Yes. We maybe in the waning days of the global US empire, but it could be decades before it all unravels.why bother about phones. Most new phones life span is 4 to 5 years and even more if higher end. while US can blockade Africa and Latin America for immediate raising prices of various commodities causing collapse of governments. Mideast is US aircraft carrier.
The point is US can sustain such conflict many years more than other continents.
why should phone be such complicated and even allowed to every one. this Ukraine conflict has reveal alot of things about societies when it got prolonged. It separated chaff from wheat.
Social climbers and sociopathic Asian females know which way the wind9s blowing.You know it’s game over when female Asian liberal journalists are defecting to the Wumao cause.
If I lose my day job when the economy inevitably goes to shit I’m gonna start a job teaching XJP Thought to people interested.
someone already didSomeone hit him with the "this you?" line with a screenshot of the Chinese SC industry overnight annihilation.
Best thing about this is with all the search data, the MSS can predict American public sentiment in case it wants to fuck with, oh I don’t know the U.S. stock exchange.
it means Americans are asking their existentialist questions to Chinese AI as opposed to the Zionist ”i would rather kill the world to save one Jew” ChatGPT.Basically Deepseek replaced Rednote as #1... yesterday someone was still lamenting that there was no hope of Deepseek ever going mainstream since even Claude hadnt managed in all this time to get anywhere close to Chatgpt in rankings on appstore, and then one day later.....
China this is too much winning!!
Yes. We maybe in the waning days of the global US empire, but it could be decades before it all unravels.
The Eastern Roman Empire survived for a thousand years after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, gradually losing territory over the centuries, until it had nothing left. Even when the core lost its military edge, it limped on for centuries just off of its diplomacy, trade, and easily defensible borders.
The British Empire, by contrast, endured for much less time after its power was spent post-World War 2 since it was stretched across too many continents, but even then, it took decades for the empire to totally disintegrate.
The US is no longer at the peak of its power, and its diminishing is by now obvious.
But that doesn't mean we're going to be in a post-US world just within the window of a few years.
Isn't there an active armed rebellion in Colombia right now? Venezuela might be slightly better choice for a Chinese "support" base.Should set up a PLARF base in Colombia..
Timely post by Chinese Ambassador in Colombia
I don't think the problem is ios and android dominance. After all, android is open source and anyone can fork it and chinese phones have already done it in the domestic market. They also have their own app stores. The biggest problem is the dominance of American web apps dominating the world. Every single app that people need such aa Google maps for navigation, Gmail, YouTube these are all monopolies. Where are the Chinese alternatives for these things? Why is Baidu maps, tencent email, biliblili not investing to go global yet.In geopolitics, the US doesn't always get what it wants, but we're not talking about the US's control over every aspect of geopolitics. We're talking very specifically about its control over software platforms and financial services. There, the US does have tremendous leverage, because Silicon Valley really did take over the world outside of China.
In 2024, Android + IOS had 96% of global market share in smart phone OS. Harmony OS had just 4%, virtually all of it within China.
When you are that market dominant, it gives you power. No two ways about it. Same reason why China's dominance in EV, battery technology, and consumer drones is scaring the **** out of the US and leading to constant media attention and political action. The only difference? Nobody outside of China and Russia are raising the alarm about the US's 96% market share in smart phone OS, despite the obvious risk that poses to national security, because they've been so used to the US media telling them what to think.
Supply chain is a lot longer than the final assembly step, starting from chemicals, for example.Not every smart phone supply chain runs through China. Samsung, for example, moved its manufacturing out of China a while ago to Vietnam, and the US could make a deal with Korea to buy up some of their manufacturing facilities. With how much the Koreans seem to love the US and hate China, it's a pretty plausible scenario.