Comments by "Aristocles Athenaioi" (@aristoclesathenaioi4939) on "Lei's Real Talk" channel.

  1. Fascinating I have observed first-hand some of the appalling public behavior by Chinese tourists, but given that Americans have had a reputation as ill-mannered tourists, I felt reluctant to call out the behavior of the Chinese tourists. I also worried that my attitude might come from some racist attitudes. I finally decided there was something uniquely troublesome about the behavior of Chinese tourists after an incident during the Japanese festival of ohana-mei, cherry blossom viewing, when a group of Chinese tourists climbed into the trees to tear off branches as souvenirs. Nothing could have horrified the Japanese more, and now the Japanese have special sections of exhibits for Chinese tourists, or carefully escort Chinese tourist groups just as the Japanese have done with Westerners for many years. I had attributed this to Japanese racism, which they have in abundance, but it seems to have a factual basis as well. Thank you for explaining a behavior of Chinese tourists that had previously surprised and confounded me.
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  2. Winston Churchill famously said, "“Kremlin political intrigues are comparable to a bulldog fight under a rug. An outsider only hears the growling, and when he sees the bones fly out from beneath it is obvious who won.” Beijing is similar, but you have helped lift up the rug for us to see what is happening underneath.
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  3. Another first class and revealing analysis. Thank you Lei
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  4. I apologize in advance for what will be a long reply, but it takes some effortvto explain the situation with rare earth production. Rare earths can be extracted from coal tailings, and one company that manufactures solar panels already extracts cadmium from coal mine tailings. The journal articles linked below describe procedures for extraction of rare Earth's from coal byproducts. These methods likely cost more than rare earths from China do now. However, avoiding the ecological damage by the rare earth mining could prove a marketing advantage to manufacturers outside of China. Market research has indicated that consumers in the US will pay a premium price for products made with green technologies. Companies could present the process of extracting rate earths from toxic coal mine byproduct as a green technology because it helps dispose of coal mine byproducts. If China blocked the sales of rare Earth's to manufacturers outside China that could make it even more attractive to extract rare earths for coal byproducts. When you consider that Germany developed ballistic missiles because the Versailles Treaty forbid Germany from having long range artillery, you realize how inventive people can side-step sanctions by developing substitute technologies. Technology sanctions often have unintended consequences that result in the sanctions back firing. Both the US and China should weigh technology sanctions very carefully. A Review of the Occurrence and Promising Recovery Methods of Rare Earth Elements from Coal and Coal By-Products: International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization: Vol 35, No 6 (tandfonline.com) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19392699.2015.1033097 Can Harvesting Rare Earth Elements Solve the Coal Ash Crisis? Over 3 billion tons of coal ash occupy more than 1,400 sites across the US https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2021-2-march-april/feature/can-harvesting-rare-earth-elements-solve-coal-ash-crisis Citric acid can be used to extract rare earth metals from coal ash - MINING.COM https://www.mining.com/food-grade-solvent-can-be-used-to-extract-rare-earth-metals-from-coal-ash/
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  5. Another excellent explanation of the politics in China. This reminds me of the corruption in the British Navy at the time of the American War of Independence, which left the British Navy ineffective against France who allied with the colonialists. If I may be indulged a long description: In 1783, when attention was called to abuses in the public offices, Mr. Pitt stated in the House of Commons that though it bad been officially declared that no fees were received by the navy office, it appeared that very considerable sums were received by the officers under the name of 'gifts'. Exact inquiry disclosed wholesale robbery rather than peculation. The accounts showed a deficit of about three hundred thousand pounds of bread in 1780, besides beef, pork, and other provisions. It was shown that the contract price of bread was more than 4s. per cwt. above the market price, and that the bread actually supplied was 4s. per cwt. inferior to the contract ; that the men in charge of the storehouses kept hogs in them, and fed them on serviceable biscuit ; that stores of different kinds and in large quantities had been taken out of the yards not for the private use of the officers, but for sale, and that everywhere intimidation or guilty complicity had kept the knowledge of these abominations secret (Parliamentary Report, 1783-4). The dockyards had been sinks of iniquity before that time, and were so after it [cf. Jervis, John, Earl of St. Vincent], but at no time were they so utterly bad as during the war of American independence. This state of affairs took place when the First Earl of Sandwich was the Lord of the Admiralty. It was said of the Earl of Sandwich that he was "too infamous to have a friend, too bad for bad men to commend." History does so often repeat itself.
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  6. Hua's comments are astonishing and very encouraging if true.
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  7. Thanks for mentioning Zhao Ziyang's role in the economic reforms and his view that a move to wards democracy should accompany move towards market economy. Zhao had his flaws, but at least he wanted government reform as well as economic reform.
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  8. My parents always admired Madame Chiang although they expressed reservations about Chiang Kai-shek. Neither of my parents were Communsts, but their politics was left-leaning. I can now understand better their admiration for Madame Chiang after watching your video Lei. Thank you again for providing more information about the recent history of China and the CCP.
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  9. One of my favorite examples of how the CCP misunderstands US politics was when they invited Nixon to a return visit to China AFTER Nixon had resigned as President. Many US China analysts concluded that the CCP thought that Nixon was the head of a faction in the US Government and that the CCP having Nixon visit China again would strengthen the hand of the faction led by Nixon.
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  10.  @drumpfdon760  if you insist on using the word "kid" then spell it properly with only 1 "d" not 2. Get the CCP to send you to a refresher course in English.
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  11. When the PRC was negotiating to get Most Favored Nation status with Carla Hill, United States Trade Representative under President George H. W. Bush, the CCP representative got very upset at one point and said, "Hong Kong has Most Favored Nation trade status, and Hong Kong is the child while Beijing who is the parent should have it." To which Carla Hilll replied, "In the United States we as parents always want our children to do better off than we do."
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  12. I am delighted you now have a sponsor! I was particularly impressed that the wallet has RFID protection. Some years ago when I visited friends in Romania I had the get RFID protection for my credit cards. It is a good idea to have that built into a wallet.
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  13. I think you should make a point of showing this video to the Canadian Embassy. I know the Canadians have some serious issues with the CCP, and the Canadian Government would find this very interesting, I think. If you were not talking about the CCP then I might consider this a conspiracy theory, but someone can never be too paranoid when talking about the CCP.
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  14. He is just the kind of person who made has contributed to make the US what it is today. Without immigrants this country will wither and die. I hope we can admit more immigrants. They all work harder than people born here. I sometimes feel ashamed when I see how hard recent immigrants work while I inherited my good fortune just because I was a US citizen at birth. My family was never wealthy, but I have more than 99% of people on this plane. I admire how hard people who just came to this country will work to improve their situation and that also improves the situation for all of us who call the US our home.
