Back in the 1980s tasked to start researching China for the investment banking firm I worked for
I stumbled upon the fact Chinese people and their companies were already leaving China. And going to these SE Asian countries. To the point thaw days ethnic Chinese and their companies economically dominate these economies. And these Countries are dependent on the Chinese economy
When I warned about this and CCP China at the time
people didnât believe called me a communist against capitalism as the western world wanted free trade, globalization, open markets
These days folks thinking they can run off to countries like Vietnam have no idea what they are talking about
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Ethnic Chinese dominate PH economy
by Solita Collas - Monsod on Jun 25, 2012
Truly, a picture is worth a thousand words. The pictures of the top 15 Filipino billionaires (in US dollars, mind you) in Fridayâs issue of the Inquirer brought home with crystal clarity the domination of the Philippine economy by ethnic Chinese. This is, of course, not a unique situation, as it seems to be the case in all of Southeast Asia
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Vietnam posts record 2022 trade surplus with U.S. as China deficit rises
* Vietnam's trade surplus with the United States widened to $94.9 billion last year, the highest level on record,
* Meanwhile, a trade deficit with China, which is the largest supplier of materials and equipment to Vietnam's labour-intensive manufacturing sector, widened to a record $60.2 billion in 2022 from $54.0 billion a year earlier,
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* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Chinaâs Gold Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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The real problem is for years we complained China was the number 1 polluter in the world
Now that they are investing into green, clean, renewable
The complaint is subsidies and overcapacity đđđđ
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China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing
Nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF.
The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of Chinaâs economic growth in 2023
Other key findings of the analysis include:
Clean-energy investment rose 40% year-on-year to 6.3tn yuan ($890bn), with the growth accounting for all of the investment growth across the Chinese economy in 2023.
Chinaâs $890bn investment in clean-energy sectors is almost as large as total global investments in fossil fuel supply in 2023 â and similar to the GDP of Switzerland or Turkey.
Including the value of production, clean-energy sectors contributed 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to the Chinese economy in 2023, up 30% year-on-year.
Clean-energy sectors, as a result, were the largest driver of Chinaâ economic growth overall, accounting for 40% of the expansion of GDP in 2023.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, Chinaâs GDP would have missed the governmentâs growth target of âaround 5%â, rising by only 3.0%
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion
Scaling back subsidies would reduce air pollution, generate revenue, and make a major contribution to slowing climate change
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This is where you Americans make your stand????
Teen shaking their a zzzzz to the W app dance on tictok
But not this
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How Much Money Does the World Owe China?
Our research, based on a comprehensive new data set, shows that China has extended many more loans to developing countries than previously known. This systematic underreporting of Chinese loans has created a âhidden debtâ problem â meaning that debtor countries and international institutions alike have an incomplete picture on how much countries around the world owe to China and under which conditions.
In total, the Chinese state and its subsidiaries have lent about $1.5 trillion in direct loans and trade credits to more than 150 countries around the globe. This has turned China into the worldâs largest official creditor â surpassing traditional, official lenders such as the World Bank, the IMF, or all OECD creditor governments combined.
Despite the large size of Chinaâs overseas lending boom, no official data exists on the resulting debt flows and stocks. China does not report on its international lending, and Chinese loans literally fall through the cracks of traditional data-gathering institutions. For example, credit rating agencies, such as Moodyâs or Standard & Poorâs, or data providers, such as Bloomberg, focus on private creditors, but Chinaâs lending is state sponsored, and therefore off their radar screen. Debtor countries themselves often do not collect data on debt owed by state-owned companies, which are the main recipients of Chinese loans. In addition, China is not a member of the Paris Club (an informal group of creditor nations) or the OECD, both of which collect data on lending by official creditors.
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But not this
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Chinaâs Gold Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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But not this
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China is hiding $3 trillion of foreign currency in 'shadow reserves,' adding unknown risks to the global economy, former Treasury official says
Filip De Mott Jun 30, 2023
Half of China's currency reserves are "hidden," a situation that may add risks to the global economy down the road, former Treasury Department official Brad Setser wrote.
While the country's State Administration of Foreign Exchange reported $3.12 trillion in foreign assets last December, Setser estimates that foreign exchange reserves actually sit at around $6 trillion.
"China is so big that how it manages its economy and currency matters enormously to the world," he wrote in The China Project. "Yet over time the way it manages its currency and its foreign exchange reserves has become much less transparent â creating new kinds of risks for the global economy."
A key indicator about China's reserves is a sudden pause in its reported activity. From 2002 to 2012, China's foreign exchange reserves steadily rose as the central bank bought US dollar assets to prevent China's yuan from appreciating too much, allowing exports to remain cheap.
But over the last 10 years, China's reserves stopped rising, which is puzzling as China's trade surplus has continued growing, and currently stands at an all-time high, he said.
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The Dalai Lama does not want separation from China just more autonomy Probably to go back to the old ways
Tibet became part of China in the 1300s
300 years before you Americans discovered/stole your land from the Indigenous people
Plus you watch too much Hollywood movies with Brad Pitt staring in it (probably canât stand those suddenly woah oak snow fl aches.
Except from what Hollywood and MSM tell you about China
Tibetan Monks were slave owners as 95% of the population was indentured serfs who lived to the ripe old age of 37 in the 1950.
And they used young boys as playthings in their monasteries
The real Sound of Freedom!!!!!
Donât believe what I say Try and do your own research a little about the âReal Tibetâ
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What we don't hear about Tibet
Sorrel Neuss
While the world moralises over China's occupation, feudalism and abuse in Tibetan culture has been conveniently forgotten
Wed 11 Feb 2009 22.00 GMT
Until 1959, when China cracked down on Tibetan rebels and the Dalai Lama fled to northern India, around 98% of the population was enslaved in serfdom. Drepung monastery, on the outskirts of Lhasa, was one of the world's largest landowners with 185 manors, 25,000 serfs, 300 pastures, and 16,000 herdsmen. High-ranking lamas and secular landowners imposed crippling taxes, forced boys into monastic slavery and pilfered most of the country's wealth
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* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Itâs the sameâŚ. imagine if some rebel Canadians dissatisfied with the Canadian Government
Went up North and took land near the North West Passage where the ice is melting
And then the Russians and Chinese stopped anyone from taking back that land by force
(Probably because of the new trade routes)
Thatâs basically the issue for you ⌠as we do freedom of Navigation through the Taiwan Strait
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The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America might lose.)
By MICHAEL HIRSH
06/09/2023 04:30 AM EDT
The war began in the early morning hours with a massive bombardment â Chinaâs version of âshock and awe.â
Chinese planes and rockets swiftly destroyed most of Taiwanâs navy and air force as the Peopleâs Liberation army and navy mounted a massive amphibious assault across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait.
Having taken seriously President Joe Bidenâs pledge to defend the island, Beijing also struck pre-emptively at U.S. and allied air bases and ships in the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. managed to even the odds for a time by deploying more sophisticated submarines as well as B-21 and B-2 stealth bombers to get inside Chinaâs air defense zones, but Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days and saw its network access severed.
The United States and its main ally, Japan, lost thousands of service members, dozens of ships, and hundreds of aircraft. Taiwanâs economy was devastated. And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild, taking years to replace ships as it reckoned with how shriveled its industrial base had become compared to Chinaâs.
The Chinese âjust ran rings around us,â said former Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten in one after-action report.
âThey knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it.â Dozens of versions of the above war-game scenario have been enacted over the last few years, most recently in April by the House Select Committee on competition with China.
And while the ultimate outcome in these exercises is not always clear â the U.S. does better in some than others â the cost is. In every exercise the U.S. uses up all its long-range air-to-surface missiles in a few days, with a substantial portion of its planes destroyed on the ground.
In every exercise the U.S. is not engaged in an abstract push-button war from 30,000 feet up like the ones Americans have come to expect since the end of the Cold War, but a horrifically bloody one. And thatâs assuming the U.S.-China war doesnât go nuclear.
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The difference is this in Q3 of 2019
The US FED was bailing out those TOOBIGTOFAIL banks in their repo markets less their credit markets seize up once again
A few things we learned since the 2008 subprime crisis
Buying for US debt is not unlimited.
In 2011 the US FED had to buy 71% of the newly issued external Sovereign debt by the US Treasury
That Quantitative Easing (QE)debt that was soaped up/printing of money, that debt does not disappear
Since we know from Q3 of 2017 to Q3 of 2019 the FEDs bright idea was to allow 50 to 60 billion of the Agency Debt and US Treasury Debt it soaped up during QE
to slowly mature each month, off the FEDs balance sheet. Where the US Treasury would issue new corresponding debt for the public to buy. Where they managed to dump about 600 billion in debt in the American people being the biggest buyers of US Sovereign Debt
It ended during Q3 of 2019 Because that selling of debt ended up freezing up the repo market
Just like when it happened in 2008/2009 during the subprime crisis
Thus the FED balance sheet went from 4.5 trillion to about 3.8 trillion.with that selling from 2017 to 2019
But then the FED had to come back in and buy that Treasury debt again, all that they dumped and more
Last I checked they ran that FED balance sheeet back up to over 8 trillion. Now itâs back to around 7.8 trillion
Wait you might ask Agency debt is internal debt not supposed to be backed by the US Government
Well the USA has had no issue with taking private internal debt and turning it into External Sovereign Debt backed by the US Government and the American people
Something the Chinese might have been tempted to do with the Junk Bonds issued by those Chinese Property Developers
That were a hot commodity the last few years, sought after by sophisticated foreign investors
In short the Chinese purposely deflated their real estate markets. Cut off money to its Property Developers. And didnt bailout foreign investors who took a risk buying those junk bonds
While the USA left their real estate market to implode. Keep the money flowing to the companies and bailed out foreign investors who invested in private internal debt
Yet we are complaining who is capitalist/communist
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As politicians call for taxpayer bailouts and a government takeover of troubled mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae,
FreedomWorks would like to point out that a bailout is a transfer of possibly hundreds of billions of U.S. tax dollars to sophisticated investors and governments overseas.
The top five foreign holders of Freddie and Fannie long-term debt are China, Japan, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, and Belgium. In total foreign investors hold over $1.3 trillion in these agency bonds, according to the U.S. Treasuryâs most recent âReport on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities.â
FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe commented, âThe prospectus for every GSE bond clearly states that it is not backed by the United States government. Thatâs why investors holding agency bonds already receive a significant risk premium over Treasuries.â
âA bailout at this stage would be the worst possible outcome for American taxpayers and mortgage holders, who have been paying a risk premium to these foreign investors.â
âIt would change the rules of the game retroactively and would directly subsidize the risks taken by sophisticated foreign investors.â
âA bailout of GSE bondholders would be perhaps the greatest taxpayer rip-off in American history. It is bad economics and you can be sure it is terrible politics.â
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Malaysia summons Chinese ambassador to clarify statement made during visit to KL's Chinatown
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Malaysia's Foreign Affairs Ministry, Wisma Putra, is calling on Chinese ambassador to Malaysia Huang Huikang to seek his clarification on the statement he made during a visit to Petaling Street in Kuala Lumpur last Friday (Sept 25).
The meeting, according to a press statement from the ministry, will be held at Wisma Putra in Putrajaya on Monday.
"During the visit, he was interviewed by the media and subsequent media statements resulting from that interview has attracted attention and caused concern to the Malaysian public," said Wisma Putra.
The Ministry hopes that this meeting will help clear the matter."
It is understood the Prime Minister's Office has been informed of the summon.
Last Friday, Dr Huang was quoted as saying that China was against those who resort to violence to disrupt public order, an obvious reference to the threat by a group to hold a demonstration in Petaling Street, known as KL's Chinatown
The Chinese government opposes terrorism and any form of discrimination against races and any form of extremism," he told reporters.
Dr Huang also warned that Beijing would not fear voicing out against incidents, which threaten the interests of the country, infringe upon the rights of its citizens in doing business, or disrupt the relationship between Malaysia and China.
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the mistake we westerners make?
Is we expect the Chinese to think like us.
So whatever they are trying to do? If there is a setback, problem, issue etc etc etc
We expect the Chinese to give up what they are trying to do, because that is how we think
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What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When we don't know enough to know what we don't know.
* So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence.
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Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
Cross-cultural comparisons
Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
These differences are highlighted in a meta-analysis Heine is now completing of 70 studies that examine the degree of self-enhancement or self-criticism in China, Japan and Korea versus the United States and Canada. Sixty-nine of the 70 studies reveal significant differences between the two cultures in the degree to which individuals hold these tendencies, he finds.
In another article in the October 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 81, No. 4), Heine's team looks more closely at how this occurs. First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much."
Conversely,
East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network.
But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says. Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds.
If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it.
East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
Interestingly, children in many cultures tend to overrate their abilities, perhaps because they lack objective feedback about their performance. For example, until about third grade, German youngsters generally overrate their academic achievement and class standing. This tendency declines as feedback in the form of letter grades begins. But researchers also have shown significant cross-cultural differences in youngsters' performance estimates--American children, it appears, are particularly prone to overestimate their competence.
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âââ another way to look at it China has managed to make a homegrown Lithography machine albeit one that creates legacy type/level 28nm chips
Where they are using their proprietary layering/patterning technique to get down to that 7nm/5nm
So yes one could argue they are behind from a sanctioning standpoint
But from an all out war standpoint where a Country has been cut off from inputs from other countries?
I look at it as a China is ahead Because really that is the worst case scenario the USA/West is envisioning.
As that being the reason they have sanctioned/cut off China right now
Thatâs the biased criteria we put on China making that 100% homemade chip right down to the screws and Rare Earths required to make the lithography machines in the first place
Where ASML sources 85% of what goes into making their lithography machines from around the world
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Circumventing the Chokepoint: Can the US Produce More Rare Earths?
Oct 30, 2023
* Rare earthsâwhich include the fifteen lanthanide series elements plus scandium and yttriumâare critical not only to energy technology like permanent magnets in electric vehicles and offshore wind turbines but also to military applications like lasers and precision-guided weapons. These elements enable defense equipment and weapons system components to function.
From 1950 to October 2018, China filed 25,911 rare earth patents, while the United States filed only 9,810. Thus, China can also restrict rare earth technology. In April 2023, for instance, Nikkei Asia reported that China was considering restricting exports of rare earth magnet technology
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Applications in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Lasers and Lithography
Lasers are indispensable in semiconductor manufacturing, especially in advanced lithography. REEs like neodymium are used in Nd:YAG lasers, which are critical for UV light generation in lithography processes.
Laser Cleaning
As semiconductor components shrink, traditional cleaning methods become less effective. Lasers, particularly those using REEs, offer a solution by dislodging particles adhered to wafers through Van Der Waal forces.
Magnets and Plasma Material Processing
Permanent magnets, often made from REEs like neodymium, are used in plasma material processing systems. These systems are essential for thin film growth and patterning.
Coatings and Abrasives
REEs like yttrium oxide are used for coatings in plasma etch chambers, reducing maintenance costs. Cerium dioxide abrasives are used in the Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process to achieve extremely flat wafer surfaces.
The Impact on Adjacent Technologies
Optoelectronics and LEDs
REEs like cerium and yttrium are vital for the production of white LEDs. These LEDs are increasingly used in various applications, from displays to therapeutics.
Silicon Photonics
In the emerging field of silicon photonics, REEs like erbium are being studied for their potential to enable silicon to emit light, thus making monolithic silicon photonics chips a possibility.
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Malaysia clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines (In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines (off the shores of Malaysian land) if we are arguing strictly âproximityâ Malaysia wins in their dispute with the Philippines
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute in the SCS with China stems from the fact they made a formal proximity claim against China in 1971 on those disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE âhistorical claimâ that the Philippines formally dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal that the Filipinos unilaterally brought forth themselves
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis in China
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel. Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city. The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates. In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year. Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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What most people donât get?
Is yes in âmostâ cases when you go to China to sell into their domestic markets you have to take a Joint Venture (JV) partner
But in âmostâ cases when you go to China to open up a factory, and export those goods back to your own country
/the EU
you donât have to take on a JV partner
It is mostly your own European multinationals making the lions share of the profits (who stocks are listed on your stock exchanges and in your own European stock portfolios and Pension funds)
They are the ones sending you those goods and services, inflating that trade deficit you have with China
Not only that, these multinational companies derive a huge amount of profits.
While based in China selling to Chinese domestic consumers
We are just lucky they donât just boot these foreign companies, as they donât believe in zero-sum game type of thinking
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Europe's listed firms expect to glean $514 billion in revenue from China
LONDON (Reuters) - European listed firms expect to receive 449 billion euros (ÂŁ392 billion) in total revenue from China in 2019, with luxury brands and automakers the most exposed sectors, a Refinitiv analysis of company data shows.
The data underscores the role China's burgeoning middle class is increasingly playing in determining the corporate and economic health of Europe, as concerns grow that their spending has slowed as Chinese economic growth cools.
Among the pan-European STOXX 600 index, consumer firms including Swatch, Richemont and BMW, derived the biggest chunk of revenues from China - with a total of 120 billion euros sales from the country, the analysis based on companies' estimates of their 2019 revenue shows.
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Chinese had virtually no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
Now they are going after legacy chip markets
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors?
27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products. In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales.
Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants. Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices. As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Sabah clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines
(In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute stems with the fact they make a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE
Historical claim that the Philippines dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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* In the latest experiment, researchers pumped in 2.05 megajoules of laser energy and got about 3.15MJ out â a roughly 50% gain and a sign that fusion reactions in the pellet were driving further fusion reactions. âThe energy production took less time than it takes light to travel one inch,â said Dr Marvin Adams, at the NNSA.
Immense hurdles remain, however, in the quest for fusion power plants. While the pellet released more energy than the lasers put in, the calculation does not include the 300 or so megajoules needed to power up the lasers in the first place. The NIF lasers fire about once a day, but a power plant would need to heat targets 10 times per second. Then there is the cost of the targets. The ones used in the US experiment cost tens of thousands of dollars, but for a viable power plant, they would need to cost pence. Another issue is how to get the energy out as heat.
Dr Kim Budil, the director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said with enough investment, a âfew decades of research could put us in a position to build a power plantâ. A power plant based on alternative technology used at the Joint European Torus (JET) in Oxfordshire could be ready sooner, she added
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Recovering the Lost Smells of Chinaâs Slow Trains
The overpowering odors of Chinaâs slow trains have gradually given way to the more antiseptic experience of high-speed rail travel.
Ask any member of my generation what they remember most about train travel growing up, and thereâs a better than even chance itâll be the smell.
Chinese trains in the 1980s, â90s, and â00s were a rich olfactory experience. In those days before high-speed rail, trains were crowded, cramped, and slow. A train from Beijing to Shanghai might take anywhere from 10 to 20 hours, and passengers spent most of that time eating, sleeping, and sweating.
By the end of the journey, each car had an unforgettable aroma all its own. But the most ubiquitous smell belonged to the instant noodle sauce packets that passengers consumed in place of the more expensive food sold in the trainâs dining car. A heady mix of beef paste, salt, and MSG â there was a reason the leading instant noodle manufacturer Master Kong marketed itself as âfragrance and taste you could see.â That heavy scent, combined with the smells emanating from the snack car, the sweat of other passengers, and the stench of the on-board bathrooms, created an instantly recognizable âsmellscape
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Chinese swimming scandal: a strong defence by world anti-doping body, but narrative of âcover-upâ remains
Published: April 24, 2024
Given an investigation by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security found traces of the banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ) in a kitchen at the swimmersâ hotel, CHINADA ruled the positive tests were the result of accidental contamination. The Chinese swimmers were cleared without any public announcement.
WADA says Chinaâs national anti-doping agency kept them abreast of events throughout their extensive investigation, which took place during strict COVID lockdowns and was impacted by a local outbreak of the virus.
Far from accepting CHINADAâs findings on the face of it, WADA requested the entire case file so it could conduct its own scientific and legal investigations â including speaking with the drug manufacturer to get the latest unpublished science on TMZ, and comparing the Chinese positive tests with TMZ cases in other countries, including the US. WADA ultimately determined there was no concrete evidence to âdisproveâ the possibility of environmental contamination.
Here are a few reasons WADA gave as to why in its press conference this week:
More than 200 swimmers competing in the Chinese National Championships were staying in at least two different hotels at the time. The swimmers who tested positive to non-performance-enhancing amounts of TMZ were all at one hotel.
There were fluctuating negative and positive results for the swimmers that were tested on multiple occasions, which were not consistent with deliberate doping techniques, including microdosing.
WADA found no evidence of misconduct or manipulation in the case file handed over by CHINADA.
WADA says it reviews between 2,000 and 3,000 cases of suspected doping every year. It is not unusual for the body to file an appeal challenging anti-doping findings.
For example, WADA challenged an Australian Football League decision to clear 34 members of the Essendon Football Club. It also appealed a decision by the world swimming body, FINA, to clear high-profile Chinese swimmer Sun Yang of wrongdoing for his conduct during a 2018 drug test.
According to WADAâs general counsel, Ross Wenzel, the difference between these cases and the more recent allegations against the Chinese swimmers was that the body accepted the âno faultâ finding in the latter case. In the earlier cases, it did not.
He also said WADA received external legal advice that it would have had less than a 1% chance of winning an appeal in the TMZ case. According to WADA, everything was handled by the book, and if the body was faced with the same situation again, it would do nothing differently.
Has China been unfairly singled out?
So, has WADA succeeded in changing the narrative? Probably not.
Why? Because putting the words âChinaâ and âdopingâ together is a lightning rod in the current political climate given the intense rivalry between China and the US.
Currently there are 23 people serving anti-doping suspensions in Australia. Do we feel personal or national shame for their wrongdoing?
Every time the US team marches into an Olympic Games, or steps up onto a World Championships medal podium, do we point at them while recalling memories of the US Postal Service cycling team and the banned-for-life cyclist Lance Armstrong?
But when it comes to China, many observers are quick to name and shame athletes, viewing every news story as some kind of proof the country must have a systemic, state-sanctioned doping program.
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The 2nd Automotive Winter Testing Festival held in Heihe, Heilongjiang Province
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Publicity Department of the CPC Heihe Municipal Committee
Jan 09, 2023, 02:33 ET
* Themed "passion, speed, and vitality", the Winter Testing Festival joined hands with the China Mass Production Car Performance Challenge (hereinafter referred to as CCPC), attracting more than 10 teams and nearly 30 brands, according to the Publicity Department of the CPC Heihe Municipal Committee
The festival will promote the test season through a variety of activities, integrating test, racing and sales for the deep integration and development of China'sautomotive industry.
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 @antonyjh1234 the last 2 years China has put us to shame
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China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing
Nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF. The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of Chinaâs economic growth in 2023
Other key findings of the analysis include:
Clean-energy investment rose 40% year-on-year to 6.3tn yuan ($890bn), with the growth accounting for all of the investment growth across the Chinese economy in 2023.
Chinaâs $890bn investment in clean-energy sectors is almost as large as total global investments in fossil fuel supply in 2023 â and similar to the GDP of Switzerland or Turkey.
Including the value of production, clean-energy sectors contributed 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to the Chinese economy in 2023, up 30% year-on-year.
Clean-energy sectors, as a result, were the largest driver of Chinaâ economic growth overall, accounting for 40% of the expansion of GDP in 2023.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, Chinaâs GDP would have missed the governmentâs growth target of âaround 5%â, rising by only 3.0%
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 @antonyjh1234 did you even read the articles I posted?
They are going toward a green,clean renewable future
Not because they are suddenly environmentalists
But because there is money to be made in it
the mistake we westerners make?
Is we expect the Chinese to think like us.
So whatever they are trying to do? If there is a setback, problem, issue etc etc etc
We expect the Chinese to give up what they are trying to do, because that is how we think
Thatâs what we do
Instead itâs everyone wins everyone gets a participation ribbon mindsetâŚ.
No one fails
When I say it will take time?
That is failure for the average westerner and time to give up
Because it's about instant gratification these days or else nothing at all
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What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When we don't know enough to know what we don't know.
* So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence.
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Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
Cross-cultural comparisons
Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
These differences are highlighted in a meta-analysis Heine is now completing of 70 studies that examine the degree of self-enhancement or self-criticism in China, Japan and Korea versus the United States and Canada. Sixty-nine of the 70 studies reveal significant differences between the two cultures in the degree to which individuals hold these tendencies, he finds.
In another article in the October 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 81, No. 4), Heine's team looks more closely at how this occurs. First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much."
Conversely,
East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network.
But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says. Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds.
If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it.
East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
Interestingly, children in many cultures tend to overrate their abilities, perhaps because they lack objective feedback about their performance. For example, until about third grade, German youngsters generally overrate their academic achievement and class standing. This tendency declines as feedback in the form of letter grades begins. But researchers also have shown significant cross-cultural differences in youngsters' performance estimates--American children, it appears, are particularly prone to overestimate their competence.
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How China Became the Worldâs Leader on Renewable Energy
China has achieved stunning growth in its installed renewable capacity over the last two decades, far outpacing the rest of the world. But to end its continued dependence on fossil fuels, it must now move ahead with planned reforms to its national electricity system.
BY ISABEL HILTON
MARCH 13, 2024
In 2020, for example, China pledged to reach 1,200 gigawatts of renewables capacity by 2030, more than double its capacity at that time. At its present pace, it will meet that target by 2025, and could boast as much as 1,000 gigawatts of solar power alone by the end of 2026, an achievement that would make a substantial contribution to the 11,000 gigawatts of installed renewable capacity that the world needs to meet the 2030 targets of the Paris Agreement. Fossil fuels now make up less than half of Chinaâs total installed generation capacity, a dramatic reduction from a decade ago when fossil fuels accounted for two-thirds of its power capacity
When the International Energy Authority issued its assessment of the pledge to triple renewables globally by 2030, it pointed out that the 50 percent increase in global renewable installations in 2023 was largely driven by China. In 2022, China installed roughly as much solar photovoltaic capacity as the rest of the world combined, then went on in 2023 to double new solar installations, increase new wind capacity by 66 percent, and almost quadruple additions of energy storage.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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 @mauriceharting5877 China is still a developing country the are following the rules at best bending them
The western multinationals went to China at the time because of their weak labour laws, weak environmental laws, mass pool of cheap labour they could pay dollar a day wages to
And yes weak IP laws that went along with it
In exchange the western multinationals traded knowledge and investment
This was nothing new, the west goes to 3rd world or developing nation takes advantages of this country until the locals complain about wages, pollution, or environmental damages. Western multinationals pick up and run for it.
I would argue yes they expected the Chinese to buy 1 billion toothbrushes and 2 billion socks
But they didnât expect them to enrich themselves
My evidence is even before the west pushed for Chinese WTO inclusion the Top of the food chain 1%ters and their TooBigTooFail Investment Banks worked out the worst deal ever for themselves
Where these TooBigTooFail Investments Banks got a 33% interest in a âJoint Venture Chinese Investment Banking Subsidiary.â Where the Chinese Bank got a 67%
Difference is the Chinese didnât complain they put up with those dollar a day wages making 22 times less than what an average American worker made. Yet saved 30% of those wages over 30 plus years. Indirectly loaning those saving to those Americans so they could spend their savings and borrow to spend some more.
While the Chinese invested or made a business with their savings
Where the Chinese lowered their standards of living while the Americans were able to raise their standards of living with those cheaper goods
If anything the Chinese were dragging their feet on the TRIPS agreement under the WTOâŚ.specifically regarding developing countries
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Developing countriesâ transition periods Provisions for developing countries, economies in transition from central planning, and least-developed countries
Developing countries and economies in transition from central planning did not have to apply most provisions of the TRIPS Agreement until 1 January 2000.
The provisions they did have to apply deal with non-discrimination.
Article 65.2 and 65.3
Least-developed countries were given until 1 January 2006.
Article 66.1.
Members have agreed to extend the deadline to 1 July 2034, or to the date a country is no longer âleast-developedâ, if that is earlier.
Pursuant to the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health, a separate transition period exists for pharmaceutical patents, which currently runs until 1 January 2033.
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Chinaâs Gold Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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China almost certainly owns more gold than the US â hereâs why that matters
China almost certainly owns a lot more gold than anyone else â including the USA. But how much? And why does it need so much gold? Dominic Frisby explains.
BY DOMINIC FRISBY
LAST UPDATED 3 MARCH 2022
* There are two parts to this argument. First, Chinaâs gold mining. In 2007, China overtook South Africa as the worldâs largest gold producer. It has remained so ever since. This past decade it has produced about 15% of all the gold mined in the world.
* Second, there is the fact that, as well as being the biggest producer, China is the worldâs biggest importer. Gold imports via Switzerland and Dubai are not always declared, but we do know that via Hong Kong alone, over 6,700 tonnes have entered the country since 2000.
Add that to cumulative gold production since 2000, and you get a figure over 13,500 tonnes.
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âââ China has an 820 billion dollar trade surplus with the world every year
Holding that much debt is the right amount in my opinion
The US FED crashed their credit markets selling about 600 to 700 billion in debt off its balance sheet over a 2 year period
Plus China has been doing this for over a decade we are just catching on right now
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Chinaâs Gold Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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What most people like you donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Seriously, stop posting you are an embarrassing
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Chinese UAVs âOutperformâ US Drones In Ukraine War; WSJ Report Calls US-Made UAVs Fragile & Ineffective
April 10, 2024
According to WSJ, most small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) developed by American firms have struggled to perform in combat scenarios.
This development blows the hopes of these companies, who anticipated that combat testing would bolster sales and attention for their products.
Moreover, it poses challenges for the Pentagon, which requires a reliable supply of thousands of small drones for various purposes. Sources cited in the report, including drone company executives, Ukrainian frontline personnel, government officials, and former US military officials, outline several key issues plaguing US-made drones.
These include exorbitant costs, technical faults, and complex repair processes. In particular, Ukrainian officials have found US-made drones to be fragile and ineffective against Russian jamming and GPS blackout technology.
Instances have been reported where these drones failed to take off, complete missions, or return safely. Moreover, they often fall short of advertised flight distances and payload capacities.
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When Chinese retail l/toy store drones outperform US military grade dronesâŚ
You have nothing to be proud of
How much do you get paid per hour to blow sunshine up a clients azzzzzzzz
I want a job like that where I have no shame
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American drones are glitching and getting lost in Ukraine, giving way to a flood of Chinese drones
Chris Panella Apr 10, 2024, 3:44 PM ET
American-made drones haven't excelled on the battlefield, prompting Ukraine to turn to buying Chinese-made drones.
* The problems with many US-made drones, particularly some of the smaller ones, are that they often don't function as advertised or planned and easily glitch when targeted by Russian jamming, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
They are fragile and vulnerable to electronic warfare. For some of the systems that were sent to Ukraine, issues included not taking off, getting lost and not returning home, or simply failing to meet mission expectations.
* US drones are also typically far more expensive than comparable models. And at the rate Ukraine is burning through them, it wouldn't be feasible. Instead, Ukraine is turning to systems made by Chinese companies for cheaper and often more reliable alternatives.
Chinese DJI drones have long played a role in the war, with Ukraine buying many of the retail models. Ukrainian forces sometimes strap bombs directly on them for a makeshift one-way attack drone or use them to drop grenades.
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The Chinese Treasure Fleet in 15th century Philippines
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* It was the people of our archipelago who discovered Magellan and the Europeans in 1521, not the other way around, as most Filipinos were taught by our grade-school textbooks. Our islands and their inhabitants were well-known to a larger, richer world that of Chinese emperors and scholars and Arab traders, as early as the 9th, even 6th centuries. And certainly by 1000 A.D., our shores were regular ports of call in the trade with China, then the most powerful nation on earth.
Chinese chronicles, European archaeologists and the diggings in our pre-colonial burial grounds prove that those ancient Filipinos used fine porcelain, weights and measures imported from China, and recorded written contracts. Chao-Ju-Kua reported that Chinese traders visited Ma-I (Luzon) regularly, leaving silks, porcelain and metal utensils on the beaches of designated islands, and returning weeks later to collect payment in the form of beeswax, gold dust, carabao horn, ginger, cinnamon or garlic. It was an import-export system run on a reliable honor system with unquestioned good faith. (Tell that to our Bureau of Customs.) âFilipinos had long been literate when Magellan came.â writes Harvard historian Laurence Bergreen, one of the sources of this article.
* When Magellanâs Spanish Armada hove into view in March 1521, the natives of Homonhon in the Visayas must have taken pity on the small black ships with tattered sails and scruffy, starving, disoriented sailors, for they sent a small rowboat packed with rice, coconuts and bananas to their rescue. On the next island, the white, bearded strangers were feted in a bamboo palace with a banquet of roast fish, pork, turtle eggs and palm wine, by a native king whose queen wore a black-and-white gown, red lips and nails, while a quartet of young, topless damsels played music on various gongs and drums.
Those early Filipinos had been more accustomed to the tall, prosperous, Chinese ships with a trio of feathery sails stiffened with battens, for the China trade had been in place for at least 500 years. During the Ming Dynasty, Filipinos enjoyed the visits of the Treasure Fleet (1405-1500) of Admiral Cheng Ho (Zhen He) a huge, 7-ft tall, powerful eunuch, who had built 1,500 massive, 500-ft ships in a giant shipyard in Nanking with the help of 30,000 workers. The luxurious ships, each manned by 1,000 sailors ruled the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
* But the Chinese were not interested in conquest or territorial aggrandizement. Their purposes were trade and diplomacy. That was what our ancestors expected when they first saw the Spanish Armada.
Filipinos had never seen white men before Magellan and never thought the strangers would be as rapacious and predatory as they would prove to be. They assumed the new foreigners to be poor and needy because they had only glass beads, a string of little bells and a red cap (Magellanâs gifts) to reciprocate the native prodigality. The white men were, in fact, so dazzled by the earrings, chains, armlets and anklets, of pure gold, worn by both the native men and women that Magellan had to warn them against showing their covetousness.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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As for Chinese owned and madeâŚ. they have been actually sending it to their Belt and Road partners
But eventually it will make it to you Brits the rest of the world
Because you canât beat cheaper, better and faster
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
President Donald Trumpâs team will learn that finding Chinaâs pain points in terms of trade is more difficult than expected, as Beijing continues to focus on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position. China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD). Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless.
Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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On 1 July 2018, China slashed the import tariff rates of daily consumer goods involving 1,449 tariff lines. The term âdaily consumer goodsâ covers eight categories of product: food; apparel, footwear and headwear; furniture and houseware; sundry grocery items; cultural, sports and entertainment supplies, home electronics; daily chemical products; and medical and health products.
The average tariff rates of the goods involved have been reduced from 15.7% to 6.9%, a reduction of 55.9%. Among these, the average import tariffs for apparel, footwear, headwear, kitchenware and fitness products have been reduced from 15.9% to 7.1%. For home appliances, such as washing machines and refrigerators, the reduction was from 20.5% to 8.0%. For processed food, the rates were cut from 15.2% to 6.9%. The average tariff rates for detergents, cosmetics, such as skincare and haircare products, and some medicine and health products have fallen from 8.4% to 2.9%. This is the fifth time that China has lowered import tariffs for consumer goods in recent years.
In November 2018, China reduced the import tariffs on 1,585 taxable items, including industrial goods. The average tariff rate for high demand mechanical and electrical equipment, such as construction machinery, instruments and meters, was lowered from 12.2% to 8.8%. For textiles and building materials, the average tariff rate was cut from 11.5% to 8.4%, while that for certain resource goods, such as paper products, as well as primary goods fell from 6.6% to 5.4%.
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The western multinationals went to China at the time because of their weak labour laws, weak environmental laws, mass pool of cheap labour they could pay dollar a day wages to
And yes weak IP laws that went along with it
In exchange???? the western multinationals traded knowledge and investment
This was nothing new, the west goes to 3rd world or developing nation takes advantages of this country until the locals complain about wages, pollution, or environmental damages.
Western multinationals pick up and run for it.
I would argue yes they expected the Chinese to buy 1 billion toothbrushes and 2 billion socks
But they didnât expect them to enrich themselves
My evidence is even before the west pushed for Chinese WTO inclusion the Top of the food chain 1%ters and their TooBigTooFail Investment Banks worked out the worst deal ever for themselves
Where these TooBigTooFail Investments Banks got a 33% interest in a âJoint Venture Chinese Investment Banking Subsidiary.â Where the Chinese Bank got a 67%
Difference is the Chinese didnât complain they put up with those dollar a day wages making 22 times less than what an average American worker made.
Yet saved 30% of those wages over 30 plus years. Indirectly loaning those saving to those Americans so they could spend their savings and borrow to spend some more.
While the Chinese invested or made a business with their savings
Where the Chinese lowered their standards of living while the Americans were able to raise their standards of living with those cheaper goods
If anything the Chinese were dragging their feet on the TRIPS agreement under the WTOâŚ.specifically regarding developing countries
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Developing countriesâ transition periods Provisions for developing countries, economies in transition from central planning, and least-developed countries
Developing countries and economies in transition from central planning did not have to apply most provisions of the TRIPS Agreement until 1 January 2000.
The provisions they did have to apply deal with non-discrimination.
Article 65.2 and 65.3
Least-developed countries were given until 1 January 2006.
Article 66.1.
Members have agreed to extend the deadline to 1 July 2034, or to the date a country is no longer âleast-developedâ, if that is earlier.
Pursuant to the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health, a separate transition period exists for pharmaceutical patents, which currently runs until 1 January 2033.
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Chinese swimming scandal: a strong defence by world anti-doping body, but narrative of âcover-upâ remains
Published: April 24, 2024
Given an investigation by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security found traces of the banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ) in a kitchen at the swimmersâ hotel, CHINADA ruled the positive tests were the result of accidental contamination. The Chinese swimmers were cleared without any public announcement.
WADA says Chinaâs national anti-doping agency kept them abreast of events throughout their extensive investigation, which took place during strict COVID lockdowns and was impacted by a local outbreak of the virus.
Far from accepting CHINADAâs findings on the face of it, WADA requested the entire case file so it could conduct its own scientific and legal investigations â including speaking with the drug manufacturer to get the latest unpublished science on TMZ, and comparing the Chinese positive tests with TMZ cases in other countries, including the US. WADA ultimately determined there was no concrete evidence to âdisproveâ the possibility of environmental contamination.
Here are a few reasons WADA gave as to why in its press conference this week:
More than 200 swimmers competing in the Chinese National Championships were staying in at least two different hotels at the time. The swimmers who tested positive to non-performance-enhancing amounts of TMZ were all at one hotel.
There were fluctuating negative and positive results for the swimmers that were tested on multiple occasions, which were not consistent with deliberate doping techniques, including microdosing.
WADA found no evidence of misconduct or manipulation in the case file handed over by CHINADA.
WADA says it reviews between 2,000 and 3,000 cases of suspected doping every year. It is not unusual for the body to file an appeal challenging anti-doping findings.
For example, WADA challenged an Australian Football League decision to clear 34 members of the Essendon Football Club. It also appealed a decision by the world swimming body, FINA, to clear high-profile Chinese swimmer Sun Yang of wrongdoing for his conduct during a 2018 drug test.
According to WADAâs general counsel, Ross Wenzel, the difference between these cases and the more recent allegations against the Chinese swimmers was that the body accepted the âno faultâ finding in the latter case. In the earlier cases, it did not.
He also said WADA received external legal advice that it would have had less than a 1% chance of winning an appeal in the TMZ case. According to WADA, everything was handled by the book, and if the body was faced with the same situation again, it would do nothing differently.
Has China been unfairly singled out?
So, has WADA succeeded in changing the narrative? Probably not.
Why? Because putting the words âChinaâ and âdopingâ together is a lightning rod in the current political climate given the intense rivalry between China and the US.
Currently there are 23 people serving anti-doping suspensions in Australia. Do we feel personal or national shame for their wrongdoing?
Every time the US team marches into an Olympic Games, or steps up onto a World Championships medal podium, do we point at them while recalling memories of the US Postal Service cycling team and the banned-for-life cyclist Lance Armstrong?
But when it comes to China, many observers are quick to name and shame athletes, viewing every news story as some kind of proof the country must have a systemic, state-sanctioned doping program.
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Sports Med Open. 2024 Dec; 10: 57. Published online 2024 May 20. doi: 10.1186/s40798-024-00721-9
PMCID: PMC11102888PMID: 38763945
Doping Prevalence among U.S. Elite Athletes Subject to Drug Testing under the World Anti-Doping Code
Depending on the method of calculation, 6.5â9.2% of the 1,398 respondents reported using one or more prohibited substances or methods in the 12 months prior to survey administration. Specific doping prevalence rates for each individual substance / method categories ranged from 0.1% (for both diuretics / masking agents and stem cell / gene editing) to 4.2% for in-competition use of cannabinoids.
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Lewis: âWho cares I failed drug test?â
Duncan Mackay
Thu 24 Apr 2003 01.51 BST
Carl Lewis has broken his silence on allegations that he was the beneficiary of a drugs cover-up, admitting he had tested positive for banned substances but claiming he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans.
"There were hundreds of people getting off," he said. "Everyone was treated the same."
Lewis has now acknowledged that he failed three tests during the 1988 US Olympic trials, which under international rules at the time should have prevented him from competing in the Seoul games two months later.
Carl Lewis has broken his silence on allegations that he was the beneficiary of a drugs cover-up, admitting he had tested positive for banned substances but claiming he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans.
"There were hundreds of people getting off," he said. "Everyone was treated the same."
Lewis has now acknowledged that he failed three tests during the 1988 US Olympic trials, which under international rules at the time should have prevented him from competing in the Seoul games two months later.
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 @whatcouldgowrong7914 Tesla is losing out to Chinese EV makers these days
They donât need the world industrialized nations.
As China has been selling their cars to their Global South/BRI partner countries
And really letâs pretend they donât know. They will get tariffs if they take a large market share in Australia or where ever.
And not like these Countries would allow Chinese to set up factories to manufacture EVs in Australia or where ever
Tesla is losing out these days
Thatâs because they are basically a legacy brand. People are buying in brand name alone
Unable to compete on price, quality or innovation
Even just recently with Musk going over to that country????
You would get the impression,
Tesla is introducing FSD and Robotaxis into the Chinese domestic market
When Baidu the the Chinese company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu's Apollo Go offers 821,000 rides in Q3 2023, up 73% YoY
Apollo Go, Baidu's autonomous ride-hailing service, provided 821,000 rides in the third quarter of 2023, up 73% year over year. As of September 30, 2023, the cumulative rides provided to the public by Apollo Go reached 4.1 million.
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A few things we learned since the 2008 subprime crisis
Buying for US external Sovereign debt is not unlimited.
In 2011 the US FED had to buy 71% of the newly issued debt by the US Treasury
That QE debt that was soaped up/printing of money, that debt does not disappear
Since we know from Q3 of 2017 to Q3 of 2019 the FEDs bright idea was to allow up to 50 to 60 billion of the Agency Debt and US Treasury Debt it soaped up during QE
to slowly mature each month, off the FEDs balance sheet. Where the US Treasury would issue new corresponding debt for the public to buy.
It ended during Q3 of 2019 Because that selling of debt helped in freezing up the repo market
Just like when it happened in 2008/2009 during the subprime crisis
Thus the FED balance sheet went from 4.5 trillion to about 3.8 trillion⌠with that selling from 2017 to 2019
But then the FED had to come back in do a QE 2.0 and buy back that Treasury debt it dumped and more
Last I checked they ran that FED balance sheeet to 8.9 trillion. But are closer to 8 trillion now
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No Surprise, Fed Was Biggest Buyer of Treasuries in 2013 THE Federal Reserve financed most of the governmentâs deficit in 2013, in sharp contrast to the year before, when the Fed did not add to its holdings of Treasury securities. The American private sector appears to have been a net seller of Treasuries in 2013, but the foreign private sector was a substantial buyer, according to government estimates released this week. In 2013, the government issued a net $759 billion in Treasury securities to the public. That was the lowest figure in six years, as the budget deficit declined because of a healthier economy, which increased tax receipts, and to government austerity that cut spending. The Fed bought a net $543 billion of Treasuries during 2013. That was not a record amount â in 2011 it had purchased $656 billion â but it enabled the Fed to finance 71 percent of the net Treasury borrowing during the year.
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This is why China would win... This Chip industry where the Chinese are actually behind. The USA bright idea was to cut off technology and make them innovative. Would have been smarter to lower prices and dump chips into China
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far, Yangtze Memory, also known as YMTC, has remained under the radar of the U.S. government. But the company is taking no chances. With the guidance of Beijing, it has launched a massive review of its supply chain in an effort to find local suppliers -- or, at least, non-U.S. ones -- to replace the current dependence on American technology.
The collective effort has occupied over 800 people, full time, and including staff from its multiple local suppliers, for two years. And they have not finished yet.
YMTC is seeking to learn as much as it can about the origin of everything that goes into its products, from production equipment and chemicals to the tiny lenses, screws, nuts and bearings in chipmaking machinery and production lines, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. The audit extends not only to YMTC's own production lines, but also to suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, and so on.
"The review is as meticulous as knowing where the screws and nuts are coming from, the lead time, and if those parts have alternatives," one person familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia.
Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. plant in Wuhan. (Photo by Yusho Cho)
Each supplier is assigned a score for geopolitical risk, identified in many pages of documents detailing the components they use in its machines. YMTC has sent engineers to audit local equipment suppliers' production sites to verify that the origins of parts have been truthfully reported, one of the people told Nikkei.
American-made parts are scored highest for risk, followed by parts bought from Japan, Europe and those made locally, the person said. Meanwhile, suppliers are asked to provide corrective action reports to explain how they can together diversify procurement and find alternatives.
"Previously, when China talked about self-sufficiency, they were thinking about starting to cultivate some viable chip developers that could compete with foreign chipmakers," a chip industry executive told Nikkei. "However, they did not expect that they would need to do all that, starting from fundamentals.
"It's like when you want to drink milk -- but you not only need to own a whole farm, and learn how to breed dairy cows, and you have to build barns, fences, as well as grow hay, all by yourselves."
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There is now a 7 volume â27â book series on what China invented that says they taught the world a few things themselves
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
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Chinese Government has banned TicTok in China themselves
and are wary about these Social Media Sites
With that said this is really about China and US relations
More accurately the US/China trade war
Where the real goal isnât trade deficits
Itâs to get more or better access for US multinationals into Chinese Domestic markets
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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The irony is you donât even know what really was going on
If China really wanted that land that no one wantsâŚ. They could have cut off the water flowing along the river and made that land even more useless
Why would China cause that incident????
Could it be that exactly around that same time, even the Russians were pushing for China to vote to give India a permanent seat on the UN Security Council?
Donât hear much about that anymore
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China Is Winning the Race for Water Security in Asia
Great power competition in Asia is not only about control of critical waterways in the South China Sea, but also about who controls Asiaâs fresh water. The future of Asiaâs waterâupon which about four billion people dependâlies in Chinaâs hands. Through its presence in Tibet, China controls the headwaters of ten of the eleven major rivers of Asia. So far, China has taken a relatively cooperative approach to sharing water with its neighbors as part of the systematic consolidation of its âsoft powerâ over downstream countries. But climate change and rapid growth are threatening to upset this delicate diplomatic balance. What happens when Chinaâs own thirst outpaces its resources? And how will Chinaâs choices affect U.S. interests in the strategic Asia-Pacific region?
China has positioned itself as a world leader on climate change and set ambitious goals for environmental protection. However, due to the pace of urban as well as industrial expansion and its often-lax enforcement of pollution control regulations, China continues to consume as much coal as the rest of the world combined. Its approach to combatting climate change and resource scarcity, which emphasizes engineering solutions over better resource management, has resulted in dramatic infrastructure projects. These include a series of hydro-electric dams meant to address the countryâs severe water shortage challenges by giving it more control over the continentâs rivers, as well as to generate electricity.
These construction projects mean China can bestow or withhold water as it sees fit, leaving downstream Asian countries vulnerable to Beijingâs decisions. For example, Chinese hydroelectric dams along the Brahmaputra River have proven to be a source of friction with India, exacerbating long-simmering border disputes.
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When they can just use water as a weapon
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India-China relations and the
geopolitics of water
AMEYA PRATAP SINGH URVI TEMBEY
Control over key rivers effectively gives China a chokehold on Indiaâs economy â and poses a wider regional threat.
China has claimed express ownership over Tibet's waters, making it an upstream controller of seven of South Asia's mightiest rivers â the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Yangtze and Mekong.
These rivers flow into Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, and form the largest river run-off from any single location. It is estimated that 718 billion cubic meters of surface water flows out of the Tibetan plateau and the Chinese-administered regions of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia to neighbouring countries each year.
Nearly half that water, 48%, runs directly into India.
For India, the one domain in which Chinaâs status as the âupper riparianâ provides an almost insurmountable challenge is in ensuring shared access to transboundary rivers. And as the recent clashes on the Sino-Indian border have made clear, India needs to assess how China might âweaponiseâ its advantage over those countries downstream. Control over these rivers effectively gives China a chokehold on Indiaâs economy.
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld? Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
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You want a real threat: What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive formula.
These days using illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China
These are the same companies who got those trump tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales in Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China
whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions, deriving a good pot of their profits from China these days
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So these companies could get even more or better access into those Chinese Domestic markets
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest at
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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What most people donât get?
Is yes in âmostâ cases when you go to China to sell into their domestic markets you have to take a Joint Venture (JV) partner
And in âmostâ cases when you go to China to open up a factory, and export those goods back to your country you donât have to take on a JV partner
These days ?????
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Chinese should really think twice about coming to. Canada
A life sentence in Canada is 25 years, then you are eligible for parole
Obviously most of these murderers donât get out after 25 years
But some have
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Supreme Court strikes down âdegradingâ parole ineligibility law for mass murders
By Betsy Powell Courts Reporter
Fri., May 27, 2022
But in Fridayâs much-anticipated ruling, Chief Justice Richard Wagner said Section 745.51 of the Criminal Code violates section 12 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in a way that cannot be justified in a free and democratic society. Section 12 guarantees the right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.
â What is at stake is our commitment, as a society, to respect human dignity and the inherent worth of every individual,â the decision states.
Striking down the law should not be seen as devaluing the lives of innocent victims, the court said.
âEveryone would agree that multiple murders are inherently despicable acts and are the most serious crimes, with consequences that last forever. This appeal is not about the value of each human life, but rather about the limits on the stateâs power to punish offenders, which, in a society founded on the rule of law, must be exercised in a manner consistent with the Constitution.â
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FIRST READING: The heinous offenders Canada has freed in just the last three months
Despite assurances that Robert Pickton will never obtain parole, it's not entirely beyond the realm of possibility
This month, one of Canadaâs most notorious serial killers officially became eligible to apply for day parole.
Published Feb 28, 2024 ⢠Last updated Feb 28, 2024 ⢠8 minute read
It was 22 years ago that Robert Pickton was first arrested at his Port Coquitlam pig farm under suspicion of being personally responsible for scores of women disappearing from Vancouverâs Downtown Eastside. Convicted for the second-degree murder of six women, Pickton has confessed to killing as many as 49.
But under Canadian criminal law, there is zero mechanism to sentence an offender to life imprisonment. While Pickton was technically handed a âlifeâ sentence, that just means his parole conditions never expire. Like any convicted murderer, he can apply for day parole just 22 years after his arrest, and full parole after 25 years.
On the day before Picktonâs parole eligibility, families of his victims gathered outside the farm where he had committed the murders. Speaking to the Canadian Press, they said lawyers had assured them that Pickton would never be paroled, but that they had few reasons to believe them. âI donât trust the system. Thereâs always going to be that fear,â said Lorelei Williams, cousin of Pickton victim Tanya Holyk.
While Pickton may yet remain a special case, the Canadian justice system has indeed granted parole to any number of heinous criminals that the public assumed would never get out, including mass shooters, serial killers, cannibals, cop-killers and the murderers of children.
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More like well over 2 trillion closer to the 3 trillion others have posted about in this thread
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How Much Money Does the World Owe China?
Our research, based on a comprehensive new data set, shows that China has extended many more loans to developing countries than previously known. This systematic underreporting of Chinese loans has created a âhidden debtâ problem â meaning that debtor countries and international institutions alike have an incomplete picture on how much countries around the world owe to China and under which conditions.
In total, the Chinese state and its subsidiaries have lent about $1.5 trillion in direct loans and trade credits to more than 150 countries around the globe. This has turned China into the worldâs largest official creditor â surpassing traditional, official lenders such as the World Bank, the IMF, or all OECD creditor governments combined.
Despite the large size of Chinaâs overseas lending boom, no official data exists on the resulting debt flows and stocks. China does not report on its international lending, and Chinese loans literally fall through the cracks of traditional data-gathering institutions. For example, credit rating agencies, such as Moodyâs or Standard & Poorâs, or data providers, such as Bloomberg, focus on private creditors, but Chinaâs lending is state sponsored, and therefore off their radar screen. Debtor countries themselves often do not collect data on debt owed by state-owned companies, which are the main recipients of Chinese loans. In addition, China is not a member of the Paris Club (an informal group of creditor nations) or the OECD, both of which collect data on lending by official creditors.
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Great find with all your stats⌠allow me to fact check and use some of these stats in the futureâŚ
Also itâs not just container ports within China itâs the container ports around the world as well
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How China rules the waves
FT investigation: Beijing has spent billions expanding its ports network to secure sea lanes and establish itself as a maritime power
JANUARY 12 2017
In terms of container ports, China already rules the waves. Nearly two-thirds of the worldâs top 50 had some degree of Chinese investment by 2015, up from about one-fifth in 2010, according to FT research.
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How China Uses Shipping for Surveillance and Control
Beijingâs global maritime operations double as intelligence-gathering outposts.
Of the worldâs 75 leading container ports outside the Chinese mainland, almost halfhave at least partial Chinese ownership or operations (with operations more significant, since they allow China to control access to terminals, supplies, dry docks, and storage). More than half of Chinaâs overseas maritime assets sit on major shipping lanes passing through the Indian Ocean (the Port of Hambantota, Sri Lanka), the Red Sea (the Port of Djibouti), the Suez Canal (the Port of Sokhna, Egypt, and the Suez Canal Economic Zone), the Mediterranean Sea (the Port of Haifa, Israel, and Piraeus, Greece), and other waters.
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Debunking the Myth of âDebt-trap Diplomacyâ
How Recipient Countries Shape Chinaâs Belt and Road Initiative
As this section shows, there are many misconceptions in this conventional narrative.
First, the Hambantota Port project was not proposed by China, but by the government of former Sri Lankan President (and current Prime Minister) Mahinda Rajapaksa, in cooperation with a profit-seeking Chinese SOE.
Second, it was a commercial, not a geostrategic, venture, but one which created vast surplus capacity due to governance problems in Sri Lanka. The port was one of several âwhite elephantâ projects promoted by Mahinda Rajapaksa as part of a corrupt and unsustainable developmental programme.
Third, Sri Lankaâs debt distress was unconnected to Chinese lending, arising instead from excessive borrowing on Western-dominated capital markets and from structural problems within the Sri Lankan economy.
Fourth, there was no debt-for-asset swap. Rather, after bargaining hard for commercial reasons, a Chinese SOE leased the port in exchange for $1.1 billion, which Sri Lanka used to pay down other debts and boost foreign reserves.
Fifth, Chinese navy vessels cannot use the port, which will instead become the new base of Sri Lankaâs own southern naval command. All these problems arose not from a carefully crafted top-down strategy, but rather as a result of the dynamics described in chapters 2 and 3 of this paper.
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What is the volume of Chinese loans in Africa?
According to Eugène Berg, ex-ambassador of France to Namibia and Botswana, âBetween 2000 and 2018, 50 African countries out of 54 borrowed 132 billion dollars from China, of which 80% was from Ex-Im Bank of China and China Development Bank (CDB), in various forms. In 2018, China held nearly 21% of the continentâs outstanding external public debt, with many of these loans going to finance infrastructures whose relevance is questionable.â (source: Eugène Berg, La percĂŠe chinoise en Afrique a des effets dĂŠlĂŠtères (Chinaâs Entry Into Africa has Deleterious Effects), Le Monde, 31 December 2021, translation CADTM)
The Chinese press agency Xinhua gives lower figures on the extent of Chinese loans: âA report published last July by the British NGO Debt Justice showed that 12 percent of the external debt of African countries is owed to Chinese lenders, compared to 35 percent to Western private lenders. The average interest rate of these private loans is 5 percent, compared with 2.7 percent for loans from Chinese public and private lenders.â Source: Xinhua, Key Facts U.S. Deliberately Ignores about African Debt, 7/02/2023.
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they have done war games/war scenarios over and over
Arming the Philippines would just make it a target when the Chinese can produce 1000 cruise missiles everyday. Thatâs how they plan to win a war with the USA. Out produce the Americans
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The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America might lose.)
By MICHAEL HIRSH
06/09/2023 04:30 AM EDT
The war began in the early morning hours with a massive bombardment â Chinaâs version of âshock and awe.â
Chinese planes and rockets swiftly destroyed most of Taiwanâs navy and air force as the Peopleâs Liberation army and navy mounted a massive amphibious assault across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait.
Having taken seriously President Joe Bidenâs pledge to defend the island, Beijing also struck pre-emptively at U.S. and allied air bases and ships in the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. managed to even the odds for a time by deploying more sophisticated submarines as well as B-21 and B-2 stealth bombers to get inside Chinaâs air defense zones, but Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days and saw its network access severed.
The United States and its main ally, Japan, lost thousands of service members, dozens of ships, and hundreds of aircraft. Taiwanâs economy was devastated. And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild, taking years to replace ships as it reckoned with how shriveled its industrial base had become compared to Chinaâs.
The Chinese âjust ran rings around us,â said former Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten in one after-action report.
âThey knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it.â Dozens of versions of the above war-game scenario have been enacted over the last few years, most recently in April by the House Select Committee on competition with China.
And while the ultimate outcome in these exercises is not always clear â the U.S. does better in some than others â the cost is. In every exercise the U.S. uses up all its long-range air-to-surface missiles in a few days, with a substantial portion of its planes destroyed on the ground.
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I assume you are referring to Fentanyl
China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is an unlikely option
Since Fentanyl is a legal substance, used in US Hospitals
Plus without those Chinese drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs/medicine
If you had any conviction to your principles⌠you would immediately chuck out the Pharmaceutical drugs/ medicine you have in your home
And while you are at it, the gadget you are typing on because who knows what they put in those rare earths used to make your gadget in the first place
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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 @rodneyramsay5561 I wouldnât trust Anything Mainstream Media tells me about China
Thatâs the real irony people like you wouldnât believe a single thing Mainstream Media tells you
Unless itâs about China
Here something they wonât tell you to make up for pension shortfalls in China as people move into cities. They are looking into centralizing their Pension system. In the meantime they transfer money and assets from State owned enterprises into their Pension system
They are more likely to be the ones who give a universal basic income as AI takes over their country and the world for that matter
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Through a central coordination mechanism, over 930 billion yuan ($147.58 billion) from the national pool went to make up for the shortfalls of local pension schemes last year alone.
China's basic old-age insurance, a key program to ensure people's well-being after retirement, has been evolving to a larger-scale management system since its establishment in the 1990s. The central coordination mechanism was set up in 2018 as the first step prior to building a national system to further address unbalanced pension burdens nationwide.
But issues deriving from disparities in regional economic development and demographic structure still exist.
"Some regions have more surpluses, while the others with older populations are under heavier pressure to make pension payments," said Qi Tao, an official from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
In 2021, over 210 billion yuan from the coordination mechanism went to the central and western regions as well as the northeastern "rust belt" provinces, as a greying population weighs on their pension payments and growing labor outflows squeeze pension income.
Using a nationwide chessboard as a metaphor, the head of the China Association of Social Security Zheng Gongcheng said the new national system will make the pension benefits fairer. "People won't need to sacrifice their pensions for migrating to work, and retirees won't have to deal with the risks from local pension fund shortfalls."
Qi said a mechanism that assigns the respective expenditure responsibilities of central and local governments on pension funds will be built after the national program comes into force and the central government will not roll back its subsidy to the pension funds.
Apart from the coordination efforts and central subsidy, state assets totaling 1.68 trillion yuan from 93 centrally-administered enterprises and financial institutions have also been transferred to replenish the pension schemes.
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Wasnât to long ago we were complaining about China being the worlds biggest polluter
Now as they invest in Green, Clean, Renewables etc. etc?
We cry overproduction and they subsidize this or that đđđđ
They are actually spending the money and making those changes
What are our western Governments doing since we are the ones most vocal about climate change and China being the worlds biggest polluter ???
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JANUARY 30, 2023
3 MIN READ
China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing
Nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF.
The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of Chinaâs economic growth in 2023
Other key findings of the analysis include:
Clean-energy investment rose 40% year-on-year to 6.3tn yuan ($890bn), with the growth accounting for all of the investment growth across the Chinese economy in 2023.
