Since SK, Japan, and many SE Asia countries are cutting down on petroleum products such as plastic bags I assume the answer is yes.
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The Anglo American attitude towards China is a very Indian one ie overstepping boundaries without shame, chutzpah galore, invasive, insecure, boastful, needing to affirm their izzat despite reality and material costs.
Forget if this was posted.
If this Prof Scott Galloway guy wants to see the China US relationship go the other way, then the American elite has their doubts.
Probably will not happen for a lot of reasons. The primary one is that China probably wants to keep the Americans at arms length, and out of the neighbourhood.
Then they talked about Chinese cars and the EV industry a little.
Then a discussion about cities, and if we follow China close enough, we realize that is what makes Chinese cities tick! Because that is what cities are! They are true engines of economic growth. Have good cities, and you will have an economy that really has a chance.
Now, what makes a good city. That is an interesting question. Myself, more interested in NIMBY than anything else.
NIMBY!
NIMBY
NIMBY now!
A sign of the times when the student has now become the master. Now, Japanese and European carmakers come to Chinese auto shows with calipers and data loggers for their own homegrown vehicles. Let them come and Chinese engineers will test their mettle against their own technology.
rumour yet to be confirmed but it appears the TSMC Arizona is a failure despite the resource poured into it, we’re looking at a yield of only 50+% compared to the required 95+% in Japan and 98+% in Taiwan.
They know they can just buy a car for teardown right???
depends If their respective governments will allow them to import it I suppose.
In the wake of USG claims of releasing UFO files, a lot of Americans are sceptical
This tweet itself is newsworthy because look at the number of likes and retweets, if you want to see Chinese soft power, this is it, now, ppl universally look to China as the grown ups in the room, for facts and honesty.
I grow to realize the memes about Americans aren't just memes. An average school is bad there. The USA runs on its top quartile. So far it could get away with that because its population was several times larger than the next industrial country.
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Not sure that we can depend on the top quartile of Gen Alpha. The folks below did a number on young people’s intellectual abilities…
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And on the subject of Chinese soft power, this from Adam tooze
There's always been weird fetishising of chinese ppl for a very long time, although its more indicative of the psychopathic attitudes towards sex that American society and culture has, namely the obsessive need for control and domination that Americans need to have.
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This used to be the case for a thousand years pre-industrial revolution.
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This post reminded me of a recent episode of Kaiser Kuo's Sinica podcast, . One interesting argument that Tooze makes is that the economic implications of China's demographic transition are overblown precisely because China's labour force is still relatively under-developed, i.e. even if demographic horizons are relatively constrained going forward, there remains a large scope to improve the productivity of that labour force.
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I know we talked about AI eventually taking over all our jobs. But I don't think all these think tanks expected the pace to be as fast as what we have now.
All these talks about demographics workforce are going to be about a future that no longer exists. So they wasted tons of hours and billions of dollars talking about it. And the funny thing is it only took AI a few years to show these guys why they and their thoughts are obsolete.