Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "China Observer" channel.

  1. I was a manufacturer's representative in the US before I retired, and we produced automated welding and positioning equipment. We knew that they were copying every item we sold them, and today, you can see it in what the Chinese companies produce. We had to watch them at trade shows as well, because they liked to bring cameras with them. That was their "great leap forward;" just steal it all, and that is why they're labeled the largest counterfeiting nation on earth. We wouldn't have minded that bad if they would observe patents, and sell their products at a competitive price. No, their idea is to steal the design, and severely undercut the price. Ask the old Panasonic employees in Japan about how they stole their designs for welding machines and wire feeders.
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  2. They have no real property rights since they do not own the property, they pay for a long-term lease. The state owns all real property.
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  3. Not one piece of rebar, nor even a piece of wire mesh, in that concrete. I saw another video where cheap concrete was coming apart, in a wall, and they had added bamboo in it, not steel. That's why there is such a thing as Tofu-Dreg Construction.
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  4. Remember what happened to Noriega.
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  5. It would never survive shock and awe, which is something they've never understood, nor accomplished in real combat.
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  6. Oh, this vid is brutal, and the jokes write themselves. Guy 1: What happened after the dog spat the food out? Guy 2: It turned around and licked its butt to get the bad taste out of its mouth.
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  7. Wait until the wheels start falling off.
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  8. That nation hopping started back in the seventies, where Western manufacturers offshored, and looked for the cheapest labor, and low regulations. They moved from Japan to South Korea, and then, to China. They'll keep doing it until they're stopped.
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  9. Even the old Soviet panel buildings were better than this, and that's saying something. This reminds me of the panel building built in London, which had an entire corner eventually collapse. That was after the residents brought the news in to show them the large cracks in the outer walls, especially in the corners. China's problem has always been trying to build these large-scale social housing areas too quickly, and the corruption behind the scenes. They're built on fill, and I'd bet it's not compacted, nor have they let it settle.
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  10. Cannon fodder.
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  11. You have to ask the question, why is it that none of the third-world nations have bad bugs sprouting up, yet they always do, yearly, in only one Eastern Asian nation?
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  12. Communists will never understand capitalism. You cannot micromanage the economy, nor the people. Five year plans do not work either.
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  13. Especially the penthouse cabin.
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  14. Their "store" didn't have much compared to stores in the free world.
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  15. Prime examples of how the Great Leap failed. Even the USSR never tried to develop this fast, and it failed, just like the failure coming for the CCP. The West developed over several hundred years, where the industrial revolution and urban areas developed slowly, which is why this type of quick development is doomed. It was from the start.
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  16. Exactly.
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  17. You should have explained to the layperson what a “Michelin starred” restaurant is. Many won't know, unless they're wealthy enough to eat at them. Michelin tire company has a rating for the best restaurants for the elite class, and they publish a list.
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  18.  @shupichii9647  That's very close. The states all gave themselves the power to levy taxes, thus, they tax the property value. However, it's much cheaper than rent. Also, in the US and Britain, for instance, you can inherit property, or the owner can leave it to whom they wish. That's what a freehold is all about. The other method is to rent or lease. However, if you own the property, and have a freehold on it, you can do with it as you wish, unless you're foolish enough to buy one tied to a HOA. Ours did have a few rules, but over the years, they've dwindled away. There's a huge difference, though, in having a freehold ownership of property compared to leasing from the state, when looking at one's rights to do with the land and buildings how they wish, and being paid for it if the state needs to take it over eminent domain. At that, they can only take it for public use, such as a road, and they have to pay you for it.
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  19. “BYD” sounds too much like BVD, a brand of men's underwear. The Y and V are even similar.
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  20. There are already a few bids to buy up the stock.
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  21. It was the Dutch at the end of the Belt and Road, and who stood to make huge profits from using their ports. The same nation that makes the EUV machines.
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  22.  @rondavis67  Yup, the same freehold law as in the US and UK.
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  23. Buildings built on fill by the looks of it. You have to allow fill to settle for years, or compact the dickens out of it to hold any weight. This is what happens when quick money scams are involved in quick buildings.
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  24. I wonder how much of the "Russian Vodka" sitting on the shelves is counterfeit? That would be easy to make with a huge markup.
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  25. When organized criminals run a nation...
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  26. His family's investments are, you guessed it, green energy.
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  27. If you've not received your packages by May 2nd, you'll pay through the nose. If a packaged item cost you $5 US, you'll still have to pay an extra $25, which is the minimum tariff amount. I've bought many items that were just over $10 to receive free shipping, so this will affect them in the future. $10 = $35.00.
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  28. Must have had a drop in their social credit scores. That's what happens under authoritarian rule.
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  29. Myanmar, Bangladesh (East Pakistan), and Pakistan are all connected to it. That is what's also driving some very bad things, at the moment, in the West. Change is coming after today, though, and the people behind this are not going to like it.
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  30. Wait until tourists start flagging them down for taxi service.
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  31. The wall was built to keep the Chinese in, not the rest of the world out. It's the digital version of the Berlin Wall.
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  32. Saving money, if everyone would do it, would fight inflation. Inflation is caused by a lot of money being spent and flooding into the economy. In Germany, leading up to WWII, when they were investing heavily in infrastructure and industry, they talked the public into saving their pay to decrease the risk of spiraling inflation like they had once before.
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  33. Not heard of tech schools and using mechanical analysis software to model yet, have they? Don't know what a yield point and safety factor is? No wonder their jet engines fail after a few hundred hours. What's learned while at their unis, Mao's Little Red Book and how to copy?
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  34. Tuk tuks away!
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  35.  @Right-Is-Right  The worst outbreak of Ebola was in West Africa, with 28,600 cases. Compare that to the number infected with severe flu every year, and the death toll in China. The "big coof" killed 1.41 million Chinese. Worse, look at the animal infections, which leads to the slaughter of almost every animal.
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