Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "China Observer" channel.

  1. Wolf Warrior again. I think the CCP's sabre rattling is a sign of weakness, not strength..
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  2. This exposes the cracks and defects in online selling platforms and merchants who subscribe to this form of selling, lose out big time. The economic malaise in China in deep and awareness of it is disjointed by the people of China because they keep trusting the words of the government. The government lies outrageously, particularly on economic growth, pure and simple.
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  3. Alibaba and the 400,000 thieves 😂
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  4. Supermarkets in Australia are stable businesses in large towns and cities. It is rare that these food retailers go out if business. Taken over by other corporations and business buyouts; yes, collapse (like the Franklin group in the early 2000s), because an unsustainable business model and over-leveraged credit also yes. But collapse because of drop in consumer demand (except in a few rare places) is almost unheard of. The economic collapse in supermarkets appears to be the case in China in First Tier cities (what is happening in other regional areas and cities in China may be worse), because of low consumer demand. Foreign retail companies are leaving because of poor profits, relatively high overhead costs and less Chinese consumers. The CCP's asinine recent anti-espionage law also targets all foreign businesses in China, so this is also a push factor for foreign companies. Coupled with high unemployment and wage drops for the middle class in China, including erstwhile small business owners who used to be consumers too, when the economy was doing well. China's large population is no longer an asset to it either. With a rapidly aging population due to the One Child Policy, forceably enacted for 40 years since the 1970s has made China's Japanization demographic and economic decline in the 1990s, now similar but also considerably worse than Japan's. Unlike Japan which got rich before it grew old, China overall will not even enjoy this benefit.
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  5. The Soviets did the same in the 1960s by diverting water away from the Amu Darya or Oxus river in Central Asia for cotton irrigation, which fed water annually to the Aral Sea (previously a giant freshwater lake, despite the "sea" suffix). This was the Soviet's, "mankind's engineering to conquor nature", a similar sentiment echoed by the CCP over their even larger hydrological construction, the Three Gorges Dam. By 2000, more than two thirds of the Aral Sea had shrunk, the remaining water was too salty for the native fish to live in and the previously thriving fishing industry on it had vanished and in the semi-arid climate of the steppe, the exposed lake bed of millions of hectares had become exposed and a dust-bowl harbouring toxic levels of pesticide residue (such as DDT whose toxic bi-products remains in the soil for over 300 years) had become airborne with the dust, affecting the health of everyone living in that area. How is the Three Gorges Dam going to environmentally play out? Too early to tell if it's going to be a disaster as bad or worse than the Aral Sea, but time will tell.
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  6. Did the taxi driver got paid due to his long journey? If headstrong teenagers tragically do not want to listen to good advice, then many of them will be abused or murdered. I've heard of this wilful blindness and deafness, all for greed.
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  7. I've heard of these large scale organized crime operations in Myanmar and Thailand. It's likely to be sanctioned and backed by the CCP, by and large. Some high officials in the CCP must be profiting from it. It does detract from Thailand's reputation.
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  8. During the Mao era, manners was considered bourgeois and class enemy interactions and was purged from society. Their yokel behaviour says it all..
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  9. China's high speed rail is indeed "leading the world" in why an economic and environmental feasibility study should be made before building each line. The HSR in the densely populated East and South fringe of China made some economic sense, and two lines there were running at a profit. The other HSR lines are running at a continual loss since inception. Eventually, much of the HSR rolling stock and infrastructure will have to be adandoned or broken up and sold for scrap, which is a huge waste of manpower and money. In feasibility studies, HSR cannot freight much heavy goods, so is less economically efficient than standard rail. The HSR is again part of the large scale vanity projects by the CCP (a childish grandiose dream), that creates massive debt or environmental problems (like the Three Gorges Dam). The CCP has failed to learn brutal economic lessons from the time of Mao, and is doomed to fail.
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  10. In Australia for a service professional, for example engineers, the salaries in the private sector are substantially higher than in the government. This is true for all professions, other than doctors as Australia has largely socialized medicine.
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  11. I thought the Ponzi-scheme real estate industry in China has already collapsed. I think it's unsalvagable. It's much worse, per capita, than the US Prime Mortgage debacle during the 2008 GFC. Millions of these incompleted highrise apartment concrete shells will rot in the weather. Even well built highrise buildings (and these in China are mostly not well built), cannot withstand rusting of the concrete steel ties if exposed to weather for very long, due to incompletion of outside weatherproof cladding and glass in the windows. The rusting weakens the load bearing walls.
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  12. Vietnam was quietly building a maritime empire in the South China Sea, while the CCP's ships were busy distractively ramming the Philippines coastguard ships to test the response of their American allies. Well, well well 😮
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  13. Cavanagh can counter sue, if he's taken to court over this incident; 1. Uttering false accusations for a commercial gain. The CCP agents wanted to use that piano for a New Years' Gala in China, telecast by CCTV or another CCP media operation.. This is a commercially paid operation, for which they were collection a salary or commission by the CCP. They are in a public place and can be filmed or photographed, so asking for "image rights and to stop filming" from Cavanagh is a commercial request.. 2. Causing an affray for commercial gain. The repeated "don't touch her" yelling nonsense was just that. An act to encourage police officers to intervene on a non-offence. Had the act succeeded and drove off Brendan, then it was an affray for commercial gain.
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  14. Chinese manufactured cars, like all things made in China that is not under the supervision of foreign management in factories, such as Tesla in Shanghai, have a terrible build quality reputation. This is because of the prevailing culture in China manufacturing of cutting corners and cheapening components, or even installing fake components. This lesson of build quality and manufacturing quality control was learned as early as the 1950s in Japan and the 1980s in South Korea. The reputation of automobile brands from these two countries thus is high. China cannot hope to compete with the car making giants in Japan and South Korea without overcoming this hurdle of quality control, so poor build quality and hidden problems in their cars seems insurmountable in the corrupt CCP culture that permeates China. Even the Chinese prefer to buy the better foreign car brands, despite their increasingly erstwhile manufacturing strength in China.
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  15. Trams or streetcars have been successuly operating in Western cities for over 200 years, with electrified trams been developed in Germany since 1881. This is not new mass transit technology. The vehicles are called a tram car. They are good in medium to high density locations. They share lanes with road traffic, and have cheaper and lower platforms than trains.
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  16. Taiwanese and other foreign businesses in China. Strip the manufacturing plants and smuggle your own machines out of China (to avoid bureaucratic blockading). As for the buildings, keep the front lawns and gardens neat and tidy (for appearance sake), but lock the doors of the empty buildings.
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  17. China has installed more high speed rail lines than the rest of the world combined. This sounds like a feel good statement from the CCP, but actually it isn't. There are many problems associated with this; 1. With the massive rail network you would expect more accidents statistically than any other country. Assuming of course that the rail and train technology is the same as other countries, which it isn't (inferior and less safe). So the accident potential is worse. 2. Rail and train maintainence (which is all about safety) probably is going backwards in cash-strapped economy of China now, 3. Massive cost over-runs in China, as high speed train lines turn into a Grey Rhino. High speed trains line are expensive to build, carry far less freight than ordinary lines, and rely on high volume passenger numbers to remain profitable. Before the economic downturn, China was running into cost over-runs in the less profitable high speed lines. Now, all of them are running at a loss.
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  18. This is partly because of a weakness in Chinese consumer purchase power. In reality, much of China is a poor third-world economy with little purchasing power per capita. People in rural China are just lucky to get two square meals a day. The rural population of China still constitutes about half the total population. Less ruralized than in Mao Zedong's time and the CCP has urbanised much of China, but even in the cities of China now, borrowing has collapsed and people are poor and jobs are scarse. Dumping cheap shitty cars on the first world is a way of shifting the unwanted goods out of China for the population that has no capacity to purchase it.
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  19. In not a mechanical engineer, but the RPM speed of machine tools directly relates to the quality of their high speed bearings. Both Germany and Japan make high quality high speed bearings, something that China is seemingly unable to make or copy. This is because of industrial culture more than anything. Germans and Japanese engineers take a great deal of precision and care when designing and manufacturing these high speed bearing components, knowing the kinetic extremes these bearings go through, so they collectively do precise and careful work. This is similar with camera lenses. Both Germany and Japan have the best optics imaging quality lenses in the world. The same collective thirst for precision and quality engage optical engineers of both countries. And, unlike China, these specialists are well paid and have seniority management in the company. China in contrast, is always looking for short cuts and money saving operations in manufacturing. And they seemingly always copy instead of going through the hard work or original design and testing. With it's flawed industrial culture, Chinese engineers cannot hope to compete with the quality of German and Jspanese manufactured components.
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  20. I saw what the CCP did with their robotic dog rip-off of Boston Dynamics as it marched with a squad of policemen. It hit a minor slippery part on the pavement, flipped over and broke. This is not the terrain finesse acquired by similar robots that the CCP poorly copied from Boston Dynamics prevalent nearly 15 years ago. China copies; it cannot design or improve. It's equipment looks clean and new on the outside, but is substandard, shoddily designed and obselete on the inside. This fakery affect applies only to China, not to other advanced Asian countries like Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. This is the "faking effect" of the CCP; a low-quality shortcut mindset that helps to push that ideological organisation into the historical garbage bin; along with the Nazis and Soviets.
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  21. What is the default rate of home buyers in China? 40%, 50%, 60% of buyers now with severe unemployment issues? The reaction of the CCP is predicable; screw the average mortgage payer until he she has no money left. 2. After defaulting, depress the credit score of the individual until he or she can't ride buses or go to hospital. If you are older this might be the end of you, but young people don't need hospital much. 3. Carry the real estate debt onto the next family generation. This would not be legal in the West, but this is the CCP we're talking about. 4. Destroy the building and wait for the next round of suckers to invest in building boom. This is least likely as the majority of people are not that stupid (for a generation). House buyers now will have much better price and supply choice.
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  22. Yes, because Taiwan is not Communist.
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  23. Vietnam has a kong history with China.. of being invaded. Vietnam also has had a long history of resisting these invasions (except cultural, like Rome some things that came out of China were appreciated), to the great annoyance of the Chinese. But like the Romans, the Chinese emipres of old and the current CCP indicate that China is an expansionist land power, and continually pushes at it's borders into smaller bordering states like Vietnam. The French invasion of the nineteenth century, and the Americans of the twentieth of Vietnam were eggregious, but not of prime importance to the Vietnamese, because once the whites were gone they were unlikely to return as hostile invaders, and their homelands are far away. Unfortunately, to the Vietnamese, China is awlawys there and continually grabbing parcels of land off of it. The massacre of 80÷ Vietnamese at the Battle of the Spratley Islands probably is another untold chapter of enormities against Vietnam that the Vietnamese have not forgotten. It would not suprise me, that when the CCP collapses, the Vietnamese may re-occupy the Paracel Islands and some parts of it's Northern provinces that China grabbed off it in tbe 1979 Sino-Vietnamese war. There may also be temptation for the Vietnamese to take over Heinan island, if they are strong enough at sea.
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  24. Domestic cycle is another word for a concept called economic autarky. Autarky didn't work well for the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany as both these countries applied it. In the Soviet Union, a huge country with plenty of resources, there was always a shortage of everyday goods and because the government fixed the price of these, these items were gone from shop shelves in a manner of minutes or sold for exorbitant prices on the black market. I remember seeing huge queues of Muscovites waiting to buy bread on the TV before the fall of the Soviet Union. In Nazi Germany, things were barely better even before the war started. Many consumer items were heavily rationed by the Nazis for ordinary Germans, including heating and cooking coal, and the Ruhr region in Germany had large numbers of coal mines. In modern times, the economies of countries are even more interlinked and specialized than they were 70 years ago. I guess Xi Jinping doesn't read history or basic market economics or thinks he has a better system of autarky. Like autarky in the former Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, it will simply impoverish the ordinary person in China even more.
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  25. Nonsense about the moon and sun's gravity affecting severe weather events in China? Sheer bunkum
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  26. Both China and Russia are expansionist land powers in Eurasia. Their imperial methodologies are quite similar; to push against and gobble up small or weakened nations on their borders. Harken to both the long conflicting history between Russia and Ukraine and China and Vietnam. As both countries are large, they may also eye off each other's territory, and like two large boxers, face off a stalemate. Russia has more propensity to a purely military solution than China, and has over 2000 nukes. China has less nukes, but a much larger population for manpower resources and has a stronger manufacturing sector than Russia. Thus they stalemate each other's power, but compliment each other evonomically; China needs Russia's food and petroluem and Russia needs Chinese manufactured goods since it is cut off from getting it elsewhere by sanctions. China might however, win in the long-run on the coveted North-East or Pacific Siberian Coast, because Putin is slowly bleeding the Russian people white in the Ukraine war.
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  27. Britain or more accurately the British Empire did not occupy Taiwan (previously called Formosa). The last foreign occupier of Taiwan was Japan. But the CCP has never occupied it.
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  28. The scenario of air launched anti-ship missiles launched from racks out of US transport planes en-mass is a bit far fetched. It might be deployed but with less numbers than suggested here. The CCP will attempt to wrest air superiority over Taiwan initially most likely, so it's ships can traverse the straight without being hit by air to surface-launched missiles from Taiwanese jets. It can be countered by 2 US supercarrier task forces steaming in a few hundred kilometres from the Taiwan straight. The CCP might attempt to sink these carriers with submarines or ballastic missiles, but now that the complete signature of the PLAAN subs are decoded, the USN has probably got a plan to counter that.
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  29. The Vietnamese look at current Chinese colonization (from below) of Laos, Cambodia and Mynamar and are determined not to go that way. Because of Vietnam's relatively large size, compared to these other countries, and it's long and cool relationship with China and the CCP (the last country the CCP waged a hot war on and got their asses kicked was Vietnam. This was in 1979), will keep Vietnam at relative arm's length from China by the government at Hanoi. The Vietnamese are generally correct; they treat the other asian powers (Japan, South Korea & Taiwan) and Western countries individually as equal to China. This is a smart move diplomatically.
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  30. I always wondered how a phone maker makes cars as well. This is the "winning" CCP business model, and exposes the nexus between the government and so-called "independent" Chinese corporations. Expensive "Potemkin" business models (with poor built quality) for immuture nationalist sentiment consumption. Just like the High Speed trains. No attempt at innovation and new technology innovation. All EVs (including Tesla) will be in museums of transport oddities soon.
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  31. Russia cannot confront all of NATO directly. Doing so finishes Russia within a year, despite it's size. China's allies are all quite weak; 3 out of 4 nuclear armed, yes, but collectively NATOs nuclear missiles match the number of the "Axis of Evil", only because of Russia. The Soviet Union came to an accord with NATO 35 years ago, under Gorbachev, ending the Cold War. Not just because Gorbachev was friendly to the West, but mainly because the Soviet Union was bankrupt and could not sustain (back then) cost of armament and miitary technology parity with the West with a moribund economy. The CCP launched it's military challenge too early to have an overwhelming buildup in ships and warplanes to challenge the US and it's allies (including some NATO allies). Even in the excess warships (counting hulls, not tonnage), the PLAN ships are not as technologically advanced as the US and Pacific allies and it's sailors are not as well trained. The CCP's idological desire to launch an attack on Taiwan is driven by 2 factors; 1. XI jinping's obsession about this and 2. The failed "Wolf Warrior" diplomacy act as a cover-up for causing the Covid19 pandemic out of Wuhan, China. These investigations are still stymied by the CCP and aggressive denial may be cover for guilt. Especially if "gain of function" germ warfare was pursued. Given the secrecy about this, and other coverups by the CCP such as the genocide of Uyghers in Xinjiang, and other concurrent Crimes Against Humanity by the CCP, we should certainly not trust the word or actions of the CCP these days.
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  32. There are many problematic and criminal government issues here; 1.Severe, long-lasting and dusruptive environmental pollution, both from the mining, refining and usage of the coal and uranium, 2. Use of coerced slave labour from prisons or gulags to extract the dangerous ore, 3. Weaponizing the uranium to produce nuclear weapons as well as power reactor fuel rods.
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  33. Memory is not CPU in integrated circuit jargon. In any case, setting up a memory fab plant was a mistake if you want to advance your chip making skills to the level that TSMC enjoys. You focus on improving the main CPU processing chip. Memory chips are not manufactured to the same small nanometre node as CPU chips so will not advance your chip technology very far..
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  34. The bigger they are, the harder and faster they fall 😅
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  35. Time has come to pay debts and interests. The only way local and central CCP governments can repay the loan and interest is to take from the current and future generations. I can see this happening. Arise and break your chains Chinese people and call the dictatorship to account.
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  36. Because Taiwan is an island, naval and air superior over it must be maintained with intensity, continually for over 60 days by the PLA for any amphibious invasion over it to succeed. Significant lapses in this intensity, due to logistics bottlenecks, enemy counter-offensives or mistakes and false intelligence by the PLA hands time and preparation to the Taiwanese and the allies of Taiwan (primarily the US and Japan). I doubt this is sustained level of intensity is achievable by the PLA for several reasons; 1. Lack of leadership and a comprehensive strategic plan. While this plan is probably still secret by the PLA, the leadership conflict issues are severe, 2. Logistics issues. The PLA has not fought a sustained military conflict for nearly 50 years. They have little experience in maintaining supply lines to battlefields, particularly made worse by a hostile sea barrier, 3. Comprehensive tactical plans of engagement. The PLA has no real plan to engage the Taiwanese air and sea forces effectively long-term, let alone against a major superpower (US) once it becomes actively engaged in the defence of Taiwan. This is in stark contract to Showa Japan in 1940-42, which at least had a partially effective naval and island hopping plan, 4. Political conversion against Taiwanese democracy. Ironically, this is the best chance the CCP has in taking over Taiwan, seeing that both countries share the same language. But because of bellicose territorial aggression by the PLA and Wolf Warrior diplomacy by the CCP, which psychologically tried fear rather than persuasion, this also is a failure.
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  37. There is no other jobs to go to in China. That's the problem
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  38. Fleet carriers are extremely powerful warships able to both defend the fleet and effect long range attack on mutiple targets and to establish air superiority in their area of the sea. They are the modern surface capital warships of any sizeable navy. However, they do requite dedicated and well trained veteran crews (both sailors and naval fleet air personnel) for any one ship to be combat effective, and as this video pointed out, carriers have lot of complex systems to operate at any one time. Any officer or serviceperson corruption, particularly in the carrier group, severely undermines their operational capabilities. The fact that the PLAN carriers are not out and training may be indicative of the PLAN unpreparedness for a naval war or amphibious operations against a first rate opponent in the near to medium future.
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  39. One thing obvious about the economy of China, are that regular jobs are gone and only an intensive scramble for low-paid limited gig economy work.
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  40. The amazing thing about all this is how it all hinges on politics. China was going to decline as a long-term investment goto place anyway, because of it's rapid demographic aging, but Xi Jinping's aggressively left-wing Communist policies plus his effective neutralisation of internal opponents in the public arena (the Jiang Zemin faction), has given the signal to foreign business and investors in China to leave, and to leave fast. I worry about this as it may occur to Xi that launching a war against Taiwan to kerb his largely self-made political-economic crises at home may be his only option left to hold onto power. The business community who listened to Kissenger et. al. in the first place might consider that just replacing Xi would be optional to consider re-investment in the future, but those business elites are deluded. It's the party and it's system (the CCP) which politically and economically pollutes China; not so much the dictator presiding over it.
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  41. Teamwork events is constant humiliation in China, like in many places outside China. These mostly worthless events only stroke the egos of bosses by making others do stupid, humiliating tasks. It teaches nothing but dislike and resentment. It does not build teamwork, character or company productivity. It's the morale draining sociopaths who get promoted, then ordering these events. Hence turnover and staff retention suffers as workers feel more shamed, not less. Think about what the company you're investing in does to it's employees before handing over money next time.
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  42. FYI South Korea is now a major arms supplier worldwide, and it's equipment generally is good. Sometimes excellent; better than it's peer competitors. Except in drones, China is not peer competitor in arms sales anymore. It's military technology is sometimes yoked to older Soviet and Russian equipment, so not current and of course, it's quality control is very poor; too many dudes.
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  43. Collective agricultural management is a consistent failure, in the past and present, over allowing individual management by market control by experienced farmers, i.e. growing foodstuffs sustainability by local experience using market supply and demand instead of bureaucratic edicts. The CCP local officials will lie again to central government about the food production figures, and widespread famine will ensue to China in an event of a war that the CCP is planning, once blockade ensues by a powerful enemy navy or navies. This will lead to widespread social instability and revolts across China, hamstringing the war effort on the home front. This is another awful travesty of communism and dictatorship yet again; mass starvation, as we have seen this before in Communist China and with other authoritarian governments throughout the 20th century.
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  44. General George S. Pattern, US Third Army, Normandy 1944
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  45. China's economic depression means there's insufficient funds for military spending 😅
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  46. The next stage; hyperinflation. Coupled with low consumption growth, we call that stagflation.
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  47. Few foreign nationals probably visting China these days. There is a skew of factors in this; 1. Unfriendly politics between China, North America and Europe, 2. Scapegoat culture being part of the CCP's DNA. To divert attention from it's own totalitarian enormities heaped upon the long suffering Chinese population, they use foreigner-bashing instead. Not just white people (excluding Russians), but Japanese as well. Actually, the Japanese businesses and people in China get the brunt of this ire from no fault of their own. Finally, 3. Autarky self-induced poverty. China is a quasi-autarky (totalitarianism again), because it places high barriers upon import of foreign manufactured goods entering China as a form of protectionism. Except specilized highly-engineered products like advanced silicon chips, robots and medical products it can't make for itself for various reasons (some political-economic). Now China is in a deep economic recession, there is little consumption from the masses anymore; combination of high debt and high unemployment.
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  48. No, it's a Sun bear. It has it's mouth open. Sunbears are quite smart animals. They are mainly from SE Asia and they are one of the very few bears to live in tropical jungles. Sun bears status in the wild are labelled as vulnerable and face deforestation pressures and bear bile hunting, which is erronious Chinese medicine.
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  49. I wish I had to sell my private jet to pay off debts 😂
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  50. For those intelligent Chinese people that are bored can count the number of cameras, the location of those cameras and the type of cameras. Information they can file in their brains, provided of course you stay out of trouble for a while.This is actually military intelligence work by the observant, but in this day and age and so many cameras, you can have a "hobby".
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  51. Why are Confucius Institutes allowed to remain on foreign soils? Shut them, shut them, for god's sake shut them.
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  52. In an intense naval war in the Western Pacific involving the PLAAN versus US and allies, I might predict that the PLAAN sailors will refuse to sail their ships after a period of only a few weeks where significant number of PLAAN ships and crews are lost. Effectively, this will be mutiny against the CCP and it's leadership. In World War 1, a similar naval mutiny occurred between the Kaiser's navy and the German government (by then being run by a Generalissamo pair; Hindenberg and Ludendorff). This was in response to a suicidal order to attack the British High Sea Fleet without returning.
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  53. Shandong carrier (their 1980s Soviet design carrier copy with a ski-jump) going East of Taiwan to Dalian sea base is vunerable to submarines as well, so traversing this zone is less desirable. The PLAN carrier fleet command, as a war force, is less potent than the UK Royal Navy alone. NATO is aware of this.
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  54. The CCP only harmed a number of specialised export industries in Australia, such as fisheries (Rock Lobster) for a short time. For example, Barley and coal rapidly readjusted it's export markets elsewhere. Overall the Federal government estimated an overall loss in export trade of $A 1 billion in 2020-21, which is less than 1% of Australia's overall export trade. Hence, the CCP trade embargo had only minimal effect on Australia's national politics and only relatively few exporters lost out, temporarily. But, it was a salient lesson on Australian governments and businesses that the CCP will not like; China is an unreliable trade partner was the message export business got, and the CCP uses politics to directly mediate trade relations in a fiat way without consultation. Despite it's large economic footprint, China is a difficult customer to deal with; much more difficult than the Japanese or South Koreans ever were.
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  55. Paying Africans to graduate at high level Chinese tertiary institutions are actually quite clever from the CCP's directives (i have viewed asinine decision after decision from the CCP, so i was getting used to the bureaucratic idiocracy as being the norm), because it will be the social elite from Africa that will go to China, providing a favourable view of China later, when many of these graduates go into senior government positions there. This will enable the CCP to more deeply get it's hooks into the natural resources of Africa. This is all smart planning, except Xi Jinping is planning a war, possibly evoloving into a world war, which he hopes the West will half-heartedly fight then concede a lot to the CCP. A war means Africa's resources will be blockaded in shipping by the strongest navies, which is not the CCP (tactically, Japan during WW2 had a better chance of defeating the US navy than China would now). A tame backdown to China would not only be humiliating but also suicidal to the West, which traditionally does not happen if u are a student of history. Hitler had a similar attitude to the "decadence" of democracies as XI Jinping, and even when the war was going badly in 1942, the Allies conceded nothing to the Axis power voluntarily and only surrended by overwhelming force in theaters. It seeems Xi is stuck in the same mindset.
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  56. In the battle of Kapyong, in the Korean War, Chinese soldiers attacked Australian and Canadian dug-in entrenched location with interlocking fire. The Chinese outnumbered the Australians and Canadians 10:1. Incredibly, the Chinese attacked in waves while not applying freindly fire support from artillery and mortars, when running into the interlocking Australian and Canadian fire. It appears that when invading Korea, the PLA did not include artillery units with their soldiers. Additionally, scything down the Chinese was accurate supporting battery fire to the Australians and Canadians from New Zeland artillery units. In the attack which lasted all night, only one Australian trench was taken, which was later regained when the Chinese retreated, yes retreated. In fighting the Korean War the Chinese did not deploy modern and professional methods in attacking some of the best trained military professionals having extensive World War 2 battlefield experience, and consequently their casualties were very high and the true casualty figures were supressed by the CCP. The modern PLA mentality is the same; stupidity push their poorly trained soldiers into a meat grinder than banally claim martyrs success. I'm amazed that such a base exploitative system has lasted the test of time.
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  57. China is a very brittle society now
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  58. Yunnan workers are flooding into neighboring Vietnam, which is conversely experiencing an economic boom.
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  59. This is Southern China. Guangdong and so on, which is usually more prosperous than the poor North (except Beijing). If it's bad there in Guangdong and Fujian, it will be worse elsewhere in China.
