Comments by "Sciagurrato" (@sciagurrato1831) on "Inside China Business" channel.

  1. Kevin is — simply put — unique. Incomparable. No one remotely close to him.
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  2. Corruption is not only accepted but widely admired by those wearing small.
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  3.  @Kingofthehill84 the only dream is the chaotic thoughts in your “brain”.
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  4. Very suspicious his subscribers have not grown. But Kevin is irreplaceable for serious information about serious issues.
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  5. Kevin — the quality and perception of your videos is in inverse proportion to the number of viewers. Kudos also for never succumbing to sarcasm and nihilism.
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  6. Not just from a Chinese perspective…but from a global competitive market standpoint also
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  7. Your final question goes to the heart of the matter. The West and its ruling financial class look to maximize monopoly rents. It relies on the low costs — and sense of fairness — in China to enable them to succeed as asset stripping jackals.
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  8. A revealing and deep understanding of China business from the inside — really superb. As always, thanks Kevin.
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  9. True. If you look at the bigger picture….all high ticket items are — deep down — just an opportunity for high interest rate consumer loans for banks. Few people pay cash…Chinese evs would be cheap enough for more people to afford to pay in cash — or with a smaller loan. Obviously, banks would lose out and they, too, oppose Chinese evs. US public not bright enough to see this.
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  10.  @bigeye4520  however some of us are interested in the truth. Please discuss how the US helped China in the 50s after its ignominious defeat in Korea, or what the US supplied to China in the 60s (apart from possible biological specimens). When China was absolutely at its rock bottom, in the decades following World War II, it was only the USSR that stepped forward to help. Anyone claiming otherwise is ignorant or falsifying p — or both.
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  11. Actually, not the first time. They just don’t change their shorts. This accounts for the flies that follow Austin around.
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  12. Because the —- controls the international financial system duh
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  13.  @Kingofthehill84  very interesting. You have doubtless conducted scholarship of the highest order. Can you please reference your original work so we can benefit from your thorough and erudite scholarship on ethnicity including your analysis of East Asian haplotypes? Thanking you in advance.
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  14. The idea that money alone will enable technology resharing is fallacious. You need expertise and know how. For advanced technology systems manufacturing, neither is easily available in the US or West. Who will train the trainers?😊
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  15. Slight correction: pottery has been created by all societies from Neolithic days. The supreme example of pottery is porcelain — on which China had a monopoly for centuries. Any European court of any standing in the eighteenth century tried to solve the mystery of porcelain. The secret in the clay body was finally found through Korea, with which the Chinese had shared their secrets.
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  16. Kevin is the DeepSeek of yt.
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  17. The western capitalist model differs in one key aspect from the Chinese model. The west builds a develop a brand which makes huge returns to investment. The brand stops innovating while continuously raising prices. It’s taking a long time for the Chinese to build products and then a brand. But there will continuous improvement, even innovation. Western companies re built in the goal of rent seeking.
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  18. When was a graduate student in the late 70s, Sen Ted Kennedy was championing the direction of healthcare which then was 5% of GDP. Today, it’s near 20%. But of course,e Americans are healthier than ever. /s
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  19. Kevin not only covers an enormous range of topics (chips to ag equipment to university revenue streams) — he is the single most yt channel in this area — but he speaks for the highest universal human values. And that doesn’t include acquiring more things and money than anyone else.
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  20.  @Kingofthehill84  wondering if you belong to haplogroup J?
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  21. Kevin, well done! I believe you are the first report on this afaik.
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  22. German companies were some of the first to go to China to look for JVs in the Deng period. I remember a senior banker telling me in the early 00s that the Germans commanded the highest respect level among the government and companies. Perhaps it’s coming full circle .
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  23.  @Focusworld123 he is very shrewd — but, without deep seated beliefs, Türkiye will never develop its potential. If it can’t see true opportunity, it will always be in the defensive, as it has been been for a long time
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  24. Misleading comment. If that were true, then as the world’s largest population, India should be #1. And Japan and S Korea would not be leading players.
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  25.  @williamho1976 good reporting from tel aviv
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  26. Actually, I disagree. For some reason, you think that US politicians have any goals apart from fulfilling the dreams of the people who paid to elect them.
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  27. Well done — subscribed.
