Oh no! How about his crown jewels
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Lol not that guy again. That dude was b..ch slapped by Eric Li when they had a debate at Aspen Ideas 5 or 6 years ago. Eric Li impressed the snot out of me with his bluntness that's usually not seen from any Chinese intellectual. Pei on the other hand was out of his element and couldn't muster any coherent response to any of Eric Li's points other than to say Freedom is awesome and all that jazz...
solarz
Brigadier
Do you have a video link to that debate?
The problem with these people, one problem is they do not understand the world.
When they spend their whole life around the confines of the ivory tower, they do not know what the situation is like on the ground for the peasants.
That practical experience of survival, that is unknown to them, and hence, they have no idea of what they are talking about.
What is an economic boom in the United States? Anything above 3% is more or less a boom in America. China will be growing around 5% for 10-15 years, almost for another generation.
When there is a boom like that, there are always more new opportunities created for the peasants on the ground. If a company losses some business here, the boom will create more business later (immediately or relatively soon) via another customer.
That is inevitable and that is just how the world works. Notice that this article is an instant replay of the pros and cons of the US-China trade war, which the effects were expected to be minimal, and the outcome was minimal to the reverse of expectations.
There is no reason to expect it to be different this time, but that is what the article writer is saying. That it will be different this time because America and the EU will be in this together.
How will this work? Since the Americans and Europeans are in this together to confront China, how will China growth rate not be 5% for the next 10-15 years?
That is the part they will never explain, because 1) it is a secret strategy, or 2) this is basically bad propaganda, or 3) they flat bullshitting because they live in an ivory tower and do not know how the world works.
That is why we keep reading these kinds of articles because maybe one day someone figures out point #1) and we have something new.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
It's reverse psychology. It's another example of how this is what the US says it wants but when China helps it along, the US goes into panic. China called the US's bluff. The threat to decouple is only to scare China into submission. The US doesn't want it to actually happen because it'll hurt them economically because greedy people want more not settle for less. The whole "the US needs no one but everyone needs the US" is to lie the US is in a position of strength while everyone else is weak. If you're weak, you need the strong to help you. That's what the US wants to brainwash everyone to believe so everyone has to surrender to US demands to get their help.
The US knows a company like H&M is in a weaker position. Not only do they need Chinese consumers buying their products, H&M also outsources to China. Not only would they lose China as a customer, if decoupling were to happen, their costs are going to increase because Western companies don't outsource for humanitarian purposes giving poor people jobs in other countries. They're there to get their products made at the least cost meaning more profits. Leave and their costs go up. That's an example of what will happen to most Western companies. They're not going to say it out loud but everyone knows the worldwide chip shortage is in large part due to the US chip bans on China on selling to and producing. What happened to the whole lie that they claim China doesn't buy anything from the West but the West buys from China? If China wasn't buying, why are they in panic of China boycotting Western companies' products? Everything might be made in China but it doesn't mean they come from Chinese companies that keep the profits when those products are sold to consumers. What does China have to lose when those products that Westerners buy aren't actually from Chinese companies. The cheap labor they paid for they exploited putting their products together for them? The profits of products when sold to consumers that aren't Chinese? Their end loses out more hence why the panic that China is helping them in their goals in decoupling.
Minxin Pei is only affirming what the US wants to believe. This is where India's courtesy culture works well with Americans. American would rather be told a lie if the lie sounds better than the truth.
Minxin Pei CCP agent confirmed
Please do watch the whole video especially when the typical American smug from wired magazine asked Eric li of what he probably thought a penetrating question only for Eric Li to give it right back to him and the rest of the usual stupefied American audience to leave battered and bruise. Lol