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  15. Thanks for a well documented and well reasoned analysis. Your previous videos about how the CCP manages and obscures the economic conditions of the country have made it especially interesting as I read about China trying to establish their electronic RMB as an International exchange currency. Based on the information you have provided in other videos as well as this one demonstrate that another country or any global enterprise should have their head examined if they signed up for the electronic RMB because of the lack of transparency and the control of information by the CCP means that the CCP can inflate the amount of electronic without any awareness by the users of the electronic RMB. However, China can might get their vassal state of Russia to sign up for the electronic RMB especially if the "M" is dropped so that electronic RB could also mean electronic Rouble. Then China and Russia can do all transactions between one another in electronic RB and make it look a real international trade currency eventhough it really is a Potemkin trade currency.
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  16. You are citing Breitbart as a serious journalistic source? And then you say you can not confirm Biden meeting, but you report it as fact? I have held your reports in high regard previously, but you past reliance on reporting from the EPOCH Times, Washington Examiner, and now Breitbart reduce my confidence.
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  17. If the CCP wants to take TSMC then they need to do VERY quick strike because it is very easy to destroy a semiconductor fabrication facility. You only need to open the clean rooms and you will have a herculean task of cleaning them out again. Also, the real valuable asset in a semiconductor facility are the human assets. I would be willing to bet that Taiwan with the US has a plan to evacuate all the people critical technical know-how. I am sure that a lot of people working at TSMC would willingly work for the CPP, but it will take years to restart the fab facilities, and during that time TSMC could restart in the new facilities they are building in the US. Also, the ASML systems at TSMC would likely be sabotaged if a take-over of the TSMC looked likely. Although ASML is a Dutch company, it relies on US intellectual property and patents. The US already has an embargo on selling the latest ASML technology to China. Any semiconductor company cut-off from ASML will have an impossible time getting the smallest and highest density chips fabricated. The world-wide manufacturing disruption caused by a disruption in the chips from TSMC would be cause alone for a serious backlash at China. Having said all this, I doubt it would deter China from attempting an invasion of Taiwan because such an attack would be motivated by political issues divorced from the issues of restarting TSMC operations. I seriously doubt that Chinese strategist shown in this video has even the slightest technical knowledge to understand how economicaly disastrous the consequences of disrupting TSMC operations would be or what an immense challenge it would be to restore those operations.
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  18. We should mount an online campaign for the UN to remove that designation of "The Happiest City". Eventhough the CCP has worked hard to get their people at the top of many UN Agencies, I think such a global online campaign would be hard to cover up.
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  19. When the only sons start coming back in body-bags the social backlash will be stupendous. The CCP might try to keep it a secret for as long as possible, but even if the invasion were successful there would be a lot of parents wondering where their son is and how they will manage their old age without a son to help as is traditional. The Chinese social services are bad now and could never pick up the slack. Even if they did, the cultural expectations of a son are enormous and the loss would be incalculable for many families.
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  20. Send a note to Winston Churchill though I doubt he will reply
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  21. Very interesting discussion of a strategic mineral. I worked in the IT industry my entire career, and even with people involved in semiconductor wafer production, and yet I had never hear of this dependency. I knew that the purity of the silicon was essential,but given that silicon is one of the most abundant elements on Earth, I never considered that the purity required would imply that only a few sources for it existed. Thank you for filing in this gap in my understanding. I am surprised that the US military has never identified this sand as a strategic material that would have export controls. I am equally surprised that a NATO member like Norway does not, and it also surprises me that Australia has failed to place export controls on it. Perhaps the AUKUS alliance will change that.
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  22. Many rare earths can be extracted from coal mine tailings in West Virginia and other states where coal mines have been closed. It is presently cheaper to buy rare earths from China at present for all the reasons the response above indicated.
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  23. Did I understand you to say that the 2002 air crash might have occurred because someone wanted to eliminate a single person who was a political enemy? Someone would kill 112 innocent people just to kill 1 person? Moreover, are you suggesting that someone would kill over 300 innocent people to kill just 1 person? I suppose if that was the reason for the 2002 crash then it could also be the reason for this crash. Is it plausible that someone might have paid the 1st officer to do it? Perhaps for a financial payment to a foreign bank that would assure the financial security of his family now that his salary had been so severely reduced? I would guess that this could have happened based on other videos you have done about the extraordinary actions of the CCP.
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  24. I have a friend who fled Crimea two years with her 5 yr old son who is now 7 yrs old. She speaks Russian but considers herself Ukrainian. Her mother and sister decided to stay in Crimea, and they had tried to convince her to return. She wants a better life for her son in Ukraine than she feels he would gets in Russia. Although she knew nobody in the city where she moved she did find a man who loves her and who she loves and who loves her son who calls him "Daddy" Her husband fought in the Donbass where he drove an armored vehicle. When the Russians invaded, my friend insisted on staying in Ukraine because she would be near husband eventhough he has gone back into the Army. I tried to persuade her to leave because I felt that her husband would feel better knowing she and her son were safe in Poland. She refused to leave. When the Russians shelled the nuclear power plant then her husband told she had to leave because it was too dangerous. I and some other friends of hers here in the US helped her with money to get to Poland with her son. She is now in Poland but will probably have to move on in about a month. I have told her to go to Berlin because she also has her son's dog with them, and the Germans are very dog friendly. From Berlin she could get a visa to Canada where there is a large Ukrainian immigrant community. I grew up in the US in that same area, but I no longer live there. Once again, she refuses to go to Berlin because it takes her farther from her husband. First she is refugee from Crimea, then a refugee from Western Ukraine moving West to Poland all because Russia has invaded her country. She has had to flee twice, and her husband fought against the Russians first in the Donbass and now back into the Territorial Defense. I can deeply empathize with the Chinese man who has a Ukrainian wife and wanted to keep his family together. Meanwhile the nationalists in China mock him on the Internet. He wants to keep his family together, my friend wants to keep her family together, but what do those supporters of the CCP want? I have no idea.
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  25. Wow, it is getting expensive to relocate to Singapore. Combined with global inflation and a coming recession it looks like I will need to spend a bit more money than I had planned for my relocation to Singapore.
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  26. Would that the explanation of names were as easy in other languages. You will find the derivation of the Russian word for train station of interest I think. The Russians use the word "вокзал" pronounced "Voxhal" because a delegation of Russians to the England in the 19th century had never seen a railway station, and when they saw Vauxhall Station in London, they asked the English what that was. To which the English replied "That's Vauxhall" and from there the word stuck. "вокзал" is the word for train station in Russian!
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  27. I very much appreciate your commentary on conditions in the PRC and CCP. I avidly await your next video on CCP succession.
