Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Patrick Boyle: China is Killing Their Economy" video.

  1. Not the way Chinese companies pour it though. They often skimp on cement so it crumbles into dust even by hand.
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  2. The average American worker is 7x more productive per work hour than the average Chinese, and the gap seems to be growing too. The PRC can't politically afford to automate to the same degree, that's why there's constant images of menial labor for even easily roboticized tasks. China already has a major issue of social immobility biased towards family connections, putting everyone else out of work just makes the society as brittle as the late Qing and early Republic eras.
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  3. Lose your principal hand over fist, just like a Chinese homeowner.
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  4. "Wars" that contain longstanding local conflicts and maintain sea and air lanes of communication and trade for the rest of the world. There's a reason America currently focuses support to Ukraine (Danube River and Bosporus Strait) and Israel (Red Sea and Suez Canal), as opposed to say Congo or Myanmar.
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  5. It doesn't. Beijing just wants to solidify control of its western borderlands (and ideally expand further) just like every dynasty in its past.
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  6. Having survived through Zero-COVID Mainland China, no it's pretty bleak among the locals too. Think the Great Recession except your home is underwater forever along with nearly all your family's wealth.
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  7. Having lived in sun-Saharan Africa, I can say the locals on the street are a lot more suspicious and more disappointed about Chinese builds than their politicians say. BRI is not producing the pro-China shifts that Beijing expected, and ironically are becoming more cautious with what and how to commit foreign aid just as Western counterparts have been warning about.
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