Chinaâs $890bn investment in clean-energy sectors is almost as large as total global investments in fossil fuel supply in 2023 â and similar to the GDP of Switzerland or Turkey.
Including the value of production, clean-energy sectors contributed 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to the Chinese economy in 2023, up 30% year-on-year.
Clean-energy sectors, as a result, were the largest driver of Chinaâ economic growth overall, accounting for 40% of the expansion of GDP in 2023.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, Chinaâs GDP would have missed the governmentâs growth target of âaround 5%â, rising by only 3.0%
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion
Scaling back subsidies would reduce air pollution, generate revenue, and make a major contribution to slowing climate change
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Not uincluding the USA China has close to a 600 billion dollar trade surplus with the rest of the world
What most people donât get?
Is it is most US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
XD These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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@TheWatcher111 the world is not the USA
And when the USA defaults on its debt people are going to want to dump those dollars and hope to be able to buy anything else with it
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Chinaâs Gold Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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the Chinese donât believe in zero-sum game type of thinking
They viewed the Americans as partners, probably still view them as partners they can work with in the future
Kind of like waiting for Meloni going to China to reset recently
But at this time they have to view the USA as an unreliable partner. But one who might reset relations in the future
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
How Washington's sanctions boosted China's semiconductor sector
MAY 5, 2021
Plan B
So far, Yangtze Memory, also known as YMTC, has remained under the radar of the U.S. government. But the company is taking no chances. With the guidance of Beijing, it has launched a massive review of its supply chain in an effort to find local suppliers -- or, at least, non-U.S. ones -- to replace the current dependence on American technology.
The collective effort has occupied over 800 people, full time, and including staff from its multiple local suppliers, for two years. And they have not finished yet.
YMTC is seeking to learn as much as it can about the origin of everything that goes into its products, from production equipment and chemicals to the tiny lenses, screws, nuts and bearings in chipmaking machinery and production lines, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. The audit extends not only to YMTC's own production lines, but also to suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, and so on.
"The review is as meticulous as knowing where the screws and nuts are coming from, the lead time, and if those parts have alternatives," one person familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia.
The purge of YMTC's supply chain has been handled with the spirit of a national emergency. Based in the city of Wuhan, the effort did not pause even when the virus epicenter was ravaged by COVID-19 last spring.
While the rest of the city endured a brutal quarantine, high-speed trains remained in service to ferry YMTC employees to its $24 billion 3D NAND flash memory plant that began producing chips in 2019. All the while, delivery trucks for critical chipmaking materials drove to and from the production campus.
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From my understanding Musk went to China to get that FSD data they had from Tesla vehicles driving in China since 2021.
Maybe that was a smoke screen and the real reason Musk was there was to get approval to get into the Chinese domestic robotaxi market
Or maybe the Chinese Government said no you canât take that data to the USA to help you write up Algorithms for self driving robotaxis
But we will let you partner up with Baidu instead. As they are already way
Ahead of you âŚ.
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China leads way with self-driving vehicle tech
By CHENG YU China Daily Updated: Oct 07, 2023
Revenue of nation's autonomous auto market expected to exceed $500b by 2030
* WeRide, a global autonomous driving company headquartered in Guangzhou, Guangdong province in South China, created a splash when the United Arab Emirates awarded it the country's first national license for self-driving vehicles. This was the first such license globally, giving WeRide a place in history.
With the move, WeRide, which mainly offers level-4 autonomous driving solutions, is able to conduct various road tests of autonomous vehicles on open roads across the Middle Eastern country. Level-4 autonomy means the car can drive by itself in most conditions without a human backup driver.
* According to a report by BloombergNEF, China will operate the world's largest robotaxi fleet with about 12 million units by 2040, followed by the US, which is expected to have around 7 million autonomous vehicles by that time.
Another report by global consultancy IHS Markit said that China's self-driving taxi market alone is expected to reach 1.3 trillion yuan ($178 billion) by 2030, accounting for 60 percent of the country's ridehailing market.
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Chinese AI companies a perfect match for domestic chipmakers
Published: 27 March 2024
Reading Time: 5 mins
Some China observers contend that Washingtonâs export control strategies incentivise Chinese enterprises to bolster their self-reliance. Nvidia, a US chipmaker, has garnered attention for consistently introducing âChina-specificâ redesigned chips, relieving Chinese chipmakers grappling with business constraints.
Following the implementation of export control measures, Nvidiaâs 2023 revenue and stock prices surged. During a visit to China in January 2024, Nvidiaâs CEO Jensen Huang referred to 2023 as a âdream yearâ for the company. Nvidia commands approximately 90 per cent of Chinaâs chip market, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI) chips.
TrendForce, a Taiwan-based technology consultant, forecasts that by 2030, Nvidiaâs revenue from China will decrease to less than 50 per cent. Nvidia identified Chinaâs tech giant, Huawei Technologies, as its most significant competitor in its annual report.
Despite heavy dependence on Nvidiaâs leading-edge chips, Chinese chipmakers are showing a diminishing interest in the company. Market leaders in China have expressed growing apprehensions about buying more stock from Nvidia, citing significant downgrades in chip performance leading to cost inefficiencies.
A rising number of Chinese chipmakers believe that a sustained, long-term partnership with Nvidia is untenable, prompting them to explore domestic alternatives. In their pursuit of long-term stability, Chinese chipmakers seem inclined to endure short-term challenges, with Chinaâs Huawei emerging as a prominent contender.
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There is now a 27 book series that says we copied from the Chinese
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
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Cold-area car testing industry heats up in NE China
Xinhua | Updated: 2024-01-17 14:20
* HARBIN -- With the temperature outside nearing minus 25 degrees Celsius, Jin Lei could recently be seen driving down a test road on a frozen river, turning and braking occasionally as snow flew up behind the wheels.
* Wang Yulong, director of the Heihe municipal industry and information technology bureau, said that the city has 12 car testing enterprises and more than 120 testing roads, which can meet test requirements in different conditions.
Wang said that Heihe has also opened facilities including a reception service center for car testing enterprises, and introduced regulations for cold-area car testing industry services in Heihe.
Statistics show that the city's cold-area car testing business volume accounts for more than 80 percent of China's total.
According to Chen Gang, an expert from the China Society of Automotive Engineers, the number of new vehicle models is increasing, and the research and development cycle is becoming shorter, which provides more space for the development of Heihe's cold-area car testing industry.
The booming industry has also injected vitality into local economic development.
Data shows that during the annual car testing season, Heihe's car testing industry generates hundreds of millions of yuan in revenue for sectors such as accommodation, catering, retail and transportation.
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Huge Price Cuts Rumored From Chinese Developers Due To Collapsing Demand
Vincent Fernando, CFA May 29, 2010
Demand is falling since China's central government announced stricter regulations for property transactions during the middle of April. These involve higher down payments and mortgage rates for the purchase of second home, and act which is seen as potential speculation. Such tightening is reducing buying demand.
Thus a moderately bearish view is that property prices need to come down, since demand is likely down yet supply is the same. This challenge isn't limited to Shanghai:
China Vanke Co, the country's largest publicly listed developer, may cut apartment prices by 10 to 30 percent within three months, the Beijing News said yesterday, citing an unidentified sales agent. Local Vanke officials declined to comment yesterday.
Yet Shanghai is where things could get the ugliest, the earliest. This is because the local Shanghai government is planning to clamp down on speculation even harder than China's central government already has:
Chen Qiwei, a spokesman for the Shanghai municipal government, did not preclude the possibility of levying property tax when asked about this issue at a press conference on Friday.
"Shanghai will take more strict measures in line with the central government policy," Chen said, adding that more efforts will be made in building economically affordable houses and cracking down on speculative house purchasing.
Other cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Shenzen could have similar additional taxes, but Shanghai is the first to make an official comment such as above according to China Daily. Thing is, any action from Shanghai will likely need approval from the central government.
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China Increases Banksâ Reserve Ratios to Cool Prices
By Bloomberg News
December 10, 2010 at 4:08 AM PST
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China raises banks' reserve ratios again
Reuters
December 10, 20104:27 AM PSTUpdated 13 years ago
Dec 10, 2010 â The 50 basis point increase, which takes effect on Dec 20, will leave required reserve ratios at 18.5 percent
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China Property Market âBubbleâ Set to Burst, Xie Says
By Bloomberg News
February 1, 2010 at 11:51 PM PST
Chinaâs property market âbubbleâ is set to burst as the government curbs credit growth and clamps down on speculation, according to independent economist Andy Xie.
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China cracks down on speculators to cool prices
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NOV. 23, 2010
The government has ordered banks twice in the past three weeks to raise the amount of money they hold in reserves to rein in lending growth.
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China cracks down on property speculation Source:Global Times Published: 2010
The Chinese government has raised the down payment for second-home buyers to a minimum 50 percent of the value from 40 percent, in a bid to curb property speculation.
The decision was announced in a statement released Thursday after conclusion of an executive meeting of the State Council, the Cabinet, presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, on Wednesday.
First-home buyers must pay no less than 30 percent of the the property price if the area is above 90 square meters, the statement said.
The government was stepping up the introduction of tax policies to influence purchases and adjust property investment returns, said the statement.
Nationwide, land use for the construction of low-income housing, shanty town renovation and small and medium-sized homes (below 90 square meters) should account for at least 70 percent of the land approved for property development, the statement said.
It also urged local authorities to accelerate housing construction approvals to ensure effective land supply, and crack down on land hoarding and speculatory behavior.
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China attempts to deflate its unstable property bubble
China is to spend $200bn on low-cost homes as part of a series of measures to slow the rapidly rising prices of urban houses
Tania Branigan in Beijing
Wed 9 Mar 2011 19.24 GMT
Chinese officials are blaming speculators for soaring property prices and are vowing to build 36m affordable homes over the next five years. There are already widespread concerns about China's booming property market and the threat it poses to the country's expanding economy.
China would spend nearly $200bn (ÂŁ123bn) on an affordable homes and social housing scheme, said deputy housing minister Qi Ji in Beijing .
The pledge came a few days after premier Wen Jiabao promised to "resolutely" curb speculation to tackle excessively rapid price increases
The authorities have taken various steps since spring last year to dampen the property market. These include raising interest rates, increasing the minimum downpayment required on second homes and restricting the rights of foreigners to buy property. Two Chinese cities are now imposing sales tax on property deals.
While the measures have slowed growth, many fear it remains too high. In March 2010, urban housing prices shot up by 11.7% year-on-year, according to figures from the national bureau of statistics. December saw the lowest increase in more than a year, but it still stood at 6.4%.
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive formula.
Using illegal labour from South East Asia. Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China
These are the same companies who got those trump tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales in Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So these companies could get more or better access into those Chinese Domestic markets
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest at
Why didnât China pull the nuclear option and boot these companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war. China. didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact hey weâre lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Intel Brags of $152 Billion in Stock Buybacks Over Last 35 Years. So Why Does It Need an $8 Billion Subsidy?
Whatâs to stop the chip-making giant from shoveling taxpayer grants into more stock buybacks?
LES LEOPOLD
Mar 27, 2024
Intel, the largest chip maker in America, with 2023 revenues of $54 billion, has just been awarded an $8.5 billion grant from the federal CHIPS and Science Act, plus $11 billion in favorable loans.
In addition to badly needed microchips, Intel produces totally useless stock buybacks. On its website the company proudly proclaims to have spent $152 billion on stock buybacks since 1990. Thatâs not a typo: $152,000,000,000. Which is why I call it "Stock Buybacks ĐŻ Us."
Intel took $152 billion of its revenues, some portion of which could have been used for R&D and building new microchip facilities in the U.S. as well as paying workers more, and instead funneled it to its largest Wall Street stockholders and corporate executives, enriching the top fraction of the top one percent.
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Chinese had virtually no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
Now they are going after legacy chip markets
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors?
27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products. In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales.
Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants. Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices. As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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 @Hkchinese888 Iâm not those people
Or you could go to the UK âŚ
What ever you are Muslim, Indian, Filipino or Chinese
I know you have never been to any of our countries you think there is freedom in⌠they donât like coloured people like you ⌠only difference in the Hong Kong/Chinese people have taken over the big cities like Vancouver and Toronto and pushed the racist folks out
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BN(O) visa immigrants: Study reveals 50% unemployment rate among Hong Kongers under 65 in the U.K., 99% have no plans to return
* 22nd November 2023 â (London) A recent study conducted by the âWelcoming Committee for Hong Kongersâ organisation, which assists Hong Kongers who have immigrated to the U.K. through the BN(O) Visa, has shed light on the employment situation of these individuals. The study surveyed over 2,000 Hong Kong immigrants and found that only 50% of those under the age of 65 were able to secure employment, indicating a significant unemployment rate among this group.
The study also highlighted the educational background of BN(O) Hong Kongers in the U.K. It revealed that 36% of the surveyed individuals held a masterâs or doctoral degree, while 23% had a postgraduate degree. These figures indicate that BN(O) Hong Kongers in the U.K are nearly twice as well-educated as the average UK population.
* However, despite their educational qualifications, many BN(O) Hong Kongers are facing difficulties in securing employment that matches their skills and experience. Among those surveyed who were employed, 47% felt that their job did not align with their qualifications, and 20% felt that their workload was excessive.
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The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese Government trying to get their people to use homegrown chips
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Welll your post didnât age well
There is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world copied from them
The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese
Where their Government was trying to get their people to switch to homegrown chips before the sanctions
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing over 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year, within the products they export
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Chinese had virtually no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
Now they are going after legacy chip markets
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors?
27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products. In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales.
Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants. Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices. As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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10% drop they are quaking in their boots
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BN(O) visa immigrants: Study reveals 50% unemployment rate among Hong Kongers under 65 in the U.K., 99% have no plans to return
2nd November 2023 â (London) A recent study conducted by the âWelcoming Committee for Hong Kongersâ organisation, which assists Hong Kongers who have immigrated to the U.K. through the BN(O) Visa, has shed light on the employment situation of these individuals. The study surveyed over 2,000 Hong Kong immigrants and found that only 50% of those under the age of 65 were able to secure employment, indicating a significant unemployment rate among this group. Many Hong Kongers attribute their difficulty in finding employment to factors such as a lack of recognition for their English language skills and qualifications.
The study also highlighted the educational background of BN(O) Hong Kongers in the U.K. It revealed that 36% of the surveyed individuals held a masterâs or doctoral degree, while 23% had a postgraduate degree. These figures indicate that BN(O) Hong Kongers in the U.K are nearly twice as well-educated as the average UK population.
However, despite their educational qualifications, many BN(O) Hong Kongers are facing difficulties in securing employment that matches their skills and experience. Among those surveyed who were employed, 47% felt that their job did not align with their qualifications, and 20% felt that their workload was excessive.
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China leads the world in 37 of 44 critical technologies of the future
And they are buying gold instead of US debt these days
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Chinaâs Gold Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Malaysia clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines (In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines off the shores of Malaysian land) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute in the SCS with China stems from the fact they made a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on those disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 bce historical claim that the Philippines formally dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal that the Filipinos unilaterally brought forth
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Donât forget Baidu who the Chinese Government had Tesla team up with
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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America and itâs NATO lackeys
both Russia and Ukraine receive dual use exported goods from China
we know this because the Ukrainians started to use Chinese made retail toy store drones over US made military grade drones
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Ukraine and Israel buying Chinese civilian drones for combat use; shun U.S military drones
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How American Drones Failed to Turn the Tide in Ukraine
Drones from American startups have been deemed glitchy and expensive, prompting Ukraine to turn to alternatives from China
Updated April 10, 2024 at 4:56 pm ET
The Silicon Valley company Skydio sent hundreds of its best drones to Ukraine to help fight the Russians. Things didnât go well.
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Chinese UAVs âOutperformâ US Drones In Ukraine War; WSJ Report Calls US-Made UAVs Fragile & Ineffective
April 10, 2024
According to WSJ, most small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) developed by American firms have struggled to perform in combat scenarios.
This development blows the hopes of these companies, who anticipated that combat testing would bolster sales and attention for their products.
Moreover, it poses challenges for the Pentagon, which requires a reliable supply of thousands of small drones for various purposes. Sources cited in the report, including drone company executives, Ukrainian frontline personnel, government officials, and former US military officials, outline several key issues plaguing US-made drones.
These include exorbitant costs, technical faults, and complex repair processes. In particular, Ukrainian officials have found US-made drones to be fragile and ineffective against Russian jamming and GPS blackout technology.
Instances have been reported where these drones failed to take off, complete missions, or return safely. Moreover, they often fall short of advertised flight distances and payload capacities.
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American drones are glitching and getting lost in Ukraine, giving way to a flood of Chinese drones
Chris Panella Apr 10, 2024, 3:44 PM ET
American-made drones haven't excelled on the battlefield, prompting Ukraine to turn to buying Chinese-made drones.
* The problems with many US-made drones, particularly some of the smaller ones, are that they often don't function as advertised or planned and easily glitch when targeted by Russian jamming, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
They are fragile and vulnerable to electronic warfare. For some of the systems that were sent to Ukraine, issues included not taking off, getting lost and not returning home, or simply failing to meet mission expectations.
* US drones are also typically far more expensive than comparable models. And at the rate Ukraine is burning through them, it wouldn't be feasible. Instead, Ukraine is turning to systems made by Chinese companies for cheaper and often more reliable alternatives.
Chinese DJI drones have long played a role in the war, with Ukraine buying many of the retail models. Ukrainian forces sometimes strap bombs directly on them for a makeshift one-way attack drone or use them to drop grenades.
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China's trade turnover with Ukraine rises by 46.6% to $1.5 bln in January-February
18 March 2024 23:30 (UTC+04:00)
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These is now a 27 book series on what China invented that says we copied from them
Yet You Indians always cry how the Brits stole from you
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
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Intel Brags of $152 Billion in Stock Buybacks Over Last 35 Years. So Why Does It Need an $8 Billion Subsidy?
Whatâs to stop the chip-making giant from shoveling taxpayer grants into more stock buybacks?
LES LEOPOLD
Mar 27, 2024
Common Dreams
Intel, the largest chip maker in America, with 2023 revenues of $54 billion, has just been awarded an $8.5 billion grant from the federal CHIPS and Science Act, plus $11 billion in favorable loans.
In addition to badly needed microchips, Intel produces totally useless stock buybacks. On its website the company proudly proclaims to have spent $152 billion on stock buybacks since 1990. Thatâs not a typo: $152,000,000,000. Which is why I call it "Stock Buybacks ĐŻ Us."
Intel took $152 billion of its revenues, some portion of which could have been used for R&D and building new microchip facilities in the U.S. as well as paying workers more, and instead funneled it to its largest Wall Street stockholders and corporate executives, enriching the top fraction of the top one percent.
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China cracks down on property speculation
Source:Global Times Published: 2010
The Chinese government has raised the down payment for second-home buyers to a minimum 50 percent of the value from 40 percent, in a bid to curb property speculation.
The decision was announced in a statement released Thursday after conclusion of an executive meeting of the State Council, the Cabinet, presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, on Wednesday.
First-home buyers must pay no less than 30 percent of the the property price if the area is above 90 square meters, the statement said.
The government was stepping up the introduction of tax policies to influence purchases and adjust property investment returns, said the statement.
Nationwide, land use for the construction of low-income housing, shanty town renovation and small and medium-sized homes (below 90 square meters) should account for at least 70 percent of the land approved for property development, the statement said.
It also urged local authorities to accelerate housing construction approvals to ensure effective land supply, and crack down on land hoarding and speculatory behavior.
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Nothing wrong with having debt
Itâs if you can pay it off or not
That US external Sovereign Debt you canât just sweep under the table
And America has shown they have no problem converting internal debt into external debt
As for what the Chinese do with their internal debt?
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China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
What is China's secret? According to financial commentator Jim Jubak, it may just be "creative accounting" -- the sort of accounting for which Wall Street is notorious, in which debts are swept off the books and turned into "assets." China is able to pull this off because it does not owe its debts to foreign creditors. The banks doing the funding are state-owned, and the state can write off its own debts.
Jubak observes:
China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debt might be hidden now.
The majority of bank loans, says Jubak, went to state-owned companies -- about 70% of the total. The collapse of China's export trade following the crisis meant that its banks were suddenly sitting on billions in debts that were clearly never going to be paid. But that was when China's largest banks were trying to raise capital by selling stock in Hong Kong and New York, and no bank could go public with that much bad debt on its books.
The creative solution? The Beijing government set up special-purpose asset management companies for the four largest state-owned banks, the equivalent of the "special purpose vehicles" designed by Wall Street to funnel real estate loans off U.S. bank books. The Chinese entities ultimately bought $287 billion in bad loans from state-owned banks. To pay for the loans, they issued bonds to the banks, on which they paid interest. The state-owned banks thus got $287 billion in toxic debt off their books and turned the bad loans into an income stream from the bonds.
Sound familiar? Wall Street did the same thing in the 2008 bailout, with the U.S. government underwriting the deal. The difference was that China's largest banks were owned by the government, so the government rather than a private banking cartel got the benefit of the arrangement. According to British economist Samah El-Shahat, writing in Al Jazeera in August 2009:
China hasn't allowed its banking sector to become so powerful, so influential, and so big that it can call the shots or highjack the bailout. In simple terms, the government preferred to answer to its people and put their interests first before that of any vested interest or group. And that is why Chinese banks are lending to the people and their businesses in record numbers.
In the US and UK, by contrast:
banks have captured all the money from the taxpayers and the cheap money from quantitative easing from central banks. They are using it to shore up, and clean up their balance sheets rather than lend it to the people. The money has been hijacked by the banks, and our governments are doing absolutely nothing about that. In fact, they have been complicit in allowing this to happen.
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Btw you are not a real American you ran away as the NVA won the war
These days ethnic Chinese dominate the Vietnamese economy and Vietnam is dependent on the Chinese economy
Plus they have 1 big ace up their sleeve
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Weaponizing Water: How China Controls the Mekong
Despite these record lows for the Mekong river in Southeast Asia, the upper Mekong in Chinaâs Yunnan province received above-normal rainfall. Even though climate change does play a role in the Mekongâs fading banks, it is the construction of dams, not a lack of rain, that is most detrimental.
As of now, China has completed 11 dams with many more at various levels of planning and competition. Laos has two operational dams on the river with plans to build at least seven more while Cambodia has two in various stages of construction. The dams in both Laos and Cambodia are financially backed by China through its Belt and Road Initiative and intend to export much of this electricity to China. This shows Chinaâs influence and determination to produce electricity from the river at any cost and its ability to pressure other nations, whose people want the river undammed, to comply.
Through the damming of the Mekong, China is using what has been termed âhydro-diplomacyâ to exert control over Southeast Asia, bringing the threat of further economic and environmental ruin to its southern neighbors. With Chinaâs dams in the Yunnan province alone, China can withhold some 47 million cubic meters of water from flowing downstream. This has the potential to cripple the lifeline of much of Southeast Asia in one swing which China both knows and utilizes to influence the region â especially when it comes to exerting power over America.
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Here is the long version
Which you can search up the article
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China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
What is China's secret? According to financial commentator Jim Jubak, it may just be "creative accounting" -- the sort of accounting for which Wall Street is notorious, in which debts are swept off the books and turned into "assets." China is able to pull this off because it does not owe its debts to foreign creditors. The banks doing the funding are state-owned, and the state can write off its own debts.
Jubak observes:
China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debt might be hidden now.
The majority of bank loans, says Jubak, went to state-owned companies -- about 70% of the total. The collapse of China's export trade following the crisis meant that its banks were suddenly sitting on billions in debts that were clearly never going to be paid. But that was when China's largest banks were trying to raise capital by selling stock in Hong Kong and New York, and no bank could go public with that much bad debt on its books.
The creative solution? The Beijing government set up special-purpose asset management companies for the four largest state-owned banks, the equivalent of the "special purpose vehicles" designed by Wall Street to funnel real estate loans off U.S. bank books. The Chinese entities ultimately bought $287 billion in bad loans from state-owned banks. To pay for the loans, they issued bonds to the banks, on which they paid interest. The state-owned banks thus got $287 billion in toxic debt off their books and turned the bad loans into an income stream from the bonds.
Sound familiar? Wall Street did the same thing in the 2008 bailout, with the U.S. government underwriting the deal. The difference was that China's largest banks were owned by the government, so the government rather than a private banking cartel got the benefit of the arrangement. According to British economist Samah El-Shahat, writing in Al Jazeera in August 2009:
China hasn't allowed its banking sector to become so powerful, so influential, and so big that it can call the shots or highjack the bailout. In simple terms, the government preferred to answer to its people and put their interests first before that of any vested interest or group. And that is why Chinese banks are lending to the people and their businesses in record numbers.
In the US and UK, by contrast:
banks have captured all the money from the taxpayers and the cheap money from quantitative easing from central banks. They are using it to shore up, and clean up their balance sheets rather than lend it to the people. The money has been hijacked by the banks, and our governments are doing absolutely nothing about that. In fact, they have been complicit in allowing this to happen.
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First you need to type into a search the difference between internal debt and external debt
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Difference Between Internal Debt and External Debt!
The basic character of an internal debt is quite different from that of the external debt. In external debt, at the time of repayment there is a real transfer of resources.
In case of internal debt, however, since it is borrowed from individuals and institutions within the country repayment will constitute only a re-distribution of resources without causing any change in the total resources of the community.
There can, thus, be no direct money burden caused by internal debts since all payments cancel each other out in the aggregate community as a whole. Whatever is taxed from one section of the community servicing the debts is distributed among the bond-holders by way of repayment of loans and interest; and quite often, the tax-payer and the bond-holder may be the same person.
At the most, to the extent that the incomes of tax-payers (in a sense, debtors) are reduced, so will the incomes of creditors/ bond-holders increase, but the aggregate position of the community will, nevertheless, remain the same.
However, internal debt may involve a direct real burden on the community according to the nature of the series of transfer of incomes from tax payers to the public creditors. To the extent the tax-payers and the bond-holders are the same, the distribution of wealth will remain unaltered; hence there will not be any net real burden on the community.
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Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979â1991)
When the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) withdrew from Vietnam in March 1979 after the war, China announced that they were not ambitious for "any square inch of the territory of Vietnam".[3] However, Chinese troops occupied an area of 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi), which was disputed land controlled by Vietnam before hostilities broke out.[4] In some places such as the area around Friendship Gate near the city of Lấng Sƥn, Chinese troops occupied territories which had little military value but important symbolic value. Elsewhere, Chinese troops occupied the strategic positions of military importance as springboards to attack Vietnam.[5]
The Chinese occupation of border territory angered Vietnam, and this ushered in a series of border conflicts between Vietnam and China to gain control of the area. These conflicts continued until 1988, peaking in the years 1984â1985.[6] By the early 1990s, along with the withdrawal of Vietnam from Cambodia and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the relationship between the two countries gradually returned to normality. By 1991, the two countries proclaimed the normalization of their diplomatic relations, thereby ending the border conflicts.
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In Defense of Socialism, 1990â1991
After the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, the VCP chief and defense minister sought an ideological alliance with China.
As Party Chief Nguyen Van Linh explained to the Chineseambassador to Vietnam on June 5, 1990, the situation was marked by the Westâs offensive to eliminate socialismand concurrently the difficulties of the Soviet Union in defending socialism.
In this situation, Linh concluded,
âChina should raise high the banner of socialism and stick to Marxism-Leninism.â
Linh and Defense Minister Le Duc Anh hoped that Chinawould take the leadership of the worldâs socialist forces;
they indicated to the ambassador that they were ready to meet Chinese leaders to discuss solidarity between the two states to fight imperialism.
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On September 2 that year, Vietnamâs Independence Day, the party and government chiefs did not stay in Hanoi to celebrate the 45th birthday of their state but instead flew to Chengdu, China, for a secret summit with Chineseleaders, the first since the mid-1970s.
The Vietnamese understood that their acceptance
of the time, place, and participants was a sign of deference to China.
Participants included Vietnamâs elder statesman Pham Van Dong but not Chinaâs paramount leader Deng Xiaoping; Foreign Minister Thach was excluded.
During the meeting, the Vietnamese also let the Chinesedictate the terms of negotiation;this should be seen against the background of a decade-long hostility between the two countries.
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The Vietnamese had urgent reasons for taking this approach. At the time, the counterweight of the Soviet Union was no longer available and Vietnam was still isolated, regionally and globally.
In China, Vietnam faced a disproportionately powerful neighbor, and in order to prevent Chinese aggression, Hanoi had to pay deference to Beijing.
It appeared to be the calculation of Pham Van
Dong and, to some extent, Prime Minister Do Muoi.
Yet, as discussed above, General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh had different concerns and priorities.
His primary intention at Chengdu was to discuss how to protect socialism from the West, led by the United States.
Although the Chinese refused to play the solidarity game, Linh and his successors over the next decade kept trying to reestablish the Sino-Vietnamese relationship on an ideological basis.
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Looks like China could almost pay off its âExternalâ debt on the books, with the loans it has given out to other countries
depending on how much loans they have given out and are hiding from us
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How Much Money Does the World Owe China?
Our research, based on a comprehensive new data set, shows that China has extended many more loans to developing countries than previously known. This systematic underreporting of Chinese loans has created a âhidden debtâ problem â meaning that debtor countries and international institutions alike have an incomplete picture on how much countries around the world owe to China and under which conditions.
In total, the Chinese state and its subsidiaries have lent about $1.5 trillion in direct loans and trade credits to more than 150 countries around the globe. This has turned China into the worldâs largest official creditor â surpassing traditional, official lenders such as the World Bank, the IMF, or all OECD creditor governments combined.
Despite the large size of Chinaâs overseas lending boom, no official data exists on the resulting debt flows and stocks. China does not report on its international lending, and Chinese loans literally fall through the cracks of traditional data-gathering institutions. For example, credit rating agencies, such as Moodyâs or Standard & Poorâs, or data providers, such as Bloomberg, focus on private creditors, but Chinaâs lending is state sponsored, and therefore off their radar screen. Debtor countries themselves often do not collect data on debt owed by state-owned companies, which are the main recipients of Chinese loans. In addition, China is not a member of the Paris Club (an informal group of creditor nations) or the OECD, both of which collect data on lending by official creditors.
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Chinaâs Gold Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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Here is the truth
Take for example if China cut off the essential ingredients that go into the worldâs pharmaceutical drugs
going into Medicine you probably take like Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Heart disease, Cancer drugs, painkillers etc etc etc etc
Old timers like you would for sure be dropping like flies within months if not weeks
But letâs hope for a crash in that country
When it was Conservative Americans like you who Pushed for Globalization, Free Trade and for China to open up
Shot down the voices like mine who warned about a CCP China in the 1980s
But then you were in the China canât do this or that crowd nothing to worry about China about to crash
And are still doing today
Like the fake narratives you try to push these days
Itâs Conservative Americans like you trying to pish. It was the Democrats who wanted to offshore the union jobs of their voting base back then đ
These days are just acting like the suddenly wh oke snow fl akes you di slike so much
Typing on your Chinese made gadget
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Remarks at a White House Meeting With Business and Trade Leaders September 23, 1985
Thank you very much, and welcome to the White House. I'm pleased to have this opportunity to be with you to address the pressing question of America's trade challenge for the eighties and beyond.
And let me say at the outset that our trade policy rests firmly on the foundation of free and open markets -- free trade. I, like you, recognize the inescapable conclusion that all of history has taught:
The freer the flow of world trade, the stronger the tides for human progress and peace among nations .
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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This is where you Americans make your stand teens shaking their a zzzzz to the W app dance on TikTok ?????
You want a real threat: here is just 1 example
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So these companies could get even âmoreâ or âbetterâ access into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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This is where you Americans make your stand teens shaking their a zzzzz to the W app dance on TikTok ?????
You want a real threat: here is just 1 example
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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(We the average westerner is too lazy to read past a headline)
Go read just the recent headlines from Western Mainstream Media On Elon Muskâs Tesla trip to China
Reading only those headlines
You would get the impression, Tesla is introducing FSD and Robotaxis into the Chinese domestic market
When Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
Has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxis rides since 2022
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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 @nobodyli6543Â
(We the average westerner is too lazy to read past a headline)
Go read just the recent headlines from Western Mainstream Media On Elon Muskâs Tesla trip to China
Reading only those headlines
You would get the impression, Tesla is introducing FSD and Robotaxis into the Chinese domestic market
When Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
Has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxis rides since 2022
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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 @bobwallace9753Â
(We the average westerner is too lazy to read past a headline)
Go read just the recent headlines from Western Mainstream Media On Elon Muskâs Tesla trip to China
Reading only those headlines
You would get the impression, Tesla is introducing FSD and Robotaxis into the Chinese domestic market
When Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
Has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxis rides since 2022
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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 @storm_yuÂ
India is a great country, but what if I tell you that Africa outperforms India when you examine absolute and intrinsic economic indicators. Do not get me wrong: India has one of the greatest diaspora models in the world which is simply amazing and truly enviable. But despite all that, Indiaâs potentials remain latent, unlocked, just like Africa. So, as you share this plot (on click), note the following:
The population of India is 1.4 billion. The population of Africa is 1.3 billion. The GDP of India is $3.1 trillion. The GDP of Africa is $3 trillion. Did you notice something? Africa and India are just in the same pot, underperforming, despite the perception that India has higher productivity or efficiency. Indeed, the economic efficiency difference between India and Africa is the type which exists between 12 and a dozen. Sure, Africa has more natural resources. But yet, India enjoys one border which has an efficiency factor against Africa. (GDP of China is about $17.73 trillion, population is about 1.4 billion)
As I have written many times, we must look into #China, because China has the secret sauce to development. India has a literacy rate of about 78%; China has 99.8% which means every person above 15 years old can read and write in China! As you go deeper, you will see why China is supreme and totally uncorrelated with any other emerging economy.
Then, the biggest difference. When Africans and Indians graduate in American top universities, they make US permanent homes; Chinese put about 5 years, and then move back to China, and tap unlimited government-created resources to challenge the companies they worked for in the United States. That is why you hardly see Chinese at top leadership positions in leading US tech companies even as you see them running companies which challenge those firms at the global level. Like #Africa, India does not offer such pathways.
Sure, we must learn certain things from India. But India itself is learning more from China, and I think we can go straight and learn from China. China is doing the core things which transform economies. Of course #India rocks, and doing great; my point is to put things in perspective.
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 @storm_yu you have to copy and paste on YouTube
You are not allowed to post up
HTTP links
You would know that if you ever posted up a 3rd party article to support an argument you Charmaar love child
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
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You have no understanding of the Chinese people
My guess is you are a white separatist expat who went to Asia/China of all places to find a wife
Seriously if you are going to be an expat over there then learn about the country
If not for gaaaawds sake, donât have kids over there⌠they will be the messed up ones. No thanks to you as the parents
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China confronts Europe with an enormous problem: we do not understand it
China confronts Europe with an enormous problem: we do not understand it. Worse, we are not even conscious of the fact. We insist on seeing the world through our Western prism. No other tradition or history or culture can compare. Ours is superior to all and others, in deviating from ours, are diminished as a consequence. This speaks not of our wisdom but our ignorance, an expression not of our cosmopolitanism but our insularity and provincialism. It is a consequence of being in the ascendant for at least two centuries, if not rather longer. Eurocentrism â or perhaps we should say western-centrism â has become our universal yardstick against which, in varying degrees, all others fail.
Our western-centric value-judgements about China must no longer be allowed to act as a substitute for understanding the country in its own terms. This is no easy task. China is profoundly different from the West in the most basic of ways. Perhaps the most basic difference is that it is not a nation-state in the European sense of the term. Indeed, it has only described itself as such since around 1900. Anyone who knows anything about China is aware that it is a lot older than that. China, as we know it today, dates back to 221BC, in some respects much earlier. That date marked the end of the Warring States period, the victory of the Qin, and the birth of the Qin Empire whose borders embraced a considerable slice of what is today the eastern half of China and by far its most populous part.
For over two millennia, the Chinese thought of themselves as a civilization rather than a nation. The most fundamental defining features of China today, and which give the Chinese their sense of identity, emanate not from the last century when China has called itself a nation-state but from the previous two millennia when it can be best described as a civilization-state: the relationship between the state and society, a very distinctive notion of the family, ancestral worship, Confucian values, the network of personal relationships that we call guanxi, Chinese food and the traditions that surround it, and, of course, the Chinese language with its unusual relationship between the written and spoken form. The implications are profound: whereas national identity in Europe is overwhelmingly a product of the era of the nation-state â in the United States almost exclusively so â in China, on the contrary, the sense of identity has primarily been shaped by the countryâs history as a civilization-state. Although China describes itself today as a nation-state, it remains essentially a civilization-state in terms of history, culture, identity and ways of thinking. Chinaâs geological structure is that of a civilization-state; the nation-state accounts for little more than the top soil.
China, as a civilization-state, has two main characteristics. Firstly, there is its exceptional longevity, dating back to even before the break-up of the Roman Empire. Secondly, the sheer scale of China â both geographic and demographic â means that it embraces a huge diversity. Contrary to the Western belief that China is highly centralised, in fact in many respects the opposite is the case: indeed, it would have been impossible to govern the country â either now or in the dynastic period â on such a basis. It is simply too large. The implications in terms of the way the Chinese think are profound.
In 1997 Hong Kong was handed over to China by the British. The Chinese constitutional proposal was summed up in the phrase: âone country, two systemsâ. Barely anyone in the West gave this maxim much thought or indeed credence; the assumption was that Hong Kong would soon become like the rest of China. This was entirely wrong. The political and legal structure of Hong Kong remains as different now from the rest of China as in 1997. The reason we did not take the Chinese seriously is that the West is characterised by a nation-state mentality, hence when Germany was unified in 1990 it was done solely and exclusively on the basis of the Federal Republic; the DDR in effect disappeared. âOne nation-state, one systemâ is the nation-state way of thinking. But, as a civilization-state, the Chinese logic is quite different. Because China is so vast and embraces such diversity, as a matter of necessity it must be flexible: âone civilization, many systemsâ.
The idea of China as a civilization-state is a fundamental building block for understanding China in its own terms. And it has multifarious implications. The relationship between the state and society in China is very different to that in the West. Contrary to the overwhelming Western assumption that the Chinese state lacks legitimacy and is bereft of public support, in fact the Chinese state enjoys greater legitimacy than any Western state. We have come to assume that the legitimacy of the state overwhelmingly rests on the democratic process â universal suffrage, competing parties et al. But this is only one element: if it was the whole story, then the Italian state would enjoy a robust legitimacy rather than the reality, a chronic lack of it. And to explain this we have to go back to the Risorgimento as only a partially fulfilled project.
The reason why the Chinese state enjoys a formidable legitimacy in the eyes of the Chinese has nothing to do with democracy but can be found in the relationship between the state and Chinese civilization. The state is seen as the embodiment, guardian and defender of Chinese civilization. Maintaining the unity, cohesion and integrity of Chinese civilization â of the civilization-state â is perceived as the highest political priority and is seen as the sacrosanct task of the Chinese state. Unlike in the West, where the state is viewed with varying degrees of suspicion, even hostility, and is regarded, as a consequence, as an outsider, in China the state is seen as an intimate, as part of the family, indeed as the head of the family; interestingly, in this context, the Chinese term for nation-state is ânation-familyâ.
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Actually the partnership announcement just allowed Tesla to catch up on FSD
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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If China booted out those US companies that would crash the US economy
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Chinese had virtually no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
Now they are going after legacy chip markets
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors?
27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products. In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales.
Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants. Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices. As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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The Chinese Treasure Fleet in 15th century Philippines
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May 19, 2008
* It was the people of our archipelago who discovered Magellan and the Europeans in 1521, not the other way around, as most Filipinos were taught by our grade-school textbooks. Our islands and their inhabitants were well-known to a larger, richer world that of Chinese emperors and scholars and Arab traders, as early as the 9th, even 6th centuries. And certainly by 1000 A.D., our shores were regular ports of call in the trade with China, then the most powerful nation on earth.
Chinese chronicles, European archaeologists and the diggings in our pre-colonial burial grounds prove that those ancient Filipinos used fine porcelain, weights and measures imported from China, and recorded written contracts. Chao-Ju-Kua reported that Chinese traders visited Ma-I (Luzon) regularly, leaving silks, porcelain and metal utensils on the beaches of designated islands, and returning weeks later to collect payment in the form of beeswax, gold dust, carabao horn, ginger, cinnamon or garlic. It was an import-export system run on a reliable honor system with unquestioned good faith. (Tell that to our Bureau of Customs.) âFilipinos had long been literate when Magellan came.â writes Harvard historian Laurence Bergreen, one of the sources of this article.
* When Magellanâs Spanish Armada hove into view in March 1521, the natives of Homonhon in the Visayas must have taken pity on the small black ships with tattered sails and scruffy, starving, disoriented sailors, for they sent a small rowboat packed with rice, coconuts and bananas to their rescue. On the next island, the white, bearded strangers were feted in a bamboo palace with a banquet of roast fish, pork, turtle eggs and palm wine, by a native king whose queen wore a black-and-white gown, red lips and nails, while a quartet of young, topless damsels played music on various gongs and drums.
Those early Filipinos had been more accustomed to the tall, prosperous, Chinese ships with a trio of feathery sails stiffened with battens, for the China trade had been in place for at least 500 years. During the Ming Dynasty, Filipinos enjoyed the visits of the Treasure Fleet (1405-1500) of Admiral Cheng Ho (Zhen He) a huge, 7-ft tall, powerful eunuch, who had built 1,500 massive, 500-ft ships in a giant shipyard in Nanking with the help of 30,000 workers. The luxurious ships, each manned by 1,000 sailors ruled the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
* But the Chinese were not interested in conquest or territorial aggrandizement. Their purposes were trade and diplomacy. That was what our ancestors expected when they first saw the Spanish Armada.
Filipinos had never seen white men before Magellan and never thought the strangers would be as rapacious and predatory as they would prove to be. They assumed the new foreigners to be poor and needy because they had only glass beads, a string of little bells and a red cap (Magellanâs gifts) to reciprocate the native prodigality. The white men were, in fact, so dazzled by the earrings, chains, armlets and anklets, of pure gold, worn by both the native men and women that Magellan had to warn them against showing their covetousness.
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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What most people donât get?
Is it is mostly US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
For one, it would crash the US Economy
And the Chinese donât believe in a zero-sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
đ
Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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 @stealthtowealth2167Â
you exemplifying what is wrong with our western society, how we lost our pioneer ethos, and failed western thinking
And we wonder why we are behind them
A few years back China shut down too too many coal mines, and shut down too many power plants
They obviously are not there yet but they will get there
In the 1980s ⌠88% of the population was knee deep in the mud of their family rice paddy plot or working a factory floor
Now they are pushing up our home prices where we live
Unlike people like you who assume they think just like us?
We in the west fail, so we should just give up
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What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When we don't know enough to know what we don't know.
* So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence.
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Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
Cross-cultural comparisons
Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
These differences are highlighted in a meta-analysis Heine is now completing of 70 studies that examine the degree of self-enhancement or self-criticism in China, Japan and Korea versus the United States and Canada. Sixty-nine of the 70 studies reveal significant differences between the two cultures in the degree to which individuals hold these tendencies, he finds.
In another article in the October 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 81, No. 4), Heine's team looks more closely at how this occurs. First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much."
Conversely,
East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network.
But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says. Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds.
If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it.
East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
Interestingly, children in many cultures tend to overrate their abilities, perhaps because they lack objective feedback about their performance. For example, until about third grade, German youngsters generally overrate their academic achievement and class standing. This tendency declines as feedback in the form of letter grades begins. But researchers also have shown significant cross-cultural differences in youngsters' performance estimates--American children, it appears, are particularly prone to overestimate their competence.
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What most people donât get is the Philippines had every right to ask for arbitration
Itâs just China has every right not to accept arbitration
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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In addition, article 298, paragraph 1, allows States and entities to declare that they exclude the application of the compulsory binding procedures for the settlement of disputes under the Convention in respect of certain specified categories kinds of disputes. Article 298, paragraph 1, reads:
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What most people donât get is the Philippines had every right to ask for arbitration
Itâs just China has every right not to accept arbitration
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
UNORG
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
UNORG
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
UNORG
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What most people donât get is the Philippines had every right to ask for arbitration
Itâs just China has every right not to accept arbitration
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
UNORG
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
UNORG
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
UNORG
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In addition, article 298, paragraph 1, allows States and entities to declare that they exclude the application of the compulsory binding procedures for the settlement of disputes under the Convention in respect of certain specified categories kinds of disputes. Article 298, paragraph 1, reads:
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What most people donât get is the Philippines had every right to ask for arbitration
Itâs just China has every right not to accept arbitration
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
UNORG
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
UNORG
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
To me sounds like instead of Tesla FSD they will export Baidu Robotaxis App in Tesla vehicles
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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 @soothinglycool9806 China leads the world in 37 of 44 critical technologies of the future
Westerners like Americans think in narrow minded terms
Like cutting off chips and chip making equipment . Because to the Americans the Chinese just copy
There is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world copied from them
The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese
Where their Government was trying to get their people to switch to homegrown chips before the sanctions
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have themselves and their allies, lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing over 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year, within the products they export
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Not as bad as your USA being 500 trillion in debt
China cut off money flow to Vanke 14 years ago
It was Sophisticated Foteign Investors buying these Property Developers junk bonds these last few years
what do you think these Property Developers did with that sudden influx of moneyâŚ.
They built more higher end housing
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Huge Price Cuts Rumored From Chinese Developers Due To Collapsing Demand
Vincent Fernando, CFA May 29, 2010
Demand is falling since China's central government announced stricter regulations for property transactions during the middle of April. These involve higher down payments and mortgage rates for the purchase of second home, and act which is seen as potential speculation. Such tightening is reducing buying demand.
Thus a moderately bearish view is that property prices need to come down, since demand is likely down yet supply is the same. This challenge isn't limited to Shanghai:
China Vanke Co, the country's largest publicly listed developer, may cut apartment prices by 10 to 30 percent within three months, the Beijing News said yesterday, citing an unidentified sales agent. Local Vanke officials declined to comment yesterday.
Yet Shanghai is where things could get the ugliest, the earliest. This is because the local Shanghai government is planning to clamp down on speculation even harder than China's central government already has:
Chen Qiwei, a spokesman for the Shanghai municipal government, did not preclude the possibility of levying property tax when asked about this issue at a press conference on Friday.
"Shanghai will take more strict measures in line with the central government policy," Chen said, adding that more efforts will be made in building economically affordable houses and cracking down on speculative house purchasing.
Other cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Shenzen could have similar additional taxes, but Shanghai is the first to make an official comment such as above according to China Daily. Thing is, any action from Shanghai will likely need approval from the central government.
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
How Washington's sanctions boosted China's semiconductor sector
MAY 5, 2021
Plan B
So far, Yangtze Memory, also known as YMTC, has remained under the radar of the U.S. government. But the company is taking no chances. With the guidance of Beijing, it has launched a massive review of its supply chain in an effort to find local suppliers -- or, at least, non-U.S. ones -- to replace the current dependence on American technology.
The collective effort has occupied over 800 people, full time, and including staff from its multiple local suppliers, for two years. And they have not finished yet.
YMTC is seeking to learn as much as it can about the origin of everything that goes into its products, from production equipment and chemicals to the tiny lenses, screws, nuts and bearings in chipmaking machinery and production lines, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. The audit extends not only to YMTC's own production lines, but also to suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, and so on.
"The review is as meticulous as knowing where the screws and nuts are coming from, the lead time, and if those parts have alternatives," one person familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia.
Each supplier is assigned a score for geopolitical risk, identified in many pages of documents detailing the components they use in its machines. YMTC has sent engineers to audit local equipment suppliers' production sites to verify that the origins of parts have been truthfully reported, one of the people told Nikkei.
American-made parts are scored highest for risk, followed by parts bought from Japan, Europe and those made locally, the person said. Meanwhile, suppliers are asked to provide corrective action reports to explain how they can together diversify procurement and find alternatives.
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The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese
Where their Government was trying to get their people to switch to homegrown chips before the sanctions
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have themselves and their allies, lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When there is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world copied from them
And China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing over 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year, within the products they export
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Whatâs the rush China will eventually get there
You are transferring our western thinking on how they think
If the USA is forcing the Chinese to start from scratch
Then the Chinese can go right down to the most basic Rare Earths that go into those Lithography machines and semiconductor chips
In most cases Countries are not refining enough, at all, or the heavy rare earths
So China could play the same game
But they donât believe in zero-sum game type of thinking
Well not yet
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Circumventing the Chokepoint: Can the US Produce More Rare Earths?
Oct 30, 2023
* Rare earthsâwhich include the fifteen lanthanide series elements plus scandium and yttriumâare critical not only to energy technology like permanent magnets in electric vehicles and offshore wind turbines but also to military applications like lasers and precision-guided weapons. These elements enable defense equipment and weapons system components to function.
From 1950 to October 2018, China filed 25,911 rare earth patents, while the United States filed only 9,810. Thus, China can also restrict rare earth technology. In April 2023, for instance, Nikkei Asia reported that China was considering restricting exports of rare earth magnet technology
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 @DailyBeatings probably an older codger like me
But a typical zero-sum game thinking American
Probably does not know that he literally would be dropping like a fly, if China actively participated in a trade war with the west
without 400 thousand Chinese drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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China's lock on drugs
Two pillars of Trump administration policy â combating the soaring prices for prescription drugs and equalizing the U.S. trade imbalance with China â appear to be on a collision course, drug and foreign policy experts say.
That's because the key ingredients for so many essential drugs, from antibiotics and birth control pills to treatments for cancer, depression, high cholesterol and HIV/AIDS, are purchased from China, says Rosemary Gibson, co-author with Janardan Prasad Singh of a new book called "ChinaRx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine."
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Americans have lost that pioneer ethos
Instead itâs everyone wins everyone gets a participation ribbon mindsetâŚ.
No one fails
When you say it will take time?
That is failure for the average American and time to give up
Because to them itâs about instant gratification these days or else nothing at all
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What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When we don't know enough to know what we don't know.
* So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence.
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Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
Cross-cultural comparisons
Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
These differences are highlighted in a meta-analysis Heine is now completing of 70 studies that examine the degree of self-enhancement or self-criticism in China, Japan and Korea versus the United States and Canada. Sixty-nine of the 70 studies reveal significant differences between the two cultures in the degree to which individuals hold these tendencies, he finds.
In another article in the October 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 81, No. 4), Heine's team looks more closely at how this occurs. First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much."
Conversely,
East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network.
But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says. Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds.
If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it.
East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
Interestingly, children in many cultures tend to overrate their abilities, perhaps because they lack objective feedback about their performance. For example, until about third grade, German youngsters generally overrate their academic achievement and class standing. This tendency declines as feedback in the form of letter grades begins. But researchers also have shown significant cross-cultural differences in youngsters' performance estimates--American children, it appears, are particularly prone to overestimate their competence.
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The difference between the USA and China is in Q3 of 2019
The US FED was bailing out those TOOBIGTOFAIL banks in their repo markets less their credit markets seize up once again
A few things we learned since the 2008 subprime crisis
1) Buying for US debt is not unlimited.
In 2013 the US FED had to buy 71% of the newly issued external Sovereign debt by the US Treasury
2) That Quantitative Easing (QE)debt that was soaped up/printing of money, that debt does not disappear
Since we know from Q3 of 2017 to Q3 of 2019 the FEDs bright idea was to allow 50 to 60 billion of the Agency Debt and US Treasury Debt it soaped up during QE to slowly mature each month, off the FEDs balance sheet.
Their Quantitative Tightening (QT) Where the US Treasury would issue new corresponding debt for the public to buy. Where with this QT selling they managed to dump about 600 to 700 billion in debt on the American âpeopleâ
As the American âpeopleâ are the biggest buyers of US Sovereign Debt (directly/indirecty)
That QT selling ended during Q3 of 2019 Because that selling of debt ended up helping to freeze up the repo market
Just like when it happened in 2008/2009 during the subprime crisis
Thus the FED balance sheet went from 4.5 trillion to about 3.8 trillion.with that selling from 2017 to 2019
But then the FED had to come back in QE 2.0 and buy that Treasury debt again, all that they dumped and more
Last I checked they ran that FED balance sheeet back up to over 8 trillion. Now itâs back to around 7.8 trillion
Wait you might ask Agency debt is internal debt not supposed to be backed by the US Government
Well the USA has had no issue with taking private internal debt and turning it into External Sovereign Debt backed by the US Government and the American âpeopleâ
Something the Chinese might have been tempted to do with the Junk Bonds issued by those Chinese Property Developers
That were a hot commodity the last few years, sought after by sophisticated foreign investors
In short the Chinese purposely deflated their real estate markets. Cut off money to its Property Developers since 2010. And didnt bailout foreign investors who took a risk buying those Property Developer junk bonds the last few years
While the USA left their real estate market to implode. Kept the stimulus/bailout money flowing to the companies, and bailed out foreign investors who invested in private internal debt
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As politicians call for taxpayer bailouts and a government takeover of troubled mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae,
FreedomWorks would like to point out that a bailout is a transfer of possibly hundreds of billions of U.S. tax dollars to sophisticated investors and governments overseas.
The top five foreign holders of Freddie and Fannie long-term debt are China, Japan, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, and Belgium. In total foreign investors hold over $1.3 trillion in these agency bonds, according to the U.S. Treasuryâs most recent âReport on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities.â
FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe commented, âThe prospectus for every GSE bond clearly states that it is not backed by the United States government. Thatâs why investors holding agency bonds already receive a significant risk premium over Treasuries.â
âA bailout at this stage would be the worst possible outcome for American taxpayers and mortgage holders, who have been paying a risk premium to these foreign investors.â
âIt would change the rules of the game retroactively and would directly subsidize the risks taken by sophisticated foreign investors.â
âA bailout of GSE bondholders would be perhaps the greatest taxpayer rip-off in American history. It is bad economics and you can be sure it is terrible politics.â
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Nvidia cuts China AI chip prices amid competition from Huawei-
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Among the three, the H20, which is the most powerful, was seeing subdued demand in China, and in some cases, was being sold at an over 10% discount to a similar offering from Huawei- the Ascend 910B, the Reuters report said.
The Ascend 910B was also seeing substantially more orders than the H20 from state-backed enterprises, Reuters said, citing limited government data. This came following a mandate from Beijing for state enterprises to use China-made silicon.
The 910B is the most advanced Chinese AI chip, and has shot up in popularity in the country following U.S. sanctions that attempted to block Chinaâs access to the latest AI advancements.
Its popularity in China presents more headwinds for Nvidiaâs business in the country. The chipmaker has struggled to maintain its foothold in Chinese markets following the U.S. sanctions.
During its first quarter earnings this week, the company warned that China was becoming an increasingly competitive market, and that the firmâs data center revenue in China fell âsignificantly.â
Steep discounts on the H20 also present more margin pressure for Nvidia.
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Chinaâs AI Implementation Is Edging Ahead Of The US
Craig S. Smith
Contributor
Craig S. Smith is a former correspondent and executive at The New York Times. He is host of the podcast Eye on A.I.
Jan 14, 2023,
China and the U.S. have reached parity in the development of artificial intelligence, but Chinaâs implementation of the technology in products and services is likely to edge ahead in 2023.
As Kaifu Lee, a keen observer of AI development in China has put it, âwe're now in the age of AI implementation.â While the West, the U.S. and Canada in particular, will remain ahead in AI research, those Western advances are quickly adopted in China where the massive market, a surfeit of young engineers, government support and a cutthroat entrepreneurial culture are driving industrial innovation in AI.
âThe digital and real economies are accelerating their integration,â said Baiduâs Chief Technology Officer, Haifeng Wang, who is also Head of Baidu Research.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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My country has a revolving door policy for career criminals
So unless our citizens commit a crime in another country
My country wonât care if you are a bad behaved Canadian abroad as long as you donât break any laws
Take for example
This is a Conservative Canadian Supreme Court Justice, appointed by a Conservative PM Harper,
in our top Canadian Supreme Court, dominated by Conservative Justices since 2012. The majority of these Justices also appointed by Harper .
Striking down this law introduced by Harpers Conservative Government
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Supreme Court strikes down âdegradingâ parole ineligibility law for mass murders
By Betsy Powell Courts Reporter
Fri., May 27, 2022
But in Fridayâs much-anticipated ruling, Chief Justice Richard Wagner said Section 745.51 of the Criminal Code violates section 12 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in a way that cannot be justified in a free and democratic society. Section 12 guarantees the right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.
What is at stake is our commitment, as a society, to respect human dignity and the inherent worth of every individual,â the decision states.
Striking down the law should not be seen as devaluing the lives of innocent victims, the court said.
âEveryone would agree that multiple murders are inherently despicable acts and are the most serious crimes, with consequences that last forever. This appeal is not about the value of each human life, but rather about the limits on the stateâs power to punish offenders, which, in a society founded on the rule of law, must be exercised in a manner consistent with the Constitution.â
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China wonât allow ByteDance to sell TikTok off
Especially to an American company.
Because
It is the algorithms that make the company
Itâs not like the Chinese Central Government actually wants a Social Media App that they canât control and regulate, or to be out there possibly with people giving their unfettered opinions on China anyways
They already cracked down on Douyin the sister version of TikTok in China
So itâs highly likely the Chinese Government will force ByteDance to have TikToc just leave the US market.
Like their Government stated they would do
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A forced sale of TikTok in the US amounts to a downgrade of the app, as the Chinese government wonât approve the sale of its algorithms,â said Alex Capri, a research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation and a lecturer at the National University of Singaporeâs Business School.
âIf TikTok is forced to stop operating in the US, ByteDanceâs prospects in other mostly liberal democracies will come under further scrutiny,â he said.
If the Chinese government wonât let ByteDance relinquish TikTokâs algorithm, it could block the sale outright. Alternatively, it may allow TikTok to be sold without the lucrative algorithm that forms the basis for its popularity.
A US ban, or a less powerful version of TikTok,would be a windfall
for YouTube, Google, Instagram and other TikTok competitors, as many of its customers may jump ship, Capri said. And it would be a major hit to the global ambitions of ByteDance.
âIt [a TikTok ban] would be the end of ByteDanceâs global expansion, as it would be a sign that the Chinese state values the algorithmâs security more than ByteDanceâs financial prosperity and global expansion,â said Richard Windsor, tech industry analyst and founder of Radio Free Mobile, a research company based in the US.
âThe implications are that the ideological struggle being fought in the technology industry will become more intense.â
A ban on TikTok is also likely to accelerate a shift that is splitting the worldâs tech landscape into two blocs, one centered on the US, the other embracing tech from China, according to Capri.
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Good News For Chinese Homeowners: Premier Li Offers Some Clarity On Land Leases
Mar 21, 2017
Chinese homeowners can breathe a little easier.
Last Wednesday, Premier Li Keqiang said a real estate protection provision that would ensure individualâs access to property under a 70-year lease would be renewed unconditionally is being drafted.
This will help to quell ongoing fears that wealth garnered from one generation will be removed after the 70-year lease ends by the government. And while this does not address the fate of 20-year leases, the precedent set in Wenzhou may be replicated in other areas.
Residential land lease policy
Chinese residential land is parceled out in 20- or 70-year leases. Home owners may own their apartment, but do not own the land it is built on, which belongs to the government. The question of how the land lease will be renewed is therefore a big question.
While the 2007 Property law stated that the right to use residential land would be renewed at the expiration of the contract, it did not state how the process would be carried out or how much it might cost to renew the lease. As 20-year leases come due, homeowners want to know what to expect for the future of their oftentimes largest asset. This impacts not only bequeathing property to the next generation, but also selling property. The first 70-year leases are expected to expire around 2030.
Reassurances on the longer leases from the central government follow after Chinese officials in the land ministry assured homeowners in Wenzhou, a city in the eastern Zhejiang province, last December that they would not have to pay a renewal fee to continue to use their residences after the shorter 20-year lease expires. The was a reversal of earlier statements that homeowners would have to pay a large fee of up to a third of the property value to renew.
Wenzhouâs case was unique in that fees for property renewal were quite high; other cities, such as Qingdao and Shenzhen, experienced earlier lease expiries, but did not address the issue or requested lower fees. Wenzhou may set a precedent for other Chinese cities by waiving the renewal fee, albeit only temporarily.
The lease renewal process matters
How central and local governments shape the lease renewal process is critical in maintaining stability in property markets. I believe that the lease renewal process must be codified in a law to make it clear and consistent. Otherwise, a patchwork of policies among local governments, with regard to the 20-year lease, will sow confusion and create strong market biases toward cities with lower renewal fees.
Furthermore, lease renewal should at least be affordable, although analysts hold various opinions as to whether or not it should be free. Notably, across China, 90% of households own their homes, and home ownership is especially important because there are few other reliable investment outlets available to households. Most individuals have not factored the cost of lease renewal into their home price, and a high renewal fee would present a large initial shock to home owners.
