Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "China’s High-Speed Rail Completely Choked: Fake Innovations Exposed, Stealing No Longer Possible" video.

  1. 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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  2. 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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