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  1. And China‘s sending its youth into rural areas for not-re-education. I’m sure that will improve China‘s semi-conductor industry.
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  2. “ It is the world's largest technology manufacturer and service provider. While headquartered in Taiwan, the company earns the majority of its revenue from assets in mainland China and is one of the largest employers worldwide” — Wiki. Surprised Foxconn still remained in China up to now, considering how much sabre-rattling China has had for decades, now. I guess China‘s anti-foreign business policies are finally paying off. Enjoy your recession, inflation, food imports, energy imports, raw material imports, and soon water imports, China.
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  3. With China (and India) picking sides with Russia, what US or EU company would want to be associated with them — well, aside from Apple — especially during a worldwide recession? China imports food, energy, and soon enough, water. China exports cheap junk — er, manufactured goods — many of which are not entirely necessary (eg. Amazon :P If Americans and Europeans are spending their money only on food, energy, and rent, that doesn‘t leave them much for imports.
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  4. I remember last year the CCP saying they would focus on manufacturing and, even before the pandemic, domestic consumption. Neither of those are working out, either.
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  5. Any coverage of China‘s nuclear energy and arms? Keep up the hard work!
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  6. Worldwide recession. In the USA, Walmart‘s reporting higher income shoppers. I remember decades ago reading about China‘s intentinns for a domestic consumption economy, and last year’s intention to focus on manufacturing. Doesn’t seem to be panning out.
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  7. You will believe tofu dregs can fly. Well, for around a month. :D
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  8. I prefer the words, “slowly dying”.
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  9. Don’t forget those silver and copper businesses whose metals mysteriously disappeared!
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  10. 2:25 : You know when someone recommends the IPhone 14 over your product, you‘re in trouble. :D
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  11.  @Tacit_Tern  > The real century of humiliation began with Mao. Mao's attack on India in 1962 made India an enemy, instead of an ally. That didn't work out so well, either!
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  12. China, Russia, and other countries have had decades to displace the dollar. The only currency to do so is the Euro, which is hardly a BRICS currency.
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  13. Most developing countries go through three stages: Agriculture, Industry, and Service. China is stuck at the Industry stage, because of CCP ties to businesses indunstry. As a result, money spent for China‘s GDP is through infrastructure, not domestic consumption. which happens in a Service economy. I remember business articles decades ago saying that China will increase its domestic consumption. And Xi’s push for well-educated youths implies he expected China to be in a Service economy now. But, as you can see from the video — as well as the CCP’s no longer releasing unemployment data — there is little domestic consumption, a sign of China‘s failure to reach a Service economy.
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  14. Another YT video mentioned how Chinese netizens were fine with Walmart leaving b/c they have local groceries. Wonder how fine they will be when they realize the foreign money is gone.
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  15. Alienate foreign investors — and regional neighbors. What could possibly go wrong?
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  16. @d: USA and the west hold the most gold in th world.
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  17. CCP has already done a lot to destroy their environment (not to mention freshwater supply).
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  18. He's had to reduce prices on Teslas and their stock dropped 9% in a day. Now, there's a slap!
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  19. And the only competitor to the dollar is the EU — another western currency.
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  20. If this was an isolated incident, it would be less of a concern. But all these different videos of different aspects of China‘s econom, when taken as a whole, show problems with China’s economy.
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  21. Definitely look up the desertification of Northern China. Beijing is about about as dry as Saudi Arabia, but has a much higher population.
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  22. At least they stopped in 2009, which was right after the Lehman Brothers collapse, which led to a recession in the USA. Things are getting worse with the current worldwide recession, not just tourism, but manufacturing. Interesting times, China.
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  23. Which reminds me. Warehouses were commit fraud for bank loans by using the same metal collateral for multiple bank loans. (The banks did not investigate if the collateral had already been used.) This happened all the way back in 2014. This was in China, but, as others have said, not hard to find warehouse metal scams elsewhere.
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  24. CCP as usual.
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  25. @evan: With the recession and inflation, Americans can’t afford food and energy, neither of which China exports.
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  26. @Shane: I bet you think Mao‘s GLF was BS, too.
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  27. Total Pon-Xi scheme!
