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Tyler

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@SanWenYu bro Lenovo is a pseudo American company, let's clear about it and so is Alibaba and those others Monopolistic Chinese tech company with majority foreign holdings. So Xi was right to support those Tech SME while limiting Chinese Big tech, they're home bred with limited foreign influence.
The Chinese state enterprises were slow in joining the technology revolution and e-commerce. Now they are blaming alibaba and others for being too successful.
 

Tyler

Captain
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Both McDonalds and Starbucks enjoy dominance in their markets. These companies have their own know-hows and even technologies to keep such dominance. Why would a beef supplier or a coffee supplier even think about losing their largest customer?

Imagine that if Lenovo had either the capability to undercut its main competitors to death, or technologies to make competitors's products obsolete, it could have killed Dell and HP after it acquired the ThinkPad brand from IBM, and would have become a great company, too. But this didn't happen.
Not even Apple or Taiwan's Acer or Asus are able to crush Dell and HP.
 

ansy1968

Brigadier
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The Chinese state enterprises were slow in joining the technology revolution and e-commerce. Now they are blaming alibaba and others for being too successful.
@Tyler bro there is a saying by Lenin " Capitalism will sell us rope to hang them" and I think with CCP and what Xi had done, it's well be true. :cool:
 

Helius

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Both McDonalds and Starbucks enjoy dominance in their markets. These companies have their own know-hows and even technologies to keep such dominance. Why would a beef supplier or a coffee supplier even think about losing their largest customer?

Imagine that if Lenovo had either the capability to undercut its main competitors to death, or technologies to make competitors's products obsolete, it could have killed Dell and HP after it acquired the ThinkPad brand from IBM, and would have become a great company, too. But this didn't happen.
That's pretty much Apple's MO with their in-house chipsets and ecosystem.

Neither Mac OS nor iOS, nor Apple Silicon, have anywhere near the install base of Windows/Android, but with the market share Apple commands, it ranks amongst the top dominators in the Windows/Android space without having to compete with those vendors in that space since Apple competes directly with the OS and chipset side of the ecosystem, whereas other vendors fight amongst themselves for market dominance within their own ecosystem.

That being said, the world seems to have a penchant for duopolies. So I'm not sure whether the market, crowded as it already is, can stomach another bespoke ecosystem if Lenovo were to go a similar route, whether it be on the software side (Windows/Android) or the hardware side (Intel/AMD), esp. when you need not look further than how Huawei's faring with their HarmonyOS and Kirin chips.
 

SanWenYu

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Zelenskyy wants Israel to suppot Ukraine. Israeli PM Naftali Bennett is trying to mediate between Zelenskyy and Putin. Zelenskyy demands Israel to be on his side and asks for military aids. Bennett, while agreeing to mediate, has so far rejected Zelenskyy's request for military aids.

报道指出,泽伦斯基曾多次请求贝内特和前以色列总理内塔尼亚胡在他和普京之间进行“斡旋”,最近一次是在2月25日的电话交谈中提出类似请求的。

当时,泽连斯基还请求以色列向乌克兰提供军事装备。虽然贝内特拒绝了这项请求,但他同意在俄乌两国之间进行沟通。
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Meanwhile, PBS in the US interviewed an exposed Ukrainian neonazi, Artem Semenikhin, and hailed the guy as a "hero fighting the Russians". Artem is the mayor of Konotop in northeast Ukraine. In 2015, the Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post already called out Artem a neonazi.

During the interview, Artem was shown in video with the photo of Stepan Bandera hung on the wall behind him. Stepan Bandera worked for the German Nazi in WWII and killed Jews in Ukraine. [ I remember a few days ago, someone on Twitter showed indoor photos taken in a Ukrainian culture center in Canada which also has the same picture of Bandera hung on the wall. ]

当地时间3月3日,美媒PBS新闻时刻(PBS Newshour)为了凸显乌克兰民众的“英勇抵抗”,视频连线乌克兰东北部城市科诺托普(Konotop)的市长阿提姆(Artem Semenikhin),试图将他宣传为抵御俄军的“英雄”。

不过,尽管这位市长的背景画面被刻意模糊,网友还是一眼看穿,他背后竟然挂着已故乌克兰纳粹头目斯捷潘·班杰拉(Stepan Bandera)的肖像。实际上,早在2015年,以色列《耶路撒冷邮报》就称这位来自乌克兰极端民族主义政党斯沃博达(Svoboda)的阿提姆,是一名不折不扣的“新纳粹”。

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emblem21

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China planned for this long ago by banning many of them
I wonder how many of them are willing to eat a 50%-70% (possibly 100% given that China makes most of its components) drop in revenue if this bitch doesn’t such his trap fast. The only reason they can afford to leave Russia is that Russia doesn’t really produce the components nor is the profit in Russia enough but if they try China, this man might end up disappearing for making such a stupid comment. Hence Germany cars and such are already having decreasing revenue in China and that is already bad but try imagining a situation when Germany loses everything including the ability to actually make anything. Yes, that’s it, it means the EU has destroyed itself without China doing anything and given how long it takes to make these components domestically and how much gas they will require to even try (oh that’s right, no more Russian gas and any gas they can purchase is required for survival), well I wonder if the USA and the EU is prepared for a real depression completely if their own making. Personally if these corporations have any power, now would be the time to eliminate their own leadership they any means necessary because these talking heads are literally going to sink there empire in the name of freedom and democracy
 
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