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  28. Perhaps a civil war rather than a war against another country
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  29. It seems to me that China is basically buying A320 airplanes from itself given that they manufacture A320 themselves. Essentially China is subsidizing their own airline industry. I should also note that the US Government effectively subsidizes Boeing given that Boeing has numerous military contracts with the US Department of Defense. In the 21st century a country needs a robust aircraft industry just as a country needed a blue water Navy in the 19th century. Aside from the obvious military advantages of a robust aircraft industry are the less obvious military logistical values. As General Omar Bradley famously said: “Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.” Looking at the heavy lift capabilities the US has used to supply the weapons to Ukraine demonstrates the importance of air cargo. None of the other NATO countries except Canada have needed to use air transport to deliver weapons to supply Ukraine. Whenever one sees a Boeing passenger plane or cargo plane, one should keep in mind those planes can carry troops and weapons in time of war. The CCP knows this very well and wants to make sure that they have the logistical capabilities needed to sustain an invasion of Taiwan. Looking back at the East Timor Crisis from 1999 to 2000 helps to frame the importance of logistical capabilities. The International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) from the United Nations and led by Australia was refused US ground troops but was able to secure vital support for airlift, logistics, specialised intelligence, over the horizon deterrence, and "diplomatic muscle". This sounds a lot like the situation in Ukraine today where the US refuses to commit troops but provides other capabilities. A war with China would require far more resources on both sides of such a conflict. Reading the Wikipedia article on the International Force East Timor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Force_East_Timor helps to remind us of earlier conflicts like the current Russo-Ukrainian War when multiple nations needed to cooperate to stop a genocide. This comment has strayed from the initial topic of the CCP buying A320 jets. However, we should never forget conflicts like East Timor and the human pain and suffering inflicted on the Timorese as well as the fierce fighting to end the oppression in East Timor.
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  30. Classic case of "do as I say, not as I do"
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  31. Will there be more adventures about Miss China and her boyfriends? Maybe there is a graphic novel in all of this. Perhaps Miss China can visit the places you have discussed in the past? "Miss China visits the Three Gorges Dam" and "Miss China considers investing in real estate" and more Adventures of Miss China?
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  32. Ironically, the Soviet Union had a more stable political structure than both Russia and China have now. The KGB was essential for the political stability of the Soviet Union. People may forget that the KGB was also referred to as "the shield of the Party." If you wonder who the Party needed a shield against, then the answer is the Army. The KGB, unlike the present Russian FSS, actually had armed troops that had a separate chain of command from the Army. I always found it interesting that the Soviet Union had a tripartite system of Government which corresponded to the tripartite form of Government in the US, as follows: Legislative Branch: -- US: Congress. -- Soviet Union: Communist Party. Executive Branch: -- US President, Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces, and effectively the Head of the Police. This is more obvious in the Government of a State within the United States, where the State Police report to the Governor. It is also worth remembering that the US President commands the National Guard in each State. -- Soviet Union: Marshal of the Soviet Union. This was the position held by Gyorgy Zhukov. The last Marshal of the Soviet Union was Dmitry Yazov, appointed in 1990, who was imprisoned after the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991. This is exactly what the KGB was expected to defend against. Judicial Branch: Now here is where it gets really interesting. -- US: Federal and State Courts. -- Soviet Union: KGB. Now at this point, you may be asking "why is the KGB the organization corresponding to the Judiciary?" The answer is that the Judiciary and the Courts are in place to protect against the Executive Branch (the Military and the Police) trying to act in contravention of the Laws passed by Congress. You may also ask yourself, "The KGB had agents through-out the Soviet Union. If the KGB corresponds to the Judicial Branch, then who corresponds to KGB agents in the US?" The answer is simple, "Lawyers." Every lawyer in the United States is an officer of the Court. This is why the first move of an autocrat after becoming the head of the Executive Branch immediately tries to weaken the Courts because that effectively removes the Rule of Law. You only need to look at Hungary and Turkiye to see that at work in contemporary times. There are many more examples, I simply cite those two because they are part of NATO, and in Hungary's case, Part of the EU as well. Putin long ago neutered Russia's Court System which now hands down whatever sentence Putin wants, and under whatever law Putin uses as a pretext. On paper at least, the head of the Dumas is the Prime Minister as opposed to Putin. As President of Russia, Putin is supposed to be Commander in Chief of the Russian Armed Forces. However, the legal head of the Russian Armed Forces is Shoigu, and that is why Putin makes sure that Shoigu, who has served Putin from Putin's time as Mayor of St. Petersburg and Shoigu never served in the military and therefore lacks any power base in the Russian Armed Forces. It also explains why Generals come and go, even Gerasimov, but Shoigu always remains. Although the FSS is technically separate from the Russian Armed Forces, the FSS and the Armed Forces work hand in glove. Gorkin was an FSS Colonel as opposed to an Army Colonel. In truth, the FSS, unlike its predecessor the KGB, lacks its own armed troops comparable to those of the KGB. In place of KGB troops as the Shield of Party against the Armed Forces, Putin needs a "Praetorian Guard" to protect him from the Russian Armed Forces. Does Xi Jinping have a "Praetorian Guard" similar to Putin's? Historically though, a Praetorian Guard has taken control by appointing their own Emperor as happened when the Praetorian Guard declared Claudius following the assassination of the Roman Emperor Caligula by the Praetorian Guard. The Captain of the Praetorian Guard and the other Guard members who assassinated Caligula did commit suicide at the command of the new Emperor Claudius because they had betrayed their oath to protect the Emperor.  They had enough concern for their honor that they did commit suicide to restore their honor and to display remorse for breaking their oath.  Somehow, I doubt that Putin's personal Guards unit or whoever Xi Jinping has as a personal Guards unit would act similarly.
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  33. ROTFLMAO. Any country or global enterprise should have their head examined if they sign up for the electronic RMB. The lack of transparency and the control of information by the CCP means that the CCP can inflate the amount of electronic RMB without any awareness by the users. However, China can might get their vassal state of Russia to sign up for the electronic RMB especially if the "M" is dropped so that electronic RB could also mean electronic Rouble. Then China and Russia can do all transactions between one another in electronic RB and make it look a real international trade currency eventhough it really is a Potemkin trade currency.
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  34. A further comment about English and Chinese. I recall that my father who was a Physicist learned enough Russian to understand technical papers in his field that were written in Russian. I can see where there is the same value now in reading, as opposed to speaking Chinese. Is there anything like technical Chinese as there is in English or Russian? I mean that question seriously. Can anyone suggest to me a way to learn technical Chinese in order to read technical publications in Chinese?
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  35.  @drumpfdon760  you whippersnapper, young dolt are all fault of the the CCP. A laughable, ridiculous shill of the CCP and their fifty-cent army.
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  36. The Second World War ended the Great Depression, and the CCP may decide that a war may answer the unemployment problems. The various Government programs enacted during the Great Depression did make a difference, and overtime might have pulled the country out of the Depression. The full national employment required to fight the Second World War definitely took the US out of the Depression, and resulted in full national employment. The CCP might decide a war would serve their interests.
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  37.  @BoycottChinaa  And so does Luxembourg. The Swiss effectively get interest free loans as a result of the deposits in Swiss banks by foreigners. By the way, did you know that Swiss bank account actually have a negative interest rate? You must pay the bank for you to have an account at the bank. Great business model if you can make it work as the Swiss have done.
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  38. As one of Mr. Washington's children, I must say that Mr. Washington favored some children, and even allowed them beat up some of the other children. 😖
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  39.  @drumpfdon760  In fact, I first went to Mainland China in 1985 at the invitation of the CCP, and I went to Hong Kong and back to Mainland China in 2002. My family and a Taiwanese partner did business in Guangzhou from the late 1990s through the early 2000s. So I am quite different from the ignorant, prejudiced, insulting toad that you are.
