The Americans are so scared of large numbers. They know they cannot contain China, even with the help of their European vassals, Five Eyes and even Japan and Korea. Therefore, they are now recruiting a billion Indians, forming the new Indo-Pacific initiative. The US wants to balance large number with larger number. It is even more urgent for China to counter balance that move.
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The Americans are so scared of large numbers. They know they cannot contain China, even with the help of their European vassals, Five Eyes and even Japan and Korea. Therefore, they are now recruiting a billion Indians, forming the new Indo-Pacific initiative. The US wants to balance large number with larger number. It is even more urgent for China to counter balance that move.
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No, they're just scared of China, modern China, not older China, not India, not numbers, just modern China.
No one has ever said that except in your imagination. The US launches tech war, trade war, actual war, but not human number war. The last one is only in your mind.
It's not going to happen. It is the reality. China is overtaking the US in tech and in the economy; it is happening. But in a modern China, people will not play your stupid headcount game. China's TRF is not going to shoot up and people will not be having kids like Indians or Africans to counter an imaginary population war, but China will continue to move faster than the US and all its vassals combined. It has been happening for the last 20 years. These two truths combine to prove your imagination wrong.
The ironic thing is the Collective West accuse China of being a brutal authoritarian regime and planning to export their kind of ideology, BUT in reality the Chinese democratized the Global South by empowering them, a perfect example is the availability of cheap Smartphone and consumer product, it enable the citizen of the Global South to enjoy the benefit and same quality of life as the Collective West.
Why does the China and HK stock market suck so much for the past year?
I'm hearing rumours its a coordinated attack that western investors are trying to sell all their holdings in a short period of time to crash the market. Or the government is forcing them to sell. But the thing is western institutions aren't the only ones with money now. Someone else will buy. If the market doesn't drop much in the future, they would have sold at the bottom. Good riddance to them if thats the case.
Maybe this is one of the reasons Korea and Japan are dogs to the USA. Its not just the military. Samsung and whatever have investors like Blackrock holding their leash. If they decide to upset Uncle Sam, let just say Samsung is going to be in a world of hurt. Financial control is another thing to consider. America ultimately runs on debt. Even if they help build you up, they're going to ask for repayment with high interest.
I'm hearing rumours its a coordinated attack that western investors are trying to sell all their holdings in a short period of time to crash the market. Or the government is forcing them to sell. But the thing is western institutions aren't the only ones with money now. Someone else will buy. If the market doesn't drop much in the future, they would have sold at the bottom. Good riddance to them if thats the case.
Maybe this is one of the reasons Korea and Japan are dogs to the USA. Its not just the military. Samsung and whatever have investors like Blackrock holding their leash. If they decide to upset Uncle Sam, let just say Samsung is going to be in a world of hurt. Financial control is another thing to consider. America ultimately runs on debt. Even if they help build you up, they're going to ask for repayment with high interest.
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Foreigners own 69% of Samsung's preferred stocks.
Korea and Japan are doing better than Taiwan though. At one point, foreigners owned 79.7% of TSMC, but now they "only" own 72.4%.
That is not accurate.
We've already discussed how the price of electricity from [wind/solar + battery] will be lower than using today's fossil fuels.
Combined with expected improvements in Hydrogen electrolysers, it means green hydrogen will be cheaper than currently hydrogen production which is produced from fossil fuels. This will directly impact industrial processes which use hydrogen, such as in steelmaking and ammonia fertiliser. That will translate into cheaper prices and/or increased food production.
We also see improvements in industrial protein production in bioreactors. The feedstock materials are plant material or even methanol produced from coal for example.
So energy and food should be cheaper and more abundant - at least if you have access to the Chinese supply chain.
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Now, you could argue that minerals and metals are a fixed supply, but that's not really true.
What matters is that when the price goes up, the supply that can be economically extracted increases. And if not, it spurs the development of alternatives.
Plus remember that when you have robots and drastically lower energy prices, it means the cost of extracting minerals/metals decreases as well.
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Taking the trend to its logical conclusion, you can see a situation where electricity is at almost zero cost (less than 1cent/Kwh) in 5 years time.
That means the cost of building and operating robots approaches zero.
You've got essentially unlimited robots fuelled by unlimited energy, which can do mineral/metal extraction.
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But for this scenario to become widespread is probably still some decades away.
In the meantime, we'll likely see China leading on the energy/robotics front.
This should mean Chinese productivity (and therefore wages) being higher than the USA.
There may also be temporary global shortages of minerals/metals during this technology transition
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I dont think is possible to have both, you have to decide "big or educated".
What China can do to maintain a steady population is no following the West in their race to bottom with central banks hyperinflating asset prices that make everyone poorer. Cheap cheap cheap. Cheap housing, cheap education, cheap food, cheap consumer goods, cheap daycare relative to salaries.
Yes, all investors are keen to sell at 50% or more loss for what exactly reason?
Yep, good riddance. No one from the west will have investments in China. And let's see what happens when China invades Taiwan ..
or when they simply will upset uncle Sam -> China will be left holding the bag with how many billions of treasuries they have? And all these billions will be moved in Taiwan military/reconstruction accounts. And as a contra measure China will have zero collateral to seize from the West. Nice plan indeed
You are incoherent, in the first place, how can China even physically manage to "invade" inside itself??Yes, all investors are keen to sell at 50% or more loss for what exactly reason?
Yep, good riddance. No one from the west will have investments in China. And let's see what happens when China invades Taiwan ..
or when they simply will upset uncle Sam -> China will be left holding the bag with how many billions of treasuries they have? And all these billions will be moved in Taiwan military/reconstruction accounts. And as a contra measure China will have zero collateral to seize from the West. Nice plan indeed
Whatever the west says on paper, they still have huge collaterals in China, which of course would be seized if they commit aggression against China first. But it's not like China relies on that to fund its defenses... Not even close.