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  60. Window glass breaking means that load bearing (or building weight) comes straight onto the alumimium window frame, with no steel load bearing frame in the window cavity in the external wall around it. This is a terrible and dangerous cost-cutting measure and shows how poorly built these buildings are. I'm not even an architect or structural engineer and i know that.
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  61. Not enough consuming strength there either. Despite their population size, these countries are poor or hyper-poor
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  62. Temu is a commercial threat as it uses commercial loopholes to subvert costs from US logistics companies. Without profit, these companies may collapse from handing millions of worthless packages. As well Temu is probable spyware for the CCP. Many users don't care about this, but it may prove to being your undoing. Like letting burglers into your house. The CCP uses blackmail, as well as theft as a method of control.
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  63. There are no property rights in China, hence little incentive to save and no private savings left any more. Hence, the taxation revenue for the CCP is running out. Provincial governments already go on a piratical assest seizure and fines spree in despiration (which always affect the poor and working class worse, so much for socialism). In other countries, the CCP would have already been overthrown by now. I know China is an electronics police state, but still why not?
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  64. C-dial 991. The wings probably will fall off mid-flight. Cardboard coffins for passengers come for free 😂
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  65. This has been going on for some time, but those Westerners who subsequently work for the PLA risk being charged and imprisoned on return to their countries. Arrest, demotion and imprisonment is a strong deterrent to assist the PLA (e.g. training PLA pilots) and this is becoming more and more likely and prevalent these days. Thrse assistances will be less likely now under the strained political and economic relationships between the West and China. The CCP is strongly behind the eightball militarily, if it cannot develop these carrier combat skills on their own. This is copycat again. The Western carrier pilots expect equal expertise in combat with opponents against them. Hence, the CCP seems to be unable to develop novel naval tactics on its own terms. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was able to develop it's own novel carrier based tactics on the late 1930s- early 1940s, so this backwardness is a political-cultural function of the CCP. Not because they are Asian and totalitarian (because Showa Japan was).
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  66. "Crash teaining"; this is addept.if I were a pilot in the PLAAF, I would not like to fly these under-maintained planes of the PLAAF I might crash due to equipment malfunction or failure. As for advanced weapons, they can't make the advanced guidance in radar or missile sensors to guide these weapons to target as the US has banned high grade chips. Especially in the future. Also, while the US is behind in missile inventory, how much is the PLA behind in this regard? This will be interesting to know.
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  67. At the end of the lockdowns in Australia, a large Australian city (sorry, I can't disclose the city name as the CCP often tracks me and records my comments), had the Omicron variant Covid shut down lifted in April 2022 (this was state border lockdowns, during the pandemic, people were still allowed to shop locally). Many small cafes and restaurants in a popular recreational area in the city were permanently closed, as I noticed a few months later. However, it seems that Shanghai, a very large and (former) cosmopolitan city, probably the richest city in China per capita, is suffering much worse scale of bankruptcy in small and medium business, as the Australian city I was in.
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  68. Meanwhile, sea life goes extinct. Well done humanity, well done.
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  69. Actually Mao Zedong said that, that's true.
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  70. Labour costs, particularly in Guangdong province (Shenzhen) soared during the 20 teens. Now, human intense manufacturing is cheaper in places like Vietnam and Bangladesh, so textiles and apparel, tyre makers etc. are leaving China and flocking there to set up factories. This was happening before Trump protectionism and the Covid pandemic, but these factors of course sped up the process of moving labour intense manufacturing industry away from China. So China now tries for vibrant Taiwan-style electronics industry but fails because of inherent corruption in the CCP centralised system. China thus is falling into the middle income trap (that is Guangdong and Hebei province, Shanghai etc. Not poor provinces of China in the NE, centre and NW. They remain dirt poor but are mountainous and far from ports) that Taiwan, Japan and South Korea have managed to break through.
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  71. How can the middle-aged guy sit the college entry exams each year since 1983? That's almost 30 years of sitting the same exam; oh my god. I've sat many exams in my time & have done a few degrees, but to sit the same exam, over-and-over (although it would change by year somewhat) is extraordinary stubborness mixed with the boredom of study and stress of doing the exam (sitting any exam, whether i was well prepared for ot or not was always stressful for me), plus the hopeless sense of futility in not getting the neccessary grades each time.
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  72. That was an advanced commando martime mission successfully deployed using drones and combined branches (navy, airborne troops and air force) by India. China has not shown this level of sophisticated operations and professionalism surveillance and in feat of combined arms than India has just done in capturing the Somalian pirates. This kind of underlies India's naval dominance in the Indian Ocean in a positive way. I think China should increasingly worry about pushing against India in the Actual Zone of Control in the Himalayas. I would back off that tactic if I were China.
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  73. The more pressure you put on the CCP, the quicker it will fold. Abroad, the background of Chinese students (from mainland China) must be thoroughly investigated before being allowed to enrol and study in the Philippines (and other countries). Particularly in engineering, physics and computer science. No Chinese student (except from Taiiwan and other countries with a vetted background) should be allowed to enrol in miliary colleges and universities in countries outside China.
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  74. China looks forward to an aging population, low innovation and entreprenerial ventures and economic stagnation with high food and energy inflation. This is happening elsewhere, but mitigated in some other countries, like the US via immigration and energy supply stability. Additionally, poverty, oppression and corruption grips China from cradle to grave; a CCP speciality.
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  75. US Department of Commerce needs to certify importers in Mexico, not to pay tarrifs there, otherwise put 30% tarrifs on all goods imported from Mexico. Particularly from Chinese owned firms 😊
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  76. North Koreans are notably shorter than their South Korean counterparts, mostly due to malnutrition during childhood. Tuberculosis is also rampant in North Korea, also partly due to malnutrition. This affects the North Korean army as well.
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  77. Until recently, Guangdong province in Southern China used to represent at least 10% of the GDP of China, and was one of the wealthiest provinces in China providing millions of jobs in electronics. Now, like the rest of China, it has fallen on hard times. This is no brief downturn, but a permanent demographic and economic demise.
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  78. If the CCP loses it economically this decade, it will never catch up. It's upcoming demographic decline is too deep for too long for consumption to rebound economic growth. Most of this decline can be laid at the door of the CCP, such as the One Child policy.
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  79. Isn't China's plan for industrial supremacy going backwards fast? EVs are not selling worldwide; insurance is skyrocketing with EVs due increasing incidences of battery fires and the huge liabilites associated with that. It's not just EVs, made in China that spies on you without your knowledge. China uses a Trojan Horse strategy in selling it's technology, not just with their cars. I've experienced it.
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  80. Why are people fleeing China in such huge numbers you might ask? The answer- politics and economics (and in China both are overlapping paradigms). Since Xi Jinping has virtually arranged his dictatorship for life (or until assassinated), China's economic course has been going from bad to much worse. Ironically, this increases the burden on the CCP security forces as unrest grows, but as the security forces clamp down more and more oppressively this happens, the more people want to leave China, so it is an unstoppable negative feedback loop (halted only if the CCP is overthrown or China politically collapses). Notably, the millionairs and middle class are leaving in droves first because they have some wealth to protect and they have no confidence in the financial institutions and the current tenancy towards kleptocracy in the government, so this is a strong push factor, as well as the economy on skids. When as many of them with means have left, more poorer young adults from China (note i don't say Chinese. China is actually a multi-ethnic country) will make a hazardous attempt through Latin America or risky staging countries to get to their goals. Probably increasingly, Thailand, Indonesia and North African countries will be targeted as staging countries by people from China , "taking the line"!. Until the CCP goes fully North Korea and bans migration or exit out of China. Including students, and like North Korea executes anyone they catch leaving; this is how stupid evil grows, like the Buddhists say, sow the seeds of their own doom. Unfortunately, I see this happening all too soon: West North Korea.
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  81. Good geostratigic analysis, I mostly agree with this. Google AI censorship prevents me from commentating further on the war risk. Why? I'm unsure as I did not include any hate speech. You are lucky that the damned censor did not block your lengthy post for some stupid reason..
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  82. There is risk with her bucolic videos. If people see the real poverty in rural China, then this backfires against the CCP. If young people are lured to the countryside by the high unemployment in the cites and experienced the realities of a poverty stricken life there, far removed from Li Ziqi's romantic views saturaing her videos, this will also backfire
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  83. The PLAN were pumping out surface warships, particularly frigates and destroyers, but the weapon systems aboard these ships are not tested under combat conditions, except low intensity in the South China Sea and the Senkaku Islands, and the crews are pretty green as well, undertrained with corruption issues. Futhermore, their combat systems requires advanced chips which they can no longer source from other countries, such as Taiwan, making future ship building just churning out defenceless hulls and superstructure. This is the surface fleet division of the PLAN that is of most concern to opposing navies, because of it's size, not their carrier strike group which would be less capable than the UK RN or the self defence navy of Japan carrier forces,
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  84. Li was weak because he was basically an upright man in an evil system. Nevertheless, Xi Jinping still could not leave him alone
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  85. Most counries (except Pakistan), prefer not to purchase most ships, planes, tanks, weapons, sensors etc. which are made in China. Even Russia has gotten more interest despite it's shit kit. I wonder why? Are their military systems so great that other countries are clambering over each other to purchase them? I've not heard of it. When it's not heard of it's generally not happening, despite the propaganda.
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  86. This is bad for retirees, and it's only going to squeeze worse and worse into the near future, as most provincial governments in China are now bankrupt. The elderly may not be physically tough, but they are mentally tough and may find new and obstructive ways to passive resistance.
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  87. It's interesting that in China, the majority of real estate in first and second level tier cities is investment property, not property for iving in (except before, tenants). Now, that investment has collapsed, spectacularly,and the prices keep heading South. For how long? Probably for months or years. Australia is going to mirror this effect in China about a year later, of course although not as severely. People who have bought houses in the last 5 to 10 years here are losing investment value with record high interest rates., particularly in Sydney and Melbourne. Like Shanghai, Australia's ultra high housing prices in these cities is unsustainable with growth of salaries, except notably in the very rich. None if this is good news for either the government's of China or Australia, and unlike Australia, the government does not have to win a popularity content to get voted back in China, in which real estate issues are a political factor. However, even as a single party state, the CCP loses legitimacy over this issue. Shedding Xi Jinping as leader (voluntarily or involuntarily) is unlikely to fix this issue of a housing crises with the CCP, as China dives into demographic decline.
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  88. The South China Sea (West Philippines Sea) holds dire strategic implications for Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, Maylaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Australia (and the United States). I've added up the numbers of people involved in maintaining free navigation in the South China Sea for these countries (except the United States), the population is in total 750 million people. That's the population size of all Europe (including European Russia).
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  89. It changes when it loses a war. Although may of these changes don't herald much political change for about a decade. For example, losing the First Sino-Japanese war then the Boxer Rebellion war brought an end to the Qing Dynasty about a decade later when it was overthrown and the Republic of China proclaimed under Sun Yat-sen.
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  90. Should be a sunset clause for Hong Kongers (except the CCP puppets in the legislative body, Kerry Lam included), i.e.people born there to hurry and leave HK by a certain date, after which no more applications to emmigrate will be accepted after which HK will be as difficult to leave from as any other mainland city.
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  91. I presonally think that "peaceful development" model is permanently over for the CCP, i.e. they've played that card and it's not coming back any time soon. Deng Xiaoping (himself a warmonger) said to "bide your time and hide your strength (or weaknesses)"; This is pretty well game over for that sentiment for the CCP too. They've played their "wolf warrior" card (probably too early because of the Covid pandemic that they've created), and now they are fully committed to antagonism with the United States and allies. To these foes, it's a wake-up call and call to arms as we've increasingly seen. The CCP no longer bothers with a friendly mask anymore, as it presents a barbaric criminal creed that's what it is and always has been. Isolation, poverty and defeat now beckon to destroy this dystopian totalitarian system. If it goes to world war, their demise will quicken.
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  92. How much further does China's economy has to fall? This is Xinnie the Pooh's work
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  93. Lunar New Year is a highly prominent holiday in China, like Christmas in the West. This muted celebration is a sign of chronic economic failure.
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  94. Building codes in mainland China that are never observed. Huge risk of being trapped by fire as well. This is not the way they build in Taiwan.
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  95. Firstly, the lives in excess of 5 million people hangs in the balance, if or when this dam catastrophically fails. Since the failure is likely when the water level is highest, during an extensive La Nina wet season (because of the maximum stress the dam then will experience), then the failure will be catastrophic indeed and is most likely to occur then, and the CCP will be unlikely to politically survive such a calamity. Secondly, many civil engineers have already commented already about the quality of the concrete in the The Gorges Dam, which i am not qualified to comment on. However, as dam designs go, an overall parabolic shape is common for dams and reservoirs as this overall design is structurally much stronger in holding back the water body behind it. The Three Gorges Dam, massive though it is, does not have this overall shape. I wonder why?
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  96. Very few international buyers of China's ships and planes. This is the amount of confidence they have in them.
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  97. Piling on costs to freight companies, from intense competition from a lack of customers to LGA service gouging, forces them to close permanently. Vital goods such as fuel and food remain undelivered, driving up costs of liquid fuels and foodstuffs in cities, because much of that is delivered by trucks. This adds to the burden of increasing stagflation. This is real price inflation, not currency or interest rate inflation, so it is worse. Unless they are commercial vans which have high turnover, large trucks in my country are only retired when the service and parts costs increase to a point (due to aging and high milage), that the cost of buying a new truck is optional (large new rigs, very expensive). That is why you rarely see used (large) truck lots here.
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  98. There is a video shot of peasant farmers harvesting wheat using a sickle. This is worse than medieval (in Europe in the middle ages, farmers and peasants used a scythe, which is 3 times more efficient than a sickle to harvest wheat and barley). In any case, harvesting that way, without a combine harvester machine is very labour intensive and inefficient.
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  99. Foxconn is a Taiwanese corporation. Ah sorry, province of Taipei, Formosa 😂 The CCP is just poor at business, period. Foxconn probably has moved most of it's electronics manufacturing to Vietnam by now
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  100. I didn't, but it does not look pleasant. Worse than being locked in a closet
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  101. Talking about cancer. There are many "cancer villages," in China, due to the air and water pollution of heavy industry in the area providing industrial illness and cancer in unacceptably high levels in the local population. Like tannery, plastic and organochloride pesticide manufactures effusions, toxic flux from foundries and so on. The pollution is uncontrollably dumped into rivers and streams and heavy and toxic smoke burning material into the air.
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  102. Stopping or hindering farmers doing their vital work of food production and harvesting is a grave risk. Another Great Leap Forward famine in China beckons.
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  103. China re-opened from the pandemic in November 2022. That's when the second wave of Covid related mass deaths occurred in China. I recalled how overburdened the crematoria got.
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  104. Office vacancy rates in London, New York and Sydney are 8.5%, 19% and 12% respectively. That of Shanghai is at least double that of New York.
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  105. Supply chains were beginning moving away from China, before the pandemic, due to rising manufacturing salaries for workers in cities like Shenzhen and Shanghai. Now this process is massively accelerated by the pandemic and the subsequent Omicron Covid lockdowns across China, leaving no time for any adjustments or remedial economic policies. This emphasizes that the CCP faction in power (the Xi faction) cares little for medium to long-term effects in the China economy, although the rising spectre of Venuzula-sytle stagflation and massive unemployment thus resulting will shake the power base of the CCP, or perhaps even unseat it as the single party totalitarian power, leading to a power struggle & likely civil war across China.
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  106. Furthermore, the safety quality of these cars have been crash tested? I doubt it
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  107. I couldn't have phased that better myself.
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  108. People with young children being apprehended by US border authorities is worrying. Travelling with young children in Latin America migration is very risky for them.
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  109. I wonder how the PLAAN sailors and aircrew like the feeling of being sitting ducks? 😮
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  110. Exactly right, couldn't put it better myself. I would say Mr Xi is between a rock and a hard place right now.
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  111. Not at all. Once the customers realizes that, you the customer, can be remotely locked out of your CCP-made EV (by the dealership or CCP government, it's all the same) makes the asset you own, suddenly a liability. You can't sell it, it's still has insurance and registeration costs, and most importantly, you can't go anywhere in it at all. Even to move it a few inches. Makes foreign made brands and the idea of service warranty so much more better; that is all the difference in the world.
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  112. North Korea's GDP is not big; about 48 billion. About 1.3% that of California. Russia's GDP of approximately 5.7 trillion is approximately 120 times that of North Korea. Russia's previously luke-warm reception for NK now turned to bromance is about acquiring NK weapons only. NK, by it's pathetic economy (which should be 50 times bigger than it is, thanks to the repression of the Kims). This again is a relationship by necessity and shows the economic and military supply desperation of Russia. NK is thrilled because Russia will make it richer by arms sales & it's not China.
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  113. There is a huge risk of breakout of typhoid and cholera (symptomic deadly water borne diseases of polluted drinking water) in China now. Exacerbated by coverup of local CCP municipalities, especially seeing there is less money now for local governments to rectify these risks. These two diseases can cause pandemics in common drinking water supply, killing up to 3.5% of the population, including healthy adults. Survivors of cholera may have permanent kidney damage. This is potentially higher deaths than Covid pandemics.
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  114. I hate to even slightly get the CCP "off the hook", but testing ceramics for radiation is higher than background, because of potassium-40 which is enriched in clays, which has low levels of radiation above background count This includes bricks. At any rate, potassium-40 in bricks are of least concern in China when you consider the noxious chemical smog air pollution.
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  115. Secret submarine bases in the Sea of Japan, even if planned, is not to the liking of Japan as an island nation which must protect it's sea lanes to facilitate trade, energy and food to Japan which these PLAN submarines threaten. Japan has not expressed concerns about Chinese submarines at this time, presumably because they are quite confident in the Japan Martime Self Defence Force's superior technological and naval training abilities to detect and sink Chinese submarines, and by their US allies in assisting Japan with ASW.
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  116. Notably, these job oppertunities will rapidly fill as well, due to the high unemployment in China. If the young Chinese heading to Africa for business and career opportunities carry around their CCP ideologies foremost in their cerebal cortex, they may be in trouble outside large corporation work like Huawei, which is still many Chinese; placing a barrier between themselves and Africans, greater than the language and cultural barriers, as the envy-related CCP ideology complex includes xenophobia and racism. At first the Africans might be puzzled by the CCP hate rants, but those Chinese who peddle this ruthless rubbish fall foul with contempt by their African co-workers eventually.
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  117. Worse, I heard that without the trust of the Cadre Commisioner of your unit (that one is not ideological enough), will not authorise you to carry or train with live firearms; which is essential infantry squad training for every new recruit or cadet in any modern armed forces . Thus, many of the recruits may not be able to fire and maintain a rifle accurately, leaving them vulnerable in actual combat situations. So their only choice is to run or hide if they can.
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  118. From the China auto manufacturer worker, it seems than it was preferable to work for foreign automobile manufacturers as they offered far more generous terms to their workers. China manufacturers are notably parsimonious (in good times), now they are more miserly than Ebenezer Scrooge.
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  119. Video image of the Shandong carrier belching out smoke from it's funnel. This is not good, it gives away the position of the ship visually, even when the ship is below the horizon. Yes, there is radar, but a visual confirmation aids friend-or-foe identification.
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  120. Europe is not a country, but a region, it is collection of countries including the smallest size country in the world (Vatican City), to the largest size (Russia).
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  121. According to the commentators, the entry and exit of ports for the PLAAN can be hazardous to navigate in some locations, especially if local port pilots don't co-operates. But why the need to do this? Some of the reason is the PLAAN doesn't have any nuclear powered ships and continually needs bunkering to deploy at long distances at a few friendly ports. The USN has bases around the world to bunker it's non-nuclear ships. The PLAAN type 52D destroyers will probably never visit the Baltic again to bolster Russia and send NATO a political index finger. The gesture is temporary and largely meaningless, for one warship, except short term.
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  122. They stole the ski-jump carrier design as well. Verbatim. The Liaoning was a Soviet era carrier (the Varyag) before downgrading to a floating casino. The PLAAN bought it and revamped it. Hence at least 2 carriers are Soviet era carriers. The Fujian carrier is the first designed carrier (a 1950s USS Kitty Hawk, CV-63 carrier copy), after it's Soviet era ski-jump carriers. So the PLAAN don't have any new design carriers.
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  123. I don’t agree with the analysis of the channel regarding the current cooperation between Russian and Chinese forces, for example, their currently combined intrusion into Alaskan air space. It's alarming but not unexpected or disasterous (or potentially disasterous). Reasons: 1. The PLA conspicuously lacks long-range strategic bombers that both the USAF and Russia have. 2. China must use foreign territory airfields of a power she has had poor relations in the past the achieve this position. If there is a fallout (again) between the Russians and Chinese, this avenue of attack (towards Alaska or Europe), will be cut off. Additionally, the Americans have been prepared for decades using NORAD during the last Cold War will potentially be a total loss of aircraft (for the PLA) in a kinetic war if they attempt flight towards Alaska taking off from Russian airfields. Additionally, these airfields will come under attack from the USAF early in a war.
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  124. Your model of US ICE car manufacturing from the 1890s was operating in a free market with minimal or no support from the US government until WW2. Massive subsidies were being supplied by the CCP to EV manufacturers from this technology inception, in an attempt to (temporarily) dominate the emerging EV mass production in China then the world, including over US companies like Tesla. That this strategy has failed is obvious, and now CCP China Inc. EV car companies are rapidly vanishing. With a rapidly shinking EV market at home (the masses in China now are bankrupt) and increasing tarrifs and high vehicle saftey regulations faced abroad (at least in North America, Japan and Europe), BYD might be the last CCP EV company left soon, if their batteries stop burning.
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  125. Never have much sympathy for a man who can afford to own a Lamborghini
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  126. Past participle of close is shut. Singular and plural. Shuttered is not a grammatically correct term, except the term might be used indicating boarding or windows and door shutters to bar entry or vandalism, and hence a past participle verb that might be used to apply to a closing of a shop or business.
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  127. Submarines are technically complex warships, with many installed systems and a hull that must withstand depth pressure. They are one of the more complex and expensive ships to maintain. But their tactical and strategic importance keeps them in a major navy.
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  128. The CCP's economic meddling has lead to this crushing depression in China. I know it's very difficult by ideological socialist movements like Communism, but China's transitory success did arrive because Deng Xiaoping allowed some economic liberalism (I.e, adjustment to market demands, rather than a ideological and corrupt centrally planned market-insensitive economy of the CCP). Now, Xi Jinping has thrown China under the centrally planned bus again.
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  129. I disagree than in homeland seas near Japan that Japan is weak. Japan's navy is the third most powerful in the world. However, longer range naval and air missions from Japan will be more difficult. This includes Japan's small oceanic islands South of Okinawa. I understand Japan's reluctance to develop nuclear weapons, and i agree that these kinds of weapons should not be developed. Japan will have to think a defensive fairly long-range naval interdictions with the PLAAN to protect it's energy supplies from the Middle East. This implies a strong conflict with the PLAAN around Taiwan and the South China Sea.
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  130. There will new outward pressure from China's coastal cities, particularly from the South and Centre will be looking outwards. This could mean resurgence of movement of the liberal city state in China. Shanghai, with it's long association with foreign powers, foreign investment and outward looking trade, may be among the the first entity to declare schism from the Beijing government as a city state, and the currently precarious nature of China's economy may encourage it. The future for the rest of China does not look rosy (this is an understatement); more oppression, more "common prosperity" (greater enforced poverty if you are not a high official or well-connected) and even more corruption. There is a saying, not just about gravity; the bigger they are the harder they fall.
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  131. That is the least absurd level of propaganda level the CCP distributes. The more absurd the subject, the greater the level of promotion.
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  132. South Korea sells more military equipment internationally than China, in terms of unit value and volume. For example, South Korean warships are generally very good and competitive on the international market and cheaper than NATO made warships.
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  133. Japan bashing is a disgusting hobby of the CCP. This criminal government (the CCP) needs a scapegoat to focus the attention of the restless Chinese population, so Japan bashing becomes a distraction and more than a few innocent Japanese, especially ones working or having businesses in China, fall prey to this horrible CCP blame game. Most of the humongous and criminal errors have been made by the CCP over the decades (mostly to Han and even worse to minorities in China, like the Uyghers) can be diverted by finding a new issue to pick on Japan and others. CCP China thus is nasty and disliked by most countries bordering it, and often quite a few further away.
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  134. This is part of an partially orchestrated campaign by wumao''s and the CCP to discredit an American food multi-national. While i'm not very sympathetic to these multi-national restaurant companies (who crowd out local small business cafes and fast food family-owned shops), like McDonalds and KFC for example, this is a politically orchestrated exercise for both the oppertunity to sue the corporation and obtain money (Starbucks), over possibly fraudulently concocted issue (justice is fragile to say the least in China, and always politically biases locals over fair trading multi-national companies, particularly American ones) and to simultaneously politically have a go at an American company and brand. Note that other US multinational companies, may be the next target for fraudulent actions over cockroaches, flies, mice, rats and other foreign undesirable and unhygenic products added to their food and beverage parcels (after delivery) in their shops and associated food delivery vendors across China soon too.
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  135. The huge red flag with five stars is the real problem
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  136. House prices are dropping far too small. This is poor management and face saving for house owners. No market movement management means that stagnation will set in. No one will buy.
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  137. There is a reason for this; two thirds of the combustion energy or an internal combustion engine comes from the oxygen in air. The Li-ion battery, on the other hand, must store and hold all of it's energy, not get some of it from the atmosphere, like combustion engines. Hence, the stored energy potential is considerably higher in battery poweted EVs, leading to potentially thermal overload and extremely hot fires. It reputably takes hours of fire fighting to put out a burning EV vehicle,
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  138. Ghost cities now ghost shopping malls 😂
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  139. One thing i might add for this video, is that i'm not a security freak, but could all images of markings, badges, numbers or writing on US and allied warplanes be blurred out, except roundals that identify the air force nation only? This makes it harder for military intelligence in the PLA to identity squadrons and/or individual planes. Similarly with ships, can their pennant or hull numbers (typically on the bow under the forecastle anchors) and ship names also be blurred out, on the bow and stern? National and service flags are ok. Anything seemingly minor that visually assists the enemy (the PLA and CCP) is an assistance to their military and espionage missions and is not a good thing.
