Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "TechAltar" channel.

Considering the amount of censorship and limitations Beijing places against foreign competitors, Western companies don't have as much to lose since they were never as dependent on the Chinese customer base.
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Manufacturing is the least value-added of the supply chain (i.e. the "Smiling Curve"), hence why it's so sensitive to low wages and tax breaks. China is already grossly overcapacity and it shows with the cratering of employment among the Chinese people.
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Right, I lived there and the locals were often so relieved to express their true less-rosy outlook speaking in English (most censorship and state security actions happen over Chinese-language evidence).
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Uhh, you do have to pay to enter quite a few of those parks and museums. Often need to make a reservation too (only through their specific WeChat mini app which you have to find and register with) even for free ones during visitor lulls. Also effective healthcare (not the mere IV drip and painkiller combo given at a primary-level "hospital") is closer to after-insurance America prices, and education gets surprisingly pricey (tuition is charged from high school onward).
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 @schmetterling4477 Right, petty crime on the public street is rare, because it's once the doors are closed where the real shady stuff happens.
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Lower margins offering less trusted currency and less stable customer base though. China's primary market target is still the EU and the US.
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It would involve embarrassing power shortages by denying operation of new coal plants if they're to be serious though.
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Also can't afford it. Shenzhen often tops the list of most costly housing.
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Nefarious or not, it was a deliberate choice to anglicize their branding and not sound obviously Chinese with all the disposable connotations they've developed. It's similar to how 希音 gets marketed as SHEIN instead of Xīyīn.
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Even in the rural areas there's no privacy, in fact it could be worse with the small town habits of everyone watching and gossiping about each other. And that's before considering your smartphone which is practically as much of a requirement to live there as your government issued ID -- smartphones are essentially the perfect espionage tool for whoever controls it, and there was always some strange behavior (settings changed, recording noises, lost location, etc) that arose at least every few weeks on the phones of foreigners with a Chinese SIM inserted.
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That's assuming the authorities care. Child kidnappings are a real problem in China, but gets little attention because it's politically insignificant -- if anything the parents who try to raise awareness are seen as a bigger threat.
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It would target providers who conspire to use VPNs to circumvent sanctions. Going after individual users would just gum up the justice system and incite popular backlash.
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Japan and Korea still rely on American chip designs and European fab components. Sanctions would be just as devastating to their operations.
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Right, there's a deliberate administrative suppression for ICE cars and motorbikes. That's why EVs and scooter-shaped electric "bicycles" are the norm nowadays, long-term maintainability be damned.
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@bladeofapollyon537 A lot of tech runs rural areas as well. American agriculture is overpowered because of how automated the production has become... hence why among the biggest proponents for user repairability are farmers fighting John Deere for the ability to maintain and modify their tractors.
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US companies can and have resisted calls by the US government to cooperate; privacy is marketable with American consumers and largely worth defending. In China privacy isn't really expected, and the law there (which the CPC is above anyway) demands that companies not resist state security. That's the difference.
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@Ethio news China has certainly been trying, but they can't even feed themselves without imports because they polluted too much of their arable land with industrial pollution and new urban developments. A disruption to free trade caused by any Mainland aggression cannot be hidden in the explosion of food prices and collapse in quality, and the Party can only tell the Chinese people to ignore their emptied stomachs and disabling indigestion for so long.
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Or they desperately want to think so. This coming from the same narrow-minded technocracy whose focus on loose environmental regulation and one-child families now cripples China with unreversed aging, overleveraged debts, and deep chemical pollution of its soils and waters. And unlike last time, the Party won't have either the economic prosperity or the ballot count to retain popular buy-in to their grand plans.
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Japanese, Korean, and Chinese products were considered low-margin trash in their first attempts at global products too.
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China is already so protectionist that it bans access to Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. Chinese users have to turn on a VPN just to avoid the shitshow of a Baidu search.
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It's no longer the constant thick smog of before, but it's still not healthy. Seems only India and SE Asia have it worse, while you can breathe easier practically everywhere else in the world.
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Well you wouldn't hear from anyone who's within China and not aligned with the Party narrative, even though they exist in considerable (and probably alarming) numbers.
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@nichellesimpson6709 WeChat and Alipay are apps, and those QR codes link to a "mini app" which usually have the same registration requirements as a dedicated app. Having an active (unblocked) account on both super-apps is practically required for everything you do in China. And they're only useful in China; my WeChat and Alipay have since been dormant on a spare phone I had used while living in China.
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Austria seems to expect privacy in public, since they have such restrictions on even private car dashboard cameras that deploying them as intended (i.e. just recording what's seen on a normal drive) usually violates so many privacy laws that it's easy for the footage of a traffic incident to become legally inadmissible.
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More like Macron is looking for a "win" to salvage his tenuous presidency, while the EU as a whole becomes more guarded against Beijing.
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They've been trying to this whole time, but still are not beyond theft or forced tech transfers for the bulk of their gains. This will become even harder as foreign firms divest and customers become more wary of Designed in China services.
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If November 2021 was an indication, it's not in the way the Party desires. Now they're dealing with mass unemployment and a collapse of family wealth with their real estate financing crisis.
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They were already trying to do so, but the bans mean they can't parasite as hard from American resources and will have to blow their own money developing replacements. What they make will likely not interoperate as well outside of China's insulated bubble either.
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If designed for it the battery can extract some energy back with regenerative braking. However the mass of the bike and rider and relatively low speeds amount to practically no gain. Even on a 50+ kg e-moped it's hardly worth it.
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Turbofan engines they designed and made themselves, or bought through a foreign firm and still require foreign managers and QA?
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The ruling CPC is a backstabbing parasite, I'm surprised it took the US this long to finally debride with as much effort as it really requires. Beijing has long declared the US as its mortal enemy and views lesser nations as places to dominate, which are antithetical to a post-colonial world.
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@unifieddynasty The PLA predates Xi, and they're generally more hawkish than its civilian leadership and disturbingly expresses more foreign policy independence than a military ought to.
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It balances the well-supported army of Red China shills. I lived in Beijing and if anything I learned that the more pessimistic reports about the Mainland tend to be closer to the truth.
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