Low fees are a double-edged sword
Allowing homeowners to renew leases for a low fee or without paying a new fee is a double-edged sword, however, since local governments obtain funds from selling and leasing land. Abolishing the fees wholesale would result in a drop in much-needed local government revenue, which in some places is already insufficient to support the many services local governments are tasked with.
A property tax would resolve this. However, such a tax has been in the making for the past several years but has yet to be implemented, most likely due to concerns that this would dampen the real estate market. Chinaâs Vice Housing Minister, Lu Kehua, stated last month that China needs to âspeed upâ a property tax law, yet there was no discussion of this at the recent National Peopleâs Congress. Previous experiments implementing a property tax in Chongqing resulted in confusion about how bills were to be paid and how they were to be administered. Still, potentially replacing land use fees with a property tax makes sense
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What are you talking about the Chinese have a pension
And they are transferring money and assets from State owned enterprises to fund their Pensions
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Through a central coordination mechanism, over 930 billion yuan ($147.58 billion) from the national pool went to make up for the shortfalls of local pension schemes last year alone.
China's basic old-age insurance, a key program to ensure people's well-being after retirement, has been evolving to a larger-scale management system since its establishment in the 1990s. The central coordination mechanism was set up in 2018 as the first step prior to building a national system to further address unbalanced pension burdens nationwide.
But issues deriving from disparities in regional economic development and demographic structure still exist.
"Some regions have more surpluses, while the others with older populations are under heavier pressure to make pension payments," said Qi Tao, an official from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
In 2021, over 210 billion yuan from the coordination mechanism went to the central and western regions as well as the northeastern "rust belt" provinces, as a greying population weighs on their pension payments and growing labor outflows squeeze pension income.
Using a nationwide chessboard as a metaphor, the head of the China Association of Social Security Zheng Gongcheng said the new national system will make the pension benefits fairer. "People won't need to sacrifice their pensions for migrating to work, and retirees won't have to deal with the risks from local pension fund shortfalls."
Qi said a mechanism that assigns the respective expenditure responsibilities of central and local governments on pension funds will be built after the national program comes into force and the central government will not roll back its subsidy to the pension funds.
Apart from the coordination efforts and central subsidy, state assets totaling 1.68 trillion yuan from 93 centrally-administered enterprises and financial institutions have also been transferred to replenish the pension schemes.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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I think most Americans are under educated as well
China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is an unlikely option
Since Fentanyl is a legal substance, used in US Hospitals
Plus without those Chinese drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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I think most Americans are under educated as well
China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is an unlikely option
Since Fentanyl is a legal substance, used in US Hospitals
Plus without those Chinese drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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China trade surplus with the world was 823 billion in 2023
279 billion of it was with you Americans
What most people donât get? Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies trade with their Belt and Road country partners
US Multinationals using illegal labour from South East Asia. Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China
These are the same companies who got those trump tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales in Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Why didnât China pull the nuclear option and boot these companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
I can show you in the trade vvar how they didnât pull out their big trade we a pons
In fact when the USA was raising tariffs on countries China was lowering them on Countries instead of the USA of course
For example China dominates the production of the worldâs essential ingredients that go into the worldâs pharmaceutical drugs. China stops exporting and Americans lose access to Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer Drugs etc etc etc etc
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position. China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD). Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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What most people donât get?
Is yes in âmostâ cases when you go to China to sell into their domestic markets you have to take a Joint Venture (JV) partner
And in âmostâ cases when you go to China to open up a factory, and export those goods back to your country you donât have to take on a JV partner
These days ?????
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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There is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world stole from them
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
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 @AhmetTekin101 you must have no respect for anyone who reads your post thinking they wonât go research your f ache News
50 years behind?
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Nvidia cuts China AI chip prices amid competition from Huawei-
Reuters
Among the three, the H20, which is the most powerful, was seeing subdued demand in China, and in some cases, was being sold at an over 10% discount to a similar offering from Huawei- the Ascend 910B, the Reuters report said.
The Ascend 910B was also seeing substantially more orders than the H20 from state-backed enterprises, Reuters said, citing limited government data. This came following a mandate from Beijing for state enterprises to use China-made silicon.
The 910B is the most advanced Chinese AI chip, and has shot up in popularity in the country following U.S. sanctions that attempted to block Chinaâs access to the latest AI advancements.
Its popularity in China presents more headwinds for Nvidiaâs business in the country. The chipmaker has struggled to maintain its foothold in Chinese markets following the U.S. sanctions.
During its first quarter earnings this week, the company warned that China was becoming an increasingly competitive market, and that the firmâs data center revenue in China fell âsignificantly.â
Steep discounts on the H20 also present more margin pressure for Nvidia.
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No one accepts the 9 dash line except China or Taiwan
Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Sabah clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines
(In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute stems with the fact they make a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE
Historical claim that the Philippines dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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they have done war games/war scenarios over and over
Arming the Philippines would just make it a target when the Chinese can produce 1000 cruise missiles everyday. Thatâs how they plan to win a war with the USA. Out produce the Americans
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The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America might lose.)
By MICHAEL HIRSH
06/09/2023 04:30 AM EDT
The war began in the early morning hours with a massive bombardment â Chinaâs version of âshock and awe.â
Chinese planes and rockets swiftly destroyed most of Taiwanâs navy and air force as the Peopleâs Liberation army and navy mounted a massive amphibious assault across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait.
Having taken seriously President Joe Bidenâs pledge to defend the island, Beijing also struck pre-emptively at U.S. and allied air bases and ships in the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. managed to even the odds for a time by deploying more sophisticated submarines as well as B-21 and B-2 stealth bombers to get inside Chinaâs air defense zones, but Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days and saw its network access severed.
The United States and its main ally, Japan, lost thousands of service members, dozens of ships, and hundreds of aircraft. Taiwanâs economy was devastated. And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild, taking years to replace ships as it reckoned with how shriveled its industrial base had become compared to Chinaâs.
The Chinese âjust ran rings around us,â said former Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten in one after-action report.
âThey knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it.â Dozens of versions of the above war-game scenario have been enacted over the last few years, most recently in April by the House Select Committee on competition with China.
And while the ultimate outcome in these exercises is not always clear â the U.S. does better in some than others â the cost is. In every exercise the U.S. uses up all its long-range air-to-surface missiles in a few days, with a substantial portion of its planes destroyed on the ground.
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What most people donât get?
Is yes in âmostâ cases when you go to China to sell into their domestic markets you have to take a Joint Venture (JV) partner
And in âmostâ cases when you go to China to open up a factory, and export those goods back to your country you donât have to take on a JV partner
These days ?????
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Chinese swimming scandal: a strong defence by world anti-doping body, but narrative of âcover-upâ remains
Published: April 24, 2024
Given an investigation by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security found traces of the banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ) in a kitchen at the swimmersâ hotel, CHINADA ruled the positive tests were the result of accidental contamination. The Chinese swimmers were cleared without any public announcement.
WADA says Chinaâs national anti-doping agency kept them abreast of events throughout their extensive investigation, which took place during strict COVID lockdowns and was impacted by a local outbreak of the virus.
Far from accepting CHINADAâs findings on the face of it, WADA requested the entire case file so it could conduct its own scientific and legal investigations â including speaking with the drug manufacturer to get the latest unpublished science on TMZ, and comparing the Chinese positive tests with TMZ cases in other countries, including the US. WADA ultimately determined there was no concrete evidence to âdisproveâ the possibility of environmental contamination.
Here are a few reasons WADA gave as to why in its press conference this week:
More than 200 swimmers competing in the Chinese National Championships were staying in at least two different hotels at the time. The swimmers who tested positive to non-performance-enhancing amounts of TMZ were all at one hotel.
There were fluctuating negative and positive results for the swimmers that were tested on multiple occasions, which were not consistent with deliberate doping techniques, including microdosing.
WADA found no evidence of misconduct or manipulation in the case file handed over by CHINADA.
WADA says it reviews between 2,000 and 3,000 cases of suspected doping every year. It is not unusual for the body to file an appeal challenging anti-doping findings.
For example, WADA challenged an Australian Football League decision to clear 34 members of the Essendon Football Club. It also appealed a decision by the world swimming body, FINA, to clear high-profile Chinese swimmer Sun Yang of wrongdoing for his conduct during a 2018 drug test.
According to WADAâs general counsel, Ross Wenzel, the difference between these cases and the more recent allegations against the Chinese swimmers was that the body accepted the âno faultâ finding in the latter case. In the earlier cases, it did not.
He also said WADA received external legal advice that it would have had less than a 1% chance of winning an appeal in the TMZ case. According to WADA, everything was handled by the book, and if the body was faced with the same situation again, it would do nothing differently.
Has China been unfairly singled out?
So, has WADA succeeded in changing the narrative? Probably not.
Why? Because putting the words âChinaâ and âdopingâ together is a lightning rod in the current political climate given the intense rivalry between China and the US.
Currently there are 23 people serving anti-doping suspensions in Australia. Do we feel personal or national shame for their wrongdoing?
Every time the US team marches into an Olympic Games, or steps up onto a World Championships medal podium, do we point at them while recalling memories of the US Postal Service cycling team and the banned-for-life cyclist Lance Armstrong?
But when it comes to China, many observers are quick to name and shame athletes, viewing every news story as some kind of proof the country must have a systemic, state-sanctioned doping program.
The Conversation
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Sports Med Open. 2024 Dec; 10: 57. Published online 2024 May 20. doi: 10.1186/s40798-024-00721-9
PMCID: PMC11102888PMID: 38763945
Doping Prevalence among U.S. Elite Athletes Subject to Drug Testing under the World Anti-Doping Code
Depending on the method of calculation, 6.5â9.2% of the 1,398 respondents reported using one or more prohibited substances or methods in the 12 months prior to survey administration. Specific doping prevalence rates for each individual substance / method categories ranged from 0.1% (for both diuretics / masking agents and stem cell / gene editing) to 4.2% for in-competition use of cannabinoids.
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Lewis: âWho cares I failed drug test?â
Duncan Mackay
Thu 24 Apr 2003 01.51 BST
Carl Lewis has broken his silence on allegations that he was the beneficiary of a drugs cover-up, admitting he had tested positive for banned substances but claiming he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans.
"There were hundreds of people getting off," he said. "Everyone was treated the same."
Lewis has now acknowledged that he failed three tests during the 1988 US Olympic trials, which under international rules at the time should have prevented him from competing in the Seoul games two months later.
Carl Lewis has broken his silence on allegations that he was the beneficiary of a drugs cover-up, admitting he had tested positive for banned substances but claiming he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans.
"There were hundreds of people getting off," he said. "Everyone was treated the same."
Lewis has now acknowledged that he failed three tests during the 1988 US Olympic trials, which under international rules at the time should have prevented him from competing in the Seoul games two months later.
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China is hiding $3 trillion of foreign currency in 'shadow reserves,' adding unknown risks to the global economy, former Treasury official says
Filip De Mott Jun 30, 2023
Half of China's currency reserves are "hidden," a situation that may add risks to the global economy down the road, former Treasury Department official Brad Setser wrote.
While the country's State Administration of Foreign Exchange reported $3.12 trillion in foreign assets last December, Setser estimates that foreign exchange reserves actually sit at around $6 trillion.
"China is so big that how it manages its economy and currency matters enormously to the world," he wrote in The China Project. "Yet over time the way it manages its currency and its foreign exchange reserves has become much less transparent â creating new kinds of risks for the global economy."
A key indicator about China's reserves is a sudden pause in its reported activity. From 2002 to 2012, China's foreign exchange reserves steadily rose as the central bank bought US dollar assets to prevent China's yuan from appreciating too much, allowing exports to remain cheap.
But over the last 10 years, China's reserves stopped rising, which is puzzling as China's trade surplus has continued growing, and currently stands at an all-time high, he said.
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Chinaâs Gold Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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Difference Between Internal Debt and External Debt!
The basic character of an internal debt is quite different from that of the external debt. In external debt, at the time of repayment there is a real transfer of resources.
In case of internal debt, however, since it is borrowed from individuals and institutions within the country repayment will constitute only a re-distribution of resources without causing any change in the total resources of the community.
There can, thus, be no direct money burden caused by internal debts since all payments cancel each other out in the aggregate community as a whole. Whatever is taxed from one section of the community servicing the debts is distributed among the bond-holders by way of repayment of loans and interest; and quite often, the tax-payer and the bond-holder may be the same person.
At the most, to the extent that the incomes of tax-payers (in a sense, debtors) are reduced, so will the incomes of creditors/ bond-holders increase, but the aggregate position of the community will, nevertheless, remain the same.
However, internal debt may involve a direct real burden on the community according to the nature of the series of transfer of incomes from tax payers to the public creditors. To the extent the tax-payers and the bond-holders are the same, the distribution of wealth will remain unaltered; hence there will not be any net real burden on the community.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Nvidia cuts China AI chip prices amid competition from Huawei-
Reuters
Among the three, the H20, which is the most powerful, was seeing subdued demand in China, and in some cases, was being sold at an over 10% discount to a similar offering from Huawei- the Ascend 910B, the Reuters report said.
The Ascend 910B was also seeing substantially more orders than the H20 from state-backed enterprises, Reuters said, citing limited government data. This came following a mandate from Beijing for state enterprises to use China-made silicon.
The 910B is the most advanced Chinese AI chip, and has shot up in popularity in the country following U.S. sanctions that attempted to block Chinaâs access to the latest AI advancements.
Its popularity in China presents more headwinds for Nvidiaâs business in the country. The chipmaker has struggled to maintain its foothold in Chinese markets following the U.S. sanctions.
During its first quarter earnings this week, the company warned that China was becoming an increasingly competitive market, and that the firmâs data center revenue in China fell âsignificantly.â
Steep discounts on the H20 also present more margin pressure for Nvidia.
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NVIDIA H20 chip faces competition from Huawei
Written by Rebecca Uffindell Mon 5 Feb 2024
Reuters reported NVIDIA priced orders for H20 distributors in China in a range of ÂŁ9,531 ($12,000) to ÂŁ11,914 ($15,000) per card. Some distributors have promoted the NVIDIA chips at a markup toward the lower end of the range, around ÂŁ12,167 ($15,320).
In contrast, Huaweiâs 910B is priced at about ÂŁ13,388 ($16,856), citing sources familiar with the matter.
Distributors are reportedly selling NVIDIA H20 servers pre-configured with eight AI chips for ÂŁ156,560 ($196,745). This marked a significant price drop compared to servers equipped with eight H800 chips, which sold for around ÂŁ223,657 ($281,065) when launched a year ago.
The specifications for the NVIDIA H20 chip indicated it is less powerful than the Huawei Ascend 910B in key areas.
According to a source, one example of where the H20 appears to lag is the 910B in its floating point 32-bit (FP32) performance. This is a metric that measures how rapidly a chip can process common tasks. The H20 chipâs FP32 performance is reported to be less than half of its rivalâs capability.
However, the H20 appears to outperform the 910B in interconnect speed, which is crucial for transferring data between chips. This advantage allows the H20 to stay competitive with the 910B in applications needing numerous chips linked together to function as a system.
Before the US introduced the chip export restrictions to China, NVIDIA had a 90% market share in China. However, NVIDIA now faces competition from rivals domestic to China.
Huaweiâs 910B chip is currently seen as Chinaâs top AI offering, gaining popularity amid concerns about restricted access to NVIDIA products due to US sanctions.
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 @Madame702 like I said you are behind the times China is making their own homegrown lithography machines and chips
You are talking like itâs 1980s China
Have no clue what is going on these days time to update your facts and data
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
How Washington's sanctions boosted China's semiconductor sector
MAY 5, 2021
Plan B
So far, Yangtze Memory, also known as YMTC, has remained under the radar of the U.S. government. But the company is taking no chances. With the guidance of Beijing, it has launched a massive review of its supply chain in an effort to find local suppliers -- or, at least, non-U.S. ones -- to replace the current dependence on American technology.
The collective effort has occupied over 800 people, full time, and including staff from its multiple local suppliers, for two years. And they have not finished yet.
YMTC is seeking to learn as much as it can about the origin of everything that goes into its products, from production equipment and chemicals to the tiny lenses, screws, nuts and bearings in chipmaking machinery and production lines, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. The audit extends not only to YMTC's own production lines, but also to suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, and so on.
"The review is as meticulous as knowing where the screws and nuts are coming from, the lead time, and if those parts have alternatives," one person familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia.
Each supplier is assigned a score for geopolitical risk, identified in many pages of documents detailing the components they use in its machines. YMTC has sent engineers to audit local equipment suppliers' production sites to verify that the origins of parts have been truthfully reported, one of the people told Nikkei.
American-made parts are scored highest for risk, followed by parts bought from Japan, Europe and those made locally, the person said. Meanwhile, suppliers are asked to provide corrective action reports to explain how they can together diversify procurement and find alternatives.
"Previously, when China talked about self-sufficiency, they were thinking about starting to cultivate some viable chip developers that could compete with foreign chipmakers," a chip industry executive told Nikkei. "However, they did not expect that they would need to do all that, starting from fundamentals.
"It's like when you want to drink milk -- but you not only need to own a whole farm, and learn how to breed dairy cows, and you have to build barns, fences, as well as grow hay, all by yourselves."
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Yeah letâs listen to what you have to say
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Chinese cars dominate latest safety ratings 03.04.2024
Six out of the 10 cars assessed as the safest on Europeâs roads are from Chinese manufacturers
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BYD electric cars are regarded as one of the safest vehicles on the global market in 2023. This is because the Dolphin and Seal were recently released and therefore tested against the latest, strictest testing criteria by ANCAP and Euro NCAP.Mar 7, 2024
Compare the market
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Study shows BYD Seal and Dolphin are two of the worldâs safest cars
Reading Time: 3 minutes
Mark Andrews
March 13, 2024
The BYD Seal and Dolphin demonstrated high safety scores against the strictest 2023 testing criteria from Australasian and European safety authorities, in addition to universally standard safety assistance systems globally,â said Adrian Taylor, Compare the Marketâs Executive General Manager of General Insurance.
In the study by the car insurance experts 32 models available in most of six markets were examined across six data points. Countries looked at were Australia, New Zealand, Germany, the United Kingdom, United States and Canada and these markets are covered by three different safety authorities. To gain an overall safety rating the ratings of the three individual agencies were analyzed under Global New Car Assessment Programme (Global NCAP). In addition the study looked at whether key safety assistance systems were universally available on each model.
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 @arthurlincoln9093 China lost 27 million jobs and 100000 thousand factories closed down in 2008 when the USA crashed the world economy during the subprime crisis
You are a foreigner who went to China 8 years ago who has seen nothing but growth
Overheated growth in their real estate
Their country has been trying to shutdown since 2010
But now that you see it you cry wolf
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Huge Price Cuts Rumored From Chinese Developers Due To Collapsing Demand
Vincent Fernando, CFA May 29, 2010
Demand is falling since China's central government announced stricter regulations for property transactions during the middle of April. These involve higher down payments and mortgage rates for the purchase of second home, and act which is seen as potential speculation. Such tightening is reducing buying demand.
Thus a moderately bearish view is that property prices need to come down, since demand is likely down yet supply is the same. This challenge isn't limited to Shanghai:
China Vanke Co, the country's largest publicly listed developer, may cut apartment prices by 10 to 30 percent within three months, the Beijing News said yesterday, citing an unidentified sales agent. Local Vanke officials declined to comment yesterday.
Yet Shanghai is where things could get the ugliest, the earliest. This is because the local Shanghai government is planning to clamp down on speculation even harder than China's central government already has:
Chen Qiwei, a spokesman for the Shanghai municipal government, did not preclude the possibility of levying property tax when asked about this issue at a press conference on Friday.
"Shanghai will take more strict measures in line with the central government policy," Chen said, adding that more efforts will be made in building economically affordable houses and cracking down on speculative house purchasing.
Other cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Shenzen could have similar additional taxes, but Shanghai is the first to make an official comment such as above according to China Daily. Thing is, any action from Shanghai will likely need approval from the central government.
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China Increases Banksâ Reserve Ratios to Cool Prices
By Bloomberg News
December 10, 2010 at 4:08 AM PST
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China raises banks' reserve ratios again
Reuters
December 10, 20104:27 AM PSTUpdated 13 years ago
Dec 10, 2010 â The 50 basis point increase, which takes effect on Dec 20, will leave required reserve ratios at 18.5 percent
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China Property Market âBubbleâ Set to Burst, Xie Says
By Bloomberg News
February 1, 2010 at 11:51 PM PST
Chinaâs property market âbubbleâ is set to burst as the government curbs credit growth and clamps down on speculation, according to independent economist Andy Xie.
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China cracks down on speculators to cool prices
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NOV. 23, 2010
The government has ordered banks twice in the past three weeks to raise the amount of money they hold in reserves to rein in lending growth.
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China cracks down on property speculation Source:Global Times Published: 2010
The Chinese government has raised the down payment for second-home buyers to a minimum 50 percent of the value from 40 percent, in a bid to curb property speculation.
The decision was announced in a statement released Thursday after conclusion of an executive meeting of the State Council, the Cabinet, presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, on Wednesday.
First-home buyers must pay no less than 30 percent of the the property price if the area is above 90 square meters, the statement said.
The government was stepping up the introduction of tax policies to influence purchases and adjust property investment returns, said the statement.
Nationwide, land use for the construction of low-income housing, shanty town renovation and small and medium-sized homes (below 90 square meters) should account for at least 70 percent of the land approved for property development, the statement said.
It also urged local authorities to accelerate housing construction approvals to ensure effective land supply, and crack down on land hoarding and speculatory behavior.
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China attempts to deflate its unstable property bubble
China is to spend $200bn on low-cost homes as part of a series of measures to slow the rapidly rising prices of urban houses
Tania Branigan in Beijing
Wed 9 Mar 2011 19.24 GMT
Chinese officials are blaming speculators for soaring property prices and are vowing to build 36m affordable homes over the next five years. There are already widespread concerns about China's booming property market and the threat it poses to the country's expanding economy.
China would spend nearly $200bn (ÂŁ123bn) on an affordable homes and social housing scheme, said deputy housing minister Qi Ji in Beijing .
The pledge came a few days after premier Wen Jiabao promised to "resolutely" curb speculation to tackle excessively rapid price increases
The authorities have taken various steps since spring last year to dampen the property market. These include raising interest rates, increasing the minimum downpayment required on second homes and restricting the rights of foreigners to buy property. Two Chinese cities are now imposing sales tax on property deals.
While the measures have slowed growth, many fear it remains too high. In March 2010, urban housing prices shot up by 11.7% year-on-year, according to figures from the national bureau of statistics. December saw the lowest increase in more than a year, but it still stood at 6.4%.
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 @arthurlincoln9093 btw they think differently than how we westerners think
8 years living in a country you donât like ???
Still have not learned anything about them or yourself
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What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When we don't know enough to know what we don't know.
* So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence.
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Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
Cross-cultural comparisons
Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
These differences are highlighted in a meta-analysis Heine is now completing of 70 studies that examine the degree of self-enhancement or self-criticism in China, Japan and Korea versus the United States and Canada. Sixty-nine of the 70 studies reveal significant differences between the two cultures in the degree to which individuals hold these tendencies, he finds.
In another article in the October 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 81, No. 4), Heine's team looks more closely at how this occurs. First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much."
Conversely,
East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network.
But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says. Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds.
If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it.
East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
Interestingly, children in many cultures tend to overrate their abilities, perhaps because they lack objective feedback about their performance. For example, until about third grade, German youngsters generally overrate their academic achievement and class standing. This tendency declines as feedback in the form of letter grades begins. But researchers also have shown significant cross-cultural differences in youngsters' performance estimates--American children, it appears, are particularly prone to overestimate their competence.
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 @arthurlincoln9093 and that is supposed to mean what with your reply???
We all know China is supposed to be the bad guy
And they are in a trade war and suppose to decouple
Just because you went to China to find a wife does not make you an expert on the country
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What most people donât get?
Is yes in âmostâ cases when you go to China to sell into their domestic markets you have to take a Joint Venture (JV) partner
And in âmostâ cases when you go to China to open up a factory, and export those goods back to your country you donât have to take on a JV partner
These days ?????
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Training... Who cares they supported Saddam until they had no more use for him...
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Saddam was recruited to the assassination conspiracy by its ring-leader, Abdul Karim al-Shaikhly, after one of the would-be assassins left.[25] During the ambush, Saddam (who was only supposed to provide cover) began shooting prematurely, which disorganised the whole operation. Qasim's chauffeur was killed and Qasim was hit in the arm and shoulder. The assassins thought they had killed Qasim and quickly retreated to their headquarters, but Qasim survived.[25] Saddam himself is not believed to have received any training outside of Iraq, as he was a late addition to the assassination team.[26]
Richard Sale of United Press International (UPI), citing former U.S. diplomat and intelligence officials, Adel Darwish, and other experts, reported that the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Qasim was a collaboration between the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Egyptian intelligence
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Intel Brags of $152 Billion in Stock Buybacks Over Last 35 Years. So Why Does It Need an $8 Billion Subsidy?
Whatâs to stop the chip-making giant from shoveling taxpayer grants into more stock buybacks?
LES LEOPOLD
Mar 27, 2024
Common Dreams
Intel, the largest chip maker in America, with 2023 revenues of $54 billion, has just been awarded an $8.5 billion grant from the federal CHIPS and Science Act, plus $11 billion in favorable loans.
In addition to badly needed microchips, Intel produces totally useless stock buybacks. On its website the company proudly proclaims to have spent $152 billion on stock buybacks since 1990. Thatâs not a typo: $152,000,000,000. Which is why I call it "Stock Buybacks ĐŻ Us."
Intel took $152 billion of its revenues, some portion of which could have been used for R&D and building new microchip facilities in the U.S. as well as paying workers more, and instead funneled it to its largest Wall Street stockholders and corporate executives, enriching the top fraction of the top one percent.
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis in China
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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If you had any principles you would chuck that gadget into the recycling bin, that you are typing on
And all the medications you are taking right now
Nothing more embarrassing than a Conservative American acting like the suddenly woah oak snow fl aches he dislikes so much
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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China's lock on drugs
Two pillars of Trump administration policy â combating the soaring prices for prescription drugs and equalizing the U.S. trade imbalance with China â appear to be on a collision course, drug and foreign policy experts say.
That's because the key ingredients for so many essential drugs, from antibiotics and birth control pills to treatments for cancer, depression, high cholesterol and HIV/AIDS, are purchased from China, says Rosemary Gibson, co-author with Janardan Prasad Singh of a new book called "ChinaRx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine."
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From what I read the USA has the largest deposit of Soda Ash. So it would make sense for the USA to make Sodium Ion Batteries
It's not going to happen in the USA
Since it's basically America and the American people attitude towards clean, green, renewable etc etc etc
When it comes to semiconductors
It's not the most advanced chips that keep these companies going, it is the Legacy chips. Which we in the west forced them to make their own semiconductor industry.
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors?
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products. In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales.
Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices currently sold are made using software and production equipment created more than twenty years ago.
* The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants. Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices. As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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You do know that BSL4 Biolab in Wuhwn was the first of its kind in China right?
Thatâs because it was you Americans who partially funded the building of that Biolab as the French built it
You Americans, British, French and Canada helped to train the scientists working at that Biolab
And by now you know Fauci funded the Gain-Of-Function experiments at that Biolab
Where he lifted a Moratorium on that Research under the trump administrations watch
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State Department cables warned of safety
issues at Wuhan lab studying bat
coronaviruses
By Josh Rogin
April 14, 2020 at 5:0
* In January 2018, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing took the unusual step of repeatedly sending U.S. science diplomats to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which had in 2015 become Chinaâs first laboratory to achieve the highest level of international bioresearch safety (known as BSL-4). WIV issued a news release in English about the last of these visits, which occurred on March 27, 2018.
*During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory,â states the Jan. 19, 2018, cable, which was drafted by two officials from the embassyâs environment, science and health sections who met with the WIV scientists. (The State Department declined to comment on this and other details of the story.)
The Chinese researchers at WIV were receiving assistance from the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch and other U.S. organizations, but the Chinese requested additional help. The cables argued that the United States should give the Wuhan lab further support, mainly because its research on bat coronaviruses was important but also dangerous.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
To me sounds like instead of Tesla FSD they will export Baidu Robotaxis in Tesla vehicles
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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American military grade drones are losing out to Chinese made retail toy store drones
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American drones are glitching and getting lost in Ukraine, giving way to a flood of Chinese drones
They are fragile and vulnerable to electronic warfare. For some of the systems that were sent to Ukraine, issues included not taking off, getting lost and not returning home, or simply failing to meet mission expectations.
Part of the problem is that US technology isn't evolving fast enough, in part due to restrictions on sourcing. Georgii Dubynskyi, Ukraine's deputy minister of digital transformation, told
The Journal that "what is flying today won't be able to fly tomorrow," adding that the innovation window in this conflict is small.
"The general reputation for every class of US drone in Ukraine is that they don't work as well as other systems," Adam Bry, the chief executive of American drone company Skydio, told WSJ, acknowledging that his own drone is "not a very successful platform on the front lines." US drones are also typically far more expensive than comparable models.
And at the rate Ukraine is burning through them, it wouldn't be feasible. Instead, Ukraine is turning to systems made by Chinese companies for cheaper and often more reliable alternatives.
Chinese DJI drones have long played a role in the war, with Ukraine buying many of the retail models. Ukrainian forces sometimes strap bombs directly on them for a makeshift one-way attack drone or use them to drop grenades.
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 @tooltalkÂ
What most people donât get?
Is yes in âmostâ cases when you go to China to sell into their domestic markets you have to take a Joint Venture (JV) partner
And in âmostâ cases when you go to China to open up a factory, and export those goods back to your country you donât have to take on a JV partner
These days ?????
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
For one, it would crash the US Economy
And the Chinese donât believe in a zero-sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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You donât understand how the Chinese think
There is 27 books out there on what the Chinese invented
But if you took the time to read the books rarely will you see a persons name attached to the invention
You will find the Chinese invented such and such in such and such century
This guy explains it the best
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From Gongkai to Open Source
My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping.
Meanwhile, Western entrepreneurs often find themselves trapped in a spiderweb of IP frameworks, spending more money on lawyers than on tooling.
Further investigation taught me that the Chinese have a parallel system of traditions and ethics around sharing IP, which lead me to coin the term âgongkaiâ. This is deliberately not the Chinese word for âOpen Sourceâ, because that word (kaiyuan) refers to openness in a Western-style IP framework, which this not. Gongkai is more a reference to the fact that copyrighted documents, sometimes labeled âconfidentialâ and âproprietaryâ, are made known to the public and shared overtly, but not necessarily according to the letter of the law. However, this copying isnât a one-way flow of value, as it would be in the case of copied movies or music.
Rather, these documents are the knowledge base needed to build a phone using the copyright ownerâs chips, and as such, this sharing of documents helps to promote the sales of their chips. There is ultimately, if you will, a quid-pro-quo between the copyright holders and the copiers.
This fuzzy, gray relationship between companies and entrepreneurs is just one manifestation of a much broader cultural gap between the East and the West.
The West has a âbroadcastâ view of IP and ownership: good ideas and innovation are credited to a clearly specified set of authors or inventors, and society pays them a royalty for their initiative and good works.
China has a ânetworkâ view of IP and ownership: the far-sight necessary to create good ideas and innovations is attained by standing on the shoulders of others, and as such there is a network of people who trade these ideas as favors among each other.
In a system with such a loose attitude toward IP, sharing with the network is necessary as tomorrow it could be your friend standing on your shoulders, and youâll be looking to them for favors.
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here is a more recent example
(Because we the average westerner is too lazy to read past a headline)
Go read just the recent headlines from Western Mainstream Media On Elon Muskâs Tesla trip to China
(before you read the rest of this)
Reading only those headlines
You would get the impression, Tesla is introducing FSD and Robotaxis into the Chinese domestic market
When Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
Tesla is level 2 Autonomous
Baidu is level 4 Autonomous
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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It all started in 2008 when the US Subprime crisis crashed the US and world economy
Putting 27 million out of work in China and shuttering 100 thousand factories
China got their banks to loan out 580 billion
That created that big ball of money that went from sector to sector
Real estate, shadow banks, underground economy, commodities. Stocks, bonds and then back to their Real Estate
USA is sitting on a Stock Market bubble itself propped up by borrowed money to do share buybacks
As well as Quantitative Easing because the last time the USA tried Quantitative Tightening from Q4 2017 to Q3 2019 they froze the credit markets/repo market
Like I said it took the Chinese over a decade, to finally get these bubbles under control. As they are deflating those bubbles and loath to stimulate the economy with more stimulus money
But western elite want those bubbles to continue, the well off Chinese to be buying their 3rd and 4th homes right about now
They want access to those Chinese savings and for them spend it. Borrow more money and spend some more . Like they did to us westerners
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Project Syndicate
The value of global China
July 23, 2019 | Article
China faces important questions about whether and to what extent it should continue to pursue opening up its economy to the rest of the world, write Jonathan Woetzel and Jeongmin Seong in Project Syndicate.
In any case, China and the world face important questions about the trajectory of their mutual engagement. At stake, according to our simulation, may be some $22-37 trillion in economic value â or 15-26% of world GDP â by 2040.
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Yes local Governments for example could start charging property taxes
The smart people would have moved already
Still a lot better than western countries sticking that debt into their Sovereign external debt.
Even then take the US Internal debt at 300 trillion. Where they have already borrowed 34 trillion externally
At least the Chinese could go borrow externally if all else fails
The USA is where people should be worried if itâs about debt
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China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debt might be hidden now.
The majority of bank loans, says Jubak, went to state-owned companies -- about 70% of the total. The collapse of China's export trade following the crisis meant that its banks were suddenly sitting on billions in debts that were clearly never going to be paid. But that was when China's largest banks were trying to raise capital by selling stock in Hong Kong and New York, and no bank could go public with that much bad debt on its books.
The creative solution? The Beijing government set up special-purpose asset management companies for the four largest state-owned banks, the equivalent of the "special purpose vehicles" designed by Wall Street to funnel real estate loans off U.S. bank books. The Chinese entities ultimately bought $287 billion in bad loans from state-owned banks. To pay for the loans, they issued bonds to the banks, on which they paid interest. The state-owned banks thus got $287 billion in toxic debt off their books and turned the bad loans into an income stream from the bonds.
Sound familiar? Wall Street did the same thing in the 2008 bailout, with the U.S. government underwriting the deal. The difference was that China's largest banks were owned by the government, so the government rather than a private banking cartel got the benefit of the arrangement. According to British economist Samah El-Shahat, writing in Al Jazeera in August 2009:
China hasn't allowed its banking sector to become so powerful, so influential, and so big that it can call the shots or highjack the bailout. In simple terms, the government preferred to answer to its people and put their interests first before that of any vested interest or group. And that is why Chinese banks are lending to the people and their businesses in record numbers.
In the US and UK, by contrast:
banks have captured all the money from the taxpayers and the cheap money from quantitative easing from central banks. They are using it to shore up, and clean up their balance sheets rather than lend it to the people. The money has been hijacked by the banks, and our governments are doing absolutely nothing about that. In fact, they have been complicit in allowing this to happen
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* Even though there are between 20 and 45 million unoccupied homes across China, which account for roughly 600 million square meters of uninhabited floor space â enough to completely cover Madrid, these places are not the urban wastelands they are often posited to be. While many of Chinaâs new cities and urban districts are deficient in people they are not deficient in owners. Nearly every apartment that goes on the market in China is quickly purchased, often at exorbitant prices that commonly range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Far from being unwanted infrastructure that could seamlessly be doled out to refugees, those arrays of vacant high-rises are actually the proud possessions of people who paid a lot of money for them.
So why would anyone spend incredible amounts of cash on houses they do not intent to use?
* A huge portion of the homes that are purchased in China function very much like stocks or a trade-able commodity. As an incredible amount of new apartments are sold as unfinished concrete cavities without any interior fit out or even windows, they are in no way immediately livable. Although they are very actively bought and sold in this bare-bones form, which is often preferred by investors. In many ways they are purely economic entities, quantifiable placeholders of value that are traded on the open market akin to precious metals. Just as one doesnât need to mold a piece of gold into something usable like a piece of jewelry for it to have value and an economic function, an apartment in China doesnât need to have people living in it for it to be economically viable.
âEmpty units leave flexibility for quick sales in a changing market or need to cash in quickly,â said Barry Wilson, the founding director of Barry Wilson Project Initiatives, a Hong Kong based urban design firm.
Another reason for the sheer amount of unused apartments in China is the fact that there is often little financial incentive for owners to do anything with them after purchase. There is no yearly property tax in China, so vacant properties are not a financial drain on their owners. While the potential returns that could be had from renting them out (1% or so) is often not worth the hassle â especially because it costs tens of thousands of dollars to construct the interiors of new apartments in preparation for tenants. This is combined with the fact that Chinese homeowners, especially investors who have multiple properties, are remarkably un-leveraged. According to Mark Tanner, over 80% of homes in China are owned outright. This means that most homeowners, especially the big investors with multiple properties, generally donât have any mortgages to pay off or any other leans, so there isnât as much financial pressure to make a profit from these homes in the short term.
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Also the prevailing though is the economy crashes the people will rise up and the country will be plunged into chaos maybe even democracy will follow etc
Putting aside the implications it has for the rest of the world as we just talk about decoupling. While the Chinese are actually preparing for that eventual decoupling
This shows we do not understand the way people in China think.
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Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
Cross-cultural comparisons
Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
These differences are highlighted in a meta-analysis Heine is now completing of 70 studies that examine the degree of self-enhancement or self-criticism in China, Japan and Korea versus the United States and Canada. Sixty-nine of the 70 studies reveal significant differences between the two cultures in the degree to which individuals hold these tendencies, he finds.
In another article in the October 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 81, No. 4), Heine's team looks more closely at how this occurs. First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much."
Conversely, East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network. But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says.
Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds. If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead.
"If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it. East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
Interestingly, children in many cultures tend to overrate their abilities, perhaps because they lack objective feedback about their performance. For example, until about third grade, German youngsters generally overrate their academic achievement and class standing. This tendency declines as feedback in the form of letter grades begins.
But researchers also have shown significant cross-cultural differences in youngsters' performance estimates--American children, it appears, are particularly prone to overestimate their competence.
Other cross-cultural differences appear in whether children attribute good performance to ability or to effort, and in strategies used to improve performance.
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Civilization state versus nation-state
15/01/11 - SĂźddeutsche Zeitung
China confronts Europe with an enormous problem: we do not understand it
* The reason why the Chinese state enjoys a formidable legitimacy in the eyes of the Chinese has nothing to do with democracy but can be found in the relationship between the state and Chinese civilization. The state is seen as the embodiment, guardian and defender of Chinese civilization. Maintaining the unity, cohesion and integrity of Chinese civilization â of the civilization-state â is perceived as the highest political priority and is seen as the sacrosanct task of the Chinese state. Unlike in the West, where the state is viewed with varying degrees of suspicion, even hostility, and is regarded, as a consequence, as an outsider, in China the state is seen as an intimate, as part of the family, indeed as the head of the family; interestingly, in this context, the Chinese term for nation-state is ânation-familyâ.
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 @moreless2690 there are now â27â books out there
on Chinese inventions, that says we copied or stole from the Chinese first
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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We in the west think the Chinese think just like us
Our everyone wins a Participation ribbon. You are so good at this or that little Timmy or Tabitha
So when there is a setback growth target not met, real estate bubble, , the Chinese people will give up like we would here in the West.
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Because since they are not a democracy donât have the same freedoms we have, the people revolt there is a civil vvar and China crashes and we are saved from the Chinese
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What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When we don't know enough to know what we don't know.
* So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence.
LiveScience
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Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
Cross-cultural comparisons
Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
These differences are highlighted in a meta-analysis Heine is now completing of 70 studies that examine the degree of self-enhancement or self-criticism in China, Japan and Korea versus the United States and Canada. Sixty-nine of the 70 studies reveal significant differences between the two cultures in the degree to which individuals hold these tendencies, he finds.
In another article in the October 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 81, No. 4), Heine's team looks more closely at how this occurs. First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much."
Conversely,
East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network.
But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says. Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds.
If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it.
East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
Interestingly, children in many cultures tend to overrate their abilities, perhaps because they lack objective feedback about their performance. For example, until about third grade, German youngsters generally overrate their academic achievement and class standing. This tendency declines as feedback in the form of letter grades begins. But researchers also have shown significant cross-cultural differences in youngsters' performance estimates--American children, it appears, are particularly prone to overestimate their competence.
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Yup
We complained China was the number one polluter in the world
Now that they throw tons of money into their clean, green, renewable etc etc
we cry overcapacityâŚ
when the real question should beâŚ
âwhat are our countries doing out here in the westâ
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JANUARY 30, 2023
3 MIN READ
China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing
Nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF.
The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
Scientific American
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of Chinaâs economic growth in 2023
Other key findings of the analysis include:
Clean-energy investment rose 40% year-on-year to 6.3tn yuan ($890bn), with the growth accounting for all of the investment growth across the Chinese economy in 2023.
Chinaâs $890bn investment in clean-energy sectors is almost as large as total global investments in fossil fuel supply in 2023 â and similar to the GDP of Switzerland or Turkey.
Including the value of production, clean-energy sectors contributed 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to the Chinese economy in 2023, up 30% year-on-year.
Clean-energy sectors, as a result, were the largest driver of Chinaâ economic growth overall, accounting for 40% of the expansion of GDP in 2023.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, Chinaâs GDP would have missed the governmentâs growth target of âaround 5%â, rising by only 3.0%
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Yup đ the American leaders only think with a zero-sum game mentality
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China cuts tariffs, cosies up to 16 of worldâs poorest nations with US, Australia trade ties strained
8 Aug, 2022
China will cut import tariffs on almost all taxable items shipped from 16 of the worldâs poorest countries, including Cambodia, Laos, Djibouti, Rwanda and Togo
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China starts zero-tariff treatment for 6 least-developed African countries
Positive move to continue bolstering bilateral trade, show demonstration effect
By GT staff reporters
Published: Dec 25, 2023 09:45 PM
The zero-tariff treatment China had granted for six least-developed African countries officially took effect on Monday. Experts and industry players noted that the move will bolster trade between China and Africa while showing a demonstration effect for China's cooperation with other markets.
The Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, China's cabinet, announced on December 6 that 98 percent of taxable products from Angola, The Gambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Madagascar, Mali and Mauritania would be exempt from import tariffs starting on Monday.
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What the USA should do is stop subsidizing the eternal victim these days
âââ stop whiningâŚ. You think the Chinese didnât do this with Solar panels ? And a host of other products and industries?
Only difference is the competition is other Chinese EV manufacturers
Wasnât to long ago we were complaining about China being the worlds biggest polluter
Now as they invest in Green, Clean, Renewables etc. etc?
We cry overproduction and they subsidize this or that
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They are actually spending the money and making those changes
What are our western Governments doing since we are the ones most vocal about climate change and China being the worlds biggest polluter ???
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JANUARY 30, 2023
3 MIN READ
China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing
Nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF.
The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
Scientific American
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of Chinaâs economic growth in 2023
Other key findings of the analysis include:
Clean-energy investment rose 40% year-on-year to 6.3tn yuan ($890bn), with the growth accounting for all of the investment growth across the Chinese economy in 2023.
Chinaâs $890bn investment in clean-energy sectors is almost as large as total global investments in fossil fuel supply in 2023 â and similar to the GDP of Switzerland or Turkey.
Including the value of production, clean-energy sectors contributed 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to the Chinese economy in 2023, up 30% year-on-year.
Clean-energy sectors, as a result, were the largest driver of Chinaâ economic growth overall, accounting for 40% of the expansion of GDP in 2023.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, Chinaâs GDP would have missed the governmentâs growth target of âaround 5%â, rising by only 3.0%
CarbonBrief
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion
Scaling back subsidies would reduce air pollution, generate revenue, and make a major contribution to slowing climate change
IMF
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The difference is this in Q3 of 2019
The US FED was bailing out those TOOBIGTOFAIL banks in their repo markets less their credit markets seize up once again
A few things we learned since the 2008 subprime crisis
Buying for US debt is not unlimited.
In 2013 the US FED had to buy 71% of the newly issued external Sovereign debt by the US Treasury
That Quantitative Easing (QE)debt that was soaped up/printing of money, that debt does not disappear
Since we know from Q3 of 2017 to Q3 of 2019 the FEDs bright idea was to allow 50 to 60 billion of the Agency Debt and US Treasury Debt it soaped up during QE to slowly mature each month, off the FEDs balance sheet. Quantitative Tightening (QT)
Where the US Treasury would issue new corresponding debt for the public to buy. Where with this QT selling they managed to dump about 600 to 700 billion in debt on the American people⌠as the American people are the biggest buyers of US Sovereign Debt
That QT selling ended during Q3 of 2019 Because that selling of debt ended up freezing up the repo market
Just like when it happened in 2008/2009 during the subprime crisis
Thus the FED balance sheet went from 4.5 trillion to about 3.8 trillion.with that selling from 2017 to 2019
But then the FED had to come back in QE 2.0 and buy that Treasury debt again, all that they dumped and more
Last I checked they ran that FED balance sheeet back up to over 8 trillion. Now itâs back to around 7.8 trillion
Wait you might ask Agency debt is internal debt not supposed to be backed by the US Government
Well the USA has had no issue with taking private internal debt and turning it into External Sovereign Debt backed by the US Government and the American people
Something the Chinese might have been tempted to do with the Junk Bonds issued by those Chinese Property Developers
That were a hot commodity the last few years, sought after by sophisticated foreign investors
In short the Chinese purposely deflated their real estate markets. Cut off money to its Property Developers. And didnt bailout foreign investors who took a risk buying those junk bonds
While the USA left their real estate market to implode. Kept the money flowing to the companies and bailed out foreign investors who invested in private internal debt
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As politicians call for taxpayer bailouts and a government takeover of troubled mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae,
FreedomWorks would like to point out that a bailout is a transfer of possibly hundreds of billions of U.S. tax dollars to sophisticated investors and governments overseas.
The top five foreign holders of Freddie and Fannie long-term debt are China, Japan, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, and Belgium. In total foreign investors hold over $1.3 trillion in these agency bonds, according to the U.S. Treasuryâs most recent âReport on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities.â
FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe commented, âThe prospectus for every GSE bond clearly states that it is not backed by the United States government. Thatâs why investors holding agency bonds already receive a significant risk premium over Treasuries.â
âA bailout at this stage would be the worst possible outcome for American taxpayers and mortgage holders, who have been paying a risk premium to these foreign investors.â
âIt would change the rules of the game retroactively and would directly subsidize the risks taken by sophisticated foreign investors.â
âA bailout of GSE bondholders would be perhaps the greatest taxpayer rip-off in American history. It is bad economics and you can be sure it is terrible politics.â
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Huge Price Cuts Rumored From Chinese Developers Due To Collapsing Demand
Vincent Fernando, CFA May 29, 2010
Demand is falling since China's central government announced stricter regulations for property transactions during the middle of April. These involve higher down payments and mortgage rates for the purchase of second home, and act which is seen as potential speculation. Such tightening is reducing buying demand.
Thus a moderately bearish view is that property prices need to come down, since demand is likely down yet supply is the same. This challenge isn't limited to Shanghai:
China Vanke Co, the country's largest publicly listed developer, may cut apartment prices by 10 to 30 percent within three months, the Beijing News said yesterday, citing an unidentified sales agent. Local Vanke officials declined to comment yesterday.
Yet Shanghai is where things could get the ugliest, the earliest. This is because the local Shanghai government is planning to clamp down on speculation even harder than China's central government already has:
Chen Qiwei, a spokesman for the Shanghai municipal government, did not preclude the possibility of levying property tax when asked about this issue at a press conference on Friday.
"Shanghai will take more strict measures in line with the central government policy," Chen said, adding that more efforts will be made in building economically affordable houses and cracking down on speculative house purchasing.
Other cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Shenzen could have similar additional taxes, but Shanghai is the first to make an official comment such as above according to China Daily. Thing is, any action from Shanghai will likely need approval from the central government.
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China Increases Banksâ Reserve Ratios to Cool Prices
By Bloomberg News
December 10, 2010 at 4:08 AM PST
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China raises banks' reserve ratios again
Reuters
December 10, 20104:27 AM PSTUpdated 13 years ago
Dec 10, 2010 â The 50 basis point increase, which takes effect on Dec 20, will leave required reserve ratios at 18.5 percent
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China Property Market âBubbleâ Set to Burst, Xie Says
By Bloomberg News
February 1, 2010 at 11:51 PM PST
Chinaâs property market âbubbleâ is set to burst as the government curbs credit growth and clamps down on speculation, according to independent economist Andy Xie.
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China cracks down on speculators to cool prices
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NOV. 23, 2010
The government has ordered banks twice in the past three weeks to raise the amount of money they hold in reserves to rein in lending growth.
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China cracks down on property speculation Source:Global Times Published: 2010
The Chinese government has raised the down payment for second-home buyers to a minimum 50 percent of the value from 40 percent, in a bid to curb property speculation.
The decision was announced in a statement released Thursday after conclusion of an executive meeting of the State Council, the Cabinet, presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, on Wednesday.
First-home buyers must pay no less than 30 percent of the the property price if the area is above 90 square meters, the statement said.
The government was stepping up the introduction of tax policies to influence purchases and adjust property investment returns, said the statement.
Nationwide, land use for the construction of low-income housing, shanty town renovation and small and medium-sized homes (below 90 square meters) should account for at least 70 percent of the land approved for property development, the statement said.
It also urged local authorities to accelerate housing construction approvals to ensure effective land supply, and crack down on land hoarding and speculatory behavior.
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China attempts to deflate its unstable property bubble
China is to spend $200bn on low-cost homes as part of a series of measures to slow the rapidly rising prices of urban houses
Tania Branigan in Beijing
Wed 9 Mar 2011 19.24 GMT
Chinese officials are blaming speculators for soaring property prices and are vowing to build 36m affordable homes over the next five years. There are already widespread concerns about China's booming property market and the threat it poses to the country's expanding economy.
China would spend nearly $200bn (ÂŁ123bn) on an affordable homes and social housing scheme, said deputy housing minister Qi Ji in Beijing .
The pledge came a few days after premier Wen Jiabao promised to "resolutely" curb speculation to tackle excessively rapid price increases
The authorities have taken various steps since spring last year to dampen the property market. These include raising interest rates, increasing the minimum downpayment required on second homes and restricting the rights of foreigners to buy property. Two Chinese cities are now imposing sales tax on property deals.
While the measures have slowed growth, many fear it remains too high. In March 2010, urban housing prices shot up by 11.7% year-on-year, according to figures from the national bureau of statistics. December saw the lowest increase in more than a year, but it still stood at 6.4%.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Learn some history about China
And do not have kids with the Gei Sha girl fantasy you made up in your head with a Chinese wife of yours
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China, as a civilization-state, has two main characteristics. Firstly, there is its exceptional longevity, dating back to even before the break-up of the Roman Empire. Secondly, the sheer scale of China â both geographic and demographic â means that it embraces a huge diversity. Contrary to the Western belief that China is highly centralised, in fact in many respects the opposite is the case: indeed, it would have been impossible to govern the country â either now or in the dynastic period â on such a basis. It is simply too large. The implications in terms of the way the Chinese think are profound.
In 1997 Hong Kong was handed over to China by the British. The Chinese constitutional proposal was summed up in the phrase: âone country, two systemsâ. Barely anyone in the West gave this maxim much thought or indeed credence; the assumption was that Hong Kong would soon become like the rest of China. This was entirely wrong. The political and legal structure of Hong Kong remains as different now from the rest of China as in 1997. The reason we did not take the Chinese seriously is that the West is characterised by a nation-state mentality, hence when Germany was unified in 1990 it was done solely and exclusively on the basis of the Federal Republic; the DDR in effect disappeared. âOne nation-state, one systemâ is the nation-state way of thinking. But, as a civilization-state, the Chinese logic is quite different. Because China is so vast and embraces such diversity, as a matter of necessity it must be flexible: âone civilization, many systemsâ.
The idea of China as a civilization-state is a fundamental building block for understanding China in its own terms. And it has multifarious implications. The relationship between the state and society in China is very different to that in the West. Contrary to the overwhelming Western assumption that the Chinese state lacks legitimacy and is bereft of public support, in fact the Chinese state enjoys greater legitimacy than any Western state. We have come to assume that the legitimacy of the state overwhelmingly rests on the democratic process â universal suffrage, competing parties et al. But this is only one element: if it was the whole story, then the Italian state would enjoy a robust legitimacy rather than the reality, a chronic lack of it. And to explain this we have to go back to the Risorgimento as only a partially fulfilled project.
The reason why the Chinese state enjoys a formidable legitimacy in the eyes of the Chinese has nothing to do with democracy but can be found in the relationship between the state and Chinese civilization. The state is seen as the embodiment, guardian and defender of Chinese civilization. Maintaining the unity, cohesion and integrity of Chinese civilization â of the civilization-state â is perceived as the highest political priority and is seen as the sacrosanct task of the Chinese state. Unlike in the West, where the state is viewed with varying degrees of suspicion, even hostility, and is regarded, as a consequence, as an outsider, in China the state is seen as an intimate, as part of the family, indeed as the head of the family; interestingly, in this context, the Chinese term for nation-state is ânation-familyâ.
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested.
The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28]
The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Chinese had virtually no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
Now they are going after legacy chip markets
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors?
27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products. In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales.
Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants. Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices. As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Imagine an unprovoked attack on Malaysia, killing Malaysians then seeking a court case against them
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How Malaysia ended up owing $15 billion to a sultan's heirs
* KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Malaysia is scrambling to protect its assets as the descendants of the last sultan of the remote Philippine region of Sulu look to enforce a $15 billion arbitration award in a dispute over a colonial-era land deal.
In 1878, two European colonists signed a deal with the sultan for the use of his territory in present-day Malaysia â an agreement that independent Malaysia honoured until 2013, paying the monarch's descendants about $1,000 a year.
Now, 144 years later after the original deal, Malaysia is on the hook for the second largest arbitration award on record for stopping the payments after a bloody incursion by supporters of Sultan Mohammed Jamalul Alam's heirs in which more than 50 people were killed.
For years, Malaysia largely dismissed the claims but in July, two Luxembourg-based subsidiaries of state energy firm Petronas were served with a seizure notice to enforce the award that the heirs won in February. read more
The arbitration ruling in France followed an eight-year legal effort by the heirs and $20 million in funds raised for them from unidentified third-party investors, according to interviews with main figures in the case and legal documents seen by Reuters.
*Malaysia did not participate in nor recognise the arbitration - allowing the heirs to present their case without rebuttal - despite warnings that it would be dangerous to ignore the process.
The claimants, including some retirees, are Filipino citizens leading middle-class lives, a far cry from their royal ancestors of the Sulu sultanate that once spanned rainforest-covered islands in the southern Philippines and parts of Borneo island.
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Malaysia Wins Court Battle Over $15 Billion Sulu Heirs Award
The ruling by the French Court of Appeal questioned the jurisdiction of Spanish arbitrator Gustavo Stampa, who ordered last yearâs eye-watering payout.
The âpartial awardâ was subsequently nullified by the Spanish High Court of Justice in June 2021, when it ruled that Malaysia had not been properly served ahead of Stampaâs appointment in 2019. In September, however, Stampa took the seemingly unusual step of transferring the arbitration proceeding to Paris, where he would go on to render the final award.
Critics of Stampa and the Sulu heirs have accused them of âforum shoppingâ â of âhopping from one foreign jurisdiction to the next to find a court that was willing to hear their claim,â as two Malaysian writers put it in these pages last year.
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China wonât allow ByteDance to sell TikTok off
Especially to an American company.
Because
It is the algorithms that make the company
Itâs not like the Chinese Central Government actually wants a Social Media App that they canât control and regulate, or to be out there possibly with people giving their unfettered opinions on China anyways
They already cracked down on Douyin the sister version of TikTok in China
So itâs highly likely the Chinese Government will force ByteDance to have TikToc just leave the US market.
Like their Government stated they would do
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A forced sale of TikTok in the US amounts to a downgrade of the app, as the Chinese government wonât approve the sale of its algorithms,â said Alex Capri, a research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation and a lecturer at the National University of Singaporeâs Business School.
âIf TikTok is forced to stop operating in the US, ByteDanceâs prospects in other mostly liberal democracies will come under further scrutiny,â he said.
If the Chinese government wonât let ByteDance relinquish TikTokâs algorithm, it could block the sale outright. Alternatively, it may allow TikTok to be sold without the lucrative algorithm that forms the basis for its popularity.
A US ban, or a less powerful version of TikTok,would be a windfall
for YouTube, Google, Instagram and other TikTok competitors, as many of its customers may jump ship, Capri said. And it would be a major hit to the global ambitions of ByteDance.
âIt [a TikTok ban] would be the end of ByteDanceâs global expansion, as it would be a sign that the Chinese state values the algorithmâs security more than ByteDanceâs financial prosperity and global expansion,â said Richard Windsor, tech industry analyst and founder of Radio Free Mobile, a research company based in the US.
âThe implications are that the ideological struggle being fought in the technology industry will become more intense.â
A ban on TikTok is also likely to accelerate a shift that is splitting the worldâs tech landscape into two blocs, one centered on the US, the other embracing tech from China, according to Capri.
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But then Baidu is ahead anyways
There probably is an agreement this data/algorithms wonât be transferred over to the USA
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu, who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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You tell me AI will ultimately become about data
Chinese are already willingly giving up their data
Will Americans do the same
Just because Americans have Chat GTP and the best AI tech coming to their shores, Americans they think they are in the lead
How many of the rest of the foreign talent below
is from India
How many of these Americans below are recent Chinese or Indian Immigrants
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In tech rivalry with the US, China is behind on a key asset: Its own OpenAI
China does have the tech talent to make a difference in the AI rivalry in the years ahead.
A new study by think tank Marco Polo, run by the Paulson Institute, shows that the U.S. is home to 60% of top AI institutions, and the U.S. remains by far the leading destination for elite AI talent at 57% of the total, compared with China at 12%.
But the research finds that China leads the U.S. by a few other measures, including being ahead of the U.S. in producing top-tier AI researchers, based on undergraduate degrees, with China at 47% and the U.S. lagging with 18%.
Additionally, among top-tier AI researchers working at U.S. institutions, 38% have China as their country of origin, compared with 37% from the U.S.
New Chinese gen AI market entries can also reach mass adoption quickly. Baidu's ChatGPT competitor, Ernie Bot, released in August 2023, reached 100 million users by the end of the year.
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There is now a 27 book series on what the Chinese invented first?
that says we in the west copied or stole from them
If you took the time to read those books you will find in the vast majority of the cases,
there is no specific inventor(s) name(s) attributed to an invention
Rather it is the Chinese invented such and such in such in such a century
This guy explains it the best
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From Gongkai to Open Source
My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping.
Meanwhile, Western entrepreneurs often find themselves trapped in a spiderweb of IP frameworks, spending more money on lawyers than on tooling.
Further investigation taught me that the Chinese have a parallel system of traditions and ethics around sharing IP, which lead me to coin the term âgongkaiâ. This is deliberately not the Chinese word for âOpen Sourceâ, because that word (kaiyuan) refers to openness in a Western-style IP framework, which this not. Gongkai is more a reference to the fact that copyrighted documents, sometimes labeled âconfidentialâ and âproprietaryâ, are made known to the public and shared overtly, but not necessarily according to the letter of the law. However, this copying isnât a one-way flow of value, as it would be in the case of copied movies or music.
Rather, these documents are the knowledge base needed to build a phone using the copyright ownerâs chips, and as such, this sharing of documents helps to promote the sales of their chips. There is ultimately, if you will, a quid-pro-quo between the copyright holders and the copiers.
This fuzzy, gray relationship between companies and entrepreneurs is just one manifestation of a much broader cultural gap between the East and the West.
The West has a âbroadcastâ view of IP and ownership: good ideas and innovation are credited to a clearly specified set of authors or inventors, and society pays them a royalty for their initiative and good works.
China has a ânetworkâ view of IP and ownership: the far-sight necessary to create good ideas and innovations is attained by standing on the shoulders of others, and as such there is a network of people who trade these ideas as favors among each other.
In a system with such a loose attitude toward IP, sharing with the network is necessary as tomorrow it could be your friend standing on your shoulders, and youâll be looking to them for favors.
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IP Theft Is What Once Helped Make America Great
That was certainly the case for the United States. The practice of grabbing intellectual property was a staple of U.S. economic strategy since the outset of the nationâs founding.
