(Thread IKs:
fart simpson)
|
DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Brits frantically looking to see if they have chests of opium somewhere.
|
# ? Apr 9, 2024 22:24 |
|
|
# ? Jun 8, 2024 08:23 |
|
Spergin Morlock posted:China can hit mainland US with nuclear tipped missiles. More importantly they can wipe out Guam, Okinawa, Hawaii and all west coast naval installations if push comes to shove. The US is not going to be starving China of resources in the same way they did to Japan lol I’m certainly no geopolitics understander, but the fact that China is huge and not an island were the first reasons that came to mind why this harebrained scheme would never ever work e: especially since China has a no-first-strike policy w.r.t. its nukes. But it would be funny to see our rundown rear end navy try to blockade them I guess dads friend steve has issued a correction as of 22:38 on Apr 9, 2024 |
# ? Apr 9, 2024 22:34 |
|
We built a lot of our navy during ww2 and people were like, "drat they built a lot of ships." China has barely gotten started.
|
# ? Apr 9, 2024 22:56 |
|
double nine posted:still don't quite grasp the chinese source - what is the graph supposed to show then? amount of train facilities? Price of a bus stop, or the price of abstracted (combined) public transport? what does "transportation facility" mean?? The cost for a consumer to purchase a defined quantity of 'transportation facility' (car, bicycle, motorbike, moped, wagon). It's basically "car prices", yes.
|
# ? Apr 9, 2024 23:14 |
|
double nine posted:still don't quite grasp the chinese source - what is the graph supposed to show then? amount of train facilities? Price of a bus stop, or the price of abstracted (combined) public transport? what does "transportation facility" mean?? An average slice of how much transportation costs a person in China
|
# ? Apr 9, 2024 23:34 |
|
https://twitter.com/darrion_nguyen/status/1776809036123672765quote:Võ Văn Thưởng, former Vietnamese president who got axed just recently, is the last remnant of the liberal faction under former PM Nguyen Tan Dung. Below was his attempt for historical revisionism during his time as head of “education and propaganda committee” of the Party 🧵 Spelling corrections mine. TL;DR the levied accusation of Gorbachev at the now-former Vietnamese president by the Vietnamese generals and other hardliners is a description of what was happening and not hyperbole. Danann has issued a correction as of 04:29 on Apr 10, 2024 |
# ? Apr 10, 2024 04:20 |
|
Wow gently caress that guy
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 04:27 |
|
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1777897056902004923 Arnaud is far too charitable in his description of the above. It really sounds more like the Americans were more concerned about staying on Chiang Kai-Shek's good graces rather than examining the validity of the Philippine claim on the Spratlys, and now they're trying to make it sound like the Filipinos were in the right all along because it serves their geopolitical interests.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 05:29 |
|
Not only is China making too much stuff, it also has too much money. Xi is finished https://www.ft.com/content/cc40794b-abbb-4677-8a2a-4b10b12b6ff5 China’s excess savings are a danger Beijing must dare to choose radical remedies to deal with them quote:China is the global savings superpower. In the past, in a fast-growing economy with superb investment opportunities, its high savings have been a big asset. But they can also cause huge headaches. Today, with the ending of the property boom, managing these savings has become a challenge. The Chinese government must dare to choose relatively radical remedies. According to the IMF, China generated 28 per cent of total global savings in 2023. This is only a little less than the 33 per cent share of the US and EU combined. That is quite extraordinary. It also has several implications. One is that if China were an open market economy, its capital markets would be the biggest in the world. Another is that how these savings are managed is likely to be the most important single determinant of global interest rates and the global balance of payments. I analysed these underlying challenges in a column in September. A recent