Comments by "King Ace" (@kingace6186) on "PolyMatter" channel.

  1. It really is something how China maintains strong geoeconomic bonds with many of its rivals/unfriendly/enemy states. I guess the same can be said about the US's trade relationship w/ China.
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  2. Good old strategic ambiguity,
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  3. This video is genuinely a love-letter to The Cheesecake Factory. Best customer review of all time, LOL.
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  4. Networking is all too important in the job economy. This is true for both trade school and higher education. For post-grad work, internships and letters of recc are essential. And for blue collar work, referrals and apprenticeships are essential.
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  5.  @xiphoid2011  Buddy, given by comment, YOU are the only who thinks they're special. We were ALL told the same advice. That we would become homeless addicts unless we got good grades and go to a good university. And guess what? The reality is that advice was a lie. All that lie gets you is crushing student debt and underemployment. This might be a shocker for you but parents are wrong sometimes, too.
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  6. Oh I see. Honestly, I tend to forget about Malenkov due to his extremely short tenure.
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  7. As a Gen Z adult, I do worry that we are not transitioning to renewable energy fast enough due to lobbying groups and oil cartels. But overall I get why the Biden Administration had to ramp up oil production. Of course, energy independence is ridiculously important, but so is keeping prices manageable. The inflation from pandemic supply chain issues, price gouging, and Russia's invasion have already put immense stress on working class people. So they had to be pragmatic by expanding production of both fossil fuels and renewable energy.
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  8. We need to repeal this act. It's not only hurting the economy, it's hurting real human lives. I don't have much faith in the House, but can the Senate just repeal it, themselves?
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  9.  @ivankosyuk1899  Except it is hurting the majority of domestic businesses by forcing them into doing convoluted workarounds to operate and function. Did you even watch the video?
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  10. Just pain man. This usually happens around a person's quarter-life-crisis, too, so it is very tough pill to swallow for post-grads.
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  11.  @Cecilia-ky3uw  Well, the US is definitely resource-rich and specialized enough to transform itself into a more export-based economy that import based. However, this is no easy ambition that could be achieved in the next 10 or 20 yrs. But instead is a commitment to revolution trade that needs to follow through for the rest of the century. The question is, is there enough public motivation & political appetite to remain consistent on such policies -- especially in our polarized climate?
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  12. I agree but the danger is that the Chinese people actually believe the CCP rhetoric about how the PLA could take Taiwan easily. Thus, the CCP feels pressured to act even more recklessly to assure the Chinese people's unjustified confidence. It's a feedback loop.
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  13. Great way to start a video. "If there remained any lingering optimism that the world is too interconnected for large, 'capitalist' nations to go to war, February 24th, 2022 was the final nail in the coffin". A very true and poetic prose.
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  14. The EU had a more competent regulatory system. That's why the EU is dubbed a "regulative superpower". Meanwhile, the DOJ is horrible at prosecuting monopolies on behalf of the American people.
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  15. It is a very similar story for Alaska. Except for Alaska, peak production came a decade later in the late 1980s, then production decline dramatically just like for the rest of America. And if you didn't notice, he mentioned that here 6:20.
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  16.  @limelorax  That doesn't make any sense. I personally knew several students that wanted to do blue collar work (mechanics; port workers; electricians; etc). Work that is in high demand w/ short supply in this country. Yet, school only gave them ONE choice, and that was to go to college and get a degree. As if the practical experience of trade schools isn't better suited to teach blue collar work than tests and essays.
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  17.  @yqisq6966  In all honestly, most Americans didn't know/believe that Trump would douse the nation's most important trade relationship in gasoline, light it on fire, then pat himself on the back. With that being said, after 4 years of his policies, it's too late to pivot back to pre-Trump. Let's just hope, Post-Trump American Politics will find a way to reach an equilibrium with the US-Sino economical tension.
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  18. Maybe try sharing this video with him, or even them, too.