The play Hamilton has brought new and deserved respect to the first secretary of the treasury. But his many economic achievements should not blind us to the fact that theft of intellectual property was a linchpin of his manufacturing strategy.
RealClearMarkets
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
MySingaporeBlogSpot
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'Wake-Up Call': China Leads in 37 Out of 44 Critical Technology Sectors, Says Report The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has pointed out that only seven of the 44 technologies analysed by its report are currently led by a democratic country, 'and that country in all instances is the US.'
The Wire Staff
Mar 09, 2023
New Delhi: China is far ahead of even the United States in conducting cutting-edge research in most critical technologies, especially in defence, space and security, a new report by a top Australian think tank has found.
In the report published on March 2, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute shows that China has âbuilt the foundations to position itself as the worldâs leading science and technology superpower, by establishing a sometimes stunning lead in high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domainsâ.
TheWire
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IP Theft Is What Once Helped Make America Great
That was certainly the case for the United States. The practice of grabbing intellectual property was a staple of U.S. economic strategy since the outset of the nationâs founding.
The play Hamilton has brought new and deserved respect to the first secretary of the treasury. But his many economic achievements should not blind us to the fact that theft of intellectual property was a linchpin of his manufacturing strategy.
RealClearMarkets
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
MySingaporeBlogSpot
đ
'Wake-Up Call': China Leads in 37 Out of 44 Critical Technology Sectors, Says Report The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has pointed out that only seven of the 44 technologies analysed by its report are currently led by a democratic country, 'and that country in all instances is the US.'
The Wire Staff
Mar 09, 2023
New Delhi: China is far ahead of even the United States in conducting cutting-edge research in most critical technologies, especially in defence, space and security, a new report by a top Australian think tank has found.
In the report published on March 2, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute shows that China has âbuilt the foundations to position itself as the worldâs leading science and technology superpower, by establishing a sometimes stunning lead in high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domainsâ.
TheWire
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 @fk3239Â
IP Theft Is What Once Helped Make America Great
That was certainly the case for the United States. The practice of grabbing intellectual property was a staple of U.S. economic strategy since the outset of the nationâs founding.
The play Hamilton has brought new and deserved respect to the first secretary of the treasury. But his many economic achievements should not blind us to the fact that theft of intellectual property was a linchpin of his manufacturing strategy.
RealClearMarkets
đ
Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
MySingaporeBlogSpot
đ
'Wake-Up Call': China Leads in 37 Out of 44 Critical Technology Sectors, Says Report The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has pointed out that only seven of the 44 technologies analysed by its report are currently led by a democratic country, 'and that country in all instances is the US.'
The Wire Staff
Mar 09, 2023
New Delhi: China is far ahead of even the United States in conducting cutting-edge research in most critical technologies, especially in defence, space and security, a new report by a top Australian think tank has found.
In the report published on March 2, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute shows that China has âbuilt the foundations to position itself as the worldâs leading science and technology superpower, by establishing a sometimes stunning lead in high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domainsâ.
TheWire
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 @joshuadeloach1676Â
IP Theft Is What Once Helped Make America Great
That was certainly the case for the United States. The practice of grabbing intellectual property was a staple of U.S. economic strategy since the outset of the nationâs founding.
The play Hamilton has brought new and deserved respect to the first secretary of the treasury. But his many economic achievements should not blind us to the fact that theft of intellectual property was a linchpin of his manufacturing strategy.
RealClearMarkets
đ
Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
MySingaporeBlogSpot
đ
'Wake-Up Call': China Leads in 37 Out of 44 Critical Technology Sectors, Says Report The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has pointed out that only seven of the 44 technologies analysed by its report are currently led by a democratic country, 'and that country in all instances is the US.'
The Wire Staff
Mar 09, 2023
New Delhi: China is far ahead of even the United States in conducting cutting-edge research in most critical technologies, especially in defence, space and security, a new report by a top Australian think tank has found.
In the report published on March 2, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute shows that China has âbuilt the foundations to position itself as the worldâs leading science and technology superpower, by establishing a sometimes stunning lead in high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domainsâ.
TheWire
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 @througtonsheirs_doctorwhol5914Â
IP Theft Is What Once Helped Make America Great
That was certainly the case for the United States. The practice of grabbing intellectual property was a staple of U.S. economic strategy since the outset of the nationâs founding.
The play Hamilton has brought new and deserved respect to the first secretary of the treasury. But his many economic achievements should not blind us to the fact that theft of intellectual property was a linchpin of his manufacturing strategy.
RealClearMarkets
đ
Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
MySingaporeBlogSpot
đ
'Wake-Up Call': China Leads in 37 Out of 44 Critical Technology Sectors, Says Report The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has pointed out that only seven of the 44 technologies analysed by its report are currently led by a democratic country, 'and that country in all instances is the US.'
The Wire Staff
Mar 09, 2023
New Delhi: China is far ahead of even the United States in conducting cutting-edge research in most critical technologies, especially in defence, space and security, a new report by a top Australian think tank has found.
In the report published on March 2, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute shows that China has âbuilt the foundations to position itself as the worldâs leading science and technology superpower, by establishing a sometimes stunning lead in high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domainsâ.
TheWire
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 @fantomas4935Â
IP Theft Is What Once Helped Make America Great
That was certainly the case for the United States. The practice of grabbing intellectual property was a staple of U.S. economic strategy since the outset of the nationâs founding.
The play Hamilton has brought new and deserved respect to the first secretary of the treasury. But his many economic achievements should not blind us to the fact that theft of intellectual property was a linchpin of his manufacturing strategy.
RealClearMarkets
đ
Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
MySingaporeBlogSpot
đ
'Wake-Up Call': China Leads in 37 Out of 44 Critical Technology Sectors, Says Report The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has pointed out that only seven of the 44 technologies analysed by its report are currently led by a democratic country, 'and that country in all instances is the US.'
The Wire Staff
Mar 09, 2023
New Delhi: China is far ahead of even the United States in conducting cutting-edge research in most critical technologies, especially in defence, space and security, a new report by a top Australian think tank has found.
In the report published on March 2, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute shows that China has âbuilt the foundations to position itself as the worldâs leading science and technology superpower, by establishing a sometimes stunning lead in high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domainsâ.
TheWire
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 @Tential1Â
IP Theft Is What Once Helped Make America Great
That was certainly the case for the United States. The practice of grabbing intellectual property was a staple of U.S. economic strategy since the outset of the nationâs founding.
The play Hamilton has brought new and deserved respect to the first secretary of the treasury. But his many economic achievements should not blind us to the fact that theft of intellectual property was a linchpin of his manufacturing strategy.
RealClearMarkets
đ
Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
MySingaporeBlogSpot
đ
'Wake-Up Call': China Leads in 37 Out of 44 Critical Technology Sectors, Says Report The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has pointed out that only seven of the 44 technologies analysed by its report are currently led by a democratic country, 'and that country in all instances is the US.'
The Wire Staff
Mar 09, 2023
New Delhi: China is far ahead of even the United States in conducting cutting-edge research in most critical technologies, especially in defence, space and security, a new report by a top Australian think tank has found.
In the report published on March 2, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute shows that China has âbuilt the foundations to position itself as the worldâs leading science and technology superpower, by establishing a sometimes stunning lead in high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domainsâ.
TheWire
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 @jeffbolton2986Â
A nation of outlaws
A century ago, that wasn't China -- it was us
One hundred and fifty years ago, even America's closest trade partners were despairing about our cheating ways. Charles Dickens, who visited in 1842, was, like many Britons, stunned by the economic ambition of our nation's inhabitants, and appalled by what they would do for the sake of profit. When he first stepped off the boat in Boston, he found the city's bookstores rife with pirated copies of his novels, along with those of his countrymen. Dickens would later deliver
lectures decrying the practice, and wrote home in outrage: "my blood so boiled as I thought of the monstrous injustice." In theUnited States of the early 19th century, capitalism as we know it today was still very much in its infancy. Most people still lived on small farms, and despite the persistent myth that America was the land of laissez-faire, there were plenty of laws on the books aimed at keeping tight reins on the market economy. But as commerce became more complex, and stretched over greater distances, this patchwork system of local and state-level regulations was gradually overwhelmed by a new generation of wheeler-dealer entrepreneurs.
Taking a page from the British, who had pioneered many ingenious methods of adulteration a generation or two earlier, American manufacturers, distributors, and vendors of food began tampering with their products en masse -- bulking out supplies with cheap filler, using dangerous additives to mask spoilage or to give foodstuffs a more appealing color.
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China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is a option
But then even Fentanyl is a legal substance in these countries, and used in our hospitals
Itâs looks like drug addicts in Canada have no self control and abuse these drugs
Plus without those drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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In Defense of Socialism, 1990â1991
After the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, the VCP chief and defense minister sought an ideological alliance with China.
As Party Chief Nguyen Van Linh explained to the Chineseambassador to Vietnam on June 5, 1990, the situation was marked by the Westâs offensive to eliminate socialismand concurrently the difficulties of the Soviet Union in defending socialism.
In this situation, Linh concluded,
âChina should raise high the banner of socialism and stick to Marxism-Leninism.â
Linh and Defense Minister Le Duc Anh hoped that Chinawould take the leadership of the worldâs socialist forces;
they indicated to the ambassador that they were ready to meet Chinese leaders to discuss solidarity between the two states to fight imperialism.
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On September 2 that year, Vietnamâs Independence Day, the party and government chiefs did not stay in Hanoi to celebrate the 45th birthday of their state but instead flew to Chengdu, China, for a secret summit with Chineseleaders, the first since the mid-1970s.
The Vietnamese understood that their acceptance
of the time, place, and participants was a sign of deference to China.
Participants included Vietnamâs elder statesman Pham Van Dong but not Chinaâs paramount leader Deng Xiaoping; Foreign Minister Thach was excluded.
During the meeting, the Vietnamese also let the Chinesedictate the terms of negotiation;this should be seen against the background of a decade-long hostility between the two countries.
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The Vietnamese had urgent reasons for taking this approach. At the time, the counterweight of the Soviet Union was no longer available and Vietnam was still isolated, regionally and globally.
In China, Vietnam faced a disproportionately powerful neighbor, and in order to prevent Chinese aggression, Hanoi had to pay deference to Beijing.
It appeared to be the calculation of Pham Van
Dong and, to some extent, Prime Minister Do Muoi.
Yet, as discussed above, General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh had different concerns and priorities.
His primary intention at Chengdu was to discuss how to protect socialism from the West, led by the United States.
Although the Chinese refused to play the solidarity game, Linh and his successors over the next decade kept trying to reestablish the Sino-Vietnamese relationship on an ideological basis.
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 @buzzy1011Â
US multinationals based in China
derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
yes in âmostâ cases when you go to China to sell into their domestic markets you have to take a Joint Venture (JV) partner
And in âmostâ cases when you go to China to open up a factory, and export those goods back to your country you donât have to take on a JV partner
These days ?????
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
For one, it would crash the US Economy
And the Chinese donât believe in a zero-sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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There is a debate if Dunning-Kruger is real or just be a data artefact.
To me it does not matter what one calls it
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What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When we don't know enough to know what we don't know.
* So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence.
LiveScience
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Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
Cross-cultural comparisons
Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
These differences are highlighted in a meta-analysis Heine is now completing of 70 studies that examine the degree of self-enhancement or self-criticism in China, Japan and Korea versus the United States and Canada. Sixty-nine of the 70 studies reveal significant differences between the two cultures in the degree to which individuals hold these tendencies, he finds.
In another article in the October 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 81, No. 4), Heine's team looks more closely at how this occurs. First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much."
Conversely,
East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network.
But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says. Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds.
If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it.
East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
Interestingly, children in many cultures tend to overrate their abilities, perhaps because they lack objective feedback about their performance. For example, until about third grade, German youngsters generally overrate their academic achievement and class standing. This tendency declines as feedback in the form of letter grades begins. But researchers also have shown significant cross-cultural differences in youngsters' performance estimates--American children, it appears, are particularly prone to overestimate their competence.
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The real islands we know the Chinese own
Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
(China)
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested.
The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28]
The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
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* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Basically many in the west are complaining because the Communist Chinese are cracking down on property speculation in ChinaâŚ.
Yet cheering on our own crackdown on speculators here with interest rate hikes, empty home taxes, speculation taxes, and foreign buyer taxes which many seem to be Chinese investors who buy those monster homes and leave them empty
Without this crackdown The other option is 70% of the Chinese in their real estate markets buying their 4th or 5th home right about now with a few hundred million rural migrants, migrating to the city without affordable homes
In China in 2008 around 70% of the people in their real estate markets were buying their 1st homes in their cities
By 2018 around 70% of the people in their real estate markets were buying their 2nd and 3rd homes in their cities
Thatâs why you are hearing about problems with their property developers these days. Because back in 2010? Their Central Government started cutting of money flow to these developers.
Thus why you heard about Shadow Banks and Underground Economy back then, that their Government had to come into to shutdown or regulate.
Even then, It took them almost 14 years to get their overheated real estate under control
Heck they were about to introduce a nation wide property tax, but then trump started the trade war in 2018
Why is their Central Government doing this?
Because there are still a few hundred million poorer rural folk they still expect to move to the cities to join their more well off urban city folk countrymen.
Problem is these property developers were building higher end homes, and not building the affordable homes these rural migrants will need
In China
Owning a home in the city you migrate to? Affects your employment, health, education and even marriage prospects donât have a house you donât get married
Thus the common prosperity push and the crackdown on the overt displays of wealth in China
Their Government probably figured out you disenfranchise the people at the bottom of your society they are the ones most likely to act out in protest
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Rare earths and EVs â itâs not about batteries
By Jeff Shepard | January 23, 2023
Rare earths play an important part in the sustainability of electric vehicles (EVs). While there are sustainability challenges related to EV batteries, rare earths are not used in lithium-ion batteries. They are necessary for the magnets that form the main propulsion motors. The batteries mostly rely on lithium and cobalt (not rare earths). At the same time, the magnets in the motors need neodymium or samarium and can also require terbium and dysprosium; all are rare earth elements. The most common rare-earth magnets are the neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) and samarium cobalt (SmCo).
This FAQ reviews what constitutes a rare earth element, considers where NdFeB and SmCo magnetic materials fit into the overall landscape of available magnetic materials, looks briefly at applications beyond EVs for rare earth magnetic materials, and presents examples of the efforts underway worldwide to minimize or eliminate the need for rare earths in high-performance magnets.
Whatâs rare about rare earths?
Contrary to their name, rare earths are neither rare nor earths. The 17 rare earths consist of fifteen lanthanides, including cerium, dysprosium, erbium, europium, holmium, gadolinium, lanthanum, lutecium, neodymium, praseodymium, promethium, samarium, terbium, thulium, and ytterbium and the metals scandium and yttrium.
They are relatively abundant in the earthâs crust but are ârareâ because they occur in relatively low concentrations compared with the ores for other metals.
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The Paradox at the Heart of Chinaâs Property Regime
What does it mean to 'own' a home in the communist country? Eventually, Beijing will have to decide.
JANUARY 19, 2017, 11:20 AM
Hence the outsize importance of the Wenzhou case as a bellwether. In the mid-1990s, Wenzhou offered residential LURs for sale for varying terms â some for as many as 70 years, but some (about 600 parcels) for as few as 20. (Other cities may have offered similarly short leases, but Wenzhou seems to have been the first.) These 20-year LURs are now coming due, and, predictably, leaseholders have been clamoring for a solution to their dilemma â their preferred solution being free lease renewal.
But if those leaseholders who opted to save money by buying only 20-year LURs were to be given the windfall of perpetual free renewals, it would be politically very hard to deny the same benefit to those millions across China who paid for 70-year LURs. In other words, renewing the leases of those 600 Wenzhou homebuyers free of charge could have heralded the effective return of private land ownership to China.
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Filipino trike driver or bar girl
Or if you a lucky a OFW nanny
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Philippines under UNCLOS had every right to request a tribunal as a resolution
But
China under UNCLOS had every right not to accept the tribunal as a resolution
No one other than Taiwan accepts that 9 dash line claim.
But what the tribunal did state was ... No one exhibited continuous control over the islands, reefs, water in dispute
That means all the other countries who also have their land and water disputes including China and the Philippines
Have dug into the land and water they control. And are basically saying talk to us in few hundred years
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Article 287
Choice of procedure
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein.
2. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall not affect or be affected by the obligation of a State Party to accept the jurisdiction of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the extent and in the manner provided for in Part XI, section 5.
3. A State Party, which is a party to a dispute not covered by a declaration in force, shall be deemed to have accepted arbitration in accordance with Annex VII.
4. If the parties to a dispute have accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to that procedure, unless the parties otherwise agree.
5. If the parties to a dispute have not accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to arbitration in accordance with Annex VII, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall remain in force until three months after notice of revocation has been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7. A new declaration, a notice of revocation or the expiry of a declaration does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
8. Declarations and notices referred to in this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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In addition, article 298, paragraph 1, allows States and entities to declare that they exclude the application of the compulsory binding procedures for the settlement of disputes under the Convention in respect of certain specified categories kinds of disputes. Article 298, paragraph 1, reads:
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Talk about a Bully
Imagine an unprovoked attack on Malaysia, killing Malaysians then seeking a court case against them
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How Malaysia ended up owing $15 billion to a sultan's heirs
* KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Malaysia is scrambling to protect its assets as the descendants of the last sultan of the remote Philippine region of Sulu look to enforce a $15 billion arbitration award in a dispute over a colonial-era land deal.
In 1878, two European colonists signed a deal with the sultan for the use of his territory in present-day Malaysia â an agreement that independent Malaysia honoured until 2013, paying the monarch's descendants about $1,000 a year.
Now, 144 years later after the original deal, Malaysia is on the hook for the second largest arbitration award on record for stopping the payments after a bloody incursion by supporters of Sultan Mohammed Jamalul Alam's heirs in which more than 50 people were killed.
For years, Malaysia largely dismissed the claims but in July, two Luxembourg-based subsidiaries of state energy firm Petronas were served with a seizure notice to enforce the award that the heirs won in February. read more
The arbitration ruling in France followed an eight-year legal effort by the heirs and $20 million in funds raised for them from unidentified third-party investors, according to interviews with main figures in the case and legal documents seen by Reuters.
*Malaysia did not participate in nor recognise the arbitration - allowing the heirs to present their case without rebuttal - despite warnings that it would be dangerous to ignore the process.
The claimants, including some retirees, are Filipino citizens leading middle-class lives, a far cry from their royal ancestors of the Sulu sultanate that once spanned rainforest-covered islands in the southern Philippines and parts of Borneo island.
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Malaysia Wins Court Battle Over $15 Billion Sulu Heirs Award
The ruling by the French Court of Appeal questioned the jurisdiction of Spanish arbitrator Gustavo Stampa, who ordered last yearâs eye-watering payout.
The âpartial awardâ was subsequently nullified by the Spanish High Court of Justice in June 2021, when it ruled that Malaysia had not been properly served ahead of Stampaâs appointment in 2019. In September, however, Stampa took the seemingly unusual step of transferring the arbitration proceeding to Paris, where he would go on to render the final award.
Critics of Stampa and the Sulu heirs have accused them of âforum shoppingâ â of âhopping from one foreign jurisdiction to the next to find a court that was willing to hear their claim,â as two Malaysian writers put it in these pages last year.
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Philippines uses the maps of its 2nd to last colonizer.Spain
Itâs current and last colonizer the USA didnât give the islands to the Philippines until after China stopped being one of the US Allies
Philippines under the USA can stay 3rd worldâŚ. Indonesia and Malaysia donât have the bars like they do in the Philippines
Filipinas will flock to angeles city
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
What is China's secret? According to financial commentator Jim Jubak, it may just be "creative accounting" -- the sort of accounting for which Wall Street is notorious, in which debts are swept off the books and turned into "assets." China is able to pull this off because it does not owe its debts to foreign creditors. The banks doing the funding are state-owned, and the state can write off its own debts.
Jubak observes:
China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debt might be hidden now.
The majority of bank loans, says Jubak, went to state-owned companies -- about 70% of the total. The collapse of China's export trade following the crisis meant that its banks were suddenly sitting on billions in debts that were clearly never going to be paid. But that was when China's largest banks were trying to raise capital by selling stock in Hong Kong and New York, and no bank could go public with that much bad debt on its books.
The creative solution? The Beijing government set up special-purpose asset management companies for the four largest state-owned banks, the equivalent of the "special purpose vehicles" designed by Wall Street to funnel real estate loans off U.S. bank books. The Chinese entities ultimately bought $287 billion in bad loans from state-owned banks. To pay for the loans, they issued bonds to the banks, on which they paid interest. The state-owned banks thus got $287 billion in toxic debt off their books and turned the bad loans into an income stream from the bonds.
Sound familiar? Wall Street did the same thing in the 2008 bailout, with the U.S. government underwriting the deal. The difference was that China's largest banks were owned by the government, so the government rather than a private banking cartel got the benefit of the arrangement. According to British economist Samah El-Shahat, writing in Al Jazeera in August 2009:
China hasn't allowed its banking sector to become so powerful, so influential, and so big that it can call the shots or highjack the bailout. In simple terms, the government preferred to answer to its people and put their interests first before that of any vested interest or group. And that is why Chinese banks are lending to the people and their businesses in record numbers.
In the US and UK, by contrast:
banks have captured all the money from the taxpayers and the cheap money from quantitative easing from central banks. They are using it to shore up, and clean up their balance sheets rather than lend it to the people. The money has been hijacked by the banks, and our governments are doing absolutely nothing about that. In fact, they have been complicit in allowing this to happen.
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 @HellBot-gi5si you are barking up the wrong tree itâs not just Silicon that goes into semiconductors
At best America if they get the ability to refine heavy rare earths????
That will go to the US military no to you American consumers
The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese
Where their Government was trying to get their people to switch to homegrown chips before the sanctions
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have themselves and their allies, lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When there is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world copied from them
And China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing over 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year, within the products they export
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Here is another example
What most people like you donât get?
Is it is mostly US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour, smuggled in from South East Asia in their wholly owned factories in China
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
For one, it would crash the US Economy
And the Chinese donât believe in a zero-sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Is China the Top Country Wealthy People Choose to Live In?
China's Wealth Overview
China is the largest economy in the world today, surpassing the US GDP (PPP) in 2024. According to the data from the IMF, China has a GDP (PPP) of $35.29 trillion compared to the US GDP (PPP) of $28.78 trillion. China is expected to continue its reign at the top and sustain its position as the largest economy in the world by 2100, with a projected GDP (PPP) of $101.86 trillion by 2100. China has the second largest population, with a total of 1.41 billion people, as per data from the World Bank. Despite such a large population, China still ranks among the wealthiest countries by per capita net worth. As of 2022, China had a per capita net worth of around $75,731. With a total wealth of around $84.48 trillion, China shares almost 18.6% of the total share of global wealth.
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If China booted out those US companies that would crash the US economy
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Why was China erased from Western memory
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China,
rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to
catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
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A nation of outlaws
A century ago, that wasn't China -- it was us
One hundred and fifty years ago, even America's closest trade partners were despairing about our cheating ways. Charles Dickens, who visited in 1842, was, like many Britons, stunned by the economic ambition of our nation's inhabitants, and appalled by what they would do for the sake of profit. When he first stepped off the boat in Boston, he found the city's bookstores rife with pirated copies of his novels, along with those of his countrymen. Dickens would later deliver
lectures decrying the practice, and wrote home in outrage: "my blood so boiled as I thought of the monstrous injustice." In the United States of the early 19th century, capitalism as we know it today was still very much in its infancy. Most people still lived on small farms, and despite the persistent myth that America was the land of laissez-faire, there were plenty of laws on the books aimed at keeping tight reins on the market economy. But as commerce became more complex, and stretched over greater distances, this patchwork system of local and state-level regulations was gradually overwhelmed by a new generation of wheeler-dealer entrepreneurs.
Taking a page from the British, who had pioneered many ingenious methods of adulteration a generation or two earlier, American manufacturers, distributors, and vendors of food began tampering with their products en masse -- bulking out supplies with cheap filler, using dangerous additives to mask spoilage or to give foodstuffs a more appealing color.
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COLUMN-Do China's ghost cities offer a solution to Europe's migrant crisis?
* While many of Chinaâs new cities and urban districts are deficient in people they are not deficient in owners. Nearly every apartment that goes on the market in China is quickly purchased, often at exorbitant prices that commonly range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Far from being unwanted infrastructure that could seamlessly be doled out to refugees, those arrays of vacant high-rises are actually the proud possessions of people who paid a lot of money for them.
So why would anyone spend incredible amounts of cash on houses they do not intent to use?
* All over the world, the value of property extends beyond the utilitarian function of being a place to live. Real estate is also a vital economic entity that presents an avenue for investment as well as a way of storing wealth - a use of property that is taken to the extreme in China.
A huge portion of the homes that are purchased in China function very much like stocks or a trade-able commodity. As an incredible number of new apartments are sold as unfinished concrete cavities without any interior fit out or even windows, they are in no way immediately livable. Strange as it may seem, they are very actively bought and sold in this bare-bones form. In fact, investors often prefer them that way. In many ways they are purely economic entities, quantifiable placeholders of value that are traded on the open market akin to precious metals. Just as one doesnât need to mold a piece of gold into something usable, like a piece of jewelry, for it to have value and an economic function, an apartment in China doesnât need to have people living in it for it to be economically viable.
âEmpty units leave flexibility for quick sales in a changing market or need to cash in quickly,â said Barry Wilson, the founding director of Barry Wilson Project Initiatives, a Hong Kong-based urban design firm.
Another reason for the sheer number of unused apartments in China is the fact that there is often little financial incentive for owners to do anything with them after purchase. There is no yearly property tax in China, so vacant properties are not a financial drain on their owners. While the potential returns that could be had from renting them out (1 percent or so) is often not worth the hassle - especially because it costs tens of thousands of dollars to construct the interiors of new apartments in preparation for tenants. This is combined with the fact that Chinese homeowners, especially investors who have multiple properties, are remarkably un-leveraged. According to Mark Tanner, over 80 percent of homes in China are owned outright.
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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No the real problem is the world cried about climate change and China being the worlds biggest polluter
Now it cries about overcapacity in China
Maybe our richer G7/EU should be spending the money instead of complaining
Btw if you havenât noticed Even though their Central Government is cracking down in real estate speculation
Slowing down the economy?
The Chinese people have added 2.6 trillion to their savings in 2022
And 1.8 trillion to their savings for first 10 months of 2023
The Chinese Government is actually pushing their people away from investing in real estate, and to invest in technology/industries instead. (Whatâs 4 houses vs 5
This is where China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future already
As they will pile even more money into these future technologies
My prediction is the Chinese Government will have to step in and regulate yet another overheated sector (technology) in the future
Where Blinken,Yellen & their successors will have to keep going to China to beg them not to dump their cheap high tech onto the rest of world
Most people have no clue whatâs coming, as they supercharge their exports with their new innovative high tech products
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China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing
Nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF.
The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of Chinaâs economic growth in 2023
Other key findings of the analysis include:
Clean-energy investment rose 40% year-on-year to 6.3tn yuan ($890bn), with the growth accounting for all of the investment growth across the Chinese economy in 2023.
Chinaâs $890bn investment in clean-energy sectors is almost as large as total global investments in fossil fuel supply in 2023 â and similar to the GDP of Switzerland or Turkey.
Including the value of production, clean-energy sectors contributed 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to the Chinese economy in 2023, up 30% year-on-year.
Clean-energy sectors, as a result, were the largest driver of Chinaâ economic growth overall, accounting for 40% of the expansion of GDP in 2023.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, Chinaâs GDP would have missed the governmentâs growth target of âaround 5%â, rising by only 3.0%
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Of course in this case you trust what you already told by MSM
China has hundreds of Satellites flying above our heads right now some of them playing cat and mouse space tag with our satellites
But we are worried about balloons
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On September 17, 2023, in an interview with CBS news, General Mark Milley, the retiring 20th US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated âI would say it was a spy balloon that we know with high degree of certainty got no intelligence, and didn't transmit any intelligence back to China." Technical experts had also found that the balloon's sensors had never been activated while it was travelling over the Continental United States. The general also touched on a leading theory that the reason that it was flying over the United States, was probably because it was blown off-track, where the balloon had been heading towards Hawaii however winds at 60,000 feet simply came into the equation. Miley said, "those winds are very high.. the particular motor on that aircraft can't go against those winds at that altitude."
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 @MASMIWA looks like you are 100% right they are refining, but not heavy rare earths yet
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SPECIAL REPORT: U.S. Begins Forging Rare Earth Supply Chain
2/10/2023
And soon, MP Materials will no longer have to ship this mixture overseas to China for the lengthy process of separating and refining the rare earth elements. After two years of construction, the company announced in November that it is on the cusp of opening the first rare earth refinement facility within the United States at the Mountain Pass facility.
First it must commission assets for the new facility for the second stage of production, which is a process of stress testing the facilityâs equipment to ensure it is performing at the rate it was designed for, Sloustcher said during a tour of the ongoing construction at the Mountain Pass mine. The procedure will unfold over the course of 2023, he added.
âWeâre months away from producing refined products,â he said. âItâs really exciting.â
The second stage of production starts with a process of drying, roasting, leaching and purifying the mixture of rare earth concentrate, he explained. Then, the rare earths are fed into one of several towering tanks located in a building longer than an American football field. In these vats, a solvent extraction process separates the mixture into individual rare earth oxides, he said.
Although itâs just one refinement facility competing against multiple in China, its opening marks a crucial step in the United Statesâ effort to address its vulnerable rare earth supply chain. In 2020, the Department of Defense invested $10 million into the $200 million project, according to a Pentagon press release.
MP Materials will focus on refining a compound of neodymium and praseodymium â one of the most common materials used to make rare earth magnets â as well as lanthanum and cerium, Sloustcher noted. These elements are classified as âlight rare earths.â
The government is also pushing for domestic production of âheavy rare earths,â which are more difficult to refine but also used to make more specialized magnets. For example, heavy rare earths terbium and dysprosium are needed to make rare earth permanent magnets that can operate in high temperatures, while samarium is used to produce samarium-cobalt magnets found in aerospace and defense applications.
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* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Can Anyone Talk to China Anymore? Probably Not
Why would China so brazenly challenge the worldâs economic powers like this? Because the countryâs leaders know what our leaders are only beginning to understand â that China would probably win a global trade war.
In March 2009, the Pentagon for the first time held a series of economic war games exercises. The soldiers were Wall Street traders and executives, economists and academics. The weapons were stocks, bonds and currencies. The participants were divided into teams: the U.S., China, Russia, Japan, the European Union and so on. Then the teams were presented with different scenarios â North Korea is imploding, a major global economy is melting down â and told to do what was in their best interests. Our intelligence experts watched as the economic conflicts played out.
What the exercises showed was that the U.S. consistently lost to China in economic warfare. Part of the reason was that the U.S. could be easily distracted by expensive side conflicts that sapped our economic strength. But the more important reason was that China could inflict real pain on the U.S. without feeling it at home. For instance, by simply moving the maturities of some of its $850 billion in Treasury holdings from 90 days to 60 days, it could cause chaos in the U.S. stock markets. Or China could sell just a trickle of its U.S. financial assets and signal that it didnât have confidence in the U.S. economy, setting off a panic here.
The overall lesson from the exercise was that, for all of our saber-rattling, in our weakened economic state we have to be careful about poking this dragon. And whatâs more, everyone involved knows it.
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Talk about a Bully
Imagine an unprovoked attack on Malaysia, killing Malaysians then seeking a court case against them
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How Malaysia ended up owing $15 billion to a sultan's heirs
* KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Malaysia is scrambling to protect its assets as the descendants of the last sultan of the remote Philippine region of Sulu look to enforce a $15 billion arbitration award in a dispute over a colonial-era land deal.
In 1878, two European colonists signed a deal with the sultan for the use of his territory in present-day Malaysia â an agreement that independent Malaysia honoured until 2013, paying the monarch's descendants about $1,000 a year.
Now, 144 years later after the original deal, Malaysia is on the hook for the second largest arbitration award on record for stopping the payments after a bloody incursion by supporters of Sultan Mohammed Jamalul Alam's heirs in which more than 50 people were killed.
For years, Malaysia largely dismissed the claims but in July, two Luxembourg-based subsidiaries of state energy firm Petronas were served with a seizure notice to enforce the award that the heirs won in February. read more
The arbitration ruling in France followed an eight-year legal effort by the heirs and $20 million in funds raised for them from unidentified third-party investors, according to interviews with main figures in the case and legal documents seen by Reuters.
*Malaysia did not participate in nor recognise the arbitration - allowing the heirs to present their case without rebuttal - despite warnings that it would be dangerous to ignore the process.
The claimants, including some retirees, are Filipino citizens leading middle-class lives, a far cry from their royal ancestors of the Sulu sultanate that once spanned rainforest-covered islands in the southern Philippines and parts of Borneo island.
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Malaysia Wins Court Battle Over $15 Billion Sulu Heirs Award
The ruling by the French Court of Appeal questioned the jurisdiction of Spanish arbitrator Gustavo Stampa, who ordered last yearâs eye-watering payout.
The âpartial awardâ was subsequently nullified by the Spanish High Court of Justice in June 2021, when it ruled that Malaysia had not been properly served ahead of Stampaâs appointment in 2019. In September, however, Stampa took the seemingly unusual step of transferring the arbitration proceeding to Paris, where he would go on to render the final award.
Critics of Stampa and the Sulu heirs have accused them of âforum shoppingâ â of âhopping from one foreign jurisdiction to the next to find a court that was willing to hear their claim,â as two Malaysian writers put it in these pages last year.
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Philippines under UNCLOS had every right to request a tribunal as a resolution
But
China under UNCLOS had every right not to accept the tribunal as a resolution
No one other than Taiwan accepts that 9 dash line claim. Which the tribunal did rule against
The tribunal did not rule on ownership of the disputed islands or waters
But what the tribunal did state was ... No one exhibited continuous control over the islands, reefs, water in dispute
That means all the other countries who also have their land and water disputes including China and the Philippines
Have dug into the land and water they control. And are basically saying talk to us in few hundred years
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Article 287
Choice of procedure
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein.
2. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall not affect or be affected by the obligation of a State Party to accept the jurisdiction of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the extent and in the manner provided for in Part XI, section 5.
3. A State Party, which is a party to a dispute not covered by a declaration in force, shall be deemed to have accepted arbitration in accordance with Annex VII.
4. If the parties to a dispute have accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to that procedure, unless the parties otherwise agree.
5. If the parties to a dispute have not accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to arbitration in accordance with Annex VII, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall remain in force until three months after notice of revocation has been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7. A new declaration, a notice of revocation or the expiry of a declaration does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
8. Declarations and notices referred to in this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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In addition, article 298, paragraph 1, allows States and entities to declare that they exclude the application of the compulsory binding procedures for the settlement of disputes under the Convention in respect of certain specified categories kinds of disputes. Article 298, paragraph 1, reads:
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Article 299 Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
To me sounds like instead of Tesla FSD they will export Baidu Robotaxis App in Tesla vehicles
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Wasnât too long ago we were complaining China was the number 1 polluter in the world and climate change!!!!!
Now that the Chinese throw money at clean,green, renewable etc etc ????
We cry subsidies, overcapacity, and 100% tariffs
What we really should be asking is what our Governments are doing with clean, green, renewables etc etc
Since they cry so much about climate change
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JANUARY 30, 2023
3 MIN READ
China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing
Nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF.
The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of Chinaâs economic growth in 2023
Other key findings of the analysis include:
Clean-energy investment rose 40% year-on-year to 6.3tn yuan ($890bn), with the growth accounting for all of the investment growth across the Chinese economy in 2023.
Chinaâs $890bn investment in clean-energy sectors is almost as large as total global investments in fossil fuel supply in 2023 â and similar to the GDP of Switzerland or Turkey.
Including the value of production, clean-energy sectors contributed 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to the Chinese economy in 2023, up 30% year-on-year.
Clean-energy sectors, as a result, were the largest driver of Chinaâ economic growth overall, accounting for 40% of the expansion of GDP in 2023.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, Chinaâs GDP would have missed the governmentâs growth target of âaround 5%â, rising by only 3.0%
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion
Scaling back subsidies would reduce air pollution, generate revenue, and make a major contribution to slowing climate change
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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The Chinese already control the âmajorityâ of the worlds largest shipping ports and dominate the production of shipping containers
It is you Americans and your support of Israel that seems to be the flashpoint and the ships the Houthis are targeting not the Chinese or Russians
Btw
What most people like you donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
For one, it would crash the US Economy
And the Chinese donât believe in a zero-sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Reuters
Among the three, the H20, which is the most powerful, was seeing subdued demand in China, and in some cases, was being sold at an over 10% discount to a similar offering from Huawei- the Ascend 910B, the Reuters report said.
The Ascend 910B was also seeing substantially more orders than the H20 from state-backed enterprises, Reuters said, citing limited government data. This came following a mandate from Beijing for state enterprises to use China-made silicon.
The 910B is the most advanced Chinese AI chip, and has shot up in popularity in the country following U.S. sanctions that attempted to block Chinaâs access to the latest AI advancements.
Its popularity in China presents more headwinds for Nvidiaâs business in the country. The chipmaker has struggled to maintain its foothold in Chinese markets following the U.S. sanctions.
During its first quarter earnings this week, the company warned that China was becoming an increasingly competitive market, and that the firmâs data center revenue in China fell âsignificantly.â
Steep discounts on the H20 also present more margin pressure for Nvidia.
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âââ where are you getting your info?
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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PlusâŚ.what grade 10 educated Filipinos donât get
The Philippines under UNCLOS had every right to request a tribunal as a resolution
But
China under UNCLOS had every right not to accept the tribunal as a resolution
No one other than Taiwan accepts that 9 dash line claim. Which the tribunal did rule against
The tribunal did not rule on ownership of the disputed islands or waters
But what the tribunal did state was ... No one exhibited continuous control over the islands, reefs, water in dispute
That means all the other countries who also have their land and water disputes including China and the Philippines
Have dug into the land and water they control. And are basically saying talk to us in few hundred years
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Article 287
Choice of procedure
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein.
2. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall not affect or be affected by the obligation of a State Party to accept the jurisdiction of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the extent and in the manner provided for in Part XI, section 5.
3. A State Party, which is a party to a dispute not covered by a declaration in force, shall be deemed to have accepted arbitration in accordance with Annex VII.
4. If the parties to a dispute have accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to that procedure, unless the parties otherwise agree.
5. If the parties to a dispute have not accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to arbitration in accordance with Annex VII, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall remain in force until three months after notice of revocation has been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7. A new declaration, a notice of revocation or the expiry of a declaration does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
8. Declarations and notices referred to in this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
UNORG
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
UNORG
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
UNORG
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
UNORG
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In addition, article 298, paragraph 1, allows States and entities to declare that they exclude the application of the compulsory binding procedures for the settlement of disputes under the Convention in respect of certain specified categories kinds of disputes. Article 298, paragraph 1, reads:
UNORG
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Article 299 Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
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Filipinos 70% of Filipinos never go past grade 10 education
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Article 287
Choice of procedure
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein.
2. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall not affect or be affected by the obligation of a State Party to accept the jurisdiction of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the extent and in the manner provided for in Part XI, section 5.
3. A State Party, which is a party to a dispute not covered by a declaration in force, shall be deemed to have accepted arbitration in accordance with Annex VII.
4. If the parties to a dispute have accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to that procedure, unless the parties otherwise agree.
5. If the parties to a dispute have not accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to arbitration in accordance with Annex VII, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall remain in force until three months after notice of revocation has been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7. A new declaration, a notice of revocation or the expiry of a declaration does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
8. Declarations and notices referred to in this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
UNORG
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
UNORG
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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In addition, article 298, paragraph 1, allows States and entities to declare that they exclude the application of the compulsory binding procedures for the settlement of disputes under the Convention in respect of certain specified categories kinds of disputes. Article 298, paragraph 1, reads:
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Article 299 Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
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Since the launch of its fully driverless robotaxi service in Wuhan in August 2022, Baidu Apollo says it has experienced exponential growth in the number of vehicles, area of operation and user coverage in the city. Baiduâs fleet of fully driverless robotaxis operating in Wuhan has increased to 300, a significant growth from just five vehicles a year ago.
Apollo Go has also achieved its longest one-way service distance in Wuhan, reaching 95km. Apollo Goâs area of operation has also been expanded from 100km2 to 1,100km2, covering four million potential users.
âOver the past year, one of the most significant developments in the intelligent vehicle sector has been the successful implementation of autonomous driving on Chinaâs complex urban roads,â commented Li Zhenyu, senior corporate vice president of Baidu and general manager of Intelligent Driving Group (IDG). âSince the launch of its autonomous ride-hailing service in Wuhan, Baidu has initiated operations across multiple areas in the city within less than a year, including Jingkai, Hanyang, Dongxihu and Qiaokou. The company also managed to expand its driverless car service to cover Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, becoming Chinaâs first to offer driverless airport rides.â
The expansion of its service area and the increase in fleet size have been accompanied by an increase in operational efficiency, leading to continuous cost reduction per vehicle per kilometer, according to the company. At the same time, Apollo Go has seen a significant increase in both average daily order volume and revenue per order.
Meanwhile, Zhang Yaqin, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Dean of Tsinghua Universityâs Institute of Intelligent Industry, has commended the safety of Baiduâs autonomous driving: âBaiduâs autonomous driving safety testing has surpassed 70 million kilometers, and in comparison to human driving, there has been a remarkable improvement in safety, from being three times safer to nearly 10 times safer.â
Apollo Go had provided over 3.3 million rides to the public as of June 30, 2023.
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China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is an unlikely option
Sunce Fentanyl is a legal substance, used in US Hospitals
Plus without those Chinese drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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How long do electric car batteries last? What 6,300 electric vehicles tell us about EV battery life
Last updated on May 31, 2024
How long do EV batteries last?
According to research from Geotab, the simple answer is that if the observed EV battery degradation rates are maintained, the vast majority of batteries will outlast the usable life of the vehicle and will never need to be replaced.
Based on data from over 6,000 electric vehicles, spanning all the major makes and models, Geotab finds that EV batteries are exhibiting high levels of sustained health. Across all vehicles, on average, an EV battery degrades at 2.3% per year.
Do electric car batteries wear out? Of course, like all batteries, they will eventually wear out, but in most cases, this will be long after the vehicleâs life-cycle is complete.
See also: To what degree does temperature impact EV range?
Do electric cars lose range over time?
Technically, yes. What this means for an electric vehicleâs range is, if you purchase an EV today with a 150-mile range, you would lose about 17 miles of accessible range after five years. This decline is not likely to have a significant impact on most driversâ day-to-day needs, but it is a factor fleet managers will need to consider when it comes to maximizing the value of their EVs.
Importantly for consumers, car makers commonly offer a warranty on EV batteries for around eight years or 100,000 miles. This is the federal minimum in the United States and it varies by manufacturer and country. But by all accounts, electric car batteries should last much longer than that.
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What most people Americans like you donât get?
Is it is mostly US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
For one, it would crash the US Economy
And the Chinese donât believe in a zero-sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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 @PelleGIT no you donât get it Chinese are trading with Countries who are growing in need of investment and goods and services
Our Western Governments like the USA and EU are in China making the most profits inflating those Chinese export figures to the USA/EU
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Also selling their goods to the domestic Chinese consumers
What most people like you donât get?
Is it is mostly US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
For one, it would crash the US Economy
And the Chinese donât believe in a zero-sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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 @PelleGIT technology from the west????
China leads in 37 of 44 critical technologies of the future
Thatâs how narrow minded we westerners areâŚ. as we concentrate on the 7 technologies the Chinese are behind in conveniently overlooking the 37 technologies they lead the world in
Like Semiconductors where they are behind âŚ. we require their lithography machines to be 100% homegrown
Which the Chinese have a 100% domestically made 28nm lithography machines that they can do that proprietary quadruple patterning
Yet the difference is that world leading Dutch ASML company, sources 85% of in the parts from around the world, that go into their lithography machines
While the Chinese lithography machines are 100% domestically made these days
Because thatâs the criteria we imposed on them
Yet we view that they are behind
The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese
Where their Government was trying to get their people to switch to homegrown chips before the sanctions
These days they are producing chips at par with the rest of the world and only behind Taiwan in the most advanced Chips
And more importantly China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have themselves and their allies, lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When there is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world copied from them
And like I said China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing over 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year, within the products they export
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Itâs shocking most of the poster on here donât believe a single word MSM tells them
But believe every word MSM tells them about China
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Difference Between Internal Debt and External Debt!
The basic character of an internal debt is quite different from that of the external debt. In external debt, at the time of repayment there is a real transfer of resources.
In case of internal debt, however, since it is borrowed from individuals and institutions within the country repayment will constitute only a re-distribution of resources without causing any change in the total resources of the community.
There can, thus, be no direct money burden caused by internal debts since all payments cancel each other out in the aggregate community as a whole. Whatever is taxed from one section of the community servicing the debts is distributed among the bond-holders by way of repayment of loans and interest; and quite often, the tax-payer and the bond-holder may be the same person.
At the most, to the extent that the incomes of tax-payers (in a sense, debtors) are reduced, so will the incomes of creditors/ bond-holders increase, but the aggregate position of the community will, nevertheless, remain the same.
However, internal debt may involve a direct real burden on the community according to the nature of the series of transfer of incomes from tax payers to the public creditors. To the extent the tax-payers and the bond-holders are the same, the distribution of wealth will remain unaltered; hence there will not be any net real burden on the community.
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Difference Between Internal Debt and External Debt
Difference Between Internal Debt and External Debt!
The basic character of an internal debt is quite different from that of the external debt. In external debt, at the time of repayment there is a real transfer of resources.
In case of internal debt, however, since it is borrowed from individuals and institutions within the country repayment will constitute only a re-distribution of resources without causing any change in the total resources of the community.
There can, thus, be no direct money burden caused by internal debts since all payments cancel each other out in the aggregate community as a whole. Whatever is taxed from one section of the community servicing the debts is distributed among the bond-holders by way of repayment of loans and interest; and quite often, the tax-payer and the bond-holder may be the same person.
At the most, to the extent that the incomes of tax-payers (in a sense, debtors) are reduced, so will the incomes of creditors/ bond-holders increase, but the aggregate position of the community will, nevertheless, remain the same.
However, internal debt may involve a direct real burden on the community according to the nature of the series of transfer of incomes from tax payers to the public creditors. To the extent the tax-payers and the bond-holders are the same, the distribution of wealth will remain unaltered; hence there will not be any net real burden on the community.
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This is where you Americans make your stand teens shaking their a zzzzz to the W app dance on TikTok ?????
You want a real threat: here is just 1 example
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So these companies could get even âmoreâ or âbetterâ access into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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The deluded people are the folks typing on gadget with Chinese components in them
Right down to the rare earths mined and for sure refined in China used to make the Gadget in the first place
who should be more worried what the Chinese are putting in their Pharmaceutical drugs in their medicine cabinet
Like the Alzheimerâs, Dementia, Heart Disease, Cancer Drugs etc etc and etc they take
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
"If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
Or, Gibson told NBC News, China could potentially "weaponize our medicines. They can sell us medicines without any medicine in them. They can sell medicines that have lethal contaminants in it."
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This small landlocked country has more sense than the other countries who take their marching orders from the USA
Complaining about China
when both Russia and Ukraine receive dual use exported goods from China
we know this because the Ukrainians started to use Chinese made retail drones over US made military grade drones
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Chinese UAVs âOutperformâ US Drones In Ukraine War; WSJ Report Calls US-Made UAVs Fragile & Ineffective
April 10, 2024
According to WSJ, most small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) developed by American firms have struggled to perform in combat scenarios.
This development blows the hopes of these companies, who anticipated that combat testing would bolster sales and attention for their products.
Moreover, it poses challenges for the Pentagon, which requires a reliable supply of thousands of small drones for various purposes. Sources cited in the report, including drone company executives, Ukrainian frontline personnel, government officials, and former US military officials, outline several key issues plaguing US-made drones.
These include exorbitant costs, technical faults, and complex repair processes. In particular, Ukrainian officials have found US-made drones to be fragile and ineffective against Russian jamming and GPS blackout technology.
Instances have been reported where these drones failed to take off, complete missions, or return safely. Moreover, they often fall short of advertised flight distances and payload capacities.
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Ukraine and Israel buying Chinese civilian drones for combat use; shun U.S military drones
Kevin Walmsley
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How American Drones Failed to Turn the Tide in Ukraine
Drones from American startups have been deemed glitchy and expensive, prompting Ukraine to turn to alternatives from China
Updated April 10, 2024 at 4:56 pm ET
The Silicon Valley company Skydio sent hundreds of its best drones to Ukraine to help fight the Russians. Things didnât go well.
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American drones are glitching and getting lost in Ukraine, giving way to a flood of Chinese drones
Chris Panella Apr 10, 2024, 3:44 PM ET
American-made drones haven't excelled on the battlefield, prompting Ukraine to turn to buying Chinese-made drones.
* The problems with many US-made drones, particularly some of the smaller ones, are that they often don't function as advertised or planned and easily glitch when targeted by Russian jamming, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
They are fragile and vulnerable to electronic warfare. For some of the systems that were sent to Ukraine, issues included not taking off, getting lost and not returning home, or simply failing to meet mission expectations.
* US drones are also typically far more expensive than comparable models. And at the rate Ukraine is burning through them, it wouldn't be feasible. Instead, Ukraine is turning to systems made by Chinese companies for cheaper and often more reliable alternatives.
Chinese DJI drones have long played a role in the war, with Ukraine buying many of the retail models. Ukrainian forces sometimes strap bombs directly on them for a makeshift one-way attack drone or use them to drop grenades.
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âââ China has an 820 billion dollar trade surplus with the world every year
Holding that much debt is the right amount The US FED crashed their credit markets selling about 600 to 700 billion in debt off its balance sheet over a 2 year period
Plus China has been doing this for over a decade we are just catching on right now
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Chinaâs Gold Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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Huge Price Cuts Rumored From Chinese Developers Due To Collapsing Demand
Vincent Fernando, CFA May 29, 2010
Demand is falling since China's central government announced stricter regulations for property transactions during the middle of April. These involve higher down payments and mortgage rates for the purchase of second home, and act which is seen as potential speculation. Such tightening is reducing buying demand.
Thus a moderately bearish view is that property prices need to come down, since demand is likely down yet supply is the same. This challenge isn't limited to Shanghai:
China Vanke Co, the country's largest publicly listed developer, may cut apartment prices by 10 to 30 percent within three months, the Beijing News said yesterday, citing an unidentified sales agent. Local Vanke officials declined to comment yesterday.
Yet Shanghai is where things could get the ugliest, the earliest. This is because the local Shanghai government is planning to clamp down on speculation even harder than China's central government already has:
Chen Qiwei, a spokesman for the Shanghai municipal government, did not preclude the possibility of levying property tax when asked about this issue at a press conference on Friday.
"Shanghai will take more strict measures in line with the central government policy," Chen said, adding that more efforts will be made in building economically affordable houses and cracking down on speculative house purchasing.
Other cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Shenzen could have similar additional taxes, but Shanghai is the first to make an official comment such as above according to China Daily. Thing is, any action from Shanghai will likely need approval from the central government.
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China Increases Banksâ Reserve Ratios to Cool Prices
By Bloomberg News
December 10, 2010 at 4:08 AM PST
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China raises banks' reserve ratios again
Reuters
December 10, 20104:27 AM PSTUpdated 13 years ago
Dec 10, 2010 â The 50 basis point increase, which takes effect on Dec 20, will leave required reserve ratios at 18.5 percent
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China Property Market âBubbleâ Set to Burst, Xie Says
By Bloomberg News
February 1, 2010 at 11:51 PM PST
Chinaâs property market âbubbleâ is set to burst as the government curbs credit growth and clamps down on speculation, according to independent economist Andy Xie.
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China cracks down on speculators to cool prices
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NOV. 23, 2010
The government has ordered banks twice in the past three weeks to raise the amount of money they hold in reserves to rein in lending growth.
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China cracks down on property speculation Source:Global Times Published: 2010
The Chinese government has raised the down payment for second-home buyers to a minimum 50 percent of the value from 40 percent, in a bid to curb property speculation.
The decision was announced in a statement released Thursday after conclusion of an executive meeting of the State Council, the Cabinet, presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, on Wednesday.
First-home buyers must pay no less than 30 percent of the the property price if the area is above 90 square meters, the statement said.
The government was stepping up the introduction of tax policies to influence purchases and adjust property investment returns, said the statement.
Nationwide, land use for the construction of low-income housing, shanty town renovation and small and medium-sized homes (below 90 square meters) should account for at least 70 percent of the land approved for property development, the statement said.
It also urged local authorities to accelerate housing construction approvals to ensure effective land supply, and crack down on land hoarding and speculatory behavior.
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China attempts to deflate its unstable property bubble
China is to spend $200bn on low-cost homes as part of a series of measures to slow the rapidly rising prices of urban houses
Tania Branigan in Beijing
Wed 9 Mar 2011 19.24 GMT
Chinese officials are blaming speculators for soaring property prices and are vowing to build 36m affordable homes over the next five years. There are already widespread concerns about China's booming property market and the threat it poses to the country's expanding economy.
China would spend nearly $200bn (ÂŁ123bn) on an affordable homes and social housing scheme, said deputy housing minister Qi Ji in Beijing .
The pledge came a few days after premier Wen Jiabao promised to "resolutely" curb speculation to tackle excessively rapid price increases
The authorities have taken various steps since spring last year to dampen the property market. These include raising interest rates, increasing the minimum downpayment required on second homes and restricting the rights of foreigners to buy property. Two Chinese cities are now imposing sales tax on property deals.
While the measures have slowed growth, many fear it remains too high. In March 2010, urban housing prices shot up by 11.7% year-on-year, according to figures from the national bureau of statistics. December saw the lowest increase in more than a year, but it still stood at 6.4%.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
How Washington's sanctions boosted China's semiconductor sector
MAY 5, 2021
Plan B
So far, Yangtze Memory, also known as YMTC, has remained under the radar of the U.S. government. But the company is taking no chances. With the guidance of Beijing, it has launched a massive review of its supply chain in an effort to find local suppliers -- or, at least, non-U.S. ones -- to replace the current dependence on American technology.
The collective effort has occupied over 800 people, full time, and including staff from its multiple local suppliers, for two years. And they have not finished yet.
YMTC is seeking to learn as much as it can about the origin of everything that goes into its products, from production equipment and chemicals to the tiny lenses, screws, nuts and bearings in chipmaking machinery and production lines, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. The audit extends not only to YMTC's own production lines, but also to suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, and so on.
"The review is as meticulous as knowing where the screws and nuts are coming from, the lead time, and if those parts have alternatives," one person familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia.
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China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is a option
But then even Fentanyl is a legal substance used in American hospitals
Itâs just drug addicts have no self control and abuse these drugs
Plus without those drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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 @Show_what_I_Love retail buying is a factor in prices being pushed up. But it is that buying in conjunction with Central bank buying which is the biggest factor
As the Chinese Central Bankâs has been secretly hoarding Gold apparently instead of keeping USD or buying US debt
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Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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And this is China we are talking about
there is now 27 books out there on what China invented that says. We copied from them
These days China leads the âworldâ in 37 of 44 critical technologies of the future
Yet we narrowly focus on the technologies that they are behind
thinking they wonât be able to catch up
In those fields
Or will just give up
Thinking for even a second they think like us over there, is a big mistake
If they thought like us? in zero sum-game theory like us westerners
They would have crashed our economies by nowâŚwhere yes both sides get hurt but we get hurt more
To think the way you think
Dunning-Kruger thinking
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What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When we don't know enough to know what we don't know.
* So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence.
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Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
Cross-cultural comparisons
Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
These differences are highlighted in a meta-analysis Heine is now completing of 70 studies that examine the degree of self-enhancement or self-criticism in China, Japan and Korea versus the United States and Canada. Sixty-nine of the 70 studies reveal significant differences between the two cultures in the degree to which individuals hold these tendencies, he finds.
In another article in the October 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 81, No. 4), Heine's team looks more closely at how this occurs. First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much."
Conversely,
East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network.
But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says. Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds.
If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it.
East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
Interestingly, children in many cultures tend to overrate their abilities, perhaps because they lack objective feedback about their performance. For example, until about third grade, German youngsters generally overrate their academic achievement and class standing. This tendency declines as feedback in the form of letter grades begins. But researchers also have shown significant cross-cultural differences in youngsters' performance estimates--American children, it appears, are particularly prone to overestimate their competence.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Now they have just turned us into brain wash.d dummm down westerners over them red book thumping com mies
When some Muslim Uyghur Chinese committed terrorist acts on Chinese streets
Where some Uyghur Chinese were thrown into re-education camps, and some mosques housing extremist were removed
The world called it cultural genocide
Where some Palestinians escaped their Gaza Ghettos committed terrorist acts on Israeli streets.
We in the world call that terrorism, justifying the bombing of Palestinian civilians in their Gaza Ghettos
Which begs the question China throws money at their ethnic Uyghur Chinese minority and gives them special rights over the Han majority.
(Like the ability to have more than 1 kid when the rule was still enforced back then. Preferential treatment for minorities when it comes to University Education etc)
like they do with all their ethnic minority people they consider as Chinese
What does Israel consider these Palestinian people as???
As they bomb them in those Gaza Ghettoes Israel forced them into.
Yet in this situation, we mostly stay silent on that genocide
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Imperialist media canât stop lying about mosques in China
* Firsthand report from Kashgar
On a recent visit to Kashgar, Xinjiang, home to about 80% of the ethnic Uygur population, this writer had a chance to speak to residents and learn about local architecture. Many of the buildings in Kashgar are 1,000 or more years old. These old buildings, while stunningly beautiful, were not built to standards that would be considered seismically safe today in areas with a risk of earthquakes. In the past, collapses and deaths were common.
* In 2020, the U.S. Mosque Survey counted 2,769 mosques in this country, compared to Chinaâs more than 35,000 mosques. This means that Chinese Muslims have nearly three times more mosques per capita than do Muslims in the U.S.
But the accusations donât stop at alleged demolition. The Western media have also claimed that the Chinese government is carrying out a process of âSinificationâ through the renovations, meaning that China is allegedly removing the Arabic aspects of mosques and replacing them with traditional Chinese architecture.
Mosques built in the traditional Chinese-style architecture are presented in the Western media as âevidenceâ of âcultural erasure,â when in reality mosques built in Chinese style have existed as far back as around 700 C.E. There are also many Muslim populations in China that are not Arabic in origin, such as the Hui population, who were originally descended from Han Chinese and are Chinese-speaking.
Because of the ancient Silk Road and the historical mixing of peoples from the Chinese coast with Arab, European and many other peoples, the blending of language, religion and architecture should not be seen as an attempt at Han hegemony, but rather as a natural blending of peoples living side-by-side in a multiethnic nation with more than 5,000 years of recorded history.
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China wonât allow ByteDance to sell TikTok off
Especially to an American company.
Because
It is the algorithms that make the company
Itâs not like the Chinese Central Government actually wants a Social Media App that they canât control and regulate, or to be out there possibly with people giving their unfettered opinions on China anyways
They already cracked down on Douyin the sister version of TikTok in China
So itâs highly likely the Chinese Government will force ByteDance to have TikToc just leave the US market.
Like their Government stated they would do
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A forced sale of TikTok in the US amounts to a downgrade of the app, as the Chinese government wonât approve the sale of its algorithms,â said Alex Capri, a research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation and a lecturer at the National University of Singaporeâs Business School.
âIf TikTok is forced to stop operating in the US, ByteDanceâs prospects in other mostly liberal democracies will come under further scrutiny,â he said.
If the Chinese government wonât let ByteDance relinquish TikTokâs algorithm, it could block the sale outright. Alternatively, it may allow TikTok to be sold without the lucrative algorithm that forms the basis for its popularity.
A US ban, or a less powerful version of TikTok,would be a windfall
for YouTube, Google, Instagram and other TikTok competitors, as many of its customers may jump ship, Capri said. And it would be a major hit to the global ambitions of ByteDance.
âIt [a TikTok ban] would be the end of ByteDanceâs global expansion, as it would be a sign that the Chinese state values the algorithmâs security more than ByteDanceâs financial prosperity and global expansion,â said Richard Windsor, tech industry analyst and founder of Radio Free Mobile, a research company based in the US.
âThe implications are that the ideological struggle being fought in the technology industry will become more intense.â
A ban on TikTok is also likely to accelerate a shift that is splitting the worldâs tech landscape into two blocs, one centered on the US, the other embracing tech from China, according to Capri.
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This is where you Americans make your stand teens shaking their a zzzzz to the W app dance on TikTok ?????
