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I must say that at least as far as my country is concerned, no such relationship was the rule. I have been active in the field of trade and interstate and corporate negotiations on prices and goods for quite a long time and nothing like that happened there. The rules were set in such a way that they limited price fluctuations (so-called sliding prices) and sometimes prices were lower than world prices and sometimes higher. The system was quite fair, although there were exceptions, for example, Uranium supplies to the USSR in the 1950s at significantly lower prices than world prices and the like. The exception was developing countries like Cuba or Vietnam, where coefficients were applied. There were a lot of goods that the USSR could not buy and we had them, for example, satellite orientation systems and lithographic machines .... Of course, the system ossified over time and disappeared with the collapse of the Soviet bloc.
Believe me, the USSR did not let itself be deceived, sometimes quite the opposite.
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An old thread discussing why the Soviet Union collapsed
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An old thread discussing why the Soviet Union collapsed
China's Greatest Fear: Dead and Buried Like the Soviet Union (Closed)
An interesting article from the National Interest on China's views of the USSR http://nationalinterest.org/blog/chinas-greatest-fear-dead-buried-the-soviet-union-15477 But here's my view. Starting in the 1970s, the studies show that the Soviet economy became less productive and efficient as...
www.sinodefenceforum.com
Do we know what was that?
To add, one Russian partner told me about 40 years ago, when we were negotiating in Prague and visited the U Kalicha pub (Josef Schweik..
in the evening after about 7 beers, sadly: the last Russian who ruled Russia was Peter 1... Otherwise, all Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, Georgians and the like... Do you understand who reshaped Russia according to themselves?By the way, thank you for the link, it is interesting. However, I saw some things from the inside and a little differently.
But I'm ending now, we have digressed a bit. Moderators forgive me....
Please share some stories!To add, one Russian partner told me about 40 years ago, when we were negotiating in Prague and visited the U Kalicha pub (Josef Schweik..
By the way, thank you for the link, it is interesting. However, I saw some things from the inside and a little differently.
But I'm ending now, we have digressed a bit. Moderators forgive me....
Thanks.
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- Answer - the report from the New York Times is actually funny: it assumes the US regime can be as competent as Chinese policymakers:
The matter of the fact is, the current oligarchic capitalism system in the US is so bad, it will probably lose to China eventually without learning anything from it. America's current system is so ruthless, investors of pharmaceutical companies would rather let American patients die instead of using drugs developed in China, for the purpose of protecting their own investments and profits. From the New York Times:
Some China bashing is so nonsensical, even Glenn didn't bother to rebut it in detail.
The Trump regime wants to sanction China in cahoots with NATO? Good luck.
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This could actually a much bigger deal than a tariff on foreign chips.
Chips are intermediate goods, never used independently, and the vast majority of PCBs on the planet are made and populated in China, so if China bans the import of a specific chip, you'll have to choose between moving your entire manufacturing operation, or just switching our one chip for another from a Chinese supplier (that's almost certainly also cheaper).
It's also not practically viable to populate PCBs over multiple steps at any amount of quantity, so either you populate the entire PCB in China, or you populate the entire PCB not in China, there's no way to selectively populate just a few chips at a later stage for any meaningful quantity.
The chips on this list like CAN transceivers, digital isolators, gate drivers, etc used in massive quantities in industrial electronics like automotive, EV, drones, aerospace, robotics, industrial control, basically anything bigger than your consumer phone. These chips are all <$10 each but all critical to the device they're used in, which means OEMs has to find an alternative, its extremely easy to find Chinese alternatives, and it's extremely hard for the foreign chipmakers to sustain their production without the option of Chinese assembly.
In other words this move could effectively hard kill entire business divisions for non-Chinese chip makers, and possibly bring down entire companies depend on how much they rely on inndustrial and automotive chip sales. China is the gate keeper between chips and end users, this move is the gate keeper putting up the first filter.
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