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  40. Crocodile tears from Xi
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  41. Another superlative video! Very good to make countries into families. Even if the parents disliked one another they would rarely forbid their children from competing in games because of the social stigma for the children. Especially if the competition was intramural, and the children went to the same school. Perhaps a school called "The Academy." Do the parents all work for the same company named "Global Trade Group" perhaps? It was interesting to realize how well the Western European countries had capital cities with names that worked so well as family names. In many cases a legacy of the Roman Empire. This video never needed to use the names of the capital cities in Europe or countries in Empires that the Romans subdued. Using those capital city names would feel forced in English.
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  42. As I recall you told us about some islands that form part of the territory of Taiwan are very close to China. I believe it was Quemoy and Matsu, but it may have been some islands even closer to China. You mentioned them in the context of a strategy China might use to engage diplomatically with Taiwan without making it obvious. I ask about these islands because I wondered how China might react if Taiwan began to build an "oceanographic" station there that operated undersea drones for the purpose of "mapping and exploring" the undersea area around those islands while staying in international waters. I am sure China would react negatively, but it might be hard for China to attack the islands without provoking an armed conflict. Given the very large number of diesel-electric submarines in the Taiwan straits, a "scientific" base operating undersea drones would have defensive advantages for Taiwan. Who knows such an "oceanographic" facility might require the kind of construction that a military base would require.
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  43. The incidents you described took place 20 years ago when the fabrication of images and videos was more difficult to do. If this had happened today, and I was Neil Bush, then I would say that the photos and videos were deep fakes made by using doubles and image processing. He might very well get away with that. I am sure the CCP has thought of that "defense" and now must get some evidence that nobody could consider fake, perhaps DNA. Even in that case Neil Bush could say that someone, the housekeeper for example, could have collected material like hairs from which they extracted the DNA. I think the CCP would need a "blue dress" to make the case harder to refute. Given that a "blue dress" got a President impeached, one could imagine what the evidence might be, and it would be stronger than just photos and videos.
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  44.  @ketoswilly7581  Were you replying to some post that I made? I am not any sort of investor, and I can't see anything that even remotely resembles "raw, irrational emotion" in my comment. Perhaps you mean to reply to some other comment.
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  45. I must agree with the comments that take exception to your view of how benign Putin is for Ukraine. In the July speech from Putin that you quoted, Putin presented the Ukraine Russia shared culture and border as comparable to the relationship of Canada to the US, or Austria to Germany. In fact that is a false equivalence. Despite having history in common, Ukrainian and Russian are different though related languages. I have a friend in Ukraine who who grew up and lived in Crimea, but fled Crimea with her son when the Russians annexed it. She settled in Lviv in Western Ukraine, which about as far West as you can go in Ukraine. She and her son only spoke Russian, and now she is learning to speak Ukrainian. There is less difference between Ukrainian and Russian than there is between Cantonese and Mandarin. However, there is a lot more difference between Ukrainian and Russian than between English as spoken in Canada and English as spoken in the US. The US and Canada really do speak the same language. I should add the my friend in Ukraine views Russia with the same apprehension that my Taiwanese friends view the PRC. The real issue in both Ukraine and Taiwan is whether they can continue to develop as separate and democratic societies, or will they become subject to an autocratic regime even if they share common history, culture and speak closely related languages. Ukraine should be permitted to decide it's destiny, and Taiwan permitted to decide it's destiny. Neither should have that decision made for them.
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  46. Precisely the most important point.
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  47. The US never had a treaty requires the US send troops to defend Ukraine specifically because Ukraine lacked membership in NATO mutual defense treaty. The nature of NATO seems difficult for many people to understand. NATO is purely defensive and NATO treaty requires an attack on a NATO member, but Ukraine is a member of NATO, and Russia specifically wanted assurances Ukraine would never join NATO . The US was observing rather strict treaty commitments in NATO, and Biden stressed that no American infantry would go to Ukraine to avoid feeding Russia propaganda that NATO wanted to attack. I am unsure about the precise conditions outlined in US Defense of Taiwan Treaty. Can someone explain those provisions?
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  48. It seems to me that any economy operating without debt implies low expectation that the economy will grow. Countries need to take on debt to grow faster. Of course as Lei has pointed out in this video, a country can borrow more than it can pay back over time.
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  49.  @MrAdhiSuryana  Absolutely correct. That is consistent with the point about companies taking on debt. Needing to take on debt to continue or expand operations, some companies must turn to sources of debt that hurt the company. The fact that companies need to take on debt never implied that they made good choices about where they got the money, and who lent the money. Loan sharks exist because companies need loans, but reputable institutions refuse to lend money to the company because the bank judges the company's ability as poor. Enter stock rating systems like Standard & Poors, who provide the ratings on which banks rely to make decisions about whether a company can service the debt and the bank will get a return on their loan. Stock rating companies make mistakes, but their purpose is clear. A common practice these days is for companies to buy back shares to increase the value of the shares in the market, but the real purpose is to assure compensation for executives whose income depends on stock options and therefore depend in the growth of the value of the company stock. Companies who do this really are not buying back shares because the company believes it will earn more by investing in itself. Stock buy-backs should be used to invest in the income generators, such as new manufacturing facilities, rather than to assure to assure that stock options in the company have value. If the company does depend on retaining specific employee expertise, as some service companies such as consulting companies do them stock buy backs to increase employee compensation and thus retain those employees is a case of investing of the company investing in itself to continue company growth. It may also be a way to launder money through the company as you so rightly indicated in your comment.
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  50.  @drumpfdon760  However, such permission is easily obtained because most boards are controlled by the executive management rather than stock holders. I should add that I speak from first hand experience from the time I worked at a very large transnational corporate whose name I know even you would recognize. I was a low level executive and yet stock options made up a significant part of even my compensation. Also my job involved working very closely with the finance organization who confirmed that the main purpose of the stock buybacks was to make sure the options held by the executives continued to retain value. You understand young whipper snapper? BTW I am glad the wumao Management replaced the previous with you because your English is much better. I still don't understand why you use the expression "old kidd" because nobody native speaker uses that expression. Perhaps there is something other expression that you have mixed up
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  51.  @paulbradford6475  What you say is true, and I have applicable quote from someone who would know. “A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” Josef Stalin
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  52. I agree that understanding Chinese the Chinese language is a pre-requisite for understanding Chinese culture. However, I expect that politicians as well as business people want to learn Chinese to ingratiate themselves with the Chinese rather than to understand Chinese culture. I should add that I expect the same about people wanting to speak English. Most people who learn to speak English for purely functional reasons. I should add that I have difficulty imagining any general cultural value in speaking English given how widespread English is as a second language in the world. Even a native English speaker would be hard pressed to understand what the culture of English speakers would mean. By contrast there is a distinctive culture among native Chinese speakers. The Chinese even have a distinctive cuisine. Referring to something like English cuisine is at best a joke.
