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How China's Military Views the United States

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by chemgator, Jun 18, 2020.

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    Deep State spoiling for war vs China. China merely preparing for it.
     
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    One writer believes that China's monopoly on rare earth metals will soon be over, as other countries are starting to find the "ionic clay" in which rare earths are found.

    China’s rare earths weapon is rapidly disintegrating (yahoo.com)

     
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    I think it will happen in time. And as I said earlier China is hella dumb for threatening to cut the world off, it forces countries to create other supply chains.
    As for this article though, it was written by a guy who writes for a neoliberal think take. He’s trying to praise private business over government. But Australia still only has about 9 percent of the reserves of China. And the whole world combined is nearly less than them. The good news though is that the US saw it’s reserves rise almost 25 percent just in the last year.

    Rare Earths Reserves: Top 8 Countries (Updated 2023)
     
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    China is now automating coal mining. The world's largest producer of solar panels and RE metals for alternative energy maintains a full commitment towards maximizing coal production, which is also the world's largest. Strange that the great telecommunications firm Huawei has been reduced to developing coal mining technology after being caught spying on the rest of the civilized world.

    China automating mines to improve safety as coal output grows (yahoo.com)

     
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    China's society begins to unravel as young adult unemployment approaches 20%. Too many Chinese got highly educated, and have no intention of taking a blue collar job or a job in the trades. China's economy has been contracting, and there are no jobs for all of these educated people. Chairman Xi took a page from Chairman Mao and told these unemployed young people to go out into the countryside, live in a small village, and work in the fields. That's going to go over like a lead balloon. Expect angry protests to start erupting in the cities. At least Mao was smart enough to not order college graduates into the fields (although, he did have many of the college graduates--and their professors--killed to lessen resistance to his insane plans).

    One in 5 young people in Chinese cities are out of work. Beijing wants them to work in the fields | CNN Business

     
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    The idea that the US militarily encircling Russia and China is an act of defense rather than aggression is so in-your-face transparently idiotic that anyone who thinks critically enough about it will immediately dismiss it for the foam-brained nonsense that it is, yet it’s the mainstream narrative in the western world, and millions of people accept it as true. Because that’s the power of US propaganda.

    The Single Dumbest Thing The Empire Asks Us To Believe
     
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    Huawei is moving from building 5G infrastructure (that's pretty much done already in China) to upgrading industries to utilize 5G industry. They're becoming a formidable vertically integrated behemoth in the telecoms sector. Downstream they're developing systems for autonomous mining, port operations, factories, etc., and upstream they're developing their own enterprise management software, chip design, and semiconductor manufacturing, etc.

    Half of China's EV exports to the EU last year were Teslas, so there's your answer. Much of the rest is by Chinese-owned European brands like Volvo/Polestar or MG. Chinese brands are starting to earn some market share, but it'll take some time to build a reputation not to mention service network/record. China is actually expected to surpass Japan as the #1 auto exporter in the world this year, which is pretty remarkable since the largest auto market (China) is domestic and in the second largest (US) it has very little presence.

    On a related topic, I noticed that you immediately wondered about American and European demand when talking about Chinese exports. A tectonic shift that's recently occurred is that for the first time ever, China exported to the Global South more than to advanced economies last year. A few other tectonic shifts happened over the past year or so, including that for the first time ever, China gained more PhDs through migration/immigration than the US (we actually had a net loss) and again for the first time ever China produced more top quality (highly cited) papers in scientific journals than the US.

    IMO the attitude you espouse only serves to drive us to complacency. It's even worse than the chicken littles. We need to invest in ourselves more, not just with more money, but with systemic changes. Invest in education and stop scaring away the Chinese grad students with the witch hunts, cut red tape so manufacturers don't have to jump through a billion bureaucratic hoops, and stop the culture war politics that siphon all the attention of the public.

    We have the institutions to attract and foster genius minds. With AI and automation we can manufacture competitively even with higher labor costs and without trade barriers. To get that done, we need to realize first that they're issues that need to be worked on, and that they're bigger issues than what bathroom someone can use.
     
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    China wants more foreign countries to invest in Chinese companies, but it prefers that they do so blindly, with less information on Chinese companies than ever before. Western investors are supposed to just accept the fact that if a company is Chinese, then it's worth investing in.

    China Limits Data After US Research Spurred Alarm, WSJ Says (yahoo.com)

     
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    If you were smarter, you would know that the U.S. has the best freight rail system in the world (by far), and it benefits our economy tremendously.
     
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    Whine all you want, it's still the best in the world. I never said it was perfect. Just better than every other country's freight rail system. And it's much safer than putting all that freight on the highways, which is what most of the rest of the world does.

    And another thing: none of China's HSR lines make money--they all exist because the state throws money at them. In fact, the only two HSR lines in the world that make money are in Japan (Tokyo to Osaka) and France (Paris to Lyon).

    So while your foreign shiny trains look nice, American freight trains are bringing home the bacon (i.e., getting the job done).
     
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