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wuguanhui

Junior Member
I just mount the phone on the handlebars and run the video at 144p with screen brightness turned down so it doesn't chew through too much data or battery, using one earbud only. I believe Youtube Premium allows you to play videos in the background or with screen off, and I think there are unofficial apps and workarounds to get the same functionality without that subscription, but I haven't felt the need to go down either path.
The Brave browser skips ads and let's you watch videos with the screen off.
 

Some1Guy

Junior Member
Registered Member
For sure more theft is on the way. If it happens once, it can happen again, and again, and again. It will only stop when serious consequences hit them
ugh, i looked trough some of this guy's tweets and he's so sensationalist like look at this:
CHINA JUST SURRENDERED. 48 HOURS. $3 TRILLION GONE. Treasury Secretary Bessent: “China is ready to make a deal.” Translation: Beijing capitulated in 48 hours. The 100% tariff dies November 1st. But China paid a price that will echo for centuries.
WHAT JUST HAPPENED: October 24: Trump activates economic doomsday … $300B in Chinese exports face extinction. October 26: Bessent emerges from negotiations. October 28: “China is ready.” Two. Days. The second-largest economy on Earth folded faster than a CVS receipt.

tough i agree with your point, if china doesn't use economic force to uphold these contracts which have been previously negotiated then nothing really stops these countries from not upholding their end of the contract out of fear of US coercion.

in my opinion it should be the US that's should be targeted because they're the ones behind coercion and use of force against china's Latin American and Caribbean partners.
 

Gloire_bb

Colonel
Registered Member
Russia or the USSR spent loads and loads of money on military. Yet thinking about it, I don't think they ever got close to really hurting the US where it hurts. At least China's monetary strategy triggers those Zuckerbergs and other capitalists hard. They hate communism but you know what they hate even more, someone who can play the money game better than them or rather invent a new way that deprives them of a lot of capital.
Well, on Soviet side, Cold war was fought largely by the Soviet Navy, which always was but a small part of military expenditure.
Arguably, the only part of budget over several decades that was consistently well used, and produced outsized effects from investment.

You can really point it to a ¬single person(ASF Gorhskov), who early on got a grasp on what's actually going on, and sold it in an understandable way to political elites(who, ironically, didn't understand anything - but for a while it worked).
 

Chevalier

Major
Registered Member
Already, many scam call centres have released their Chinese captives, they can run, they can hide but eventually Chinese justice and retribution will come for them.
That Australia's political class appears incapable of seriously attending to these matters beyond the presumption of ongoing American supremacy, and that AUKUS is a leading exhibit of this failure of imagination.
This is because Australiais elites identify more with the globohomo racial Anglo elites than they do to ordinary Australians who need a working relationship with China in order to remain at the current living standard.
At worse, the five eyes have a white Anglo supremacist mandate which should be dismantled as brutally as possible.


you know Chinese trade deals are hurting when the USG loses its cool and tries to create its own UN.
 

Kalum Pupeter

Junior Member
Registered Member
ugh, i looked trough some of this guy's tweets and he's so sensationalist like look at this:



tough i agree with your point, if china doesn't use economic force to uphold these contracts which have been previously negotiated then nothing really stops these countries from not upholding their end of the contract out of fear of US coercion.

in my opinion it should be the US that's should be targeted because they're the ones behind coercion and use of force against china's Latin American and Caribbean partners.

I have lost count: ByteDance’s U.S. TikTok arm; the Wingtech–Nexperia unit; Wingtech’s Newport wafer fab; Sinochem and its stake in Pirelli; and now the two port concessions at the Panama Canal held by Hutchison. There has been zero cost imposed from Beijing’s side. It’s a disaster. Every time, it’s just a verbal rebuke from a low-ranking civil servant, Guo Jiankun. Tell Guo to shut up and let someone with real authority actually do something. We don’t need words from a parrot. They have exactly zero meaning.
 

plawolf

Lieutenant General
For sure more theft is on the way. If it happens once, it can happen again, and again, and again. It will only stop when serious consequences hit them

Forget about the crowing Jai Hind wannabe’s opinions.

If Panama wants to go full banana republic open bandit country, no one can stop them. But the broader economic consequences will be devastating, which is why countries don’t go bandit more often.

Not only is China going to heavily punish them economically and diplomatically, the vast majority of the world will also take note of Panama’s actions and take this new risk into account when deciding on any deals with them. Even Blackrock is going to be pissed Panama took this route, because what’s stopping the next Panama government from doing the exact same thing to their new contract?

And to be honest, Panama picked the worst time possible to pull this stunt. China just cancelled all Venezuelan oil deals after Trump’s supported coup; Trump has just shown that flagging ships in Panama is as useful as using toilet paper since the US has a treaty where they can board Panama flagged ships at will. So China has almost nothing to loose from breaking out the economic sledgehammer on them right now.
 

siegecrossbow

Field Marshall
Staff member
Super Moderator
Okay, to re-hash what should be the truth about growth potential to the Chinese economy, it was what the CCP thought about in those last months of the pandemic.

It has been a while, so I forget, but it is pretty basic.

We should just consider, what are the growth drivers to the Chinese economy? We can just list a few.
  • consumers
  • real estate
  • manufacturing
  • exports
  • high-tech manufacturing
  • infrastructure building
  • lower interest rates
  • fiscal policy stimulus
There are probably more, but we get the point. I remember reading about such discussions, blah blah blah.

What is the point?

Imagine ourselves as the CCP, like in a video game. How are we going to stimulate the economy after the pandemic?

Well, that is the point. Chinese government had a lot of policy choices, and they were in position to act out on any of them. In contrast, with inflation brewing and the national debt and the budget deficit, the US government has far more constraints to consider when they think about monetary and fiscal policies.

To say the Chinese economy is struggling, is truly brain dead.

Sure, in economics, nothing is ever perfect. When it is perfect, that is the exact moment the market goes down.

If the CCP wanted to solve deflation, just go for it, flood the system with money, reflate the property market, and that will get things going.

However, is that really a good idea? Probably better just live with the deflation for the next little while.

That is the point. The CCP has many policies or tactics available to them to readjust the Chinese economy. They do not have to use all of those levers at the same time.

They can use one CCP lever for now, then use another CCP lever for later. It depends. No rush. The future will come soon enough.

All this talk about the Chinese economy doing badly, which suggest the CCP is helpless, well, we can see how good a job comrade Chang does.

:cool:
Same people talking down Chinese youth unemployment but cautioning us that India will be a true threat in the future don’t realize that Indian youth unemployment is 46 percent without accounting for under employment or gig jobs.
 
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