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  28. Anyone who’s ever been to both China and Taiwan….the latter is clearly provincial.
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  29. The word “tokamak” is itself Russian.
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  30.  @zen-mc4ju  you hit the nail on the head. Western “quality”? The prestige brand Mercedes? Second to the last in Consumer Reports 2024 Automobile Quality survey — they’ve been doing this for 30 years. The elite brand of household irons made in Germany “Rowenta”? Expensive to buy, expensive to repair — I fell for the western “quality” argument, I bought one — it was lousy, I tried buying another….also junk. I was a fool.
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  31. Another great video, thanks. Nonetheless, the fundamental problem is the West doesn’t want to do any heavy lifting. The research, engineering and manufacturing skills — that’s for peons. With a strong dollar and euro, the west can just laze back and buy everything it needs. Let others pollute their countries with hydrocarbon resource extraction, rare earth mineral separations, radioactive waste disposal. Just FO — it is the destiny of the rest of the world to serve its masters. Decoupling not only is a necessary response to this arrogant belief — but new trade arrangements will reduce dollar demand — and prevent excess dollar accumulation as its value plummets. Win/win for the deserving and lose/lose for the leeches.
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  32. Are there e-trikes? Asking for an American friend.
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  33. ⁠ @MarineScoutSniper refined and processed ores are not “raw materials”.
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  34. Of course it’s in China’s self-interest to trade with friendly nations. But in Buddhism, to help others is to help yourself, because we are all one. China is taking a leadership role, along with Russia, to trade with nations which have been ravaged by the west.
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  35. Kevin, your insight and diligence are only exceeded by your evident humanity and love of truth. An American who reminds me of the open-minded and fair America I grew up in. Heartiest wishes for your cont8nued success.
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  36. Money seeking is not the primary motivation for Huawei. I guess you don’t know anyone who works there.
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  37. A generalization that contains some grains of truth. True, profound innovation at scale, across all technologies, is taking place in only one Asian country.
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  38. Clearly. US GDP is debt-based, both corporate and household. More sustainable = higher quality.
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  39. I discussed your claims with the manager of my local America’s Tires. He says you’re completely off base — the complaints in the past about Chinese tires were based on their low cost, not their performance. “Most steel from China…” is a sweeping generalization and strongly suggests you’re a compromised commentator.
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  40. Weather balloons are deadly!
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  41. The politicians could care less about the people as long as there’s enough $ to get re-elected.
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  42. Completely agree. Very few “business” channels understand finance. Very few “financial” channels understand business Kevin has a unique background. Share share share.
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  43.  @willengel2458 I use the Escobar terminology for Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia: the three chihuahuas.
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  44.  @JS-tt9hi thanks for pointing out the reality which is known to those of us in research — research funding as a % of total spending is dropping the US forcing downsizing in many areas without immediate commercial promise. So the facts show that the US situation is even worse than it appears. The only permanently growing part of US expenditures is military.
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  45. When the huge turbine blades in the “first of many” wind farms off Nantucket (MA) started shredding onto the island’s famed beaches….well, people start to b** about the Chinese. Only the project was designed by GE Wind and the Haliade-X turbines were manufactured in France. Now the alternative is from cuckoo clock land (Siemens). Western technology is so overrated, like their $25k handbags.
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  46.  @jchung5265 obvious to cursory examination. China has been securing energy supplies for twenty years. Is this for arbitrage like India? Or do you think it has “something to do with” the FACT they are the global manufacturing powerhouse for a decade? What doesn’t China manufacture especially for export? Boyband sissmusic.
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  47.  @yimingtian6380 that’s not what i hear from my work in China. If you’re right, why does China have one of the highest home ownership rates in the world? Far higher than Germany, for example. Please explain.
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  48.  @mijmijrm you’ve hit the essence of toleration and a peaceful world. It’s unclear whether the west will let this happen. Examples of horror abound in the US — fortunately the rest of the world can choose to ignore the Americans and feel pity.
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  49. Kevin: thanks for another informative video. An area of interest to many of us: recycling— I hear that China is far ahead of anyone in full scale advanced recycling (vs the fake recycling in the US), including new biodegradable plastics and other packaging materials. You can see how the Chinese are personally quite frugal as well.
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  50. Americans talking = Americans bragging.
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