visit to China confirmed both the significance of this issue and the apparent unwillingness of the government to make decisive shifts in the structure of income and spending. It seems highly likely therefore that China will continue to have an extremely high overall propensity to save. But this is not mainly due to the frugality of Chinese households, as so many assume. Even more important is households’ ultra-low share in national income. In other words, as Michael Pettis of Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management has frequently argued, China’s savings are in large part a distributional issue. That may be why they are hard to reduce and so the savings rate has remained over 40 per cent of gross domestic product. spoiler: China will deal with having too much money by funding other countries and investing in manufacturing and renewables quote:If China wants the mercantilist solution to excess savings it will have to fund smaller emerging and developing countries. It can pretend these are loans. But much of the money will be grants, after the fact. If it ends up funding renewable energy there, that could be good for the world. But, from China’s perspective, it would be a costly gift.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 07:58 |
|
quote:According to the IMF, China generated 28 per cent of total global savings in 2023. This is only a little less than the 33 per cent share of the US and EU combined. Extraordinary that 1.4 billion people have almost as big a share of global savings as ~800 million people
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 08:49 |
|
Spending money on what? The Chinese are already buying lots of smartphones and cars, but their prices are dropping because China makes them. A lot of the saving money is reinvested by the state in global south infrastructure thru BRI. Sometimes BRI is limited by how much the global south countries wants to open up to infrastructure development. I am sure the west wants China 1, open up the financial investment market 2, spend the money on the west as FDI (already being shut down by the west, see kitkot ban and Italy shutting down BRI) 3, buy property in the west? Places like Florida straight up ban it, 4, buy more Gucci bags and Rolex? Yeah Chinese middle class already brought them Don't blame the Chinese for not spending the money.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 09:31 |
|
I mean past a certain point why not just reduce the hours people work if every need is catered for and all the stuff has been acquired. It'd be great if China could produce widespread clean energy for itself and sell it at a discount to SEAN places. Stopping deforestation and rebuilding a load of different things.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 09:33 |
|
ModernMajorGeneral posted:Not only is China making too much stuff, it also has too much money. Xi is finished guy who thinks dengism is mercantilist
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 09:41 |
|
stephenthinkpad posted:This is times 100. I am surprised it hasn't been made into a dystopian movie yet. Just every labor job you interact with is a Boston Dynamic robot with a global south face on the screen. a movie where the male protag gets a crush on a remote cashier who gets Taken and he goes on a action-packed quest to save her by following furtive video messages only to discover at the end that she lives across the pacific.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 09:42 |
|
Zodium posted:guy who thinks dengism is mercantilist We did this in 2008 already. Somehow China's savings-glut caused our real-estate bubble. Wild times
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 09:48 |
|
crepeface posted:a movie where the male protag gets a crush on a remote cashier who gets Taken and he goes on a action-packed quest to save her by following furtive video messages only to discover at the end that she lives across the pacific. He has a very specific set of skills but all of them are outdated and none of them include basic IT.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 10:06 |
|
remember that episode of king of the hill when bill fell in love with a remote drive thru attendant and drove all night to the call center but it turned out to be a teenager?