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  140. Taxing themselves? The CCP is getting desperate for money 😅
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  141. I love ICE cars. Their overall energy emissions ARE VERY SIMILAR to EVs. In other words, EVs are not "green" at all. Why? Power over weight ratio is better for ICE cars. EVs have this dirty big battery weighing up to 700kg in a Tesla model Y, which is about 3.5 times the weight of a four cylinder car engine and drive train. Where do u think electricity comes from? The sun? Nope, only 4% of the US electrical grid is powered by the sun, the rest mostly comes from BURNING FOSSIL FUELS. Like coal and gas.
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  142. The Taiwan Strait itself is an essential tradewaterway, connecting energy suppilee (petroleum products) fromthe Middle East to Japan and South Korea, so geopolitically, it is very important for these two countries at least. The CCP attempts to obsfuscate this by making nationalist assertions over Taiwan (without any basis since Taiwan is an alternative government of China and the CCP has never controlled it since Chiang Kai-Shek and his Kuomintang government fled to there in 1949). So "reunify" is incorrect, they mean "unite with". The repetititve "Taiwan being reunited with the Motherland:" is a bullshit homiliy by the CCP, as it wants Taiwan and it wastes words for home Nationalist consumption and for trying to get Taiwan without a war that it can't risk fighting for yet. Or else the CCP would not keep rambling on about it, it would take action.
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  143. People want to go to China, but to the ROC, not the PRC.
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  144. China does not manufacture ICE vehicles well because of 2 main reasons; 1. Cutting corners leading to quality and safety issues and 2. A lack of time of mass-producing ICE automobiles in comparison with North America, Europe, Japan and South Korea. These countries have been manufacturing automobiles long-term, and have developed a highly skilled workforce in designing and manufacturing. So EVs are preferred in China, plus the government subsidies them for two reasons; 1. Reducing importation of petroleum fuels into China and 2. For a vanity project showcasing Chinese EVs as "superior" in a still developing and immature market. Unfortunately, both the CCP and Telsla are backing the wrong horse. EV material manufacturing is generally more expensive than ICE vehicles and especially require a heavy Lithium ion battery to work. This battery lasts at most half the lifetime of an ICE automobile engine, meaning battery replacement costs are extreme. Perhaps, as much or more than the value of the entire vehicle to replace the battery. One final reason are vehicle fires. ICE vehicle rarely burn and it appears than EVs burn catastrophically at least 100 times more often in comparison. And the risk increases exponentially with the milage of the vehicle. That is real insurance liability.
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  145. Hey, that's straight out of "Animal Farm", (George Orwell).
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  146. Flaklands; Lancaster heavy bombers flying over WW2 Germany (Flaklands). I think the narrator meant Falklands. 😂
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  147. The concept of safety features are weak in China, and this extends to their manufactured consumer products, like cars. It also costs the automobile manufacturers a lot more to test and build in safety features like air bags, and this cost flows on to the car buyer. In more responsible countries, ah er, in countries that have democratic government, safety features are legislated for in laws and transport regulations because the consumer demands it and will vote for the party that has it in it's platform. Testing and installing safety feaatures has been going on in the West with automobiles for at least 60 years. The CCP largely ignores safety because it's a one party state, and as a totalitarian government, human life means little to it (we have it from the lips of Mao Zedong who openly discussed surviving nuclear war against China on the basis of the Chinese breeding their way out of a population decline if half the population were killed by nuclear weapons attack. Obviously, he never watched film about the Hiroshima nuclear attack in 1945).
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  148. Better to die free and defiant than be a downtrodden slave. Of course if there's a choice then why sacrifice yourself. But now, there is increasingly little choice.
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  149. To rub salt into this wound, Japan has been more inventive than China. Although Japan did not invent television, it was in the forefront of development of this technology in the 1930s, at a time when Japan was under the governance of the totalitarian Showa regime. Furthermore, Japan did invent devices like the magnetic floppy disk. Used in computer memory storage for 25 years. The CCP has stolen every bit of technology it has laid it's hands on, and rarely paid the royalties of the inventor in other countries. Furthermore, the CCP is too corrupt to invent anything of it's own and any clever Chinese inventor must go to another country to have his patent protected, or fast lose it to copiests.
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  150. You mean no-one believes any CCP propaganda anymore? Yes I agree, it's 180 degrees from reality. Fulsome.
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  151. CCP Chinese are not good at coping and reverse-engineering aero turbo-fan engines. These are difficult engines to make well; have tens of thousands of precisely machined and made components manufactured from high temperature resistant materials and the fan blades must be carefully balanced; within hundredths of a gram tolerances in these huge engines. There is a high degree of precision engineering and industrial know-how to make them. I doubt China has the industrial skill and professional capacity to make aero turbo-fan engines that well. There is absolutely no room to cut corners with these engines without disasterous results.
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  152. No, no. It's a worker's paradise. Haven't you heard Lenin?
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  153. The CCP might issue a wartime economy. Actually, I think it's already done this, in a sense, since 2021 during the severe Covid lockdown phases. So, the economic pinch that is being felt in the China domestic economy as a whole, affects the wartime command economy of the CCP less. However, in WW2 when Britain and the United States issued war bonds to pay for armament, the amount of private wealth per capita was considerably higher than in China now, since many rich people have already fled that country. The CCP makes many mistakes, for the wartime economy it is developing, this is a serious one letting the rich leave. If the CCP is seriously considering waging a kinetic war against Taiwan.
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  154. Many of these images are not drones nor UFOs. Noteworthy with something quite harmless as this is that the PLAAN is unprepared for this and it's rapid reponse becomes paralyzed. Very, very interesting. What happens when the aerial intruders are hostile and deadly??
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  155. A fairly good appraisal with some more caveats. In 1941, the Japanese Showa Empire, did have a superior carrier strike force in comparison to the US in the Pacific. At the outbreak of the Pacfic War, the IJN had 6 carriers in comparison to the USN's 3, although the IJN had only double the aircraft over the slightly larger USN carriers, but with superior IJN planes, torpedoes and pilots (at the beginning of the Pacific War), the first year possibility of a crippling naval defeat was touch-and-go with the Americans (even with the JN25 crypography advantage) in that war. We all know how the Pacific War went for Japan. Now, the PLAN dares to "challenge" the USN with 11 nuclear powered supercarriers, versus 2 Soviet 1980s designed smaller diesel powered carriers, and a newer diesel powered flatbed carrier showing cracks on the decking near the fantail, with at least 6 times the planes of the USN carrier strike force with superior stealth design? As a naval force multiplier, the PLAN doesn't even rate to the 2 UK's Royal Navy nuclear powered supercarriers. It's a suicide show to contemplate naval war against the USN in the Pacific now.
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  156. That's a wise quotation
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  157. Wu should be left alone to do TikTok videos. She is still young & attractive and receives income from her dance routine. It is completly harmless, even if it has a financial cause. Unfortunately, she is given no choice because the 3-3-11 "owns" you. The 3-3-16 are scumbags towards their athletes. In the West, a retired athlete, particularly an Olympics medal winner gets sponsorship from sportswear offered coaching options with a good salary, offers to work in sports reporting and so on. Many work offers and these athletes are life-long lauded for their sports performance. Really Wu's embarrasses the 3-3-11 because it demonstrates the callous and controlling attitude they take to retired athletes, including medal winning athletes, because they are forced to find private income to support themselves and their families. The 3-3-16 loses face from it's turpitude (yet again). A sign of the times and the scumbags in the 3-3-11.
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  158. There should be 3 or 4 EV manufacturers in China, not over 100. Other than their poor safety records in China (important in the West making them difficult to sell there), clearly the subsidies are still there by the CCP, meaning that white goods and phone maker manufacturers produce cars as well. Far too many competing EV companies. Many of these fly-by-night companies will be gone soon.
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  159. A lot of Chinese students now studying abroad (in the West) are families of top CCP officials and other senior officials, so they have high stakes in the totalitarian system of China. Ordinary, but poor talented Chinese, cannot afford this privilege and don't have connections and so don't leave China. Of course these CCP officials sons and daughters will commit illegal espoinage in their host country's reasearch; they are instructed and motivated to do this. Other Western proponents arguments allowing many Chinese into Western universities, have some valid arguments (their motives also have conflict of interest; profit and kickbacks) except lifestyle and freedom of the West. A small minority only of Chinese students are affected by this. The majority of science and engineering students are impervious to this "atmosphere of freedom" as they have been intensely brainwashed against Western values, before going there.
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  160. Not only Xi untrained and empty-headed about economics, he is also ineffective in decision-making in the hierarchy he's created, I.e. the system around Xi does not properly function. Hence Xi is isolated in decision managing as well as his Mao-like ignorance of the economy. This economic shock in China remains unresolved to the short to medium term. In addition, Western economic elites who largely benefitted from the economic rise of China, starting in the 1980s have now divested themselves of China investments or holding tight for a miraculous change in China's fortune, which probably will not come the way they like or expect in the long-term. Hence, Western countries are also bound up in the fortunes of China, and the Western media (who largely ignore China, for several reasons) are themselves part of the problem of the hype, ignorance and naive transmission of CCP propaganda throughout the West.
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  161. This punishing level of education in China is achieving little; the workload given to the student is also punishing to the teacher. Teachers have to mark a mountain of work produced by the student for 14 hours of education per day. The teacher's knowledge is limited as well. Teachers only can teach what they know, not what the curriculum might dictate for such a huge body of work. So essentially students probably repeat subjects often. For example, a math teacher may be required to teach both differential and integral calculus, but he/she only knows differential calculus, so the student gets another round of a topic that has already been taught. The punishing education is orchestrated at the top, not consulted top-to-bottom. This is the modern self-destructive CCP way of doing things. It is unlikely to produce excellence in education as the students will cheat as hard as possible to reduce the workload. This puts extra burden on the honest teachers to unravel plagerism in submitted work. The dishonest teachers will not care about that and deploy favouritism to speed up the marking process. The end result is wasted effort all around. The ethics of the society, as a whole, reflects on the ethics of it's education system. This is partially why China gets stuck in the middle income trap. Finally, there is a sinister mode by the government that sets the curriculum, and it is nothing to do with knowledge. Getting the students to work under a labour-camp 14 hour day conditions has another purpose; forced supervision. While youth are subjected to 14 hours of exhausting supervision, they are not plotting and rioting against the government. The unimaginative CCP only knows one mode; apply the pressure until everything breaks.
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  162. Children are smaller, weaker, less aware to danger and more shockingly devastating to the parents of the child if he or she is murdered. Children are an easier target of a coward and bully.
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  163. This seems like propaganda Bot farming to me, I.e. crap of a bull.
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  164. Don't fly in them. China saves on manufacturing costs by not installing properly functioning safety systems. The 991 jet, sorry the 919 jet 😅, is made to crash order. I'm not boarding it. If the airline I choose to fly on uses them, that's the last time I'm flying on that airline (if I survive the 991 jet flight).
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  165. What has lifting weights got to do with being a submariners? Indeed any type of sailor?
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  166. The CCP tries other tools like Tiktok and Deep Seek to control Western public opinion and ultimately the internet. I don't know why Western politicians refuse to see the end game attempts of the CCP, but this blindness in politicians is not new. In another era, fulsome appeasement lead to the territorial aggression of Hitler.
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  167. The Nobel Peace Prize can be nominated in absentia or posthumously. A lot of Chinese dissidents and intellectuals fighting the totalitarianism of the CCP deserve this prize, dispite this prize being offered cynically to war criminals like Henry Kissenger, somewhat tainting this award..
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  168. Indeed it is. Automobile ownership in Indonesia has room to grow. As a large country, there is plenty of potential automobile buyers there. Futhermore, Indonesia can offer a location for foreign automobile manufacturing plants, such as Hyundai, with competitive labour costs. This is positive for passive technology transfer to Indonesia, opening of automobile supplier factories to the main plant and up-skilling of plant workers there and in associated automotive parts manufacturers.
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  169. Advanced electronics in the hands of a centralised ideological totalitarian power already building a massive electronics surveillance and social credit system (Big Brother's wet dream) while simultaneously committing ethnic or racial genocide on Turkic minorities, fills me with dread. Fortunately, in this quasi-lawless system corruption flourishes, so the current dictator Xi even when throwing money at the project of achieving the kind of finesse that Taiwan enjoys in chip making, fails because of corruption and nepotism. The phrase, 'Great Leap Forward in chip making' is apt, seeing that the Great Leap Forward was a disaster for China under Mao as well. The CCP is full of these gormless slogans meant to galvanise the population, but only end up benefiting a tiny minority or causing a social and economic catastrophe.
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  170. It's not a grey rhino, but a grey Brontosaurus 😂
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  171. Now have to learn about Chinese culture, in the East, from Taiwan. Taiwan was quite different from Hong Kong while HK was a British colony. Now that difference is stark.
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  172. Worse rusting than cars from the 1970s
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  173. Xinnie the Pooh 😂
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  174. Xi's dystopia. He's under the pump now. His enemies are hoping he will collapse China, where this is heading. Xi does not have the charisma and intelligence of Mao Zedong to turn around the situation to his advantage. He can only forceably silence his critics, where this has reached new hysterical heights. I don't fully understand this political power structure, but it is very brittle. The wealthier era of Jiang Zemin era of China is over for good, although the CCP and people of China live under his shadow of corruption caused by his misrule. The misrule of Xi is continuing now along a different and even more destructive trajectory, enabling "common prosperity", in reality common poverty. Xi is now so isolated that he is operating in a near vacuum of his own creation.
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  175. The case of Mr Lui, who was scammed even though he carefully did his work and checking. It's honest and careful people like Mr Lui are the ones who are victims of their rotten society. Few builders or building suppliers in China can apparently be trusted. Unless you can make a wooden house from the lumbar you cut yourself, most home owners are hapless in China, with years of their savings wasted in rotten tail buildings with no legal compensation. It's criminal behaviour like this, i.e. uncompensated mess , that will drive people out of China to build better houses almost anywhere else.
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  176. Much more likely that the PLAN will attempt a tight naval blockade of Taiwan, i.e. prevent free movements of civilan ships and aircraft out of this country. The PLAN can carry this out with the sheer numbers of frigates and destroyers alone. However, this is likely to provoke war with Taiwan and the US after an ultimatum period. The PLAN carrier force is the weakest link in their navy and it would be likely that PLAN carriers would be operating little during an actual naval shooting war.
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  177. Girls, bring your dowries down in China. 😂 Doweries are manifestation of pseudo-prostitution and a feudal operation "tradition". Also, older unmarried women can't get that price. "FInding love"? Finding a gold mine more likely. This tradition hinders marriage in China and begetting children. Hence, population crash. Shame culture, like in China, puts too much power in the hands of the relatives over arranged marriages.
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  178. I heard that it was a weird personal Feng shui "reasoning" by Xi Jinping to put the Xiong'an ghost city there at enormous cost. Not only does Xi exhibit a level of superstition to exceed even Hitler (who believed in astrology and had a "court" astrologer, Karl Krafft, live with him in the Berghof), but Xi Jinping demonstrates a personality unbounded by practical reasoning, similar to Hitler's. And like Hitler, who was too busy running a losing war but wanted to redesign Berlin artitectually, Xi has had this white elephant monstrosity of a ghost city built to please himself and his Hitlerian vanities. It would be ridiculously amusing (the Emperor has no clothes), but for huge waste of resources and money needed by the Chinese people on practical government projects, that instead was thrown away in its useless construction. This is a monstrously criminal level of incompetence by Xi Jinping, isolated from all his other criminal decisions in it's own right.
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  179. The CCP and PLA adopts a strategy of secrecy, like the Soviet Union did, without the plausible avionics superiority that the Soviets may have generated themselves in that era. Particularly early in the Cold War (the MIG-15 during the Korean War for example. Superior to most Western made fighters and equal to the F-86 Sabre at the time). Truth is that the technological gap between the West and the Soviet Union during the Cold War is less than it is now, between the US and China. The CCP can only strive to copy leading US arms technology. It doesn't seem to be able to develop indigenous design arms technology of it's own like the Soviet Union did. Particularly in aircraft. The Soviets also had quality issues with their Cold War armaments (as did the US at that time), but not quite to the extent of corruption in manufacturing and procurement that the PLA/PLAAF and PLAAN has now. CCP China thus cannot compete with the US in the quality of it's arms (and the quality of training), and is already behind the 8-ball at the start, if it wants to launch a major war. This is despite wide scale industrialisation of China for the past 25 years. This does not mean NATO should be complacent. The CCP/PLA applies propaganda well.
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  180. Jensen Huang is probably right; NVIDIA is calling the shots. Furthermore these NVIDIA chips are being used in advanced military guidance and sensor technology and heads-up displays for military jet and helicopter pilots. Note that Taiwan makes chips (TSMC), it does not necessarily design these chips. That will probably change with time too.
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  181. Um, breaking Apple products seems like stupid nonsense. The devices that exploded in Hezbullah's hands were mainly pagers and walkie-talkies not mobiles and tablets. It's just CCP propaganda nonsense.
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  182. Hitler kept talking about peace at international or public forums until the summer of 1939. The CCP will be similar and there will be no ultimatum to the US or any other country on the eve of war.
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  183. I've just discovered why Germany's warships have been recently steaming through the Strait of Taiwan (which is internationally legal, but the CCP hates it); it's about the CCP (by supporting Russia), bringing more NATO countries to the Pacific, like Germany. XI Jinping is an anti-genius, by stupidly supporting Russia, Europe is no longer neutral.
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  184. Japanese shops should display two signs; "open and closed" and "no mainland Chinese"
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  185. I can't believe that possibly a Western investment company based out of Dubai, NEWTN Inc, would invest in the every growing black hole that is China's EV market, or indeed, any other market in China.
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  186. The canal was not good engineering. You get too much water loss from open air evaporation and water leaking into the local geology and aquifers, underneath and adjacent to the channel. A large water pipeline, instead of a canal, would have removed those water losses.
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  187. Fakery is an expertise for the CCP 😅
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  188. Part of the elimation of cash crops to farmers, like fruit trees, and more emphasis on growing rice. The farmers want to grow food according to profit (market supply and damand). Not bureaucratic decisions made in a distant Beijing office. This is also doubly worse than a Western or democratic Eastern government. As a government, the CCP lies and covers up from top to bottom. This means no reliable data will be in for agricultural production. This could lead to a famine. Just like the Great Leap Forward.
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  189. When the CCP immediately denies something, you immediately know it's true. It's long overdue time that the CCP is classified as a Transnational Criminal Organisation.
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  190. If bribery of academics is employed by cheating Chinese students in foreign countries, then without exposing the fraud, plagiarism or substitution and failing the offending student or students, the academic risks his or her own standing and employment by the institute. Or this should be the case and legally challenged if gone unpenalized. As for substitution for a proxy in sitting the exams, then a frintprint or retinal scan of a student entering the exam hall, for certain critical subjects, should be carried out. Actually, inking fingerprints can be made on the exam paper as a method of checking identity to the actual original candidate. Futhermore, for PhD and other postgraduate theses, making the student to verbally defend their thesis as part of the examination process (as occurs in some European countries), will assist in catching out the student who is cheating, plagiarising or ghost-writing their thesis.
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  191. One strategically positioned highway toll station doesn't necessarily deplete the national economy, but it can certainly decrease the provincial economy and provincial trade and manufacturing. This sort of government extortion of an installiation of a toll station (on a road built a decade ago) is called "robbing Peter to pay Paul". This is a current predatory component of the CCP; to suck dry everything like vampires. They are a vampire government.
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  192. So 8 years of multi-billion dollar investment into attempting to make high end chips the quality that TSMC produces by the CCP has largely failed. Cronyism and corruption has done it's worst. Now, leading chip manufacturers and chip designers countries (not China) will pull further ahead in this wasted decade by the CCP large project mindset inepitude. Money alone cannot fix all technical issues it seems. Now money supply is becoming an issue for the centralised government (helped by real estate and banking collapse and unnecessary Covid lockdown restrictions) so technology merger and technology acquisition may no longer be an option that the CCP can pursue to effect any change in ability for the CCP to shorten it's lag in high end chip design and manufacturing.
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  193. Some of these elite restaurants have remained open, even through the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, now threatening to close. Also some of these restaurants began in the nineteenth century! Shocking. 😮
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  194. The black "camouflage" is not all that camouflaged. The US used matt black camouflage on the now obsolete SR-72 Blackbird high altitude reconnaissance jet and the F-117 Nighthawk early stealth bomber. Neither were effective. It turns out that shades of grey are better for high altitude aircraft, and army camouflage colours for a helicopter (helicopters are most vulnerable to being targeted when landed).
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  195. Worse, China Observer is indicating that thousands of BYD (and other brand) EV owners in China are getting locked out of their cars, often remotely by the dealership. Some of them want "rental money" for the car batteries that the owners bought with the car. This is extortion money; a sign of things to come with EVs.
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  196. The CCP does not have any manners or any legal rectitude. It's part of the Maoist brainwashing. As a result, because of these appalling manners, Chinese tourists are not only despised in Japan, South Korea and Thailand but in the West as well. I've seen and experienced Chinese tourist bad behaviour. Additionally, defacating in public places without using public lavatories is unhygienic and can spread disease. The Chinese in Taiwan are not like this.
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  197. Much of the founding of the CCP is blurred and whitewashed as well. For example in the 1930s. Mao ordered that peasants doors be torn out of their poor houses so he could recline on the doors while the peasants carried him (on the Long March for example). The CCP grew and sold opium poppies so that they could obtain money from selling narcotics.
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  198. Xi and Li. Just like Mao.and Zhu
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  199. The PLAAN anti-submarine warfare is distinctly below leading Western navies in terms both of technology and training of personnel. Submarine warfare is clandestine and ongoing without much publicity. In other words, it's an active kinetic war without acknowledgement. Hence, Japanese and Western navies have been testing the ASW response of PLAAN for over 10 years now. Their results are classified, but they don't seem worried. The other issue in copying advanced technology from a potential opponent, is that the opponent already has developed a counter for it, since they designed it.
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  200. The PLAAF does not even have a hemispherical bomber, like the B-52. These huge bombers were developed in the Cold War in the late 1960s and are in still in use. The CCP cannot threaten the North American homeland of the United States very much, whereas the US has a large range of weapons options to threaten mainland China. I think the CCP forgets it's very poor geopolitical situation with the United States (actually, worse than the former Soviet Union).
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  201. The worldwide anti-fascist alliance was initially lead by Britain in 1939. Roosevelt collaborated quietly with the British, but could not bring US troops to Britain & North Africa until 1942, after Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and Germany declared war against the US on 11th December 1941.
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  202. The WTO is a joke. The CCP turns this organizatio into a circus, as it does the UN and WHO. The CCP just pushes these cars into North America instead once the EU slowly bureaucratically implememt adding a tarrif on imported EVs from China.
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  203. 1. Don't rent ride hailing cars, 2. If there is a fine returning early, ditch the car with low battery (use fake ID when signing up) when you can't stand long hours anymore. Also, no-one should be forced to live in their ride-hailing cars, but it is a degree better than sleeping in the streets. The ride hailing driver with 8 phones next to him at the wheel seems excessively ridiculous, but i understand why he does it. The low passenger riding costs undermines taxis and public transport. Ride a bike instead.
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  204. Iron ore prices will fall and fall with inventories in China steel mills rapidly becoming saturated, and with the central government's drive to reduce the number of producers in favour of larger steel producers in smaller numbers. A centralization drive that does not make much sense, and may create more inefficiencies, not less. I don't expect the steel production in China to recover for 5 years or longer, especially as the majority of steel goes into new buildings which is not happening. The CCP is writing the play book of how to ruin the economy.
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  205. Looking at China now looks like the early Weimar Republic in Germany. Rampant inflation and currency devaluation will come next; a policy of stagflation, i.e you need loans to pay for bad debt loans. Especially if the government attempts to fix value of things. However, Chinese are not spending and consuming, so more likely a dead zombie economy will set in, i.e chronic deflation and bank failure. Massive unemployment already has ensued.
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  206. This all happened in Japan 25 years ago, but a less intense way. Abandoned houses and schools and an aging population. But, by and large, many Japanese got wealthier in the good times (1950s-1980s), and the decline was slower and more manageable and less stark. This has not happened in China except in the largest cities. Now, even that is at risk.
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  207. Chinese-Russian road signage; "It makes it easier for Russia to occupy the area later"; Good one. Also "invading by ses" is actually unusual for China's history. Most total foreign takeover by China was by northern horse borne tribes, such as the Yuan Dynasty (Mongols) and the Qing Dynasty (Manchus). Not many Chinese want to learn Russian. Russia has an economy about the same size as Spain, although Russia is the largest country in the world. Russia sells raw materials, it doesn't invent much anymore (see corruption and blind nationalism). CCP, keep learning usless Russian, so it will be more difficult for the young Chinese in school to read English, so "they can't copy Western technology as well". The CCP lacks freedom and innovation. That is totally clear.
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  208. I've wondered if China, a huge and ancient country with it's 23 provinces and CCP over-centralization and mis-rule, could evolve into a federated provinces republic, with more economic autonomy of separate provinces, not to the point of succession, with Beijing (or a selected capital city) handling national laws and legislature with elected members. It would be a radical turn of government function and form that China currently has (although not to Taiwan). Hence, the transition will not be without setbacks and troubles.
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  209. Ghost train stations in China (in the West, ghost trains are in amusement parks 😂). Along the high speed network, there must be hundreds of them. A loss of tens or hundreds of billions of Yen building them, and a waste of money and resources.
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  210. The Cultural Revolution impoverished the Chinese so much that China ended up poorer in the 1970s than it did in 1949 (their takover from the KMT in the China Civil war).
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  211. Hot meals are nice, but it doesn't win battlefield tactics. Corruption will sap it. 😂
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  212. The CCP has one thing in common with the old Qing Empire; inflexible bureaucracy.
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  213. There is no "bottom" in China's economy 😮 China is writing the textbook on how to waste three generations of wealth accumulation in a few years. Why? Corrupt dictatorship and hubris. Pure hubris about buying real estate when times were good.
