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Typhoon wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:51 am Barron's | PR China's property market can't heal - who is feeling the pain.
Off the front page financial news, but still a major ongoing problem.
Nothing more than confirmation bias.
Mr. Global erred in outsourcing production without adequate control of politics.Typhoon wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 6:43 amNothing more than confirmation bias.
That dude is a paid shill for the CCP.
PR China is Hiding its homeless people - Pretending they don't exist
Unfortunately for you I've traveled extensively in PR China and have observed both great wealth and crushing poverty.
The current youth unemployment situation in PR China, with one in five graduated unemployed, is a disaster.
I've also travelled extensively in the US and can attest that shipping manufacturing, and especially the how-to knowledge, overseas has had a devastating effect, especially on smaller US cities and towns. Possibly the dumbest things the US ruling classes have done.
You shouldn't waste our time posting social media agitprop.
The Grand Pooh Bear Xi is doing a good job of achieving this without any assistance from the "globalists".Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 4:41 pmMr. Global erred in outsourcing production without adequate control of politics.Typhoon wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 6:43 amNothing more than confirmation bias.
That dude is a paid shill for the CCP.
PR China is Hiding its homeless people - Pretending they don't exist
Unfortunately for you I've traveled extensively in PR China and have observed both great wealth and crushing poverty.
The current youth unemployment situation in PR China, with one in five graduated unemployed, is a disaster.
I've also travelled extensively in the US and can attest that shipping manufacturing, and especially the how-to knowledge, overseas has had a devastating effect, especially on smaller US cities and towns. Possibly the dumbest things the US ruling classes have done.
You shouldn't waste our time posting social media agitprop.
Now he must destroy the Chinese economy. Oops.
With lamb and cheese, Macron tried to charm China's Xi in the Pyrenees
Huawei No. 1 again
Meanwhile, Canalys, a Singapore-based technology market analyst firm, said in a research report on April 26 that Huawei regained the status of No.1 smartphone maker in mainland China in the first quarter of this year after 13 quarters of weak performance.
It said Huawei’s smartphone shipment in the country grew 70% to 11.7 million units for the first three months of 2024 from a year ago. It said the company’s market share reached 17%, following by OPPO (16%), Honor (16%), Vivo (15%) and Apple (15%) in the first quarter.
.Huawei’s Harmony is emerging as the third OS for smartphones and tablets, breaking the two-horse race of Android and iOS in mainland China.
According to 2023 UN data, Chinese inventors led in international patent applications for the second year running, posting some 14,000 more than the second-place US, as the two giants increasingly face off over technology, innovation and global bragging rights.
with global bragging rights. one must consider that in China's case all scientists are CHINESE .. but .. in US case the scientists are Taiwanese, Indians, Iranian-American, ex Russian-American, German etc Chevy’s Bolt, a starter EV with a US$29,000 sticker price, has the same size and less range than the Dongfeng Nammi 01 hatchback priced at just $11,000.
Maybe, then again, maybe not.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 9:18 pm .
Well, folks, this from a long time friend Helen, in Shanghai
In Every Way,
China Is More Than the U.S. Can Handle.
China is already #1
George Koo, Ph.D. In San Francisco
Sobering
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Beijing is stubbornly refusing to genuinely empower consumers, preferring to focus on industrial support
Typhoon wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 7:02 amHeracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 9:18 pm .
Well, folks, this from a long time friend Helen, in Shanghai
In Every Way,
China Is More Than the U.S. Can Handle.
China is already #1
George Koo, Ph.D. In San Francisco
Sobering
.
Maybe, then again, maybe not.
The future will be owned by the nation that screws up the least. At this point in time it's a race to the bottom of the septic tank.
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noddy wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 9:22 am Both usa and china print money with abandon, have lots of dwbt and punish their customers for having the wrong politics.
The only one laughing at the moment is India - bought heaps of russian oil at bargain bin prices using indian rupees, and now russia only has one place to spend them
another patrician ahead While the CHIPS Act is not a bad initiative — in fact, it’s an excellent start — it is insufficient if the goal is to control our own chip manufacturing. We are funding companies that are investing heavily in profitable chips, yet our vulnerability concerning lower-tech, yet equally critical chips, persists.
These chips are fundamental components of critical everyday objects including medical instruments, cars, planes, and most importantly, military hardware.
The Chinese are taking the same economic strategy that they have repeatedly, but with a greater ferocity and a little more of a deliberate geopolitical angle than they usually do, that is, find a weak point in an industry, dominate the low-end, and then move up.
