I don't think we need to hold a grudge. international politics is all about self interest anyway.
But I don't see a economical rational to take over foreign factory that makes things no one buys.
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But I don't see a economical rational to take over foreign factory that makes things no one buys.
Why would China it would be like throwing away money. They already couldn't compete with Asian shipyards.
Unless those companies have some awesome Intellectuel property China might find useful.
Looking at history, Chinese companies rarely purchase for intellectual property alone (except maybe brand name)
They have purchased a number of properties which were failing or failed and proceeded to make a business out of it.
When the Japanese consumer electronics companies were failing, it was because of the competition coming from China and Korea. The TV assembly plants they owned in Mexico were subsequently sold to Chinese companies (Panasonic to TCL, Sharp to Hisense). They can be profitable again for the new owners because of the supply chain restructuring.
Similarly, when GE appliances was sold to Haier the main GE company claimed that their Kentucky plant was losing hundreds of millions, yet Haier is happy to keep it open. Of course there is an element of good PR, but again, since Haier is so big, they can optimize the supply chain better.
Finally Nanjing Auto/SAIC tried very long to keep the Longbridge UK plant open (~10 years), but the reality was written long ago for UK car manufacturing (similar to Australian manufacturing). They also tried to keep open a technical office, but that also closed now (though I think that was for appearances).
Erdo can always devalue his currency to sell the cheapest airline tickets to connect Europe to the rest of the world. or the cheapest vacation or cheapest exports. It was Erdogan visit to Ukraine in March 2015 that created Russia intervention in Syria in fall of 2015. and its his drone sales to Ukraine that created current situation. Erdo is in AFrica to get brownies points from Germany as opposed to others like Russian/French. Erdo like Ottomans before always will his head in German ass. do you think China is capable of removing it?
China's position has always been "nuclear free on the Korean peninsular". This has never changed.
Official statement has been repeated to all parties. Here is the latest official statement from FM in 2021.
作为朝鲜半岛近邻，中国一贯反对半岛出现核武器，主张通过对话协商，以和平方式实现半岛无核化，同时主张解决朝方在安全等方面的合理关切。
As a neighbour of the peninsular, China always object nuclear weapon on the peninsular.
It is true that China has never protested to NK, at least never openly. That is because US has deployed nukes on the peninsular, never provided evidence that it has withdrawn those nukes, nor declared to never redeploy. It is also because the very reason of NK's nuke program is self-defence against US aggression. There is absolutely no reason for NK to be blamed for the mess.
The statement above applies to US as well.
So China's position can be stated as, we don't want anybody to have nuclear weapon, but if anyone threat our existence, we have the right to have and use nuclear weapon, this principle applies to North Korea.
You spotted me as the white guy? U sure about that. And here we go again with attacking peoples race and country of origin.
manqiangrexue
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You're the one who started calling Asians racist, which, itself, is a racist statement. You don't see the irony? Now you're accusing other people of attacking race when you did it first. You should have never said anything like that and now the thread's derailed into racism accusations.
Only a white guy would say "Asians are the most racist on the planet" ignoring how whites colonized and enslaved the world and placed people on racial hierarchies, genocide many native/aboriginals/races, and invented 'Scientific Racism' to measure differences across race. Who invented the IQ tests and propagated fake pseudo-science on racial differences in intelligence? Whites.