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  28. Also, see the 5G China rollout, and the businemen who scammed the CCP with their chip businesses. (Search on “China chip scam”.) USA is subsidizing chip manufacturing (and must be paying a hefty military price for Taiwan), but at least we‘ll — hopefully — see results. Me, I remember the days when cars didn’t have computer chips, and you could fix them yourself! :P
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  29. M&M also notes that China‘s economy is stuck in the industrial age of economic development (comes after agricultural, and before service), b/c individuals in the CCP have close ties to industrial companies.
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  30. So much for Modern Monetary Theory. Which certain USA politicians embrace as well. And the USA has been printing too much money under Quantitative Easing. The slow increase of interest rates under Quantatitve Tightening is too slow and we certainly are heading into a recession. But that sure won’t mean China‘s recession will be any easier — especially with USA and EU being their largest trading partner.
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  31. fwiw, Japan has their annual “Lucky Bags” and the USA used to have “grab bags” of whatever merchandise they couldn‘t move. Now, we just call them “subscription boxes” and “subscription meal kits”. :D
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  32. The EU was about it. Countries for decades have talked about replacing the USD and it still hasn’t happened yet. I’ll believe it when I see it.
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  33. They are. Enjoy your recession!
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  34. Militarily, there might be no difference.
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  35. With the recession, it’s a little easier to do that. :/
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  36. Well, we‘re finding out now…!
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  37. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere nearby when the “truth” happens. :/
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  38. Like everything else Made in China, e’ll get to the point where it’s cheaper to buy a new Chinese EV than repair one. That’ll help the environment, won’t it? :/
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  39. What’s in that Tired Bull drink? 5mg of melatonin? :D
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  40. Could be — doesn‘t need to be built quickly to be built poorly.
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  41. Lithium: Whenever you ship Lithium batteries, put a WARNING label on the box with a battery on FIRE. Also Lithium: Let’s put these in cars so they explode just like they do in those Hollywood movies. Keep up the videos!
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  42. @U: I was seeing abandoned shopping mall pics in 2005, and you‘ve seen the empty business fairs (for foreign business customers) recently. So not surprised more stores are close, airports or otherwise.
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  43. The other lever, spend money like mad men, broke. :D
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  44. Not to mention food poisoning, substandard food, etc.
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  45. Another video says that these bonds will be paid off — in bonds, with worse terms, no less. Yep, if you think bond holders will continue to buy local government bonds when they know the rules will change against them… well, wanna buy some bonds? :D
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  46. Agreed. Reminds me of San Francisco. I wonder if Gavin is still admiring his picture of him and Xi during their visits.
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  47. @CS : India’s not threatening democratic countries, nor is it hostile towards foreign businesses.
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  48. They also know how to pollute as well!
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  49. That one’s hysterical. What I think happened in that he intentionally plugged in the cable to charge the power bank into his phone! You’re supposed to use a different cable to plug into a USB port or something?
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  50. And remember the Covid quarantines. This prevented farmers from selling their crops in neighboring villages, resulting in losses of perishable food. China also has regular swine and avian flus, resulting in losses for their meat industries. I’d really like to see a documetary-style look at China‘s farms over the years, starting when Covid broke out.
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  51. How do rich Chinese transfer their assets? Just like the rich Russians did.
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  52. If it’s a viable option, why are the stations empty? :/
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  53. Power corrupts!
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  54. Here, we call it the “Chef‘s Special”. :D
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  55. You saw the M&M video too, eh? (: The consumer demand is low b/c China is still focusing on its industrial phase (eg. big useless infrastructure projects) and not the service phase, which results in consumers having money to spend domestically. What I find interesting is that China decades ago was supposed ot have enough domestic demand to not rely as much on exports as it did before. Yet it seems like this consumer demand has not happened.
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  56. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Good point.
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  57. Don‘t put anything in China.
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  58. Only if they didn‘t give you enough kickbacks.
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  59. You can blame the West for Quantitative Easing, but thank the CCP for an engineered virus, hostility towards foreign businesses, and bubble economy. The recession means customers in the west cut back on non-essential goods, like stuff Made in China. Meanwhile, China will have to import energy, raw materials, food, and soon enough, water, at worldwide inflated prices.
