Comments by "Mark Armage" (@markarmage3776) on "Elon Musk on war with China | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips" video.

I think 2000 years of failure in invading Vietnam probably taught them a lesson. The same goes with Korea. Taiwan doesn't belong to China because it used to belong to China. Taiwan belongs to China because it has always belong to China and the Chinese people. Overwhelming, extreme majority of history, it belongs to the Chinese people, aka tha Han race, speaking Mandarin, celebrate Chinese Festivals and customs. They are the same people separated by a civil war of ideology, they're not 2 separate set of people. Come on, man, go learn some math. That island has and always will be part of China. On Taiwan itself, there are 2 set of opinions, one wants independence, but the other one, a significant one, maybe even the majority wants to rejoin China mainland. Why don't you show some respect?
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@biswaroopmaiti2943 South China Sea is not a territory with people living there, it's an area of water, and honestly, the ownership of that area of water can not be based on historical precedence, if there were lots of people living there, the story would be different. Regarding your argument about "same people", you're totally false. Korean Peninsula is one people, they're one people divided, not 2 set of people, everybody there knows this. Their goal is reuinification, it's just that they can't right now. You'll need better details for the Central Asia. Israel and Palestine is the same, they are one set of people living on that piece of land, peacefully, one piece of land having multiple religion co-existing. It's the outside interference of Western Superpowers, originally British and then America that messed up the entire place. I never said that being the same people stop conflict, because countless factors contribute, but it is an unequivocal right for them to be reunified. Honestly most of the things you said are messed up not because of the people there, but by foreign interferences, from British colonization to Cold War between superpowers. So again, if you just stop interfering, they'll move towards the same objective.
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@biswaroopmaiti2943 It's very clear here. The Koreans, North or South considers them one people, with the same history. The same with the majority of civilians in Palestine and Israel. Except for the religious fanatics shipped into that territory by British colonizers and American Imperialist, the people who actually lived there under Ottoman rule for 400 years consider themselves one people with different religions.
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When you stop building infrastructure for 40-50 years, your technology lag behind, homie. The fact that the newly built houses are still made of wood showcase America inferiority in technology. Furtuhermore, I don't know where you get the nonsense of latrines and no running water, if that's the case then it's an extremely small percentage of the total population there. Because like you said, in the newly built cities, the infrastructure are so advanced that there are no latrines. Their schools and hospitals are not built with cheap material, I don't know what propaganda source you're quoting from, but their schools and hospitals are built using normal steel and concrete, far cheaper than in the US because they make those materials themselves with government subsidies. It is you who have a lot of misinformed opinions, a lack of understanding in mathematics and physics. Please, stop living in the 1970s, get back to reality.
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America has been generally a benevolent force. What has this guy been smoking? Before 1945, it was busy terrorizing the Native American people, and then afterwards, it has been terrorizing smaller countries across the globe. That one single event of WW2 and the rebuild of Japan and Germany, to turn them into your vassal states, in Musk mind gives America a pass from now till forevermore. Keep it real, Musky. The Marshall Plan was nearly 80 years ago, since then, you've been nothing but nasty.
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@Cyzs66 I don't know why you think it's no longer the majority, the next election, the party wanting reunification is in the lead. Independence from China, if it leads to war is something that nobody in Taiwan wants. They are the same people.
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@Cyzs66 You need to stop taking your sources based on their organization names. If they do not disclose their methodology, their data pool, then whatever organization they are, their claims are just claims. Unverifiable, untrustworthy. So at least that claim has no basis. You found the wrong information. Go there, visit the place, talk to the people in multiple regions, you'll see. None of them wants war with China, meaning that by default reunification is the only way, because that island for the last 4000 years has been an inseparable part of mainland China, they share the same language, customs, history.
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@biswaroopmaiti2943 I don't think you know anything about that region history, little buddy. Chinese and Vietnamese are not the same people, the Vietnamese people have a significant amount of independence in the last 1000 years, 7-9 times defeating invasion of the Chinese Empire. They are very closely related in terms of customs and traditions but they're 2 separate people with their own distinctive writings, languages, cuisine. China was ruled by the Mongols for the less than 200 years, and by the Manchus in less than 200 years, and in both of those reigns, the Chinese Han people were still the overwhelming majority of the population and their custom remains the dominant customs. The Manchus that ruled China were turned into Chinese, the same with the Mongolians that tried to rule China, they adopted Chinese customs and abandoned their original customs. Go learn some history, you're wildly ignorant about this and it's just sad.
