Comments by "Philip B" (@philipb2134) on "PolyMatter" channel.

  1. 06:58 The Netherlands is listed as PRC's 8th largest export customer; but this is misleading. Much of that turnover is landed in Rotterdam, for final delivery to eastern Europe, to Germany's Ruhr industrial heartland, to Switzerland, to much of France, and beyond.
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  2. Approx 09:28 "China buys one fourth of the wold's oil by value." I challenge this assertion. It is quite credible that PR China buys a quarter of internationally shipped petroleum and derivatives, but the US is a major consumer of these, as well as a huge producer of crude.
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  3.  @ToriZealot  I had simply pointed out that the stats for NL imports were misleading.
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  4. @elmohead That might feel like fun. Prices fall, profits fall, employment falls. If you have wealth to spend, it's going to feel great, for a while; if you need to work, these are dark days.
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  5. Singapore, as a city, is largely conterminous with Singapore as a nation-state. That same does not hold for Bangkok vis a vis Thailand.
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  6. When you write, "rare earth": do you mean lanthanide elements? I've ground my teeth reading ill-informed commentaries about newly found "rare earth" supplies, which instead turned out to be elements of different metal groups - such as cobalt, or tantalum.
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  7.  @toot4you19  On what basis do you distinguish and separate Yttrium from other RE elements?
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  8. We need to overthrow the Thumb. Its rule has suppressed us for too long.
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  9. Why would educated people choose to go to PRC with its lower pay-structure, when Germany also is eager to attract skilled workers without making them live in an Orwellian hell?
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  10. 15:00 "the most extreme form of sanctions would require a total trade blockade, which is itself an act of war" That is your individual opinion, and does not conform with international Law.
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