This is a reply to In4ser’s reply to me. For some reason hitting reply the normal way ain’t working.
I’d rather have China act strong. What’s the point of looking weak especially when you’re not? The Chinese way of thinking is so people don’t pay attention to you. Sorry that doesn’t work for China. China is too big to ignore. The US wants China to look weak for a reason. If China looks strong economically, the less countries are going to go along with the US because that’s the point why the US wants to portray China as weak so they act accordingly against China as it wishes. Why would China help the US make themselves look weak? You want the US to look wrong so everyone sees they aren’t right so no one listens to them. Helping the US look right doesn’t help China.
US and the West is talk talk talk, they are almost as bad as India now.
No one ever does anything.
EV plants, semiconductors, Foxconn in Wisconsin. All of these projects is always hype about "stakeholder engagement", "future economic benefits", "x# of jobs", "sustainability"
Look at the Goro mine in New Caledonia, it was supposed to be the future of Nickel production using HPAL technology. 4 billion and they never got it working. China got it working in Indonesia. Now they have the biggest Nickel processing capability. It is really important in NMC batteries for EVs, but the crazy thing is that China is even looking to displace NMC anyway.
Then you hear them talking about "CHINA SUBSIDIZES EVS LIKE CRAZY", then you see Northvolt which was bankrolled by western governments around the world go dead.
HSR in California, nothing more needs to be said...
Even the Brightline in Florida, hailed as a huge success, it only goes 200km/h max speed, and has killed 50 people in 2 years (level crossings for HSR are bad). By comparison, the Wenzhou disaster had 40 deaths and the western news made it seem like HSR in China is a death trap.