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RoastGooseHKer

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AndrewJ said:
China opens part of its Rare Earth exports to US manufacturers, in exchange for Trump opening visas for Chinese students at Harvard University.

Why? It's a shame for China. I can't get it. Does anyone here know more? o_O
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I think the more likely reason would be those rare earth processors in Jiangxi and else where in China are suffering significant losses as result of Beijing's export control. On the one hand, China's own tech industry will always be the biggest customer for the country's rare earth industry. However, export is still very important. Thus, my own hypothesis would be permitting sales to US and EU car industries (after verifying that the end users would not be military) as a way to ameliorate losses suffered by these rare earth processors. However, should there be evidence emerge that the end users in US, Japan, or EU divert their imported magnets/minerals to their respective countries' military industrial complex, Beijing could always cut off supplies at a moment's notice.

What I am looking for now regarding tomorrow's US-China trade talk would be if Washington would resume the export of C919 parts and some IC components/software/EDA in exchange of China maintaining the current (but licensed) of rare earth to civilian end users in the West. Yet, bans for defense end users would remain (meaning end products like F35s would have to get those rare earths elsewhere with higher price) in place.
 
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gullible

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Randomuser said:
It's less competitive. However it stills blows a hole in westoid arguments like China is commie or hates freedom so their players can't work as a team.

One thing I recall though is they used to have former Chinese female football player who had a silver medal at the Olympics. All the female player really respected her and followed all her commands even when things were tough. They best Japan to win an Asian cup, something not done in years. Japan in female football is near the top.

Female players don't quit. Current male players quit as soon as they see toughness. Notice how the male Chinese football team usually has zero goals when they lose? I also noticed that they tend to foul a lot and get carded a lot. Sometimes sent off. Considering fouling can lead to penalties that lead to losing like today's game, that's bad. Act so tough on the pitch yet not brave enough to attack where it actually counts in the game.

Just writing this is getting me angry.
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are the males having feminism mindset like many of their models?
 
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gullible

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Randomuser said:
But it's not just men's football. China at men's team sports sucks generally. At least football is the most competitive sports in the world so there's an excuse. Meanwhile men Chinese basketball isn't even best in Asia either and has gotten worse over the years.

Football is competitive so ok the team can suck. But it shouldn't apply to all team sports. There is something seriously wrong with the approach which could highlight real underlying problem on attitude towards teamwork. Something we cannot ignore in today's world. It's something that needs to be addressed.

Cuba has a good baseball team and the USSR had a good ice hockey team. So even those authoritative commie countries don't need to live with such humiliation.
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there is a saying by a chinese critic who authored a book "ugly chinese" 丑陋的中国人 comparing japanese to chinese, "individual japanese looks like a pig but a team of them looks like a dragon. Individual chinese looks like a dragon but a team of them looks like a pig - even worse than a pig."
 
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gullible said:
there is a saying by a chinese critic who authored a book "ugly chinese" 丑陋的中国人 comparing japanese to chinese, "individual japanese looks like a pig but a team of them looks like a dragon. Individual chinese looks like a dragon but a team of them looks like a pig - even worse than a pig."
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Basically too many chefs ruin the soup.

But almost none of the players can be called chefs who can actually cook.
 
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GulfLander

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New demands
US retailers demand Chinese firms pay shipping costs as trade pressure grows
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For years, US retail giants paid to ship goods from China to America. But that is changing as costs spiral amid the trade war
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Stage Group, a leading garment maker from Zhejiang, has been paying the logistics costs on 60 per cent of its US-bound shipments since the end of May, a sales representative from the company said. Shipping costs are not the only area where China’s factories are being squeezed. Earlier this month, sources told the Post that US retailers were pushing their Chinese suppliers to shoulder up to 66 per cent of the costs of US tariffs, whereas previously those fees were paid by the American buyers.
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