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  53. You mentioned the Three Kingdoms in your description for this video. Would you consider producing a video about the Three Kingdoms and the Warring States periods in Chinese history?
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  54. That sure is a lot of "coincidences"
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  55. The view that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is bogged down is seriously mistaken. Here is a link to a video that explains precisely what is happening with Russian invasion, and I will follow the video link with the comments about it made by a friend of mine who is a retired Professor of German History. Russo-Ukraine War: What the West Doesn't Understand EP 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5BAZ2bBUzM Cappy is especially interesting. He quite correctly describes old Red Army techniques that are now being used, beginning with the young, untrained conscripts as cannon fodder. Interestingly, the four (!!) battles for Kharkiv (Kharkov) in WWII, at least two of which pitted Manstein against Konev, are good examples. So too was the Soviet move across Poland and into Germany in 1944-45, culminating with the truly devastating assault on the Seelow Heights east of Berlin. I have been to the Seelow Heights many times. The landscape there is full of hundreds of small Soviet war cemeteries with 50 or 100 bodies in them. Interestingly, current Russian war plans have an even longer ancestry. In the early summer of 1848, Habsburg forces withdrew from Prague, surrounded the city, and bombarded it into submission. This became the standard technique for controlling big cities. They did the same thing to Vienna later that fall (with the Croats acting like the Chechens now). In 1870 the Prussians surrounded and besieged Paris, otherwise controlling all of France north of the Loire. After the provisional government (the "Versaillais") capitulated to the Germans, the Versaillais themselves besieged a Paris that was governed by the Commune, until finally, in May 1871, the Versaillais breached the Communards' defenses and in incredibly brutal street fighting retook Paris block by block, taking advantage of the broad boulevards that Napoleon III had built specifically to thwart urban uprisings. Just as Ike built the interstate highways as defense corridors, the wide boulevards that people love in Paris were built for military reasons.
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  56. I have family in Japan, and know that JR operates at a lose, and requires Government subsides. I had always thought that China had made their high-speed trains more economical. It shocked me when I saw this video.
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  57. Thanks!
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  58. I am sorry but I take exception to your analysis of "political correctness" in English. The purpose of politically correct speech is inclusiveness, and to avoid estranging or marginalizing people. Take careful notice of what political leaders in the US take such exception to the idea of "politically correct" speech. A concept like a person is known both by the people who support it as well as the people who attack it. Ask yourself who in the society of the United States defends politically correct speech, and who attacks it.
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  59. How can one expect a Republican to do anything except favor the power and economic elites over the people. Keep in mind that the Bush family is a political dynasty in the US. Nothing surprising about a Republican supporting an oligarchy in China given that the Republican Party supports oligarchic rule in the US.
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  60.  @johndoe-vc1we  Given the flare-up about Quemoy and Matsu has historical precedent and could make a favorable target for propaganda purposes. Eventhough Quemoy and Matsu are legally part of Taiwan, current population voted for the Kuomintang and seems to favor unification with China. Quemoy and Matsu would provide an ideal stand-off with the US and China. They are definitely part of Taiwan. Taiwan would have to respond militarily, but the US would likely hold back because military help to Taiwan would like inflame tensions. An attack on Taiwan would present real diplomatic challenges for China, and for that reason China might hold back out of concern for looking like an aggressor despite their consistent claim that Taiwan is a part of China. What kind of incident or maybe false flag operation might China cause to give them an excuse for invading Quemoy and Matsu? Some fishing boat incident? A collision between a Chinese Coast Guard ship?
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  61.  @johndoe-vc1we  No I NEVER wanted the KMT to win elections. My point was that the KMT was popular in Quemoy and Matsu and therefore the CCP might be welcomed and they sure could falsrly report harassment of the KMT supports to justify an invasion of those islands. That would present quite a dilemma for the US given that Quemoy and Matsu are properly part of Taiwan and yet not worth going to a full scale war over. The Russian invasion of the Donbass was ostensibly to protect harassed Russian speakers and that is a page out of Hitler's playbook for invading and annexing the Sudatenland to protect oppressed German speakers.
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  62. As I recall, Shanghai is where Jiang has his strongest political base. Is it possible that the Shanghai CCP is making the Zero COVID policy as harsh as possible to work up resentment against Xi?
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  63.  @drumpfdon760  Did just hear more noise from Dopey DRUMPF Don!
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  64.  @SanaSamaha  Someone can dislike a person's behavior, and yet love the person. Happens in families all the time. I admit it can often be a source of emotional pain though.
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  65. When will all cash transactions be expected to end? To do that people must be forced to exchange cash for digital RMB before they can spend that money? I do not see this going well for the CCP. I can scarcely imagine any country could do that without without serious social disruptions. This is going to be a real serious "watch this space for future developments" situation.
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  66. Imagine if the US engaged in hostage diplomacy the way the CPP does. If the CCP attacked Taiwan or Japan, then the US would be at war with the CPP. The Japanese Internment during the Second World War is a stain on the character of the US. Nevertheless, perhaps putting the relatives of the CCP in "protective custody" would temper the actions by the CCP leaders. I think Canada and Australia might also consider protective custody for relatives of the CCP. Surely none of us want those people to get hurt as a result of a war with the CCP. I wonder if this enters the calculations of the CCP about war with Taiwan, or does the CCP have faith that the US, Canada and Australia would never engage in the kind of "hostage diplomacy" that the CCP does.
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  67.  @drumpfdon760  You need to brush up on the law mate. Meng was a flight-risk, and that warrants some kind of restriction on movement in any country. However, I can easily understand why an apologist for the CCP would lack any understanding of law given that the CCP considers any law, treaty or agreement as something they can discard whenever it suits their purpose.
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  68.  @drumpfdon760  All of your replies are concluded by laughter. That tells me never take this seriously. I guess I should reply to your ignorant statements with a deep belly laugh😆 Of course I should expect such a reply from a member of the CCP 50 cent army
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  69.  @drumpfdon760  Is CPC some kind of long-chain polymer plastic?
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  70. Once again, you have hit the ball out of the park, if I may use a Baseball analogy. This really is a great series. One thing it has taught me is that as much as I might detest the authoritarianism of Xi Jinping, he seems to differ from the leaders before him and since Deng because Xi genuinely does what he thinks is best for China as opposed for what simply enriches himself. The fact that Xi is a patriot does nothing to justify the democide of the Uyghurs or the Debt Traps and bullying of other countries. Xi's patriotism conflicts with the interests of my own country, the United States, and I know whose side I am on. In fairness, I should also acknowledge that the US has done plenty of bullying, especially in the Western Hemisphere, and in that sense the US and China have conducted themselves in a similar fashion. Thankfully the US has, until perhaps lately, avoided setting up anything like the kind of surveillance society that China has. I do share with you the hope that Xi will be a Chinese Mikhail Gorbachev. Let's hope CCP infighting will not lead to an invasion of Taiwan as it led to the suppression of democracy in Hong Kong. That was a great loss.
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  71. @crazywarlord777 I quite agree. However,he does appear to be motivated by the needs of China rather than as an opportunity to enrich himself.