Their foundries, namely SMIC, the Chinese TSMC rival, are manufacturing the low-tech chips, before taking aim at more advanced nodes. The only difference here is that China sees semiconductors as a strategic good.
They have explicitly stated that besides the all-important domestic self-sufficiency, having a strategic chokehold on these low-end chips provides an edge for them in economic warfare with the US.
China preparing armada of ferries to invade Taiwan
The Telegraph
Sun, May 26, 2024 at 6:25 AM EDT·4 min read
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South China Sea and China flag
China is preparing an armada of ferries and civilian vessels to invade Taiwan as Beijing steps up its pressure campaign against the island nation.
While the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) lacks the numbers of amphibious landing craft needed to stage the sort of invasion seen during the D-Day landings, it could bridge the gap with civilian vessels, including dozens of gigantic roll-on, roll-off ferries that can each carry hundreds of armoured vehicles.
“Amphibious landings under fire are among the most difficult of military manoeuvres,” said Ray Powell, the director of SeaLight, a Stanford University project focused on grey zone activities in the South China Sea.
Civilian ferries “would normally be poor choices for such a mission” but could be used to transport troops en masse across the Taiwan strait after its coastal defences are destroyed, or to overwhelm the island’s military “with sheer mass,” he said.
Beijing launched two days of military drills in the waters around Taiwan on Thursday in what it said was a “strong punishment” for “separatist acts” after a fiery inauguration address in Taipei earlier this week by Lai Ching-te, who was sworn in as president for a four-year term.
It was the third set of exercises encircling the island in the past two years.
“We urge China to exercise self-restraint and stop undermining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and beyond,” Taiwan’s ministry of foreign affairs said.
China regards democratic Taiwan as part of its territory and has vowed to bring the island under its control, possibly by force, and US intelligence believes that Xi Jinping has ordered the PLA to be ready to take the island by 2027.
In the meantime, Taipei has had to react to a campaign of so-called “grey zone” activities including frequent cyber-attacks, regular incursions by military jets in its airspace, and harassment by Chinese vessels in its waters.
Taiwan’s military is vastly smaller than China’s, but it is protected by formidable mountainous terrain — and the treacherous 110-mile Taiwan Strait.
The Chinese navy already has the world’s biggest surface fleet, and it has also built dozens of dual-use vessels capable of acting during peacetime and in war.
A decade ago, Beijing issued technical guidelines for shipbuilders that would enable many of its civilian vessels to be suitable for military uses and is believed to have integrated its ferries, tankers and container ships within its military command structure, according to a report from the US Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute.
Ferries ‘join the army’
Chinese state media has touted these efforts for years, regularly hailing the participation of ferries in cross-sea landing drills, with broadcaster CCTV praising the 135-metre Bang Chui Dao after it “joined the army” for military exercises in 2019, or the 164-metre Bohai Pearl in 2021, which Global Times said would make a good addition for “transporting troops on a large scale in amphibious landing missions,” citing an anonymous Chinese military expert.
Another Chinese shipping news service gushed over the Chang Da Long, a civilian ferry which is large enough to carry enough heavy tanks and other vehicles to fill two mechanised infantry battalions, writing that it is “dressed in a civilian shell, but it has a military heart!”.
Tom Shugart, an analyst at the Center for a New American Security think tank, estimated in 2022 that China’s civilian vessels could dramatically increase the tonnage of military material that can be moved by its existing military amphibious assault craft, giving it capacity to transport about 300,000 troops and their vehicles across the Taiwan strait in about 10 days.
“Both the Taiwanese and American intelligence communities should start watching China’s key civilian shipping in the same way they watch its naval vessels,” he wrote at the time.
While the idea of passenger ferries being kitted out to use in a conflict zone might sound unusual, it reflects the degree to which China’s private sector is enmeshed with the ruling communist party and the military policy of the government in Beijing.
It also makes planning a defence much more complex, analysts said.
“Civilian ferries are part of the broader Chinese concept of military-civil fusion, one in which civilian assets and capabilities are an inherent part of a whole of nation effort in national security,” said Alessio Patalano, professor of war and strategy in East Asia at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.
“Including these assets represents a significant complicating factor in those who need to think about how to meet the challenge of their use.”
But though it may be hard to tell whether a passenger ferry’s movements are part of a build-up for war, China’s broader intentions are clear, he added.
“There is nothing concealed about the Chinese military build-up,” he added.