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  19.  @deadbutmoving  No. You should understand that different parts of the world have different politics BECAUSE they are different. The US has a constitutional, federalized, flawed-democratic system that is vulnerable to domestic unrest. Russia has a highly centralized system that is needed to influence the entire civilization. Japan has a democracy that functions better than the US (even though it was implemented by the US) because the Japanese people are adaptive yet conservative. And China has -- not communist -- but authoritarian capitalistic socialism that is important because it fuels the GDP growth. The centralized appearance helps to demonstrate authority which is needed for the state to distribute the "prosperity" to poorer regions.
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  20. We are so lucky North America is stacked with resources of all kind. We also some of the best environments of renewable energy.
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  21. I had a panic attack and had to physically count the years on my calendar. I think I am still in shock. That's crazy.
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  22. It's an oversimplification that is objectively true. If you want to send a missile across the world, you use strategic nukes. If you want to deploy it on a battlefield closer, you use a tactical nuke. So, chill
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  23. Massive damage that can neither be predicted nor managed.
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  24. This might be my favorite video on the People's Republic of China that PolyMatter has released on YouTube.
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  25. True. The key is balance. And better worker rights.
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  26. Obviously, North Korea doesn't want war. That was never the point of this video. The point is that now, Kim is turning pivoting back towards Cold War politics. You know, because we are in a Cold War.
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  27. That part. That contradiction is the best way to define the American Economy.
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  28. At this point, most KMT supporters are opposed to peaceful negotiation because they don't trust the CCP will ever agree to shared power. With a democratic Hong Kong, there was still hope for that. But that died, with Hong Kong's liberty.
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  29. And Churchill called Russia "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". Wonder what he would of said about modern China.
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  30.  @patbv66  Obviously a lot more than your English teachers got paid.
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  31. Geopolitics is weird like that
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  32.  @r3dpowel796  Ok buddy
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  33. It's annoying how the majority of Boomers and Xers seem hell bent on making our future as horrible as possible.
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  34. Amen. I just want to be able to walk from one part of a city to another without getting hit by a car.
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  35. Wow. I would have expected this to be a Nebula special.
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  36. Russia out of China -- which was already in hot water --in between a Rock (the literal mountainous expanse of Russia) and a Hard Force (the West, who are already beefing in the Pacific).
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  37. Can't wait until the next loophole pops up. It's better to repeal the whole damn act. At least, Section 27, since that is the part that started all of this.
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  38. How naive can your line of thinking be
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  39. It's because most of us Americans aren't properly educated in Geography. Any informed person would know that crossing the Taiwan Straits and invading Taiwan would make Operation Overlord's Normandy Landing look like a walk in the park.
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  40.  @joela.4058  Big Oil meets its match with the Big Fish lobby.
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  41. France was one of the most brutal colonizers of all time. And the worst part is.... the French Empire still stands to this day ...still exploiting most of its "former" colonies. Just to be clear, this does not excuse the American Empire.
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  42. First Island Chain and all that.
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  43.  @xtzhao2196  Actually I would state that they are real & ever-present. However, Beijing priorities economic-political power over "hard" military-political power.
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  44.  @darter9000  In my opinion, China is just as ready to decouple w/ America as vice/versa. Which isn't very ready at all. There are just not enough benefits to both sides and too much pain to actually go through with the "allunment".
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  45.  @pavuk357  Actually you can. European cities like Amsterdam were built for cars in the 70s but in just a few short decades, cities can be transformed. All it takes is proper urban planning and political will. (Admittedly the later is much harder to get.)
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  46. This entire video has been one long Canadian flex.
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  47. Absolutely diabolical.
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  48. Thank your for this strong, balanced examination into Ireland's distinctive economy. I loved how you married the ideas of "real economy" & "fake economy" to explain that the Irish economy is actually a symbiotic relationship without necessarily contradicting itself. And of course, the most fundamental matter driving business in Ireland and the 'Celtic Tiger' status is reputation.
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  49. The factor you are missing is lobbying interests. You are absolutely right, but Congress is generally incompetent and cares more about business lobbies than government employees.
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  50.  @dirremoire  I guess the question is, at what costs? It isn't a mystery that China's most concrete relationships (outside the west) are with other authoritarian regimes which have an equal staggering list of human rights abuses. So i guess, a Win-Win-lose.
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