You want a real threat: here is just 1 example
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales in those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive formula.
Using illegal labour from South East Asia. Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China
These are the same companies who got those trump tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales in Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So these companies could get more or better access into those Chinese Domestic markets
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest at
Why didnât China pull the nuclear option and boot these companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war. China. didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact hey weâre lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Get serious American companies went to Asia/China to take advantage of their weak labour laws, weak environmental laws, yes weak IP laws and mass Pool of cheap labour they could pay dollar a day wages to.
This was nothing new developed country goes to a developing country takes advantage of the locals until they complain about wages or pollution.
The difference is those migrant workers didnât complain. They put up with those slave like working conditions saved 30% of these dollar a day wages each year for over 5 decades
Invested that money or made a business with it. To the point their middle class is pushing you Americans out of your own housing markets.
As for inventions? There is a now 7 volume and 27 book series on what China invented in the past that says we stole from them. Or took what they shared and used it against them
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Why was China erased from Western memory
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to
catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Malaysia clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines (In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines off the shores of Malaysian land) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute in the SCS with China stems from the fact they made a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on those disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 bce historical claim that the Philippines formally dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal that the Filipinos unilaterally brought forth
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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When the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) withdrew from Vietnam in March 1979 after the war, China announced that they were not ambitious for "any square inch of the territory of Vietnam".[3] However, Chinese troops occupied an area of 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi), which was disputed land controlled by Vietnam before hostilities broke out.[4] In some places such as the area around Friendship Gate near the city of Lấng Sƥn, Chinese troops occupied territories which had little military value but important symbolic value. Elsewhere, Chinese troops occupied the strategic positions of military importance as springboards to attack Vietnam.[5]
The Chinese occupation of border territory angered Vietnam, and this ushered in a series of border conflicts between Vietnam and China to gain control of the area. These conflicts continued until 1988, peaking in the years 1984â1985.[6] By the early 1990s, along with the withdrawal of Vietnam from Cambodia and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the relationship between the two countries gradually returned to normality. By 1991, the two countries proclaimed the normalization of their diplomatic relations, thereby ending the border conflicts.
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After the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, the VCP chief and defense minister sought an ideological alliance with China.
As Party Chief Nguyen Van Linh explained to the Chinese ambassador to Vietnam on June 5, 1990, the situation was marked by the Westâs offensive to eliminate socialismand concurrently the difficulties of the Soviet Union in defending socialism.
In this situation, Linh concluded,
âChina should raise high the banner of socialism and stick to Marxism-Leninism.â
Linh and Defense Minister Le Duc Anh hoped that China would take the leadership of the worldâs socialist forces;
they indicated to the ambassador that they were ready to meet Chinese leaders to discuss solidarity between the two states to fight imperialism.
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On September 2 that year, Vietnamâs Independence Day, the party and government chiefs did not stay in Hanoi to celebrate the 45th birthday of their state but instead flew to Chengdu, China, for a secret summit with Chinese leaders, the first since the mid-1970s.
The Vietnamese understood that their acceptance
of the time, place, and participants was a sign of deference to China.
Participants included Vietnamâs elder statesman Pham Van Dong but not Chinaâs paramount leader Deng Xiaoping; Foreign Minister Thach was excluded.
During the meeting, the Vietnamese also let the Chinese dictate the terms of negotiation;this should be seen against the background of a decade-long hostility between the two countries.
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The Vietnamese had urgent reasons for taking this approach. At the time, the counterweight of the Soviet Union was no longer available and Vietnam was still isolated, regionally and globally.
In China, Vietnam faced a disproportionately powerful neighbor, and in order to prevent Chinese aggression, Hanoi had to pay deference to Beijing.
It appeared to be the calculation of Pham Van
Dong and, to some extent, Prime Minister Do Muoi.
Yet, as discussed above, General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh had different concerns and priorities.
His primary intention at Chengdu was to discuss how to protect socialism from the West, led by the United States.
Although the Chinese refused to play the solidarity game, Linh and his successors over the next decade kept trying to reestablish the Sino-Vietnamese relationship on an ideological basis.
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Difference a lot of that US Treasury debt that is being printed up is being put on the US FED Balance Sheet
in Q3 of 2019
The US FED was bailing out those TOOBIGTOFAIL banks in their repo markets once again⌠less their credit markets seize up once again
A few things we learned since the 2008 subprime crisis
Buying for US debt is not unlimited.
In 2013 the US FED had to buy 71% of the newly issued external Sovereign debt by the US Treasury
That Quantitative Easing (QE)debt that was soaped up/printing of money, that debt does not disappear
Since we know from Q3 of 2017 to Q3 of 2019 the FEDs bright idea was to allow 50 to 60 billion of the Agency Debt and US Treasury Debt it soaped up during QE to slowly mature each month, off the FEDs balance sheet. Quantitative Tightening (QT)
Where the US Treasury would issue new corresponding debt for the public to buy. Where with this QT selling they managed to dump about 600 to 700 billion in debt on the American people⌠as the American people are the biggest buyers of US Sovereign Debt
That QT selling ended during Q3 of 2019 Because that selling of debt ended up freezing up the repo market
Just like when it happened in 2008/2009 during the subprime crisis
Thus the FED balance sheet went from 4.5 trillion to about 3.8 trillion.with that selling from 2017 to 2019
But then the FED had to come back in QE 2.0 and buy that Treasury debt again, all that they dumped and more
Last I checked they ran that FED balance sheeet back up to over 8 trillion. Now itâs back to around 7.8 trillion
Wait you might ask Agency debt is internal debt not supposed to be backed by the US Government
Well the USA has had no issue with taking private internal debt and turning it into External Sovereign Debt backed by the US Government and the American people
Something the Chinese might have been tempted to do with the Junk Bonds issued by those Chinese Property Developers
That were a hot commodity the last few years, sought after by sophisticated foreign investors
In short the Chinese purposely deflated their real estate markets. Cut off money to its Property Developers. And didnt bailout foreign investors who took a risk buying those junk bonds
While the USA left their real estate market to implode. Kept the money flowing to the companies and bailed out foreign investors who invested in private internal debt
Yet we are complaining who is capitalist/communist
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As politicians call for taxpayer bailouts and a government takeover of troubled mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae,
FreedomWorks would like to point out that a bailout is a transfer of possibly hundreds of billions of U.S. tax dollars to sophisticated investors and governments overseas.
The top five foreign holders of Freddie and Fannie long-term debt are China, Japan, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, and Belgium. In total foreign investors hold over $1.3 trillion in these agency bonds, according to the U.S. Treasuryâs most recent âReport on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities.â
FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe commented, âThe prospectus for every GSE bond clearly states that it is not backed by the United States government. Thatâs why investors holding agency bonds already receive a significant risk premium over Treasuries.â
âA bailout at this stage would be the worst possible outcome for American taxpayers and mortgage holders, who have been paying a risk premium to these foreign investors.â
âIt would change the rules of the game retroactively and would directly subsidize the risks taken by sophisticated foreign investors.â
âA bailout of GSE bondholders would be perhaps the greatest taxpayer rip-off in American history. It is bad economics and you can be sure it is terrible politics.â
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they have done war games/war scenarios over and over
Arming the Philippines would just make it a target when the Chinese can produce 1000 cruise missiles everyday. Thatâs how they plan to win a war with the USA. Out produce the Americans
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The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America might lose.)
By MICHAEL HIRSH
06/09/2023 04:30 AM EDT
The war began in the early morning hours with a massive bombardment â Chinaâs version of âshock and awe.â
Chinese planes and rockets swiftly destroyed most of Taiwanâs navy and air force as the Peopleâs Liberation army and navy mounted a massive amphibious assault across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait.
Having taken seriously President Joe Bidenâs pledge to defend the island, Beijing also struck pre-emptively at U.S. and allied air bases and ships in the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. managed to even the odds for a time by deploying more sophisticated submarines as well as B-21 and B-2 stealth bombers to get inside Chinaâs air defense zones, but Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days and saw its network access severed.
The United States and its main ally, Japan, lost thousands of service members, dozens of ships, and hundreds of aircraft. Taiwanâs economy was devastated. And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild, taking years to replace ships as it reckoned with how shriveled its industrial base had become compared to Chinaâs.
The Chinese âjust ran rings around us,â said former Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten in one after-action report.
âThey knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it.â Dozens of versions of the above war-game scenario have been enacted over the last few years, most recently in April by the House Select Committee on competition with China.
And while the ultimate outcome in these exercises is not always clear â the U.S. does better in some than others â the cost is. In every exercise the U.S. uses up all its long-range air-to-surface missiles in a few days, with a substantial portion of its planes destroyed on the ground.
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Chinese had virtually no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
Now they are going after legacy chip markets
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors?
27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products. In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales.
Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants. Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices. As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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This is where you Americans make your stand teens shaking their a zzzzz to the W app dance on TikTok ?????
You want a real threat: here is just 1 example
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Your info is outdated
The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese
Where their Government was trying to get their people to switch to homegrown chips before the sanctions
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have themselves and their allies, lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When there is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world copied from them
And China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing over 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year, within the products they export
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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 @Madame702 seriously where did you come from under a rock?
The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese
Where their Government was trying to get their people to switch to homegrown chips before the sanctions
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have themselves and their allies, lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When there is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world copied from them
And China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing over 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year, within the products they export
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Most people believed this about 20 years ago when the Chinese were seen as copycats
But then they donât even know their own history
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A nation of outlaws
A century ago, that wasn't China -- it was us
One hundred and fifty years ago, even America's closest trade partners were despairing about our cheating ways. Charles Dickens, who visited in 1842, was, like many Britons, stunned by the economic ambition of our nation's inhabitants, and appalled by what they would do for the sake of profit. When he first stepped off the boat in Boston, he found the city's bookstores rife with pirated copies of his novels, along with those of his countrymen. Dickens would later deliver
lectures decrying the practice, and wrote home in outrage: "my blood so boiled as I thought of the monstrous injustice." In theUnited States of the early 19th century, capitalism as we know it today was still very much in its infancy. Most people still lived on small farms, and despite the persistent myth that America was the land of laissez-faire, there were plenty of laws on the books aimed at keeping tight reins on the market economy. But as commerce became more complex, and stretched over greater distances, this patchwork system of local and state-level regulations was gradually overwhelmed by a new generation of wheeler-dealer entrepreneurs.
Taking a page from the British, who had pioneered many ingenious methods of adulteration a generation or two earlier, American manufacturers, distributors, and vendors of food began tampering with their products en masse -- bulking out supplies with cheap filler, using dangerous additives to mask spoilage or to give foodstuffs a more appealing color.
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* About South China Morning Post's Bias Rating
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Chinese had virtually no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
Now they are going after legacy chip markets
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors?
27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products. In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales.
Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants. Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices. As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
How Washington's sanctions boosted China's semiconductor sector
MAY 5, 2021
Plan B
So far, Yangtze Memory, also known as YMTC, has remained under the radar of the U.S. government. But the company is taking no chances. With the guidance of Beijing, it has launched a massive review of its supply chain in an effort to find local suppliers -- or, at least, non-U.S. ones -- to replace the current dependence on American technology.
The collective effort has occupied over 800 people, full time, and including staff from its multiple local suppliers, for two years. And they have not finished yet.
YMTC is seeking to learn as much as it can about the origin of everything that goes into its products, from production equipment and chemicals to the tiny lenses, screws, nuts and bearings in chipmaking machinery and production lines, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. The audit extends not only to YMTC's own production lines, but also to suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, and so on.
"The review is as meticulous as knowing where the screws and nuts are coming from, the lead time, and if those parts have alternatives," one person familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia.
The purge of YMTC's supply chain has been handled with the spirit of a national emergency. Based in the city of Wuhan, the effort did not pause even when the virus epicenter was ravaged by COVID-19 last spring.
While the rest of the city endured a brutal quarantine, high-speed trains remained in service to ferry YMTC employees to its $24 billion 3D NAND flash memory plant that began producing chips in 2019. All the while, delivery trucks for critical chipmaking materials drove to and from the production campus.
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
How Washington's sanctions boosted China's semiconductor sector
MAY 5, 2021
Plan B
So far, Yangtze Memory, also known as YMTC, has remained under the radar of the U.S. government. But the company is taking no chances. With the guidance of Beijing, it has launched a massive review of its supply chain in an effort to find local suppliers -- or, at least, non-U.S. ones -- to replace the current dependence on American technology.
The collective effort has occupied over 800 people, full time, and including staff from its multiple local suppliers, for two years. And they have not finished yet.
YMTC is seeking to learn as much as it can about the origin of everything that goes into its products, from production equipment and chemicals to the tiny lenses, screws, nuts and bearings in chipmaking machinery and production lines, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. The audit extends not only to YMTC's own production lines, but also to suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, and so on.
"The review is as meticulous as knowing where the screws and nuts are coming from, the lead time, and if those parts have alternatives," one person familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia.
The purge of YMTC's supply chain has been handled with the spirit of a national emergency. Based in the city of Wuhan, the effort did not pause even when the virus epicenter was ravaged by COVID-19 last spring.
While the rest of the city endured a brutal quarantine, high-speed trains remained in service to ferry YMTC employees to its $24 billion 3D NAND flash memory plant that began producing chips in 2019. All the while, delivery trucks for critical chipmaking materials drove to and from the production campus.
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
How Washington's sanctions boosted China's semiconductor sector
MAY 5, 2021
Plan B
So far, Yangtze Memory, also known as YMTC, has remained under the radar of the U.S. government. But the company is taking no chances. With the guidance of Beijing, it has launched a massive review of its supply chain in an effort to find local suppliers -- or, at least, non-U.S. ones -- to replace the current dependence on American technology.
The collective effort has occupied over 800 people, full time, and including staff from its multiple local suppliers, for two years. And they have not finished yet.
YMTC is seeking to learn as much as it can about the origin of everything that goes into its products, from production equipment and chemicals to the tiny lenses, screws, nuts and bearings in chipmaking machinery and production lines, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. The audit extends not only to YMTC's own production lines, but also to suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, and so on.
"The review is as meticulous as knowing where the screws and nuts are coming from, the lead time, and if those parts have alternatives," one person familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia.
The purge of YMTC's supply chain has been handled with the spirit of a national emergency. Based in the city of Wuhan, the effort did not pause even when the virus epicenter was ravaged by COVID-19 last spring.
While the rest of the city endured a brutal quarantine, high-speed trains remained in service to ferry YMTC employees to its $24 billion 3D NAND flash memory plant that began producing chips in 2019. All the while, delivery trucks for critical chipmaking materials drove to and from the production campus.
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
UNORG
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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Have you even bothered to look at a map between Philippines and Malaysia?
Putting aside your claim to Sabah
There are still Filipino claimed/controlled islands that are way closer to Malaysia
Malaysia should take the Philippines to court and make a Proximity claim
As for UNCLOS
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Article 287
Choice of procedure
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein.
2. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall not affect or be affected by the obligation of a State Party to accept the jurisdiction of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the extent and in the manner provided for in Part XI, section 5.
3. A State Party, which is a party to a dispute not covered by a declaration in force, shall be deemed to have accepted arbitration in accordance with Annex VII.
4. If the parties to a dispute have accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to that procedure, unless the parties otherwise agree.
5. If the parties to a dispute have not accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to arbitration in accordance with Annex VII, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall remain in force until three months after notice of revocation has been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7. A new declaration, a notice of revocation or the expiry of a declaration does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
8. Declarations and notices referred to in this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
UNORG
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
UNORG
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
UNORG
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In addition, article 298, paragraph 1, allows States and entities to declare that they exclude the application of the compulsory binding procedures for the settlement of disputes under the Convention in respect of certain specified categories kinds of disputes. Article 298, paragraph 1, reads:
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Article 299 Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
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You Filipinos invaded Sabah and caused the demise of 71 people in 2013
And you donât even understand the history of your own country and the historical claim you have on Sabah
The money the Malaysians pay you every year, they say itâs for the âsaleâ of Sabah
You Filipinos call the money they pay you every year, money for the ârentalâ of Sabah
Which In my opinion I agree itâs a rental and you Filipinos are the actual owners of Sabah, not Malaysia
BUT
arguing âsaleâ or ârentalâ it does not matter
The Malays have the right to pay you 5000 Malaysian Ringgit every year in perpetuity
Meaning they can pay you for ever and ever and ever for the âsaleâor ârentalâ of Sabah đwhatever you want to call it
Time to learn the historical facts about your own country
Also there is that issue of you Filipinos unilaterally bringing forth a proximity claim on those disputed islands you have with China
Where you went to that ICJ tribunal in 2016 dismissing âhistorical claim.â Where a proximity claim trumps all
The Philippines only making an official proximity claim for the first time in 1971 proximity claim on those disputed islands you have with China
So with tour very own proximity claim logic
Sabah belongs to Malaysia, along with a few islands you Filipinos now control, that are closer to Malaysia, that you no doubt bullied from Malaysia in the past
Itâs really not that hard to understand unless you are a Filipino
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The two main sultanates in the region at the time were Sulu and Brunei. In 1658, the Sultan of Brunei gave Sabah to the Sultan of Sulu - either as a dowry or because troops from Sulu had helped him quell a rebellion.
More than 350 years later, the sultan's heirs have come to remind Malaysians that they still consider Sabah to be part of Sulu and, by extension, part of the Philippines.
"Sabah is our home," they said simply when asked why they had come.
But history is not that simple and of course Malaysia has no intention of giving up Sabah to this little band of Filipinos.
The crux of their disagreement lies in a contract made in 1878, between the Sultanate of Sulu and the British North Borneo Company.
Under this contract known as pajak, the company could occupy Sabah in perpetuity as long as it paid a regular sum of money.
Even today, Malaysia pays about 5,000 Malaysian ringgit (ÂŁ1,000, $1,500) a year to the Sultanate of Sulu.
But the British and, after that an independent Malaysia, interpreted pajak to mean sale, while the Sulu Sultanate has always maintained it means lease.
"In my opinion, this is more consistent with a lease rather than a sale, because you can't have a purchase price which is not fixed and which is payable until kingdom come," said Harry Roque, a law professor at the University of the Philippines.
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Smile-to-pay: Chinese shoppers turn to facial payment technology
This article is more than 4 years old
* New technology is rolling out across the country, despite concerns over privacy
At the IFuree self-service supermarket in Tianjin, a 3D camera scans the faces of those entering the store â measuring width, height and depth of the faces â then another quick scan again at check-out.
* âItâs convenient because you can buy things very quickly,â says retiree Zhang Liming after using facial payment for her groceries.
âItâs different from the payment in the traditional supermarket, in which you have to wait in the checkout line and itâs very troublesome,â she argues.
Bo Hu says 300 of his bakeries have facial payment systems, and he plans to introduce them in 400 more.
He believes it makes the checkout process more efficient, but concedes the numbers using the new technology are still modest.
Supporters of the technology wave aside privacy concerns.
âThe facial recognition technology helps to protect our privacy,â explains IFuree engineer Li Dongliang.
âIn the traditional way, itâs very dangerous to enter the password if someone stands beside you. Now we can complete the payment with our faces, which helps us secure our account,â he insists.
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Then why team up
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Disillusioned about Chinaâ, more Chinese aim for US via risky Darien Gap
In 2023, Chinese migrants become the largest group outside the Americas to cross the treacherous region to reach the US.
* Behind her, signs explaining the hotel prices and policies are written in Mandarin. Pots of spicy instant noodles imported from China are for sale next to bottles of water. Payments via the Chinese social media app WeChat are accepted.
* âThey move along in their own separate world,â Fernandez said.
The group of middle-aged travellers, wearing hats and carrying tents and walking poles, are dressed for a trek. But not everything quite adds up. Many are wearing lightweight Crocs footwear, and their small backpacks are wrapped in plastic bags.
* Just over 25,000 of those migrants were Chinese, making them the fourth largest overall nationality and the largest outside of the Americas to making the crossing.
* Chinese migrants â unlike many of the other most common nationalities in the Darien, such as Venezuelans and Haitians â often take special âVIPâ routes across the jungle that are led by guides working for the Gulf Clan, Colombiaâs largest drug cartel, and are quicker and less strenuous for higher prices than the most basic routes.
Why we want to go to the United Statesâ
* âOur requirements are very simple: We can afford medical treatment, have a place to live, our children can afford to go to school and our family can be safe.â
* Some migrants interviewed by Zhou were misled to believe they could easily get a job for $10,000 in cash a month. However, the reality is that many are struggling to get jobs because employers are fearful of hiring undocumented workers.
* âI was forced to do this,â Sheng said while sipping a cup of tea at his hotel in Necocli. âItâs really difficult for most Chinese people to apply for a visa to America. But I feel disillusioned about China. Thatâs why weâre here in the jungle.â
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Civilization state versus nation-state
15/01/11 - SĂźddeutsche Zeitung
China confronts Europe with an enormous problem: we do not understand it
Our western-centric value-judgements about China must no longer be allowed to act as a substitute for understanding the country in its own terms. This is no easy task. China is profoundly different from the West in the most basic of ways. Perhaps the most basic difference is that it is not a nation-state in the European sense of the term. Indeed, it has only described itself as such since around 1900. Anyone who knows anything about China is aware that it is a lot older than that. China, as we know it today, dates back to 221BC, in some respects much earlier. That date marked the end of the Warring States period, the victory of the Qin, and the birth of the Qin Empire whose borders embraced a considerable slice of what is today the eastern half of China and by far its most populous part.
For over two millennia, the Chinese thought of themselves as a civilization rather than a nation. The most fundamental defining features of China today, and which give the Chinese their sense of identity, emanate not from the last century when China has called itself a nation-state but from the previous two millennia when it can be best described as a civilization-state: the relationship between the state and society, a very distinctive notion of the family, ancestral worship, Confucian values, the network of personal relationships that we call guanxi, Chinese food and the traditions that surround it, and, of course, the Chinese language with its unusual relationship between the written and spoken form. The implications are profound: whereas national identity in Europe is overwhelmingly a product of the era of the nation-state â in the United States almost exclusively so â in China, on the contrary, the sense of identity has primarily been shaped by the countryâs history as a civilization-state. Although China describes itself today as a nation-state, it remains essentially a civilization-state in terms of history, culture, identity and ways of thinking. Chinaâs geological structure is that of a civilization-state; the nation-state accounts for little more than the top soil.
China, as a civilization-state, has two main characteristics. Firstly, there is its exceptional longevity, dating back to even before the break-up of the Roman Empire. Secondly, the sheer scale of China â both geographic and demographic â means that it embraces a huge diversity. Contrary to the Western belief that China is highly centralised, in fact in many respects the opposite is the case: indeed, it would have been impossible to govern the country â either now or in the dynastic period â on such a basis. It is simply too large. The implications in terms of the way the Chinese think are profound.
In 1997 Hong Kong was handed over to China by the British. The Chinese constitutional proposal was summed up in the phrase: âone country, two systemsâ. Barely anyone in the West gave this maxim much thought or indeed credence; the assumption was that Hong Kong would soon become like the rest of China. This was entirely wrong. The political and legal structure of Hong Kong remains as different now from the rest of China as in 1997. The reason we did not take the Chinese seriously is that the West is characterised by a nation-state mentality, hence when Germany was unified in 1990 it was done solely and exclusively on the basis of the Federal Republic; the DDR in effect disappeared. âOne nation-state, one systemâ is the nation-state way of thinking. But, as a civilization-state, the Chinese logic is quite different. Because China is so vast and embraces such diversity, as a matter of necessity it must be flexible: âone civilization, many systemsâ.
The idea of China as a civilization-state is a fundamental building block for understanding China in its own terms. And it has multifarious implications. The relationship between the state and society in China is very different to that in the West. Contrary to the overwhelming Western assumption that the Chinese state lacks legitimacy and is bereft of public support, in fact the Chinese state enjoys greater legitimacy than any Western state. We have come to assume that the legitimacy of the state overwhelmingly rests on the democratic process â universal suffrage, competing parties et al. But this is only one element: if it was the whole story, then the Italian state would enjoy a robust legitimacy rather than the reality, a chronic lack of it. And to explain this we have to go back to the Risorgimento as only a partially fulfilled project.
The reason why the Chinese state enjoys a formidable legitimacy in the eyes of the Chinese has nothing to do with democracy but can be found in the relationship between the state and Chinese civilization. The state is seen as the embodiment, guardian and defender of Chinese civilization. Maintaining the unity, cohesion and integrity of Chinese civilization â of the civilization-state â is perceived as the highest political priority and is seen as the sacrosanct task of the Chinese state. Unlike in the West, where the state is viewed with varying degrees of suspicion, even hostility, and is regarded, as a consequence, as an outsider, in China the state is seen as an intimate, as part of the family, indeed as the head of the family; interestingly, in this context, the Chinese term for nation-state is ânation-familyâ.
Or consider a quite different example. Over 90 per cent of Chinese think of themselves as of one race, the Han. This is so different from the worldâs other most populous nations â India, United States, Indonesia and Brazil, all of which are highly multi-racial â as to be extraordinary. Of course, in reality the Han were a product of many different races, but the Han do not think of themselves like that. And the reason takes us back to the civilization-state and one of its defining characteristics, namely Chinaâs remarkable longevity. Over thousands of years, as a result of many processes, cultural, racial and ethnic, the differences between the many races that comprised the Han have been weakened to the point where they were no longer significant.
We will never make sense of China if we persist in treating it as if it is, or should be, a product of our own civilization. Our present attitude towards China is a function of arrogance and ignorance. And it threatens to leave us bewildered, confused and alienated. Our historical inheritance, and the mentality it has engendered, ill equips us for the very new world that is presently unfolding before us.
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The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America might lose.)
By MICHAEL HIRSH
06/09/2023 04:30 AM EDT
The war began in the early morning hours with a massive bombardment â Chinaâs version of âshock and awe.â
Chinese planes and rockets swiftly destroyed most of Taiwanâs navy and air force as the Peopleâs Liberation army and navy mounted a massive amphibious assault across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait.
Having taken seriously President Joe Bidenâs pledge to defend the island, Beijing also struck pre-emptively at U.S. and allied air bases and ships in the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. managed to even the odds for a time by deploying more sophisticated submarines as well as B-21 and B-2 stealth bombers to get inside Chinaâs air defense zones, but Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days and saw its network access severed.
The United States and its main ally, Japan, lost thousands of service members, dozens of ships, and hundreds of aircraft. Taiwanâs economy was devastated. And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild, taking years to replace ships as it reckoned with how shriveled its industrial base had become compared to Chinaâs.
The Chinese âjust ran rings around us,â said former Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten in one after-action report.
âThey knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it.â Dozens of versions of the above war-game scenario have been enacted over the last few years, most recently in April by the House Select Committee on competition with China.
And while the ultimate outcome in these exercises is not always clear â the U.S. does better in some than others â the cost is. In every exercise the U.S. uses up all its long-range air-to-surface missiles in a few days, with a substantial portion of its planes destroyed on the ground.
In every exercise the U.S. is not engaged in an abstract push-button war from 30,000 feet up like the ones Americans have come to expect since the end of the Cold War, but a horrifically bloody one. And thatâs assuming the U.S.-China war doesnât go nuclear.
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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There is now a 27 book series on Chinese inventions that says we copied or stole from them,.
And you have successfully been brainâŚwash .edâŚ. Rather than t them red book thumping com mies
These days the Chinese lead the world in 37 of 44 critical technologies of the future
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The remarkable history of Chinese invention -
Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention.
That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery. Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject.
He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
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There is now a 27 book series on Chinese inventions that says we copied or stole from them,.
And you have successfully been brainâŚwash .edâŚ. Rather than t them red book thumping com mies
These days the Chinese lead the world in 37 of 44 critical technologies of the future
The remarkable history of Chinese invention -
Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention.
That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery. Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject.
He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
How Washington's sanctions boosted China's semiconductor sector
CHENG TING-FANG and LAULY LI, Nikkei staff writers
MAY 5, 2021 06:16 JST
Plan B
So far, Yangtze Memory, also known as YMTC, has remained under the radar of the U.S. government. But the company is taking no chances. With the guidance of Beijing, it has launched a massive review of its supply chain in an effort to find local suppliers -- or, at least, non-U.S. ones -- to replace the current dependence on American technology.
The collective effort has occupied over 800 people, full time, and including staff from its multiple local suppliers, for two years. And they have not finished yet.
YMTC is seeking to learn as much as it can about the origin of everything that goes into its products, from production equipment and chemicals to the tiny lenses, screws, nuts and bearings in chipmaking machinery and production lines, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. The audit extends not only to YMTC's own production lines, but also to suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, and so on.
"The review is as meticulous as knowing where the screws and nuts are coming from, the lead time, and if those parts have alternatives," one person familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia.
Each supplier is assigned a score for geopolitical risk, identified in many pages of documents detailing the components they use in its machines. YMTC has sent engineers to audit local equipment suppliers' production sites to verify that the origins of parts have been truthfully reported, one of the people told Nikkei.
American-made parts are scored highest for risk, followed by parts bought from Japan, Europe and those made locally, the person said. Meanwhile, suppliers are asked to provide corrective action reports to explain how they can together diversify procurement and find alternatives.
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Ethnic Chinese/overseas Chinese were the biggest FDI investors into China during its 30 years of double digit growth. And serve as bridge these days for China FDI into ASEAN countries
Does it matter?
Ethnic Chinese dominate the economies of these countries.
And these countries are dependent on the Chinese economy
Plus when it comes to Asean countries
China has an ace up its sleeve
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China Is Winning the Race for Water
Security in Asia Great power competition in Asia is not only about control of critical waterways in the South China Sea, but also about who controls Asiaâs fresh water. The future of Asiaâs waterâupon which about four billion people dependâlies in Chinaâs hands.
Through its presence in Tibet, China controls the headwaters of ten of the eleven major rivers of Asia. So far, China has taken a relatively cooperative approach to sharing water with its neighbors as part of the systematic consolidation of its âsoft powerâ over downstream countries.
But climate change and rapid growth are threatening to upset this delicate diplomatic balance. What happens when Chinaâs own thirst outpaces its resources?
And how will Chinaâs choices affect U.S. interests in the strategic Asia-Pacific region? China has positioned itself as a world leader on climate change and set ambitious goals for environmental protection.
However, due to the pace of urban as well as industrial expansion and its often-lax enforcement of pollution control regulations, China continues to consume as much coal as the rest of the world combined. Its approach to combatting climate change and resource scarcity, which emphasizes engineering solutions over better resource management, has resulted in dramatic infrastructure projects.
These include a series of hydro-electric dams meant to address the countryâs severe water shortage challenges by giving it more control over the continentâs rivers, as well as to generate electricity. These construction projects mean China can bestow or withhold water as it sees fit, leaving downstream Asian countries vulnerable to Beijingâs decisions. For example, Chinese hydroelectric dams along the Brahmaputra River have proven to be a source of friction with India, exacerbating long-simmering border disputes.
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The difference is this in Q3 of 2019
The US FED was bailing out those TOOBIGTOFAIL banks in their repo markets less their credit markets seize up once again like in 2008
A few things we learned since the 2008 subprime crisis
Buying for US debt is not unlimited.
In 2013 the US FED had to buy 71% of the newly issued external Sovereign debt by the US Treasury
That Quantitative Easing (QE)debt that was soaped up/printing of money, that debt does not disappear
Since we know from Q3 of 2017 to Q3 of 2019 the FEDs bright idea was to allow 50 to 60 billion of the Agency Debt and US Treasury Debt it soaped up during QE to slowly mature each month, off the FEDs balance sheet. Quantitative Tightening (QT)
Where the US Treasury would issue new corresponding debt for the public to buy. Where with this QT selling they managed to dump about 600 to 700 billion in debt on the American âpeopleâ
As the American âpeopleâ are the biggest buyers of US Sovereign Debt (directly/indirectly)
That QT selling ended during Q3 of 2019 Because that selling of debt ended up freezing up the repo market
Just like when it happened in 2008/2009 during the subprime crisis
Thus the FED balance sheet went from 4.5 trillion to about 3.8 trillion.with that selling from 2017 to 2019
But then the FED had to come back in QE 2.0 and buy that Treasury debt again, all that they dumped and more
Last I checked they ran that FED balance sheeet back up to over 8 trillion. Now itâs back to around 7.8 trillion
Wait you might ask Agency debt is internal debt not supposed to be backed by the US Government
Well the USA has had no issue with taking private internal debt and turning it into External Sovereign Debt backed by the US Government and the American âpeopleâ
Something the Chinese might have been tempted to do with the Junk Bonds issued by those Chinese Property Developers
That were a hot commodity the last few years, sought after by sophisticated foreign investors
In short the Chinese purposely deflated their real estate markets. Cut off money to its Property Developers since 2010. And didnt bailout foreign investors who took a risk buying those Property Developer junk bonds the last few years
While the USA left their real estate market to implode. Kept the stimulus/bailout money flowing to the companies, and bailed out foreign investors who invested in private internal debt
Yet we are complaining who is capitalist/communist
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As politicians call for taxpayer bailouts and a government takeover of troubled mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae,
FreedomWorks would like to point out that a bailout is a transfer of possibly hundreds of billions of U.S. tax dollars to sophisticated investors and governments overseas.
The top five foreign holders of Freddie and Fannie long-term debt are China, Japan, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, and Belgium. In total foreign investors hold over $1.3 trillion in these agency bonds, according to the U.S. Treasuryâs most recent âReport on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities.â
FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe commented, âThe prospectus for every GSE bond clearly states that it is not backed by the United States government. Thatâs why investors holding agency bonds already receive a significant risk premium over Treasuries.â
âA bailout at this stage would be the worst possible outcome for American taxpayers and mortgage holders, who have been paying a risk premium to these foreign investors.â
âIt would change the rules of the game retroactively and would directly subsidize the risks taken by sophisticated foreign investors.â
âA bailout of GSE bondholders would be perhaps the greatest taxpayer rip-off in American history. It is bad economics and you can be sure it is terrible politics.â
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
China
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested.
The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28]
The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
Philippines
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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 @mcsike7264 well Tesla should have been testing in China way before this
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis in China
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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China wonât allow ByteDance to sell TikTok off
Especially to an American company.
Because
It is the algorithms that make the company
Itâs not like the Chinese Central Government actually wants a Social Media App that they canât control and regulate, or to be out there possibly with people giving their unfettered opinions on China anyways
They already cracked down on Douyin the sister version of TikTok in China
So itâs highly likely the Chinese Government will force ByteDance to have TikToc just leave the US market.
Like their Government stated they would do
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A forced sale of TikTok in the US amounts to a downgrade of the app, as the Chinese government wonât approve the sale of its algorithms,â said Alex Capri, a research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation and a lecturer at the National University of Singaporeâs Business School.
âIf TikTok is forced to stop operating in the US, ByteDanceâs prospects in other mostly liberal democracies will come under further scrutiny,â he said.
If the Chinese government wonât let ByteDance relinquish TikTokâs algorithm, it could block the sale outright. Alternatively, it may allow TikTok to be sold without the lucrative algorithm that forms the basis for its popularity.
A US ban, or a less powerful version of TikTok,would be a windfall
for YouTube, Google, Instagram and other TikTok competitors, as many of its customers may jump ship, Capri said. And it would be a major hit to the global ambitions of ByteDance.
âIt [a TikTok ban] would be the end of ByteDanceâs global expansion, as it would be a sign that the Chinese state values the algorithmâs security more than ByteDanceâs financial prosperity and global expansion,â said Richard Windsor, tech industry analyst and founder of Radio Free Mobile, a research company based in the US.
âThe implications are that the ideological struggle being fought in the technology industry will become more intense.â
A ban on TikTok is also likely to accelerate a shift that is splitting the worldâs tech landscape into two blocs, one centered on the US, the other embracing tech from China, according to Capri.
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Those are all bordering countries
Even the South China Sea is framed with a western narrative
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Trump says Medal of Freedom "equivalent" to and "much better" than Medal of Honor, sparking backlash from veterans
By James LaPorta
Updated on: August 16, 2024 / 5:57 PM EDT / CBS News
Former President Donald Trump received an immediate backlash Thursday when he said the Presidential Medal of Freedom he awarded to Dr. Miriam Adelson, the widow of Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, was "equivalent" and "much better" than the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award for bravery in combat.
Speaking from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, during an event on fighting antisemitism, Trump praised the late Las Vegas casino magnate as "one of the greatest businessmen in the world," before addressing Sheldon Adelson's widow to make a comparison between the Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, which is typically given for significant achievements in the arts, public service and other fields.
"I watched Sheldon sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That's the highest award you can get as a civilian. It's the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version," said Trump as he spoke from the podium in front of multiple American and Israeli flags.
He added, "It's actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they're soldiers. They're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets or they are dead. She gets it and she's a healthy, beautiful woman. And they're rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom."
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The main FDI investors in China were the Chinese Diaspora
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The Chinese diasporaâs role in the rise of China
But those who are have played a pivotal role in developing Chinaâs export industries, and mediating its economic integration with the region in ways that have allowed China to grow fast while retaining key features of its pre-1979 political economy. As such, the diaspora has effectively given China a resource unavailable to any previous rising power.
From the outset of Chinaâs economic reform era, diaspora Chinese have provided the lionâs share of inward foreign investment. This has been concentrated in export-oriented sectors, driving growth of transnational production networks that today bind Chinaâs neighbours to it through the worldâs most integrated intraregional trading system. But this outcome was not pre-ordained. In the 1980s, China was still a capital-poor country, racked by political battles over the direction of economic reform.
During these uncertain years, diaspora investors were more persistent than their foreign competitors in China, relying on cultural and ancestral ties to offset political risk. They also directly shaped the reform debates: diaspora entrepreneurs served in the Chinese Peopleâs Political Consultative Conference and the National Peopleâs Congress, cultivating relationships all the way up to Deng Xiaoping.
They influenced the conception and implementation of special economic zones (SEZs). And the technology and capital they sunk into these SEZs powered the take-off of Chinaâs export industries, weighing the political scales in favour of continued liberalisation and opening.
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Btw if you have only been in China the last 10 years
Then you have only seen a Government that is trying to slowdown its economy
Iâve been researching, investing and living in on and off China since the 1980s
In fact from and Investing point of view started dumping out Chinese real estate stocks in 2010
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Business
Economics
China Increases Banksâ Reserve Ratios to Cool Prices
By Bloomberg News
December 10, 2010 at 4:08 AM PST
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China raises banks' reserve ratios again
Reuters
December 10, 20104:27 AM PSTUpdated 13 years ago
Dec 10, 2010 â The 50 basis point increase, which takes effect on Dec 20, will leave required reserve ratios at 18.5 percent
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China Property Market âBubbleâ Set to Burst, Xie Says
By Bloomberg News
February 1, 2010 at 11:51 PM PST
Chinaâs property market âbubbleâ is set to burst as the government curbs credit growth and clamps down on speculation, according to independent economist Andy Xie.
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China cracks down on speculators to cool prices
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NOV. 23, 2010
The government has ordered banks twice in the past three weeks to raise the amount of money they hold in reserves to rein in lending growth.
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China cracks down on property speculation Source:Global Times Published: 2010
The Chinese government has raised the down payment for second-home buyers to a minimum 50 percent of the value from 40 percent, in a bid to curb property speculation.
The decision was announced in a statement released Thursday after conclusion of an executive meeting of the State Council, the Cabinet, presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, on Wednesday.
First-home buyers must pay no less than 30 percent of the the property price if the area is above 90 square meters, the statement said.
The government was stepping up the introduction of tax policies to influence purchases and adjust property investment returns, said the statement.
Nationwide, land use for the construction of low-income housing, shanty town renovation and small and medium-sized homes (below 90 square meters) should account for at least 70 percent of the land approved for property development, the statement said.
It also urged local authorities to accelerate housing construction approvals to ensure effective land supply, and crack down on land hoarding and speculatory behavior.
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Btw were you not the winner who said he went to China starting 10 years ago????
Iâm giving you these articles to show you their Government was cracking down on real estate and basically 30% of their economy and where Chinese people store their wealth 14 years ago
Stick to your poems English teacher in China
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Huge Price Cuts Rumored From Chinese Developers Due To Collapsing Demand
Vincent Fernando, CFA May 29, 2010
Demand is falling since China's central government announced stricter regulations for property transactions during the middle of April. These involve higher down payments and mortgage rates for the purchase of second home, and act which is seen as potential speculation. Such tightening is reducing buying demand.
Thus a moderately bearish view is that property prices need to come down, since demand is likely down yet supply is the same. This challenge isn't limited to Shanghai:
China Vanke Co, the country's largest publicly listed developer, may cut apartment prices by 10 to 30 percent within three months, the Beijing News said yesterday, citing an unidentified sales agent. Local Vanke officials declined to comment yesterday.
Yet Shanghai is where things could get the ugliest, the earliest. This is because the local Shanghai government is planning to clamp down on speculation even harder than China's central government already has:
Chen Qiwei, a spokesman for the Shanghai municipal government, did not preclude the possibility of levying property tax when asked about this issue at a press conference on Friday.
"Shanghai will take more strict measures in line with the central government policy," Chen said, adding that more efforts will be made in building economically affordable houses and cracking down on speculative house purchasing.
Other cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Shenzen could have similar additional taxes, but Shanghai is the first to make an official comment such as above according to China Daily. Thing is, any action from Shanghai will likely need approval from the central government.
BusinessInsider
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Business
Economics
China Increases Banksâ Reserve Ratios to Cool Prices
By Bloomberg News
December 10, 2010 at 4:08 AM PST
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China raises banks' reserve ratios again
Reuters
December 10, 20104:27 AM PSTUpdated 13 years ago
Dec 10, 2010 â The 50 basis point increase, which takes effect on Dec 20, will leave required reserve ratios at 18.5 percent
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China Property Market âBubbleâ Set to Burst, Xie Says
By Bloomberg News
February 1, 2010 at 11:51 PM PST
Chinaâs property market âbubbleâ is set to burst as the government curbs credit growth and clamps down on speculation, according to independent economist Andy Xie.
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China cracks down on speculators to cool prices
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NOV. 23, 2010
The government has ordered banks twice in the past three weeks to raise the amount of money they hold in reserves to rein in lending growth.
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China cracks down on property speculation Source:Global Times Published: 2010
The Chinese government has raised the down payment for second-home buyers to a minimum 50 percent of the value from 40 percent, in a bid to curb property speculation.
The decision was announced in a statement released Thursday after conclusion of an executive meeting of the State Council, the Cabinet, presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, on Wednesday.
First-home buyers must pay no less than 30 percent of the the property price if the area is above 90 square meters, the statement said.
The government was stepping up the introduction of tax policies to influence purchases and adjust property investment returns, said the statement.
Nationwide, land use for the construction of low-income housing, shanty town renovation and small and medium-sized homes (below 90 square meters) should account for at least 70 percent of the land approved for property development, the statement said.
It also urged local authorities to accelerate housing construction approvals to ensure effective land supply, and crack down on land hoarding and speculatory behavior.
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Not as bad as your USA being 500 trillion in debt
China cut off money flow to Vanke 14 years ago
It was Sophisticated Foteign Investors buying these Property Developers junk bonds these last few years
what do you think these Property Developers did with that sudden influx of moneyâŚ.
They built more higher end housing
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Huge Price Cuts Rumored From Chinese Developers Due To Collapsing Demand
Vincent Fernando, CFA May 29, 2010
Demand is falling since China's central government announced stricter regulations for property transactions during the middle of April. These involve higher down payments and mortgage rates for the purchase of second home, and act which is seen as potential speculation. Such tightening is reducing buying demand.
Thus a moderately bearish view is that property prices need to come down, since demand is likely down yet supply is the same. This challenge isn't limited to Shanghai:
China Vanke Co, the country's largest publicly listed developer, may cut apartment prices by 10 to 30 percent within three months, the Beijing News said yesterday, citing an unidentified sales agent. Local Vanke officials declined to comment yesterday.
Yet Shanghai is where things could get the ugliest, the earliest. This is because the local Shanghai government is planning to clamp down on speculation even harder than China's central government already has:
Chen Qiwei, a spokesman for the Shanghai municipal government, did not preclude the possibility of levying property tax when asked about this issue at a press conference on Friday.
"Shanghai will take more strict measures in line with the central government policy," Chen said, adding that more efforts will be made in building economically affordable houses and cracking down on speculative house purchasing.
Other cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Shenzen could have similar additional taxes, but Shanghai is the first to make an official comment such as above according to China Daily. Thing is, any action from Shanghai will likely need approval from the central government.
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Iâm not surprised you are confused
if you only read the headlines from Mainstream Media????
You would get the idea Musk went to China to transfer its FSD onto their roads
But
Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored over there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Most people are lazy they will read the western Mainstream Media headlines on a article (Mainstream Media they donât trust unless itâs news about China)
And will assume it is Tesla introducing FSD to China and bringing their Robotaxis to China
But
Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored over there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
To me sounds like instead of Tesla FSD they will export Baidu Robotaxis App in Tesla vehicles
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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It was more of a international effort the Americans helped to partially fund, the building of the BSL4 Biolab the French built it
The USA, UK, France, and Canada helped to train the scientists working there
And the USA funded that Gain-Of-Function Research in that Biolab
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State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses
By Josh Rogin
April 14, 2020 at 5:0
* In January 2018, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing took the unusual step of repeatedly sending U.S. science diplomats to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which had in 2015 become Chinaâs first laboratory to achieve the highest level of international bioresearch safety (known as BSL-4). WIV issued a news release in English about the last of these visits, which occurred on March 27, 2018.
*During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory,â states the Jan. 19, 2018, cable, which was drafted by two officials from the embassyâs environment, science and health sections who met with the WIV scientists. (The State Department declined to comment on this and other details of the story.)
The Chinese researchers at WIV were receiving assistance from the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch and other U.S. organizations, but the Chinese requested additional help. The cables argued that the United States should give the Wuhan lab further support, mainly because its research on bat coronaviruses was important but also dangerous.
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Chinese had virtually no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
Now they are going after legacy chip markets
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors?
27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products. In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales.
Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants. Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices. As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive formula.
Using illegal labour from South East Asia. Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China
These are the same companies who got those trump tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales in Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So these companies could get more or better access into those Chinese Domestic markets
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest at
Why didnât China pull the nuclear option and boot these companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war. China. didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact hey weâre lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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I think most Americans are under educated
China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is an unlikely option
Since Fentanyl is a legal substance, used in US Hospitals
Plus without those Chinese drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
NBCNews
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Weaponizing Water: How China Controls the Mekong
Despite these record lows for the Mekong river in Southeast Asia, the upper Mekong in Chinaâs Yunnan province received above-normal rainfall. Even though climate change does play a role in the Mekongâs fading banks, it is the construction of dams, not a lack of rain, that is most detrimental.
As of now, China has completed 11 dams with many more at various levels of planning and competition. Laos has two operational dams on the river with plans to build at least seven more while Cambodia has two in various stages of construction. The dams in both Laos and Cambodia are financially backed by China through its Belt and Road Initiative and intend to export much of this electricity to China. This shows Chinaâs influence and determination to produce electricity from the river at any cost and its ability to pressure other nations, whose people want the river undammed, to comply.
Through the damming of the Mekong, China is using what has been termed âhydro-diplomacyâ to exert control over Southeast Asia, bringing the threat of further economic and environmental ruin to its southern neighbors. With Chinaâs dams in the Yunnan province alone, China can withhold some 47 million cubic meters of water from flowing downstream. This has the potential to cripple the lifeline of much of Southeast Asia in one swing which China both knows and utilizes to influence the region â especially when it comes to exerting power over America.
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
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Hidden tigers: why do Chinese children do so well at school?
Children of Chinese origin, whether rich or poor, do incredibly well in school â but hardly any studies have been done to find out why
* This showed not only that British Chinese youngsters are the highest performing ethnic group in England at GCSE, which has been known for years. It also showed that this group seemed to be singularly successful in achieving that goal of educational policy-makers everywhere: a narrow performance gap between those from the poorest homes, and the rest.
* The domestic statistics show that, at GCSE, children of Chinese ethnicity â classed simply as "Chinese" in the data â who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) perform better than the national average for all pupils, rich and poor.
Not only that, but FSM Chinese pupils do better than those of most other ethnic backgrounds, even when compared with children from better-off homes (those not eligible for free school meals).
A detailed look at the figures makes this clearer. Some 71% of Chinese FSM pupils achieved five good GCSEs, including English and maths, in 2009. For non-FSM Chinese pupils, the figure was 72%.
Every other ethnic group had a gap of at least 10 percentage points between children who do not count as eligible for free meals, and those who do. The gap for white pupils stood at 32 percentage points.
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That argument reminds me of when I use to debate dum down Americans
Sure they may have lost 7 million manufacturing jobs from the height of their manufacturing days. But they gained 53 million service sector jobs
33 million of them higher paying jobs than their manufacturing jobs
So with more jobs, more higher paying jobs, and added saving from imported goods
did the average American Invest,save, throw that money under the mattress?
No they spent those added earnings and the borrowed to spend some more
For us average Canadians? We were no better
Here is an example
* From 2004 to 2008, more than one in seven manufacturing jobs, nearly 322,000, disappeared
* In fact, from 2004 to 2008, over 1.5 million jobs were created in the rest of the economyâa growth of 11%.
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There is now a 27 book series on what the Chinese invented first?
that says we in the west copied or stole from them
If you took the time to read those books you will find in the vast majority of the cases,
there is no specific inventor(s) name(s) attributed to an invention
Rather it is the Chinese invented such and such in such in such a century
This guy explains it the best
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From Gongkai to Open Source
My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping.
Meanwhile, Western entrepreneurs often find themselves trapped in a spiderweb of IP frameworks, spending more money on lawyers than on tooling.
Further investigation taught me that the Chinese have a parallel system of traditions and ethics around sharing IP, which lead me to coin the term âgongkaiâ. This is deliberately not the Chinese word for âOpen Sourceâ, because that word (kaiyuan) refers to openness in a Western-style IP framework, which this not. Gongkai is more a reference to the fact that copyrighted documents, sometimes labeled âconfidentialâ and âproprietaryâ, are made known to the public and shared overtly, but not necessarily according to the letter of the law. However, this copying isnât a one-way flow of value, as it would be in the case of copied movies or music.
Rather, these documents are the knowledge base needed to build a phone using the copyright ownerâs chips, and as such, this sharing of documents helps to promote the sales of their chips. There is ultimately, if you will, a quid-pro-quo between the copyright holders and the copiers.
This fuzzy, gray relationship between companies and entrepreneurs is just one manifestation of a much broader cultural gap between the East and the West.
The West has a âbroadcastâ view of IP and ownership: good ideas and innovation are credited to a clearly specified set of authors or inventors, and society pays them a royalty for their initiative and good works.
China has a ânetworkâ view of IP and ownership: the far-sight necessary to create good ideas and innovations is attained by standing on the shoulders of others, and as such there is a network of people who trade these ideas as favors among each other.
In a system with such a loose attitude toward IP, sharing with the network is necessary as tomorrow it could be your friend standing on your shoulders, and youâll be looking to them for favors.
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What most people donât get?
Is yes in âmostâ cases when you go to China to sell into their domestic markets you have to take a Joint Venture (JV) partner
And in âmostâ cases when you go to China to open up a factory, and export those goods back to your country you donât have to take on a JV partner
These days ?????
What most people like you donât get?
Is it is mostly US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour, smuggled in from South East Asia in their wholly owned factories in China
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
For one, it would crash the US Economy
And the Chinese donât believe in a zero-sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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 @daddy9267 actually when China joined the ASEAN free trade agreement
They proposed that China would drop all its tariffs immediately, while allowing these ASEAN Nations to continue to impose tariffs until such time as the dates they would be required to get rid of them under the agreement
Plus during trade war when the USA was raising tariffs the Chinese were lowering tariffs to most other countries
These days????
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China starts zero-tariff treatment for 6 least-developed African countries
Positive move to continue bolstering bilateral trade, show demonstration effect
By GT staff reporters Published: Dec 25, 2023 09:45 PM
The zero-tariff treatment China had granted for six least-developed African countries officially took effect on Monday. Experts and industry players noted that the move will bolster trade between China and Africa while showing a demonstration effect for China's cooperation with other markets. The Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, China's cabinet, announced on December 6 that 98 percent of taxable products from Angola, The Gambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Madagascar, Mali and Mauritania would be exempt from import tariffs starting on Monday. Sarah Wang, executive director of Beijing Wise Century Trading Co, which sells a range of African products, told the Global Times on Monday that such measures will have a huge implication for trade between these countries and China.
"With zero tariffs, these countries could expand the sales channels for their local produce, find new ways to generate foreign exchange reserves and create jobs," Wang said.
The implementation of the tax break is a significant move contributing to fulfilling the China-Africa comprehensive strategic and cooperative partnership, and realize its responsibility under the WTO-led Aid for Trade Initiative, Song Wei, a professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, told the Global Times on Monday.
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 @frankjames7272Â
In China in 2008 around 70% of the people in their real estate markets were buying their 1st homes in their cities
By 2018 around 70% of the people in their real estate markets were buying their 2nd and 3rd homes in their cities
Thatâs why you are hearing about problems with their property developers these days. Because back in 2010? Their Central Government started cutting of money flow to these developers.
Thus why you heard about Shadow Banks and Underground Economy back then, that their Government had to come into to shutdown or regulate.
Even then, It took them almost 14 years to get their overheated real estate under control
Heck they were about to introduce a nation wide property tax, but then trump started the trade war in 2018
Why is their Central Government doing this?
Because there are still a few hundred million poorer rural folk they still expect to move to the cities to join their more well off urban city folk countrymen.
Problem is these property developers were building higher end homes, and not building the affordable homes these rural migrants will need
In China
Owning a home in the city you migrate to? Affects your employment, health, education and even marriage prospects donât have a house you donât get married
Thus the common prosperity push and the crackdown on the overt displays of wealth in China
Their Government probably figured out you disenfranchise the people at the bottom of your society they are the ones most likely to act out in protest
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New documentary focuses on financial health in Black community | Watch 'Our America: In the Black'
In comparison, the median net worth of all U.S. households is about 7.6 times higher than black net worth.
Additionally, a startling statistic by the organization Prosperity Now and the Institute for Policy Studies, predicts that the median wealth of Black Americans "will fall to zero by 2053."
Feb 1, 2024
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What most people donât get?
Is yes in âmostâ cases when you go to China to sell into their domestic markets you have to take a Joint Venture (JV) partner
And in âmostâ cases when you go to China to open up a factory, and export those goods back to your country you donât have to take on a JV partner
These days ?????
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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China is going to complain just like the USA did when China did it to companies like Google
What else do you expect these countries to do?
This is where you Americans make your stand teens shaking their a zzzzz to the W app dance on TikTok ?????
You want a real threat: here is just 1 example
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Disillusioned about Chinaâ, more Chinese aim for US via risky Darien Gap
In 2023, Chinese migrants become the largest group outside the Americas to cross the treacherous region to reach the US.
* Behind her, signs explaining the hotel prices and policies are written in Mandarin. Pots of spicy instant noodles imported from China are for sale next to bottles of water. Payments via the Chinese social media app WeChat are accepted.
* âThey move along in their own separate world,â Fernandez said.
The group of middle-aged travellers, wearing hats and carrying tents and walking poles, are dressed for a trek. But not everything quite adds up. Many are wearing lightweight Crocs footwear, and their small backpacks are wrapped in plastic bags.
* Just over 25,000 of those migrants were Chinese, making them the fourth largest overall nationality and the largest outside of the Americas to making the crossing.
* Chinese migrants â unlike many of the other most common nationalities in the Darien, such as Venezuelans and Haitians â often take special âVIPâ routes across the jungle that are led by guides working for the Gulf Clan, Colombiaâs largest drug cartel, and are quicker and less strenuous for higher prices than the most basic routes.
Why we want to go to the United Statesâ
* âOur requirements are very simple: We can afford medical treatment, have a place to live, our children can afford to go to school and our family can be safe.â
* Some migrants interviewed by Zhou were misled to believe they could easily get a job for $10,000 in cash a month. However, the reality is that many are struggling to get jobs because employers are fearful of hiring undocumented workers.
* âI was forced to do this,â Sheng said while sipping a cup of tea at his hotel in Necocli. âItâs really difficult for most Chinese people to apply for a visa to America. But I feel disillusioned about China. Thatâs why weâre here in the jungle.â
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China was doing this over 17 years ago
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Landless farmers urged to migrate to Africa
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 19 September, 2007, 12:00am
SCMP Reporter
Farmers forced off the land and unable to find urban jobs should consider moving to Africa to become landlords and practise their agricultural skills, the head of the Export-Import Bank
said this week.
Li Ruogu said Beijing would support farmers who migrated. Speaking at a meeting in Chongqing to address rural immigration, Mr Li said the city's planned experiment in rapid urbanisation would transform several million farmers into city residents, but finding them jobs would be a problem.
Chongqing embarked on fast-tracked urban development after the National Development and Reform Commission selected it in June to be an experimental zone for national urbanisation reform.
More than 12 million farmers will have to leave their land by 2020 under the city's plan.
'Construction of the 'experimental zone' will relocate several million
peasants,' Mr Li said, adding that Chongqing should consider organising migration to Africa.
'The bank will give full support to the farmers in terms of capital
investment, project development and product-selling channels,' he added.
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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China Is Winning the Race for Water
Security in Asia Great power competition in Asia is not only about control of critical waterways in the South China Sea, but also about who controls Asiaâs fresh water. The future of Asiaâs waterâupon which about four billion people dependâlies in Chinaâs hands.
Through its presence in Tibet, China controls the headwaters of ten of the eleven major rivers of Asia. So far, China has taken a relatively cooperative approach to sharing water with its neighbors as part of the systematic consolidation of its âsoft powerâ over downstream countries.
But climate change and rapid growth are threatening to upset this delicate diplomatic balance. What happens when Chinaâs own thirst outpaces its resources?
And how will Chinaâs choices affect U.S. interests in the strategic Asia-Pacific region? China has positioned itself as a world leader on climate change and set ambitious goals for environmental protection.
However, due to the pace of urban as well as industrial expansion and its often-lax enforcement of pollution control regulations, China continues to consume as much coal as the rest of the world combined. Its approach to combatting climate change and resource scarcity, which emphasizes engineering solutions over better resource management, has resulted in dramatic infrastructure projects.
These include a series of hydro-electric dams meant to address the countryâs severe water shortage challenges by giving it more control over the continentâs rivers, as well as to generate electricity. These construction projects mean China can bestow or withhold water as it sees fit, leaving downstream Asian countries vulnerable to Beijingâs decisions. For example, Chinese hydroelectric dams along the Brahmaputra River have proven to be a source of friction with India, exacerbating long-simmering border disputes.
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That Chinese swimmer scandal in 2021 turns out it was self reporting the Chinese
But continue to be brainwashed by your MSM who you donât trust a word they tell you unless itâs about China
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Chinese swimming scandal: a strong defence by world anti-doping body, but narrative of âcover-upâ remains
Published: April 24, 2024
Given an investigation by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security found traces of the banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ) in a kitchen at the swimmersâ hotel, CHINADA ruled the positive tests were the result of accidental contamination. The Chinese swimmers were cleared without any public announcement.
WADA says Chinaâs national anti-doping agency kept them abreast of events throughout their extensive investigation, which took place during strict COVID lockdowns and was impacted by a local outbreak of the virus.
Far from accepting CHINADAâs findings on the face of it, WADA requested the entire case file so it could conduct its own scientific and legal investigations â including speaking with the drug manufacturer to get the latest unpublished science on TMZ, and comparing the Chinese positive tests with TMZ cases in other countries, including the US. WADA ultimately determined there was no concrete evidence to âdisproveâ the possibility of environmental contamination.
Here are a few reasons WADA gave as to why in its press conference this week:
More than 200 swimmers competing in the Chinese National Championships were staying in at least two different hotels at the time. The swimmers who tested positive to non-performance-enhancing amounts of TMZ were all at one hotel.
There were fluctuating negative and positive results for the swimmers that were tested on multiple occasions, which were not consistent with deliberate doping techniques, including microdosing.
WADA found no evidence of misconduct or manipulation in the case file handed over by CHINADA.
WADA says it reviews between 2,000 and 3,000 cases of suspected doping every year. It is not unusual for the body to file an appeal challenging anti-doping findings.
For example, WADA challenged an Australian Football League decision to clear 34 members of the Essendon Football Club. It also appealed a decision by the world swimming body, FINA, to clear high-profile Chinese swimmer Sun Yang of wrongdoing for his conduct during a 2018 drug test.
According to WADAâs general counsel, Ross Wenzel, the difference between these cases and the more recent allegations against the Chinese swimmers was that the body accepted the âno faultâ finding in the latter case. In the earlier cases, it did not.
