Comments by "Defense Politics Asia (DPA)" (@DefensePoliticsAsia) on "How China became the "bad guy"? What is the real AGGRESSION of China?" video.

  1. Many people are triggered, because many people just are misinformed by both anti-china and pro-china youtube channels. I tried to answer as many "protests" in the comments as possible. Read the response I made. Dont be so quick to anger. We are all here to learn and share knowledge.
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  2. You missed the point. China blocks a lot of companies from setting up shop in China; forcing them into tech transfer, then they set up local companies with stolen tech and destroys the foreign competition. As a result. Trade goes one way.
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  3. This is way later in the story.
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  4. You will discover some day this is exactly what is happening.
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  5. Because you can openly do business in Japan and Korea - they also buy your product - creating a more balanced trade. You cant even open a business in China freely. Let alone transferring the money you earn out of China.
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  6. Printing money alone causes hyperinflation. You need people/countries to buy bonds to keep the price up. China bought a lot of US bonds, because they needed USA economy not to crash.... yet... so they can buy China products. These process exacerbates the wealth transfer from USA to China.
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  7. China had always had closed economy most of it's history. You need to read up more on the conditions to do business in China.
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  8. USA already pardoned ALOT ALOT of money all over the world. But who they pardon the loans depends on their whims. They still needed Philippines to be under their thumb unfortunately.
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  9. I'm just explaining how China's aggression looks like. It doesnt affect only USA. It affect everyone in the world. They can produce stuff below your cost. Means you have no business at all.
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  10. Its not wrong. USA made the wrong assumptions thinking that they can control the dragon.
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  11. Mohan, you from India? You didnt know how much wealth India is losing to China?
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  12. Yeah, what I talking about have nothing to do with Africa. Thats a separate subject, which China is doing a very good job and a great job. =}
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  13. And thus anyone with free trade will suffer against them.
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  14. Honestly, Chinese business men prefer open free trade. So they can bring their money out of China and move their families overseas to someone safer. Its not the businessmen. Its the communist regime.
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  15. And the alternative is buy more expensive US made goods with your smaller and smaller paycheck.... This is what is scary about China. China dont have to go bomb other countries to be scary.
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  16. US increase interest rate because people no longer trust the US economic system. So they have to entice people to buy US bonds with higher interests rates. Its the beginning of the end. USD becomes more expensive, but they print them to spend it on useless wars. This is entirely not the issues the Q&A video was talking about.
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  17. It is true.
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  18. After WW2, the US industrial base is super powerful, but the competition, Europe is in shambles. Europe literally is so broke, they have no money to buy goods from USA, which is why you have Bretton Woods, to keep the world going - or EVERYONE will go broke together. We may see the same problem with China, but China have a bigger conundrum, they cannot open up their financial markets or we will see ALL the money flowing out of China, back to all of us (everyone will want to run away with their money)
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  19.  @bogodoyandex9654  What is the condition to sell iPhone in China? Have you read up about? https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/05/17/apple-products-subject-of-secretive-chinese-cybersecurity-audits-report-says https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/17/apple-security-compromises-china-icloud/ https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/12/07/apple-made-secret-5-year-275b-deal-with-chinese-government Thats just Apple. Which other country does that to Apple? China IS the very epitome of a protectionist country? Have you been to China? I have. I literally cant do my work at all, because everything I use is blocked on the chinese internet. Not protectionist?
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  20.  @euunul  Yeah, those are the most high tech stuffs of those times - its like asking USA today to sell F35/F22 to China. Japan tried to open bullet train company in China - China took the tech and opened a copy cat immediately and under bid every single project all around the world. This is what happens. Lets be honest about this.
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  21. So you dunno how important tea was during those days.....
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  22. I never went to business school. But it is true. Thats official china history as well.
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  23. Then everyone goes back to the middle ages. Most countries cannot be self sufficient. Most countries dont produce oil and many of the natural resources. Which means, war will become very common, because they need to fight for it.
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  24. ​ @TheKarofaar  No worries. I cant understand. USA uses their own ways to suck wealth from all over the world. China uses another way to suck the wealth of the world (particularly USA) Low valuation of currency allows your product to be more competitive in the US market (sell cheaper) - but Italy and Spain are open economy. China is a closed economy and closed financial market. Its basically entirely different thing.
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  25. Chinese military threats for now are empty threats. The economic implications are more dangerous.
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  26. Yes. all of them complains about China.
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  27. Overview: In February 2024 China exported $220B and imported $181B Between February 2023 and February 2024 the exports of China have increased by $6.25B (2.92%) from $214B to $220B, while imports decreased by $-16.6B (-8.43%) from $197B to $181B. So f you very much.
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  28. Yes. Because lack of trade balance is toxic. You can trade less. but cannot have one sided trade. Trade is a transfer of wealth.
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  29. Thats my point. The disregard for balance trade will eventually bring unintended consequences. But of course, China is preparing for it - as they learnt from history.
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  30.  @verypleasantguy  You disagreeing doesnt mean its lies. Its just simply means you believe in China's innocence more. You already said, you use VPN when you are in China. But using VPN is actually a crime in China (regardless if they crackdown on it or not) You gotten away from the downside, doesnt mean the downsides of China dont exist.
