True. Germany spent the whole year talking about "reducing dependence on China" yet their trade with China skyrocketed this year - increasing by 21% and trade deficit more than doubled. Politicians like to talk but the market forces are just too strongly aligned with China.
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To reduce dependency on China you would need a big big re-industrialisation plan of multiple decades. Imaging having to plan and execute all that while you could also be out there drinking virgin blood and do all other kind of degen stuff.
What's going on here? The south Koreans leadership is so deeply cucked as to shit on their own victims of Japanese wartime crimes.
Lethe
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This would seem to be the sticking point:
"As a part of the 1965 agreement, Tokyo paid hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and loans to the South Korean government to resolve compensation-related issues from the colonial period. Most of the money was funneled into national economic projects rather than given to individual Koreans who suffered under the occupation."
I imagine that Tokyo's position is that it has already paid compensation for the forced labor in question and it is up to Seoul to distribute that compensation appropriately. Without examining the 1965 agreement, it seems plausible.
The broader question is just how devoted Seoul was to obtaining a just dispensation in 1965. The relationship between the ROK, chaebols, and collaborators with the Japanese occupation is well-known, as is the attitude of the ROK government towards much of its own communist-sympathizing citizenry at the time.
30% of the current Australian population was born overseas, one of the highest ratios in the world. We are happy to import people from China, South-East Asia, India, Africa, Southern and Eastern Europe, the Levant, wherever, because we know that within a couple of generations they will all become fat, lazy and stupid like the rest of us Anglos.
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This is completely false.
Completely eliminating dependency on China requires one simple step. Just replace all your Chinese imports with Vietnamese imports.
Did you know that Vietnam has an identical substitute for everything that China makes? It looks the same, it feels the same - it is the same.
The only difference is that "Made in Vietnam" costs 15% more and takes a couple of weeks longer to ship. As your Vietnamese supplier will tell you, this is because Vietnam's logistics network is less developed. So it takes a bit longer for product to arrive from the factories in Vietnam's populous but far-flung northern provinces.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
That’s like saying your dad can replace IKEA because he makes chairs in his garage workshop.
It's not "Made in Vietnam", it's "Made in Vietnam with Chinese parts". They are mostly only assembling there.
And the last time I checked Vietnam had around 15 times smaller population size than China.
They could try with India, but the country is a political and infrastructural mess, it ain't worth even for assembly.
The United States and other western countries are losing the race with China to develop advanced technologies and retain talent, with Beijing potentially establishing a monopoly in some areas, a new report has said.
China leads in 37 of 44 technologies tracked in a year-long project by thinktank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. The fields include electric batteries, hypersonics and advanced radio-frequency communications such as 5G and 6G.
The report, published on Thursday, said the US was the leader in just the remaining seven technologies such as vaccines, quantum computing and space launch systems.
China leads in 37 of 44 technologies tracked in a year-long project by thinktank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. The fields include electric batteries, hypersonics and advanced radio-frequency communications such as 5G and 6G.
The report, published on Thursday, said the US was the leader in just the remaining seven technologies such as vaccines, quantum computing and space launch systems.
Rare direct criticism lol. That’s because some meat heads can’t take a hint unless it is a Gordon Ramsay style chewout.
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