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When Europe suffered an energy price shock in 2022, what happened was European production shut down and was replaced by more Chinese imports.
We'll probably see something similar happen if the disruptions last.
And we can already see wholesale electricity prices increase significantly in the past week in Japan and South Korea for example.
Sometimes I like his videos, often they are not that interesting.
What I would like to say is that he is not CIA. Not sure where that ever came from.
That Stubstack article said that Yale had a lot of CIA recruits. But so what! The school I went to in Canada had a professor in the East Asian Department specializing in Chinese history, who was a recruiter for the CIA. They only recruit graduate students. I was not a graduate student, but had friends.
This I know because of secondary information. That Professor had a wife, but also a girlfriend, one of his grad students. She told someone I knew who he also worked for. Also, the alleged student he tried to recruit from China, said that as much in conversation. So the CIA is kind of like everywhere.
This story I never wrote up on the internet, because, like who cares?!
Like who cares right.
That Jewish professor eventually divorced his wife to live with his graduate student girlfriend, who knows maybe they lived happily ever after. Everyone else, who cares, no one was recruited or turned, and we graduated and had to get on with the rest of our lives.
Prof Jiang is not CIA.
What does CIA also does? CIA always rely on FUD - fear, uncertainty, doubt.
Go to any pro-China TikTok account, and read the comments. Straight out of the CIA manual those anti-China comments, all about FUD.
So back to Prof Jiang. He just does not discuss China much at all. He talks about a lot of other people, and the FUD is heaped on the West half the time he has his mouth open.
So I don't get it.
The CIA does not do FUD operations on itself. Just go look at TikTok comments and we can spot the FUD operation after while. Then it gets repetitive.
If Prof Jiang is engaged in a FUD operation, then that is directed against the West and not China. So no. He's not CIA!
after Canada and UK leaders visited CN, was it when this things happen w Aus?
Now, we can argue the case, that Prof Jiang is actually CIA, like that Jewish Chinese history professor in the school I went to, and he is there in China to act as a screener, telling Langley who to recruit, when those high school students go over to America to study.
That is another reason he is not CIA! He would be too exposed if he tired that. These are teenagers we are talking about. What do these punk kids know?
That Jewish Chinese history professor, if he tried to recruit a Chinese graduate student and they say no, then nothing is really going to happen to him. Life goes on. No one exposed.
So, Prof Jiang is not spreading an anti-China FUD campaign, unlike some people on the internet who came from China originally, and he is in no position to recruit for the CIA.
Like, you know, Prof Jiang being CIA is a really far-fetch to the point of make believe. Besides, he is too much of a loose cannon. That is what I noticed about people. People who act like lawyers, have something to hide, such as secrets or privileged information from their clients. Prof Jiang does not act like a lawyer, far from it.
We should watch how some actually ex-CIA people behave, they chose their words very carefully. Prof Jiang says whatever he wants. He has freedom, and not CIA secrecy and restraint.
Just a guy who likes his job.
That is another reason he is not CIA! He would be too exposed if he tired that. These are teenagers we are talking about. What do these punk kids know?
That Jewish Chinese history professor, if he tried to recruit a Chinese graduate student and they say no, then nothing is really going to happen to him. Life goes on. No one exposed.
So, Prof Jiang is not spreading an anti-China FUD campaign, unlike some people on the internet who came from China originally, and he is in no position to recruit for the CIA.
Like, you know, Prof Jiang being CIA is a really far-fetch to the point of make believe. Besides, he is too much of a loose cannon. That is what I noticed about people. People who act like lawyers, have something to hide, such as secrets or privileged information from their clients. Prof Jiang does not act like a lawyer, far from it.
We should watch how some actually ex-CIA people behave, they chose their words very carefully. Prof Jiang says whatever he wants. He has freedom, and not CIA secrecy and restraint.
Just a guy who likes his job.
Think there's a built in control mechanism, where the governments gets more power in the distribution of ever more limited resources to their populations. Which will in turn lead to those favoured by the government getting more power, creating a feedback loop where the governments dogmas are strengthened - generally in favour of further constraining available resources.
Can't say whether this is intentional or some kind of "evolutionary" selection of ideas.
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From a transport perspective, China currently has capacity to produce about 20 million electric cars per year.
If used as taxicabs, that could replace 200 million private cars on the roads.
Then you've got electric buses and electric truck production as well.
China's (electrified) railway system will also see a lot more use.
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But if there is a prolonged oil shock, 20 million electric cars annually won't be anywhere near enough.
We'd probably see all of China's existing automobile factories switch to electric vehicles and potentially reach 50 million vehicles per year.
At the same time, demand for combustion engines vehicles will collapse globally.
The big automakers in South Korea and Japan would be particularly hard hit, and we'd probably see bankruptcy and the collapse of their automakers
We'd end up with a situation where China makes a significant majority of all cars in the world, and an export boom comprising Chinese electric vehicles.
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Then we have Chinese solar.
Looks like there are 3.5 million tonnes of polysilicon capacity in China. Of that, 2.4 million tonnes is unutilised and could produce 600GW of solar panels. Depending on location that would be 600-900TWh of additional electricity generation.
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The thing is, other countries would struggle to deploy the required infrastructure (solar + charging points+ electricity grid + batteries) like China is already doing. So we'd probably see electrification elsewhere lagging behind China.
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On manufacturing, all countries are going to suffer from high oil/gas prices.
But it looks like coal to olefin plants in China are competitive against Natural Gas from the Middle East.
So Jiang is a Chinese spy.Sometimes I like his videos, often they are not that interesting.
What I would like to say is that he is not CIA. Not sure where that ever came from.
That Stubstack article said that Yale had a lot of CIA recruits. But so what! The school I went to in Canada had a professor in the East Asian Department specializing in Chinese history, who was a recruiter for the CIA. They only recruit graduate students. I was not a graduate student, but had friends.
This I know because of secondary information. That Professor had a wife, but also a girlfriend, one of his grad students. She told someone I knew who he also worked for. Also, the alleged student he tried to recruit from China, said that as much in conversation. So the CIA is kind of like everywhere.
This story I never wrote up on the internet, because, like who cares?!
Like who cares right.
That Jewish professor eventually divorced his wife to live with his graduate student girlfriend, who knows maybe they lived happily ever after. Everyone else, who cares, no one was recruited or turned, and we graduated and had to get on with the rest of our lives.
Prof Jiang is not CIA.
What does CIA also does? CIA always rely on FUD - fear, uncertainty, doubt.
Go to any pro-China TikTok account, and read the comments. Straight out of the CIA manual those anti-China comments, all about FUD.
So back to Prof Jiang. He just does not discuss China much at all. He talks about a lot of other people, and the FUD is heaped on the West half the time he has his mouth open.
So I don't get it.
The CIA does not do FUD operations on itself. Just go look at TikTok comments and we can spot the FUD operation after while. Then it gets repetitive.
If Prof Jiang is engaged in a FUD operation, then that is directed against the West and not China. So no. He's not CIA!