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  60. Just mind-boggling how China manages to top itself with destroying its own environment — not that they‘re alone. Unfortunately, the environmental elite have chose to make climate change their agenda and blame only first-world countries, when second- and third-world countries have their own man-made ecological disasters, some of which, such as cleaning the rivers, can be assisted by first-world countries. Dictatorships, however, reward loyalty over competence, and China’s environmental pollcies, which combine CCP ineptitude with unrealistic economic targets, has led to the priority of the short-term over the long-term, leading to one disaster and embarrassment after another (including when the short-term results are actually bogus made-up numbers).
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  61. 18:00 : China’s slowing growth is due to external economic factors. BUT the CCP has kept China in the Industrial phase of economic development b/c of its close ties to industrial businesses. To increase domestic consumption (ie. Consumption by your citizens, not consumption by building more infrastructure), a country must transition from an.Industrialized economy to a Service one (like the USA and most westernized countries). It’s a Service economy that results in consumer consumption, which increases domestic demand over exports. China can blame the USA all it wants, but it’s the CCP’s corruption that has kept China as an Industrialized economy, thus resulting in a country dependent on exports and foreign economies (as well as investment). It’s the CCP’s fault China has not become economically independent.
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  62. Going into the toilet, at least while China still has running water.
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  63. Great post. Let‘s also toss in the worldwide recession, which doesn‘t provide a good environment for selling electronics, which aren’t as necessary as food and energy.
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  64. Source: China.
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  65. @t : All the bots who know where the shift key is working for Hamas, now?
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  66. Just another way to control their people.
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  67. Yahbut the west switched from a manufacturing economy to a service-oriented one. A YT economics video, possibly a William Spaniel one, explained that developed countries eventually adopt service-oriented econonies. Manufacturing ones are constantly under competition from other countries that have cheaper labor. China arguably had more impact on Mexico‘s economy than the USA.
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  68. TINA — The Chinese real estate market is seen as the only investment around, with the stock market seen as too risky, iirc (and ironically).
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  69. @h: Actually, Northern China’s desertification of their local environment has increased their drought. Dunno how this affects the dam‘s water level.
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  70. Reality is “has long been” bankrupt. Keep cooking those books, CCP!
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  71. Xi better keep an eye on India before he goes after Taiwan.
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  72. China also has no social net, just ask anyone who‘s had their bank account frozen. Naturally, this means more money in the mattress for security, and less for leisure goods.
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  73. They’re brilliant at math! That’s how all the money disappeared! :D
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  74. @L : Just keep building those subways to nowhere, China.
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  75. All China has to do is build more canals, dams, high-speed rails, airports, apartment, malls, and aircraft carriers, right?
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  76. Russia: Hold my vodka.
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  77. Chinabots in the comments again. Maybe they should pool their RMB’s and support this hub, eh?
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  78. Wanna buy an apartment in China?
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  79. I‘m sure the Chinabots will be posting how McD’s is opening restaurants so Foxconn employees will be re-employed. /s
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  80. If it’s a state-subsidized industry, don’t expect it to survive on the international market.
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  81. Speaking of Japan, Money and Matters (?) argued that China will have a decades-long recession, much like Japan is having. While China has progressed from an agricultural economy to an industrial one, the corrupt CCP is tied to industrial companies, hence all the spending on infrasctructure, to meet GDP targets. Because China has not progressed to a service economy, all the money is spent by building companies, and we excessive building and the current RE bubble. Without a service economy, the economy has less domestic consumption (I remember reading that China was supposed to be independent of needing to export goods b/c it would have domestic consumption), which results in China‘s reliance on exporting good for their economy. But, thanks to CoVid and concerns about a recession, their customer’s demands have lowered, while China has failed to increase domestic consumption and even will not publish unemployment data, and is currently undergoing deflation.
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  82. Takes time, bot.
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  83. With China‘s desertification, it’s gonna be War, Famine, and Thirst.
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  84. Northern China‘s becoming a desert. Maybe everyone will migrate to Russia after China reclaims its historical lands, including that freshwater lake, right?
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  85. Just print enough Yuan!
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  86. Tyrannies always rewrite their constitutions.
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  87. More like “bend over” than “bear” but, yep!
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  88. China making improvements on the ol’ Pontiacs, I see. :D
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  89. There are no homeless in China. Right, bots?
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  90. Well, it‘s not like Russia’s not willing to kill off an entire generation for its dictator, either.
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  91. CCP numbers are all false, anyway. Starts at the local governments and makes their way up. When the ghost cities disappear, and the infrastructure helps the economy, I’ll reconsider.
