Honestly, all these Chinese opening small supermarkets and shops in Africa and other less developed countries is not ideal. I hope we see the emergence of a major brand like Walmart / Aeon sweeping across the developing world instead. One of the big problems is Chinese retail has pretty bad marketing
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18x SSNs for a sparsely-populated country of 26 million... right...
And the nerve of Canberra in calling China out - A massive country with 55x Australia's population - For modernizing, expanding and upgrading the PLA. Truly a LMFAO sight to behold.
Wanna bet that this is yet another ploy by Washington DC to have more Australia-branded-but-US-operated SSNs based in Australia, with Australia yet again footing much of the extra bills?
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"The Chiney Shop" as I've heard...
Lol, "Less developed", you been to Canada? They love opening supermarkets here too.
They aren't small either, very large, full prepared food sections, mini food courts, etc. People from many different backgrounds shop there, not just Chinese.
The biggest Chinese supermarket chain here was actually acquired by the biggest regular supermarket chain.
The real problem with developing a Chinese Wal-Mart is not advertising (although I do agree with you to a degree, branding is a big issue), but the cost of real estate in the western world.
You want to open a Wal-Mart type store? First you need a big distribution centre. Second you need big stores. All of that is very big money unless you open in the middle of nowhere.
This is why we are seeing the e-commerce brands make the biggest inroads right now. You only need the warehouses, but instead of spending all the money staffing and stocking stores, pour it all into advertising. Temu, Aliexpress, Shein, they are doing well.
Amazing, they want more than double the current number of 8 submarines, more than China (currently) and France.
Ready to commit 68b per year already which could easily improve any transportation standard in a major city. With this idea, what would the cost be? Let's be generous and not say 2X, so maybe 100b per year? 100b per year to combat a threat that exists only in think-tank papers and politicians heads...
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not just marketing, there needs to be a fairly sophisticated logistics chain and QC system supporting a successful grocery store chain. H-Mart for example has done this pretty successfully in the US whereas US Chinese grocery stores have as of now been limited to fairly local mom and pop stores.
If you have that much money just pay a hooker to say that you are really good in bed… just about as useful and you’ll probably feel twice as good about yourself.
Interesting take. Kind of true if you think about it. The BRI 10th anniversary 3rd forum is basically Chinese emperor summoning envoys to come to China to eat, drink and make trade deals. No different than the old days of the Chinese empire.
There is basically no western coverage of China's BRI forum since the contrast would be too painful. One side of the world is on the path to prosperity, the other side is on the path to ruins.
But as usual, there is a third superpower who have a different view, a more comedic view.
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A lot of copium and hopium, I don't believe its a single digit drop as the article mentioned more likely a double digit and the claimed that the US market can able to absorb the loses is incredible and on what evidence? US consumer is having a hard time with inflation, with company cutting jobs and depress commercial real estate, where is the confidence to spend on an expensive Iphone? Ahhhh!!!! I forgot maybe those made in India.
Must be a rough day for the channels that bash China 24/7. Looking at that specific one gloating about Apple winning and no one wants to buy Huawei.