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BlackWindMnt

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Above all, the hype about Vietnam replacing China misses the simple fact that Vietnam is the size of a single Chinese province. How is a country that size supposed to steal all of China's manufactering business?

Really, China's only real competitor has always been India, and sure they've managed to get some business due to rising labor costs and the 2022 COVID lockdowns. But once again, even in 1990s China where the standard of living in many parts of the country was still no better than Subsaharan Africa, the country had stable power supplies and extensive road networks.

It's 2022 and
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India's biggest problem is how to manage uprising such those Foxxcon uprising that happen in China. Or in the past years when Indian factory workers burned down an Apple manufacturing hall.
 

supercat

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While some parts of Europe is freezing this winter, Shanghai will get Russian natural gas through the China-Russia natural gas pipeline.
Shanghai set to get gas from Russia
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China's wide camel is one of the most endangered animals in the world:

Mongolian khulan (looks like wide donkey):

A few playful otters:
 

supercat

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China and U.S. life expectancy, 2019-2021:

Bumper 2022 grain harvest achieved in China​

The country's grain output totaled about 686.53 billion kg this year, up 0.5 percent or 3.68 billion kg compared to 2021, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

This is the eighth consecutive year for China to register a grain harvest of over 650 billion kg.
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TK3600

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China and U.S. life expectancy, 2019-2021:


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For reference Russian life expectancy dropped 4 years from 1991 to 1994. USA dropped 2.5 year over 3 years.

At 78.2 China is getting the vibe of a developed country already. Of course, surpassing pre-covid USA(78.5) is not an end goal. China should aim to get above 80 eventually about 82 which is roughly around developed countries with functional health care.
 

pmc

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For reference Russian life expectancy dropped 4 years from 1991 to 1994. USA dropped 2.5 year over 3 years.

At 78.2 China is getting the vibe of a developed country already. Of course, surpassing pre-covid USA(78.5) is not an end goal. China should aim to get above 80 eventually about 82 which is roughly around developed countries with functional health care.
Russian dropped due to working age mass migration to West. there are i think 6 million Russian speaking in Germany alone.
US has various communities some of the are not only well off but scientifically highly educated. so there expectancy will be higher than avg. it is that active life of researchers, professors that attract global talent. US does not need that much factory workers as it has NAFTA and other import countries.

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