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  92. Well, I just read that China is issuing food vouchers for a whopping $6 a month to low-income Chinese to afford food, so something’s stopping them.
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  93. All that moving stock footage is fine, but how about just a picture of the stock itself?
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  94. A truly amazing decision since it lined many CCP official‘s pockets with kickbacks!
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  95. Not going to the ME, either.
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  96. So how, exactly, does US having a problem fix China‘s problem? China still has the problem, regardless of the US.
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  97. Gonna turn into Robocop 2 again. :D
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  98. The only consolation is that most of this stuff is Made in China so might as well go direct to landfill, anyway.
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  99. Tip of the proverbial iceberg. If 1.7 billion was China’s only problem, it wouldn’t be a big deal. But it isn’t.
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  100. The CCP is perfectly welcome to show as many crime and homeless videos as they want. Quite a few Americans dislike how certain politicians have allowed cities to fall to this state of disrepair and want to change it. Meanwhile, in China, the CCP is the only party in control, and will not take steps to correct their problems, if anything, they will compound them.
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  101. The odd part is that Chinese are lactose intolerant. :P The odder part is that BMW is still in China.
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  102. IIRC, The CCP forces bond holders to renew their bonds, rather than cash them out at maturity? Yeah, that will attract new money.
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  103. The problem is the government‘s credit rating. What’s the government going to do when it needs money?
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  104. Sure worked for Putin— or so he thought, right?
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  105. No wonder India is nervous, with these nutjobs around.
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  106. Hey, Russiabots. Tell us how China‘s not collapsing. Where’s that guy with his wall of text?
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  107. The bemusing part was that Xi and CCP said last year that China would focus on manufacturing for its economy. Whoops.
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  108. @e: IMF doesn‘t make loans to countries, typically corrupt ones, that won’t pay them back.
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  109. China doesn‘t care about either.
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  110. @M : Refrigerators Made in China and made by whichever CCP relative gave the most bribes! :D
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  111. Xi is Putin 2.0.
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  112. I wonder when Gavin invited Xi to SF, Gavin ask his CCP lord and master how to make California’s closed and boarded up shops look as good as Xi‘s closed businesses!
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  113. @VL: Xi knows about diverting. When’s the invasion of Taiwan happening?
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  114. China has the Northern Desert, also thanks to China‘s severe mismanagement of its water supplies.
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  115. By ”rot“ you mean “sold by corrupt local officials”, right? :O
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  116. Russia has the largest freshwater lake, and China‘s awfully thirsty!
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  117. @J: CCP is sending an entire generation of youths into the rural countryside and India is overtaking China.Check in ten years what China‘s economy is like.
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  118. Because the CCP cooks the books, Chinabot.
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  119. Title is entirely wrong! Should be far more than 50% by now. :D
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  120. @e: USA is in a recession and consumer spending is down, but you bots and your whataboutism should be more concerned about YOUR OWN country‘s economy, especially since so much of it depends on the West, whom you and your political kind don’t understand you rely on.
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  121. Search for the YT video of China’s disasterous 5G rollout. Basically, the towers had less range, so China had to build more towers, and the electrical consumption rose, suchthat China had to close the towers in the evening, so you couldn‘t even use 5G. Also, the CCP did their usual cooking of the numbers, suchthat there were more 5G subscribers than smartphones (at the time of the rollout). Also, don’t assume that when you see an Apple store in China, it‘s an Apple store. Search on “fake China Apple stores”, where even employees didn’t know they were working for a fake company.
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  122. Maybe things have changed, but not if the CCP hasn‘t. Oh, and I’m fine with my dinky 3G, since I use a legacy pay plan. :D
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  123. @AJ: Were you born after 2008?
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  124. Does that negate how the CCP ruined the Chinese economy?
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  125. And Russia announced it was buying EV‘s from China. Moscow and St. Petersberg are going to be busy this year. :P
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  126. China’s going to become a desert full of concrete.
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  127. @d: We have a two-party system. Not perfect, but nowhere near as corrupt and tyrannical as your CCP‘s one-party system.
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  128. More like, how much money from the military ended up in CCP pockets? :D
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  129. 17:30 : So if you’re going to blame it all on the USA, why are you stealing everything from them as well??