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  31. You want me to make a video on this (US money printing)? I spoke about these in DPA Open Mic before, a few times at least. As you mentioned, there are other youtube videos talking about this. Why I repeat the obvious again? I literally said something along the line that Singapore is appreciating the value of the SGD to keep pace with USD's appreciation. Because if you dont, you gonna get "scammed" by USA as they will buy you out with their fake money. USA has their game. China have their game. I said something few talks about doesnt make me wrong. The reality is weird, and the entire system is gamed by China. Well played to them.
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  32. Communism is designed in a way that they can destroy capitalism via state effort. This is why there is a cold war. The 2 cannot mix.
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  33. The only thing China COULD do to balance these out, is to open up its economy and financial market. But they wont and they couldnt. It will result in massive capital outflow. Thats what Trump was negotiating for China to do. China was trying to delay for as long as possible until Trump is out of office. It worked. And with that, gave China another 4 years to strengthen its position. And now even stronger because Ukraine War pushed Russia into backing China up. So there is already no hope. USA have lost most of its clout and credibility - and Trump, even if he wins, will inherit a country with crushing debt and ailing economy. Which would be hard to fix, definitely cant fix in 4 years. Its basically game over at this moment; unless something unexpected happen.
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  34. So can you go buy businesses in China?
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  35. They hacked the financial system, they didnt just use it innocently. Until the day you can use whatsapp, google, youtube, etc.. in China - you essentially have a trojan horse in the global system
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  36. The WTO founding member "China" is not People's Republic of China. Its "Taiwan", the "Republic of China".
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  37. OKAY
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  38. Or you are very uninformed. Try to open up your mind and be open to new knowledge/perspective.
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  39. Your western brands are all made in China. Which means, there is no change in term of trade balance. The money is all still in China, and never left it.
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  40. Yeap. My prediction is that, if China continues to NOT open up its economy/financial market - the world will eventually decide to collective stop trading with China, and goes into a cold war situation like between the world and the communist bloc. Free trade dont work with communism.
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  41. USA?
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  42. Exactly what happened. And they then use all the USD they earned from overseas, and buy out all the German companies.... (Selling domestically dont make money for the country. As its all their own printed money)
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  43. Obama didnt "switch" to the east in action. Its only in speech. Under the urging of Singapore - because USA is neglecting asia-pacific and the balance of power in the region. But USA is broken. They went after Russia now, when Russian isnt even the main threat. So everyone is screwed now.
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  44. China invaded and conquered, Xinjiang, Tibet, fought border wars with USSR and India. Intervene in the Korean War Most of the war, they fought ROC forces (republic of china) in the civil war (current day Taiwan) All big powers are aggressive. Russia invaded Ukraine didnt them? Russia may see it as defensive. But it is aggressive for Ukraine.
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  45. Reality sucks I know.
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  46. Yes. Recent times. yes.
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  47. Russia also dont sell certain stuffs to China. BUT many of these are recent developments. All countries will try to protect their technological secrets. Anyone that shared it to access the chinese market, loses it. Thats how Japan lost their bullet train technology to China.
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  48.  @Dungshoveleux  Russia sell some. But many is China copying them and produced their copycats. For example, take a look at how much S400 did China buy from Russia. For such a massive country like China.
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  49. Its easy to say "stop buying chinese tea". Are you able to stop buying anything produced in China today?
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  50. Thats the reality.
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  51. Most people that is triggered by this video dont understand this
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  52. You buy and not produce yourself, because its still cheaper to buy than to produce it yourself. And this is how everyone will eventually go bankrupt.
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  53. Its weird you think its about putting fault. I'm talking about the natural progression of things in a state of trade imbalance. Qing Empire (Not China) refused to "be nice" (as they are too full of themselves then; thinking they are still as powerful as they were previously) by trying to buy some stuffs, to placate the Brits, so they invited casus belli for war. USA invaded Iraq exactly because Saddam wanted to trade their oil in Euros. Thats the reality of geopolitics. The only difference today is, China's military is now way too strong to be subjected via military means. Which also means, the entire world continue to slowly get drained out of its wealth, into China. Much like how its used to be by USA via their fiat currency money printing. But this time round, we are cant even do business to make a living.
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  54. The power part is another thing / aspect. This video isnt talking about this. I'm purely talking about China's economic system
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  55. You need to try to start a business in China.
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  56. Yeap. And its also by law that you need to do tech transfer.
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  57. You disagreeing something doesnt mean I am wrong. Have you considered?
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  58. Every great power is evil to countries not of their own. Thats a normal state of affair.
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  59. Singapore deliberate invested heavily into China. And we also lost a lot of money doing it, as China copied a lot of it, including entire industrial park which was a collab with them, and built it right next to it at lower rent. Yes. Its the real world. Not middle earth.
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  60.  @janineskywalker527  I been to china when I was 13.... so thats..... ermz..... 27 years ago. Beijing. Around 5-6 years ago i went again, to Guangzhou. Totally different world. But I literally cannot do work when I'm there. Nothing I use is allowed on Chinese internet... I was essentially cut from the internet...