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@biswaroopmaiti2943 North Korean and South Korean are the same people, everybody knows this except the ignorant Westerners, they share same history, same customs, same language, same cuisine, same traditions. That also goes with the people in Palestine and Israel, 400 recent years of peaceful cohabitation with little war and resistance within that region is more than enough proof.
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If you lived in China for only 2 years, you're worse than a tourist, you're an ignorant person who probably didn't know that much about anything that matters. You came, you didn't do anything significant and you left. High speed train doesn't come from Japan or the US, kid, being the first one to make it doesn't give you sole ownership over it, they've studied your old technology and they've surpassed you, except for the current Japanese trains, they're the world leaders on this. But on the matter of volume of trains built at a low cost, the Chinese are the unequivocal leaders. And homie, I guarantee that the number of experts, engineers, smart people there, even that accounts for just 5% of the population there, that's more than enough to outweight the number of equally smart people in North America and Western Europe combined. You're living in a fantasy, go to any University in the Western world, any of them, the best students, the best faculty members, at least 50% of them are Asian and possibly 10% of them are Chinese. The same with any large tech companies, maybe even more. You have this weird delusions about your own signifance based on nothing but bad Hollywood movies. Keep up with the time
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@guacamole456 No, Japan doesn't build house with wood, pal. This isn't the 1700s, The only reason, if there's any why the Japanese would build their houses with woods is to maintain tradition, they build their traditional house with woods, because their traditional houses with traditional techniques uses wood. Meanwhile in the US, your houses have no tradition, you're just building it poorly, due to how the construction companies are not focused into one but spreaded out throughout the country. If the Earthquake is in 2008, then the hospitals and schools that collapsed there was built in the 1990s or early 2000s. That's 23 years ago or more. Catch up with the time, homie. China now and China 23 years ago are vastly different. It is you who needs to study math, physics, basic logical thinking ability before making any claims. And furthermore, that one corruption scandal at that one province at that one time doesn't represent the entire industry of a country of 1.4 billion people. This is where math comes into play by the way. Just because there are a school shooter in the US then you would conclude that the entire US is filled with child murderers? Come on, homie. Here's a simple example for you, their train station is more impressive than your airports, and I mean it. It's not even close. The Chinese currently holds the records for some of the most impressive engineering features in the world, for example, out of the world 100 highest bridges, 40 of them are in one single Chinese province, and they're all built over the mountainous area. Look, pal, this isn't even debatable, unless you're totally blind, the difference is too big. The Chinese infrastructure today makes the US look like it's 20 years behind, and it is, not just in bridges, but buildings, highways, rails, ports, EV facilities, even internet.
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@guacamole456 The fact that people in America still uses toilet paper shows you how lagging behind they are, and honestly how ignorant they are.
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@guacamole456 sure, if you want to make the argument of cost then it's shocking how your country can't seem to manufacture steel and concrete at a low price. So thank you for proving my point there. Inferior technology. Excuse me, do not confuse partnership with "supervision". It's a partnership that can be replaced if the US companies don't want to join. Depends on the kind of industry, the Chinese have their counterparts or they can use other country counterparts. America doesn't have monopoly on any industrial field, pal. Regarding to your argument about US infrastructure upgrade, that's a horrible comparison, because even the upgrade cannot match up with the Chinese tech. Yes, China has a boom, meaning that for now, they're the dominant force in civil infrastructure. You can wait 50 years and then maybe America will be the dominant force. But not now. Right now, you're not even second best. And by the way, civil infrastructure doesn't go through cycles, it goes through cycles if there is a breakthrough or rapid change in technology. And there is major change in the last 30 years. But nobody knows if there's going to be a rapid change in the next 30 years, throughout 4000 years history, maybe houses in 1440 doesn't differ that much from the buildings in 1490
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