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  130. With a worldwide recession, what else did you expect? USA was responsible for quantitative easing, which set up the recession, but China‘s virus was the catalyst, starting with the supply chains. When the two world’s largest economies have problems, the whole world is affected.
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  131. I’d laugh, except California’s government is doing the same thing. And, yes, we have a deficit here too, in part by driving away wealthy residents.
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  132. You lie! China does not make provocative threats against neighbor! China makes provocative threats against neighbors, overseas countries, probably Mars and Venus as well. :D
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  133. China says one thing, and does another. They‘ve been treating foreign companies poorly for years and now they want to come back? Fool me once. And China kickstarted the world recession with CoVid, now known to be releaeed from a Chinese lab. With inflation, the west is delaying their purchases of unessential manufactured goods — like the iPhone. China, meanwhile, still needs to import energy, food, raw materials, and, soon enough, water. And good luck with your wolf diplomacy, CCP.
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  134. And now falling apart there, too! :O
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  135. He has more control than China does.
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  136. @ellie: Whataboutism much? Addressing US problems needs to be done, but won’t fix China’s.
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  137. @S: How many of these ghost Chinese family apartments have Chinese families lived in? They were certainly “surprised”.
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  138. China: Build an airport. Also China: Build another airport.
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  139. Business code violations. Toxic chemical fire. China as usual.
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  140. And now it’s two months later, and the global economy isn’t any better. Keep up the updates.
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  141. Yet they haven’t done so. Why, not, bot?
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  142. What’s there to remember besides “China screwed itself” and “T is a bot”?
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  143. Maybe she‘s familar with Kickstarter. :D
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  144. It‘ll work by the local officials cooking the books — like they did with Covid testing! :O
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  145. Clickbait! The collapse is HERE. I remember a decade ago China saying they would increase domestic speding, and, last year, that China would focus on manufacturing (after kicking out foreign companies). Well, guess what didn‘t happen. Chinabots can keep posting their CCP narrative how China’s economy isn‘t collapsing and deny everything until it‘s too late, which it may already be.
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  146. The Chinese ponzi scheme has been going on for decades!
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  147. On top of that, the youth don‘t have jobs and are being sent into the countryside (to prevent protests). Even if China were to have a higher population of youth, they wouldn’t be able to make them productive.
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  148. So have kids then, when they grow up, find no employment, and ship them off to the countryside. Sounds like a plan. Oh, and have an earthquake that crushes a classroom of children because of shoddy local building regulations. I don’t believe China will “collapse” anytime soon, but India and other Asian countries are making it economically and politically irrelevant.
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  149. @SS : China’s mismanagement of its environment has also resulted in a water shortage, comparable to the arid Saudi Arabia, but with many more people.
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  150. Even Chinese manufacturing businesses have left China for Mexico. The US dollar is mightier than the CCP politics. Thanks for the video!
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  151. 20 years of BRICS and they still don’t have a common currency. Meanwhile, 20 years of the European Union, and the EU and USD are the most commonly used reserve currencies.
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  152. I keep reading that as the Three Stooges Dam failure. :D
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  153. @Rick: Your world may be bootlicking Chairman Xi, but the rest isn‘t.
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  154. @john: CoVid is NOT the common cold. Go rewrite your narrative elsewhere.
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  155. @Red: The USA were “chasing” the balloons to monitor which military areas the Chinese were spying on, implying which areas the Chinese were weak on information from. The USA also knew, by tracking the balloons, which areas they would spy on, so withdrew anything sensitive and useful to the CCP.
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  156. Wealthy are also taking their wealth and families out for decades. When I was at Stanford thirty years ago, Asians were already buying houses there for their children, essentially sending their future generations to Western countries.
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  157. Antagonize foreign investors. Blame the West and USA for everything. Threaten not only Taiwan but all your other Asian neighbors. Release a virus and be unprepared for the world recession. What could possibly go wrong?
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  158. 2:37 : Anyone else seeing a toilet bowl here? :D
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  159. Chip sanctions? Wait until China hits the food, energy, and water sanctions. Pretty sure the USA can survive China’s retaliatory refusal to sell cheap plastic junk on Amazon, though I dunno about the EV metals.
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  160. @Ed:lol — And Chinabots are trying to convince us that everyone‘s switching to the Yuan as reserve currency.
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  161. IMO, Hard to tell. Even in the USA, back in 2008 and with SVB, the finance system did a good job hiding the risk until they couldn’t.
