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Alibaba Pictures should make BYD vs Ferrari movie.
Crushers in China are foreign-owned.
It’s basically this
A good rebuttal against the hopium and copium that plagues the west.
No need to use NED, USAID and CIA to covertly subvert foreign democracies when you can just overtly bribe and threaten them!
[insert tapping head meme]
Edit: This just gets better. Strong counter to the PLA's well known plans to base J-20s in Tierra del Fuego.
[insert tapping head meme]
Edit: This just gets better. Strong counter to the PLA's well known plans to base J-20s in Tierra del Fuego.
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supercat
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First Tibetan Buddhists, then Xinjiang Muslims, now Christian church-goers - it's a full circle.
Ferrari is being roasted. Just read the comments.
Riding moral high-horse won't get you rare-earth elements (REE). China is dominant in RE processing not because they ignored environment protection, but because they accumulated more than 25,000 patents.
The podcast below talks about how China cleaned up the processing of REE. In fact, they cleaned up so much, they can refine ultra-high purity dysprosium near a population center in one of China's wealthiest provinces.
It's October 2025, Brad Setser still can't find where hundreds of billions capital outflows from China went.
Peas in a pod:
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All those Dutch backstabbers finding out the whole company is DOA and they’re gonna be out of a job *surprisedpikachuface.jpg*
Nexperia doesn't make anything really competitive, it's for the best Europeans give up trying to be in this space and just hand over their production to a real Chinese company anyway.
Tell the Dutch to GTFO but make sure the innocent Chinese techs/workers are not hurt and the they and the equipment can be absorbed easily into the Chinese system but DO screw the Dutch.Just proves my point that no matter how mutually beneficial/positive good/honourable relations in any sphere with China these westoids WILL turn anattack us alongside the USA-it will be an allied effort to try to destroy China-Iam so glad Beijing retaliated almost immediately and not cry and wring their hands-it's the beginning of the final conflict with west ,make no mistake.
US elites (including obviously Trump and his cabinet) really, truly believed this. This is why they were so willing to go with "Chaos" during his first administration, and again during the early months of his second administration.
But we can tell from what actually happened that they got cold feet. They started the process of hard decoupling ("150% tariffs! we have the leverage! surrender to us or collapse!"), and then realized it wasn't working. Somehow, the Chinese economy didn't fold like a house of cards, as they were expecting, while the US economy - and importantly its stock market - shuddered.
So they changed their tone, but you can tell, their basic fundamental thesis remains unchanged. Bessent remains as convinced as ever that the US has the leverage, and that China will inevitably Lose. It was just, in the words of the stock trader whose short likely lost him hundreds of millions of dollars - "a trade too early."
Ignorance and arrogance, together, is always a dangerous combination.
The reality is that physical assets are far more resilient than financial assets. The power of finance derives from trust. The global stock market is worth $127 trillion because people trust that it does. The US can print money and get other countries to subsidize it, because of trust. Trust that the US world system and its hegemony will endure.
But contrary to physical assets, which are constant regardless of human opinion, trust is all about optics, and anything built on optics can erode quickly. If one day the world decides no longer to trust in the US world system, if one day it believes the current world order is coming to an end, the "value" of all those financial assets will evaporate just as quickly as they came. $127 trillion will disappear over night, and that is the catastrophe that make people like Trump and Bessent stay up at night. A crisis of trust.