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  214. The Youth of China are the lost generation. Brainwashed by the CCP and pressured to academically perform extremely well by their ruthless parents. No jobs available for even PhD graduates. I hope they revolt and revolt big time. Hating their parents and the government and running amok, furious about the lies and deception.
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  215. Subsidies for international tickets will collapse in China soon, but the hospitals in China will undoubtedly be impacted first. The priorities of the CCP are political; not economic, demographic or public health. Totalitarianism.
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  216. Xiaomi's motto is; "there's an idiot born every minute". It's an exterior rip-off of a Porche with the working parts of an Vauxhall Firenza.
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  217. The senior bureaucrats will soon demand that all other lower ranking bureaucrats must buy a new suit. From their relatives clothing company of course. 😂
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  218. China needs the goodwill of foreigners for growth, but it's driving them all away with it's ridiculous anti-espionage law. What is there to steal in China? All of it is stolen from elsewhere?!??
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  219. What possible tactical miliary use does a nearly 60 year old European excavator can have? Similar with the Yak robot. Robots are used on the battlefield, but mainly as bomb disposal. Otherwise, robots are quite fragile and unsuited to resisting anything more than small arms fire.
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  220. The PLAAN at sea are neither professional nor brave. They were completely outclassed by the Indian Navy in apprehending hijacked cargo ships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea by armed pirates. The Indian Navy don't have superior technology to the PLAAN (maybe), but they have far better trained personnel and a superior rapid response command structure. This makes an enormous difference in capabilites.
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  221. So much for enduring friendship. This happens between totalitarian states. Also China is increasingly isolated from stupid Wolf Warrior diplomacy from the CCP.. 😂
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  222. Stagflation, stagflation, stagflation. It may be worse than Venezuela.
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  223. Ordinary Chinese will force more concessions out of aggressive guards and police. Especially when there are larger crowds and more protests. Shutting down and burying these incidents (on the internet for example) will become less effective when alternative forms of communication are organized and/or incidents saturate the internet news.
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  224. Cambodia probably has a lot of unfinished skyscapers built by the CCP Chinese, but this is not just limited to this country. Ghost cities have also been built in Malaysia. This is wasted funds and materials in these countries,with inflated land prices for quite a while, severely inconvinienced the locals. Chinese arriving in large numbers can be a problem for their host country; increased real estate Ponzi schemes and increased fraud and corruption. Also when the Chinese reach a majority in a district, they become arrangant and dismissive of the locals, calling them "foreigners" in Manderin. This is in Western countries as well. Places like some districts in San Francisco California, this has been noticed. Conflating this attitude problem is the totalitarian attitutes of some CCP Little Pink supporters and UWF agents in these communities; they are mainly a problem to other peace-loving expat Chinese, but can involve other nationals as well, if they dare question the lack of lawfulness and good governance of the CCP.
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  225. Slight error in this video. The screenshots showing the B-52 and the Tu-95, are mixed up. The B-52 is a purely turbo jet propelled subsonic bomber, wheras the Tu-95 is also subsonic but powered by 8 counter-rotating propellers; it's not jet powered. Both were Cold War era heavy bombers capable of travelling across oceans, so intercontinental.
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  226. The Chinese will try more ships and less missiles per ship. There are systematic problems using this strategy; maintainence, logistics and firepower per ship. More ships also need more crews. The intention is swamp the areas with ships, but this tactic is outdated. The very long range over-the-horizon technology of radar and missiles of modern naval ships makes fleet actions of small to medium ships less necessary. Putting out a lot of ships in a small sea area, say the Taiwan Strait, instead makes a target-rich environment for your opponents.
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  227. The Norwegian NSM is also stealthy, advanced sea-skimming ship killing cruise missile, being acquired by a number of US allies including Japan and Australia and the USN itself. Sea-whiz anti-missile cannons are becoming obsolete (because low range) and because of improvements of NATO ships missile defence. They are being phased out of NATO warships because of ABMD systems improvements that can hit or jam attacking missiles at longer range from the ship. NATO smart missiles have been designed to continue to target and smart target acquisition, even if GPS is denied by jamming There is a suite of sensors on leading cruise missiles to do this.
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  228. Gutter oil "recycling" is common in China, and with this economic downturn, it will be considerably worse. It's now a public health hazard.
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  229. The CCP only provides positive news to cover the chaos that they regularly generate in China. These problems are not reported in China, which hugely affect the average lives of Chinese; which the CCP cover up leaving many people in the dark, out of pocket and duped. This is a good thing by that government? It's not an occasional thing, it happens all the time. Without reporting it, none of these problems will ever be addressed or solved.
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  230. Hong Kong has never suffered this decline, except perhaps during World War 2 during the Pacific War and the occupation of Japan during the Co-Prosperity Sphere. An ideological economic device of the totalitarian Showa government, based on predatory exploitation of resouces for Japan. How the dial turns back for Hong Kong with the totalitarian CCP.
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  231. A price reduction war means negative profits for auto EV car makers in China for each car sold. This adds up to real debt, as the EV companies must borrow to keep manufacturing. Worse, there is no end in sight in this madness .No more good times will come whereby making EVs will go back into the black again to reverse the hedonistic level of debt, especially with the private money economy of China collapsed and no productivity growth to reverse it. Outside China in First World economies like the EU and the US, trade protectionism will be enacted to protect their own auto manufacturers, making profitable export lead growth of badly built China EVs, more and more unlikely. Like everything in China, the government ultimately owns the debt, but unlike private enterprise, itself cannot go into liquidation. The end result for China is a zombie economy and massive government debt to itself. Foreign investors will treat China as an untouchable sphere, like a plague carrying patient, as they will not receive economic growth benefits, The economy of China remains a cold corpse under Xi Jinping and the CCP, and the world eventualy passes it by and advances without China, leaving it irreversibly further and further behind. This is the North Korea model of poverty stagnation. The cost of doing business with a totalitarian government in charge.
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  232. It can do that, but in a war, all the food and fuel gets sunk. Literally.
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  233. Tofu dreg tanks. Wnat a surpise (not).
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  234. Now West North Korea
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  235. The lack of consumption across China must affect treasury revenue, particularly in taxes. "Looming deflation"? It's already been there since 2022. It's an economic (and psychological) depression environment, like the United States in the 1930s, now in China. Lack of consumption leads to lack of jobs and failure in small business (which is also collectively, a large employer). Without consumption and real estate, banks also suffer as loans are defaulted, no growth of loans or savings. The US left the depression environment in 1941, not principally due to rearmament (which mainly occurred later during World War 2), but mainly concurrent population growth that restarted consumption and an improvement in banking and consumer protection laws that stimulated investment. China cannot look forward to population based consumption growth in the future, partially as a result of the One Child Policy and one of the world's lowest (birth rate) replacement values. As for investor confidence? The Xi Jinping dictatorship has killed that. The rest of the world is not feeling much of the depression that is now constricting China. This is because CCP has partially acted as an autarky (to limit foreign debts), i.e. limiting importing finished goods manufactured by other countries via sky-high tarrifs. As a result, the world has bypassed China as a buyer of finished goods and is not much affected by the depression there.
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  236. Watch a major run on China's banks. Makes the run on banks in 1930 and 1931 United States depression to be a sideshow.
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  237. This flip-flopping of attitude is extraordinary. Having been kicking the US for the past 3 to 4 years, to suddenly change course 180 degrees to being subserviently friendly again looks suspicious. Having been kicked for nearly four years (since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, created by the CCP) , the American administration is hardly going to approach China with open arms after this suddenly reverse attitude. Furthermore, this is correctly inferred by this program that Xi Jinping is already personally weakened and even more isolated. He is far from being the dictator of everthing within China, with his grip on power now slipping ever weekly. Even though Biden stated that the door is always open for China, does not mean that he will reverse his hardening policies on China these past two years. This is an invitation for dialogue, not for policy capitulation by the US. Particularly with the advanced chips ban. Since their bashing of the US and it's allies (probably initiated by Xi in 2020), the CCP has unwittingly also revealed much of it's anti-Western strategies and global attempts at chaos for their ideological revolutionary ends, and in revealing this process early means that the West in general has the time to make politically telling countermeasures to this. People in the United States are gradually becoming aware that the CCP is a hostile totalitarian power (Soviet Union 2.0 or worse) that commits systematic genocide and crimes against humanity at home (this is an account of crimes of the present day, not about the past with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping), and ignores or flouts international laws, generally adhered to by sucessive US governments. Xi is in a very bad place indeed. Much of this impasse is by his on own hand, ironically.
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  238. The CCP exports an oversupply of economic recession worldwide, as well as oversupplied EVs.
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  239. The CCP has to copy everything, including the warplane's number, e.g, F-35 is J-35. Other than the inferior copy of the original, what ultramaroons!
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  240. Well, if there was there's not one now
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  241. Russians will draft any body to be cannon fodder. Russia is a single party fascist state.. 😂
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  242. No, like Tiktok Huawei will send all your biographical data, plus that of your family and friends (if it can), to the CCP data banks where the Ministry of Internal Security can f$$k you over, or not. You may never know if and when it may happen. Really, government department names in China are almost exactly the same as IngSoc. People in China might be used to being under Big Brother, but it's a new phenomenon in the West. I'm not getting used to it.
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  243. Emperor syndrome. Get over it; elect your leaders
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  244. Xi is common with most paranoid dictators; he has "rent a crowd". Xi would never spontaneously meet the general public; He's not FDR.
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  245. When all small businesses are closed, then commercial revenue and local trade collapses and so does tax revenue. Then, the local government bureaucrats are sacked or remain unpaid. Their predatory attitudes now only speed this process. The city becomes a wasteland as people leave it for greener pastures.
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  246. Fragile egos in China
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  247. Their education system, with the merciless and time-wasting CCP b*llshit removed from, would be quite good in China. Unfortunately, Big Brother (Xi Jinping) is everywhere in schools and colleges in which the substantial portion of the curriculum time is spent wasting reading his words (his pea-brained thoughts), this is compulsory. Mao was much the same as Xi in meddling in education by adding his merciless ideology (Xi models his government on Maoist times, and we all know how very badly that went for most Chinese; if you survived it), as well Mao turned schools into violent ideological battlegrounds between students and teachers, in which countless people were brutalized and murdered. China under the CCP is a one step forward, two steps backwards kind of society and this is reflected in it's massive corruption, lack of freedom (for intellectuals as well), which stifles innovation, and draconian oppression. That's why the brain-drain occurs in China. The smart people do their best to leave China, not because they hate their country, but because they hate the CCP.
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  248. Vague accusation to cover the state theft? Yep, sounds like the CCP.
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  249. End of cheap but usually badly made products from China. Thank god
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  250. Seems a pity, I'm a cycling enthusiast and bikes may well be the best, safest, most environmentally friendly (except for these junkyards) form of land transport ever invented. Like these ride sharing bikes, China's EVs will probably go the same way due to fierce competition and lack of fair regulation by the CCP.
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  251. Also, Winnie the Screw
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  252. China's grey zone warefare. This kind of action invites retaliation..
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  253. There is no laws in China. It's a dictatorship; rule by fiat. Laws are only rubber-stamped in the Politbureau, there are no debates or votes for a statutory law
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  254. The Chinese stock exchanges is less stable than Wall Street on the eve of the 1929 Great Depression. When will the central government run out of revenue streams when they have stolen all the money of it's people and squeezed them dry? I know that several provincial governments have gone bankrupt already. Many internet scams have gone overseas already, milking richer and naive foreign nationals, giving China an ugly name overseas as well. There is no credibility or lows that they will go to with the criminal CCP.
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  255. China is definitely supplying Russia with armaments through North Korea. Everyone know this, yet the CCP is still in the UN. Why?
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  256. The CCP's propaganda department and foreign affairs department sounds more and more like North Korea. Perhaps they are politically converging? The CCP is hopeless, xenophobic and in a mood for a witch hunt.
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  257. CCP China has done nearly everything wrong with global manufacturing, now apparently over in that country. It remains to be seen if Vietnam and India can achieve this by liberalizing their research instituitions, improving these countries infrastructure, particularly ports and roads without excessive crony capitalism waste, and allowing room for business and entrepreneur creativity without excessively bureaucratic government interference. India was the world's largest ecomony c. 1700 AD. It may be again, by the middle of this century.
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  258. Foxconn is a Taiwanese company. Sichuan is not invulnerable to bombing or missile air raids, even if the factories are built underground. This is equivalent of Nazis building tunnel-like structures to build V-2 missiles with slave labour in tunnels built into the German Alps in Bavaria at the end of World War 2 in Europe. That was largely futile. Building this way makes components harder to come together and is less productive.
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  259. It's pretty sad and pathetic. It's nearly impossible to make any silicon chip integrated circuits by hand, with nanometre chips impossible without EUV lithography. "Grinding" nanometer chips is utterly ridiculous. This is about grinding glass lenses by hand; which is 400 year old technology. Nothing to do with electronics.
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  260. Can hear the sound of treasury funds being sucked down the CCP plughole. This is because the CCP owns the large banks. This is the part of the effect of a kleptocracy: The next devestating effect is stagflation. The 2008 GFC; US treasury bailing out banks emired in sub-prime real estate bad loans, coupled with the Lehman Brothers banking fraud is just a small cloud on the horizon in comparison to this typhoon of an economic storm.
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  261. The Nazis tried to beautify or white-wash their systematic genocide of the Jews, in infamous places such as Auschwitz too. It was a Nazi run Potemkin ghetto village called Theriesenstadt in occupied Czech Republic. It was used to showcase to neutral observers like Sweden and Switzerland that the Nazis were treating the Jews well and humanely. However, sometimes the brutality and systemic depravity of the Nazi system shone through the mask of Theriesenstadt. The work of propaganda of the CCP's genocide of the Uyghers in Xinjiang is like Theriesenstadt, but on a much, much bigger scale. To cover up their genocide of the Uyghers in Xinjiang, the CCP frantically pump out beautifying propaganda to mask their brutality and depravity there. Occasionally, just like secret photos of Jews being herded like cattle onto trains out of Theriesenstadt bound for extermination in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, the CCP slips up or is exposed, such as a photo of a prison yard full of manacled and blindfolded Uygher men. You can't beautify or cover up an ugly truth all of the time. Soon the mask will slip.
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  262. Huawei copies again; it rips off technology from Samsung. But foldable phones are not taking off even though they have been on the market for years. I wonder why?
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  263. 70% of all parts (in C-991,sorry C-919) is Western-made components ,
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  264. Economics with Chinese characteristics, or more precisely, CCP characteristics; growth followed by crippling debt, showpiece white rhino infrastructure (like the high speed rail network). Massive real-estate bubble and ghost cities.Then economic collapse and possible revolution.
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  265. China private corporations only mimick the bad fraudulent behaviour of it's government. If anyone believes that stocks are independant capital from government; the stock markets in China prove the opposite. It's all about the CCP being a kleptocracy amongst it's other enormities.
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  266. I like this story, and the meaning of egg fried rice on thanksgiving day. I'm not Chinese, but i hate the CCP and their "work" of criminal enormity for 70 years. I will cook and eat a bowl of egg fried rice each thanksgiving day, or go to a Chinese restaurant and order one.
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  267. The next step is to reveal missile lock-on to PLAs ships. Not just from warplanes but also from missile batteries and from Taiwanese warships.This will make the PLA think twice. I see most risistance to cross straight invasion from Ryan's (Xi Jinping) generals. Unfortunately, this will make things worse in the Philippines EEZ waters compensated as a result by the check of the PLA in around Taiwan.
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  268. Using your phone to cover your instant noodle lids? That's completely ridiculous use for it. Why spend thousands of dollars on that? The demo time spend just on that was risible. No actual technical features of the phone; camera, screen resolution, memory; nothing. The Emperor has not clothes.
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  269. Direct investment by German banks may reflect a nievity in the economic effects of the massive corruption of totalitarian states in particular and their propensity for technology theft and predatory economic practices. This nievity might have been a function of German outlook on it's 1990s sucessful unification of democratic West Germany with totalitarian East Germany, but this is a nieve outlook. Firstly, the economy of East Germany was much smaller than West Germany, secondly, the moribund East German economy came under direct administrative control from Weat Germany, thirdly and most importantly, both spoke German and had deep cultural understanding and roots. This is not at all the case when dealing with CCP China.
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  270. I disagree. XI Jinping is likely to step up PLA recruitment from the country (already happening) and enable a wartime emergency economy gradually as a prelude to an actual attack or blockade of Taiwan (probably happening). There are clear political reasons for this. Wartime emergency economy places Xi Jinping in a greater personal control position over the economy and over wayward and opposing regional or provincial governments and over opposing factions. The Americans, for example, will be smeared with impunity in propaganda in all CCP media outlets and on Western media, like X, as well (already happening). This is in line with scapegoatism politics of thev CCP, Increased austerity, purging and dictatorial control of Xi Jinping though wartime conditions excuses will wrong-foot the Jiang Zemin followers factions within the CCP, which will be advantagous to Xi. in a sense, Xi wants total control of the CCP and a military or coercive victory over Taiwan, ending the historocal democratic threat of the ROC over China permanently, and he's prepared to gamble the future of China and the CCP to get it. While catapulting him into the greatest hero-emperor status and grratest of all CCP leaders. While i acknowlege that the many acute and chronic problems of China are unlikely for Xi Jinping to ever realize his egotistical dream, the attempt, like Hitler's, will plunge the world into a long amd bloody war with the Chinese most likely suffering the greatest degree of casualties (other tha the oppressed minorities of China) That's why China really matters to the rest of the world now.
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  271. The CCP corporations struggle to innovate. This is doubly so for chip fab companies. Their R & D work by hostile takeover of small, hopeful Western innovative tech minnows, arriving in China then ending up broke or kicked out, is now over. Stealing tech and copying large Western corporations, such as Apple, is becoming increasingly difficult. Working with native Chinese innovators, such as research institutions and universities are low quality and dissappated research in China. Deep corruption in these China institutions breeds disincentive to extend engineerining and research breakthroughs.
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  272. On a capital warship, using poor quality bunker oil is a bad decision. The boilers will accumulate soot quickly and make them less efficient. Addionally, they need replacement and repair sooner. The Fujian carrier EM catapult functions are not properly tested and doubts about the Fujian carrier to power this launcher, particularly launching J-15 planes. This is a second rate carrier, not much of a supercarrier.
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  273. Two rusty bolts to hold it back probably 😂
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  274. .. that is coming to an end. Bot farm.
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  275. Huawei and other CCP phone manufacturers will fall further and further behind in the quality of phones, not only only by the phones and tablets made by Apple and Samsung, but second tier free manufacturers like Ericsson. This is because the CCP can't get the latest CPU chips because of the US chip ban to China, to CCP phone manufacture in scale.
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  276. J-20; just wack in a fake engine there and pocket the difference 😂
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  277. .. learn "everything" except how to fight effective coordinated combined arms warfare. Something that many PLA officers are not adept at.
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  278. Young adults in China, particularly women in Shanghai, are too materialistic. Men, ignoring women 30 or over, are equally stupid. If men and women hold onto these bad attitudes then China as a country, a people and whatever culture is left by the CCP. may just about go extinct in it's homeland in 3 generations. In the West this purblindness is called, "Drinking the Kool-Aid" in refence to Jonestown.
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  279. Rubio is correct about the horrendous level of genocide by the CCP..
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  280. Why you don't see a bank bailout, like your saw in the 2008 GFC in the US prime mortgage exposure in US banks and Lehman Brothers collapse, is that this probably has already happened in China, but it has been suppressed and buried by the Central government. The huge difference between the US investment economy and that of China's is that not much finicial crises news is or can be suppressed by the US government (possibly constitutionally), wheras it is likely to be suppressed or lied about most of the time by the CCP government and China banks. This should be enough to scare Western investors away from China, but there is enough eternal hopefuls in the US (some are the fools paying to be in a restaurant with Xi Jinping when he visits California), that the zombie economy of the CCP can stay alive for longer, unfortunately.
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  281. The Russian-Ukrainian Cold War era carriers are not supercarriers. They rate in capabilities under the RN Queen Elizabeth class carriers, with inferior number and quality of planes (the RN carriers are now using F-35 multirole warplanes). At the beginning of the Pacific War (1941-1945), Japan had more and superior planes and torpedoes to the USN at the time and double the number of carriers in the Pacific at the beginning of the conflict. USN Lexington class carriers carried more planes, but carrier warplanes (except the Douglas Dauntless diver bomber) were inferior to the IJN at the beginning of the war. The important naval battle of Midway was a lucky win for the USN.
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  282. The B-21 does not have VTOL capabilites nor outstanding aerobatic manoeuvre capabilites, but is an improved version of the B-2 Sprit (which is already an aging stealth bomber). The stealth capabilites of these bombers are not designed for air-to-air combat (unlike the F-35), although it may carry sidewinder missiles if intercepted. It's main stealth missions are supress or destroy air defence installations, communication node centres like headquarters, nuclear missile or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons manufacturing facililites, submarine naval bases or special locations where top leaders dwell like Zhongnanhai. Note that in a war, Xi Jinping himself may not be a top priority target. He has more capable underlings, but they still top leaders and would be more valuable for taking out to the Anericans.
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  283. State owned enterprises are notoriously inefficient. Services and goods will definitely be substandard from these entitles. Taxes pay for state owned enterprises, which is attempting taking over the private sector. Without private sector tax revenue, the CCP will be bankrupt with an ever decreasing tax base.
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  284. Russian military presence in North-East Asia is only of some concern. Russia has not been going well in it's main war in Ukraine, so hardly see Russia's long term engagement in East Asia (in support of China) to be anything more than token support. Russia cannot afford a two-front war. This will end Putin's regime.
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  285. Getting rid of Xi Jinping will not solve little of China's problems. You have to purge the CCP, from top to bottom, from the body politic of China
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  286. Also, if you consider the rising demographic crises in China, this will severely affect availability of labour within China. Particularly, by 10 years from now. This demographic crises will surely affect manufacturing in China, by the "Japanization" of the aging affect in China. Japan has already passed through this over 25 years ago and now has a moribund economy, or economy not driven by any kind of growth.
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  287. Steel producers in China have also been hampered by increasing labour and energy costs in China; with low productivity increase from workers due to a hire and fire culture (including skilled workers) plus unpaid wages plus non-existant social and health benefits to workers. Counterfiet or poor quality steel products also undermine consumer confidence. Countries like Vietnam and India are set to capitalize on China's low-cost, low-productivity worker weaknesses in the next decade, as both these countries have cheaper labour than China for about the same level of productivity. While this is occurring, the CCP helps to increase the irrelevancy of China on the world stage, into the future, mainly due to base labour exploitation and lack of environmental considerations and steep demographic decline; a perfect storm.
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  288. My daughter's Fisca toy robot dog from 20 years ago worked better than these Unitree humanoid robots pieces of crap. The Fisca robot dog used voice command, and could do tricks like back flips while landing on it's feet. It didn't cost thousands of dollars either. Current robots in China are a joke in comparison.
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  289. New lost generation of young adults in China. The elderly have a very bad time too
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  290. 40% time wasted in totalitarian indoctrination is time wasted in otherwise improving the training of the soldier, sailor or airman. This intensive indoctrination indicates the weakness of the ideology, not it's strength.
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  291. I've already recognised the totalitarian "Big Brother" risk that CCP China now poses, even though others i've talked to don't recognise that risk. This is mainly because some have some socialist sympathy with Communism from their student days at university or are politically naive or may have business interests in China (although the tables have turned on them too). In any case, i think i'm more politically astute about China and the CCP, and they are less so. Anyway, like September 1st, 1939 (Hitlers invasion of Poland), many people at that time were shocked and amazed by that event because "they" had been listening to their own movies in their heads about the Nazis in their own mind and had been ignoring reality. Again, i will not be shocked to find when i wake up one day that the CCP is attempting to invade Taiwan. However, unlike Poland, the war will drag on longer than a few mere weeks, and the fighting, most likely, will go against the CCp.
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  292. The internet in China (behind the Great Firewall) is being deliberately historically purged. This is unfortunate for researchers and students. This hinders the capabilities of the internet; it does not enhance, it but this is predicable by the totalitarian CCP. The CCP is only confortable with it's own narrative it approves, particularly history. Putting this over the Internet in China is like looking at the world through a pane of smoked glass.
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  293. This shows how poorly China's agriculture is managed. In comparison, Vietnam has improved it's grain production over the past 20 years, so it is a net exporter of rice. Similarly with Thailand. These countries are significantly smaller than China, showing the stark difference in agricultural management and productivity. Predictably, the CCP will introduce a corrupt bureaucratic process to food production, which will only exacerable the food shortage situation in China
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  294. Ev cars are non-green unsafe shit. Period
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  295. BYD; Buy Your Demise,.
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  296. Yes, I shudder to.think.
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  297. Interesting to hear about the political manoeoverings of the top CCP officials, past and present. It's positively Machiavellian and deeply unethical. Of course, there is little checks on power of the CCP at the national level (no universal suffrage in mainland China and the Politbureau is largely a rubber-stamp body, now completely under the thumb of Jinping). The near total control of the news media there in CCP China means that these important backstabbing events, in this luxurious palace complex ("serve the people", indeed) remain unreported or whitewashed.
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  298. The China economy is in a strong and ongong deflationary environment. You get a feeling that some of this is orchestrated by the CCP. This is the upcoming common prosperity (poverty). A Maoist era of extreme austerity, initiated by the shedding of wealth such as the collapsing value of real estate. Once the middle class is poor, then the CCP leadership can shut off China from the world (it's partly there, thanks to the great firewall) then the CCP can offer up ideologically manipulated extremist programs using scapegoats to divert the fury of the people. But, we can't repeat history exactly the same way. In the time of Mao, the people almost blindly followed the utterances of Mao like an article of faith, but the enthusiam is no longer there and the corruption is repellant. The people of China, overall, are better educated than in the time of Mao Zedong, and have less appetite for extremist mass movements like the Red Guards. Xi Jinping is an ideologue on an ebbing tide. He looks backwards and seems foolish and out of touch.
