How China's Military Views the United States

(Taiwan developed the drone, not China)

 

China ‘could match’ US in military conflict thanks to shipbuilding strength

 

Time is running out to have a war with China …

 

This is a potential source of US-China dispute. This is a designed provocation

 

I certainly don’t like everything about China, but in many respects it makes the US look third world

 

And over land that’s 800 miles from China and with the Filipino exclusion zone, and already arbitrated at a world level.

 

China has tried to claim the Spratly Islands since forever, they have built up some of the islands that used to only exist at low tide and put military installations on them.

I've spent hundreds of hours on Freedom of Navigation flights over and around the islands, it is hairy to say the least.

 

Beijing was under Liao, then Jurchen, then Mongol control for like 400 years successively. I don't think 75 years makes a difference to the Chinese.

But it's a city nobody wants to live in, according to chemgator

 

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They’re going to get us all killed

 

Serpentza has an axe to grind with China, he's the one who posted that misinformation video about abandoned BYD EVs. I don't really blame the guy though, I've watched many of his videos since many years back. He lived for many years in China and told the truth in his videos, both good and bad, and got attacked viciously online by Chinese ultra-nationalists for daring to say anything bad about China and was driven out of the country by their harassment. It's unfortunately that he completely lost his objectivity afterwards, only posting the bad things. It's kinda sad to see how bitter he's become from his experience.

With that said, I'll address your points. Your points have nothing to do with whether Chongqing is a good city, but they do raise some good points. I agree with the vast majority of your points, from the reason why real estate was overinvested in China (i.e. the Chinese have nowhere else to park their money with good returns), how so many can keep get sold despite a lack of need (i.e. nobody actually lives in a lot of them), how with the recent crackdown most real estate companies won't survive.

So basically, I agree with you on just about all the facts. What I don't agree with you on is the interpretation. You say the real estate market will collapse, that's not true. It's already collapsed. Real estate and related industries made up 25% of China's GDP just a few years ago, now it's a little over 10%. It'll continue to collapse, soon it'll make up a miniscule proportion of China's GDP. IMO the Chinese government's intention is clear, they want to make housing into an infrastructure, an utility, and not a commodity. I don't think Xi could've made it any clearer when he said "houses are for living, not for speculation".

What's taken its place in the Chinese economy is the new energy and related industries, EVs, solar, wind, batteries, etc. They're now making up ~25% of China's GDP and still expanding rapidly. The issue IMO with a lot of Westerners' take on China is that they're always outdated. China is a rapidly developing country, and every few years it's a whole new country. Many Western analysts even now are still talking about how China should rescue its real estate industry, how the recent $40 billion initiative isn't enough, etc. China's past that now, real estate is old news. They'll support it just enough to avoid a recession, but they'll tolerate its collapse so long as it remains merely a drag on growth. In 5 years it'll have no effect on the Chinese economy, and they're already moving on to the next project.

China ceded control of Taiwan to Japan in 1895 due to the successful Japanese invasion of Taiwan, so by that logic China just needs to successfully invade Taiwan now to regain control, no? To be honest, I don't really care about historical claims, everywhere belonged to someone else at some point of time. China wants Taiwan for the access to the SCS and the Pacific, the historical stuff drummed up by either side is just excuse for or against China's action.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/china/china-taiwan-quarantine-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
China could try quarantining Taiwan into submission.

 

I can think of two or three reasons I wouldn’t want to move to China, but I have American friends who moved there and love it. From the article …

“China stands out as the only country to have ever surpassed to US in development.”

A Month Traveling in China | Dissident Voice

 

Say you’ve never been to China without saying you’ve never been to China. Only one of us has lived over there and I assure you… no one here would switch places. Hong Kong is nice though.