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supersnoop

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tokenanalyst said:
Maybe because China can outproduce anyone on drones. Not only they will have an advantage on missiles but also on drones.
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I think it is telling, Ukraine continues to ask America for more weapons.
One thing it doesn't ask for is more Switchblade drones or that ridiculous cardboard contraption from Australia that costs more than a Mavic and cannot be reused. (The latter is pure corruption as it was counted by the Australian government as military aid, basically a kickback to the Australian company's owners no doubt. If the cash used to buy the drones was just given directly to Ukraine, it probably would have been more impactful).
It is cheaper/easier/faster to buy parts from China, 3D Print others and assemble in Ukraine in a poorly lit workshop.

I wouldn’t go as far as saying America is incapable of making cheap drones, but as it stands the economics and politics don’t work.
 
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tokenanalyst

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Bellum_Romanum said:
Is Google still an American company or is it a repository for INDIAN dreams and visions that tend to go awry.

The latest casualty is apparently GOOGLE PAY is going to the Google graveyard. The Indianization of Google. Imagine bringing a bright idea that what works in India should be replicated in America who's economy, culture, habits, access to technology infrastructures etc. are wholly different to that of India.

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"The 2021 Google Pay was a totally different codebase based on a Google payments app that was originally developed for India, called Google Tez. Tez was rebranded to Google Pay for the US market and launched on the Play Store. Being designed for India, where a phone might be your first and only Internet device, meant the new Google Pay had a lot of design decisions that didn't fit the US market. It used a phone number for your identity instead of your Google Account, and when you started it up for the first time, Google Pay didn't know who you were. It was like signing up for a new service that wasn't owned by Google. The phone number identity system meant Google had to shut down the previously useful Google Pay website, which could be used for peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, just like Venmo. You could only be signed in to one device at a time, which is maybe fine in the phone-exclusive world of India but weird in the US, where people have phones, watches, laptops, tablets, and PCs."
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Another one to the list.

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Overbom

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Expected new duties on EV imports from China to EU are about to be 25%. In total it's going to be 35% tariff for importing from China

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EU to impose multibillion-euro tariffs on Chinese electric cars​

Brussels moves ahead with additional duties of up to 25% despite opposition from Germany
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The European Commission is to notify carmakers on Wednesday that it will provisionally apply additional duties of up to 25 per cent on imported Chinese EVs from next month, according to people familiar with the decision.
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But intense lobbying by Scholz’s government “has not worked”, said a person briefed on the process. The commission was expected to increase its duties to about 35 per cent, the person said, still well short of the 100 per cent duties applied by the US.
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pevade

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Overbom said:
Trade War loading...

Heard that Macaroni has elections in France. Would be a shame if European (especially French) products are targeted as retaliation
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Macaroni is 100% loosing in the coming election if the polls are anything to go by. There is a general resurgence of right wing ideas throughout europe. Also in the EU Parliament a bunch of right wing blocks gained many seats.
 
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tamsen_ikard

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LVMH, Chanel, Dior, L'Oreal, and other fashion and cosmetic products are the best candidates for retaliation IMO.
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Luxury goods is a huge potential market for China. The richer Chinese get, the more they will buy European luxury goods. So, heavy tariffs on these can help develop these inside China or even develop its competitors in Japan and Korea, which in turn will out compete them in Europe. Seems like a good way to attack Europe.

But considering china's extremely weak minded nature when it comes to fighting a trade war (they did bend the knee and did a deal with trump, also did not retaliate enough against US), I expect them to do a little bit and then give up. China also gave up on its trade war on Australia, which is still heavily anti-China and still member of quad. It still bans Huawei. Nothing Australia has done that repealed their anti-China moves but China repealed their bans and tariffs.
 
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