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  299. Someone who has access to people in China, through the firewall censorship, should quietly log the progession and intensity of protests, i.e how many people protesting, how often and where it's happening at (lagged by a month so that the CCP can't take remedial action). The CCP is fairly rapidly losing it's legitimacy among the Chinese and i suspect, like a powder keg, one incident one day is going to set the whole country off against the CCP; those who turn the screws too tight are going to be hit by the exploding shards. XI jinping's government has lost the one main thing that kept the people generally quiecent during the Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao leaderships, that is prosperity. Now, a man ten times more politically clever than Xi Jinping (and Xi is pretty stupid, admittedly) can't save the CCP.
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  300. I can't help notice that a PLAAN sailor was steering a gun or missile mount on a warship. While i'm no expert in ship gun turrets, isn't this World-War 2 vintage? Most modern gun and missile turrets on warships are steered electro-optically or electro-radar guided from the CIC. Not by a sailor anymore sitiing in a turret. The only manned guns these days in Western navies are 50 cal machine guns.
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  301. China's economy is in dire crises. Also, I think the CCP is now unsalvageable, even with a dictator ten times more competent and skilled than Xi Jinping, Xi's incompetence only speeds up the party's demise. No one can stop it
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  302. The CCP needs a scapegoat and it's ideology is built on bad envy politics. Because it's so coercive and corrupt itself, creative people living under it's regime either flee China to a freer country, like the United States, or suppress their own inner thoughts. Hence, originality, both creatively and scientifically, has disappeared from China.
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  303. If hundreds or even dozens of drones fall out of the sky, then it will be only a matter of time when people under them will be severely injured or killed. These drone shows do nothing to improve the social conditions of the people, when the money for these expensive shows are funded by provincial and central governments, instead of into hospitals and social security.
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  304. Clamping down on outbound travel from China means the CCP is in full North Korea damage control mode. Millions of Chinese, since the lockdown ended in November 2022, have permanently left the country. Many are economic migrants seeking a free market economy, but the corruption and government oppression in China is simultaneously getting onerous. The CCP is mainly responsible for misrule and rampant corruption, leading to people leaving China by any means..l
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  305. Yes, we're turning AI into a monster that will eventually kill us. Richly deserved, from the standpoint of the centuries of dreary human ethics and awful politics.
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  306. Unless marines travel in a submarine, the crew are sailors or more specifically submariners, not soldiers (who engage in land warfare)
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  307. I think the CCP central bureau of statistics forgot to put a minus in front of their quoted "growth" figures.
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  308. Honda Accord petrol engine every time. Evs are neither safe or environmentally friendly compared to gasoline or diesel powered cars. They are only quieter. How are not environmentally friendly? EVs are heavier. 1. Heavier cars need more power to accurate them to speed. It 's simple Newton's Second Law; F=ma. EVs are heavier compared to combustion engine cars (because of those batteries weighing at least 200kg) requiring more energy to move the EV cars, 2. Charging; where do you think the electricity power is generated? From a coal powered smoke stack, sometimes hundreds of kilometres away. Guess what, the atmosphere is connected to the whole planet.
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  309. Rice is a labour intensive grain growth, in comparison to wheat and maise. For example, young rice plants need to be planted by hand in a paddy, whereas wheat and maize can be sowed by spreading seeds on ploughed ground. This sowing can be done mechanically. Perhaps rice can be planted mechancially, but most Chinese farmers cannot afford this kind of machinery.
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  310. Martin Luther King used great oratory and persuasion. XI jinping uses ideology and dictatorial tyranny. Who is the greater genius?
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  311. As time goes on, Huawei will look more and more dinosaur technology. Like the ideology of the CCP.
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  312. Xi keeps changing his geerals. The "anti-corruption" purge deceives no-one. It's about loyalty to Xi, but Xi has purged so many generals that there are few loyal retainers left.
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  313. Apparently the Central Bank of China uses an off-line application for digital RMB transactions. This offline system is open to fraud and untrackable transactions (the CCP can capture all this online, but not until the off-line transactions go online). Since, under the severe current economic recession in China, the CCP becomes more and more a kleptocracy of it's own people, both at the national and provincial level. Hence, another reason to mistrust the digital RMB.
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  314. China's CCP touted EV "flagship" is a dead-end technology; it's a waste to buy one, Tesla or not. Plus a cult of "green" without any scientific evidence for that. As more and more EVs burn, killing their occupants and destroying cars around them in multi-story car parks, asphyxiating people while burning in road tunnels and so on, eventually the Western public at least will get fed up with them and kick out politicians that tout them and severeky curtail their sales, hopefully before 10% of them are on the road. As for China, few people have any choice there, but I would never buy an EV if I could possibly help it.
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  315. No stimulus measures from the CCP can save themselves now.
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  316. The CCP decrees it, and it comes true (not)! Hong Kong is undergoing a brain drain. There will be a shortage of teachers, doctors, hospital staff and so on. The professionals that held up the standards are gone. Hong Hong is now just another second-rate mainland city. There will be nothing speciall there anymore. If foreigners want to finance a project in China again, they would go to Shanghai, not Hong Kong anymore.
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  317. How dare the youth of Shanghai parody us? 😂
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  318. It didn't take very long to the Japanese and South Koreans to improve the engineering and quality control build of their automobiles to compete with, or even exceed the quality of American and European made automobiles. With 20 years of automobile manufacturing, China made automobiles hasn't even achived the basics of safety and build quality of most other automobile manufacturing countries, in fact, their build quality has seemingly gone backwards from cars made in China even 5 years ago. I blame this on an excessive culture of "if you can cheat, then cheat". It shows in shit-made automobiles in China and by their poor engineering quality. When will they learn in China that no-one likes or respects; "if you can cheat, then cheat". Discerning Western buyers should think buyer beware.
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  319. Hear, hear
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  320. Poor civil enginrering quality: leading to steeply increased danger to communters and the public in general. This is a "socialist" government. A political model to avoid like the plague. The CCP trumpets it's high speed rail yet covers up a continual roll of accidents and mishaps relating to structural collapse, lack of safety systems (and human errors) constantly. No other first world democracy has this problem on anything like this scale with their civil engineering projects.
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  321. When you've scaped all the meat off the bone, all you have left is the bone to gnaw upon.
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  322. The folding blanket farce is a festival of stupid and idiotic purity. Worse, it's a bullying excuse of bastardry by the NCOs, who themselves are bullied by higher ranks and so on. It also encourages robotic obedience, not initiative, teamwork and planning. Physical fitness is important, but should not be the only goal. Ultimately, the blanket farce amongst others is a time-wasting exercise, where the recuit should be trained in useful martial skills such as marksmanship, tactical infantry defence and offensive tactics, battlefield infiltration, use of drones and so on. The PLA training results are poorly trained soldiers with little iniative. Initiative (while obeying orders) might mean life or death. Thinking soldiers are effective soldiers. The CCP does not encourage thinking as it might lead to a military coup.
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  323. Who said it? Your erstwhile mainland Chinese "friends"?
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  324. Putin and the Vietnamese know ssomething; Xi is out of power. He's just a figurehead now
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  325. Buying a Chimese EV in Europe might seem value for money for an EU consumer, but the hidden costs are many in comparison to other established competing foreign brand cars, particularly from Japanese or Korean automobile manufacturers, who have similar build quality to European manufacturers. The build culture in CCP China (not Taiwan), is to make products cheaper and cheaper but by substituting fake and shoddily made car parts. Since 90% of the car cannot be seen by just casually looking at it, these problems become manifold. Furthermore, long established automobile companies, like Toyota and Hyundai have a mature and usually fairly cost efficient system of acquiring replacement car parts in many countries they trade with. The Chinese companies like BYD, do not have an efficient parts replacement system, consequently their parts may be significantly more expensive to replace, in comparison to Japanese and Korean cars, and take longer to arrive at the maintenance garage, and have doubtful quality control.
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  326. China might be the only country that meddeled birth control to a demographic cliff decline. I think most young adults in China will make their own choices as they mistrust the government. The CCP ignored the statistics for two decades too long.
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  327. Bearings are an important machine component for most engines, including electric engines as well as combustion engines. China's lack of industrial skills in making high speed bearings is a serious problem for the CCP. It creates reliability on importing these parts when the CCP continually trumps autarky. It is the same for high-end chips as well. In a global war, China would be blockaded from receiving these bearing components from more industrially skilled countries, even if they were neutral towards China (many aren't). Note, most of these more skilled bearing making countries are democracies. After 2 years (or less), much machinery in China, particularly planes and high speed trains, will be a standstill during conflict (when they are most needed). Hospitals and factories won't have high-speed centrifuges either. The CCP is myopic. With the Wolf-Warrior diplomatic aggression and support of Russia, countries like Sweden and EU countries are now hostile towards China. With it's demographic issues, CCP China will gradually matter less and less to the rest of the world if it does nothing.
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  328. The "crimes" that the 2 senior PLA generals and ministers are accused of are non-specific. Charging these two men with graft and corruption, for the senior PLA commanders, is like handing out speeding tickets at a racetrack. The real reason again is concealed and it's definitely political, not criminal by the low CCP standards in that department. Most likely the opposition stems from Xi Jinping himself. Especially, like Hitler, Xi is manoeuvring for an invasion of Taiwan, come hell or high water. This would likely be opposed by senior PLA generals, who don't like the idea of being forced into a war with the United States and allies.
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  329. Like most CCP owned corporations, Huawei is hemorrhaging money and is being propped up from collapse by taxpayer issued loans. I think the CCP is in a debt hole where there is no return. This is state capitalist socialism; a failing system. This is an order of magnitude worse than the US bailout of banks in 2008.
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  330. Also China might be secretly supplying Russia with shells and missiles. Large equipment like planes, tanks and artillery batteries are traceable. Munitions, drones and small arms are harder to trace. If China supplies Russia with munitions then it's own inventory is becoming depleted. That means China must manufacture more munitions under tight budget constraints, and there's corruption..
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  331. Does the KJ3000 AWACS, really carry a rotating antenna? This is already obselete technology. The modern USN AWACS is the E-7 Wedgetail. This uses a more advanced AESA system with no rotating antenna needed. Already, the PLAAF is 30 years behind in this technology.
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  332. The CCP will severly devalue their own currency if they print and forge too many banknotes. It's a big risk of causing stagflation; like Zimbabwe, Venezuela or the Weimar Republic.
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  333. It seems that fast train railways lines were built for showpiece egotistical propaganda reasons for the CCP, not for sound economic and transport reasons. The extent of high speed rail building was hugely overdone and the gross waste of resources has only overall hindered the economic progress of China by massive debt. The CCP are largely run by economic ignoramuses. Due to be ghost lines soon.
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  334. And it is ideologically failing at that too. The CCP global citizen mask crafted by Deng Xiaoping has been ripped off by Xi Jinping, to reveal the ultra-nationalist, racialist, politically polemic, Maoist ideologue, totalitarian genocidal communist ogre underneath. There is no putting that tattered mask back on.
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  335. With the world opening up after the pandemic lockdowns, many China financial scams, ponzi schemes and extortions go onto the internet and go international to rob foreigners of most of their money. Many of these are facilitated though social media as "pig butchering" scams, where pretty young Chinese women pretend to date a Westerner, Japanese or Korean guy to set them up for the "kill", through fraudulent money transactions and investment schemes (these women usually have mob handlers behind the scenes). It all takes weeks or months of coaxing, but the besotted foreigner can pay up big altogether, so organized transnational crime in China is set up well for this; their firewall has holes in it to let crime through or the scam is carried on in another relatively unrestricted internet country like Myanmar, that is open for China "business". The CCP does not care a damn about foreigners being scammed; it is nationalistic Han ethnocentic thinking and it apparently has scarce resources to shut down these fraud operations by policing action. Noteably, it's on to anyone in a nanosecond criticizing the central CCP government, but lets massive internet fraud flourish from China.
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  336. P2P platform banking is dodgy shadow banking
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  337. Sacking older employees (over 35) solves nothing socially. It just kicks the can further down the road. These older people remain unemployed and frustrated, I.e. out of a job permanently. This adds to the downward burden of social security, besides the aged.
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  338. The CCP has already moved into crony capitailism; it's recently evolved into a kleptocracy.
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  339. War against Taiwan is a huge risk for China. I doubt the Taiwanese will capituate fast and the US and NATO surely will get involved to come to Taiwan's defence (definitely the Quad will). As well as blockades of raw materials it needs to carry on such a huge war, China faces territorial aggression from the South West where India is sure to invade Tibet to push back the Chinese frontier further away from it's core lands and to make sure the sacred Ganges headwaters are not dammed. The CCP is sure to get some nationalist support from the popluation in general, in first instance of war breaking out, but afterwards when the blockades of food and energy bites the China population will be cursing the CCP, not extolling it.
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  340. BYD will be like a Great Wall moment. When the CCP's reverse tarrifs run out. I've seen a Great Wall car, 3 months ago and I drive quite frequently.
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  341. China applies an exploitation model as a backdrop to fierce capitalist competition, in most of it's manufacturing export sector, including low value goods. Actually, according to Karl Marx this level of capitalist exploitation has lead to a dictatorship of the prolitariat in the first place, ironically. Good that Temu has its back against the wall, their base mercantilism has deserved it.
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  342. The PLAAN stuggle with experienced personnel, but churn out warships from their shipyards.Wheras, the USN have plenty of experienced navy personnel, but struggle to build warships in a timely fashion.
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  343. Western police are useless
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  344. Take China out of SWIFT, now
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  345. If you are over 45 in China, you risk stavation. If u r under 25, you don't have enough experience to find work, and you risk starvation. Even if you are the right age (25-44), you can't earn enough and you risk starvation and for all your family members relying on you, they will starve. This is socialism, but the CCP high officials have enough not to starve. Their ideological b*llsh*t rings more and more hollow for the starving masses of China. Now returning to the countryside, at least you might be able to grow food, if the agricultural police don't stop you. This is Xi Jinping's, "stable China", and even under the CCP it didn't have to be as bad as this. The nonsense about the people of the UK and US starvating (up to 25% of people in the US starve apparently) is pure projection false propaganda and "what about" ism. No one has starved in the UK since the 1840s potato blight, and never in the US.
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  346. China's population is probably not 1.4 billion, but more likely to be 800 million now.
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  347. China is in a deep economic depression. Further to go, is just down. Entrepreneurship is at a standstill. We've seen that with the hopeless case of Jack Ma; he was personally lucky, he got out of China just in time. I've noticed more BYD cars on the road in my country; a poor decision of the owner if they don't want to replace a car longer than 2 years. Breakdowns under warranty may be chronic for BYD with it's poor build quality, especially for the battery, but my guess is that there will be no honouring these warranty obligations with some owners suing BYD, leading to unwanted bad publicity for this company.
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  348. Not as crazy as it seems. There are enough brainwashed CCP agents to commit fifth column operations. Especially if they are recruited from Fujian. I'm unaware of the capabilities of the Taiwanese Counter Intelligence agencies in ferreting out these fifth column operations. However, when discovered it should be maximally internationally publically disclosed, not covered up. This is because the discovery strongly embarrasses the PLA/CCP and it further loses international credibility, which it is sensitive to. Which is a political point to aways keep in sight. Especially since Xi Jinping's rule is in a precarious state (Xi may even been quietly overthrown, viewing the Vietnamese red carpet treatment of Zhang Youxia). I might add that Zhang is a red princeling. In any case, old or new leaders, the CCP is on rocky ground right now.
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  349. Exploitative capitalism in China is coming to an end; it's exploitative to both manufacturers, workers and additionally to consumers. The consumer products are cheap, but copied and poor quality. It's an unsustainable business model; no one but the corporate bosses like it.
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  350. The "flying wing" concept goes back to 1940s Nazi Germany with the Horton Ho 229, an experimental aircraft that was made in a handful of numbers and was not used in combat, in an era where jet fighters were just emerging. With the B2 Spirit (a USAF bomber designed and built in the 1980s),
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  351. Not true, the social elite get everything and screw everyone else down with nothing using outright fakery, lying and head-kicking with Gestapo agents (or the Chinese equvalent) or even grass-roots Nazis (the CCP has long experience with that since Maos time).
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  352. Socialism under Stalin killed at least 3.3 million innocent people (not including the killings done by the invading Nazis). Socialism under Mao Zedong killed in excess 30 million people. Socialism kills, and it can kill big time in pursuit of a "workers paradise"(workers hell more like it) and "thoughtcrime". It's just like what Stalin cynically said; a few murders in the West is a crime. Over a million deaths is a statistic.
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  353. I bet the Wiinie the Pooh's patch being skewered by a missile is in hot sales in Taiwan. I know what it all means but I still had a faint pang of regret for abusing such a well known childhood story icon, until I read the biography of A.A. Milne, his son Christopher Robin Milne and his mother Daphne Milne, and then it become a "normal" story of a dysfunctional family and I didn't bother me anymore.
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  354. Incredibly the Little Pink man was howling like a baby. What a wuss.
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  355. Simply an ultra-dangerous car to drive. A death trap.
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  356. This is surface personality. Li was genuinely Li, but Xi Jinping publically hides his psychopathic tendencies beneath an outward mask of dullness. But Xi is no dullard. He's not that intelligent, that is true, but his cunning and conniving makes up for his relative lack of grey matter. To purge and neutralise so many opponents in the early part of his reign, was no small achievement. Xi actually plays quite a complex game of politics, but his overarching desire for total control and micromanagement and his ideological Maoism has made his wheels fall off. He is now fairly isolated and ineffectual. Incidences, like the spy balloon flight across North America was probably not initiated by him, but is indicative of his actual lack of control and oppertunism of others in his name, Xi is definitely not a "good guy", but the balloon flight achieved very little; it put the US government more on guard and delayed him from seeing Blinken for several months. I think Xi probably did not endorse it. Definitely now, there has been no more spy balloons flying over the US for nearly a year; probably testimony to Xi's disapproval of this.
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  357. When will the CCP run out of tax renenue? Will this slow their military spending? I doubt it
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  358. More drones and anti-ship missiles could knock out these attacking ships with the extended ramps before they get near to the shore of Taiwan, where they might be deployed. In the fairly deep waters around Taiwan, they are also targets of NATO submarines. As said by this channel; slow and under-armoured and under-gunned. This are not in the same class as littoral Independence class assult ships like the USS Canberra (LCS-30), which are fast and well protected, have missile jamming and designed to take light battle damage near shore. The only scenario where these "assult barges" might be useful is when Taiwan no longer can fìeld a defending army, navy or air force. In contested seas however, they would be like shooting sitting ducks and the PLA can watch on while battalions of marines swim around in the ocean.
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  359. The CCP is expert in lying upwards. For example, a directive from above is transmitted to the lower field officials in the system. These lowest officials are either lying or covering up to protect their positions, so they lie about results to their superiors. These lie to their superiors and so on, all the way to the top, I.e. Xi Jinping. Xi thus gets a distorted positive view of reality. Everyone fears punishment from him, so they lie creatively. No real data is collected, so the economic problem remains and gets worse and worse. The end will come eventually, but the poorest people in China will suffer the most; with their lives.
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  360. This adds to the economic decoupling. Also like Hitler, Xi Jinping is throwing the dice (he has snake eyes so far). Decoupling might be part of his desparate war plan to overthrow Taiwan by force. I wonder how the generals in the PLA and admirals in the PLAN feel about that with so much potentially at stake? Fight and lose Perhaps like Hitler, Xi has serious opposition to his war plans.
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  361. Kenya is indeed following China's path; shared third world status, lack of hospitals, schools teaching totalitarian ideology, white elephant showpiece useless and expensive projects plunging the economy into debt and economic depression and an increasing divorce between the population and the CCP cuptured rulers. Ripe for rural revolt as it's likely the developing cities in Africa are becoming locked down with Hikvision and face recognition technology
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  362. Fake fire hydrants and fire extinguishers are an ongoing issue in China, hindering firefighting and unnecessariky killing people from flames and smoke inhalation.
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  363. Nope, that would need innovation and some scope and freedom to their engineers to design something. No freedom in China. China's education system is now a cipher of "let's worship Xi Jinping". F**ked up with Mao, now f**king up with Xi the Pooh.
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  364. Wei Wei has a meteoric naval career, suspiciously so. Like to see her under duress in command of her ship. Maybe she will be getting off first when the ship's on fire or sinking; "Women first you bastards"
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  365. In the blocky 90s style simulation, the a H6K Tupolov copy CCP bomber does a back flip over a US carrier. Only a young child would believe that.
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  366. Tesla is not even doing at all well; EVs are dead-end technology. It's unsafe (burning batteries), not any more green than combusion engine vehicles and has lower range and takes excessive time to charge. The CCP has industrially backed the wrong horse. None of it's technology appears to be at all innovative.,
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  367. Yes, i agree with the orchested "hate Japan" campaign nonsense. It must be very uncomfortable for expat Japanese in China to switch on the TV there and see mawkish revolutionary fantasy programmes from WW2 on nearly every TV channel from events over 80 years ago, all the time. It's getting twisted and sickening. I'm not Japanese, my country was at war with Japan in WW2, but please stop that nonsense.
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  368. Battle of Kapyong, Korean War.
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  369. Toxins in food has an accumulative toxicity affect; leading to gastrointestinal disorders, neurological disorders and liver cancer in adult humans (children are three times worse affected). China probably has one of the highest food toxins rate of these conditions per 10,000 people after eating a lifetime of toxic food products. Even for a third world country, China is highly corrupt and poor hygiene and food doctoring practises for it's food and beverages. Blame the CCP; High ranking officials (eating healthy food) probably less than 0.1% of the population in China.
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  370. Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street institutional investors have strange metrics for estimated GDP "growth". It seems to me that the GDP "growth" in China is negative, not positive. Maybe they conflate the best case scenario and call that China's economic reality. As a scientist I call it skewing results or introducing systematic error. Probably deliberately.
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  371. I'm glad a Russian sees sense. They've already gone through some of this historically when the Soviet Union had crippling stagflation, two decades before it's collapse in 1991.
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  372. Politically and in reality, the Ukrainians are fighting a defensive war against an invader on their own territory. The PLA officers and propaganda spin doctors try to tilt the argument politically in their direction.
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  373. There are some attractive young women in these videos. No hope of supporting themselves, let alone their families. These young adults (young men and women) have little hope of better times ahead. No wonder then China's population is crashing (massively helped along by the One Child Policy from the late 1970s). This is the work of the selfish, corrupt and inept CCP and it's leaders. All of them..
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  374. It's always been that way. It's just been a while before Western wankers, sorry Western bankers, wake up and smelled the coffee from their pipe dream illusion of the large population and physical size of China in making money. Political ideology really does matter.
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  375. The CCP and it's corporate shells like Huawei, don't innovate. Chinese native made EVs are not well made because the CCP culture of, "if you can cheat, then cheat". Hence, I don't trust anything made on China, particularly if it has communication quantities like mobile phones or EVs (EVs have inbuilt navigation software), which the the CCP uploads through the weakness of the software security (the weakness is deliberate, the CCP want ease to collect data of everyone). This is their backdoor access. The majority of Chinese, ironically like majority of Westerners, don't care about or are ignorant of the way their personal information goes straight to CCP databases, often for nefarious purposes like control and blackmail.
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  376. Yeah, yeah. PVC manufacturing, the CCP has owned that one. The CCP has flooded the world recently with EVs, but that project has come to a shuddering halt. Protectionism and tarrif increases by EU and Japanese governments to protect their car manufacturers have slowed exports of EVs from China. Plus the CCP have run out of money for reverse tarrifs on EVs to export. It seems that PVC has gone the same way.
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  377. It's the Great Leap Forward mass starvation event again. Lockdowns and ridiculous human chain passing vegetables, but hundreds of thousands, possibly millions now in China are dying of starvation and medical neglect (barefoot doctors in Mao's era). All of this is for a political reason, just a few words from the dictator create such mass harm under the umbrella of pandemic prevention (a double lie because there are now fewer and fewer people worldwide dying of Covid). The only bright side to this horrible arrangement as a foreigner is that mass death does not need to come from flying over and dropping bombs on Chinese cities in a war. With conventional bombs, the death toll would be likely to be the same as the starvation lockdowns (people can go to air raid shelters). The CCP is at war against the ordinary people of China, that much is clear. With that, who needs to bomb China from the outside to wage war with the CCP? The CCP will get all the blame, and as a foreigner, i can wash my hands of it by getting of the hook by my government waging war against the CCP and killing Chinese, as a consequence by the CCP doing this dirty work against their own people. Even better, the CCP cannot launch an attack and kill people in my own country (unless during a hot war). Even the Nazis were not that stupid.
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  378. Yes, but the CCP makes everything, and I mean everything a political act, so Li Ziqi is also their stooge by fabricating reality. It's skilfully made fiction , but sell it as fiction (or historical life), but not a reality.
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  379. Another white elephant showcase project by the CCP. Money that could have been spent more productively elsewhere. This impressive but useless project is a product of unelected officials. Which shows the political and economic weakness of the unaccountable autocratic system.
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  380. Why do people still invest in the Ponzi-scheme housing in China? Bad enough of a housing scam in my own country. Banks own you; it's reprehensible
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  381. These fake research degrees with abbreviated and non-existent research skills undermine the integrity of China's universities overall. Obviously overflowing now to universities in Korea, the Philippines and Ireland will have negative knock-on effects there. I worked hard to do years of research and thesis writing in a techical postgraduate degree, so i feel aggrieved at this proxy and fraudulent process that provides power, privilege and prestige to people who do not deserve it. And will breed stagnation and poor research results by mediocrities with the keys to research positions in other universities, while the young finest minds will avoid these institutions. Again, the lawless (rule by fiat and connections, not by due legal process) totalitarian CCP corrupts everything.
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  382. Fake ship. It's a copy of a Zumwalt destroyer. It's a Potemkin ship; just hull and engines. No sensors, missiles or guns are aboard. The CCP copies everything; including bad or dubious technology. The USN has had some technical difficulties with the Zumwalt destroyer and has only built three of these ship type when 32 were originally ordered.
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  383. The CCP makes heavy looking ugly cars. They all look like Frankenstein's boots
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  384. There are no jobs for university graduates. NO JOBS! It seems to sink in slowly in other people's minds. It doesn't matter if you excel at something, or graduate from a top university, without corrupt connections you are nothing. Let that piece of chicanery sink in. Without jobs for graduates, there is no point in universities.