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 10:30 |
|
The exit polls in Korea show a potential blowout for the democratic party.quote:According to the exit polls released immediately after the polls closed at 5 p.m. local time, the Democratic Party 민주당 and the liberal bloc are headed to an overwhelming victory in the 2024 General Election 총선.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 10:36 |
|
double nine posted:still don't quite grasp the chinese source - what is the graph supposed to show then? amount of train facilities? Price of a bus stop, or the price of abstracted (combined) public transport? what does "transportation facility" mean?? according to the linked consumer survey methodology, Transportation is the following subcategories: A) Walking B) bicycles, electric bicycles, tricycles, motorcycles, mopeds for the disabled, etc C) public transportation: buses, subways, airplanes, trains and other public transportation D) car: including private cars, public cars and taxis. E) other motor vehicles: including various types of commercial vehicles and agricultural vehicles. F) Riding cattle, horse-drawn carriages and other animal-drawn vehicles: means of transportation using cattle-drawn carriages, horse-drawn carriages and other animal-drawn vehicles as means of transportation, including self-driving or taking such means of transportation G) other modes of transportation other than the above But it's unclear to me if the linked survey is a part of the CPI instrument itself
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 12:14 |
|
Can you help clear up my understanding of the SCS disputes? My understanding of the basis of the claims is, PRC/ROC: These Ming dynasty scrolls show these islands have been used by Chinese fisherman since historic times so the islands are Chinese Vietnam: The French claimed these islands and then gave them to us, so they are Vietnamese Malaysia/Brunei: No one owns these islands, so they are just part of our EEZ by UNCLOS Philippines: No one owned these islands in the past, so we claim them as part of Philippines
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 13:52 |
|
I think UNCLOS doesn't cover any ongoing claim disputes, that's how it got supported from most countries in the first place. And it's the only kind of "ocean rule" that gets support, not counting the US. So basically ocean property disputes are like the wild west, countries will claim whatever they want, but only rarely countries fight hot wars over it. There were a couple incidents in SCS. Claims in the arctic and antarctic are even more wild west. Countries barely recognize each other's claims. These disputes will happen again on the moon too.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 15:13 |
|
Gildiss posted:The exit polls in Korea show a potential blowout for the democratic party. thanks GIldiss for keeping the thread current on the goings-on in SK.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 16:17 |
|
So are you going to lock him up(as is the custom in SK)
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 16:33 |
|
the guy in the blue house posted cringe.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 16:34 |
|
gradenko_2000 posted:thanks GIldiss for keeping the thread current on the goings-on in SK.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:08 |
|
Zodium posted:guy who thinks dengism is mercantilist overcapacity means "China has a more productive and efficient manufacturing system and we can't compete " and also people are supposed to be poor they arent supposed to afford all this stuff! How are they going to pay our usurious credit card/mortgage/student loans with all these cheap goods?
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:46 |
|
I do hope this means a reduction in time required to work in China and an increase in taking more things back into public ownership, followed up by a less working time and even better renewable energy infrastructure.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 20:00 |
|
https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1778084456072380841quote:Vietnam aims to start work on high-speed rail lines to China by 2030 Vietnam's going to have HSR with China before California gets HSR.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 20:55 |
|
Danann posted:https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1778084456072380841 california is a 2nd world country
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 20:59 |
|
didn’t they have a project with Japan that the Japanese completely hosed up on
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 21:36 |
|
FrancisFukyomama posted:didn’t they have a project with Japan that the Japanese completely hosed up on California is getting rolling stock from European manufacturers, iirc. Texas was working with Japanese. No idea if the latter has been "hosed up" by the Japanese.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 22:33 |
|
Corky Romanovsky posted:California is getting rolling stock from European manufacturers, iirc. Texas was working with Japanese. No idea if the latter has been "hosed up" by the Japanese. Don't think the rolling stock was ever the problem.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 22:44 |
|
Every country that tried to use Japan HSR tech failed. India, Vietnam, Thailand (western line). I haven't heard of this Texas HSR but the only successful HSR in the US are privately operated projects in Florida and Vegas, running at barely fast enough to be HSR speed.
|
# ? Apr 10, 2024 23:53 |
|
too big https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom/status/1777781474730684755
|
# ? Apr 11, 2024 00:23 |
|
China [has] grow[n] larger
|
# ? Apr 11, 2024 00:33 |
|
|
# ? Apr 11, 2024 00:37 |
|
please… anything but the artificially cheap products
|
# ? Apr 11, 2024 00:43 |
|
It's fascinating watching them scold China for being too successful in the "wrong" way, especially with green tech.
|
# ? Apr 11, 2024 00:45 |
|
a truly free market would have properly more expensive commodities
|
# ? Apr 11, 2024 00:52 |
|
|
# ? Jun 8, 2024 08:23 |
|
comedyblissoption posted:a truly free market would have properly more expensive commodities what's a truly free market even?
|
# ? Apr 11, 2024 00:53 |