Foreign debt is actually not that high percentage wise. My stats could be off but I think US civilians and corporations hold like 80 percent of the debt.
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Foreign debt is actually not that high percentage wise. My stats could be off but I think US civilians and corporations hold like 80 percent of the debt.
That's interesting. Asian cooking is getting the recognition it deserves in America.
The funny thing about Western vs Asian cooking is that you can find many Asians who can cook Western cuisine to the highest standards. But it is exceedingly rare for Westerners to cook Asian dishes to the highest standards. We can find the odd Western sushi chefs here and there, but practically zero masters for Chinese cooking. We won't find any Western chef who have mastered preparing Dim sum, Chinese noodles, or Peking duck.
Gordon Ramsay took the challenge of trying to prepare Lamian, Dimsum, and Cheong fun, and he struggled like hell. Wrapping a Dim sum is nothing like wrapping a ravioli. Pulling a Lamian is vastly more challenging than rolling out pasta. And the prices they charge for their meals are relatively affordable compared to fine Western cuisine. So Gordon has a special respect for Chinese chefs.
I think the knowledge of Western cooking more accessible because they are taught in academies. But for Chinese cooking, the essential knowledge is still being passed down in families, or from master to apprentice. I personally don't mind it the way it is. Unlike fine China, tea, and kung-fu, fine Chinese cooking still remains a secret from the Westerners.
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Chinese cooking is traditionally not as precise as Western cooking and the amount of salt/other condiments or how long something could be cooked is often decided on a whim based on the chef’s experience. That, coupled with stigma against Chinese incorporating “taboo” ingredients in the dishes, probably limited its influence.
~2/3rds of the “debt held by the public” is owned by US investors but it’s even higher when you consider the “intergovernmental transfers” part of the debt where it’s owned by agencies like social security and medicare
They will say: we are more powerful because we can borrow more, just look at the interest on our debt
Yes exactly. Western cooking is science, while Chinese cooking is art. Both are good in their own way. But it makes Chinese cooking that much harder to learn from the outside.
That "taboo" ingredient thing. It's up to people to accept it or not. When the Japanese first introduced sashimi, it was taboo too. But somehow more people have grown to accept it. It'll still be harder for them to accept Chinese "taboo" ingredients anytime soon though, because of the entrenched racism and politics.
Japan already did the breakthrough then in raw meat/seafood for China though. Mainstream Han Chinese kitchen doesn't really have anything more controversial than that.
I mean there's a lot of fermented stuff but it adds good flavor and is only "taboo" (from the perspective of anglos eating unseasoned pink slime and cheese product) if you know exactly how it was made and how it sat away in some vase. Once added to dishes, it's generally well hidden, so it's not even something as visceral as moldy cheese. It's our siblings in SEA that work with some stranger stuff.
I agree that Chinese cooking is not so institutionalized and probably this is a good thing, it may encourage more diversity when people are trained as apprentices rather than a whole class. And I think the strength about Chinese kitchen is how diverse it is.
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True, but my point is that US government can't force debt consolidation for domestic or foreign debt without getting sued in court.