He also said WADA received external legal advice that it would have had less than a 1% chance of winning an appeal in the TMZ case. According to WADA, everything was handled by the book, and if the body was faced with the same situation again, it would do nothing differently.
Has China been unfairly singled out?
So, has WADA succeeded in changing the narrative? Probably not.
Why? Because putting the words âChinaâ and âdopingâ together is a lightning rod in the current political climate given the intense rivalry between China and the US.
Currently there are 23 people serving anti-doping suspensions in Australia. Do we feel personal or national shame for their wrongdoing?
Every time the US team marches into an Olympic Games, or steps up onto a World Championships medal podium, do we point at them while recalling memories of the US Postal Service cycling team and the banned-for-life cyclist Lance Armstrong?
But when it comes to China, many observers are quick to name and shame athletes, viewing every news story as some kind of proof the country must have a systemic, state-sanctioned doping program.
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A nation of outlaws
A century ago, that wasn't China -- it was us
One hundred and fifty years ago, even America's closest trade partners were despairing about our cheating ways. Charles Dickens, who visited in 1842, was, like many Britons, stunned by the economic ambition of our nation's inhabitants, and appalled by what they would do for the sake of profit. When he first stepped off the boat in Boston, he found the city's bookstores rife with pirated copies of his novels, along with those of his countrymen. Dickens would later deliver
lectures decrying the practice, and wrote home in outrage: "my blood so boiled as I thought of the monstrous injustice." In theUnited States of the early 19th century, capitalism as we know it today was still very much in its infancy. Most people still lived on small farms, and despite the persistent myth that America was the land of laissez-faire, there were plenty of laws on the books aimed at keeping tight reins on the market economy. But as commerce became more complex, and stretched over greater distances, this patchwork system of local and state-level regulations was gradually overwhelmed by a new generation of wheeler-dealer entrepreneurs.
Taking a page from the British, who had pioneered many ingenious methods of adulteration a generation or two earlier, American manufacturers, distributors, and vendors of food began tampering with their products en masse -- bulking out supplies with cheap filler, using dangerous additives to mask spoilage or to give foodstuffs a more appealing color.
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 @TheBoobanÂ
Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America might lose.)
By MICHAEL HIRSH
06/09/2023 04:30 AM EDT
The war began in the early morning hours with a massive bombardment â Chinaâs version of âshock and awe.â
Chinese planes and rockets swiftly destroyed most of Taiwanâs navy and air force as the Peopleâs Liberation army and navy mounted a massive amphibious assault across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait.
Having taken seriously President Joe Bidenâs pledge to defend the island, Beijing also struck pre-emptively at U.S. and allied air bases and ships in the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. managed to even the odds for a time by deploying more sophisticated submarines as well as B-21 and B-2 stealth bombers to get inside Chinaâs air defense zones, but Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days and saw its network access severed.
The United States and its main ally, Japan, lost thousands of service members, dozens of ships, and hundreds of aircraft. Taiwanâs economy was devastated. And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild, taking years to replace ships as it reckoned with how shriveled its industrial base had become compared to Chinaâs.
The Chinese âjust ran rings around us,â said former Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten in one after-action report.
âThey knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it.â Dozens of versions of the above war-game scenario have been enacted over the last few years, most recently in April by the House Select Committee on competition with China.
And while the ultimate outcome in these exercises is not always clear â the U.S. does better in some than others â the cost is. In every exercise the U.S. uses up all its long-range air-to-surface missiles in a few days, with a substantial portion of its planes destroyed on the ground.
In every exercise the U.S. is not engaged in an abstract push-button war from 30,000 feet up like the ones Americans have come to expect since the end of the Cold War, but a horrifically bloody one. And thatâs assuming the U.S.-China war doesnât go nuclear.
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The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese
Where their Government was trying to get their people to switch to homegrown chips before the sanctions
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have themselves and their allies, lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When there is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world copied from them
And China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing over 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year, within the products they export
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Introduction:
Article 310 of the Convention allows States and entities to make declarations or statements regarding its application at the time of signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, which do not purport to exclude or modify the legal effect of the provisions of the Convention.
Article 310 reads:
"Article 310. Declarations and statements "Article 309 does not preclude a State, when signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention, from making declarations or statements, however phrased or named, with a view, inter alia, to the harmonization of its laws and regulations with the provisions of this Convention, provided that such declarations or statements do not purport to exclude or to modify the legal effect of the provisions of this Convention in their application to that State."
Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept.
Article 287, paragraph 1, reads:
"Article 287. Choice of procedure "When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein."
In addition, article 298, paragraph 1, allows States and entities to declare that they exclude the application of the compulsory binding procedures for the settlement of disputes under the Convention in respect of certain specified categories kinds of disputes. Article 298, paragraph 1, reads:
"Article 298. Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
"1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a)
(i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded form such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention."
PLEASE NOTE: Declarations and statements with respect to the Convention and to the Agreement on Part XI made before 31 December 1996 - upon signature, ratification or accession - have been analyzed and published in "The Law of the Sea: Declarations and statements with respect to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and to the Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea", (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.97.V.3).
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Article 310 of the Convention allows States and entities to make declarations or statements regarding its application at the time of signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, which do not purport to exclude or modify the legal effect of the provisions of the Convention.
Article 310 reads:
"Article 310. Declarations and statements "Article 309 does not preclude a State, when signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention, from making declarations or statements, however phrased or named, with a view, inter alia, to the harmonization of its laws and regulations with the provisions of this Convention, provided that such declarations or statements do not purport to exclude or to modify the legal effect of the provisions of this Convention in their application to that State."
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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China has a homegrown 28nm
lithography machines The will get there in the meantime they can go after the legacy chip markets
The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese people and Government
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter
instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese at the time content with cheap imported chips. Hope they could not innovate
When China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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 @lesact no you are not understanding correctly
Take for example that 2016 ICJ case the Philippines brought up between themselves and China over their land and water dispute
The Philippines under UNCLOS had every right to request a tribunal as a resolution
But
China under UNCLOS had every right not to accept the tribunal as a resolution
No one other than Taiwan accepts that 9 dash line claim. Which the tribunal did rule against
The tribunal did not rule on ownership of the disputed islands or waters
But what the tribunal did state was ... No one exhibited continuous control over the islands, reefs, water in dispute
That means all the other countries who also have their land and water disputes including China and the Philippines
Have dug into the land and water they control. And are basically saying talk to us in few hundred years
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Article 287
Choice of procedure
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein.
2. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall not affect or be affected by the obligation of a State Party to accept the jurisdiction of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the extent and in the manner provided for in Part XI, section 5.
3. A State Party, which is a party to a dispute not covered by a declaration in force, shall be deemed to have accepted arbitration in accordance with Annex VII.
4. If the parties to a dispute have accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to that procedure, unless the parties otherwise agree.
5. If the parties to a dispute have not accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to arbitration in accordance with Annex VII, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall remain in force until three months after notice of revocation has been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7. A new declaration, a notice of revocation or the expiry of a declaration does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
8. Declarations and notices referred to in this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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Article 299 Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
Introduction:
Article 310 of the Convention allows States and entities to make declarations or statements regarding its application at the time of signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, which do not purport to exclude or modify the legal effect of the provisions of the Convention.
Article 310 reads:
"Article 310. Declarations and statements "Article 309 does not preclude a State, when signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention, from making declarations or statements, however phrased or named, with a view, inter alia, to the harmonization of its laws and regulations with the provisions of this Convention, provided that such declarations or statements do not purport to exclude or to modify the legal effect of the provisions of this Convention in their application to that State."
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested.
The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28]
The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Sabah clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines
(In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute stems with the fact they make a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE
Historical claim that the Philippines dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Sabah clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines
(In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute stems with the fact they make a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE
Historical claim that the Philippines dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Sabah clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines
(In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute stems with the fact they make a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE
Historical claim that the Philippines dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Now they have just turned us into brain wash.d dummm down westerners over them red book thumping com mies
When some Muslim Uyghur Chinese committed terrorist acts on Chinese streets
Where some Uyghur Chinese were thrown into re-education camps, and some mosques housing extremist were removed
The world called it cultural genocide
Where some Palestinians escaped their Gaza Ghettos committed terrorist acts on Israeli streets.
We in the world call that terrorism, justifying the bombing of Palestinian civilians in their Gaza Ghettos
Which begs the question China throws money at their ethnic Uyghur Chinese minority and gives them special rights over the Han majority.
(Like the ability to have more than 1 kid when the rule was still enforced back then. Preferential treatment for minorities when it comes to University Education etc)
like they do with all their ethnic minority people they consider as Chinese
What does Israel consider these Palestinian people as???
As they bomb them in those Gaza Ghettoes Israel forced them into.
Yet in this situation, we mostly stay silent on that genocide
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Imperialist media canât stop lying about mosques in China
* Firsthand report from Kashgar
On a recent visit to Kashgar, Xinjiang, home to about 80% of the ethnic Uygur population, this writer had a chance to speak to residents and learn about local architecture. Many of the buildings in Kashgar are 1,000 or more years old. These old buildings, while stunningly beautiful, were not built to standards that would be considered seismically safe today in areas with a risk of earthquakes. In the past, collapses and deaths were common.
* In 2020, the U.S. Mosque Survey counted 2,769 mosques in this country, compared to Chinaâs more than 35,000 mosques. This means that Chinese Muslims have nearly three times more mosques per capita than do Muslims in the U.S.
But the accusations donât stop at alleged demolition. The Western media have also claimed that the Chinese government is carrying out a process of âSinificationâ through the renovations, meaning that China is allegedly removing the Arabic aspects of mosques and replacing them with traditional Chinese architecture.
Mosques built in the traditional Chinese-style architecture are presented in the Western media as âevidenceâ of âcultural erasure,â when in reality mosques built in Chinese style have existed as far back as around 700 C.E. There are also many Muslim populations in China that are not Arabic in origin, such as the Hui population, who were originally descended from Han Chinese and are Chinese-speaking.
Because of the ancient Silk Road and the historical mixing of peoples from the Chinese coast with Arab, European and many other peoples, the blending of language, religion and architecture should not be seen as an attempt at Han hegemony, but rather as a natural blending of peoples living side-by-side in a multiethnic nation with more than 5,000 years of recorded history.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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The difference is this in Q3 of 2019
The US FED was bailing out those TOOBIGTOFAIL banks in their repo markets less their credit markets seize up once again
A few things we learned since the 2008 subprime crisis
Buying for US debt is not unlimited.
In 2013 the US FED had to buy 71% of the newly issued external Sovereign debt by the US Treasury
That Quantitative Easing (QE)debt that was soaped up/printing of money, that debt does not disappear
Since we know from Q3 of 2017 to Q3 of 2019 the FEDs bright idea was to allow 50 to 60 billion of the Agency Debt and US Treasury Debt it soaped up during QE to slowly mature each month, off the FEDs balance sheet. Quantitative Tightening (QT)
Where the US Treasury would issue new corresponding debt for the public to buy. Where with this QT selling they managed to dump about 600 to 700 billion in debt on the American people⌠as the American people are the biggest buyers of US Sovereign Debt
That QT selling ended during Q3 of 2019 Because that selling of debt ended up freezing up the repo market
Just like when it happened in 2008/2009 during the subprime crisis
Thus the FED balance sheet went from 4.5 trillion to about 3.8 trillion.with that selling from 2017 to 2019
But then the FED had to come back in QE 2.0 and buy that Treasury debt again, all that they dumped and more
Last I checked they ran that FED balance sheeet back up to over 8 trillion. Now itâs back to around 7.8 trillion
Wait you might ask Agency debt is internal debt not supposed to be backed by the US Government
Well the USA has had no issue with taking private internal debt and turning it into External Sovereign Debt backed by the US Government and the American people
Something the Chinese might have been tempted to do with the Junk Bonds issued by those Chinese Property Developers
That were a hot commodity the last few years, sought after by sophisticated foreign investors
In short the Chinese purposely deflated their real estate markets. Cut off money to its Property Developers. And didnt bailout foreign investors who took a risk buying those junk bonds
While the USA left their real estate market to implode. Kept the money flowing to the companies and bailed out foreign investors who invested in private internal debt
Yet we are complaining who is capitalist/communist
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As politicians call for taxpayer bailouts and a government takeover of troubled mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae,
FreedomWorks would like to point out that a bailout is a transfer of possibly hundreds of billions of U.S. tax dollars to sophisticated investors and governments overseas.
The top five foreign holders of Freddie and Fannie long-term debt are China, Japan, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, and Belgium. In total foreign investors hold over $1.3 trillion in these agency bonds, according to the U.S. Treasuryâs most recent âReport on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities.â
FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe commented, âThe prospectus for every GSE bond clearly states that it is not backed by the United States government. Thatâs why investors holding agency bonds already receive a significant risk premium over Treasuries.â
âA bailout at this stage would be the worst possible outcome for American taxpayers and mortgage holders, who have been paying a risk premium to these foreign investors.â
âIt would change the rules of the game retroactively and would directly subsidize the risks taken by sophisticated foreign investors.â
âA bailout of GSE bondholders would be perhaps the greatest taxpayer rip-off in American history. It is bad economics and you can be sure it is terrible politics.â
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Ahmed the Muslim
The Chinese Government cut off money flow to these Developers on 2010
Thatâs all the warning people needed
2 years ago was when it was mostly âSophisticated Foreign Investors â
Who were buying these Property Developers Junk bonds
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Huge Price Cuts Rumored From Chinese Developers Due To Collapsing Demand
Vincent Fernando, CFA May 29, 2010
Demand is falling since China's central government announced stricter regulations for property transactions during the middle of April. These involve higher down payments and mortgage rates for the purchase of second home, and act which is seen as potential speculation. Such tightening is reducing buying demand.
Thus a moderately bearish view is that property prices need to come down, since demand is likely down yet supply is the same. This challenge isn't limited to Shanghai:
China Vanke Co, the country's largest publicly listed developer, may cut apartment prices by 10 to 30 percent within three months, the Beijing News said yesterday, citing an unidentified sales agent. Local Vanke officials declined to comment yesterday.
Yet Shanghai is where things could get the ugliest, the earliest. This is because the local Shanghai government is planning to clamp down on speculation even harder than China's central government already has:
Chen Qiwei, a spokesman for the Shanghai municipal government, did not preclude the possibility of levying property tax when asked about this issue at a press conference on Friday.
"Shanghai will take more strict measures in line with the central government policy," Chen said, adding that more efforts will be made in building economically affordable houses and cracking down on speculative house purchasing.
Other cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Shenzen could have similar additional taxes, but Shanghai is the first to make an official comment such as above according to China Daily. Thing is, any action from Shanghai will likely need approval from the central government.
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Economics
China Increases Banksâ Reserve Ratios to Cool Prices
By Bloomberg News
December 10, 2010 at 4:08 AM PST
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China raises banks' reserve ratios again
Reuters
December 10, 20104:27 AM PSTUpdated 13 years ago
Dec 10, 2010 â The 50 basis point increase, which takes effect on Dec 20, will leave required reserve ratios at 18.5 percent
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China Property Market âBubbleâ Set to Burst, Xie Says
By Bloomberg News
February 1, 2010 at 11:51 PM PST
Chinaâs property market âbubbleâ is set to burst as the government curbs credit growth and clamps down on speculation, according to independent economist Andy Xie.
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China cracks down on speculators to cool prices
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NOV. 23, 2010
The government has ordered banks twice in the past three weeks to raise the amount of money they hold in reserves to rein in lending growth.
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China cracks down on property speculation Source:Global Times Published: 2010
The Chinese government has raised the down payment for second-home buyers to a minimum 50 percent of the value from 40 percent, in a bid to curb property speculation.
The decision was announced in a statement released Thursday after conclusion of an executive meeting of the State Council, the Cabinet, presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, on Wednesday.
First-home buyers must pay no less than 30 percent of the the property price if the area is above 90 square meters, the statement said.
The government was stepping up the introduction of tax policies to influence purchases and adjust property investment returns, said the statement.
Nationwide, land use for the construction of low-income housing, shanty town renovation and small and medium-sized homes (below 90 square meters) should account for at least 70 percent of the land approved for property development, the statement said.
It also urged local authorities to accelerate housing construction approvals to ensure effective land supply, and crack down on land hoarding and speculatory behavior.
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China attempts to deflate its unstable property bubble
China is to spend $200bn on low-cost homes as part of a series of measures to slow the rapidly rising prices of urban houses
Tania Branigan in Beijing
Wed 9 Mar 2011 19.24 GMT
Chinese officials are blaming speculators for soaring property prices and are vowing to build 36m affordable homes over the next five years. There are already widespread concerns about China's booming property market and the threat it poses to the country's expanding economy.
China would spend nearly $200bn (ÂŁ123bn) on an affordable homes and social housing scheme, said deputy housing minister Qi Ji in Beijing .
The pledge came a few days after premier Wen Jiabao promised to "resolutely" curb speculation to tackle excessively rapid price increases
The authorities have taken various steps since spring last year to dampen the property market. These include raising interest rates, increasing the minimum downpayment required on second homes and restricting the rights of foreigners to buy property. Two Chinese cities are now imposing sales tax on property deals.
While the measures have slowed growth, many fear it remains too high. In March 2010, urban housing prices shot up by 11.7% year-on-year, according to figures from the national bureau of statistics. December saw the lowest increase in more than a year, but it still stood at 6.4%.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored over there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
Right now
Tesla is level 2 Autonomous
Baidu is level 4 Autonomous
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu's Apollo Go offers 821,000 rides in Q3 2023, up 73% YoY
Apollo Go, Baidu's autonomous ride-hailing service, provided 821,000 rides in the third quarter of 2023, up 73% year over year. As of September 30, 2023, the cumulative rides provided to the public by Apollo Go reached 4.1 million.
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How Malaysia ended up owing $15 billion to a sultan's heirs
* KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Malaysia is scrambling to protect its assets as the descendants of the last sultan of the remote Philippine region of Sulu look to enforce a $15 billion arbitration award in a dispute over a colonial-era land deal.
In 1878, two European colonists signed a deal with the sultan for the use of his territory in present-day Malaysia â an agreement that independent Malaysia honoured until 2013, paying the monarch's descendants about $1,000 a year.
Now, 144 years later after the original deal, Malaysia is on the hook for the second largest arbitration award on record for stopping the payments after a bloody incursion by supporters of Sultan Mohammed Jamalul Alam's heirs in which more than 50 people were killed.
For years, Malaysia largely dismissed the claims but in July, two Luxembourg-based subsidiaries of state energy firm Petronas were served with a seizure notice to enforce the award that the heirs won in February. read more
The arbitration ruling in France followed an eight-year legal effort by the heirs and $20 million in funds raised for them from unidentified third-party investors, according to interviews with main figures in the case and legal documents seen by Reuters.
*Malaysia did not participate in nor recognise the arbitration - allowing the heirs to present their case without rebuttal - despite warnings that it would be dangerous to ignore the process.
The claimants, including some retirees, are Filipino citizens leading middle-class lives, a far cry from their royal ancestors of the Sulu sultanate that once spanned rainforest-covered islands in the southern Philippines and parts of Borneo island.
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Seriously no wonder why you Americans keep losing your wars.... Too busy talking above you pay grade instead of doing some simple research
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China world leader in 37 out of 44 critical technologies, Finland out of chart
THEMES 23 APRIL 2023
China is dominating the global race for future power, with the country establishing a significant lead in high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domains, according to a report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). The report, called the Critical Technology Tracker, examines 44 critical technologies spanning defence, space, robotics, energy, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, advanced materials and key quantum technology areas.
In the long term, China's leading research position means that it has set itself up to excel not just in current technological development in almost all sectors but in future technologies that don't yet exist. The report notes that, unchecked, this could shift not just technological development and control but global power and influence to an authoritarian state where the development, testing and application of emerging, critical and military technologies isn't open and transparent and where it can't be scrutinised by independent civil society and media.
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Chinese swimming scandal: a strong defence by world anti-doping body, but narrative of âcover-upâ remains
Published: April 24, 2024
Given an investigation by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security found traces of the banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ) in a kitchen at the swimmersâ hotel, CHINADA ruled the positive tests were the result of accidental contamination. The Chinese swimmers were cleared without any public announcement.
WADA says Chinaâs national anti-doping agency kept them abreast of events throughout their extensive investigation, which took place during strict COVID lockdowns and was impacted by a local outbreak of the virus.
Far from accepting CHINADAâs findings on the face of it, WADA requested the entire case file so it could conduct its own scientific and legal investigations â including speaking with the drug manufacturer to get the latest unpublished science on TMZ, and comparing the Chinese positive tests with TMZ cases in other countries, including the US. WADA ultimately determined there was no concrete evidence to âdisproveâ the possibility of environmental contamination.
Here are a few reasons WADA gave as to why in its press conference this week:
More than 200 swimmers competing in the Chinese National Championships were staying in at least two different hotels at the time. The swimmers who tested positive to non-performance-enhancing amounts of TMZ were all at one hotel.
There were fluctuating negative and positive results for the swimmers that were tested on multiple occasions, which were not consistent with deliberate doping techniques, including microdosing.
WADA found no evidence of misconduct or manipulation in the case file handed over by CHINADA.
WADA says it reviews between 2,000 and 3,000 cases of suspected doping every year. It is not unusual for the body to file an appeal challenging anti-doping findings.
For example, WADA challenged an Australian Football League decision to clear 34 members of the Essendon Football Club. It also appealed a decision by the world swimming body, FINA, to clear high-profile Chinese swimmer Sun Yang of wrongdoing for his conduct during a 2018 drug test.
According to WADAâs general counsel, Ross Wenzel, the difference between these cases and the more recent allegations against the Chinese swimmers was that the body accepted the âno faultâ finding in the latter case. In the earlier cases, it did not.
He also said WADA received external legal advice that it would have had less than a 1% chance of winning an appeal in the TMZ case. According to WADA, everything was handled by the book, and if the body was faced with the same situation again, it would do nothing differently.
Has China been unfairly singled out?
So, has WADA succeeded in changing the narrative? Probably not.
Why? Because putting the words âChinaâ and âdopingâ together is a lightning rod in the current political climate given the intense rivalry between China and the US.
Currently there are 23 people serving anti-doping suspensions in Australia. Do we feel personal or national shame for their wrongdoing?
Every time the US team marches into an Olympic Games, or steps up onto a World Championships medal podium, do we point at them while recalling memories of the US Postal Service cycling team and the banned-for-life cyclist Lance Armstrong?
But when it comes to China, many observers are quick to name and shame athletes, viewing every news story as some kind of proof the country must have a systemic, state-sanctioned doping program.
The Conversation
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Sports Med Open. 2024 Dec; 10: 57. Published online 2024 May 20. doi: 10.1186/s40798-024-00721-9
PMCID: PMC11102888PMID: 38763945
Doping Prevalence among U.S. Elite Athletes Subject to Drug Testing under the World Anti-Doping Code
Depending on the method of calculation, 6.5â9.2% of the 1,398 respondents reported using one or more prohibited substances or methods in the 12 months prior to survey administration. Specific doping prevalence rates for each individual substance / method categories ranged from 0.1% (for both diuretics / masking agents and stem cell / gene editing) to 4.2% for in-competition use of cannabinoids.
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Lewis: âWho cares I failed drug test?â
Duncan Mackay
Thu 24 Apr 2003 01.51 BST
Carl Lewis has broken his silence on allegations that he was the beneficiary of a drugs cover-up, admitting he had tested positive for banned substances but claiming he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans.
"There were hundreds of people getting off," he said. "Everyone was treated the same."
Lewis has now acknowledged that he failed three tests during the 1988 US Olympic trials, which under international rules at the time should have prevented him from competing in the Seoul games two months later.
Carl Lewis has broken his silence on allegations that he was the beneficiary of a drugs cover-up, admitting he had tested positive for banned substances but claiming he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans.
"There were hundreds of people getting off," he said. "Everyone was treated the same."
Lewis has now acknowledged that he failed three tests during the 1988 US Olympic trials, which under international rules at the time should have prevented him from competing in the Seoul games two months later.
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Viet cong where did you hear it was hamburger meat?
That was the Americans sprinters excuse and we believe it
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Chinese swimming scandal: a strong defence by world anti-doping body, but narrative of âcover-upâ remains
Published: April 24, 2024
Given an investigation by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security found traces of the banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ) in a kitchen at the swimmersâ hotel, CHINADA ruled the positive tests were the result of accidental contamination. The Chinese swimmers were cleared without any public announcement.
WADA says Chinaâs national anti-doping agency kept them abreast of events throughout their extensive investigation, which took place during strict COVID lockdowns and was impacted by a local outbreak of the virus.
Far from accepting CHINADAâs findings on the face of it, WADA requested the entire case file so it could conduct its own scientific and legal investigations â including speaking with the drug manufacturer to get the latest unpublished science on TMZ, and comparing the Chinese positive tests with TMZ cases in other countries, including the US. WADA ultimately determined there was no concrete evidence to âdisproveâ the possibility of environmental contamination.
Here are a few reasons WADA gave as to why in its press conference this week:
More than 200 swimmers competing in the Chinese National Championships were staying in at least two different hotels at the time. The swimmers who tested positive to non-performance-enhancing amounts of TMZ were all at one hotel.
There were fluctuating negative and positive results for the swimmers that were tested on multiple occasions, which were not consistent with deliberate doping techniques, including microdosing.
WADA found no evidence of misconduct or manipulation in the case file handed over by CHINADA.
WADA says it reviews between 2,000 and 3,000 cases of suspected doping every year. It is not unusual for the body to file an appeal challenging anti-doping findings.
For example, WADA challenged an Australian Football League decision to clear 34 members of the Essendon Football Club. It also appealed a decision by the world swimming body, FINA, to clear high-profile Chinese swimmer Sun Yang of wrongdoing for his conduct during a 2018 drug test.
According to WADAâs general counsel, Ross Wenzel, the difference between these cases and the more recent allegations against the Chinese swimmers was that the body accepted the âno faultâ finding in the latter case. In the earlier cases, it did not.
He also said WADA received external legal advice that it would have had less than a 1% chance of winning an appeal in the TMZ case. According to WADA, everything was handled by the book, and if the body was faced with the same situation again, it would do nothing differently.
Has China been unfairly singled out?
So, has WADA succeeded in changing the narrative? Probably not.
Why? Because putting the words âChinaâ and âdopingâ together is a lightning rod in the current political climate given the intense rivalry between China and the US.
Currently there are 23 people serving anti-doping suspensions in Australia. Do we feel personal or national shame for their wrongdoing?
Every time the US team marches into an Olympic Games, or steps up onto a World Championships medal podium, do we point at them while recalling memories of the US Postal Service cycling team and the banned-for-life cyclist Lance Armstrong?
But when it comes to China, many observers are quick to name and shame athletes, viewing every news story as some kind of proof the country must have a systemic, state-sanctioned doping program.
The Conversation
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Sports Med Open. 2024 Dec; 10: 57. Published online 2024 May 20. doi: 10.1186/s40798-024-00721-9
PMCID: PMC11102888PMID: 38763945
Doping Prevalence among U.S. Elite Athletes Subject to Drug Testing under the World Anti-Doping Code
Depending on the method of calculation, 6.5â9.2% of the 1,398 respondents reported using one or more prohibited substances or methods in the 12 months prior to survey administration. Specific doping prevalence rates for each individual substance / method categories ranged from 0.1% (for both diuretics / masking agents and stem cell / gene editing) to 4.2% for in-competition use of cannabinoids.
NIH
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Lewis: âWho cares I failed drug test?â
Duncan Mackay
Thu 24 Apr 2003 01.51 BST
Carl Lewis has broken his silence on allegations that he was the beneficiary of a drugs cover-up, admitting he had tested positive for banned substances but claiming he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans.
"There were hundreds of people getting off," he said. "Everyone was treated the same."
Lewis has now acknowledged that he failed three tests during the 1988 US Olympic trials, which under international rules at the time should have prevented him from competing in the Seoul games two months later.
Carl Lewis has broken his silence on allegations that he was the beneficiary of a drugs cover-up, admitting he had tested positive for banned substances but claiming he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans.
"There were hundreds of people getting off," he said. "Everyone was treated the same."
Lewis has now acknowledged that he failed three tests during the 1988 US Olympic trials, which under international rules at the time should have prevented him from competing in the Seoul games two months later.
THEGUARDIAN
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There is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world copied from them
The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese
Where their Government was trying to get their people to switch to homegrown chips before the sanctions
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have themselves and their allies, lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing over 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year, within the products they export
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
What is China's secret? According to financial commentator Jim Jubak, it may just be "creative accounting" -- the sort of accounting for which Wall Street is notorious, in which debts are swept off the books and turned into "assets." China is able to pull this off because it does not owe its debts to foreign creditors. The banks doing the funding are state-owned, and the state can write off its own debts.
Jubak observes:
China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debt might be hidden now.
The majority of bank loans, says Jubak, went to state-owned companies -- about 70% of the total. The collapse of China's export trade following the crisis meant that its banks were suddenly sitting on billions in debts that were clearly never going to be paid. But that was when China's largest banks were trying to raise capital by selling stock in Hong Kong and New York, and no bank could go public with that much bad debt on its books.
The creative solution? The Beijing government set up special-purpose asset management companies for the four largest state-owned banks, the equivalent of the "special purpose vehicles" designed by Wall Street to funnel real estate loans off U.S. bank books. The Chinese entities ultimately bought $287 billion in bad loans from state-owned banks. To pay for the loans, they issued bonds to the banks, on which they paid interest. The state-owned banks thus got $287 billion in toxic debt off their books and turned the bad loans into an income stream from the bonds.
Sound familiar? Wall Street did the same thing in the 2008 bailout, with the U.S. government underwriting the deal. The difference was that China's largest banks were owned by the government, so the government rather than a private banking cartel got the benefit of the arrangement. According to British economist Samah El-Shahat, writing in Al Jazeera in August 2009:
China hasn't allowed its banking sector to become so powerful, so influential, and so big that it can call the shots or highjack the bailout. In simple terms, the government preferred to answer to its people and put their interests first before that of any vested interest or group. And that is why Chinese banks are lending to the people and their businesses in record numbers.
In the US and UK, by contrast:
banks have captured all the money from the taxpayers and the cheap money from quantitative easing from central banks. They are using it to shore up, and clean up their balance sheets rather than lend it to the people. The money has been hijacked by the banks, and our governments are doing absolutely nothing about that. In fact, they have been complicit in allowing this to happen.
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China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
What is China's secret? According to financial commentator Jim Jubak, it may just be "creative accounting" -- the sort of accounting for which Wall Street is notorious, in which debts are swept off the books and turned into "assets." China is able to pull this off because it does not owe its debts to foreign creditors. The banks doing the funding are state-owned, and the state can write off its own debts.
Jubak observes:
China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debt might be hidden now.
The majority of bank loans, says Jubak, went to state-owned companies -- about 70% of the total. The collapse of China's export trade following the crisis meant that its banks were suddenly sitting on billions in debts that were clearly never going to be paid. But that was when China's largest banks were trying to raise capital by selling stock in Hong Kong and New York, and no bank could go public with that much bad debt on its books.
The creative solution? The Beijing government set up special-purpose asset management companies for the four largest state-owned banks, the equivalent of the "special purpose vehicles" designed by Wall Street to funnel real estate loans off U.S. bank books. The Chinese entities ultimately bought $287 billion in bad loans from state-owned banks. To pay for the loans, they issued bonds to the banks, on which they paid interest. The state-owned banks thus got $287 billion in toxic debt off their books and turned the bad loans into an income stream from the bonds.
Sound familiar? Wall Street did the same thing in the 2008 bailout, with the U.S. government underwriting the deal. The difference was that China's largest banks were owned by the government, so the government rather than a private banking cartel got the benefit of the arrangement
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Sure the Americans may have lost 7 million manufacturing jobs from the height of their manufacturing days.
But they gained 53 million service sector jobs
33 million of them higher paying jobs than their manufacturing jobs
So with more jobs, more higher paying jobs, and added saving from imported goods
did the average American Invest, save, or even throw that money under the mattress????
No
they spent those added earnings, and thenborrowed to spend some more
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The U.S. Lost 7 Million Manufacturing Jobs--And Added 33 Million Higher-Paying Service Jobs
Itâs also nonsense. The truth is that America has lost some 7 million manufacturing jobs and added some 53 million jobs in services. This is just what happens with advanced economiesâitâs easier to increase productivity in manufacturing than it is in services, this is the heart of Baumolâs Cost Disease. As it was easier to increase productivity in agriculture through mechanising it than it was in manufacturing. Thus, over time, the proportion of the workforce engaged in agriculture falls, so too does the proportion in manufacturing. And given that services (with a couple of small adjustments for mining, construction and utilities) is the name we give to all the rest of the economy therefore an increasing portion of the labour force ends up in services.
Further, of those 53 million new jobs some 62% of them were in higher paying occupations than those âhigh paying good jobsâ in manufacturing we lost. Yes, really, 33 million higher paying jobs came along to replace those 7 million lost. Which does, when you look at those numbers properly, seem like rather a good deal.
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China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
The creative solution? The Beijing government set up special-purpose asset management companies for the four largest state-owned banks, the equivalent of the "special purpose vehicles" designed by Wall Street to funnel real estate loans off U.S. bank books. The Chinese entities ultimately bought $287 billion in bad loans from state-owned banks. To pay for the loans, they issued bonds to the banks, on which they paid interest. The state-owned banks thus got $287 billion in toxic debt off their books and turned the bad loans into an income stream from the bonds.
Sound familiar? Wall Street did the same thing in the 2008 bailout, with the U.S. government underwriting the deal. The difference was that China's largest banks were owned by the government, so the government rather than a private banking cartel got the benefit of the arrangement. According to British economist Samah El-Shahat, writing in Al Jazeera in August 2009:
China hasn't allowed its banking sector to become so powerful, so influential, and so big that it can call the shots or highjack the bailout. In simple terms, the government preferred to answer to its people and put their interests first before that of any vested interest or group. And that is why Chinese banks are lending to the people and their businesses in record numbers.
In the US and UK, by contrast:
banks have captured all the money from the taxpayers and the cheap money from quantitative easing from central banks. They are using it to shore up, and clean up their balance sheets rather than lend it to the people. The money has been hijacked by the banks, and our governments are doing absolutely nothing about that. In fact, they have been complicit in allowing this to happen.
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Ethnic Chinese/overseas Chinese were the biggest FDI investors into China during its 30 years of double digit growth. And serve as bridge these days for China FDI into ASEAN countries
Does it matter?
Ethnic Chinese dominate the economies of these countries.
And these countries are dependent on the Chinese economy
Plus when it comes to Asean countries
China has an ace up its sleeve
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China Is Winning the Race for Water
Security in Asia Great power competition in Asia is not only about control of critical waterways in the South China Sea, but also about who controls Asiaâs fresh water. The future of Asiaâs waterâupon which about four billion people dependâlies in Chinaâs hands.
Through its presence in Tibet, China controls the headwaters of ten of the eleven major rivers of Asia. So far, China has taken a relatively cooperative approach to sharing water with its neighbors as part of the systematic consolidation of its âsoft powerâ over downstream countries.
But climate change and rapid growth are threatening to upset this delicate diplomatic balance. What happens when Chinaâs own thirst outpaces its resources?
And how will Chinaâs choices affect U.S. interests in the strategic Asia-Pacific region? China has positioned itself as a world leader on climate change and set ambitious goals for environmental protection.
However, due to the pace of urban as well as industrial expansion and its often-lax enforcement of pollution control regulations, China continues to consume as much coal as the rest of the world combined. Its approach to combatting climate change and resource scarcity, which emphasizes engineering solutions over better resource management, has resulted in dramatic infrastructure projects.
These include a series of hydro-electric dams meant to address the countryâs severe water shortage challenges by giving it more control over the continentâs rivers, as well as to generate electricity. These construction projects mean China can bestow or withhold water as it sees fit, leaving downstream Asian countries vulnerable to Beijingâs decisions. For example, Chinese hydroelectric dams along the Brahmaputra River have proven to be a source of friction with India, exacerbating long-simmering border disputes.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Except it was the USA who thought it was a good idea to cut off chip and chip making equipment to China
Thinking the Chinese could not innovative when the Chinese lead the world in 37 out of 44 critical technologies of the future
Chinese had virtually no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
Now they are going after legacy chip markets
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors?
27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products. In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales.
Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants. Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices. As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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Chinese had virtually no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
Now they are going after legacy chip markets
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors?
27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products. In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales.
Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants. Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices. As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese Government trying to get their people to use homegrown chips
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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This Week at War: An Arms Race America Canât Win
The United States has no chance in ship-for-ship showdown with China. Luckily, it shouldn't have to have one.
Of course, counting ships does not tell the whole story. Even more critical are the missions assigned to these ships and the conditions under which they will fight. In a hypothetical conflict between the United States and China for control of the South and East China Seas, the continental power would enjoy substantial structural advantages over U.S. forces.
China, for instance, would be able to use its land-based air power, located at many dispersed and hardened bases, against naval targets. The ONI forecasts Chinaâs inventory of maritime strike aircraft rising from 145 in 2009 to 348 by 2020. U.S. land-based air power in the Western Pacific operates from just a few bases, which are vulnerable to missile attack from China (the Cold War-era Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty prevents the United States from developing theater-based surface-to-surface missiles with ranges sufficient to put Chinese bases at risk). A comparison of ship counts similarly does not include Chinaâs and-based anti-ship cruise missiles, fired from mobile truck launchers. Nor does it account for Chinaâs fleet of coastal patrol
boats, also armed with anti-ship cruise missiles.
The Air-Sea Battle concept began as an effort to improve staff coordination and planning between the Navy and the Air Force in an effort to address the structural disadvantages these forces would have when going up against a well-armed continental power like China. The concept is about creating operational synergies between the services. An example of this synergy occurred in last yearâs campaign against Libya,when U.S. Navy cruise missiles destroyed Libyaâs air defense system,
clearing the way for the U.S. Air Force to operate freely over the
country.
But Air-Sea Battle still faces enormous challenges in overcoming the"home court" advantage a continental power enjoys deploying its missile forces from hidden, dispersed, and hardened sites. In addition, the United States faces a steep "marginal cost" problem with an opponent like China; additional defenses for U.S. ships are more expensive than additional Chinese missiles. And China can acquire hundreds or even
thousands of missiles for the cost of one major U.S. warship.
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The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China
(Because America might lose.)
The war began in the early morning hours with a massive bombardment â Chinaâs version of âshock and awe.â Chinese planes and rockets swiftly destroyed most of Taiwanâs navy and air force as the Peopleâs Liberation army and navy mounted a massive amphibious assault across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait. Having taken seriously President Joe Bidenâs pledge to defend the island, Beijing also struck pre-emptively at U.S. and allied air bases and ships in the Indo-Pacific. The U.S. managed to even the odds for a time by deploying more sophisticated submarines as well as B-21 and B-2 stealth bombers to get inside Chinaâs air defense zones, but Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days and saw its network access severed. The United States and its main ally, Japan, lost thousands of servicemembers, dozens of ships, and hundreds of aircraft. Taiwanâs economy was devastated. And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild, taking years to replace ships as it reckoned with how shriveled its industrial base had become compared to Chinaâs.
The Chinese âjust ran rings around us,â said former Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten in one after-action report. âThey knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it.â
Dozens of versions of the above war-game scenario have been enacted over the last few years, most recently in April by the House Select Committee on competition with China. And while the ultimate outcome in these exercises is not always clear â the U.S. does better in some than others â the cost is. In every exercise the U.S. uses up all its long-range air-to-surface missiles in a few days, with a substantial portion of its planes destroyed on the ground. In every exercise the U.S. is not engaged in an abstract push-button war from 30,000 feet up like the ones Americans have come to expect since the end of the Cold War, but a horrifically bloody one.
And thatâs assuming the U.S.-China war doesnât go nuclear.
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Can Anyone Talk to China Anymore? Probably Not
Why would China so brazenly challenge the worldâs economic powers like this? Because the countryâs leaders know what our leaders are only beginning to understand â that China would probably win a global trade war.
In March 2009, the Pentagon for the first time held a series of economic war games exercises. The soldiers were Wall Street traders and executives, economists and academics. The weapons were stocks, bonds and currencies. The participants were divided into teams: the U.S., China, Russia, Japan, the European Union and so on. Then the teams were presented with different scenarios â North Korea is imploding, a major global economy is melting down â and told to do what was in their best interests. Our intelligence experts watched as the economic conflicts played out.
What the exercises showed was that the U.S. consistently lost to China in economic warfare. Part of the reason was that the U.S. could be easily distracted by expensive side conflicts that sapped our economic strength. But the more important reason was that China could inflict real pain on the U.S. without feeling it at home. For instance, by simply moving the maturities of some of its $850 billion in Treasury holdings from 90 days to 60 days, it could cause chaos in the U.S. stock markets. Or China could sell just a trickle of its U.S. financial assets and signal that it didnât have confidence in the U.S. economy, setting off a panic here.
The overall lesson from the exercise was that, for all of our saber-rattling, in our weakened economic state we have to be careful about poking this dragon. And whatâs more, everyone involved knows it.
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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The US crackdown on Chinese economic espionage is a mess. We have the data to show it.
The US governmentâs China Initiative sought to protect national security. In the most comprehensive analysis of cases to date, MIT Technology Review reveals how far it has strayed from its goals.
The effect of all these cases on Chinese, Chinese American, and scientific communities has been profound.
A member survey of more than 3,200 physicists carried out in September by the American Physical Society found that more than 43% of foreign early-career researchers now consider the United States to be unwelcoming for international students and scholars. Less than 25% believe that the US federal government does a good job of balancing national security concerns with the research requirements for open science.
Another survey of nearly 2,000 scientists at 83 research institutions carried out by the University of Arizona with the Committee of 100, an advocacy group that focuses on US-China issues, found that 51% of scientists of Chinese descent, including US citizens and noncitizens, feel considerable fear, anxiety, or both, about being surveilled by the US government. This compares to just 12% of non-Chinese scientists.
Some respondents in the University of Arizona study indicated that this climate of fear has affected howâor whatâthey choose to research. One said they were limiting their work to only use data that is publicly available rather than collecting their own original data; one indicated that they would no longer host visitors from China; another said they would focus on what they call âsaferâ topics rather than âcutting edgeâ research.
The effects of the initiative stretch even further. No one knows the exact number of scientists who have returned to China as a result of investigations or charges, but in late 2020, John Demers, then the assistant attorney general for national security, said that âmore than 1,000 PLA-affiliated Chinese researchers left the country.â An additional group of 1,000 Chinese students and researchers had their visas revoked that September due to security concerns. How their security risks or affiliations with the Peopleâs Liberation Army of China were determined, however, has not been explained.
Randy Katz, a computer science professor at UC Berkeley who served as the universityâs vice chancellor for research until earlier this year, says the initiative will have a grave impact on US innovation.
âI am most concerned about how the initiative will deny the USA access to the worldâs best science and technology talent,â he said in an email. âRecently, as [many] as 40% of our international graduate students were from China. These students are heavily represented in the STEM fields, are highly competitively selectedâŚand represent a critical component of our research workforce. We want them to come and we want them to stay and innovate in the USA.â
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Malaysia clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines (In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines (off the shores of Malaysian land) if we are arguing strictly âproximityâ Malaysia wins in their dispute with the Philippines
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute in the SCS with China stems from the fact they made a formal proximity claim against China in 1971 on those disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE âhistorical claimâ that the Philippines formally dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal that the Filipinos unilaterally brought forth themselves
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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How Much Money Does the World Owe China?
Our research, based on a comprehensive new data set, shows that China has extended many more loans to developing countries than previously known. This systematic underreporting of Chinese loans has created a âhidden debtâ problem â meaning that debtor countries and international institutions alike have an incomplete picture on how much countries around the world owe to China and under which conditions.
In total, the Chinese state and its subsidiaries have lent about $1.5 trillion in direct loans and trade credits to more than 150 countries around the globe. This has turned China into the worldâs largest official creditor â surpassing traditional, official lenders such as the World Bank, the IMF, or all OECD creditor governments combined.
Despite the large size of Chinaâs overseas lending boom, no official data exists on the resulting debt flows and stocks. China does not report on its international lending, and Chinese loans literally fall through the cracks of traditional data-gathering institutions. For example, credit rating agencies, such as Moodyâs or Standard & Poorâs, or data providers, such as Bloomberg, focus on private creditors, but Chinaâs lending is state sponsored, and therefore off their radar screen. Debtor countries themselves often do not collect data on debt owed by state-owned companies, which are the main recipients of Chinese loans. In addition, China is not a member of the Paris Club (an informal group of creditor nations) or the OECD, both of which collect data on lending by official creditors.
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What is the volume of Chinese loans in Africa?
The Chinese press agency Xinhua gives lower figures on the extent of Chinese loans: âA report published last July by the British NGO Debt Justice showed that 12 percent of the external debt of African countries is owed to Chinese lenders, compared to 35 percent to Western private lenders. The average interest rate of these private loans is 5 percent, compared with 2.7 percent for loans from Chinese public and private lenders.â Source: Xinhua, Key Facts U.S. Deliberately Ignores about African Debt, 7/02/2023.
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive formula.
Using illegal labour from South East Asia. Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China
These are the same companies who got those trump tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales in Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So these companies could get more or better access into those Chinese Domestic markets
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest at
Why didnât China pull the nuclear option and boot these companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war. China. didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact hey weâre lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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JANUARY 30, 2023
3 MIN READ
China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing
Nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF. The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of Chinaâs economic growth in 2023
Other key findings of the analysis include:
Clean-energy investment rose 40% year-on-year to 6.3tn yuan ($890bn), with the growth accounting for all of the investment growth across the Chinese economy in 2023.
Chinaâs $890bn investment in clean-energy sectors is almost as large as total global investments in fossil fuel supply in 2023 â and similar to the GDP of Switzerland or Turkey.
Including the value of production, clean-energy sectors contributed 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to the Chinese economy in 2023, up 30% year-on-year.
Clean-energy sectors, as a result, were the largest driver of Chinaâ economic growth overall, accounting for 40% of the expansion of GDP in 2023.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, Chinaâs GDP would have missed the governmentâs growth target of âaround 5%â, rising by only 3.0%
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China supply us with drugs
China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is a option
But then even Fentanyl is a legal substance in Canada used in our hospitals
Itâs just Americans have no self control and abuse these drugs
Plus without those drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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âââ May 16, 2024,
Chinaâs lead on EV battery innovation has not slipped an inch
Insights from Nikkei Asia, TechCrunch, CNN
The world is lagging behind China on EV battery innovation to the extent that global manufacturers are barely able to compete.
Japanese auto giant Nissan, for instance, last month announced a âbreakthroughâ in the development of solid-state batteries â light alternatives with longer range compared to traditional lithium-ion EV batteries.
But China beat them to the punch. In April, EV maker Nio became the first manufacturer to commercially roll out solid-state batteries in their cars, complete with the promise that they are fully replaceable. Meanwhile, China also opened its first large-scale sodium-ion battery energy storage station, which could pave the way for next-gen EV batteries that do not rely on scarce, pricey lithium.
The race underscores the concern in Europe and the US that China faces little real competition when it comes to EVs.
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China's battery and car makers have joined forces as part of a government-led drive to build a solid-state battery supply chain by 2030.
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Btw same can be said about your Filipino claims to Sabah which is a historical claim
Vs their obvious proximity claim
Like I said you Filipinos are the ones who initiated that 2016 ICJ tribunal dismissing historical claim over your proximity claim
As you bully Malaysia over a historical claim
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The two main sultanates in the region at the time were Sulu and Brunei. In 1658, the Sultan of Brunei gave Sabah to the Sultan of Sulu - either as a dowry or because troops from Sulu had helped him quell a rebellion.
More than 350 years later, the sultan's heirs have come to remind Malaysians that they still consider Sabah to be part of Sulu and, by extension, part of the Philippines.
"Sabah is our home," they said simply when asked why they had come.
But history is not that simple and of course Malaysia has no intention of giving up Sabah to this little band of Filipinos.
The crux of their disagreement lies in a contract made in 1878, between the Sultanate of Sulu and the British North Borneo Company.
Under this contract known as pajak, the company could occupy Sabah in perpetuity as long as it paid a regular sum of money.
Even today, Malaysia pays about 5,000 Malaysian ringgit (ÂŁ1,000, $1,500) a year to the Sultanate of Sulu.
But the British and, after that an independent Malaysia, interpreted pajak to mean sale, while the Sulu Sultanate has always maintained it means lease.
"In my opinion, this is more consistent with a lease rather than a sale, because you can't have a purchase price which is not fixed and which is payable until kingdom come," said Harry Roque, a law professor at the University of the Philippines.
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Philippines under UNCLOS had every right to request a tribunal as a resolution
But
China under UNCLOS had every right not to accept the tribunal as a resolution
No one other than Taiwan accepts that 9 dash line claim. Which the tribunal did rule against
The tribunal did not rule on ownership of the disputed islands or waters
But what the tribunal did state was ... No one exhibited continuous control over the islands, reefs, water in dispute
That means all the other countries who also have their land and water disputes including China and the Philippines
Have dug into the land and water they control. And are basically saying talk to us in few hundred years
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Article 287
Choice of procedure
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein.
2. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall not affect or be affected by the obligation of a State Party to accept the jurisdiction of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the extent and in the manner provided for in Part XI, section 5.
3. A State Party, which is a party to a dispute not covered by a declaration in force, shall be deemed to have accepted arbitration in accordance with Annex VII.
4. If the parties to a dispute have accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to that procedure, unless the parties otherwise agree.
5. If the parties to a dispute have not accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to arbitration in accordance with Annex VII, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall remain in force until three months after notice of revocation has been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7. A new declaration, a notice of revocation or the expiry of a declaration does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
8. Declarations and notices referred to in this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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In addition, article 298, paragraph 1, allows States and entities to declare that they exclude the application of the compulsory binding procedures for the settlement of disputes under the Convention in respect of certain specified categories kinds of disputes. Article 298, paragraph 1, reads:
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Article 299 Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
To me sounds like instead of Tesla FSD they will export Baidu Robotaxis in Tesla vehicles
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
To me sounds like instead of Tesla FSD they will export Baidu Robotaxis in Tesla vehicles
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive formula.
Using illegal labour from South East Asia. Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China
These are the same companies who got those trump tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales in Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So these companies could get more or better access into those Chinese Domestic markets
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest at
Why didnât China pull the nuclear option and boot these companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war. China. didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact hey weâre lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
đ
Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found.
Mr. Trump won the presidency proclaiming himself a self-made billionaire, and he has long insisted that his father, the legendary New York City builder Fred C. Trump, provided almost no financial help.
But The Timesâs investigation, based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records, reveals that Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his fatherâs real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day.
Much of this money came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes. He and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show. Records indicate that Mr. Trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more. He also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parentsâ real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings.
These maneuvers met with little resistance from the Internal Revenue Service, The Times found. The presidentâs parents, Fred and Mary Trump, transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million under the 55 percent tax rate then imposed on gifts and inheritances.
The Trumps paid a total of $52.2 million, or about 5 percent, tax records show.
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There is now a 27 book series that says we copied from the Chinese
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Malaysia clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines (In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines off the shores of Malaysian land) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute in the SCS with China stems from the fact they made a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on those disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 ce historical claim that the Philippines formally dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal that the Filipinos unilaterally brought forth
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
To me sounds like instead of Tesla FSD they will export Baidu Robotaxis App in Tesla vehicles
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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China is going to complain just like the USA did when China did it to companies like Google
What else do you expect these countries to do?
This is where you Americans make your stand teens shaking their a zzzzz to the W app dance on TikTok ?????
You want a real threat: here is just 1 example
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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âââ China has an 820 billion dollar trade surplus with the world every year
Holding that much debt is the right amount The US FED crashed their credit markets selling about 600 to 700 billion in debt off its balance sheet over a 2 year period
Plus China has been doing this for over a decade we are just catching on right now
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Chinaâs Gold Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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How Much Money Does the World Owe China?
Our research, based on a comprehensive new data set, shows that China has extended many more loans to developing countries than previously known. This systematic underreporting of Chinese loans has created a âhidden debtâ problem â meaning that debtor countries and international institutions alike have an incomplete picture on how much countries around the world owe to China and under which conditions.
In total, the Chinese state and its subsidiaries have lent about $1.5 trillion in direct loans and trade credits to more than 150 countries around the globe. This has turned China into the worldâs largest official creditor â surpassing traditional, official lenders such as the World Bank, the IMF, or all OECD creditor governments combined.
Despite the large size of Chinaâs overseas lending boom, no official data exists on the resulting debt flows and stocks. China does not report on its international lending, and Chinese loans literally fall through the cracks of traditional data-gathering institutions. For example, credit rating agencies, such as Moodyâs or Standard & Poorâs, or data providers, such as Bloomberg, focus on private creditors, but Chinaâs lending is state sponsored, and therefore off their radar screen. Debtor countries themselves often do not collect data on debt owed by state-owned companies, which are the main recipients of Chinese loans. In addition, China is not a member of the Paris Club (an informal group of creditor nations) or the OECD, both of which collect data on lending by official creditors.
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China is hiding $3 trillion of foreign currency in 'shadow reserves,' adding unknown risks to the global economy, former Treasury official says
Filip De Mott Jun 30, 2023
Half of China's currency reserves are "hidden," a situation that may add risks to the global economy down the road, former Treasury Department official Brad Setser wrote.
While the country's State Administration of Foreign Exchange reported $3.12 trillion in foreign assets last December, Setser estimates that foreign exchange reserves actually sit at around $6 trillion.
"China is so big that how it manages its economy and currency matters enormously to the world," he wrote in The China Project. "Yet over time the way it manages its currency and its foreign exchange reserves has become much less transparent â creating new kinds of risks for the global economy."
A key indicator about China's reserves is a sudden pause in its reported activity. From 2002 to 2012, China's foreign exchange reserves steadily rose as the central bank bought US dollar assets to prevent China's yuan from appreciating too much, allowing exports to remain cheap.
But over the last 10 years, China's reserves stopped rising, which is puzzling as China's trade surplus has continued growing, and currently stands at an all-time high, he said.
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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China wonât allow ByteDance to sell TikTok off
Especially to an American company.
Because
It is the algorithms that make the company
Itâs not like the Chinese Central Government actually wants a Social Media App that they canât control and regulate, or to be out there possibly with people giving their unfettered opinions on China anyways
And yesâŚ.they already cracked down on Douyin the sister version of TikTok in China
So itâs highly likely the Chinese Government will force ByteDance to have TikToc just leave the US market.
Like their Government stated they would do
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A forced sale of TikTok in the US amounts to a downgrade of the app, as the Chinese government wonât approve the sale of its algorithms,â said Alex Capri, a research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation and a lecturer at the National University of Singaporeâs Business School.
âIf TikTok is forced to stop operating in the US, ByteDanceâs prospects in other mostly liberal democracies will come under further scrutiny,â he said.
If the Chinese government wonât let ByteDance relinquish TikTokâs algorithm, it could block the sale outright. Alternatively, it may allow TikTok to be sold without the lucrative algorithm that forms the basis for its popularity.
A US ban, or a less powerful version of TikTok,would be a windfall
for YouTube, Google, Instagram and other TikTok competitors, as many of its customers may jump ship, Capri said. And it would be a major hit to the global ambitions of ByteDance.
âIt [a TikTok ban] would be the end of ByteDanceâs global expansion, as it would be a sign that the Chinese state values the algorithmâs security more than ByteDanceâs financial prosperity and global expansion,â said Richard Windsor, tech industry analyst and founder of Radio Free Mobile, a research company based in the US.
âThe implications are that the ideological struggle being fought in the technology industry will become more intense.â
A ban on TikTok is also likely to accelerate a shift that is splitting the worldâs tech landscape into two blocs, one centered on the US, the other embracing tech from China, according to Capri.
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Chinese swimming scandal: a strong defence by world anti-doping body, but narrative of âcover-upâ remains
Published: April 24, 2024
Given an investigation by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security found traces of the banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ) in a kitchen at the swimmersâ hotel, CHINADA ruled the positive tests were the result of accidental contamination. The Chinese swimmers were cleared without any public announcement.
WADA says Chinaâs national anti-doping agency kept them abreast of events throughout their extensive investigation, which took place during strict COVID lockdowns and was impacted by a local outbreak of the virus.
Far from accepting CHINADAâs findings on the face of it, WADA requested the entire case file so it could conduct its own scientific and legal investigations â including speaking with the drug manufacturer to get the latest unpublished science on TMZ, and comparing the Chinese positive tests with TMZ cases in other countries, including the US. WADA ultimately determined there was no concrete evidence to âdisproveâ the possibility of environmental contamination.
Here are a few reasons WADA gave as to why in its press conference this week:
More than 200 swimmers competing in the Chinese National Championships were staying in at least two different hotels at the time. The swimmers who tested positive to non-performance-enhancing amounts of TMZ were all at one hotel.
There were fluctuating negative and positive results for the swimmers that were tested on multiple occasions, which were not consistent with deliberate doping techniques, including microdosing.
WADA found no evidence of misconduct or manipulation in the case file handed over by CHINADA.
WADA says it reviews between 2,000 and 3,000 cases of suspected doping every year. It is not unusual for the body to file an appeal challenging anti-doping findings.
For example, WADA challenged an Australian Football League decision to clear 34 members of the Essendon Football Club. It also appealed a decision by the world swimming body, FINA, to clear high-profile Chinese swimmer Sun Yang of wrongdoing for his conduct during a 2018 drug test.
According to WADAâs general counsel, Ross Wenzel, the difference between these cases and the more recent allegations against the Chinese swimmers was that the body accepted the âno faultâ finding in the latter case. In the earlier cases, it did not.
He also said WADA received external legal advice that it would have had less than a 1% chance of winning an appeal in the TMZ case. According to WADA, everything was handled by the book, and if the body was faced with the same situation again, it would do nothing differently.
Has China been unfairly singled out?
So, has WADA succeeded in changing the narrative? Probably not.
Why? Because putting the words âChinaâ and âdopingâ together is a lightning rod in the current political climate given the intense rivalry between China and the US.
Currently there are 23 people serving anti-doping suspensions in Australia. Do we feel personal or national shame for their wrongdoing?
Every time the US team marches into an Olympic Games, or steps up onto a World Championships medal podium, do we point at them while recalling memories of the US Postal Service cycling team and the banned-for-life cyclist Lance Armstrong?
But when it comes to China, many observers are quick to name and shame athletes, viewing every news story as some kind of proof the country must have a systemic, state-sanctioned doping program.
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Doping Prevalence among U.S. Elite Athletes Subject to Drug Testing under the World Anti-Doping Code
Depending on the method of calculation, 6.5â9.2% of the 1,398 respondents reported using one or more prohibited substances or methods in the 12 months prior to survey administration. Specific doping prevalence rates for each individual substance / method categories ranged from 0.1% (for both diuretics / masking agents and stem cell / gene editing) to 4.2% for in-competition use of cannabinoids.
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Lewis: âWho cares I failed drug test?â
Duncan Mackay
Thu 24 Apr 2003 01.51 BST
Carl Lewis has broken his silence on allegations that he was the beneficiary of a drugs cover-up, admitting he had tested positive for banned substances but claiming he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans.
"There were hundreds of people getting off," he said. "Everyone was treated the same."
Lewis has now acknowledged that he failed three tests during the 1988 US Olympic trials, which under international rules at the time should have prevented him from competing in the Seoul games two months later.
Carl Lewis has broken his silence on allegations that he was the beneficiary of a drugs cover-up, admitting he had tested positive for banned substances but claiming he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans.
"There were hundreds of people getting off," he said. "Everyone was treated the same."
Lewis has now acknowledged that he failed three tests during the 1988 US Olympic trials, which under international rules at the time should have prevented him from competing in the Seoul games two months later.
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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This is the Malay and Philippines dispute
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The two main sultanates in the region at the time were Sulu and Brunei. In 1658, the Sultan of Brunei gave Sabah to the Sultan of Sulu - either as a dowry or because troops from Sulu had helped him quell a rebellion.
More than 350 years later, the sultan's heirs have come to remind Malaysians that they still consider Sabah to be part of Sulu and, by extension, part of the Philippines.
"Sabah is our home," they said simply when asked why they had come.
But history is not that simple and of course Malaysia has no intention of giving up Sabah to this little band of Filipinos.
The crux of their disagreement lies in a contract made in 1878, between the Sultanate of Sulu and the British North Borneo Company.
Under this contract known as pajak, the company could occupy Sabah in perpetuity as long as it paid a regular sum of money.