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  61. Economics is not an invention. Its a natural state of affair. The same crazy shit can happen, as its basic economics - for example when Musa musa went on the haj (to Mecca) and gave away so much gold all along the way - it caused inflation (depreciation of Gold) everywhere he went.
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  62. China's more vital worries about things they dont have is now resolved by the Ukraine War. Because now Russia, their strategic rival, became their strategic partner, selling everything China is lacking. The game is over honestly. The video is just to explain why China is a threat in the eye of the west. China is perfect right in doing whatever they did - because they were allowed to do it and no one stopped them. Now, China is unstoppable, unless there is a unusual situation where the ENTIRE WORLD (including Russia) sanctions it together, to force it to open up its economy and reform it in a way thats less toxic to the global economy. But clearly, this is extremely difficult if not impossible. So GGWP.
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  63. Example?
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  64. Yeah, the tech transfer thingy is over. China already learnt everything they need (or most of it) and had now learnt to innovate. So it's essentially over for everyone. For now.
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  65. Ah, you havent been paying noticed.
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  66. Congrats! you are awarded the DPA First Medal~!
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  67. The loans money goes direct back to China. Most of it. Google it, what are the conditions of the mega projects. Who can they hire, who is working on them, what special requirements are demanded by China, how much of the project money goes into the local economy? Forgiving loans doesnt mean they are necessarily good. There are diplomatic/geopolitical aspect to it.
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  68. Yes. In simple terms. that is correct.
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  69. Yeap. But in term of China, the key point is trade imbalance. And the imbalance will eventually results in war if the good in question is a MUST, and have no alternative. Imagine middle east stop selling oil to the west. You gonna see NATO going to war. Same thing.
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  70.  @regsmith5972  Yeah. But again, the video is about China. Everyone knows USA is aggressive. But people dont understand how is China aggressive.
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  71. Thats not exactly the main issue. China's financial system is closed. Meaning, China can print money without going into hyperinflation - which means, all their work force is almost as cheap as slave labor. Thats how everything is so cheap. Thats also the reason you cannot bring money out of china easily, cannot buy their businesses, you cannot set up shop in China to take advantage of their huge market without giving up your IP and forced into tech transfer.
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  72. #truestory
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  73. Its sound like a perfect plan if you are a chinese citizen.
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  74.  @CosmicValkyrie  Yeap until you pissed off someone else enough to start a war with you. Thats the point I'm driving - China need to open up their economy.
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  75. You got it the opposite. The pivot to Asia is a policy pushed by Singapore to USA, because China is changing into more of a threat. But Obama is all talk... there is no real actions. If its a real policy, China would have already been squashed under heavy tariffs and sanctions. The South China Sea islands would have been blocked from reclamation and they wont be military bases today. As for all the other stuffs, like the uyghers stuffs - these are unverified... just a lot of claims. Most probably made up or only partially true. But 100% not genocide. Genocide would be way more obvious and hard to hide. As for Freedom of Navigation, thats literally a "need" for ASEAN. No one in ASEAN recognises the 9 dash lines. But who in ASEAN can fight China militarily? You mashed way too many different issues together that is not entirely related.
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  76. The threat of China isnt being expansionist. This is the point I'm making. They are "the bad guy" in a different way from USA, and its a lot less obvious to the common folk. The decline of USA is a direct result of China. All your wealth is now in China. And China will continue suck up all the wealth from the rest of the world.... until the world had enough and start a cold war with China. BUT, if the realisation is too late, China will built a military so powerful, they can force everyone to open trade with China at that point - EXACTLY how the British Empire did it (and US did it to Imperial Japan)
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  77. Certain debt trap dont work; and the money they can earn doesnt worth the diplomatic backlash - since they can cover whatever loan they gave via the money they earn from USA. USA is the one funding everything (in a way) China have no reasons to give free money too, because they arent the global reserve currency.
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  78. Thats not judging. Think again: During the cold war, USA does manufacturing. But so does Europe, Japan and the rest of the world. But everyone trades perfectly fine. But why China is such a special case? You need to reason with yourself and think - how come China is so special to be able to produce goods below cost? Below even cost in 3rd world countries?
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  79. China is definitely winning in the system . No doubt about that.
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  80. For example, you sell me orange, i sell you apple. We both earn and spend money with one another. Suddenly, a 3rd person comes, and sell both orange and apple at half the price. What do you think we both will do. We will both buy the cheaper ones. But we both run out of business. Get the problem?
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  81. Where you from?
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  82.  @Tomislavr7  yeap, if you have things that China wants - then your country will be super happy. But the trade balance is 3 times difference. In 2022, China exported 3.47B worth of goods to Serbia. Serbia exported 1.4B worth. Hopefully Serbia earns that 2B difference from someone else.
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  83. Fact check me. Research and read up, before you scoff.
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  84. Yeah, the situation is only for now, China is well aware of its demographic collapse - so they are going all in, into high tech and robotics.
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  85. Avoiding reality dont make reality goes away.
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  86. China have very few things to buy from USA. USA buy shit tons of China goods. Trading more isnt a solution per se.
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  87. That is after the fact.
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