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  72.  @cdl0  Well the Japanese introduce new Kanji for technical terms, and of course they also use phonetically transliterated terms. I was directly in the project to translate and publish Japanese language documentation for the UNIX Operating System, and I got to see how they translated certain quite technical terms. As I mentioned, they often used newly constructed Kanji or gave previous Kanji an additional meaning as one often does in English.
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  73. Well the Chinese take matters of social respectability very serious. I have watched with with great interest how China says they never invited the countries engaged in the he boycott, and then in the next breath say how offended they are by the diplomatic boycott. A more self assured country would say that was the perrogitave of the boycotting countries and leave it at that. Maybe express regret that the boycotting will chosen to miss out on the enjoyment of watching the athletes compete. Showing false sympathy, and crying crocodile tears who have worked so much better for the Chinese. Best would have been showing complete indifference as I said before
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  74.  @petergilkes7082  Just respect mate
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  75. Watch the video about Deng Xiaoping and Tianamen Square uprising, and take special note of a CCP official named Zhao Ziyang. His autobiography entitled "Prisoner of the State" makes for very good reading. It was smuggled out of China in pieces and reassembled to produce the book published outside China. I should note that every high ranked officials in government or private companies has done something reprehensible. A close inspection of Mahatma Ghandi's life even shows some exploitation of others. For example, like Mao, Ghandi in his old age often slept with young women, and that is a form of sexual coercion by a man in power. In Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance" the character of the Pirate King sings, "Many a king on a first class throne must manage somehow to get through more dirty deeds than ever I do"
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  76.  @drumpfdon760  Well if the factions used deadly force on one another then I would call that a civil war. We have not seen that publicly, but it might be going on privately. China lacks transparency, and foreign journalists are prevented from covering many political and social events in China. I trust you will take this seriously, and avoid your "Hahaha..." response which does nothing to progress the conversation in these comments, and in fact impedes such progress.
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  77.  @simplelife7332  Huh??
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  78. Another analysis that one only finds on Lei's channel. I have reference and linked Lei's channel on s number of responses I have made to articles on Medium. I hope Lei will put some articles on Medium with links to her videos. Her work deserves wider exposure
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  79. I very much look forward to the videos about Modern Chinese History prior to the Communist takeover. I enjoyed this one immensely.
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  80. You said that you had stayed away from politics when you lived in China before you emigrated to the US. I am glad you decided to take an interest in politics. As the Ancient Greek statesman Pericles said, "You might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you." You are following Pericles advice. I wish more people would, even if they disagreed with me. At least they would take politics seriously as Pericles advised.
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  81. "East rises, West falls" is what the Japanese said during the Second World War and is why the Japanese national flag was the Rising Sun. The Japanese only use the Rising Sun flag on their Naval Ensign, but Naval Ensigns and National Flags differ in most nations.
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  82. I can't say I miss his useless and derogatory replies because I welcome their absence. I do find his absence a bit surprising. I guess the CCP decided they were wasting money on him. One less wumao to deal with. Let's hope more fail by the wayside.
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  83. I suggest a woman with high moral standards, and integrity. I can think of one woman right away.
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  84. I believe that the US would hesitate to attack Naval vessels who were enforcing a blockade. However, I think that the PLA trying to impose a no-fly would be much harder because the US would without hesitation attempt to land airplanes on Taiwan even if only in the name of humanitarian aid. If the PLA choose to attack a US plane delivering humanitarian aid then that would be the PLA striking the first blow which could serve as a casus belli that the US would use to justify a retaliation on the PLA. I expect the retaliation would be an aerial retaliation, and that the US would avoid a direct naval engagement until the PLA directly attacked a US warship. After an aerial attack the US might then send ships to Taiwan for humanitarian aid, and if those ships were attacked then the US would engage with warships. I doubt if the US would attack the Chinese mainland because that could trigger a nuclear response from China. However, the US would likely invade the islands in the South Chinese Sea especially those near the Philippines because those islands are considered in violation of the International Law of the Sea as well as the Philippines having a justifiable claim to those islands. It would be interesting to see if Vietnam also invaded the islands that they claim are theirs. There is a long standing distrust between Vietnam and China that goes back hundreds of years. The Vietnamese have long been known as an aggressive power in the Southeast Asia. I do believe that the US and China would avoid striking the territory of either country including a direct attack by China on Guam because that kind of attack could provoke a interchange of strategic weapons. If Japan chooses to land troops on disputed islands between Japan and China, and China attacks an acknowledged part of Japan such as Okinawa then that opens the floodgates because the US has very cleat treaty obligations with Japan. In short, a no-fly zone over Taiwan would lead to serious escalations on both sides.
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  85. Quemoy and Matsu helps Chinese nationalism because the US prevented CCP from invading Quemoy and Matsu in 1955. This allows Xi to present an invasion of Quemoy and Matsu as a victory over the US and Taiwan. For more the Quemoy and Matsu Crisis in 1955 read this Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis the Second Taiwan Crisis was in some ways just a replay of the First Taiwan Crisis. However, the Third Taiwan Crisis in 1995 is most interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis
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  86. I fear that as the story about Miss China and Mr. Wall Street the in-laws did the choosing, and Miss China had very little choice in the the matter.
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  87. I like the new format. Have you considered editing your streams to remove "dead air" and retain only best Q & A?
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  88.  @andrewsarantakes639  thanks for the clarification
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  89. I just realized that the stories could be about Miss China and her evil twin sister Miss CCP. Sometimes Miss CCP dresses to look like Miss China to confuse and trick people into thinking that Miss CCP and Miss China are the same person.
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  90. Neither has Russia, snd we see where that leads.
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  91. Blockchain uses vast sums of electricity. At present, Bitcoin uses as much electricity as New Zealand. That is unsustainable. Block-chain mining should take place in near Earth Orbit. The bitcoin miner satellites can use solar energy, and avoid creating the pollution on Earth. Instead we should work to improve Nuclear Fission Reactor. Please do add Fusion because Fusion will make the fusion reactor itself radioactive
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  92.  @drumpfdon760  When people make comments critical of China, you like to ask people if they have ever been the China. So let me ask you. Have you ever spent time "in" a transnational corporation?
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  93.  @drumpfdon760  now I know you are full of it.
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  94.  @drumpfdon760  I don't know what I don't know, and a vixen is a female fox, and a bachelor is an unmarried man. ROTFLMAO
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  95.  @drumpfdon760  you really are silly. Anyone who has spent any time studying logic would have recognized what you did. You are a hoot man, a real knucklehead. Kiddy-boy. Muah ahahaha!!!
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  96.  @drumpfdon760  Hahaha!!!
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  97.  @drumpfdon760  Gnothi seauton
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  98. Now that Xi had himself declared lifetime head of the CCP, I guess that any successor will have wait a long time. Unless Xi gets assassinated.