Even today, Malaysia pays about 5,000 Malaysian ringgit (ÂŁ1,000, $1,500) a year to the Sultanate of Sulu.
But the British and, after that an independent Malaysia, interpreted pajak to mean sale, while the Sulu Sultanate has always maintained it means lease.
"In my opinion, this is more consistent with a lease rather than a sale, because you can't have a purchase price which is not fixed and which is payable until kingdom come," said Harry Roque, a law professor at the University of the Philippines.
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Chinaâs Gold Reserves Unveiled: Investigating Claims of Secret Hoarding and the Alleged Discrepancy
JANUARY 9, 2024
Based on these calculations, Frisby estimates that China has at around 33,000 tons of gold, with at least half being state-owned. That state-owned portion (16,500 tons) is double what the U.S. holds.
If China admits to the U.S., âWe got twice as much gold as you,â thatâs tantamount to a declaration of war,â according to Frisby. The yuan would become more valuable, gold would become more valuable, and China would become the leader of both of these assets.
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Chinese just saved Tesla again
Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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China is going to complain just like the USA did when China did it to companies like Google
What else do you expect these countries to do?
This is where you Americans make your stand teens shaking their a zzzzz to the W app dance on TikTok ?????
You want a real threat: here is just 1 example
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
đ
Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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 @kyungshim6483 the laundering that is f flowing into Canada is in line with money flows into any country at 5% to 7%
Where you are just taking away from the fact 95% to 93% of the money flowing into Canada comes here legally
Plus our Courts have ruled our Canadian banks donât have to follow Chinese laws as long as we are not breaking ours
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Judges: CIBC bank supports clients who break Chinaâs cash-export laws, to buy Vancouver homes
Canadian banks are not obliged to follow Chinaâs rules, and nor are they obliged to report clients whom they know to have broken them â so long as they are not breaking any Canadian rules in the process.
How far, then, will a financial institution go to satisfy the flood of Chinese millionaires looking to find new Canadian homes for their family and their funds?
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Canadian banks helping clients bend rules to move money out of China
It is illegal for Chinese citizens to remove more than $50,000 (U.S.) a year from China without government permission, partly to stop corrupt millionaires from fleeing with their money. But a review of B.C. court cases by The Globe found they have worked around this restriction by sending millions of dollars into Vancouver-area banks through multiple wire transactions of smaller amounts by family and friends.
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Judges: CIBC bank supports clients who break Chinaâs cash-export laws, to buy Vancouver homes
Canadian banks are not obliged to follow Chinaâs rules, and nor are they obliged to report clients whom they know to have broken them â so long as they are not breaking any Canadian rules in the process.
According to both the original judgment and the appeal ruling, it was the practice of CIBC to support clients dodging Chinaâs US$50,000 export limit. This was done by the client arranging for multiple individuals to make wire transfers of up to US$50,000 on their behalf, with the funds eventually reunited in Canada.
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 @Davido50 keep thinking that âŚ. 10 years ago the Chinese were not even in the conversation for cars
And that is not as difficult as forcing the Chinese to make their own equipment to make semiconductor chips
Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese
Where their Government was trying to get their people to switch to homegrown chips before the sanctions
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have themselves and their allies, lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When there is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world copied from them
And China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing over 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year, within the products they export
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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ActuallyâŚ. China moves in money, assets and even State owned enterprises into its Central Government run pension plan
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Through a central coordination mechanism, over 930 billion yuan ($147.58 billion) from the national pool went to make up for the shortfalls of local pension schemes last year alone.
China's basic old-age insurance, a key program to ensure people's well-being after retirement, has been evolving to a larger-scale management system since its establishment in the 1990s. The central coordination mechanism was set up in 2018 as the first step prior to building a national system to further address unbalanced pension burdens nationwide.
But issues deriving from disparities in regional economic development and demographic structure still exist.
"Some regions have more surpluses, while the others with older populations are under heavier pressure to make pension payments," said Qi Tao, an official from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
In 2021, over 210 billion yuan from the coordination mechanism went to the central and western regions as well as the northeastern "rust belt" provinces, as a greying population weighs on their pension payments and growing labor outflows squeeze pension income.
Using a nationwide chessboard as a metaphor, the head of the China Association of Social Security Zheng Gongcheng said the new national system will make the pension benefits fairer. "People won't need to sacrifice their pensions for migrating to work, and retirees won't have to deal with the risks from local pension fund shortfalls."
Qi said a mechanism that assigns the respective expenditure responsibilities of central and local governments on pension funds will be built after the national program comes into force and the central government will not roll back its subsidy to the pension funds.
Apart from the coordination efforts and central subsidy, state assets totaling 1.68 trillion yuan from 93 centrally-administered enterprises and financial institutions have also been transferred to replenish the pension schemes.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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The Chinese Treasure Fleet in 15th century Philippines
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* It was the people of our archipelago who discovered Magellan and the Europeans in 1521, not the other way around, as most Filipinos were taught by our grade-school textbooks. Our islands and their inhabitants were well-known to a larger, richer world that of Chinese emperors and scholars and Arab traders, as early as the 9th, even 6th centuries. And certainly by 1000 A.D., our shores were regular ports of call in the trade with China, then the most powerful nation on earth.
Chinese chronicles, European archaeologists and the diggings in our pre-colonial burial grounds prove that those ancient Filipinos used fine porcelain, weights and measures imported from China, and recorded written contracts. Chao-Ju-Kua reported that Chinese traders visited Ma-I (Luzon) regularly, leaving silks, porcelain and metal utensils on the beaches of designated islands, and returning weeks later to collect payment in the form of beeswax, gold dust, carabao horn, ginger, cinnamon or garlic. It was an import-export system run on a reliable honor system with unquestioned good faith. (Tell that to our Bureau of Customs.) âFilipinos had long been literate when Magellan came.â writes Harvard historian Laurence Bergreen, one of the sources of this article.
* When Magellanâs Spanish Armada hove into view in March 1521, the natives of Homonhon in the Visayas must have taken pity on the small black ships with tattered sails and scruffy, starving, disoriented sailors, for they sent a small rowboat packed with rice, coconuts and bananas to their rescue. On the next island, the white, bearded strangers were feted in a bamboo palace with a banquet of roast fish, pork, turtle eggs and palm wine, by a native king whose queen wore a black-and-white gown, red lips and nails, while a quartet of young, topless damsels played music on various gongs and drums.
Those early Filipinos had been more accustomed to the tall, prosperous, Chinese ships with a trio of feathery sails stiffened with battens, for the China trade had been in place for at least 500 years. During the Ming Dynasty, Filipinos enjoyed the visits of the Treasure Fleet (1405-1500) of Admiral Cheng Ho (Zhen He) a huge, 7-ft tall, powerful eunuch, who had built 1,500 massive, 500-ft ships in a giant shipyard in Nanking with the help of 30,000 workers. The luxurious ships, each manned by 1,000 sailors ruled the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
* But the Chinese were not interested in conquest or territorial aggrandizement. Their purposes were trade and diplomacy. That was what our ancestors expected when they first saw the Spanish Armada.
Filipinos had never seen white men before Magellan and never thought the strangers would be as rapacious and predatory as they would prove to be. They assumed the new foreigners to be poor and needy because they had only glass beads, a string of little bells and a red cap (Magellanâs gifts) to reciprocate the native prodigality. The white men were, in fact, so dazzled by the earrings, chains, armlets and anklets, of pure gold, worn by both the native men and women that Magellan had to warn them against showing their covetousness.
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These days China supplies the precursor ingredients that go into making those drugs
China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is an unlikely option
Since Fentanyl is a legal substance, used in US Hospitals
Plus without those Chinese drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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Chinese Government has banned TicTok in China themselves
and are wary about these Social Media Sites
With that said this is really about China and US relations
More accurately the US/China trade war
Where the real goal isnât trade deficits
Itâs to get more or better access for US multinationals into Chinese Domestic markets
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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They learned well from you Americans
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State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses
By Josh Rogin
April 14, 2020 at 5:0
* In January 2018, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing took the unusual step of repeatedly sending U.S. science diplomats to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which had in 2015 become Chinaâs first laboratory to achieve the highest level of international bioresearch safety (known as BSL-4). WIV issued a news release in English about the last of these visits, which occurred on March 27, 2018.
*During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory,â states the Jan. 19, 2018, cable, which was drafted by two officials from the embassyâs environment, science and health sections who met with the WIV scientists. (The State Department declined to comment on this and other details of the story.)
The Chinese researchers at WIV were receiving assistance from the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch and other U.S. organizations, but the Chinese requested additional help. The cables argued that the United States should give the Wuhan lab further support, mainly because its research on bat coronaviruses was important but also dangerous.
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 @palirvin1871 who says these homes have to have people in them?
But there is an easy fix with the Chinese Government crackdown on real estate m/speculation even after 14 year warning???
The people who are owed homes by these developers can take a higher end home
And the few hundred million rural folks still expected to move to the cities
Can buy these homes built by Developers at a discounted price
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Do Chinaâs ghost cities offer a solution to Europeâs migrant crisis?
Even though there are between 20 and 45 million unoccupied homes
across China, which account for roughly 600 million square meters of
uninhabited floor space â enough to completely cover Madrid â these places are not the urban wastelands they are often posited to be.
While many of Chinaâs new cities and urban districts are deficient in people they are not deficient in owners. Nearly every apartment that goes on the market in China is quickly purchased, often at exorbitant prices that commonly range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Far from being unwanted infrastructure that could seamlessly be doled out to refugees, those arrays of vacant high-rises are actually the proud possessions of people who paid a lot of money for them.
So why would anyone spend incredible amounts of cash on houses they do not intent to use?
All over the world, the value of property extends beyond the utilitarian function of being a place to live. Real estate is also a vital economic entity that presents an avenue for investment as well as a way of storing wealth â a use of
property that is taken to the extreme in China. âMany Chinese investors are buying property based on expectations of appreciation, and that it is a solid, safe investment that they can easily understand,â said Mark Tanner, the founding director of China Skinny, a Shanghai based marketing research firm.
A full 39 percent of individual wealth in China is kept in housing, and, according to Nomura, 21 percentof Chinaâs urban households possess more than one home. The reasons for this desire to invest in housing often results from a lack of better options. Chinaâs banks pay negative interest and are becoming even more unattractive with the recent wave of currency devaluation. Wealth management products are not fully developed and are highly regulated by the government, and the stock market is viewed to be about as secure as a casino.
Another reason for the sheer number of unused apartments in China is the fact that there is often little financial incentive for owners to do anything with them after purchase.
There is no yearly property tax in China, so vacant properties are not an financial drain on their owners.
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Do China's ghost cities offer a solution to Europe's migrant crisis?
Even though there are between 20 and 45 million unoccupied homes across China, which account for roughly 600 million square meters of uninhabited floor space - enough to completely cover Madrid - these places are not the urban wastelands they are often posited to be. While many of China's new cities and urban districts are deficient in people they are not deficient in owners. Nearly every apartment that goes on the market in China is quickly purchased, often at exorbitant prices that commonly range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Far from being unwanted infrastructure that could seamlessly be doled out to refugees, those arrays of vacant high-rises are actually the proud possessions of people who paid a lot of money for them.
A huge portion of the homes that are purchased in China function very much like stocks or a trade-able commodity. As an incredible number of new apartments are sold as unfinished concrete cavities without any interior fit out or even windows, they are in no way immediately livable. Strange as it may seem, they are very actively bought and sold in this bare-bones form. In fact, investors often prefer them that way. In many ways they are purely economic entities, quantifiable placeholders of value that are traded on the open market akin to precious metals. Just as one doesn't need to mold a piece of gold into something usable, like a piece of jewelry, for it to have value and an economic function, an apartment in China doesn't need to have people living in it for it to be economically viable.
"Empty units leave flexibility for quick sales in a changing market or need to cash in quickly," said Barry Wilson, the founding director of Barry Wilson Project Initiatives, a Hong Kong-based urban design firm.
Another reason for the sheer number of unused apartments in China is the fact that there is often little financial incentive for owners to do anything with them after purchase. There is no yearly property tax in China, so vacant properties are not a financial drain on their owners.
While the potential returns that could be had from renting them out (1 percent or so) is often not worth the hassle - especially because it costs tens of thousands of dollars to construct the interiors of new apartments in preparation for tenants. This is combined with the fact that Chinese homeowners, especially investors who have multiple properties, are remarkably un-leveraged. According to Mark Tanner, over 80 percent of homes in China are owned outright.
This means that most homeowners, especially the big investors with multiple properties, generally don't have any mortgages to pay off or any other leans, so there isn't as much financial pressure to make a profit from these homes in the short term.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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A nation of outlaws
A century ago, that wasn't China -- it was us
One hundred and fifty years ago, even America's closest trade partners were despairing about our cheating ways. Charles Dickens, who visited in 1842, was, like many Britons, stunned by the economic ambition of our nation's inhabitants, and appalled by what they would do for the sake of profit. When he first stepped off the boat in Boston, he found the city's bookstores rife with pirated copies of his novels, along with those of his countrymen. Dickens would later deliver
lectures decrying the practice, and wrote home in outrage: "my blood so boiled as I thought of the monstrous injustice." In the United States of the early 19th century, capitalism as we know it today was still very much in its infancy. Most people still lived on small farms, and despite the persistent myth that America was the land of laissez-faire, there were plenty of laws on the books aimed at keeping tight reins on the market economy. But as commerce became more complex, and stretched over greater distances, this patchwork system of local and state-level regulations was gradually overwhelmed by a new generation of wheeler-dealer entrepreneurs.
Taking a page from the British, who had pioneered many ingenious methods of adulteration a generation or two earlier, American manufacturers, distributors, and vendors of food began tampering with their products en masse -- bulking out supplies with cheap filler, using dangerous additives to mask spoilage or to give foodstuffs a more appealing color.
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America and itâs NATO lackeys
both Russia and Ukraine receive dual use exported goods from China
we know this because the Ukrainians started to use Chinese made retail toy store drones over US made military grade drones
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Ukraine and Israel buying Chinese civilian drones for combat use; shun U.S military drones
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How American Drones Failed to Turn the Tide in Ukraine
Drones from American startups have been deemed glitchy and expensive, prompting Ukraine to turn to alternatives from China
Updated April 10, 2024 at 4:56 pm ET
The Silicon Valley company Skydio sent hundreds of its best drones to Ukraine to help fight the Russians. Things didnât go well.
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Chinese UAVs âOutperformâ US Drones In Ukraine War; WSJ Report Calls US-Made UAVs Fragile & Ineffective
April 10, 2024
According to WSJ, most small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) developed by American firms have struggled to perform in combat scenarios.
This development blows the hopes of these companies, who anticipated that combat testing would bolster sales and attention for their products.
Moreover, it poses challenges for the Pentagon, which requires a reliable supply of thousands of small drones for various purposes. Sources cited in the report, including drone company executives, Ukrainian frontline personnel, government officials, and former US military officials, outline several key issues plaguing US-made drones.
These include exorbitant costs, technical faults, and complex repair processes. In particular, Ukrainian officials have found US-made drones to be fragile and ineffective against Russian jamming and GPS blackout technology.
Instances have been reported where these drones failed to take off, complete missions, or return safely. Moreover, they often fall short of advertised flight distances and payload capacities.
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American drones are glitching and getting lost in Ukraine, giving way to a flood of Chinese drones
Chris Panella Apr 10, 2024, 3:44 PM ET
American-made drones haven't excelled on the battlefield, prompting Ukraine to turn to buying Chinese-made drones.
* The problems with many US-made drones, particularly some of the smaller ones, are that they often don't function as advertised or planned and easily glitch when targeted by Russian jamming, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
They are fragile and vulnerable to electronic warfare. For some of the systems that were sent to Ukraine, issues included not taking off, getting lost and not returning home, or simply failing to meet mission expectations.
* US drones are also typically far more expensive than comparable models. And at the rate Ukraine is burning through them, it wouldn't be feasible. Instead, Ukraine is turning to systems made by Chinese companies for cheaper and often more reliable alternatives.
Chinese DJI drones have long played a role in the war, with Ukraine buying many of the retail models. Ukrainian forces sometimes strap bombs directly on them for a makeshift one-way attack drone or use them to drop grenades.
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China's trade turnover with Ukraine rises by 46.6% to $1.5 bln in January-February
18 March 2024 23:30 (UTC+04:00)
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Intel Brags of $152 Billion in Stock Buybacks Over Last 35 Years. So Why Does It Need an $8 Billion Subsidy?
Whatâs to stop the chip-making giant from shoveling taxpayer grants into more stock buybacks?
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Mar 27, 2024
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Intel, the largest chip maker in America, with 2023 revenues of $54 billion, has just been awarded an $8.5 billion grant from the federal CHIPS and Science Act, plus $11 billion in favorable loans.
In addition to badly needed microchips, Intel produces totally useless stock buybacks. On its website the company proudly proclaims to have spent $152 billion on stock buybacks since 1990. Thatâs not a typo: $152,000,000,000. Which is why I call it "Stock Buybacks ĐŻ Us."
Intel took $152 billion of its revenues, some portion of which could have been used for R&D and building new microchip facilities in the U.S. as well as paying workers more, and instead funneled it to its largest Wall Street stockholders and corporate executives, enriching the top fraction of the top one percent.
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Hong Kongers crying for their freedoms are just naive babies
I live in a democracy where they let career criminals with a 50 offence
Rap sheet out the net day on bail after committing yet another crime
Gaaaaawd forbid you do anything to the criminal trying to stop them
We even have law enforcement tell us to put our car keys by the front door so when a criminal breaks in they wonât confront you for those car keys
These naive Hong Kongers think life is better in democratic countries then they can always a leave
They are already going to China to shop and eat these days in droves
O wait
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BN(O) visa immigrants: Study reveals 50% unemployment rate among Hong Kongers under 65 in the U.K., 99% have no plans to return
* 22nd November 2023 â (London) A recent study conducted by the âWelcoming Committee for Hong Kongersâ organisation, which assists Hong Kongers who have immigrated to the U.K. through the BN(O) Visa, has shed light on the employment situation of these individuals. The study surveyed over 2,000 Hong Kong immigrants and found that only 50% of those under the age of 65 were able to secure employment, indicating a significant unemployment rate among this group.
The study also highlighted the educational background of BN(O) Hong Kongers in the U.K. It revealed that 36% of the surveyed individuals held a masterâs or doctoral degree, while 23% had a postgraduate degree. These figures indicate that BN(O) Hong Kongers in the U.K are nearly twice as well-educated as the average UK population.
* However, despite their educational qualifications, many BN(O) Hong Kongers are facing difficulties in securing employment that matches their skills and experience. Among those surveyed who were employed, 47% felt that their job did not align with their qualifications, and 20% felt that their workload was excessive.
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Despite De-risking, Chinaâs Role in Global Smartphone Supply Chains Remains Resilient
Published: March 14, 2024
For example, after shuttering its last smartphone plant in China, Samsung retained its semiconductor production, supplying chips for its smartphones in the Chinese cities of Xiâan, Tianjin, and Suzhou. Relocating these semiconductor manufacturing facilities seems unlikely in the short term, as it would take years and tens of billions of dollars to build new ones. Domestic suppliers in China â BOE tech, for instance â continue to capture 15.6 per cent ofSamsungâs supply chain, providing essential smartphone components, such as display panels, that are difficult for foreign firms to find substitutes given the Chinese suppliersâ advantages in market share, ownership of patents, and cost-effectiveness.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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There is now a 27 book series on what the Chinese invented first?
that says we in the west copied or stole from them
If you took the time to read those books you will find in the vast majority of the cases,
there is no specific inventor(s) name(s) attributed to an invention
Rather it is the Chinese invented such and such in such in such a century
This guy explains it the best
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From Gongkai to Open Source
My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping.
Meanwhile, Western entrepreneurs often find themselves trapped in a spiderweb of IP frameworks, spending more money on lawyers than on tooling.
Further investigation taught me that the Chinese have a parallel system of traditions and ethics around sharing IP, which lead me to coin the term âgongkaiâ. This is deliberately not the Chinese word for âOpen Sourceâ, because that word (kaiyuan) refers to openness in a Western-style IP framework, which this not. Gongkai is more a reference to the fact that copyrighted documents, sometimes labeled âconfidentialâ and âproprietaryâ, are made known to the public and shared overtly, but not necessarily according to the letter of the law. However, this copying isnât a one-way flow of value, as it would be in the case of copied movies or music.
Rather, these documents are the knowledge base needed to build a phone using the copyright ownerâs chips, and as such, this sharing of documents helps to promote the sales of their chips. There is ultimately, if you will, a quid-pro-quo between the copyright holders and the copiers.
This fuzzy, gray relationship between companies and entrepreneurs is just one manifestation of a much broader cultural gap between the East and the West.
The West has a âbroadcastâ view of IP and ownership: good ideas and innovation are credited to a clearly specified set of authors or inventors, and society pays them a royalty for their initiative and good works.
China has a ânetworkâ view of IP and ownership: the far-sight necessary to create good ideas and innovations is attained by standing on the shoulders of others, and as such there is a network of people who trade these ideas as favors among each other.
In a system with such a loose attitude toward IP, sharing with the network is necessary as tomorrow it could be your friend standing on your shoulders, and youâll be looking to them for favors.
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Nine Chinese cars scored five stars in Euro NCAP in 2023
In 2023, Euro NCAP crash-tested 17 cars. Nine of them were Chinese EVs, accumulating over 50% of assessed vehicles. According to E-NCAP, Chinese manufacturers were anxious to prove their relevance to European buyers. They have achieved this goal because every evaluated made-in-China car got five stars.Dec 11, 2023
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Government data show gasoline vehicles are up to 100x more prone to fires than EVs
New study shows EV fires are far less common than in gas vehicles.
According to findings pointed out by AutoInsuranceEZ, vehicles that operate using gasoline are tenfold more likely to catch fire compared to EVs.
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Youâre Wrong About EV Fires
Gas- and diesel-powered vehicles catch fire way more often than EVs, but you wouldnât know that from the headlines.
Jul 11, 2023
Combustion-Powered Vehicles Are 29 Times More Likely To Catch Fire
According to MSB data, there are nearly 611,000 EVs and hybrids in Sweden as of 2022.
With an average of 16 EV and hybrid fires per year, there's a 1 in 38,000 chance of fire.
There are a total of roughly 4.4 million gas- and diesel-powered passenger vehicles in Sweden, with an average of 3,384 fires per year, for a 1 in 1,300 chance of fire.
That means gas- and diesel-powered passenger vehicles are 29 times more likely to catch fire than EVs and hybrids.
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Electric Vehicle Fires: How Often Do They Really Occur?
Should an electric vehicle catch fire, it is more likely to happen while being parked or during charging. And where there is electricity, there are potential ignition sources," says Egelhaaf. However, the electric vehicle itself is rarely the cause." The cause can be an improper charger or that the building's electrical installation is not designed for charging electric cars," explains Egelhaaf.
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China is pivoting to green clean renewables etc etc etc
away from real estate and speculation
America complains China subsidizes well duuuuuuh
America was complaining Chima was the worlds biggest polluter
Now they are throwing even more money into clean,green, renewable etc etc
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JANUARY 30, 2023
3 MIN READ
China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing
Nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF. The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of Chinaâs economic growth in 2023
Other key findings of the analysis include:
Clean-energy investment rose 40% year-on-year to 6.3tn yuan ($890bn), with the growth accounting for all of the investment growth across the Chinese economy in 2023.
Chinaâs $890bn investment in clean-energy sectors is almost as large as total global investments in fossil fuel supply in 2023 â and similar to the GDP of Switzerland or Turkey.
Including the value of production, clean-energy sectors contributed 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to the Chinese economy in 2023, up 30% year-on-year.
Clean-energy sectors, as a result, were the largest driver of Chinaâ economic growth overall, accounting for 40% of the expansion of GDP in 2023.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, Chinaâs GDP would have missed the governmentâs growth target of âaround 5%â, rising by only 3.0%
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Chinese Government has banned TicTok in China themselves
and are wary about these Social Media Sites
With that said this is really about China and US relations
More accurately the US/China trade war
Where the real goal isnât trade deficits
Itâs to get more or better access for US multinationals into Chinese Domestic markets
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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I thought you in bread Bible thumping fache news Americans wanted children to be born
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Alabama hospital to stop IVF services at end of the year due to "litigation concerns"
healthwatch
By Sara Moniuszko
Edited By Paula Cohen
April 4, 2024
An Alabama hospital says it is stopping IVF treatments at the end of 2024, citing litigation concerns. It follows a tumultuous few months in which the state's supreme court ruled that frozen embryos created through in vitro fertilization, or IVF, are considered children, and then a new state law was passed to offer more legal protection for IVF.
"In order to assist families in Alabama and along the Gulf Coast who have initiated the process of IVF therapy in the hopes of starting a family, Mobile Infirmary has temporarily resumed IVF treatments at the hospital. However, in light of litigation concerns surrounding IVF therapy, Mobile Infirmary will no longer be able to offer this service to families after December 31, 2024," says a statement shared Wednesday on the hospital's website.
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there was another reason there was that border incursion
Around the same time even Russia was pushing for a Chinese vote to allow India to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council
If China really wanted that disputed land???
they could have damned up the river upstream and made that a dried up river bed
China just found another 120 years worth of Rare Earths at (todayâs consumption levels) near the border upstream from the rivers that feed India
the Chinese could just announce the plan to mine and refine the highly polluting process of refining rare earths. (1 ton of rare earths produces 2000 tons of toxic waste water)
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China has claimed express ownership over Tibetâs waters, making it an upstream controller of seven of South Asiaâs mightiest rivers â the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Yangtze and Mekong. These rivers flow into Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, and form the largest river run-off from any single location. It is estimated that 718 billion cubic meters of surface water flows out of the Tibetan plateau and the Chinese-administered regions of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia to neighbouring countries each year.
Nearly half that water, 48%, runs directly into India.
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ChatGTP lol
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Nvidia cuts China AI chip prices amid competition from Huawei-
Reuters
Among the three, the H20, which is the most powerful, was seeing subdued demand in China, and in some cases, was being sold at an over 10% discount to a similar offering from Huawei- the Ascend 910B, the Reuters report said.
The Ascend 910B was also seeing substantially more orders than the H20 from state-backed enterprises, Reuters said, citing limited government data. This came following a mandate from Beijing for state enterprises to use China-made silicon.
The 910B is the most advanced Chinese AI chip, and has shot up in popularity in the country following U.S. sanctions that attempted to block Chinaâs access to the latest AI advancements.
Its popularity in China presents more headwinds for Nvidiaâs business in the country. The chipmaker has struggled to maintain its foothold in Chinese markets following the U.S. sanctions.
During its first quarter earnings this week, the company warned that China was becoming an increasingly competitive market, and that the firmâs data center revenue in China fell âsignificantly.â
Steep discounts on the H20 also present more margin pressure for Nvidia.
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China saved Tesla from bankruptcy 5 years ago
And apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored over there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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I usually wait for someone to argue debt is debt
Then I give them this article
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Difference Between Internal Debt and External Debt!
The basic character of an internal debt is quite different from that of the external debt. In external debt, at the time of repayment there is a real transfer of resources.
In case of internal debt, however, since it is borrowed from individuals and institutions within the country repayment will constitute only a re-distribution of resources without causing any change in the total resources of the community.
There can, thus, be no direct money burden caused by internal debts since all payments cancel each other out in the aggregate community as a whole. Whatever is taxed from one section of the community servicing the debts is distributed among the bond-holders by way of repayment of loans and interest; and quite often, the tax-payer and the bond-holder may be the same person.
At the most, to the extent that the incomes of tax-payers (in a sense, debtors) are reduced, so will the incomes of creditors/ bond-holders increase, but the aggregate position of the community will, nevertheless, remain the same.
However, internal debt may involve a direct real burden on the community according to the nature of the series of transfer of incomes from tax payers to the public creditors. To the extent the tax-payers and the bond-holders are the same, the distribution of wealth will remain unaltered; hence there will not be any net real burden on the community.
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Then when they try and argue how Chinese debt is really Government debt because the banks or corporations are State owned
I give them this article
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China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
What is China's secret? According to financial commentator Jim Jubak, it may just be "creative accounting" -- the sort of accounting for which Wall Street is notorious, in which debts are swept off the books and turned into "assets." China is able to pull this off because it does not owe its debts to foreign creditors. The banks doing the funding are state-owned, and the state can write off its own debts.
Jubak observes:
China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debt might be hidden now.
The majority of bank loans, says Jubak, went to state-owned companies -- about 70% of the total. The collapse of China's export trade following the crisis meant that its banks were suddenly sitting on billions in debts that were clearly never going to be paid. But that was when China's largest banks were trying to raise capital by selling stock in Hong Kong and New York, and no bank could go public with that much bad debt on its books.
The creative solution? The Beijing government set up special-purpose asset management companies for the four largest state-owned banks, the equivalent of the "special purpose vehicles" designed by Wall Street to funnel real estate loans off U.S. bank books. The Chinese entities ultimately bought $287 billion in bad loans from state-owned banks. To pay for the loans, they issued bonds to the banks, on which they paid interest. The state-owned banks thus got $287 billion in toxic debt off their books and turned the bad loans into an income stream from the bonds.
Sound familiar? Wall Street did the same thing in the 2008 bailout, with the U.S. government underwriting the deal. The difference was that China's largest banks were owned by the government, so the government rather than a private banking cartel got the benefit of the arrangement. According to British economist Samah El-Shahat, writing in Al Jazeera in August 2009:
China hasn't allowed its banking sector to become so powerful, so influential, and so big that it can call the shots or highjack the bailout. In simple terms, the government preferred to answer to its people and put their interests first before that of any vested interest or group. And that is why Chinese banks are lending to the people and their businesses in record numbers.
In the US and UK, by contrast:
banks have captured all the money from the taxpayers and the cheap money from quantitative easing from central banks. They are using it to shore up, and clean up their balance sheets rather than lend it to the people. The money has been hijacked by the banks, and our governments are doing absolutely nothing about that. In fact, they have been complicit in allowing this to happen.
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A few things we learned since the 2008 subprime crisis
Buying for US debt is not unlimited. In 2011 the US FED had to buy 71% of the newly issued debt by the US Treasury
That QE debt that was soaped up/printing of money, that debt does not disappear
Since we know from Q3 of 2017 to Q3 of 2019 the US FEDs bright idea was to allow 50 to 60 billion of the (Agency Debt and US Treasury Debt)âŚ.
it soaped up during QE
to slowly mature each month, off the FEDs balance sheet.
Where the US Treasury would issue new corresponding debt for the public to buy.
It ended during Q3 of 2019 Because that selling of debt helped in freezing up the repo markets. As they basically dumped about 600 billion in debt over those 2 years
Freezing up the credit markets, like when it happened in 2008/2009 during the subprime crisis
Thus the FED balance sheet went from 4.5 trillion to about 3.8 trillion.with that selling from 2017 to 2019
But then the FED had to come back in and buy that Treasury debt again
Last I checked they ran that FED balance sheeet to over 8.8 trillion.
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No Surprise, Fed Was Biggest Buyer of Treasuries in 2013 THE Federal Reserve financed most of the governmentâs deficit in 2013, in sharp contrast to the year before, when the Fed did not add to its holdings of Treasury securities. The American private sector appears to have been a net seller of Treasuries in 2013, but the foreign private sector was a substantial buyer, according to government estimates released this week. In 2013, the government issued a net $759 billion in Treasury securities to the public. That was the lowest figure in six years, as the budget deficit declined because of a healthier economy, which increased tax receipts, and to government austerity that cut spending. The Fed bought a net $543 billion of Treasuries during 2013. That was not a record amount â in 2011 it had purchased $656 billion â but it enabled the Fed to finance 71 percent of the net Treasury borrowing during the year.
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When the USA destabilizes Governments/Props up dictators, causes vvar or goes to vvar
Telling people the USA way of Government and life is better
Then what do you expect?
Reminds me of those Hong Kong protesters waving American flags
Thinking life is better in the west with democracy and freedoms
When we who live out west, know the real truth
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BN(O) visa immigrants: Study reveals 50% unemployment rate among Hong Kongers under 65 in the U.K., 99% have no plans to return
* 22nd November 2023 â (London) A recent study conducted by the âWelcoming Committee for Hong Kongersâ organisation, which assists Hong Kongers who have immigrated to the U.K. through the BN(O) Visa, has shed light on the employment situation of these individuals. The study surveyed over 2,000 Hong Kong immigrants and found that only 50% of those under the age of 65 were able to secure employment, indicating a significant unemployment rate among this group.
The study also highlighted the educational background of BN(O) Hong Kongers in the U.K. It revealed that 36% of the surveyed individuals held a masterâs or doctoral degree, while 23% had a postgraduate degree. These figures indicate that BN(O) Hong Kongers in the U.K are nearly twice as well-educated as the average UK population.
* However, despite their educational qualifications, many BN(O) Hong Kongers are facing difficulties in securing employment that matches their skills and experience. Among those surveyed who were employed, 47% felt that their job did not align with their qualifications, and 20% felt that their workload was excessive.
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We in the west think the Chinese think just like us
Our everyone wins a Participation ribbon. You are so good at this or that little Timmy or Tabitha
So when there is a setback growth target not met, real estate bubble, , the Chinese people will give up like we would here in the West.
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Because since they are not a democracy donât have the same freedoms we have, the people revolt there is a civil vvar and China crashes and we are saved from the Chinese
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What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When we don't know enough to know what we don't know.
* So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence.
LiveScience
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Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
Cross-cultural comparisons
Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
These differences are highlighted in a meta-analysis Heine is now completing of 70 studies that examine the degree of self-enhancement or self-criticism in China, Japan and Korea versus the United States and Canada. Sixty-nine of the 70 studies reveal significant differences between the two cultures in the degree to which individuals hold these tendencies, he finds.
In another article in the October 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 81, No. 4), Heine's team looks more closely at how this occurs. First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much."
Conversely,
East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network.
But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says. Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds.
If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it.
East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
Interestingly, children in many cultures tend to overrate their abilities, perhaps because they lack objective feedback about their performance. For example, until about third grade, German youngsters generally overrate their academic achievement and class standing. This tendency declines as feedback in the form of letter grades begins. But researchers also have shown significant cross-cultural differences in youngsters' performance estimates--American children, it appears, are particularly prone to overestimate their competence.
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 @NadeemAhmed-nv2br As countries modernize their natural population replacement rates plummeted as well
America as well has not met ânaturalâ population replacement rates since 1972
But look at them complaining about immigrants these days
Here is an example by 2033 Social Security payments will need to be cut by 27%
Unless they borrow even more, raise taxes even higher or pile the immigrants in
Because it certainly looks like more and more Americans are souring on Clean, Geeen, Renewable AI and Robotics
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Robotic upside to Chinaâs demographic decline
Fewer workers mean more industrial robots, greater efficiency and higher value-added
By SCOTT FOSTER
JANUARY 23, 2023
Even if some of the dire prophecies are accurate, however, the population decline will also make automation an absolute necessity â as has happened in Japan. It will widen Chinaâs already large lead in the deployment of industrial robots and the industrial internet of things, helping to create an enormous market for service robots.
This process is already well underway. Over the past decade, installations of industrial robots in China have increased by 10.7 times, according to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). Compare that with 68% growth in Japan, 67% growth in the US, 20% growth in Germany and 19% growth in South Korea.
In just a few years, China has become the worldâs largest user of industrial robots by a very wide margin. In 2021, China accounted for 52% of total worldwide installations. Trailing far behind, Japan accounted for 9%, the US for 7%, South Korea for 6% and Germany for 5%. Viewed by region, Asia accounted for 74% of the total, Europe for 16% and the Americas for 10%
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Tesla hopes China boss will bring secret sauce to Gigafactory Texas
The decision didnât come as a surprise to industry insiders, given how quickly Gigafactory Shanghai became a cornerstone manufacturing and export hub for Tesla.
It took the plant merely a year â from December 2018 to December 2019 â to go from construction to production. In August, Gigafactory Shanghai made its one-millionth car, accounting for a third of the total Teslas produced up until that point, Elon Musk tweeted. This November was a record month for the facility with 100,291 vehicles delivered.
Such achievements no doubt make Zhu a preferred aide of Musk who promotes a âhardcoreâ work environment. While Zhu might have a secret recipe for building a well-oiled manufacturing team in a short time, Chinaâs unique conditions arenât easily replicable in another country.
âOver the past three years, Gigafactory Shanghai has outperformed its counterparts in Fremont, Texas and Berlin, although [not all of the success] is attributable to Tom or the China team,â suggested Chris Zheng, founder of Chinese automotive blog Channel-Q.
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American military grade drones are losing out to Chinese made retail toy store drones
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American drones are glitching and getting lost in Ukraine, giving way to a flood of Chinese drones
Business Insider
American drones are glitching and getting lost in Ukraine, giving way to a flood of Chinese drones
Chris Panella
Wed, April 10, 2024 at 12:44 PM PDT
3 min read
American drones aren't performing as well as those from other countries, like China's, in Ukraine.
The drones are glitchy, expensive, and get lost during flight, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
Those problems are opening the door for Ukraine to buy drones from other manufacturers.
The drone war in Ukraine is constantly evolving and forcing both sides to innovate quickly. But for Ukraine, a key partner is having trouble keeping up and letting rivals fill the void.
American-made drones haven't excelled on the battlefield, prompting Ukraine to turn to buying Chinese-made drones.
The problems with many US-made drones, particularly some of the smaller ones, are that they often don't function as advertised or planned and easily glitch when targeted by Russian jamming, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
They are fragile and vulnerable to electronic warfare. For some of the systems that were sent to Ukraine, issues included not taking off, getting lost and not returning home, or simply failing to meet mission expectations.
Part of the problem is that US technology isn't evolving fast enough, in part due to restrictions on sourcing. Georgii Dubynskyi, Ukraine's deputy minister of digital transformation, told The Journal that "what is flying today won't be able to fly tomorrow," adding that the innovation window in this conflict is small.
"The general reputation for every class of US drone in Ukraine is that they don't work as well as other systems," Adam Bry, the chief executive of American drone company Skydio, told WSJ, acknowledging that his own drone is "not a very successful platform on the front lines."
US drones are also typically far more expensive than comparable models. And at the rate Ukraine is burning through them, it wouldn't be feasible. Instead, Ukraine is turning to systems made by Chinese companies for cheaper and often more reliable alternatives.
Chinese DJI drones have long played a role in the war, with Ukraine buying many of the retail models. Ukrainian forces sometimes strap bombs directly on them for a makeshift one-way attack drone or use them to drop grenades.
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There is now a 27 book series on what the Chinese invented first?
that says we in the west copied or stole from them
If you took the time to read those books you will find in the vast majority of the cases,
there is no specific inventor(s) name(s) attributed to an invention
Rather it is the Chinese invented such and such in such in such a century
This guy explains it the best
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From Gongkai to Open Source
My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping.
Meanwhile, Western entrepreneurs often find themselves trapped in a spiderweb of IP frameworks, spending more money on lawyers than on tooling.
Further investigation taught me that the Chinese have a parallel system of traditions and ethics around sharing IP, which lead me to coin the term âgongkaiâ. This is deliberately not the Chinese word for âOpen Sourceâ, because that word (kaiyuan) refers to openness in a Western-style IP framework, which this not. Gongkai is more a reference to the fact that copyrighted documents, sometimes labeled âconfidentialâ and âproprietaryâ, are made known to the public and shared overtly, but not necessarily according to the letter of the law. However, this copying isnât a one-way flow of value, as it would be in the case of copied movies or music.
Rather, these documents are the knowledge base needed to build a phone using the copyright ownerâs chips, and as such, this sharing of documents helps to promote the sales of their chips. There is ultimately, if you will, a quid-pro-quo between the copyright holders and the copiers.
This fuzzy, gray relationship between companies and entrepreneurs is just one manifestation of a much broader cultural gap between the East and the West.
The West has a âbroadcastâ view of IP and ownership: good ideas and innovation are credited to a clearly specified set of authors or inventors, and society pays them a royalty for their initiative and good works.
China has a ânetworkâ view of IP and ownership: the far-sight necessary to create good ideas and innovations is attained by standing on the shoulders of others, and as such there is a network of people who trade these ideas as favors among each other.
In a system with such a loose attitude toward IP, sharing with the network is necessary as tomorrow it could be your friend standing on your shoulders, and youâll be looking to them for favors.
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Why do I think like this?
Because the Chinese can tell you what happened to them with their own version of open source
There is now 27 books out there, on what the Chinese invented that says we stole and copied from them
Yet most people believe they canât innovate they copy and they steal
If you take the time to read those books you will rarely find a name of a person or persons attributed those inventions
Instead it will be the Chinese invented such and such in such and such century
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
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From Gongkai to Open Source
My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping.
Meanwhile, Western entrepreneurs often find themselves trapped in a spiderweb of IP frameworks, spending more money on lawyers than on tooling.
Further investigation taught me that the Chinese have a parallel system of traditions and ethics around sharing IP, which lead me to coin the term âgongkaiâ. This is deliberately not the Chinese word for âOpen Sourceâ, because that word (kaiyuan) refers to openness in a Western-style IP framework, which this not. Gongkai is more a reference to the fact that copyrighted documents, sometimes labeled âconfidentialâ and âproprietaryâ, are made known to the public and shared overtly, but not necessarily according to the letter of the law. However, this copying isnât a one-way flow of value, as it would be in the case of copied movies or music.
Rather, these documents are the knowledge base needed to build a phone using the copyright ownerâs chips, and as such, this sharing of documents helps to promote the sales of their chips. There is ultimately, if you will, a quid-pro-quo between the copyright holders and the copiers.
This fuzzy, gray relationship between companies and entrepreneurs is just one manifestation of a much broader cultural gap between the East and the West.
The West has a âbroadcastâ view of IP and ownership: good ideas and innovation are credited to a clearly specified set of authors or inventors, and society pays them a royalty for their initiative and good works.
China has a ânetworkâ view of IP and ownership: the far-sight necessary to create good ideas and innovations is attained by standing on the shoulders of others, and as such there is a network of people who trade these ideas as favors among each other.
In a system with such a loose attitude toward IP, sharing with the network is necessary as tomorrow it could be your friend standing on your shoulders, and youâll be looking to them for favors.
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What decade are you living in these days?????
There is now a 27 books written on Chinese inventions that says we copied or stole from them
These days the Chinese lead the world in 37 of 44 critical technologies of the future
The narrow minded view?
Is to concentrate on the 7 technologies that China does not lead inâŚ.
Then argue they copy, steal, canât innovate etc
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
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* 27 books
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
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Does it matter?
Ethnic Chinese dominate the economies of these countries.
And these countries are dependent on the Chinese economy
Plus when it comes to Asean countries
China has an ace up its sleeve
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China Is Winning the Race for Water
Security in Asia Great power competition in Asia is not only about control of critical waterways in the South China Sea, but also about who controls Asiaâs fresh water. The future of Asiaâs waterâupon which about four billion people dependâlies in Chinaâs hands.
Through its presence in Tibet, China controls the headwaters of ten of the eleven major rivers of Asia. So far, China has taken a relatively cooperative approach to sharing water with its neighbors as part of the systematic consolidation of its âsoft powerâ over downstream countries.
But climate change and rapid growth are threatening to upset this delicate diplomatic balance. What happens when Chinaâs own thirst outpaces its resources?
And how will Chinaâs choices affect U.S. interests in the strategic Asia-Pacific region? China has positioned itself as a world leader on climate change and set ambitious goals for environmental protection.
However, due to the pace of urban as well as industrial expansion and its often-lax enforcement of pollution control regulations, China continues to consume as much coal as the rest of the world combined. Its approach to combatting climate change and resource scarcity, which emphasizes engineering solutions over better resource management, has resulted in dramatic infrastructure projects.
These include a series of hydro-electric dams meant to address the countryâs severe water shortage challenges by giving it more control over the continentâs rivers, as well as to generate electricity. These construction projects mean China can bestow or withhold water as it sees fit, leaving downstream Asian countries vulnerable to Beijingâs decisions. For example, Chinese hydroelectric dams along the Brahmaputra River have proven to be a source of friction with India, exacerbating long-simmering border disputes.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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There is now a 27 book series that says we copied from the Chinese
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by éžäżĄć
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
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China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
What is China's secret? According to financial commentator Jim Jubak, it may just be "creative accounting" -- the sort of accounting for which Wall Street is notorious, in which debts are swept off the books and turned into "assets." China is able to pull this off because it does not owe its debts to foreign creditors. The banks doing the funding are state-owned, and the state can write off its own debts.
Jubak observes:
China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debt might be hidden now.
The majority of bank loans, says Jubak, went to state-owned companies -- about 70% of the total. The collapse of China's export trade following the crisis meant that its banks were suddenly sitting on billions in debts that were clearly never going to be paid. But that was when China's largest banks were trying to raise capital by selling stock in Hong Kong and New York, and no bank could go public with that much bad debt on its books.
The creative solution? The Beijing government set up special-purpose asset management companies for the four largest state-owned banks, the equivalent of the "special purpose vehicles" designed by Wall Street to funnel real estate loans off U.S. bank books. The Chinese entities ultimately bought $287 billion in bad loans from state-owned banks. To pay for the loans, they issued bonds to the banks, on which they paid interest. The state-owned banks thus got $287 billion in toxic debt off their books and turned the bad loans into an income stream from the bonds.
Sound familiar? Wall Street did the same thing in the 2008 bailout, with the U.S. government underwriting the deal. The difference was that China's largest banks were owned by the government, so the government rather than a private banking cartel got the benefit of the arrangement. According to British economist Samah El-Shahat, writing in Al Jazeera in August 2009:
China hasn't allowed its banking sector to become so powerful, so influential, and so big that it can call the shots or highjack the bailout. In simple terms, the government preferred to answer to its people and put their interests first before that of any vested interest or group. And that is why Chinese banks are lending to the people and their businesses in record numbers.
In the US and UK, by contrast:
banks have captured all the money from the taxpayers and the cheap money from quantitative easing from central banks. They are using it to shore up, and clean up their balance sheets rather than lend it to the people. The money has been hijacked by the banks, and our governments are doing absolutely nothing about that. In fact, they have been complicit in allowing this to happen.
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Difference Between Internal Debt and External Debt!
The basic character of an internal debt is quite different from that of the external debt. In external debt, at the time of repayment there is a real transfer of resources.
In case of internal debt, however, since it is borrowed from individuals and institutions within the country repayment will constitute only a re-distribution of resources without causing any change in the total resources of the community.
There can, thus, be no direct money burden caused by internal debts since all payments cancel each other out in the aggregate community as a whole. Whatever is taxed from one section of the community servicing the debts is distributed among the bond-holders by way of repayment of loans and interest; and quite often, the tax-payer and the bond-holder may be the same person.
At the most, to the extent that the incomes of tax-payers (in a sense, debtors) are reduced, so will the incomes of creditors/ bond-holders increase, but the aggregate position of the community will, nevertheless, remain the same.
However, internal debt may involve a direct real burden on the community according to the nature of the series of transfer of incomes from tax payers to the public creditors. To the extent the tax-payers and the bond-holders are the same, the distribution of wealth will remain unaltered; hence there will not be any net real burden on the community.
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
The Chinese Government has saved Musk and his Tesla company again
đ
Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Now they have just turned us into brain wash.d dummm down westerners over them red book thumping com mies
When some Muslim Uyghur Chinese committed terrorist acts on Chinese streets
Where some Uyghur Chinese were thrown into re-education camps, and some mosques housing extremist were removed
The world called it cultural genocide
Where some Palestinians escaped their Gaza Ghettos committed terrorist acts on Israeli streets.
We in the world call that terrorism, justifying the bombing of Palestinian civilians in their Gaza Ghettos
Which begs the question China throws money at their ethnic Uyghur Chinese minority and gives them special rights over the Han majority.
(Like the ability to have more than 1 kid when the rule was still enforced back then. Preferential treatment for minorities when it comes to University Education etc)
like they do with all their ethnic minority people they consider as Chinese
What does Israel consider these Palestinian people as???
As they bomb them in those Gaza Ghettoes Israel forced them into.
Yet in this situation, we mostly stay silent on that genocide
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Imperialist media canât stop lying about mosques in China
* Firsthand report from Kashgar
On a recent visit to Kashgar, Xinjiang, home to about 80% of the ethnic Uygur population, this writer had a chance to speak to residents and learn about local architecture. Many of the buildings in Kashgar are 1,000 or more years old. These old buildings, while stunningly beautiful, were not built to standards that would be considered seismically safe today in areas with a risk of earthquakes. In the past, collapses and deaths were common.
* In 2020, the U.S. Mosque Survey counted 2,769 mosques in this country, compared to Chinaâs more than 35,000 mosques. This means that Chinese Muslims have nearly three times more mosques per capita than do Muslims in the U.S.
But the accusations donât stop at alleged demolition. The Western media have also claimed that the Chinese government is carrying out a process of âSinificationâ through the renovations, meaning that China is allegedly removing the Arabic aspects of mosques and replacing them with traditional Chinese architecture.
Mosques built in the traditional Chinese-style architecture are presented in the Western media as âevidenceâ of âcultural erasure,â when in reality mosques built in Chinese style have existed as far back as around 700 C.E. There are also many Muslim populations in China that are not Arabic in origin, such as the Hui population, who were originally descended from Han Chinese and are Chinese-speaking.
Because of the ancient Silk Road and the historical mixing of peoples from the Chinese coast with Arab, European and many other peoples, the blending of language, religion and architecture should not be seen as an attempt at Han hegemony, but rather as a natural blending of peoples living side-by-side in a multiethnic nation with more than 5,000 years of recorded history.
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The better play would be to go short on Chinese real estate
Right now
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China Property Market âBubbleâ Set to Burst, Xie Says
By Bloomberg News
February 1, 2010 at 11:51 PM PST
Chinaâs property market âbubbleâ is set to burst as the government curbs credit growth and clamps down on speculation, according to independent economist Andy Xie.
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China cracks down on speculators to cool prices
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NOV. 23, 2010
The government has ordered banks twice in the past three weeks to raise the amount of money they hold in reserves to rein in lending growth.
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China cracks down on property speculation Source:Global Times Published: 2010
The Chinese government has raised the down payment for second-home buyers to a minimum 50 percent of the value from 40 percent, in a bid to curb property speculation.
The decision was announced in a statement released Thursday after conclusion of an executive meeting of the State Council, the Cabinet, presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, on Wednesday.
First-home buyers must pay no less than 30 percent of the the property price if the area is above 90 square meters, the statement said.
The government was stepping up the introduction of tax policies to influence purchases and adjust property investment returns, said the statement.
Nationwide, land use for the construction of low-income housing, shanty town renovation and small and medium-sized homes (below 90 square meters) should account for at least 70 percent of the land approved for property development, the statement said.
It also urged local authorities to accelerate housing construction approvals to ensure effective land supply, and crack down on land hoarding and speculatory behavior.
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 @ZweiZwolf yes inorder to do so the west has to build the factories, infrastructure, educate and train the people, give financial incentives/ tax breaks etc etc etc
All that cost money, which I donât see the west doing enough of any of that
Where the Chinese???
are preparing for that decoupling
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
How Washington's sanctions boosted China's semiconductor sector
MAY 5, 2021
Plan B
So far, Yangtze Memory, also known as YMTC, has remained under the radar of the U.S. government. But the company is taking no chances. With the guidance of Beijing, it has launched a massive review of its supply chain in an effort to find local suppliers -- or, at least, non-U.S. ones -- to replace the current dependence on American technology.
The collective effort has occupied over 800 people, full time, and including staff from its multiple local suppliers, for two years. And they have not finished yet.
YMTC is seeking to learn as much as it can about the origin of everything that goes into its products, from production equipment and chemicals to the tiny lenses, screws, nuts and bearings in chipmaking machinery and production lines, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. The audit extends not only to YMTC's own production lines, but also to suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, and so on.
"The review is as meticulous as knowing where the screws and nuts are coming from, the lead time, and if those parts have alternatives," one person familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia.
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âââ You have no clue what you are talking about just giving f ache News talking points
The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese
Where their Government was trying to get their people to switch to homegrown chips before the sanctions
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have themselves and their allies, lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When there is now a 7 volume 27 book series on what China invented first that says the world copied from them
And China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing over 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year, within the products they export
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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China Government has already state there should be a consolidation
From my understanding in most countries 95% of businesses fail
Why should it be any different in China?
âââ here in the west we hear only one Chinese EV company is making money right now?
They will give up,because that is how we think and what we will do in that situation
Thatâs the mistake we westerners make
But the reality is thatâs not how they think
That is born out of study after study
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What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When we don't know enough to know what we don't know.
* So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence.
LiveScience
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Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
Cross-cultural comparisons
Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
These differences are highlighted in a meta-analysis Heine is now completing of 70 studies that examine the degree of self-enhancement or self-criticism in China, Japan and Korea versus the United States and Canada. Sixty-nine of the 70 studies reveal significant differences between the two cultures in the degree to which individuals hold these tendencies, he finds.
In another article in the October 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 81, No. 4), Heine's team looks more closely at how this occurs. First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much."
Conversely,
East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network.
But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says. Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds.
If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it.
East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
Interestingly, children in many cultures tend to overrate their abilities, perhaps because they lack objective feedback about their performance. For example, until about third grade, German youngsters generally overrate their academic achievement and class standing. This tendency declines as feedback in the form of letter grades begins. But researchers also have shown significant cross-cultural differences in youngsters' performance estimates--American children, it appears, are particularly prone to overestimate their competence.
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âââ âââ Back in the late 1980s I was warning about Free Trade and the push for Globalization
Especially when it came to the rise of CCP China. This was before their GDP was even a blip on the radar
yet was getting laughed at and called a CCP 50 cent army poster. Communist Traitor, against Capitalism and worse names
I order for the west to bring back that manufacturing the west has to build the factories, infrastructure, educate and train the people, give financial incentives/ tax breaks etc etc etc
All that cost money, which I donât see the west doing enough of any of that
Where the Chinese???
are already preparing for that decoupling
For example⌠Ethnic Chinese have been going to South East Asia for centuries
The last 40 to 50 years Chinese people and their companies have been going to SE Asia dominating the economies of these Countries.
Where these Countries have become dependent on the Chinese economy
And then there is this
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
How Washington's sanctions boosted China's semiconductor sector
MAY 5, 2021
Plan B
So far, Yangtze Memory, also known as YMTC, has remained under the radar of the U.S. government. But the company is taking no chances. With the guidance of Beijing, it has launched a massive review of its supply chain in an effort to find local suppliers -- or, at least, non-U.S. ones -- to replace the current dependence on American technology.
The collective effort has occupied over 800 people, full time, and including staff from its multiple local suppliers, for two years. And they have not finished yet.
YMTC is seeking to learn as much as it can about the origin of everything that goes into its products, from production equipment and chemicals to the tiny lenses, screws, nuts and bearings in chipmaking machinery and production lines, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. The audit extends not only to YMTC's own production lines, but also to suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, and so on.
"The review is as meticulous as knowing where the screws and nuts are coming from, the lead time, and if those parts have alternatives," one person familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia.
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The Chinese Government cut off money flow to these Developers on 2010
Thatâs all the warning people needed
2 years ago was when it was mostly âSophisticated Foreign Investors â
Who were buying these Property Developers Junk bonds
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Huge Price Cuts Rumored From Chinese Developers Due To Collapsing Demand
Vincent Fernando, CFA May 29, 2010
Demand is falling since China's central government announced stricter regulations for property transactions during the middle of April. These involve higher down payments and mortgage rates for the purchase of second home, and act which is seen as potential speculation. Such tightening is reducing buying demand.
Thus a moderately bearish view is that property prices need to come down, since demand is likely down yet supply is the same. This challenge isn't limited to Shanghai:
China Vanke Co, the country's largest publicly listed developer, may cut apartment prices by 10 to 30 percent within three months, the Beijing News said yesterday, citing an unidentified sales agent. Local Vanke officials declined to comment yesterday.
Yet Shanghai is where things could get the ugliest, the earliest. This is because the local Shanghai government is planning to clamp down on speculation even harder than China's central government already has:
Chen Qiwei, a spokesman for the Shanghai municipal government, did not preclude the possibility of levying property tax when asked about this issue at a press conference on Friday.
"Shanghai will take more strict measures in line with the central government policy," Chen said, adding that more efforts will be made in building economically affordable houses and cracking down on speculative house purchasing.
Other cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Shenzen could have similar additional taxes, but Shanghai is the first to make an official comment such as above according to China Daily. Thing is, any action from Shanghai will likely need approval from the central government.
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China Increases Banksâ Reserve Ratios to Cool Prices
By Bloomberg News
December 10, 2010 at 4:08 AM PST
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China raises banks' reserve ratios again
Reuters
December 10, 20104:27 AM PSTUpdated 13 years ago
Dec 10, 2010 â The 50 basis point increase, which takes effect on Dec 20, will leave required reserve ratios at 18.5 percent
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China Property Market âBubbleâ Set to Burst, Xie Says
By Bloomberg News
February 1, 2010 at 11:51 PM PST
Chinaâs property market âbubbleâ is set to burst as the government curbs credit growth and clamps down on speculation, according to independent economist Andy Xie.
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China cracks down on speculators to cool prices
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NOV. 23, 2010
The government has ordered banks twice in the past three weeks to raise the amount of money they hold in reserves to rein in lending growth.
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China cracks down on property speculation Source:Global Times Published: 2010
The Chinese government has raised the down payment for second-home buyers to a minimum 50 percent of the value from 40 percent, in a bid to curb property speculation.
The decision was announced in a statement released Thursday after conclusion of an executive meeting of the State Council, the Cabinet, presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, on Wednesday.
First-home buyers must pay no less than 30 percent of the the property price if the area is above 90 square meters, the statement said.
The government was stepping up the introduction of tax policies to influence purchases and adjust property investment returns, said the statement.
Nationwide, land use for the construction of low-income housing, shanty town renovation and small and medium-sized homes (below 90 square meters) should account for at least 70 percent of the land approved for property development, the statement said.
It also urged local authorities to accelerate housing construction approvals to ensure effective land supply, and crack down on land hoarding and speculatory behavior.
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China attempts to deflate its unstable property bubble
China is to spend $200bn on low-cost homes as part of a series of measures to slow the rapidly rising prices of urban houses
Tania Branigan in Beijing
Wed 9 Mar 2011 19.24 GMT
Chinese officials are blaming speculators for soaring property prices and are vowing to build 36m affordable homes over the next five years. There are already widespread concerns about China's booming property market and the threat it poses to the country's expanding economy.
China would spend nearly $200bn (ÂŁ123bn) on an affordable homes and social housing scheme, said deputy housing minister Qi Ji in Beijing .
The pledge came a few days after premier Wen Jiabao promised to "resolutely" curb speculation to tackle excessively rapid price increases
The authorities have taken various steps since spring last year to dampen the property market. These include raising interest rates, increasing the minimum downpayment required on second homes and restricting the rights of foreigners to buy property. Two Chinese cities are now imposing sales tax on property deals.
While the measures have slowed growth, many fear it remains too high. In March 2010, urban housing prices shot up by 11.7% year-on-year, according to figures from the national bureau of statistics. December saw the lowest increase in more than a year, but it still stood at 6.4%.
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 @PelleGIT umm no China likes to save Tesla⌠they saved Resla from bankruptcy in 2019
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Baidu the company the Chinese Government partnered Tesla with????
As of Q3 2022 has already done 1.4 million paid robotaxi rides
As of Q3 2023 4.1 million paid robotaxi rides
you really have to dig into multiple western media articles to gleen this real information⌠rather than Tesla is going there to introduce robotaxis
To me sounds like instead of Tesla FSD they will export Baidu Robotaxis App in Tesla vehicles
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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How long do electric car batteries last? What 6,300 electric vehicles tell us about EV battery life
Last updated on May 31, 2024
How long do EV batteries last? According to research from Geotab, the simple answer is that if the observed EV battery degradation rates are maintained, the vast majority of batteries will outlast the usable life of the vehicle and will never need to be replaced.
Based on data from over 6,000 electric vehicles, spanning all the major makes and models, Geotab finds that EV batteries are exhibiting high levels of sustained health.
Across all vehicles, on average, an EV battery degrades at 2.3% per year. Do electric car batteries wear out? Of course, like all batteries, they will eventually wear out, but in most cases, this will be long after the vehicleâs life-cycle is complete.
See also: To what degree does temperature impact EV range? Do electric cars lose range over time? Technically, yes. What this means for an electric vehicleâs range is, if you purchase an EV today with a 150-mile range, you would lose about 17 miles of accessible range after five years.
This decline is not likely to have a significant impact on most driversâ day-to-day needs, but it is a factor fleet managers will need to consider when it comes to maximizing the value of their EVs. Importantly for consumers, car makers commonly offer a warranty on EV batteries for around eight years or 100,000 miles.