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  385. To uproot yourself to travel to a foreign country, then walk a thousand kilometres through dangerous jungle by foot with yellow fever carried by mosquitos and bandits and rouges praying on and robbing these people while transiting this zone, is no small thing to do. It's a measure of the high level of government oppression and economic depression, driving people out of China to drive them to take this extreme hardship and dangerous migration route option through Ecuador. It will not be long before any ordinary people in China, even students and middle-class people with means, will not be allowed to travel out of China.
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  386. The parking and driving infringement fines ARE a way of supllimenting shrinking local finances, previously from land sales from local governments. The answer is; sell your car and use public transport or e-bike
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  387. The CCP's abilities to do AI has been largely busted by the guys hosting the China Show. Quite a lot of the CCP's forays into this technology have been revealed as scams to lure in investors. There is little AI generation in the so-called CCP's arsenal of AI generation, just smoke and mirrors. Furthermore, the CCP has banned and blocked the open souce AI called chatGPT, surely a revealing source of AI function, mainly because the CCP can't control what it will say. In essence, the CCP oppresses open source AI as much as it oppresses free human beings.
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  388. The CCP is very poorly efficient. Part of it's poverty and social unrest plan. Hauling water 1500 killometres by train where a pipeline makes much more sense. Where i hear how advanced China is by their touts and propaganda shills, i just laugh 😂
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  389. Coffin fodder 😂
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  390. Yes, this is correct. The trees, if they are Boral species like deciduous trees or conifers are hardened by evolution to cold winters. They can easy survive cold snaps by withdrawing their sap from the outer part of the tree so it doesn't freeze in the wood. The trees go into a torpor in winter and sap flows again in Spring when warming occurs. Wrapping trees is fairly useless as they are not mammals or birds (they are not warm blooded endotherms) and require and outer coat of fur or feathers to keep stably warm. This is another CCP vanity project designed by a women.
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  391. China's cars are probably less safe than their EU counterparts. Airbags that fail to deploy for example. Pillars in the monocoque body construction that fatally break in even a moderate impact is another. European governments should crash test these Chinese EV models then bar them from sale in the EU for safety reasons.
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  392. In Australia, all urban and interstate rail systems are supplied by North American corporations (such as Bombardier) or by Japan, or by Australian manufacturers. China simply does not have the safety standards in all rail transport, and did or will have under Communism.
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  393. I know the expression by Xi Jinping, "common prosperity", seems much more like common poverty (poorer people may be more easily controlled). However, I disagree that some of these actions causing the 8 point malaise outlined by this program is not all planned economic sabotage for the last decade. Some are just blind stupidity and economic ignorance. Governments do make mistakes, and there are consequences in the polls in a democracy. But China is not a democracy, so there are no political feedback mechanisms (such as losing office by vote) that can correct abysmal and irresponsible mistakes made by a perpetual one party state. If China ends up as a giant North Korea or Russia (both grindingly poor and insanely corrupt), then what? We've already seen significant failures of Russians fighting in Ukraine the last couple of years. Russia is imploding from within and also from without, which is a geostrategic serious thing as a continental power with all those bordering countries. Russia is already militarily weak, vis-a-vis NATO (it's external enemy, and China's). If there is one thing that authoritarian states value is military strength. But you can't have military strength anymore without technology and fair competitive training (officers must set the agenda and morale by their actions). China, like Russia and North Korea is facing a military crises now as a result of wrecking it's economy. As a large authoritarian country with sometimes hostile bordering states, it is not (like Russia) in a position to downgrade it's army and airforce too much, but that's precisely what will happen.
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  394. The previous middle class in China (soon there will be less numbers of middle class in China than in Australia which has a total population of 26 million), were previously considerable consumers, supporting the domestic economy of China. Soon, they will essentially not be there (the people will be but they join the huge ranks of the impoverished). The talk of a "domestic support cycle" of Xi Jinping is becoming hollow. Much like the economic policies of the CCP overall. Worse for the the CCP (but better for everyone else), the central government loses taxation revenue (much comes from the middle classes), so it can't run a war against Taiwan.
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  395. I guess the US Congress might finally wake up and draft laws that prevent cladestine foreign influence operations. This will hinder the CCP activities in the US. The CCP also cloaks it's vile intent by motherhood statements and hope. Only the naive are now taken in.
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  396. Xi Jinping's policy is to make the uber wealthy (like Ma) in China poorer to diminish competition with him. Ironically, Ma is not much of an enemy of Xi in comparison to his other functional "comrades", like in his precious Rocket Force. That more small billionaires got richer is not much of a surprise either. The predatory crony capitalism of the CCP leads to that effect. How rich is Xi, by the way?
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  397. The words, "why are lower classes..", is part of the problem. Many of these security guards have unreasonable instructions. Many delivery drivers are student graduates under pressure. China is a pressure cooker. Once the massses realize who is at fault (the CCP)..
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  398. The CCP is it's worst enemy. Mainly the economy and trade is in 5 sectors; manufacturing, tourism, services, building and construction and resources export. (Food, minerals, and hydrocarbons). China is now weak in all these sectors, when prior to 2020 it was strong in four. Briefly explained loss of revenue from housing bubble burst has been thoughly explained in this channel, go see that so construction is partially explained. Tourism has died in 2020 due to aggressive Covid lockdowns then came back briefly early this year, now dying off (except BRI recipients, which are generally poor countries anyway and not open to mass tourism. Tourism is counted as an export). Manfacturing exports are down, partially due to a exodus out of China of these types of businesses from North America and Europe, but also from Japan and South Korea,but also from lacklustre imports from large overseas markets (the rest of the world with money is feeling an economic pinch with consumer goods, because economies there are not doing great either). As for services, The CCP has never been good at providing them to the general population. From hospitals to banking, this has always been a fragile sector in China. The Iron Rice Bowl has largely dissappeared under Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. Now, with increased military spending on high technology armaments and sensors, and on an ever increasing internal security forces, the CCP has even less money to spend on social services to keep the general population healthy and content. As for resources exports, China is a net importer of food, minerals and energy (whatever lies the CCP tells you about this). The anti-espionage laws have largely driven off existing foreign and potential investors into China. Other than infecting Covid around the world then going into a harsh lockdown for three years, this is the most stupid thing the CCP has done in recent times, and is a function of rabidily nationalistic xenophobia and totalitarian hubris. It will not catch genuine spies and defectors. Xi Jinping is a micromanaging mismanager and probably also a psychopath and criminal in a Hitlerian way, but also becoming more and more isolated within his government system as he purges all that oppose him within the upper echelons of the CCP and PLA. There is no economic relief in China for the forseeable future, as it desdends into a version of West North Korea.
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  399. The PLAN is submarine fodder to hostile submarines.This will force the PLAN to run convoys to protect themselves from submarine attacks. Convoy sailing requires considerable commander training and limits the individual tactical manoeuvre flexibility of warships. Furthermore, PLAN will be forced to transit in shallow coastal waters to reduce the submarine threat. This makes their ships more vulnerable to sea mines and land fired anti-ship missiles and hostile land based warplanes. XI Jinping likes the power of his navy but he is ignorant of the growing opposition to it and he and his admirals have no cohesive plan to deal with submarine threats of a growing coalition hostile navies and to even mitigate against being badly mauled by US carrier forces, other than not sailing PLAN carriers at all, and even then a docked carrier is an easy target. Because the PLAN rarely practise launch and recovery of aircraft from their carriers, one suspects that the PLAN have no confidence in their naval offensive or defensive capabilities of their carriers as they are hardly training at all. They are just useless targets for a hostile navy that would quickly destroy them.
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  400. Russians are very racist. As a whole, they despise East Asian people.
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  401. Xi Jinping, like Mao, Hitler, Stalin etc before him is a pyschcopath, or exhibits extreme sociopath tendencies, and like these group of evil and despicable men, has and is committing genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. The International Court of the Hague, the Netherlands, classifies Crimes Against Humanity as an international writ, and the perpetrators to front up to it. This actually happened in the case of the former President of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, versus Bosnia in this court. The 1998 Rome statitory of the International Law Court has also codified this article of international law (Xi Jinping of course will ignore it, unless he is captured by Interpol agents). These attributable Crimes Against Humanity, specifically of the forced imprisonment and genocide treatment of the Uygher ethnic group of people in Xinjiang, China,.This crime is specifically caused by the orders of Xi Jinping. Also attributable is the inheritances of crimes committed by previous leaders of the CCP and the one party CCP totalitarian state, in which Xi Jinping has allowed these practises to continue or failed to stop. Specifically, forced human organ harvesting, crimes against Falun Gong practictioners (and against other faiths) and against people of the autonomous region of Tibet and Inner (or Southern) Mongolia. The excessive lockdowns during the Covid19 pandemic might also constitute a new Crime Against Humanity by Xi Jinping. Noteworthy, these Crime Against Humanity laws stand in perpetuity against the individual and his underlings. Meaning, if you are a CCP official and you have committed Crimes Against Humanity under the orders of Xi (including orally transmitted by him or a higher order leader), then you are also indicated by these laws, and can be captured to face justice.
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  402. During the pandemic lockdown that the CCP created by releasing the Covid19 virus from a biolab in Wuhan, the CCP created a ridiculous scene of city officials handing food parcels along a "bucket brigade" of about 50 people along a road which a small truck could have driven down. There was no obstruction in the road. The red carpet in a field takes the cake in rural China. Unlike the Vietnamese, the CCP has neglected agriculture and support to peasants and farmers, including witholding mechanization and non-organochoride pesitcides as part of rural farm development. Now, China imports 24% of all it's foodstuffs. Note that Vietnam, a much smaller country than China, exports rice as a surplace.
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  403. Turning plowshares to swords, i.e. turning EVs into tanks and drones. I see the CCP's strategy.
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  404. Build it, and they won't come. That's the ghost cities of China.
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  405. Very well researched. China is one of maim epicentres of large earthquakes on Earth, and so should be constantly concerned with monitoring and early warning actions. Clearly they can work to mitigate earthquake deaths and imjuries. However, covering up and attempting to conceal the disaster makes it a magnitude worse for deaths and injuries. The CCP cannot do proper early warning and disaster releif anymore. They themselves, under Xi Jinping, are a catastrophy.
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  406. It's not well know, but glass usually blocks 70% of the sun's UV light band rays, with 100% of the carcinogenic UV-B and UV-C bands being blocked. Without a film on the glass.
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  407. China's Middle class? Soon what middle class? Perhaps this economic collapse, affecting the middle class the most, is a CCP plot. The hard-core Maoist CCP cadres surrounding Xi Jinping don't like the middle class and mercantilism; they are considered class enemies. The Maoist CCP only like lumpen proliteriat and rulers (themselves).
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  408. I agree with this, except that Russia is already a totalitarian fascist state ruled by the dictator Putin. Putin does not care about international law, but his own nationalist obsessions in trying to recreate the Soviet Union, by force if possible, where Ukraine is an old and important component of it in Putin's eyes. But according to many people in Ukraine, they want nothing to do with Russia. In so doing his war there, Putin engages in lawless acts of bombing and killing civilians in Ukraine, so he certainty does not care if China engages the Philippines with hostility.
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  409. Three words; Anti Espionage Laws. It's not that foreigners are spies, but the very broad nature of the Anti-Espionage Laws, is a problem and keeps foreigners away.
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  410. The CCP has flicked a switch is trying a charm offensive to the West. It works on the weak-minded, acquisitive to the expense of everything else, ignorant of the CCP and ideological socialism fellow travellers (in the West). Some better informed and educated viewers will be suspicious and skeptical about the CCP's about-face. Also this shows the hypocrisy of the CCP's about face. Face it seems, is less important than the threat of social instability from collapsing banks and high unemployment to the CCP. This really shows that the majority of people are idiots when it comes to politics and putting on political blinders.
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  411. The US Navy's mission (for approximately 70 years) has been to protect lawful trade on the high seas, and to defend vessels and crews freighting this trade. This has benefitted everyone, including the enemies of the USA, inlcluding the CCP. The PLAN (CCP navy) does not operate on this open, simple principal but on the operations of it's own crooked, flawed, and Byzantine politics. This will cause unnecessary, embarrassing and potentially compromising situations for the PLAN navy. And win them few friends.
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  412. China copies, borrows and steals everything from other developed countries, it does not effectively invent anything of it's own. Arguably, this is not due to Chinese culture, but to the corrupt and oppressive CCP culture. Insofar as aviation is concerned, i will not fly in a C919 jet knowingly, and if i happen to be in one, i will change my tickets to fly in an airline that does not use this jet. My safety is paramount when flying, and i have less confidence in the outcomes of testing aviation engineers in China, than in Western countries, due to systemic corrupt shortcut practiees by the CCP.
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  413. The Snake is choking the Dragon 😅
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  414. ​@backstabingpike Yes, but now they had to fight all over again. Because they failed to overthrow the evil CCP in 1989. A failure in history
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  415. There is so much corruption in China that the gold bullion held in their bank vaults doesn't mean much; so much is going to waste now (including the gold if it were released for military purposes). 2, In a war, the CCP would be trade blockaded, so gold does not help much if it can't trade with a peer industrial allies; it has none. 3. China is in a deep recession now and exchanging gold reserves for currency only inflates the RMB which decreases balance of trade (except for food and energy imports). Especially exports. 4. Buying food and petroleum is one thing. Getting it to a port in China without your ships being sunk by a hostile enemy during war is another. Calling the CCP's actions in world history as "contraversial" is an understatement. The party that Mao Zedong lead then inflicted himself like a virus on the population of 900 million (at the time) is still in power, being steered by a Mao-admiring revisionist. Chinese Criminal Party may have not much more history time left and a world war it might initiate helps it to go the same route as Nazi Germany, Showa Japan and the Soviet Union; into the dustbin of history,
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  416. The machines are not producing anything. There is no economy in replacing a working machine with a slightly better machine. Especially if this does nothing to productivity.
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  417. This economic depression in China has neen going on for a least 2 years ago (including pandemic lockdowns, it ma.y be 4 years). It simply gets worse, not better. I think it might remain depressed for years to come..
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  418. Dumping EVs on Europe? This transshipping from China to Europe is not about trade or profit. This is about a Potemkin showpiece piece of theater by the CCP. Like the real-estate industry in China, this will collapse soon too
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  419. Clearly Chinese or PLAAN Coast Guard ships are an extension of the PLAAN navy. So they are combat ships. Putting "coast guard" onto them is disingenuous..
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  420. Most China EV's are garbage; poorly made and poorly serviced. Over production drives down the import cost from China into other countries. At any rate, lithium concentrate costs have collapsed, probably due to a big fall of production of EV's in China.
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  421. This is erroneous. With pitchblende (uranium oxide mineral) in the black shale layers of the coal, unseparated burning of this layer in coal smoke in power plants undoubtably causes radioactive emissions from these plants, several hundred times greater than from nuclear reactor plants. China has 168 or more major official coal fired power plants (probably double that unofficially since the CCP regularly lies about it's statistics), equating to 10-20% power production by coal worldwide. China is also the largest polluter of coal emissions worldwide from unscubbed smokestacks (China coal smokestack emissions which have a particular chemical signiture have been detected as far away as Canada and the United States across the broad Pacific).
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  422. EV cause fires which can't be put out with standard fire hydrants. I see underground carpark and road tunnel fires killing hundreds or even thousands in China. While Chinese governments simply don't care about that and can suppress and cover it up, Western insurance companies are catching on (you can't lie about insurance accident statistics, or you go out of business). While EVs will probably soldier on for another decade in China, in the West people are discarding them as being expensive, not green and high in insurance costs and eventually unsafe.
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  423. The Munsters would have loved this car. 😉
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  424. I thought they would blame the Americans for leaving China (now the CCP's pet hate, other than the Japanese). The CCP surely has fabricated some kind of propaganda about this. This is because of the CCP's playbook is to do this. Divert the attention of upset people by selecting a scapegoat. Surely white foreigners in China now are feeling the ire of the population, steered by the lies of the CCP.
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  425. Ores is pronounced "oars" 😊
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  426. Not quite. Private capital has evaporated in China, never to return under CCP rule, unless stupid Western investors start handing them out money again. Public money, particularly in the hands of the Central government in China is unfortunately, very much alive. It's this money that keeps it's internal security forces and it's military industrial complex going
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  427. The sinking of a nuclear sub last year in the Yellow Sea was from personnel error, not from equipment malfunction.
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  428. Irish Astronauts; https://youtu.be/Nfz9O_mSY1U?si=y_pqNPLA_jqh1GBn
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  429. Cannot comment again here, even with a discussion encouraging not to develop nuclear weapons. This google AI is insane.. 😮
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  430. No rogue drone flying over any military base of any country is allowed. Adittionally, it is not allowed in or around civilian airports (and airfields) due to the risk of drone on plane collision. This act of flying drones in forbidden airspace carries penalties and jail sentences of many countries with various severities. If any person flies or plans to fly a civilian drone near military bases or an airport, then they are advised to contact the department of defence or civil aviation of that country to ascertain limits and penalties and to not fly nearby drones in high wind conditions, or to fly drones at all.
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  431. Much of face recognition technology has been stolen from Western sources. Hikvision for example. This has been used as instruments of surveillance and oppression by the CCP in Xinjiang and other places. There is only one bright spot in this dreary story of espionage and corruption of Western universities is that, having acquired the technology by secrecy or overtly by takeover (except for TikTok), the CCP has not succeeded in advancing and perfecting the technology much for their own uses. It seems that ignorance, ideology and corruption has held the CCP back from achieving this.
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  432. There may be no bottom to this deflationary event. Next step, basic survival
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  433. The lack of commerce laws and a judiciary to uphold it is partially reponsible for the predicament of dangerous counterfeit foods and beverages in China. Most Chinese know it's happening, but there is no recourse to sue these unscrupulous individuals making these dangerous fake products under such a corrupt government. Actually, living in China is duely hazardous it seems, and this is just from the daily risk of earing or drinking something bad.
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  434. The CCP always operatives a "Potemkin Village" perspective over many of it's major projects. It's this competitiveness, showiness and lack of accountabilty that makes many projects unfeasible, expensive and a massive money loss (the HST is a glaring example of hugely wasted funds and little benefits for ordinary Chinese, but not the only one). 5G is another, however this project has hidden (less visible) or diffuse infrastructure, so the CCP can again conveniently lie about "China being so great about this", when the reality is the other way.
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  435. I think US officers have to complete a degree in law, science, engineering or medicine before they are allowed a commission. Often this degree is offered to graduates from military colleges, such as West Point.
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  436. HCl is not all that bad, but it's a mineral acid that transports heavy metals. PVCs require toxic and carcinogenic selinium and cadmium as a component of the doped silicon wafer. Additionally, lead in the electronics solder. PVC waste disposal is particularly harmful to the environment if not done properly. The CCP does not regulate recycling properly, so waste or deplated PVC will pollute soils, surface and ground water in China.
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  437. Because there are a batch of red faced idiots there. The ones who bought BYD and thought they were getting a bargain and being green. Wrong on both points.
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  438. China doesn't or can't make advanced medical diagnostic equipment, and it needs Western components to keep it working? Well, well, well 😮
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  439. Without lower class civil servants being paid for their services, then local government will not work. Without local and regional governments in China working then unrest will increase in (urban) China as services like hygiene services, health, education and power in cities are cut. Since the majority of people in China, partially by the design of the CCP are now urbanized, this is a very serious issue.
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  440. The end of globalisation. This could end the CCP, but it will produce global stagflation & ultimately problems for the US economy as well. This level of solar panel tarrifs is exorbitant and unnecessary.
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  441. The CCP will bleed the population dry. Just like a Mafia boss with their hapless clients
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  442. The CCP drives showcase mega construction projects for a period of about 10 years before the workers and management is paid off (probably a third of the funds is wasted due to corruption). The economic costs and benefits are not even properly examined, like the construction of the HKZMB road bridge across the gulf between Hong Kong and Macao, which is a crumbling waste of money that is not even 5% of capacity use and is haemorrhaging money daily. This is the cause and effect of mega government projects with no economic or environmental cost balance taken into account. This new canal is the same showcase project; big, expensive, largely useless and causes foreseen and unforseen effect on the rivers and lakes of China with local climate changes and geo-seismic issues like the Three Gorges Dam.The psychopathic CCP does not even consider investing in the thing that drives civilization; it's people.
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  443. You are already enslaved; to Google or Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and so on. Remember, these companies were virtually unknown or non-existent 40 years ago and human beings got along fine without them.
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  444. 1.China athletes should be drug tested by an independent body, like everyone else, 2. Chinese athletes should be disqualified and forced to return their olympic medals if they test positive to a banned substance or later found to test positive, like everyone else, 3. The CCP does not allow the athletes of China to compete for their own glory but for a propaganda nationalist stunt to show the CCP's superiority (even if drugs were used). Hence, the CCP demeans their own athletes and debases the olympics through their own cheating drug abuses and politics.
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  445. Fake foods and rotten food can creep into the pre-made meals components, fed to pupils at school. The risk of this is bacterial food poisoning and gastral and cargenogenic complications from fake foods, which affects kids worse because of their smaller gastrointestinal tract and higher metabolism. Parents should be sending their kids to school with their own pre-packed food at home. That's what I had. Canteens at school for me were optional and I had to bring lunch money to buy the products from the canteen. In my day, few of these foods sold were healthy. They were similar to foods sold from fast food venues and bakeries, I.e. loaded with carbohydrates and fats.
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  446. Undoubtedly, the USAF has comprehensive classified information from all of the PLAAN jets, I.e. complete avionics data gained from human intelligence and remote sensor monitoring. Whereas, I am less certain that the PLAAF has achieved the sane level of intelligence from their opponents, or if they have, they make up fiction like the "White Emperor" from despair.
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  447. They drive trucks into the gully breach as a blockade. Does not seem rational to me. Why not load the trucks with rubble and rocks?
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  448. I don't know why the CCP does continual sabre-rattling over Taiwan "unification". China, if it find itself in a world war, it can be blocka😢ded and starved of food and energy and minerals. Of course, the CCP will starve the population while it feeds the army with food and energy. But with the chaos in China now, under wartime conditions, will be even more chaotic.
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  449. Large factories are closing. Hmm, all part of Xi's "common poverty, sorry prosperity" plan.
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  450. The CCP was a totalitarian political party from the outset. Similar to the Bolsheviks, but the Bolsheviks were 30 years earlier than the CCP revolution.
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  451. Conservatively, the PLAAN fighting a major air war against the US and it's East and South Asian allies in the Western Pacific, i would predict a loss ratio of PLAAN warplanes of 4 to 1. Which would get worse if the ground based radar and SAM air defence in China were also knocked out.
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  452. You can't beat the world's #1 econonmy by unilateral acts of war. BRICS is just a sham. Russia's tanking economy is evidence of this. Yes, Russia has sneaked through oil shipments to keep it's head above water (particularly to india), but at high shipping cost and hence low margins of profit. China does not have this option.
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  453. The CCP gains some short term advantage in the Red Sea, at the cost of long term economic advantages or benefits. Mainly because it's politics is myopic and ideologically propaganda driven.
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  454. China is having a US style 1930's depression from nearly a century ago. Ignorance of history is a trap.
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  455. The PLA faulty armour components is it's opponent secret weapon. The PLA faulty tanks are the best ally to the enemies of the PLA on the battlefield.
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  456. Where has all the people now? Good point. Covid was very bad in China, but surely not 500 million people have died from it there? The Covid survivors are out of money, period. Soon they will be poorer than in Mao's tme. It's correct observation that the Red Dynasty's time (the CCP) will be over soon, and it hasn't even lasted 100 years yet 😢 Plenty other Chinese dynasties have lasted a lot longer than that. Perhaps it will be succeded by the White Dynasty (Taiwan. The sun on the flag of the ROC is white)?
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  457. Unemployed college graduates always lags employment opportunities. It's the other way round when the economy is booming and businesses are crying out for graduates. The whole thing is a huge farce and scam; devestates the hopes of young people and i'm not from China and i have several degrees.
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  458. China's birth rate is now significantly lower than Japan and South Korea.
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  459. NIO; Need Insurance Overburden
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  460. It's possible to love your country, but to hate the CCP. The one child policy is another form of democide, orchested by the CCP. Now, they want three kids to compensate for the demographic decline the population of China is in. Added to the steep economic decline, no young women understandably wants kids. You can only manipulate people so many times before they get fed up. This is all the CCP's fault; they created this enormity. It's pure hypocisy.
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  461. I agree with this assessment.
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  462. A lot of medium to large manufacturing companies in China are SOI's meaning taxpayer's money built it and then money was wasted. It's not what the people in the West understand, that a lot of taxpayer money in China does not go enough into schools and roads and hospitals. Certainly not into social security, but in useless zombie enterprises like this, which would normally be private enterprise in other countries, One day soon, all the taxpayer money will run out because the CCP, by and large, does not borrow funds from foreign capital; it's too scared of too many strings attached. Lithium batteries built in China are also problematic; many of these batteries are poorly built leading to excessive battery fires. For EVs, because of the large size of these batteries, this is a very serious hazard. China has under-productive and over-worked workers. These workers, futhermore, are disinterested in quality control because of coercion leading to systematic poor manufacturing quality control issues and a culture of corruption and cutting corners. This is partly a function of totalitarian societies where virtual slavery exists.
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  463. Children flicking through books are learning nothing, it's a scam to get gullible parents to pay for sham classes by scammers.
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  464. The RMB will soon be worth less than than a piece of toilet papee or Zimbabwe dollars. They won't print the zeros though. Just like the similar history of early Weimar republic or Venezuela.
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  465. Trump's election may speed up conflict between China and the US. This is more in detriment to the CCP: The relatively recent purging of senior PLA generals (e.g. in the Rocket Force) and a PLAAN admiral by Xi Jinping needs more time to rectify than pressure by Trump allows it.
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  466. Marriage is a burdensome tradition, set by the family.and the tribe. Really, it's as mundane as a business contract, and gift giving money seems to be part of the Chinese tradition, but this is darkened by greed and acquisitiveness in modernity. Eventually out-of-control greed and acquisitiveness are bedfellows of social divide and eventually anarchy, revolution and war.