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  99. The Ukrainian situation in the Second World War has very disturbing elements to it. In many cases the Ukrainians working with Nazis committed war crimes and atrocities at least as horrific as the Germans did, and in some cases even worse if one can imagine. Ukrainian death squads under Nazi authority committed ethnic cleansing and other genocidal actions. Actions by the Soviet NKVD, secret police against Ukrainians whose only "crime" was getting captured also matched the ferocity of Nazi retribution just the the posting I am replying to correctly indicated. Russian and Ukrainian soldiers repatriated as POW were summarily executed by the NKVD without exception.
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  100.  @eagle2855  never been charged with having a closed mind; quite contrary. A bit more research would help you too My comments were based on what I learned about JR when I lived in Japan.
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  101. Wow! A simple statement that JR was economical infeasible, but thought Chinese high-speed rail was until I saw this vid Nas elicited a torrent of abuse from some Anthony fellow. Can't quite understand why. I suppose one should only make comments where you claim complete knowledge about a subject (Aristocles wonders what personal attack this comment will elicit).
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  102. I have been continually impressed by the data and facts you bring to your discussions. The infographics are good too, and I know from experience how hard that can be. Your direct and even tone of delivery makes it much easier to hear the content of your message without the distraction of the histrionics that some commentators on China have. Some of your segments have been multi-part segments and others on closely related and subjects. Often these were separate segments because they were about specific events separated in time although you explained how the previous segments related to one another. Have you ever considered joining together what are now separate videos on subject into one longer video? I do not mean you would need much if any additional editing. In many cases it would require editing to join one segment to another with perhaps a short intro in the front. Does that make sense?
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  103.  @LeisRealTalk  Yes indeed it could. You often point out other videos you have on a topic, and it would be great if those videos were already set up to play. A playlist would do that admirably. Wish I have thought of that. :) A playlist would also allow you to adjust the order until you thought it was right then if it made sense you could combine the videos in a single video, or add a chapter # in the title as you did with the matter of CCP Succession. I look forward to a "lecture series" from Prof. Lei.
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  104.  @johntaylor2683  fixed
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  105.  @drumpfdon760  in fact I have at least to the extent of donating to organizations who need to feed people in ANY war zone including Afghanistan. What contributions have you made, or does the CCP prevent that because of their control over foreign currency exchanges? Incidentally what does "GBU" mean?
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  106.  @drumpfdon760  Mt 6:3-4 But when you do charitable deeds to men, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your giving may be in secret." Thereis the full quote, and indeed I stop from keeping records to avoid seeing the total amounts. The joke on you DRUMP Dump. Take look at tell us how much you give, just a % of income Hehehehe
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  107. As I watched your report a number of aphorisms came to mind: The higher the monkey climbs the more he exposes his tail. The higher you climb the ladder the farther it is when you fall. It also reminded me of the statement by Louis XIV: L'etat c'est moi It suggests a paraphrase to apply to Xi: Le parti c'est moi. We know what happened as a result of Louis XIV establishing an absolute monarchy in France. I wonder what will happen if Xi loses power.
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  108. Look like the Netherlands took action on the situation you described: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4bkw0_w0uc and Canada did as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_hSY-QMO2o
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  109. I think the CCP has taken the correct approach in effectively quarantining the athletes. That was the lesson to learn from the mess that Japan made of the Summer Games. However, the Japanese at least had enough sense to avoid making the situation worse for people in cities outside the Olympic venue. I think Japan has learned the lesson that many cities have now learned. The burden and cost of the Olympics is just too high for any city to bear, and the pandemic just made it worse. I knew people in Sydney who made sure to get out of town when the Olympics were held there just because of the chaos it caused to transportation. The IOC should find a permanent venue for the Olympics, and hold them at that place every four years. Better yet, get rid of the Olympics, and put more emphasis on the various World Championship tournaments in the different sports.
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  110.  @mjouwbuis  Good point. It might even be a pre-emptive strike by Xi just to show what he can do.
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  111. Russia has long indulged in this mentality of victimization, and for the Russians especially at the hands of the Anglo-Saxons as Putin often says. China suffers from the same sense of being a victim at the hands of the West, and they have history to back it up. However, such a mentality of victimization never goes well for a country who indulges in it.
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  112. The CCP might benefit from looking at the measures taken by FDR to mitigate the Great Depression. Government injecting cash into the economy as advocated by John Maynard Keynes has helped maintain the consumer spending that drives the US economy. The comments by Prof. Li Dao Qui match those of the US Republican Party. I am most upset by his attack on Carbon reduction. China is crucial to have any significant effect on the climate crisis. The most upsetting aspect of Chinese Economic problems is to remember exactly what it was the ended the Great Depression ... World War II. Having a war helps CCP resolve many internal problems. Wars consume manufactured products at a furious pace, and therefore increase employment and industrial activity. A war will also justify a sacrifice in quality of life, and distract from internal problems. To my mind these economic problems in the PRC increases the likelihood of an invasion of Taiwan in the short term. It just occurred to me that new kind of Olympics might help the entire global economy. People may think I am joking but I am serious. Instead of trying to demilitarize space, I suggest we militarize space and demilitarize Earth by a Space Military Olympics conducted at the Lagrange Points L4 and L5 to avoid increasing the debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) which has already become a problem. Perhaps called the Lagrange Olympics, it would avoid human casualties because all the competition will take place between automated weapons. Industrial capacity in LEO can supply the "athletes" in the LaGrange Olympics, and could also supply the industrial needs of the humans on Earth while Earth focuses on producing food for people, and caring for the health of people. Keep in mind that anyone could decide to move the military conflict back to Earth, but every country participates in Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) strategy such as the US and USSR followed during the Cold War. All anyone needs to do is to drop a big enough rock from space onto Earth. That wiped out the dinosaurs in the past, and could wipe out the human race in the future. Perhaps such an existential threat to all humanity held in the hands of all humanity might cause people to respect one another more given the consequences of treating enough people so badly that a large enough group would chose to drop a rock on all of us, themselves included.
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  113. However, this is not crypto currency in the sense that Bitcoin is. In the case of Chinese digital money, the amount of money in circulation is decided on by a Central Bank, in this case The Bank of China. This is just a digital form on the existing RMB. Same as if the US Department of Treasury decided to switch from paper dollars to digital dollars. In a sense all printed currency is digital because they have serial numbers on them. If a dollar is ripped in half or even partially burned, as long as you have the two parts of the dollar bill with serial numbers on it then you can go to a bank and exchange them for an undamaged printed dollar bill. So even the US has a digital currency.
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  114. ​ @LeisRealTalk  When you recapped the CCP History, I was surprised you said nothing about Zhou En Li. I realize that Zhou lacked any aspirations to lead the Party, but he might serve as a good example of a very high ranking position who supported with patience of Job, and who was forced into a very public admission of his reactionary thoughts. I have always thought that made Mao very pleased became it showed Mao what kind of control he had over Zhou. So maybe Zhou is a unnecessary, and would serve to distraction from explanation of how succession occurs. Whenever I look CCP succession, I am reminded of when Winston Churchill about Kremlin succession fights "as a bulldog fight under a rug: “An outsider only hears the growling, and when he sees the bones fly out from beneath it is obvious who won.” Thanks for pulling rug off the CCP succession fights so we can whois contending with whom, and how they are doing it.