This is the federal minimum in the United States and it varies by manufacturer and country.
But by all accounts, electric car batteries should last much longer than that.
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Government data show gasoline vehicles are up to 100x more prone to fires than EVs
New study shows EV fires are far less common than in gas vehicles.
According to findings pointed out by AutoInsuranceEZ, vehicles that operate using gasoline are tenfold more likely to catch fire compared to EVs.
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Youâre Wrong About EV Fires
Gas- and diesel-powered vehicles catch fire way more often than EVs, but you wouldnât know that from the headlines.
Jul 11, 2023
Combustion-Powered Vehicles Are 29 Times More Likely To Catch Fire
According to MSB data, there are nearly 611,000 EVs and hybrids in Sweden as of 2022.
With an average of 16 EV and hybrid fires per year, there's a 1 in 38,000 chance of fire.
There are a total of roughly 4.4 million gas- and diesel-powered passenger vehicles in Sweden, with an average of 3,384 fires per year, for a 1 in 1,300 chance of fire.
That means gas- and diesel-powered passenger vehicles are 29 times more likely to catch fire than EVs and hybrids.
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The 2nd Automotive Winter Testing Festival held in Heihe, Heilongjiang Province
NEWS PROVIDED BY
Publicity Department of the CPC Heihe Municipal Committee
Jan 09, 2023, 02:33 ET
* Themed "passion, speed, and vitality", the Winter Testing Festival joined hands with the China Mass Production Car Performance Challenge (hereinafter referred to as CCPC), attracting more than 10 teams and nearly 30 brands, according to the Publicity Department of the CPC Heihe Municipal Committee
The festival will promote the test season through a variety of activities, integrating test, racing and sales for the deep integration and development of China'sautomotive industry.
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whatâs the point in building another Gigafactory when Chinese EVs are cheaper, better quality and more innovative
Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Auntieâ Wang Xiuxia makes a million from car number plates scam in congested Beijing
Retired woman stocked up before restrictions were introduced
But for the retired Auntie Wang, the opportunity was too good to pass up. In 2005, just before the restrictions were introduced, she bought as many as 1,000 plates and, when the ban was implemented, began leasing them to drivers. Though obviously illegal, the scam is believed to have netted her almost ÂŁ1m over the past eight years.
Auntie Wang, a native of Tianjin, was only exposed after one of her customers was involved in a hit-and-run accident. The number plate was in her name, leading to uncomfortable questions from the police.
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Also you look at China from our western point of view like they think like us in the West
In your opinion their EVs industry failed so these Chinese people will give up
Just like we out in the west would give up
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What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When we don't know enough to know what we don't know.
* So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence.
LiveScience
đ
Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
Cross-cultural comparisons
Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
These differences are highlighted in a meta-analysis Heine is now completing of 70 studies that examine the degree of self-enhancement or self-criticism in China, Japan and Korea versus the United States and Canada. Sixty-nine of the 70 studies reveal significant differences between the two cultures in the degree to which individuals hold these tendencies, he finds.
In another article in the October 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 81, No. 4), Heine's team looks more closely at how this occurs. First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much."
Conversely,
East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network.
But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says. Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds.
If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it.
East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
Interestingly, children in many cultures tend to overrate their abilities, perhaps because they lack objective feedback about their performance. For example, until about third grade, German youngsters generally overrate their academic achievement and class standing. This tendency declines as feedback in the form of letter grades begins. But researchers also have shown significant cross-cultural differences in youngsters' performance estimates--American children, it appears, are particularly prone to overestimate their competence.
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More like some people donât believe a single word MSM tells them
Unless itâs about China then their word is the Gospel
In China in 2008 around 70% of the people in their real estate markets were buying their 1st homes in their cities
By 2018 around 70% of the people in their real estate markets were buying their 2nd and 3rd homes in their cities
Thatâs why you are hearing about problems with their property developers these days. Because back in 2010? Their Central Government started cutting of money flow to these developers.
Thus why you heard about Shadow Banks and Underground Economy back then, that their Government had to come into to shutdown or regulate.
Even then, It took them almost 14 years to get their overheated real estate under control
Heck they were about to introduce a nation wide property tax, but then trump started the trade war in 2018
Why is their Central Government doing this?
Because there are still a few hundred million poorer rural folk they still expect to move to the cities to join their more well off urban city folk countrymen.
Problem is these property developers were building higher end homes, and not building the affordable homes these rural migrants will need
In China
Owning a home in the city you migrate to? Affects your employment, health, education and even marriage prospects donât have a house you donât get married
Thus the common prosperity push and the crackdown on the overt displays of wealth in China
Their Government probably figured out you disenfranchise the people at the bottom of your society they are the ones most likely to act out in protest
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Huge Price Cuts Rumored From Chinese Developers Due To Collapsing Demand
Vincent Fernando, CFA May 29, 2010
Demand is falling since China's central government announced stricter regulations for property transactions during the middle of April. These involve higher down payments and mortgage rates for the purchase of second home, and act which is seen as potential speculation. Such tightening is reducing buying demand.
Thus a moderately bearish view is that property prices need to come down, since demand is likely down yet supply is the same. This challenge isn't limited to Shanghai:
China Vanke Co, the country's largest publicly listed developer, may cut apartment prices by 10 to 30 percent within three months, the Beijing News said yesterday, citing an unidentified sales agent. Local Vanke officials declined to comment yesterday.
Yet Shanghai is where things could get the ugliest, the earliest. This is because the local Shanghai government is planning to clamp down on speculation even harder than China's central government already has:
Chen Qiwei, a spokesman for the Shanghai municipal government, did not preclude the possibility of levying property tax when asked about this issue at a press conference on Friday.
"Shanghai will take more strict measures in line with the central government policy," Chen said, adding that more efforts will be made in building economically affordable houses and cracking down on speculative house purchasing.
Other cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Shenzen could have similar additional taxes, but Shanghai is the first to make an official comment such as above according to China Daily. Thing is, any action from Shanghai will likely need approval from the central government.
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Smile-to-pay: Chinese shoppers turn to facial payment technology
This article is more than 4 years old
* New technology is rolling out across the country, despite concerns over privacy
At the IFuree self-service supermarket in Tianjin, a 3D camera scans the faces of those entering the store â measuring width, height and depth of the faces â then another quick scan again at check-out.
* âItâs convenient because you can buy things very quickly,â says retiree Zhang Liming after using facial payment for her groceries.
âItâs different from the payment in the traditional supermarket, in which you have to wait in the checkout line and itâs very troublesome,â she argues.
Bo Hu says 300 of his bakeries have facial payment systems, and he plans to introduce them in 400 more.
He believes it makes the checkout process more efficient, but concedes the numbers using the new technology are still modest.
Supporters of the technology wave aside privacy concerns.
âThe facial recognition technology helps to protect our privacy,â explains IFuree engineer Li Dongliang.
âIn the traditional way, itâs very dangerous to enter the password if someone stands beside you. Now we can complete the payment with our faces, which helps us secure our account,â he insists.
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Article 287
Choice of procedure
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State shall be free to choose, by means of a written declaration, one or more of the following means for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention:
(a) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established in accordance with Annex VI;
(b) the International Court of Justice;
(c) an arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VII;
(d) a special arbitral tribunal constituted in accordance with Annex VIII for one or more of the categories of disputes specified therein.
2. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall not affect or be affected by the obligation of a State Party to accept the jurisdiction of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the extent and in the manner provided for in Part XI, section 5.
3. A State Party, which is a party to a dispute not covered by a declaration in force, shall be deemed to have accepted arbitration in accordance with Annex VII.
4. If the parties to a dispute have accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to that procedure, unless the parties otherwise agree.
5. If the parties to a dispute have not accepted the same procedure for the settlement of the dispute, it may be submitted only to arbitration in accordance with Annex VII, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. A declaration made under paragraph 1 shall remain in force until three months after notice of revocation has been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7. A new declaration, a notice of revocation or the expiry of a declaration does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
8. Declarations and notices referred to in this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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Article 287, paragraph 1, provides that States and entities, when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, or at any time thereafter, may make declarations specifying the forums for the settlement of disputes which they accept. Article 287, paragraph 1, reads: "Article 287
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Article 298
Optional exceptions to applicability of section 2
1. When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention or at any time thereafter, a State may, without prejudice to the obligations arising under section 1, declare in writing that it does not accept any one or more of the procedures provided for in section 2 with respect to one or more of the following categories of disputes:
(a) (i) disputes concerning the interpretation or application of articles 15, 74 and 83 relating to sea boundary delimitations, or those involving historic bays or titles, provided that a State having made such a declaration shall, when such a dispute arises subsequent to the entry into force of this Convention and where no agreement within a reasonable period of time is reached in negotiations between the parties, at the request of any party to the dispute, accept submission of the matter to conciliation under Annex V, section 2; and provided further that any dispute that necessarily involves the concurrent consideration of any unsettled dispute concerning sovereignty or other rights over continental or insular land territory shall be excluded from such submission;
(ii) after the conciliation commission has presented its report, which shall state the reasons on which it is based, the parties shall negotiate an agreement on the basis of that report; if these negotiations do not result in an agreement, the parties shall, by mutual consent, submit the question to one of the procedures provided for in section 2, unless the parties otherwise agree;
(iii) this subparagraph does not apply to any sea boundary dispute finally settled by an arrangement between the parties, or to any such dispute which is to be settled in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement binding upon those parties;
(b) disputes concerning military activities, including military activities by government vessels and aircraft engaged in non-commercial service, and disputes concerning law enforcement activities in regard to the exercise of sovereign rights or jurisdiction excluded from the jurisdiction of a court or tribunal under article 297, paragraph 2 or 3;
(c) disputes in respect of which the Security Council of the United Nations is exercising the functions assigned to it by the Charter of the United Nations, unless the Security Council decides to remove the matter from its agenda or calls upon the parties to settle it by the means provided for in this Convention.
2. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 may at any time withdraw it, or agree to submit a dispute excluded by such declaration to any procedure specified in this Convention.
3. A State Party which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 shall not be entitled to submit any dispute falling within the excepted category of disputes to any procedure in this Convention as against another State Party, without the consent of that party.
4. If one of the States Parties has made a declaration under paragraph 1(a), any other State Party may submit any dispute falling within an excepted category against the declarant party to the procedure specified in such declaration.
5. A new declaration, or the withdrawal of a declaration, does not in any way affect proceedings pending before a court or tribunal in accordance with this article, unless the parties otherwise agree.
6. Declarations and notices of withdrawal of declarations under this article shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the States Parties.
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The Government of the Peopleâs Republic of China does not accept any of the procedures provided for in Section 2 of Part XV of the Convention with respect to all the categories of disputes referred to in paragraph 1 (a) (b) and (c) of Article 298 of the Convention.
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Article 299 Right of the parties to agree upon a procedure
1. A dispute excluded under article 297 or excepted by a declaration made under article 298 from the dispute settlement procedures provided for in section 2 may be submitted to such procedures only by agreement of the parties to the dispute.
2. Nothing in this section impairs the right of the parties to the dispute to agree to some other procedure for the settlement of such dispute or to reach an amicable settlement.
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JANUARY 30, 2023
3 MIN READ
China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing
Nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF.
The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of Chinaâs economic growth in 2023
Other key findings of the analysis include:
Clean-energy investment rose 40% year-on-year to 6.3tn yuan ($890bn), with the growth accounting for all of the investment growth across the Chinese economy in 2023.
Chinaâs $890bn investment in clean-energy sectors is almost as large as total global investments in fossil fuel supply in 2023 â and similar to the GDP of Switzerland or Turkey.
Including the value of production, clean-energy sectors contributed 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to the Chinese economy in 2023, up 30% year-on-year.
Clean-energy sectors, as a result, were the largest driver of Chinaâ economic growth overall, accounting for 40% of the expansion of GDP in 2023.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, Chinaâs GDP would have missed the governmentâs growth target of âaround 5%â, rising by only 3.0%
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YupâŚ
The difference between the USA and China
is in Q3 of 2019
The US FED was bailing out those TOOBIGTOFAIL banks in their repo market less their credit markets seize up⌠once again
A few things we learned since the 2008 subprime crisis
Buying for US debt is not unlimited.
In 2013 the US FED had to buy 71% of the newly issued external Sovereign debt by the US Treasury
That Quantitative Easing (QE)debt that was soaped up/printing of money, that debt does not disappear
Since we know from Q3 of 2017 to Q3 of 2019 the FEDs bright idea was to allow 50 to 60 billion of the Agency Debt and US Treasury Debt it soaped up during QE to slowly mature each month, off the FEDs balance sheet.
Their Quantitative Tightening (QT)
Where the US Treasury would issue new corresponding debt for the public to buy. Where with this QT selling they managed to dump about 600 to 700 billion in debt on the American âpeopleâ
As the American âpeopleâ are the biggest buyers of US Sovereign Debt (directly/indirecty)
That QT selling ended during Q3 of 2019 Because that selling of debt ended up helping to freeze up the repo market
Just like when it happened in 2008/2009 during the subprime crisis
Thus the FED balance sheet went from 4.5 trillion to about 3.8 trillion.with that selling from 2017 to 2019
But then the FED had to come back in QE 2.0 and buy that Treasury debt again, all that they dumped and more
Last I checked they ran that FED balance sheeet back up to over 8 trillion. Now itâs back to around 7.8 trillion
Wait some people might askâŚ..
Agency debt is internal debt not supposed to be backed by the US Government
Well the USA has had no issue with taking private internal debt and turning it into External Sovereign Debt backed by the US Government and the American âpeopleâ
Something the Chinese might have been tempted to do with the Junk Bonds issued by those Chinese Property Developers
That were a hot commodity the last few years, sought after by sophisticated foreign investors
In short the Chinese purposely deflated their real estate markets. Cut off money to its Property Developers since 2010. And didnt bailout foreign investors who took a risk buying those Property Developer junk bonds the last few years
While the USA left their real estate market to implode. Kept the stimulus/bailout money flowing to the companies, and bailed out foreign investors who invested in private internal debt
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As politicians call for taxpayer bailouts and a government takeover of troubled mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae,
FreedomWorks would like to point out that a bailout is a transfer of possibly hundreds of billions of U.S. tax dollars to sophisticated investors and governments overseas.
The top five foreign holders of Freddie and Fannie long-term debt are China, Japan, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, and Belgium. In total foreign investors hold over $1.3 trillion in these agency bonds, according to the U.S. Treasuryâs most recent âReport on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities.â
FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe commented, âThe prospectus for every GSE bond clearly states that it is not backed by the United States government. Thatâs why investors holding agency bonds already receive a significant risk premium over Treasuries.â
âA bailout at this stage would be the worst possible outcome for American taxpayers and mortgage holders, who have been paying a risk premium to these foreign investors.â
âIt would change the rules of the game retroactively and would directly subsidize the risks taken by sophisticated foreign investors.â
âA bailout of GSE bondholders would be perhaps the greatest taxpayer rip-off in American history. It is bad economics and you can be sure it is terrible politics.â
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 @partyeslife8157 And the guy is right they have done war games/war scenarios over and over
Arming the Philippines would just make it a target when the Chinese can produce 1000 cruise missiles everyday. Thatâs how they plan to win a war with the USA. Out produce the Americans
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The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America might lose.)
By MICHAEL HIRSH
06/09/2023 04:30 AM EDT
The war began in the early morning hours with a massive bombardment â Chinaâs version of âshock and awe.â
Chinese planes and rockets swiftly destroyed most of Taiwanâs navy and air force as the Peopleâs Liberation army and navy mounted a massive amphibious assault across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait.
Having taken seriously President Joe Bidenâs pledge to defend the island, Beijing also struck pre-emptively at U.S. and allied air bases and ships in the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. managed to even the odds for a time by deploying more sophisticated submarines as well as B-21 and B-2 stealth bombers to get inside Chinaâs air defense zones, but Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days and saw its network access severed.
The United States and its main ally, Japan, lost thousands of service members, dozens of ships, and hundreds of aircraft. Taiwanâs economy was devastated. And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild, taking years to replace ships as it reckoned with how shriveled its industrial base had become compared to Chinaâs.
The Chinese âjust ran rings around us,â said former Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten in one after-action report.
âThey knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it.â Dozens of versions of the above war-game scenario have been enacted over the last few years, most recently in April by the House Select Committee on competition with China.
And while the ultimate outcome in these exercises is not always clear â the U.S. does better in some than others â the cost is. In every exercise the U.S. uses up all its long-range air-to-surface missiles in a few days, with a substantial portion of its planes destroyed on the ground.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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 @Andy-P Sha dy Filipinos are like that when the Chinese showed up 2000 years ago they had to go to Luzon to find you Filipinos
Not these disputed islands
The Chinese probably went âthese islands are oursâ
Filipinos were like O kay na lang
Yes sirrrrr thank you sirrrrrrrr come again sirrrrrrrrr
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The Chinese Treasure Fleet in 15th century Philippines
* It was the people of our archipelago who discovered Magellan and the Europeans in 1521, not the other way around, as most Filipinos were taught by our grade-school textbooks. Our islands and their inhabitants were well-known to a larger, richer world that of Chinese emperors and scholars and Arab traders, as early as the 9th, even 6th centuries. And certainly by 1000 A.D., our shores were regular ports of call in the trade with China, then the most powerful nation on earth.
Chinese chronicles, European archaeologists and the diggings in our pre-colonial burial grounds prove that those ancient Filipinos used fine porcelain, weights and measures imported from China, and recorded written contracts. Chao-Ju-Kua reported that Chinese traders visited Ma-I (Luzon) regularly, leaving silks, porcelain and metal utensils on the beaches of designated islands, and returning weeks later to collect payment in the form of beeswax, gold dust, carabao horn, ginger, cinnamon or garlic. It was an import-export system run on a reliable honor system with unquestioned good faith.
* When Magellanâs Spanish Armada hove into view in March 1521, the natives of Homonhon in the Visayas must have taken pity on the small black ships with tattered sails and scruffy, starving, disoriented sailors, for they sent a small rowboat packed with rice, coconuts and bananas to their rescue. On the next island, the white, bearded strangers were feted in a bamboo palace with a banquet of roast fish, pork, turtle eggs and palm wine, by a native king whose queen wore a black-and-white gown, red lips and nails, while a quartet of young, topless damsels played music on various gongs and drums.
Those early Filipinos had been more accustomed to the tall, prosperous, Chinese ships with a trio of feathery sails stiffened with battens, for the China trade had been in place for at least 500 years. During the Ming Dynasty, Filipinos enjoyed the visits of the Treasure Fleet (1405-1500) of Admiral Cheng Ho (Zhen He) a huge, 7-ft tall, powerful eunuch, who had built 1,500 massive, 500-ft ships in a giant shipyard in Nanking with the help of 30,000 workers. The luxurious ships, each manned by 1,000 sailors ruled the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
* But the Chinese were not interested in conquest or territorial aggrandizement. Their purposes were trade and diplomacy. That was what our ancestors expected when they first saw the Spanish Armada.
Filipinos had never seen white men before Magellan and never thought the strangers would be as rapacious and predatory as they would prove to be. They assumed the new foreigners to be poor and needy because they had only glass beads, a string of little bells and a red cap (Magellanâs gifts) to reciprocate the native prodigality. The white men were, in fact, so dazzled by the earrings, chains, armlets and anklets, of pure gold, worn by both the native men and women that Magellan had to warn them against showing their covetousness.
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ARBITRATION UNDER ANNEX VII OF THE UNITED NATIONS ...
Prior to the 1970s, Philippine law had set clear limits for the territory of the Philippines, which did not involve any of China's maritime features in the South China Sea. Article 1 of the 1935 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines, entitled "The National Territory", provided that "The Philippines comprises all the territory ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris concluded between the United States and Spain on the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the limits which are set forth in Article III of said treaty, together with all the islands embraced in the treaty concluded at Washington between the United States and Spain on the seventh day of November, nineteen hundred, and the treaty concluded between the United States and Great Britain on the second day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty, and all territory over which the present Government of the Philippine Islands exercises jurisdiction." Under this provision, the territory of the Philippines was confined to the Philippine Islands, having nothing to do with any of China's maritime features in the South China Sea. Philippine Republic Act No. 3046, entitled "An Act to Define the Baselines of the Territorial Sea of the Philippines", which was promulgated in 1961, reaffirmed the territorial scope of the country as laid down in the 1935 Constitution.
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You Filipinos say payment is for rent
Malaysians says itâs payment for sale
It does not matter under the contract they can make those payments
Whatever you want to call it rent or sale in perpetuity đ( that means for ever and ever and ever )
But like I said in other post. The claim you Filipinos have on Sabah and some other Malaysian islands you Filipinos have taken that are closer to Malaysia
Is a historical claim⌠Historical claim you Filipinos dismissed as a valid claim in 2017
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The two main sultanates in the region at the time were Sulu and Brunei. In 1658, the Sultan of Brunei gave Sabah to the Sultan of Sulu - either as a dowry or because troops from Sulu had helped him quell a rebellion.
More than 350 years later, the sultan's heirs have come to remind Malaysians that they still consider Sabah to be part of Sulu and, by extension, part of the Philippines.
"Sabah is our home," they said simply when asked why they had come.
But history is not that simple and of course Malaysia has no intention of giving up Sabah to this little band of Filipinos.
The crux of their disagreement lies in a contract made in 1878, between the Sultanate of Sulu and the British North Borneo Company.
Under this contract known as pajak, the company could occupy Sabah in perpetuity as long as it paid a regular sum of money.
Even today, Malaysia pays about 5,000 Malaysian ringgit (ÂŁ1,000, $1,500) a year to the Sultanate of Sulu.
But the British and, after that an independent Malaysia, interpreted pajak to mean sale, while the Sulu Sultanate has always maintained it means lease.
"In my opinion, this is more consistent with a lease rather than a sale, because you can't have a purchase price which is not fixed and which is payable until kingdom come," said Harry Roque, a law professor at the University of the Philippines.
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 @gelinrefira More like the Chinese donât believe in zero-sum game type of thinking
They viewed the Americans as partners, probably still view them as partners they can work with in the future
Kind of like waiting for Meloni going to China to reset recently
But at this time they have to view the USA as an unreliable partner. But one who might reset relations in the future
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
How Washington's sanctions boosted China's semiconductor sector
MAY 5, 2021
Plan B
So far, Yangtze Memory, also known as YMTC, has remained under the radar of the U.S. government. But the company is taking no chances. With the guidance of Beijing, it has launched a massive review of its supply chain in an effort to find local suppliers -- or, at least, non-U.S. ones -- to replace the current dependence on American technology.
The collective effort has occupied over 800 people, full time, and including staff from its multiple local suppliers, for two years. And they have not finished yet.
YMTC is seeking to learn as much as it can about the origin of everything that goes into its products, from production equipment and chemicals to the tiny lenses, screws, nuts and bearings in chipmaking machinery and production lines, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. The audit extends not only to YMTC's own production lines, but also to suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, and so on.
"The review is as meticulous as knowing where the screws and nuts are coming from, the lead time, and if those parts have alternatives," one person familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia.
The purge of YMTC's supply chain has been handled with the spirit of a national emergency. Based in the city of Wuhan, the effort did not pause even when the virus epicenter was ravaged by COVID-19 last spring.
While the rest of the city endured a brutal quarantine, high-speed trains remained in service to ferry YMTC employees to its $24 billion 3D NAND flash memory plant that began producing chips in 2019. All the while, delivery trucks for critical chipmaking materials drove to and from the production campus.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Sabah clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines
(In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines) if we are arguing proximity
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute stems with the fact they make a formal proximity claim against China in the 1970s on disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE
Historical claim that the Philippines dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Filipinos crying bullying when they are making a historical claim on Malaysian land in Sabah as a prize for participation in quelling a rebellion for a former Malay Sultan
Bullying the Malaysians as Filipinos in 2013 invaded Sabah causing the demise of 71 people.
Where Malaysia clearly wins the proximity claim as Sabah is attached to Malaysia and the sea separates the Philippines (In fact there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines that are closer to Malaysia than the Philippines (off the shores of Malaysian land) if we are arguing strictly âproximityâ Malaysia wins in their dispute with the Philippines
Why is the proximity debate important
Because the Philippines dispute in the SCS with China stems from the fact they made a formal proximity claim against China in 1971 on those disputed islands and waters
Where China makes a 200 BCE âhistorical claimâ that the Philippines formally dismissed in the 2016 ICJ tribunal that the Filipinos unilaterally brought forth themselves
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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Difference Between Internal Debt and External Debt!
The basic character of an internal debt is quite different from that of the external debt. In external debt, at the time of repayment there is a real transfer of resources.
In case of internal debt, however, since it is borrowed from individuals and institutions within the country repayment will constitute only a re-distribution of resources without causing any change in the total resources of the community.
There can, thus, be no direct money burden caused by internal debts since all payments cancel each other out in the aggregate community as a whole. Whatever is taxed from one section of the community servicing the debts is distributed among the bond-holders by way of repayment of loans and interest; and quite often, the tax-payer and the bond-holder may be the same person.
At the most, to the extent that the incomes of tax-payers (in a sense, debtors) are reduced, so will the incomes of creditors/ bond-holders increase, but the aggregate position of the community will, nevertheless, remain the same.
However, internal debt may involve a direct real burden on the community according to the nature of the series of transfer of incomes from tax payers to the public creditors. To the extent the tax-payers and the bond-holders are the same, the distribution of wealth will remain unaltered; hence there will not be any net real burden on the community.
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China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
What is China's secret? According to financial commentator Jim Jubak, it may just be "creative accounting" -- the sort of accounting for which Wall Street is notorious, in which debts are swept off the books and turned into "assets." China is able to pull this off because it does not owe its debts to foreign creditors. The banks doing the funding are state-owned, and the state can write off its own debts.
Jubak observes:
China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debt might be hidden now.
The majority of bank loans, says Jubak, went to state-owned companies -- about 70% of the total. The collapse of China's export trade following the crisis meant that its banks were suddenly sitting on billions in debts that were clearly never going to be paid. But that was when China's largest banks were trying to raise capital by selling stock in Hong Kong and New York, and no bank could go public with that much bad debt on its books.
The creative solution? The Beijing government set up special-purpose asset management companies for the four largest state-owned banks, the equivalent of the "special purpose vehicles" designed by Wall Street to funnel real estate loans off U.S. bank books.
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Difference Between Internal Debt and External Debt!
The basic character of an internal debt is quite different from that of the external debt. In external debt, at the time of repayment there is a real transfer of resources.
In case of internal debt, however, since it is borrowed from individuals and institutions within the country repayment will constitute only a re-distribution of resources without causing any change in the total resources of the community.
There can, thus, be no direct money burden caused by internal debts since all payments cancel each other out in the aggregate community as a whole. Whatever is taxed from one section of the community servicing the debts is distributed among the bond-holders by way of repayment of loans and interest; and quite often, the tax-payer and the bond-holder may be the same person.
At the most, to the extent that the incomes of tax-payers (in a sense, debtors) are reduced, so will the incomes of creditors/ bond-holders increase, but the aggregate position of the community will, nevertheless, remain the same.
However, internal debt may involve a direct real burden on the community according to the nature of the series of transfer of incomes from tax payers to the public creditors. To the extent the tax-payers and the bond-holders are the same, the distribution of wealth will remain unaltered; hence there will not be any net real burden on the community.
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When the USA destabilizes Governments/Props up dictators, causes vvar or goes to vvar
Telling people the USA way of Government and life is better
Then what do you expect?
Reminds me of those Hong Kong protesters waving American flags
Thinking life is better in the west with democracy and freedoms
When we who live out west, know the real truth
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BN(O) visa immigrants: Study reveals 50% unemployment rate among Hong Kongers under 65 in the U.K., 99% have no plans to return
* 22nd November 2023 â (London) A recent study conducted by the âWelcoming Committee for Hong Kongersâ organisation, which assists Hong Kongers who have immigrated to the U.K. through the BN(O) Visa, has shed light on the employment situation of these individuals. The study surveyed over 2,000 Hong Kong immigrants and found that only 50% of those under the age of 65 were able to secure employment, indicating a significant unemployment rate among this group.
The study also highlighted the educational background of BN(O) Hong Kongers in the U.K. It revealed that 36% of the surveyed individuals held a masterâs or doctoral degree, while 23% had a postgraduate degree. These figures indicate that BN(O) Hong Kongers in the U.K are nearly twice as well-educated as the average UK population.
* However, despite their educational qualifications, many BN(O) Hong Kongers are facing difficulties in securing employment that matches their skills and experience. Among those surveyed who were employed, 47% felt that their job did not align with their qualifications, and 20% felt that their workload was excessive.
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 @andrewdubose9968Â
People like you are probably too brain was hed
To have a clue there is now 27 books out there in what the Chinese invented first that says we copied or stole from them first
These days????
China has been transferring its tech to Global South Countries and its Belt and Road partners countries
BTW
The western multinationals went to China at the time because of their weak labour laws, weak environmental laws, mass pool of cheap labour they could pay dollar a day wages to
And yes weak IP laws that went along with it
In exchange the western multinationals traded knowledge and investment
This was nothing new, the west goes to 3rd world or developing nation takes advantages of this country until the locals complain about wages, pollution, or environmental damages. Western multinationals pick up and run for it.
I would argue yes they expected the Chinese to buy 1 billion toothbrushes and 2 billion socks
But they didnât expect them to enrich themselves
My evidence is even before the west pushed for Chinese WTO inclusion the Top of the food chain 1%ters and their TooBigTooFail Investment Banks worked out the worst deal ever for themselves
Where these TooBigTooFail Investments Banks got a 33% interest in a âJoint Venture Chinese Investment Banking Subsidiary.â Where the Chinese Bank got a 67%
Difference is the Chinese didnât complain they put up with those dollar a day wages making 22 times less than what an average American worker made. Yet saved 30% of those wages over 30 plus years.
Indirectly loaning those saving to those Americans so they could spend their savings and borrow to spend some more.
While the Chinese invested or made a business with their savings
Where the Chinese lowered their standards of living while the Americans were able to raise their standards of living with those cheaper goods
If anything the Chinese were dragging their feet on the TRIPS agreement under the WTOâŚ.specifically regarding developing countries
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Developing countriesâ transition periods Provisions for developing countries, economies in transition from central planning, and least-developed countries
Developing countries and economies in transition from central planning did not have to apply most provisions of the TRIPS Agreement until 1 January 2000.
The provisions they did have to apply deal with non-discrimination.
Article 65.2 and 65.3
Least-developed countries were given until 1 January 2006.
Article 66.1.
Members have agreed to extend the deadline to 1 July 2034, or to the date a country is no longer âleast-developedâ, if that is earlier.
Pursuant to the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health, a separate transition period exists for pharmaceutical patents, which currently runs until 1 January 2033.
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Chinese Government has banned TicTok in China themselves
and are wary about these Social Media Sites
With that said this is really about China and US relations
More accurately the US/China trade war
Where the real goal isnât trade deficits
Itâs to get more or better access for US multinationals into Chinese Domestic markets
What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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What most people donât get?
Is yes in âmostâ cases when you go to China to sell into their domestic markets you have to take a JV partner
And Iâm âmostâ cases when you go to China to open up a factory export those goods back to your country you donât have to take in a JV partner
These days ?????
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20 to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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Plus not sure why you are complaining anyways, American politicians and regular public want to decouple from China these days
As Americans like you are acting like the suddenly wo ah oak snow fla aches tou dis like so much yourself
Back in the late 1980s I was warning about Free Trade and the push for Globalization
Especially when it came to the rise of CCP China. This was before their GDP was even a blip on the radar
yet was getting laughed at and called a CCP 50 cent army poster. Communist Traitor, against Capitalism and worse names
Thatâs because Conservatives minded folks back then, were pushing for Globalization and Free Trade
Going back as far as 1972 when Nixon went to China to get them to open up?
It was just 10 years after the Great Leap Forward
And right smack dab in the middle of the Cultural Revolution where 10s upon 10s of millions in that country met their demise
Yet we spent the last 50 years buying the gadgets made off of 100s upon 100s and 100s of millions of migrant workers Paid slave like dollar a day wages
We couldnât compete against them when they were 88% in abject poverty in the 1980s
We definitely canât compete against them as the take the technological lead
Sure you Americans may have lost 7 million manufacturing jobs from the height of their manufacturing days.
But you gained 53 million service sector jobs
33 million of them higher paying jobs than those manufacturing jobs
So with more jobsâŚ.
more higher paying jobsâŚ.
and added saving from imported goods raising your standards of living
did the average American Invest,save, or even think to throw that money under the mattress?
No they spent those added earnings and the borrowed to spend some more and borrowed even more to spend some more
Now you blame anyone else but yourselves
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Remarks at a White House Meeting With Business and Trade Leaders
September 23, 1985
Thank you very much, and welcome to the White House. I'm pleased to have this opportunity to be with you to address the pressing question of America's trade challenge for the eighties and beyond.
And let me say at the outset that our trade policy rests firmly on the foundation of free and open markets -- free trade.
I, like you, recognize the inescapable conclusion that all of history has taught:
The freer the flow of world trade, the stronger the tides for human progress and peace among nations.
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To me historical claim, proximity claim
It really does not matter itâs just the reason for the countries claim
I only bring but up because people want to make it out that it was the Chinese who just showed up one day
When it was you Filipinos who didnât make a formal claim until 1971
2 years after oil was found
To me itâs who controls that land and water now
That tribunal just affirmed the who ever controls that land controls its now
Basically arguing no country has exhibited continuous control
Well all the countries including China and your Philippines had dug into the islands and waters they control and say speak to us in a few hundred years
Just like I am living on Indigenous peoples land who I say tough luck to those people
You are living on Negrito peoples land
You can say tough luck to them
Or give you can give back their land to them if you want
Which my argument is if you want to dispute historical claim like you did in the 2016 ICJ case you unilaterally brought forth
Then Sabah in which you make a historical claim is closer to Malaysia in proximity
As well as a few Island off the coast of Malaysia you Filipinos control
As for Vietnam
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Nanyue (Chinese: ĺčś[1] or ĺ精[2]; pinyin: NĂĄnyuè; Jyutping: Naam4 Jyut6; lit. 'Southern Yue', Vietnamese: Nam Viáťt, Zhuang: Namz Yied),[3] was an ancient kingdom founded by the Chinese general Zhao Tuo, whose family (known in Vietnamese as the Triáťu dynasty) continued to rule until 111 BC.[4][5] Nanyue's geographical expanse covered the modern Chinese subdivisions of Guangdong,[6] Guangxi,[6] Hainan,[7] Hong Kong,[7] Macau,[7] southern Fujian[8] and central to northern Vietnam.[6] Zhao Tuo, then Commander of Nanhai Commandery of the Qin dynasty, established Nanyue in 204 BC after the collapse of the Qin dynasty. At first, it consisted of the commanderies of Nanhai, Guilin, and Xiang.
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China wonât allow ByteDance to sell TikTok off
Especially to an American company.
Because
It is the algorithms that make the company
Itâs not like the Chinese Central Government actually wants a Social Media App that they canât control and regulate, or to be out there possibly with people giving their unfettered opinions on China anyways
They already cracked down on Douyin the sister version of TikTok in China
So itâs highly likely the Chinese Government will force ByteDance to have TikToc just leave the US market.
Like their Government stated they would do
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A forced sale of TikTok in the US amounts to a downgrade of the app, as the Chinese government wonât approve the sale of its algorithms,â said Alex Capri, a research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation and a lecturer at the National University of Singaporeâs Business School.
âIf TikTok is forced to stop operating in the US, ByteDanceâs prospects in other mostly liberal democracies will come under further scrutiny,â he said.
If the Chinese government wonât let ByteDance relinquish TikTokâs algorithm, it could block the sale outright. Alternatively, it may allow TikTok to be sold without the lucrative algorithm that forms the basis for its popularity.
A US ban, or a less powerful version of TikTok,would be a windfall
for YouTube, Google, Instagram and other TikTok competitors, as many of its customers may jump ship, Capri said. And it would be a major hit to the global ambitions of ByteDance.
âIt [a TikTok ban] would be the end of ByteDanceâs global expansion, as it would be a sign that the Chinese state values the algorithmâs security more than ByteDanceâs financial prosperity and global expansion,â said Richard Windsor, tech industry analyst and founder of Radio Free Mobile, a research company based in the US.
âThe implications are that the ideological struggle being fought in the technology industry will become more intense.â
A ban on TikTok is also likely to accelerate a shift that is splitting the worldâs tech landscape into two blocs, one centered on the US, the other embracing tech from China, according to Capri.
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 @mattvanr2361 look at you trying so hard to blame anyone else but yourself
You took the time to type⌠but did not do your own research
Embarrassing
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Toronto study initiated more than thirty years ago provides some of the most convincing evidence to support the theory that more immigration equals less crime. In 1976, John Hagan, now a professor of sociology and law at both U of T and Northwestern University in Chicago, surveyed a group of 835 teenagers at four high schools in a region west of Toronto, near Pearson International Airport. (The community has never been named, to protect residentsâ anonymity.) He asked them about their families, their attitudes toward education, what they did when they hung out with their friends, and the kind of trouble they got into. Did they smoke pot? Get into fights? Ever steal a car and take it for a joyride?
At the time, Hagan, who has since become one of the most prominent experts on immigration and crime, wasnât looking into the issue of immigration at all. His interest was in youth delinquency, and such school-based studies were dominant during this period. The site he chose for his research, however, was about to undergo a radical demographic transformation. When his U of T colleagues Ronit Dinovitzer, a professor of sociology and law, and Ron Levi, a professor of criminology, returned in 1999 to repeat the survey, the community had become what they call âa global edge cityââtaking the name from Joel Garreauâs groundbreaking 1991 book, Edge City, about emerging suburban economic power centresâwith a high proportion of visible minorities, mainly South Asian, black, Filipino, and Chinese. Of Dinovitzer and Leviâs 900 respondents, a full 66 percent were from immigrant, non-European backgrounds (up from 10 percent in the original group), and it was upon seeing this diversity that the researchers realized they had more than just a study on youth delinquency; they had ample evidence to examine the relationship between immigration and crime.
In an office at U of Tâs Centre of Criminology, overlooking the Ontario legislature in Queenâs Park, Dinovitzer and Levi explain their findings. The overall rate of what they called âyouthful illegalitiesââdrinking, taking drugs, petty theft, vandalism, fighting, and so onâwas significantly lower in the immigrant-rich 1999 cohort, and in both groups immigrant kids were less likely than their peers to engage in delinquent behaviour. Also, as Sampson had discovered, the disinclination to commit crime extended across all nationalities; it didnât matter whether a teenagerâs family was from India or Trinidad or China. Specific cultural values were not at play; nor could behaviour be chalked up to a given ethnic groupâs parenting style (sorry, Tiger Moms)
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China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is a option
But then even Fentanyl is a legal substance in these countries, and used in our hospitals
Itâs looks like drug addicts in Canada have no self control and abuse these drugs
Plus without those drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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China wonât allow ByteDance to sell TikTok off
Especially to an American company.
Because
It is the algorithms that make the company
Itâs not like the Chinese Central Government actually wants a Social Media App that they canât control and regulate, or to be out there possibly with people giving their unfettered opinions on China anyways
They already cracked down on Douyin the sister version of TikTok in China
So itâs highly likely the Chinese Government will force ByteDance to have TikToc just leave the US market.
Like their Government stated they would do
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A forced sale of TikTok in the US amounts to a downgrade of the app, as the Chinese government wonât approve the sale of its algorithms,â said Alex Capri, a research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation and a lecturer at the National University of Singaporeâs Business School.
âIf TikTok is forced to stop operating in the US, ByteDanceâs prospects in other mostly liberal democracies will come under further scrutiny,â he said.
If the Chinese government wonât let ByteDance relinquish TikTokâs algorithm, it could block the sale outright. Alternatively, it may allow TikTok to be sold without the lucrative algorithm that forms the basis for its popularity.
A US ban, or a less powerful version of TikTok,would be a windfall
for YouTube, Google, Instagram and other TikTok competitors, as many of its customers may jump ship, Capri said. And it would be a major hit to the global ambitions of ByteDance.
âIt [a TikTok ban] would be the end of ByteDanceâs global expansion, as it would be a sign that the Chinese state values the algorithmâs security more than ByteDanceâs financial prosperity and global expansion,â said Richard Windsor, tech industry analyst and founder of Radio Free Mobile, a research company based in the US.
âThe implications are that the ideological struggle being fought in the technology industry will become more intense.â
A ban on TikTok is also likely to accelerate a shift that is splitting the worldâs tech landscape into two blocs, one centered on the US, the other embracing tech from China, according to Capri.
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Flood the Chinese markets is what the USA and its allies should have done 6 years ago
When China was importing 300 billion USD worth of semiconductors
And when China had virtually no chips/chip making foundries
SoâŚâŚ
Instead of lowering prices and dumping even more chips on China
Letâs cuts off chip and chip making equipment and think they canât innovate
When China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future
That is flawed western thinking that we apply to East Asians
.that they will just give upâŚlike we would
That is a classic example of Dunning-Kruger ⌠real or not there is differences in how we think
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What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When we don't know enough to know what we don't know.
* So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence.
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Why we overestimate our competence Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
* Meanwhile, other researchers are studying the subjective nature of self-assessment from other angles. For example, Steven Heine, PhD, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, is showing that self-inflation tends to be more of a Western than a universal phenomenon.
* In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
* First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
* Heine adds. If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it. East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
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By Josh Rogin
April 14, 2020 at 5:0
* In January 2018, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing took the unusual step of repeatedly sending U.S. science diplomats to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which had in 2015 become Chinaâs first laboratory to achieve the highest level of international bioresearch safety (known as BSL-4). WIV issued a news release in English about the last of these visits, which occurred on March 27, 2018.
*During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory,â states the Jan. 19, 2018, cable, which was drafted by two officials from the embassyâs environment, science and health sections who met with the WIV scientists. (The State Department declined to comment on this and other details of the story.)
The Chinese researchers at WIV were receiving assistance from the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch and other U.S. organizations, but the Chinese requested additional help. The cables argued that the United States should give the Wuhan lab further support, mainly because its research on bat coronaviruses was important but also dangerous.
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You are delusional from what i understand the even tested a few swimmers hair⌠meaning they could tell how long the TMZ was in the swimmers systems
Bottom line the Chinese self reported
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Chinese swimming scandal: a strong defence by world anti-doping body, but narrative of âcover-upâ remains
Published: April 24, 2024
Given an investigation by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security found traces of the banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ) in a kitchen at the swimmersâ hotel, CHINADA ruled the positive tests were the result of accidental contamination. The Chinese swimmers were cleared without any public announcement.
WADA says Chinaâs national anti-doping agency kept them abreast of events throughout their extensive investigation, which took place during strict COVID lockdowns and was impacted by a local outbreak of the virus.
Far from accepting CHINADAâs findings on the face of it, WADA requested the entire case file so it could conduct its own scientific and legal investigations â including speaking with the drug manufacturer to get the latest unpublished science on TMZ, and comparing the Chinese positive tests with TMZ cases in other countries, including the US. WADA ultimately determined there was no concrete evidence to âdisproveâ the possibility of environmental contamination.
Here are a few reasons WADA gave as to why in its press conference this week:
More than 200 swimmers competing in the Chinese National Championships were staying in at least two different hotels at the time. The swimmers who tested positive to non-performance-enhancing amounts of TMZ were all at one hotel.
There were fluctuating negative and positive results for the swimmers that were tested on multiple occasions, which were not consistent with deliberate doping techniques, including microdosing.
WADA found no evidence of misconduct or manipulation in the case file handed over by CHINADA.
WADA says it reviews between 2,000 and 3,000 cases of suspected doping every year. It is not unusual for the body to file an appeal challenging anti-doping findings.
For example, WADA challenged an Australian Football League decision to clear 34 members of the Essendon Football Club. It also appealed a decision by the world swimming body, FINA, to clear high-profile Chinese swimmer Sun Yang of wrongdoing for his conduct during a 2018 drug test.
According to WADAâs general counsel, Ross Wenzel, the difference between these cases and the more recent allegations against the Chinese swimmers was that the body accepted the âno faultâ finding in the latter case. In the earlier cases, it did not.
He also said WADA received external legal advice that it would have had less than a 1% chance of winning an appeal in the TMZ case. According to WADA, everything was handled by the book, and if the body was faced with the same situation again, it would do nothing differently.
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Timeline of the South China Sea dispute
* It has been claimed by the People's Republic of China on the argument that since 200 BCE Chinese fishermen have used the Spratly islands
* Naval forces of the Liu Song dynasty (420â479 CE) patrolled the Paracel and Spratly islands.[5] In the Tang dynasty (618â907 CE), the islands were placed under the administration and authority of the Qiongzhou Prefecture (now Hainan Province).[5] The Chinese administration of the South China Sea continued into the Song dynasty (960â1279 CE).[5]
* Archaeologists have found Chinese made potteries porcelains and other historical relics from the Southern dynasties (420â589 CE), the Sui dynasty (581â619 CE), the Tang dynasty, the Song dynasty, the Yuan dynasty (1271â1368 CE), the Ming dynasty (1368â1644 CE) and later eras up to modern times on the South China Sea islands.[5]
1876 â China makes its earliest documented claim to the Paracel Islands[citation needed]
1883 â When the Spratlys and Paracels were surveyed by Germany in 1883, China issued protests.
1887 â In the 19th century, Europeans found that Chinese fishermen from Hainan annually visited the Spratly islands for part of the year, while in 1877 it was the British who launched the first modern legal claims to the Spratlys
1902 â China sends naval forces on inspection tours of the Paracel Islands to preempt French claims.[28] Scholar François-Xavier Bonnet argued that per Chinese records, these expeditions never occurred and were backdated during the 1970s.[29][30]
1907 â China sends another naval force, this time to plan for resource exploitation.[28]
1911 â The newly formed Republic of China, successor state to the Qing dynasty, moves administration of the Paracel Islands to Hainan,[28] which would not become a separate Chinese province until 1988.
1946 â The R.O.C. established garrisons on both Woody (now Yongxing / ć°¸ĺ
´) Island in the Paracels and Taiping Island in the Spratlys. France protested. The French tried but failed to dislodge Chinese nationalist troops from Yongxing Island/Woody Island (the only habitable island in the Paracels), but were able to establish a small camp on Pattle (now Shanhu / çç) Island in the southwestern part of the archipelago.[37][38][39] The Republic of China drew up The Southern China Sea Islands Location Map, marking the national boundaries in the sea with 11 lines, two of which were later removed, showing the U-shaped claim on the entire South China Sea, and showing the Spratly and Paracels in Chinese territory, in 1947.[28] The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.[38]
1950 â After the Chinese nationalists were driven from Hainan by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), they withdrew their garrisons in both the Paracels and Spratlys to Taiwan.
1969 â A UN sponsored research team discovers oil under the sea floor of the island group.
1970 â China occupies Amphitrite Group of the Paracel Islands
* In 1596, the Spanish Colonial Government declared that each island in the Kalayaan Islands, now known as the Spratly Islands, had Barangay or Barrio status.
1971 â Philippines announces claim to islands adjacent to its territory in the Spratlys, which they named Kalayaan, which was formally incorporated into Palawan Province in 1972. The Philippines President Marcos announced the claims after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba.[
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I think most Americans are under educated
China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is an unlikely option
Since Fentanyl is a legal substance, used in US Hospitals
Plus without those Chinese drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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I think most Americans are under educated
China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is an unlikely option
Since Fentanyl is a legal substance, used in US Hospitals
Plus without those Chinese drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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I think most Americans are under educated
China alone has 400,000 drug labs
Getting them to shutdown the labs is an unlikely option
Since Fentanyl is a legal substance, used in US Hospitals
Plus without those Chinese drug labs we would go without the Alzheimerâs, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease drugs and more etc etc etc
Thatâs because they supply us with the essential ingredients that go into the Worlds Pharmaceutical drugs
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U.S. officials worried about Chinese control of American drug supply
"Basically we've outsourced our entire industry to China," retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told NBC News. "That is a strategic vulnerability."
If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days," said Rosemary Gibson, author of a book on the subject, "China Rx."
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The difference is this in Q3 of 2019
The US FED was bailing out those TOOBIGTOFAIL banks in their repo markets less their credit markets seize up once again
A few things we learned since the 2008 subprime crisis
Buying for US debt is not unlimited.
In 2013 the US FED had to buy 71% of the newly issued external Sovereign debt by the US Treasury
That Quantitative Easing (QE)debt that was soaped up/printing of money, that debt does not disappear
Since we know from Q3 of 2017 to Q3 of 2019 the FEDs bright idea was to allow 50 to 60 billion of the Agency Debt and US Treasury Debt it soaped up during QE to slowly mature each month, off the FEDs balance sheet.
Their Quantitative Tightening (QT)
Where the US Treasury would issue new corresponding debt for the public to buy. Where with this QT selling they managed to dump about 600 to 700 billion in debt on the American âpeopleâ
As the American âpeopleâ are the biggest buyers of US Sovereign Debt (directly/indirecty)
That QT selling ended during Q3 of 2019 Because that selling of debt ended up helping to freeze up the repo market
Just like when it happened in 2008/2009 during the subprime crisis
Thus the FED balance sheet went from 4.5 trillion to about 3.8 trillion.with that selling from 2017 to 2019
But then the FED had to come back in QE 2.0 and buy that Treasury debt again, all that they dumped and more
Last I checked they ran that FED balance sheeet back up to over 8 trillion. Now itâs back to around 7.8 trillion
Wait you might ask Agency debt is internal debt not supposed to be backed by the US Government
Well the USA has had no issue with taking private internal debt and turning it into External Sovereign Debt backed by the US Government and the American âpeopleâ
Something the Chinese might have been tempted to do with the Junk Bonds issued by those Chinese Property Developers
That were a hot commodity the last few years, sought after by sophisticated foreign investors
In short the Chinese purposely deflated their real estate markets. Cut off money to its Property Developers since 2010. And didnt bailout foreign investors who took a risk buying those Property Developer junk bonds the last few years
While the USA left their real estate market to implode. Kept the stimulus/bailout money flowing to the companies, and bailed out foreign investors who invested in private internal debt
Yet we are complaining who is capitalist/communist
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As politicians call for taxpayer bailouts and a government takeover of troubled mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae,
FreedomWorks would like to point out that a bailout is a transfer of possibly hundreds of billions of U.S. tax dollars to sophisticated investors and governments overseas.
The top five foreign holders of Freddie and Fannie long-term debt are China, Japan, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, and Belgium. In total foreign investors hold over $1.3 trillion in these agency bonds, according to the U.S. Treasuryâs most recent âReport on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities.â
FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe commented, âThe prospectus for every GSE bond clearly states that it is not backed by the United States government. Thatâs why investors holding agency bonds already receive a significant risk premium over Treasuries.â
âA bailout at this stage would be the worst possible outcome for American taxpayers and mortgage holders, who have been paying a risk premium to these foreign investors.â
âIt would change the rules of the game retroactively and would directly subsidize the risks taken by sophisticated foreign investors.â
âA bailout of GSE bondholders would be perhaps the greatest taxpayer rip-off in American history. It is bad economics and you can be sure it is terrible politics.â
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What most people like you donât get?
Is it is mostly US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour, smuggled in from South East Asia in their factories in China
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales of their goods and services into those Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
For one, it would crash the US Economy
And the Chinese donât believe in a zero-sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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What most people donât get?
Is it is US multinationals making the lion share of those profits inflating the trade deficit between China to the USA
Where Chinese companies mostly trade with their Belt and Road country partners these days
These US multinationals are the ones sending you that junk
These US multinationals are still using the same highly polluting labour intensive factories formula.
As they were using more and more illegal labour in their Chinese factories, smuggled in from South East Asia.
Or more and more automation in their wholly owned factories in China these days
These are the same companies who got those trump Corporate tax cuts you for sure cheered about
Same companies based in China who derived 392 billion in sales into the Chinese domestic markets in 2018 when trump started his trade war
Same companies averaging 20% to 40% of their earnings from China whose high flying stocks are in your 401k/Pensions
Same companies who the American farmer and consumer were sacrificed. So the USA could try and get âmoreâ or âbetterâ access for the US multinationals, into those Chinese Domestic markets during the trade war
Same companies whose HQ is in a North American city you can easily go stand outside and protest atâŚ.
Why didnât China pull the nuclear trade option and boot these US companies you might ask?
They donât believe in a zero sum game type of thinking
As I can show you during the trade war.
China didnât pull out their big trade weapons, in fact they were lowering tariffs to most countries not raising them
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Trumpâs âtrade warâ with China wonât be so easy to win
Having learned these value chain lessons, Beijing has worked hard to bring more of the high-value-adding parts of value chains into China, and to build hi-tech industries in which it can establish a globally competitive position.
China has successfully done this in areas like high-speed trains (CRRC), digital telecoms networks (Huawei), drones (DJI) and hi-tech batteries (BYD).
Trumpâs team is not wrong to be worried about Chinaâs competitive emergence here, and to target these new-tech sectors in the latest trade war sortie.
But hereâs the problem: China exports almost none of these new-tech products to the US, making US tariff threats meaningless. Rather, they go to developing economy markets â many embraced by the Belt and Road initiative â where China has succeeded in building a hi-tech, high-value brand reputation.
As Trumpâs team will quickly learn, the challenge of finding Chinaâs pain points is bigger than expected: for a decade Chinaâs priority has been to base growth on the domestic consumer economy and reduce reliance on the low-value-adding export processing industries (many of which are US- or Hong Kong-owned and concentrated in the Pearl River Delta)
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China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing
Nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF. The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of Chinaâs economic growth in 2023
Other key findings of the analysis include:
Clean-energy investment rose 40% year-on-year to 6.3tn yuan ($890bn), with the growth accounting for all of the investment growth across the Chinese economy in 2023.
Chinaâs $890bn investment in clean-energy sectors is almost as large as total global investments in fossil fuel supply in 2023 â and similar to the GDP of Switzerland or Turkey.
Including the value of production, clean-energy sectors contributed 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to the Chinese economy in 2023, up 30% year-on-year.
Clean-energy sectors, as a result, were the largest driver of Chinaâ economic growth overall, accounting for 40% of the expansion of GDP in 2023.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, Chinaâs GDP would have missed the governmentâs growth target of âaround 5%â, rising by only 3.0%
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Well to be fair he is going to partner with a company that is fully automated and few years ago already
Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Apparently Musk went to China to get that Chinese FSD data stored there by Tesla since 2021
The Chinese probably said no we canât allow that Chinese data to go to the USA so you can type up some algorithms
But we will allow you to team up with Baidu who are already way ahead of you anyways
This will help you compete in China vs Chinese EV makers
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Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis
December 26, 2022
Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city.
The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Teslaâs vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
In Q3, Apollo Go, the firmâs robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year.
Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3.
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Chinese economy is really number 1. If you use purchasing power parity
Filipinos ainât smart if they think the USA who has to borrow 1 trillion every 100 days will protect them
âââ they have done war games/war scenarios over and over
Arming the Philippines would just make it a target when the Chinese can produce 1000 cruise missiles everyday. Thatâs how they plan to win a war with the USA. Out produce the Americans
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The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America might lose.)
By MICHAEL HIRSH
06/09/2023 04:30 AM EDT
The war began in the early morning hours with a massive bombardment â Chinaâs version of âshock and awe.â
Chinese planes and rockets swiftly destroyed most of Taiwanâs navy and air force as the Peopleâs Liberation army and navy mounted a massive amphibious assault across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait.
Having taken seriously President Joe Bidenâs pledge to defend the island, Beijing also struck pre-emptively at U.S. and allied air bases and ships in the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. managed to even the odds for a time by deploying more sophisticated submarines as well as B-21 and B-2 stealth bombers to get inside Chinaâs air defense zones, but Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days and saw its network access severed.
The United States and its main ally, Japan, lost thousands of service members, dozens of ships, and hundreds of aircraft. Taiwanâs economy was devastated. And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild, taking years to replace ships as it reckoned with how shriveled its industrial base had become compared to Chinaâs.
The Chinese âjust ran rings around us,â said former Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten in one after-action report.
âThey knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it.â Dozens of versions of the above war-game scenario have been enacted over the last few years, most recently in April by the House Select Committee on competition with China.
And while the ultimate outcome in these exercises is not always clear â the U.S. does better in some than others â the cost is. In every exercise the U.S. uses up all its long-range air-to-surface missiles in a few days, with a substantial portion of its planes destroyed on the ground.
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The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese people and Government
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter
instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese at the time content with cheap imported chips. Hope they could not innovate
When China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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The Chinese had âvirtuallyâ no chip making ability/foundries 6 years ago
thanks to the USA who did the job for the Chinese Government trying to get their people to use homegrown chips
China is now expected to take over those legacy chip markets
If the USA was smarter instead of cutting off China from semiconductor chips and equipment for manufacturing
They should have lowered prices even more, and dump even more chips on China
Instead their idea was to force the hand of Chinese people at the time content with cheap imported chips.
Hope they could not innovate
When China leads the world in 37 of the 44 critical technologies of the future đ
At one point China was importing 300 billion in chips a year
Now they will probably be exporting around 200 billion dollars worth of their own homegrown chips per year
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How Close Is China to World Dominance in Legacy Semiconductors? 27-02-2024 | By Paul Whytock
* Bread and Butter Technology
Obviously, China would like to be a major player when it comes to high-end sophisticated semiconductor devices, but that doesnât mean they are not interested in the bread-and-butter end of the market, particularly when it comes to legacy products.
In fact, they are very interested in the legacy market, and there are some very good reasons why.
Legacy devices make up a huge amount of global chip sales. Most chips manufactured today are not advanced chips but legacy chips, and around 71% of devices
* China's Aggressive Expansion in the Semiconductor Industry
In September 2023, Reuters reported that China was set to launch a new state-backed fund aimed at raising about âŹ43bn to support its chip industry, and according to research analysts, the Rhodium Group, in less than ten years, China is expected to domestically add nearly as much 50â180nm wafer manufacturing capacity as the rest of the World.
The views of industry analysts and observers vary, but generally speaking, itâs thought that 22 wafer fabs are being built in the country, and there is an overall plan to create a total of 30 new wafer fabrication plants.
Many of these will concentrate on the production of legacy devices.
As for market share, industry intelligence gatherers
Trendforce believe Chinaâs legacy chip manufacturing base could provide as much as 30% of the global demand for older devices.
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I wouldnât expect any EV company to be making money right now
The Chinese are doing what they did in the Solar Panels to the world
Only difference the competition is in China âŚ.and this winner take all survival game is on steroids over there
Do not mistakenly attribute our western thinking onto the way they think
Their goal is clean, green, renewable etc future
Nothing will change that
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JANUARY 30, 2023
3 MIN READ
China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing
Nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF.
The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
Scientific American
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Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of Chinaâs economic growth in 2023
Other key findings of the analysis include:
Clean-energy investment rose 40% year-on-year to 6.3tn yuan ($890bn), with the growth accounting for all of the investment growth across the Chinese economy in 2023.
Chinaâs $890bn investment in clean-energy sectors is almost as large as total global investments in fossil fuel supply in 2023 â and similar to the GDP of Switzerland or Turkey.
Including the value of production, clean-energy sectors contributed 11.4tn yuan ($1.6tn) to the Chinese economy in 2023, up 30% year-on-year.
Clean-energy sectors, as a result, were the largest driver of Chinaâ economic growth overall, accounting for 40% of the expansion of GDP in 2023.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, Chinaâs GDP would have missed the governmentâs growth target of âaround 5%â, rising by only 3.0%
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âââ here in the west we hear only one Chinese EV company is making money right now?
They will give up,because that is how we think and what we will do in that situation
Thatâs the mistake we westerners make
But the reality is thatâs not how they think
That is born out of study after study
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What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When we don't know enough to know what we don't know.
* So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence.
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Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.
Cross-cultural comparisons
Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
These differences are highlighted in a meta-analysis Heine is now completing of 70 studies that examine the degree of self-enhancement or self-criticism in China, Japan and Korea versus the United States and Canada. Sixty-nine of the 70 studies reveal significant differences between the two cultures in the degree to which individuals hold these tendencies, he finds.
In another article in the October 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 81, No. 4), Heine's team looks more closely at how this occurs. First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed.
There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much."
Conversely,
East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network.
But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says. Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds.
If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it.
East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder.
Interestingly, children in many cultures tend to overrate their abilities, perhaps because they lack objective feedback about their performance. For example, until about third grade, German youngsters generally overrate their academic achievement and class standing. This tendency declines as feedback in the form of letter grades begins. But researchers also have shown significant cross-cultural differences in youngsters' performance estimates--American children, it appears, are particularly prone to overestimate their competence.
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