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  162. @d: China‘s going to excel the USA with their infrastructure disasters.
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  163. I‘m sure Modern Monetary Theory will save China any day now. :P
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  164. BRI countries typically have corrupt governments more interested in kickbacks than the long-term welfare of their country.
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  165. Their chemical fire grid is making up for it!
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  166. Are you smoking the same thing the Russiabots are? :D
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  167. I‘m just waiting for the next Chinese businessman to trick the CCP and run anothe chip scam. :D
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  168. I’d sure like to see how these debt traps will work out, since these debtor countries already are showing they don’t have the funds to pay back China. IIRC, The debt traps were planned all along, so China could take their raw materials. But, now, it looks like the CCP sure could use the cash.
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  169. @L: We‘ll know in several years, that’s for sure.
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  170. @AB: And then they got cut by them. China can’t even get their pork from catching a flu every year.
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  171. Somehow, I can’t see the CCP secretly accessing user statistics of t*tty drops being a threat to national security.
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  172. But you can get a free cup of coffee, right?
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  173. How much were you and the 30 other bots paid to make a basic mistake in English grammer? Guess closing down those English tutorial businesses in China really paid off!
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  174. All the kickbacks went into CCP pockets, so everything is fine.
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  175. @i: Go buy a keyboard without a stuck caps lock.
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  176. It‘s old news. The bubble started decades ago, and anyone who wasn’t a bot knew what would happen!
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  177. Keep drinking that red Kool-Aid.
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  178. @Shane: You already said that. You getting paid by the copypaste by your CCP masters?
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  179. MCCPGA :D
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  180. A Michigan University releases the most overused words each year. I nominate “collapse” and “AI”. :P
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  181. Money comes first… and ends up in the CCP‘s pockets!
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  182. @ellie: The USA, Italy, France, and Germany are the world’s largest holders of gold. China is sixth and Russia is fifth. Go enjoy your tofu dregs, bot.
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  183. Many workers were not paid for their work, then lose their jobs — including the boss who disappears overnight.
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  184. Welcome to the worldwide recession. Did China really think the party would last forever?
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  185. That one’s hysterical. What I think happened in that he intentionally plugged in the cable to charge the power bank into his phone! You’re supposed to use a different cable to plug into a USB port or something?
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  186. That one’s hysterical. What I think happened in that he intentionally plugged in the cable to charge the power bank into his phone! You’re supposed to use a different cable to plug into a USB port or something?
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  187. That one’s hysterical. What I think happened in that he intentionally plugged in the cable to charge the power bank into his phone! You’re supposed to use a different cable to plug into a USB port or something?
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  188. That one’s hysterical. What I think happened in that he intentionally plugged in the cable to charge the power bank into his phone! You’re supposed to use a different cable to plug into a USB port or something?
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  189. That one’s hysterical. What I think happened in that he intentionally plugged in the cable to charge the power bank into his phone! You’re supposed to use a different cable to plug into a USB port or something?
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  190. That one’s hysterical. What I think happened in that he intentionally plugged in the cable to charge the power bank into his phone! You’re supposed to use a different cable to plug into a USB port or something?
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  191. Plus mass famine and regression to 3rd world status! What could possibly go wrong?
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  192. The real inflation is China’s need for food.
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  193. GDP isn‘t even accurate. You can pump up GDP with both productive and unproductive infrastructure. Guesw which tofu-loving country is known for the latter.
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  194. City of the future? China has no future. Both courtesy of the CCP.
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  195. China’s GDP as measured by bot posts grew 15 billion percent! :D
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  196. Yahbut not everyone wants an AI car. China’s real problem is that their “Made in China” reputation (which is well-deserved) extends to its cars as well. Nobody, at least in the west, buys Chinese cars, because of China’s reputation for unreliable, throwaway, goods. BTW, Even if Tesla’s cars (and Apple’s iPhones) are “Made in China”, at least the branding should mean some level of safety and reliability. And even with that said, Tesla (and Apple) sales are declining with the worldwide recession making their own impacts on China.
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  197. Good luck displace USD and EU as world reserve currencies, BRICS. Also, the USA has the most gold in the world, yet decoupled the dollar from gold. Guess history will just have to repeat itself.
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  198. Even Chinese businesses are moving to Mexico.
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