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  115. The policy you have reported here has to be the most bizarre economic incentive I have ever heard of. The CCP should twist people's arms to invest in improving the life of the farmers, and perhaps offer some food coupons as the dividend for such investments. Although I like the investing in farmers better, it would make better sense to force people to invest in the stock market. Investing in the farmers would be better.
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  116.  @petergilkes7082  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party
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  117.  @petergilkes7082  CCP not CPC
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  118. Look at the article, and listen to Lei who says "CCP"
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  119.  @petergilkes7082  Well you need to get sign up as an editor of Wikipedia. It is easy. Then go fix that as well. I presume you have informed Lei about her error as well
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  120.  @simplelife7332  ah I see you joined about one year ago and focus solely on YouTube videos about China. I think your handlers at the CCP may get disappointed now that it is clear you are part of their propaganda offensive. Having identified you as a CCP shill means I can safely ignore your comments in the future.
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  121. I feel terrible to the people who bought apartments from Evergrande.
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  122. Lei, your analysis of the Chinese football industry is another example of your excellent analysis. I do note that it is almost half of this overall video, while the section on the semiconductor company Tsinghua Unigroup is the other half. I know you have other videos on China's efforts to build a semiconductor industry. Do you feel that making separate playlists on the China sports industry and the Chinese semiconductor industry would prove helpful? You could split this video into the part on the semiconductor industry and putting it into a playlist with your other videos on the Chinese semiconductor industry. Then you could take the segment on the football and create a playlist about the Chinese sports industry as I recall you do have some videos about CCP and NBA relations in another video, although I may have that mistaken. Your videos are so good, I make this suggestion with some reluctance, but I hope you will consider this editorial suggestion.
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  123. The CCP learned from US Corporations who have used stock buybacks to keep their stock value high make sure that the options held by their Executives will retain value. Lest you think this is speculation on my part, I can assure you that friends of mine in the Fortune 100 where I worked have told me that is precisely what has been happening. I guess the US Corporation have run out of profits to artificially prop up their stock prices.
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  124.  @drumpfdon760  I think you have mistaken me for someone who cares about your opinions. In future you can save yourself the effort of replying to anything I post because I will ignore anything that I see comes from you
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  125.  @bbj7383  Thanks! If I ever get over to Taiwan again (unlikely) I will make a point of visited.
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  126. Synthesizing quartz would require using silicon as one of the ingredients. However, silicon is what you want to get from quartz. If you already have the silicon in it's elemental form then that is what you want to make wafers. Having elemental silicon is the objective, and quartz is a means to the objective.
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  127. I should add to my previous reply that when someone speaks about "pure quartz" they are referring to pure silica (silicon dioxide) without any additional elements. There are many types of quartz, such as rose quartz for example. Rose quartz is just as much quartz as pure silica. In fact it is more than pure quartz because it has extra impurities.
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  128.  @drumpfdon760  why two D's? Nobody speaking English uses double D's in the word "kid" unless they mean the family name "Kidd" as in the name "Captain Kidd" who was a famous pirate. Therefore, I am left to conclude that double D's fascinate you because even your name has double D's. There actually is a name for a double D fixation, but then I am sure you know what I mean.
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  129.  @drumpfdon760  Sorry to see you have returned. I hoped to see your back as you walked away. ROTLMAO
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  130.  @drumpfdon760  Don't quit your day job.
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  131.  @drumpfdon760  so just for the entertainment value ... on what do you base calling me "an old, childish, and hypocrite kidd" ? BTW, I really do recommend fixing your spelling of "kidd" to "kid" which has only one "d" rather two. I thought they taught you guys better English in your CCP troll school.
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  132. Wow!
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  133. Another stand out video! By the way, at time 7:39, "Corruption" misspelled
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  134. Oh darn it! I am not a Tiger, I was born in the year of the Dragon.
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  135. Now I will believe anything about the health conditions of Xi and of Putin. There have been recent speculations about whether Putin has Parkinson's disease. When Putin and Xi met prior to the Olympics, Xi mentioned to Putin that he and Putin were very close in age. Putin is a few months older than Xi. As it happens I am the same age as Putin and Xi. Trust me. At my age any health problem is possible. The human body just begins to break down.
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  136. I recall that Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy countries were the European countries with the greatest number of Chinese Police Stations?
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  137. The Chinese characters for Japan are exactly the same as the Japanese Kanji for Nihon, the Japanese word for Japan. Are the Chinese characters for Japan/Nihon are purely phonetic, or do the Chinese deliberately use the same characters as the Japanese use to refer to Japan? https://youtu.be/FbMCZxxl0Iw
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  138. China makes a serious mistake thinking the Biden Administration is weak. The CCP has little regard for laws and treaties and fails to comprehend anyone respecting limitations imposed by a treaty organization such as NATO. The Biden Administration has shown great restraint by avoiding a direct confrontation with Russia while doing much to provide weapons to Ukraine. If you want to demonstrate that NATO exists purely for defensive purposes then you must avoid using the NATO treaty as a means to attack Russia without Russia having first attacked a NATO. It should make the CCP concerned that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused the EU countries to consider having an EU military as well as causing Germany to reverse seventy years of foreign policy and now will expand it's military budget. The Biden Administration accomplished that through diplomatic means. The behavior of the CCP in the Pacific has pushed Japan to reverse the same seventy year policy against using the military in foreign engagements. The Biden Administration encouraged that as well. What the Biden Administration has done in Europe using the NATO treaty to get the European Country to rearm, and using Mutual Defense Agreements in the Pacific to increase weapons sold to Taiwan, to encourage the Japanese to expand their self defense to include any country attacking Taiwan should give the CCP pause. Attacking Taiwan before the end of the Biden Administration would provide a political gift to Biden. The US can cloth itself in self righteous indignation and even make comparisons with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. A war with China would close political divisions in the US. There is another aspect to a war with China that as a US citizen it shames me to admit, racism would help fuel a war against China in a way that a war against Russia never would. The white supremacists including those in the Republican Party support Putin eventhough Russia invading Ukraine involves "white" people fighting one another. When it comes to China then all the political parties unite in hostility to China. The white-supremacists would support a war on China for reasons alone. The fact the US would have Japan, Taiwan and Korea as allies works in favor of white-supremacists thinking because it would be the US, a "white" country, leading Asian countries to counter an Asian adversary. A war between China and the US has some many ugly overtones that it makes it disgusting to imagine. However the CCP could deliberately walk into such a war because of the CCP already using Han racism as an excuse for the genocide of the Uyghurs. We could easily end up with a Third World War in which China and Russian are allied against an coalition of US, EU, Japan and ANZ (don't forget Australia, it can function as a huge air base). The CCP could cause all of that to occur if they attacked Taiwan.
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  139. What is the age breakdown on those numbers. I expect the younger the respondent then the more likely respondents doubted the US commitment.
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  140. So in Chinese, women are by definition the "better half".
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  141.  @pudding7074  Precisely my point in the historical case I cited
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