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  467. With medium and long range missiles, firing so far down-range requires a superlative guidance system even ballistically to hit the target. The so-called carrier killers are only effective at stationary carriers (I.e. when docked), provided they know where they are. A carrier fleet group on sea patrol does not steam in a straight line from point A to point B, because of the submarine risk and targeting risk. Hence the carrier is unpredictably under vectoring movement up to 30 knots (55 kilometres per hour) and is difficult to target, even by a ballistic missile arriving minutes after it launched (at long range). In 4 minutes the carrier has already moved 3.66 kilometres from where it was before. Missing this far is a big miss, and this is assuming a line, not an arc like it would be, which would make the miss far worse. Furthermore, radar from ships, planes and radar stations can detect the flight of ballistic missiles, so the carrier fleet group likely will have have time to evade the incoming ballistic missiles and launch countermeasures. Launching dozens of expensive mid or long range ballistic missiles at once might improve the chance of hitting, but if you've delivered over half the missiles in your arsenal and if you have missed the carrier then this is as good as lost the sea battle.
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  468. Blatent lies. Why keep lying indefinitely about the economy? It just harms your long-term viability.
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  469. This is very interesting, and I suspected it, but I did not quite anticipate the depth of corruption in the PLA. In any large organization, there is always individuals who seek (financial) advantage for themselves, in which the (outwardly) upright or professional nature of the institution is a cloak for their greed and base instincts. For example, for the corrupt rank promotion is mearly a means to gain a higher salary and perks; not an echelon of professionalism to advance one's competitive capabilities and war making skills. This may be the case for a few corrupt individuals, for example, in the US armed forces, but they are in the minority in a competitive professional system with a legal framework of behaviour, will ultimately sideline, call them out or eject them. This seems to be the mirror opposite in the PLA. The upright officers who are professionally interested in martial skills are sidelined whereas the corrupt and base (unprofessional) officers are promoted into arenas of great responsibility, which they use to their own personal enrichment, not to advance leadership, tactical and strategic skills and an esprit de corps. Hence, the PLA is weakened in defence and offence by these long standing issues, and is likely not to fight effectively and efficiently if it came to an actual war.
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  470. Shallow water operations are much tougher for submarines (regardless of size) due to several key reasons; water depth, detection and mines. With regard to sea mines; deep waters are very difficult to mine, whearas shallow waters can be easily mined (at different depths), with the minefield being tethered in place on the sea floor. Submarines are particularly vulnerable to hitting mines where one mine can rapidly sink the submarine and kill the entire crew. To avoid mines, the sub must turn on it's active sonar to find them, making the, immediately visible to surfacce ASW hunters. Secondly shallow depth. A submarine often escapes detection by running to deep waters. This is not possible in shallow water environments. Thirdly, undewater detection. Despite shallow water echoes of active sonar, submarines are most easily detected at shallow depth by sonar. Deep waters include layers of differing densities which if between the sonar and the submarine, makes the submarine more difficult to detect. This is 101 of submarine warfare. US and US allies submarines mostly will be working in deeper waters off the continental shelf of China for this reason.
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  471. Xi Jinping's family probably bought his chemistry PhD. I doubt that he genuinely earned it, He's not very bright. That withstanding, not even a genius can save the CCP now.
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  472. Now construction projects in Hong Kong have become truly CCP'ised, I.e. subject to labour and building material delays due to financing woes, building site corruption, obstructive government bureaucracies and the directors running away with the boodle when the money comes. Welcome to mainland China brothers.
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  473. All political and scientific comments on Google are suppressed. Not hate speech or bad language but just political insights. I'm getting over this platform.
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  474. The media blackout of these events in China, ultimately causes more deaths and injuries, not less. Lying about it as well fails to rationally address the problem leading to more of these incidences.
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  475. I think this is noticed by the Japanese. Those Japanese who ignore it and go to China anyway, do that at their own peril. The CCP lies outrageously about this anti-Japan propaganda because it's totalitarian ideology needs a scapegoat. This is much more now about that than about World War 2. In schools in China, children are regularly indoctrinated about it despite the government's denials. I've seen quite a lot of different school hate Japan ceremonies in China that have been taped & I'm not looking for it. This b**llshit must stop, particularly in schools and particularly to kids.
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  476. I already knew that the CCP's aircraft carriers were junk and sitting ducks for any powerful international navy. For example, any one of the 40 year old USN Nimitz class carriers can destroy the entire PLAN carrier fleet in a few hours (if the PLAN destroyers can't offer meaningful screening protection). Even the Japanese SDF navy helicopter carriers with VTOL F-35s can sink any one of the PLAN carriers. The USN probably has better intelligence on the Shandong class carriers than in the public domain. It's becoming increasingly clear that the PLAN is more than a decade off from seriously challenging the USN in a fleet engagement.
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  477. Talking about banks and governments in China, is that large banks ARE the government. Now the consumption and loan crunch has come, the banks will continue to drain the home owning consumer until they have nothing left. This turns China in a consumer dead wasteland, when the CCP bank directors laugh then escape China with hundreds of millions of stolen dollars. The CCP is a kleptocracy.
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  478. The amount of nitrocellulose is large, correct, but the primary shell explosive is probably not nitrocellulose; it is not brisant enough to cause a lot of damage. You would need at least primary shell high brisant explosive like TNT to do that. The primary base chemical to make TNT is benzine (and nitric acid). Russia has plenty of benzine. Another weapons grade primary explosive is RDX, which is more powerful than TNT. Have to see if China is exporting the raw chemical ingredients to make that to Russia as well.
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  479. Xi Jinping's superpower is to completely paralyse any organization under him through fetid paranoia. Which is.. China
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  480. This might be the largest plunge of any country's economy, EVER!
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  481. China might try mass conscription during a shooting war. While this dilutes the combat effectiveness of China's divisions, it does supply manpower and cannon fodder.
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  482. China will risk famines. It overall produces only 2/3 of it's food supply because of aging of rural population, population movement to cites and soils and water degradation and industrial and (banned in the West) organochloride pesticide pollution. The CCP has no backup for a food shortage crises
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  483. China is wrecking EV markets globally, because the global consumer eventually gets caught in the scam and fewer and fewer people will buy them out of skepticism and safety issues. This is not such a bad thing. Chinese made lithium batteries catch uncontrollable thermal runaway fires far too often, which can't be extinguished by normal fire hydrants because the fire provides it's own oxygen (I,e. Could burn in an airless environment, like the moon). This makes storage of EVs in places like underground and high rise carparks highly risky. Let alone in garages in houses. The additional predatory market practises by CCP China and their poor and fake safety features in EVs in comparison to how cars could be quality built, is also hampering EV sales. Eventually, selling EVs will die. No one will want them. This is already happening. Additionally, hybrid vehicles will also face a similar decline after EVs have had their day, for similar safety concern and poor quality build control reasons. I already know a person (not me) who has bought a foreign exported BYD EV, and the battery has died within 20,000 kilometres of use.
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  484. Sadly, that's happening in the West as well. No critical and creative thinking, just accept their bullshit like swallowing glasses of diarrhea.
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  485. No creativity left in the West either. You get screwed down if you have a political opinion or an original idea. So different from the 1980s now.
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  486. The CCP is so reactionary. If you're Japanese in China, please leave as you and your family are not safe anywhere in China. No matter what the China government says to reassure you, because they lie. Young school children in China are regularly taught to hate Japanese and attack Japanese effigies in mock displays of violence. It's an act of diabolical propaganda to brainwash children this way, but it is unfortunately all too common. This has an overall affect on more and more Japanese being attacked in China, particularly now Japanese children.😢
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  487. Incoherent badly worded English mumbo-jumbo. Even if it was perfectly spelled and grammatically correct it would still be hokum. China Observer is not paid by the US government to make propaganda. This is the CCP model of doing things; hence this accusatory projection. I'm neither American or a supporter of the US government, but I can tell where lies are told. China Observer is made by Chinese Diaspora that HATE what the CCP has done to China and what it is doing to China. Who are the true patriots then? The ones who worry about China or the ones burying China in debt and badly built ruins, Crimes Against Humanity in Xinjiang and Tibet and sabre-rattling global war aggression starting on Taiwan? The CCP, that's who.
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  488. BYD; Boy You're Diddled :-) This price war sales technique by the CCP is not sustainable. EVs are over supplied for the consumer market, worldwide. People are finally grasping that the EV technology is not green, and electricity is expensive and not enough charge points, so why have it? The best thing that could happen is that BYD could buy out Tesla. I despise them both.
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  489. The CCP propaganda aimed at Western audiences are mostly not very good. Probably because Westerners generally have not had ideological education (the CCP installs this from early childhood education), and freer media so have a better educated and skeptical view of the absurdities that the CCP push out to either cover up it's crimes or create calumny and division in the West for it's own ends.
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  490. I beleive that Li Keqiang was deliberately poisoned and this action is consistant with the policies of Xi Jinping's control and punishment regime. For example, in Xinjiang before Xi csme to power, the Uyghers were oppressed, but they were not thrown en-mass in concentration camps and prohibited from praying or practising their religion of Islam. It has become much more oppressive in Xinjiang under Xi Jinping's rule, so i implicate him for genocide Crimes Against Humanity there. Like Adolf Hitler,Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong before him, it is within Xi's appalling low legal and moral standards to assassinate a potential rival, like Li Keqiang.
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  491. I have quite a badly cracked screen on my (undisclosed brand) tablet. But it is still usable. The tablet is not a Chinese brand one though. 😂
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  492. Nope, it was political theater at it's best. Without declaring war, Xi was humiliated and snubbed by the Vietnamese high officials.You misunderstand the long and strained relationship between Vietnam and China for centuries, because they are both Communists, don't at all like each other. Vietnam was the last country actually military invaded by the CCP in 1979, so no friendship lost there.
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  493. If a Virginia class nuclear sub was able to get within 6 nautical miles of a PLAAN carrier group without detection; it is well within torpedo range of this submarine (which is 40 kilometres. 6 n.m. is only 11.1km off). If the sub wanted to attack these ships, many would be sunk including the carrier. This kind of shows up the poor capabilites of ASW in the PLAAN operations..
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  494. Do u think soldiers will be raising pigs again, like they did in Deng Xiaoping's time?
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  495. Protect trees but not the homeless poor. Hmmmmm, hypocrisy
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  496. While I approve of public transport system because it is : 1, Safer (usually, although in China's case I am unsure) and, 2. Produces considerably less carbon emissions per passenger kilometre than driving a car. Public transport ticket prices are usually subsidized in many cities where they are deployed around the world. This is because the government wishes to encourage riding public transport as a green measure than driving a car, so keeps the ticket prices down than actually profitable. Generally, public transport is a good idea (much safer and greener than EVs) except many train lines and bus routes are inappropriately located meaning people have to cycle or drive considerable distances to the stations from their houses.
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  497. The statement that the "Dutch embargo may be too late to stop China's techological development", is not really correct. The embargoes have only been in place since 2021 (Biden's chip security act) and the Huawei Mate phones have been disassembled and found to be using older chip technology than current Apple iphones. With EUV out of the loop, Huawei and other companies can no longer compete with Apple and Samsung. As time goes by and EUV lithography is witheld from China the CCP will fall further and further behind in small nanometer node chips. Already Huawei cannot compete with Apple or Samsung (reported by this channel), and soon will fall behind second tier phone makers like Ericsson as well. The totalitarian ultra-nationalist stupidity us on display from the CCP as it's jets buzz a country that could, and now will never, help it advance in it's coveted chip technology.
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  498. The Chinese have ingenious ways to overcome these internet impositions organized for totalitarian oppression by the CCP. Fake IDs, VPNs, hacking CCP government computers (which in China are not all that secure), multiple phones, ID ghosting and so on. However, the CCP is getting good at clamping down on these loopholes, regrettably. Thoughtcrime; think of the enormous cost of policing this by the CCP.
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  499. "Whole process deomcracy" is an oximoronic falsehood. Where are national ballots? Where are competing political parties and leaders in that ballot? The CCP is a totalitarian one-party state, there is no democracy.
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  500. Why salt? It's as stupid as people stocking up on toilet paper in the early Covid outbreaks. Radioactive iodine-131 has a half life of only 8 days, meaning it decays away to nothing in a few months. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant meltdown happened in 2011; over 12 years ago, and it gave notice before release. Radioactive tritium released from the Fukushima nuclear plant was below international AEA nuclear waste water thresholds. Yet, China regularly releases untreated nuclear waste water from it's nuclear plants into the sea without notice. Probably several times the IAEA safety threshold. I am glad that the CCP carries on about this, it is about time that the nuclear waste water from China's nuclear reactors get tested in the seas around China so as to measure the harm they do to Pacific Ocean sea life ecology in the Western Pacific.
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  501. "Whilte Emperor," more like "White Elephant". The CCP is up to it's old tricks again. Faking military technology so that it can gain kudos from Little Pinks at home and admiration from drooling idiots abroad. When this quickly can be seen through, the CCP will rapidly move to some other Scifi fictional tech. Like hover tanks. For the sensible, the more outlandish the least likely. The funniest thing about this is that the CCP is copying Holloywood Fiction.
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  502. The rocket launches from China seem to use dangerous hypergolic hydrazine fuel; with highly toxic exhaust smoke. In Western rockets, this type of fuel is only used in space. This is the "care" that rocket launches in China exhibit. Also most rocket launches in China occur in populated areas, where there is otherwise plenty of desert or seas to launch rockets down range over. Another reason to despise CCP rocket launches.
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  503. The CCP does not give a s**t about ordinary Chinese. Only the dumb nationalists there believe the propaganda of the CCP. However, as a totalitarian state, they are prepared to waste the lives of millions of their own people for no military gain. It's a criminal act that the West can't compete with. We've stopped tolerating huge military losses for nothing since World War 1.
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  504. China is a devolved kleptocracy. Luckily, the creditors are not a brutal mafia or triads, but are they? In overseas places where the mega-rich setlle, such as Canada, Australia, Britain etc. have thousands of United Work Front operatives, CCP spies, non-Chinese CCP sympathisers and so on. These operatives are only too willing to commit acts of terrorism against these mega-rich if they have fallen foul of the regime. Leaving China is not a vote of confidence..
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  505. Authorised service centres. That is exactly what Tesla does as well. BYD has mimicked the after sales repair component of Tesla, which many EV car buyers are unhappy about (in Tesla).. BYD; Bygone in a Year and a Day.
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  506. A lot of dissappointed young people in China now. Dissapointment leads to anger once you've realized it's a swindle. So don't follow the rules. Educate yourself where possible. Your parents opinions don't matter much because they don't fully understand your predicament. The CCP is largely responsible for the dispicable state of economic affairs. Only representative government matters in China now.
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  507. Farmers don't have any money in China anyway. So they can't invest and get harvested by the CCP. Hence the CCP thieves are scraping the bottom of the barrel by asking even for these small investors to screw. CCP stock markets are like throwing all your money down the well.
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  508. Huawei's laptop looks almost exactly like an Asus laptop i bought over 4 years ago. Old technology.
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  509. It's good that the CCP prohibits the use of iphone in government employees, because if it makes it easier for CCP to hack Huawei Mate phones, then this will be the case for the NSA to hack CCP government officials Huawei or ZTE phones as well. It is reputed that the Huawei phones are easy to hack (precisely because the CCP wants to be able to do this so it can monitor it's own citizens). Then foreign spies can get in the same way. Each time the CCP tries some new security measure, it shoots itself in the foot. Incompetent. Ha ha ha 😂
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  510. The AI is censoring google
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  511. Shanghai is totally shut down, and it's economic collapse is near fait accompli. This is what absolutely no-one wants, even non-involved observers who are only moved by compassion, and not their bank account. With near indefinite lockdowns and record profits with those CCP high officials who have stakes in the companies that make Covid testing kits and vaccinss, then the time is fast approachng for the lumpen proletariet (in Marx's own words), to make revolution against communism and their running dogs and puppet masters!
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  512. China is a great jail. No wonder they're escaping from it.
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  513. I really don't think that the dire state of the China economy is of all that much interest to Xi Jinping, shocking that might be to Western banks. He can make fiat possibly decisions as dictator, possibly more easily if China generally is impoverished. This is part of his plan in becoming a total socialist state, creating common prosperity (common government property) and total control over the population while he wages an international shooting war. While the techology level is obviously linked to the health of the economy, and obviously improves military technology as well. There was a failure a few years ago while Xi Jinping tried to promote high end autonomous chip production (another scam oppertunity for charlatans). In the end, the lives of hundreds of millions of Chimese really don't mean much to Xi, as he gathers his military forces and pushes back on the Philippines (for the moment). However, Xi's ultimate fall-back position is to invade Taiwan.
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  514. Messing with the Netherlands when ASML is their most beneficial asset to the CCP? Poorly played CCP, very poorly played.
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  515. Venezuela-style stagflation (on steriods) about to strike China
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  516. Who was touting the "excellence" of a "managed" economy of China 10 years ago? The CCP is at the beginning of their end. The CCP can only reach to more and more extreme idology. Most of the people getting rich during the Jiang Zemin & Hu Jintao era have fled with their millions.
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  517. Can't have put this likelihood better myself. This is made even worse if the CCP indoctrinated Chinese treat their African co-workers as some kind of menial wogs in their own country, and Africans as morons. This monomania of contempt cannot be further from reality, Africa is a young demographic with improving education standards and young Africans will realize the economic and ecological harm the CCP is doing to their fisheries, in the first instance, in the Atlantic Ocean and elsewhere. Having likely been treated as wogs by the latest round of fair skinned colonisers from China (although not all Chinese will act this arrogantly), it seems that Africa and Africans getting done over yet again by a new wave of Eurasian colonisers.
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  518. Geopolitical reality check; the IJN in 1941-42 was a real and potent threat to the USN and then had about double the carriers in the Pacific, with better long-range planes in the A6M Zero, better trained naval pilots at the beginning of the Pacific War and better torpedoes (the USN Mark 14 torpedo was a real lemon). Hence it was within the means of the IJN to win the naval war against the USN in 1942, even though that didn't happen; victory and staying power of the USN in that year was a close-run thing against the might of the IJN. Computer simulation wargaming warning of an imminent defeat of the USN in a war with China is both ridiculous and a political statement (pressuring congress to cough up more money for the navy through panic). The case with the PLAN is that it is not even near the threat of the IJN in 1942 despite there being more warships in the PLAN, especially destroyers, than the USN. The PLAN is barely a blue water navy, it's carriers are sitting ducks and it is hampered by lack of nuclear powered ships and long-range capabilities, training for it's sailors and in anti-submarine warfare. Furthermore, thanks to the control freak mentality of Xi Jinping, it's admirals (unlike Isorocku Yamamoto) are not at all tactical innovators with a rigid command structure at the behest of one-man's decision (Xi's), which is a gridlocked one, especially in a war. The PLAN has nothing but a reactionary plan to low-level harass the Philippines Coast Guard and navy, but even that plan is backfiring against them.
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  519. Yes, the fake gold is a funny one. I already said it. Gold only immediately pays for fuel and food supplies, and not their debt, not even to dent it a bit. But during war, you can buy it internationally but you can't ship it. It gets sunk on the way and the PLAN do not have enough power and global reach to even think of winning a war against NATO.
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  520. EMP pulses are extremely hard to achieve in salt water while submerged. Hence, I doubt that the CCP has the EMP power in a submerged submarine to bring down helicopters. I also doubt they have a secret weapon to achieve this
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  521. So, you buy gold that they later steal. Again, the CCP fails to protect consumers . I'm not even discussing fake gold here. You're an idiot if you buy gold (or silver, platinum or palladium) in China. Including jewellery.
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  522. What is really interesting is the current CCP's belligerent ultra-nationalist focus of forced unification with Taiwan (re-unification is wrong; the CCP has never ruled this island) has focussed critical thinkers and Chinese students on the society and government of Taiwan as a whole; a mainly ethnic Chinese country. To their suprise they discover that life for even the ordinary person in Taiwan is a great deal better off than any ordinary person in mainland China, and that society is freer and better ordered there, and people are overall significantly wealthier with effective governnment social support programs that don't exist in China. By this stark contrast of their own situation in China with Taiwan, the students and critical thinkers wake up to the corruption, inepitude, waste of resources and stark dystopian poverty which is most of mainland CCP China now, and prefigures the oppression there. Even Hong Kong now. This makes Taiwan look good and (mainly) Chinese (the native Taiwanese, a Pacific islander people, also get benefits and inclusions in democratic Taiwan). Why attack it then? Also, why historically shouldn't Taiwan rule China now? It's a 70 year unresolved issue from the Chinese Civil War, which the Communists won at the time, while the KMT nationalists retreated to Taiwan. Who will ultimately rule China? One now hopes it will eventually be Taiwan. That's what the CCP really fears.
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  523. Is Rubio becoming Secretary of State? That is probably the most powerful government position after the President, especially in foreign relations. Well, well, well. Might be the end of the CCP. 😊
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  524. Kerosene is the least dangerous product in tanker transported tainted cooking oil.
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  525. China is starting to go down the road of the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic. That era led to the rise of the Nazi party in Germany in the 1930s. There is inflation now in the West too. Inflation in foods and energy is nearly a precursor to either an economic shock or economic collapse as consumption dies, business foreclose en-mass and unemployment soars and negative economic growth occurs, This has already happened in China. Adding hyperinflation (stagflation) by over-printing money to this mix makes everything worse without economic fundamentals being addressed..
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  526. I don't think that Xi Jinping wants to be ejected from SWIFT, but is ultimately prepared to take that plunge if he can consolidate military power (I.e, the PLA) into his hands and to guarantee importing energy stocks from Russia. Which is not fully prepared but is being built.
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  527. The CCP is a corrupt, ideological kleptocracy. Pure and simple.
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  528. Point 3. Doubtful, very doubtful that any of it reflects realism. Shows the level of Machiavellian level of decision making through a totalitarian myopia prism from the Kims (if true). Historically, the Russo-Chinese alliance makes little sense except the North Korean hostility towards China. That makes sense. Russia grabbed a lot of land off the faltering Qing empire in the North-East in the late nineteenth century (hundreds of thousands of square kilometres) and stripped erstwhile Japanese factories in Manchuria in 1945-46 (they did this on East Germany too), not giving the CCP any share of these reparations (since by then, the CCP were in control of Manchuria on the Chinese side). Hence, Russia and China are not "natural allies". It's just a cynical plot cooked up by Xi Jinping and Putin. It really shows the level of international isolation and pariah status of these three leaders.
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  529. Stagflation is starting to hit China. The Soviet Union also went through this. In order to try to counter this, the central Soviet government subsidized the wages of the urban proliteriat, but did not try to deal with the root cause of the problem economically. So people bought bread at non-inflated prices but the flour supply did not increase, so bakers quickly ran out of bread. People in the end queued for hours or even days for a loaf of bread. Shortages occurred in most kinds of consumable products and most shop shelves were empty. The hyper-expensive black market flourished (for those who could afford it) even when the Soviet government tried cracking down on it. Like all "good" dictatorships, the Soviet Union tried autarky, but could not manufacture all househould products and cars at the same quality and quantity. Without free markets, most Soviet citizens waited for years to own a car, even when a partial down payment initially occurred.
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  530. It's collapsing. All the signs are there, have patience for the end
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  531. Trump will achieve nothing if he meets with Putin. I think the Russiaans will compromise very little so having a summit meeting with Putin will be a waste of time..
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  532. A great big Ponzi scheme then.
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  533. If you're Buddhist and you believe in reincarnation, wish that you don't get reborn in China.
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  534. Covid19 origined in Wuhan; i would suggest escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Once again, that which drags down China and the Chinese comes from within, usually not from the outside.
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  535. Appalling. Take your kids out of school if bullying occurs and it's not being addressed or prevented. It's the Cultural Revolution all over again.
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  536. CCP means the Communist Criminal Party. The CCP is so desperate for funds that it is stealing money from fat bank accounts, hence becoming a kleptocracy. Surely the China banking industry will collapse after this. Banks work on trust. If the CCP banks are not trustworthy, then then the China financial sector will completely collapse.
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  537. The CCP presides over the moribund economy of Macao and Hong Kong..
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  538. Musk's performances are dubious since Cybertruck, but this does not mean that all American technology mirror's Musk's. This is a mistake that the CCP makes; extrapolates Musk's show pieces to all American technology. This might only be true for themselves.
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  539. Yes. And there may be civil war following that. China's a very large (and despite the CCP developing a monoculture), diverse country with connections to the world much greater than even under Deng Xiaoping. Sever this connection (as happening now under extended lockdowns) and their whole house of cards come crashing down.
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  540. The more the CCP emphasises reform, the less and less reform happens.
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  541. Maybe the part time "cops" can be paid to overthrow the provincial government of reds and proclaim an independant democratic republic.
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  542. Could the loud bangs and shaking be secret PLA underground nuclear weapons testing, despite China signing a nuclear test ban treaty? Notable seismic signature if that is the case and can be detected in other countries seismographs.
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  543. Patriotic sentiment does not make good technology
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  544. Russia has really pushed into Chinese territory (and Korean and Mongolian territory) in the Far East since the Qing Dynasy. China's longest land border is with Russia, and they even last fought a short war against each other in 1969 over Ussuri river island (Zhenbao Usland), which the Chinese took after a 7 month war which nearly lead to nuclear conflict. The Russians rode on the coat-tails of the belligerent British and French in the Second Opium war when the Summer Palace in Beijing was looted and burned down by British and French soldiers in reprisal for envoys getting murdered by Qing officials. The Russians gained 400,000 kilometres of land off the hapless Qing in the punitive Convention of Peking treaty in 1860. Russia gained a lot of land in North-East Asia (land that was partially previously under the Qing and partly settled by Koreans and Manchus), oddly without firing a bullet. This was land, 4/5 the size of France.
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  545. One factor missed, China haa few high tech workers with developed specific skills. This was glaringly obvious when the CCP tried poaching Taiwanese chip workers a few years ago. High tech workers are mainly a function of quality university education (particular in science and engineering), the standards of professional associations and industrial capabilities. China is fairly weak on all of these (it only mainly produces a lot of low to.medium quality manufactured products in volume). Furthermore, the CCP has developed a bourgeois contempt for professionalism since the time of Mao. This reflects on their industrial culture of cutting corners (lowering product quality) and worker exploitation.
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  546. This adds to the economic decoupling. Also like Hitler, Xi Jinping is throwing the dice (he has snake eyes so far). Decoupling might be part of his desperate war plan to overthrow Taiwan by force. I wonder how the generals in the PLA and admirals in the PLAN feel about that with so much potentially at stake? Fight and lose. Perhaps like Hitler, Xi has serious opposition to his war plans in the military.
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  547. These older children and adolescents shouldn't be so pressured all the time. Pressuring children this way is counterproductive. I remember cying and having a tantrum at 16 over calculus, that my non-Asian mother pressured me to do, but i can only remember happening once and i later did Physics at university. This actually is counterproductive. Sure, kids should do their homework, but their waking lives should not be mainly consumed by that. Healthy and socially smart adolecents have a mix of schoolwork, sports and other productive activities that are not necessarily competitive with some social time. Happy adolescents are prodictive adolecents, the opposite not productive and traumatised. Guess what, university does not produce careers, the individual does that, not the system. China does not teach kids to be smart, but to be robotic-like ciphers. This does not lead to any creative spark or advancement in society. The creative people in China are sidelined and rampant copyism from more creative cultures work is the norm in China (such as stealing from the West). This starts in schools unfortunately. Note, the West is no paradise and has many social issues too, but the 3-3-16 are so incompetant and tyrannical that they make China backwards.
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  548. The CCP will clamp down on "illegal" emigrants, escaping from China. There soon may be an outright ban to leave China through airports etc, except for Senior CCP officials, as in the time of Mao Zedong. Really, Xi Jinping has orchestrated much of this, because of the ideology of the CCP and Xi Jinping's admiration of Mao. Mao Zedong was one of the most ferocious tyrants in history; per capita murding through democide and mismanagement at least 40 million people during the Great Leap Forward and then up to 2 million died during the Cultural Revolution, many commiting suicide through fierce oppression, but some being murdered without fair trial. Only Pol Pot has murdered more of his own people per capita in the 1970s during mass class-based pogroms; depopulating Phnom Penh then starvation and beatings to death. How we "admire" any of these men is a mystery and speaks deeply of an underlying urge for violence and envy in the human psyche, which the CCP and people like Mao take full advantage of.
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  549. An excellent herse. Why didn't they make more of them over a year ago? You could have had booming sales during the opening-up Covid death pandemic in November-December 2022, getting the millions of coffins to the crematorium.
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  550. And the Japanese are thrilled by this, not.
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  551. I thought it mad and largely ineffectual to drag a lifelike model if the USS Gerald R Ford through a track in the desert. This is not simulating a large warship at full speed at sea, so why do that? Any moving target can be dragged along a track and be easily intercepted. This concept is not thought out well. It's just a propaganda piece to impress the shallow rubes.
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  552. Ju is one of the relative few who see the 3-3-11 what it is. A violent, criminal totalitarian movement, which actively uses violent suppression.
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  553. Heist by the government on small (successful) but unprotected businesses, i.e. fat pickings. This is kleptocratic unlawful government. This is the CCP, with no habeas corpus.
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  554. Local and provincial governments in China are bankrupt. Right now with no relief in sight. What the heck will happen next? Nothing good probably.
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  555. China; hero to zero in 30 years. Must be something to do with it's autocratic totalitarian government?
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  556. Nuclear meltdown with nuclear power plants are also a real risk in China
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  557. Europe is potentially weaker than the United States in enforcing very high tarrif rates on imported goods from China. This is because Europe has to have the unanimous agreement of 27 states in the EU, something that the US President doesn't have to worry about much. This unanimous rule in the EU provides China with a wedge to prise apart any EU member states with bribes and false promises, something that the EU council is very aware of. However, the EU member states have largely drawn ranks from the effects of China's alliance with Russia and reports of Chinese made drones and other military equipment in Ukraine, as well as Chinese mercenaries fighting with Russia. Hence, Xi Jinping's push to ally with Russia has largely backfired, and will continue to backfire. If China instead remained neutral in the Ukraine conflict, it could have benefitted much more from a benevolent EU and may have even drawn a wedge between the EU and the US. Unlikely now, even with Trump back in power.
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  558. If the UUS Ford has operational issues, the PLAAN carriers have stop inertia. The Ford carriers are also nuclear powered, no PLAAN carrier has this system of ship propulsion.
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  559. Thailand is a lovely country, but it not a paradise
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  560. It's interesting that housing prices only drop slowly in response to under-consumption, which is opposite to the vast and fast rises in housing prices previously This is not a market economy but sitting on risk. Sitting on risk without selling anything is economic decline and bankruptcy risk for housing developers, real estate agencies and banks.
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  561. Like hell that 140 million Chinese will die to fulfill Xi Jinping's and CCP's dreams. World War 2 killed half that number, and that was more than enough. Mao was a nilhilist, i guess many scholars of the CCP follow this line. The CCP hence is indifferent to human suffering; they are unredeemed criminals.
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  562. Note about giant pandas. They are not the only panda species from China. There is also a much-more mustelid racoon-like red panda, also from China. Confusingly, the red panda and the giant (black and white) ursidae pandas are not related bilogically. It would be like calling a hyena as a cat. A lot of native vertibrate species in China, like pandas, are increasingly endangered in the wild from habitat destruction, illegal hunting and trapping and land and water pollution. The "panda diplomacy" by the CCP is tiresome, politically loaded, and trite. The West does not want any more pandas in it's zoos from China, as a result of these political shenanigans from the CCP about it.
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  563. Looks like the F-35 is historically better (against it's opponents) than the P-38 Lightning, P-51 Mustang and F-86 Sabre.
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  564. Maotai probably often is faked, because of it's ridiculous value, where it's spirit is not alcohol, but blinding and poisonous methanol.
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  565. Too stupid, and/or compromised. Women or good time girls are one of the weakest links, and the CCP uses that well. Get a Western politician in a compromising position secretly with a young Chinese women, then threaten him with publishing the secretly taken photos. Bob's your uncle, the poor sucker then dances to your tune.
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  566. Interesting the cynicism in young Chinese adults. The CCP is not a caregiving government, that's for sure. China is now entering a population crash as bad as the Three Kingdoms War, although the overall percentage decline will probably not be as bad, there were only about 57 million Chinese in the late Han Dynasty. This is exacerbated by bad politics and economics of course.
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  567. CCP civil engineering is distictly below par. This is all about cost-cutting and false facades. Again
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  568. If this is the first tier city in China, furthermore a city with a long tradition of foreign trade, one of the wealthiest cities in China, then elsewhere must be very bad indeed. Don't even consider second tier cities in China etc. They must be in a parlous state. Outside China, things are not exactly rolling on a peak, but certaintly not as bad. Most foreigners were not spies, but are leaving because they cannot safely even do normal open business in China because of broad sweeping anti-espionage laws. The CCP kicks it's own goal yet again.
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  569. A lot of Chinese passport holders have restrictions in many countries now. Partially, it is a result of transnational crime operations regularly carried out by CCP operatives and profiteers. The PRC passport has less "power" than a United States passport holder or passports from Western and Central Europe, I.e, democracies.
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  570. Taiwanese people have no rights in mainland China, period. Taiwanese businesses there (operating or dormant) are at severe risk of assets and properties seized. Without the likelihood of compensation. Furthermore, Taiwanese workers in China, professional or not, are also at risk; unpaid wages (or never paid in arrears), and arbitrary arrest without charges (not habeas corpus imprisonment which is a very basic right), and confiscation of personal property without compensation. A brutal lesson in totalitarian society, which is China now. Why would any foreign national (including Taiwanese), and Asian or not want to work or do business in China now beats me? This is the work of Xi Jinping and his clique, and the CCP is going too far now to rescue itself from downfall.
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  571. This sort of thing is never well explained, but Assad was a mass murderer and genocidist (mainly towards fellow Syrians). His Crimes Against Humanity are innumerable. The single-party state he was head of was the infamous Baathist party; an Arab version of Fascism (secular but ruthless and genocidal in it's misruling methods). Saddam Hussian was a fellow overthrown dictator, as the Baathist party orginated in Syria in the 1960s and Saddam Hussian was also Baathist. In the thirteen year Syrian Civil War, where Assad was staunchly supported by China and Russia, up to 850,000 people have died in fighting, war crimes committed by the Assad regime and in deadly chemical weapons attacks upon it's own fellow Syrians, a particularly henious crime that Saddam Hussian also perpetrated against the Kurds in the 1980s. By supporting these criminal regimes both China and Russia are besmirched by these crimes as well. Yes, past US governments also supported evil dictatorships, such as Augustus Pinochet's Chile in the 1970s (partly work of Henry Kissinger), and the overthrow of Sukarno in the Republic of Indonesia to be replaced by the homicidal Suharto regime in the 1960s, who mass murdered more than 500,000 people suspected of being Communist sympathizers.
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  572. Loosing (or gaining) face is a social disease in China. I can see being an individual is very difficult to achieve with these burdensome traditions, particularly with "face". Pehaps that why "the nail sticks up is always hammered down" (a Japanese saying), and the brilliant Chinese are hindered by this.
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  573. Why you make a copy of all evidence documentation. Clearly CCP car manufacturers are covering up car quality issues. Hence these Chinese brands should not be trusted, anywhere in the world.
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  574. The CCP is playing a high risk game. The slightest mis-step by them in a war brings them potentially to an end. The US has more room to make errors due to it's alliance system and geostrategic dominance. The Russian alliance is mainly a hinderence, not an assest to the CCP. Plus, it puts it into the target of NATO, already. So the CCP has to potentially fight US European allies as well, that if it kept away from a Russian alliance it would not bring itself into the ire of Europeans; they may have stayed neutral. Not any more. This is it's first mistake.
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  575. Chinese tech and companies moving into manufacturing in Mexico some might be dubious, but they can more comprehensively scutinized by US regulatory trade organizations there. This is considerably harder to achieve in Vietnam or India.
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  576. Normal commerce banking activity in China is now over
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  577. Corruption admittedly works better in a fungible system like banknotes. So in a deeply corrupt society like China, digital RMB is not popular, because it tracks your spending. Actually, all Western banks do that as well and your national governments can track it if it wishes. Digital Weibo and Wechat is trackable by the government of China. I fail to see what digital RMB was created, except for 3-3-16 big egotistical money wasting projects again.
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  578. You can guarantee that the data on water pollution is about five times worse than that provided by environmental testing government departments in China. How the heck did thallium get in the water supply? This is a highly toxic heavy metal.
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  579. The next stage of economic crises in China will be wartime rationing, without there being a war. Consequently, private motorized transport use and refuelling will be rationed, as will food and electricity consumption. There will be unrest by the overall population in China to these measures, and the black market will proliferate, but the internal security and police force may repress it (repress the protests at least).
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  580. Clearly, launching an invasion mission against Taiwan includes Japan as well. This means that the PLAAF and PLAAN will attack military targets in Japanese bases coordinated with the invasion against Taiwan. There is another reason. These daring and aggressive incursions against China's neighbours (Taiwan, Japan, Philippines) is about pushing quite hard while the US government is having an election in November. The Jake Sullivan mission to China about this was a waste of words. Expect more of these incursions leading up to November. This high risk behaviour by the PLA could precipitate a war this year.
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  581. Launching lots of mini and micro communications statellites with ground mobile uses will be competitive with the service and infrastructure costs by a complete 5G ground networks by the sounds of it. You would need a lot less satellites for one thing.
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  582. China builds in numbers only, not quality or interoperability. In a war, you need quality systems on the battlefield. For confidence, morale and tactical superiority of your own troops.
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  583. Three quarters of a century is nothing for a Dynasty of China. Even the ROC has lasted longer than a century in Taiwan. Strongly suspect that the CCP; that Russo-Germanic ideological anti-Enlightenment mutant (so not a native Chinese philosophy movement), will not survive a century of rule.
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  584. Wait until the avalanche of complaints from disgruntled EV owners in Western countries from Chinese brand EVs Hence, the CCP might struggle to cover up thar reporting over there from thousands of car owners. The Chinese built EVs are very problematic, just like the bugged ZTE phone I bought 5 years ago. Don't trust products made in China. Keep not trusting components made in China, until the CCP collapses. I don't care how cheap it gets. I demand quality and usability on my own terms.
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  585. Mao kind of admitted that the CCP established rule over China through force and fiat. Not through elections and rule of law, although he probably would claim that universal suffrage is a bourgeoisie trick. Same with Xi.
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  586. Hong Kong is not the first 10 hub destinations cities earmarked by the CCP in China. Well, well, well.
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  587. China does not have many J-20s to sabre-rattling with. India shouldn't be very worried by it
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  588. Why go to Ukraine to fight in a war with the Russians as a foreign mercenary? Fighting against the Japanese? Severely brain-washed. The Japanese have never been there.
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  589. China must be the worse stock market to invest in the world. How does China get rich? A few get rich; every one else gets impoverished.
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  590. EVs may be a temporary phenomena worldwide (except for China maybe) as they burn too often. When burning the lithium oxide provides oxygen which is why fire extinguishers can not put them out (can do this with a fuel fire using foam) and the EV can only be put out by immersing the vehicle into a tank of water. Only Nordic countries have implemented these safety systems. EVs are not "green" technology and are more dangerous than internal combustion cars. This is the penalty we pay for green mania Fascism and the cult of the techno nerd.
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  591. Pie in the sky wishes. This is a very hard economic crash-landing. Maybe terminal while the CCP remains in power. Even if the totalitarian government is removed and true market conditions return again, China has a demographic crises now which cannot be reversed for 25 years..
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  592. The CCP will adopt outright and widespread slavery soon. I just wonder the reaction to that will be?
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  593. When this Chinese woman talking about her age, she looks young anyway. Dowry (for woman) is a sign of a materially insecure culture. China is exogameous, where a girl leaves her family to join her husbands family in exchange for a dowry. This looks good for women, but in reality is a poor exchange for a woman's value as a human being. It's soft "permanent" prostitution if you think about it. If a woman is rejected, she gets her dowry back, maybe? Modernity in the West demands equal partnership in a couples relationship, where both partners work as a team for a shared future. Romance can play a part like going on a holiday together. Divorce means division of the shared estate (ideally) 50/50. No dowry needed for the woman. Woman are more economically empowered in this system, not less. If children are involved, ideally 50/50 custody tine of them. The kids will be okay with this system. They amacably get to see one parent at least half the time. Reality is that marriage is a feudal idea. Might be good for the family but a poor decision for the individual. Parents be damned.
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  594. China will be in terminal economic decline for 2 generations
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  595. If I were Japanese,I would not travel to China. You will get very unpleasant treatment there because of decades of revolutionary fantasies on TV and film and anti-Japanese propaganda online by the CCP. Now, that level of hostility is being vented at Westerners in China as well. There is virtually nothing more stupid and vile than the Little Pink racial hostility. It brings China into international disrepute. Note that spies don't identify themselves with nationalist symbols and there are literally hundreds of CCP spies in the United States for every one American spy in China.
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  596. It's certainly a long, long, long year
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  597. Issuing bonds is a government thing. This just shows you how closely intertwined the CCP and Huawei really are.
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  598. Just safety test the imported the Chinese built-EV. Keeping testing one car in a batch continually. If any these models don't pass muster then withdraw and recall the model from sale in Western countries. This will guarentee China withdrawing from Western, Japanese and South Korean automobile markets. Naturally, they will sell EVs to the third world instead, but the third world is economically like China.
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  599. Xi isn't President, his official title is (maybe was) General Secretary, but he's a dictator of a totalitarian one party state. I don't understand how people having difficulties finding that out. Xi has real blood on his hands.
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  600. Seems very plausible, very CCP-like
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  601. China is a kleptocracy, pure and simple. All the crap about socialism put out by the CCP is just threadlbare rags covering the massive hypocricy of massive wealth gap between first tier cities and dirt poor rural people there. Again, this tends to be opposite in Australia. Some farmers in Australia run multi-million agri-businesses.
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  602. Breakdown of family ties are quite usual across totalitarian societies, like the PRC. Totalitarian governments create a social divide between generations in order to secure their power base or the personal power of the dictator, such as teenagers against their parents (Red Guards, Cultural Revolution), the Hitler Youth (Nazi Germany) and the Young Pioneers (Soviet Union).
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  603. ​ @lchgamer5598 That actually happened. In a race between a Chinese and Russian battletank, a wheel fell off one of the tracks of the Chinese tank. Running the track off one side. The Russian tank, however, fanged over the finish line at full speed, humiliating the PLA crews.
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  604. ​ @mikestewart4752 Good one. Chinesium; an alloy made up the elements Fakium and Bullshit.
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  605. The CCP coerces children into it's hate and scapegoat propaganda, so it's effects might still be seen for several generations of Chinese, sadly. Also correct to say that the CCP has almost buried traditional Chinese culture and Confucius ideas, which also is sad.
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  606. The CCP seeks to disrupt in foreign countries, particularly the US. Odd that other states don't reciprocate similar disruption operations in China. This would validate the CCP xenophobia of "foreign forces", but it may take resources away from China's military to go to internal security. A useful shift of resources away from external war.
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  607. The CCP losing face by not having substance to back up appearance is a constant joke. So they will continually lose face. Bragging (for nationalist consumption) makes it worse.
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  608. For every one of these people who make a vlog about being fired, there are thousands of others who do not. Sometimes being stopped in vlogging is the shame of losing one's job. This is not a joke, or just about people's self-esteem. Many of these salary earners have mortgages, loans and dependandants like small children to take care of, elderly or sick parents or relations in China (for a culture that does not allow Get Out Of Jail Free cards for this) or are paying for the expensive education of their teenager kids in hope that their kids will do better than them. Life can be full not only of disappointment but stress and hurdles and the feeling of being trapped and worthless. It's a kick in the guts to get the boot when you have done nothing wrong at work, or even worked especially hard to please the boss. It's like being raped from within. The anger and resentment never fully goes away. In the end, either success matters or it's worthless or it's a mirage. If it's worthless (or a mirage) than "Let it Rot" makes sense. This is all very negative sentiment, and not just competitively about "winners and losers" (if most of the population are losers then the winner ultimately receives a pyrrhic victory) but the CCP continues to pig-headedly pouring oil on the bonfire of the economy of China.
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  609. China's population decline is worse than the great bubonic plagues during the 14th century AD. The modern plague is called the CCP people killing politics and one child policy. A demographic disaster for China now in the making.
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  610. The J-35A, a blatant copy of the Lockheed-Martin F-35 is not a superior jet. Copies, like that of cars from the original as well, almost never are better. However, the J-35A and J-20 is probably superior to the Russian Su-57 jet.
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  611. Relying on a single crop is high risk farming. Diversifying your types of farming practises is less profitable and more work, but also more economically manageable during times of recession, i.e, if you grow 3 types of crop, maybe at least one will be profitable; not a complete loss. The agricultural sector in China is not in a healthy state. China now imports 24% of it's foods from other countries. Staple crops are well as boutique crops are being imported. The CCP exaggerates at best about it's concern about agriculture. It has badly managed the agricultural sector for the past 30 years. I am comparing China in this regard, to another Communist country, Vietnam. Vietnam has better managed it's agricultural sector, to the point where Vietnam, a much smaller country than China, exports rice.
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  612. Yes, because their leaders are corrupt as the CCP officials they are buying from.
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  613. No one in China does a geotechnical evalution of the ground, BEFORE buildings, roads, bridges etc are built. Have there been any sinkholes or dolines reported? Seems too late now. Luckily no-one was killed from collapsing walls.
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  614. The CCP ups the anti to the point of war. This can be interpreted as a point of weakness as much as that of strength by the CCP. A more prudent strategy is to withold forces to a sudden eruption and overwhelming force and hence victory. Something that Germany did to France in 1940. However, the propaganda coming out of China probably doesn't come to this concept, neither does the tactics of the PLA. The slow upping the anti does give warning to countries like Taiwan to arm itself and to treat threats from China more and more seriously. Further giving time to strengthen interested allies of Taiwan, particularly Japan, and drawing an allied coalition against the CCP; some with the most powerful countries on Earth. A constructive dialogue can't make headway under such conditions between the CCP and the ROC. The CCPs talk reminds me of the propaganda coming out of Nazi Germany. Why not invade Taiwan now by the PLA? Firstly, weather and tides provide only two windows of opportunity per year in this part of the world. Secondly, attacking an island state is much more difficult to achieve than attacking across a land border. The CCP cannot afford politically to lose an armed contest between itself and the ROC. Losing that war will also lose complete legitimacy by the CCP over China, collapsing CCP authoritarian rule. Hence, The PLA is now stronger militarily, but not strong enough to overwhelm Taiwan main island, and will instead gradually up the anti, but provides time for democracies to rearm. Taking Taiwan through political intrigue by the CCP will be catastrophic to the life, freedoms and economy of Taiwan. Wishful thinking the other way is not viable nor practical. At what point does war breaks out? When a military incident occurs which the CCP cannot back down. Likewise with the government of the day of Taiwan. The Taiwanese don't want war but the CCP does. War is a political act; what will give way? Justice and freedom versus totalitarian hegemony?
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  615. Belt and Road (or Bolt and Robbery), China is exporting debt to the Third World
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  616. Don't you get a sense that everything is spiralling out of control by Xi Jinping? Partially self imposed (not fully because the CCP is itself a "mafia-like organization")
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  617. Now West North Korea
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  618. It's appalling what totalitarian governments (like the CCP) do to millions of people and how three lifelong victims occur by the kidnapping of one baby or child (the other victims being the natural parents and other anguished relations of the child). Even when the CCP falls under the weight of it's own turpitude and lawlessness, it will take generations of willing people in China to repair the cultural and personal damage done to that ancient country by the bad work of the CCP.
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  619. Foxconn (trading as Hon Hai technology group in Taiwan) is a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing corporation. I am not an expert in the field, but i think that it is not the same as a Fab or semiconductor or chip manufacturer corporation; this would be a company like TSMC (also a Taiwanese corporation). It is a massive company; the world's largest manufacturer of contract electronics. This itself is indicative of the way as a country alone, Taiwan dominates electronics (along with Japan and South Korea) and why the CCP wants it so badly (other to extinguish the possibility of democracy and rule of law ever occuring in mainland China), and why Taiwan is so geopolitically important, not just to China but the world in general, and also why it might be economically worth the fearsome cost of fighting a world war to defend it from totalitarian tyranny. Foxconn primarily assembles electronics finished parts from components. Like mobile phones. It may make components, like the case or chassis of the phone, in the factory from raw or semi-raw materials but the electronics chip sets and screens are made elsewhere and delivered to Foxconn for assembly. In the automobile world, this would be like a company like Toyota manufacturing the finished vehicles in the manufacturing plant. However, most of the parts are already fabricated, like the engine and transmission, which is assembled to the body or chassis of the automobile,
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  620. My guess is that a lot of gig operators have a high percentage of college graduates, working to support themselves barely. These young people must at least feel resentful of their situation. As China's economy continues to tank, there is not only a negative feedback mechanism of economic stagnation affecting people of China, but this will overflow to other countries as China falls to the number 3 economy of the world (after Japan).
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  621. If you use CCP apps like Tiktok and Temu, you are incredibly stupid, or naive or both (paraphrasing the words of that genocidal arch-criminal Jiang Zemin). Just using Temu, for example, gets you on the CCPs database. Why put yourself there? Would you feel secure if the Nazi Party had a dossier on you?
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  622. With EVs, the CCP has technologically backed the wrong horse. EVs don't have a future. Hybrids are a different matter however.
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  623. Putting young children into a basket meant for holding a few light groceries is risking her son to be seriously injured if she falls off her bike. The young women is a bit thick. Police in Japan now have to watch Chinese expats there because many Japanese are law-abiding. Not just rescuing lost pets and so on. Japan is not a paradise for foreigners, but acting anti-,socially there gets you into serious trouble eventually. Because of constant anti-Japanese propaganda in China, some Chinese visiting Japan considering taking "revenge attacks" against Japanese monumental and religious buildings, using graffiti and so on, which is a political and racist attack (which the CCP excel at). This is counter-productive criminal behavior and makes for worsening relation between Chinese and Japanese, and it's now driven by totalitarian propaganda.
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  624. The Russians have done this attritional battle wave tactics in World War 1 as well. Lead to a revolution and overthrow of the Czar as I recall. History seemingly repeats itself.
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  625. China's conservative culture makes it worse. A bride price is very medieval, but women understandably in China are taking advantage of it. Additionally, bride price or doweries for women is a sign of a materially impoverished culture. Partially because the poor quality and corruption of local government for a very long time, Anyway, the demographics, like everything else in China is skewed and dystopian. The population demogaphics are collapsing, which will cause serious economic problems for decades. I feel sorry for millions of men in China who are forced to live a bleak, lonely existence as a result.
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  626. Dogfighting in fighter aircraft went out decades ago. The modern tactic is detect your opponent before he does and then fire a long or medium range missiles. Many times, your opponent never comes into seeing viewing range. Manoeuvrability in fighter aircraft is to avoid missiles, not from attacking jets getting on your tail mainly. This is where stealth is superior. You see the opponent before he sees you and you can fire off your missiles first. Hence, you have already gained an active seeking ordinances and range advantage. PLA missiles are not quite as advanced as NATO missiles; they are heavier and are less manoeuvrable near their target (and so are easier to evade). They might carry a larger warhead than their NATO counterparts, which is advantageous. The missile almost never physically hits. It explodes close to the target when the proximity fuze senses it. Hence, air superiority war is now stealth and missile war. China is significantly behind US technology in this.
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  627. Stinking profiteer!
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  628. CCP China needs to be kicked out of the WTF and UN immediately. Notably, it has flouted the treaties it has already signed, such as UNCLOS and other treaties it has ignored. The CCP has consistently proved itself as a rogue regime, as flawed and as evil as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
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  629. Steam-powered rockets 😂
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  630. China's econony is in a downward deflation spiral. There is no immediate remedy for this collapse. It's been getting worse aince 2022, not better.
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  631. The foreign heads of state are meeting a Xi Jinping double. Stalin had a double, as did Hitler. Likely that Xi is too ill or too dead to be meeting foreign heads of state.
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