GlassEye-Boy posted:

You forget the young mao statue with flowing locks.

Josef bugman posted:

I do hope there is a way to cool the seas down.

Regarde Aduck posted:

Go to the beach with a fan and point it at the sea

Josef bugman posted:

I do hope there is a way to cool the seas down.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Everyone in China holds up a mirror to the sun

mila kunis posted:

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

I enjoyed reading Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary, but that was years ago when I was still a liberal, so expect some parts you have to get over as well. It does portray him very sympathetically at a personal level regardless of the political bent.

https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west/ posted:

trip to the Beijing Auto Show reveals just how advanced China's EVs are. So what are the so-called "foreign" automakers doing about it?
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By: Kevin Williams

In just the past few months, the rift between the U.S. and China has expanded at an astounding rate. TikTok is set to be banned if it does not divest from its U.S operations. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that “nothing is off the table” when it comes to battling a surge of cheap Chinese clean energy exports. The Commerce Department is cracking down on chips sent to Huawei.

And yet plenty of critics still insist China's advancements in its manufacturing abilities—especially in developing and selling electrified vehicles—somehow aren't legitimate. Or that they're just the byproducts of a government with too much cash that wants to elbow its way into the rest of the world.
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China's EV dominance takes shape

In 2023, the Shanghai Auto Show—China's first big industry event since the COVID lockdowns—revealed how far ahead the country is on EVs, software and connected vehicles. Now every automaker is scrambling to catch up while they lose sales in China, and while the U.S., Europe and others seek to limit Chinese EV imports they say would destroy their local car industries.

I’ve personally been privy to conversations with auto industry insiders, engineers and pundits alike. Many of them believe China’s industries are not sustainable, and the cars it wants to foist on the public are cut-rate spyware machines designed to murder American citizens whenever the Chinese Communist Party flips the kill switch.

To these critics, if China had a truly open market, Chinese buyers would continue to purchase Western cars en masse, and sales of their models wouldn’t be falling off so dramatically.

It would be naive to assume that China doesn’t have its finger on the scale for EV production. But believing that the success of China's electrified vehicle industry is all the sole result of a brutish government forcing its citizens to buy its domestic products rings false in an almost childlike, sour-grapes way.

dead gay comedy forums posted:

Zhou Enlai is one of the greatest communists to ever live by, among other things, committing one of the greatest feats of praxis when he resigned control of the CPC and thus of the revolutionary forces after being defeated by the KMT. He promptly called for an assembly, provided his critique and resigned leadership, putting his vote for Mao. Mao got voted in, they did a party critique and together they came up with the Long March.

Mandel Brotset posted:

I’ve personally been privy to conversations with auto industry insiders, engineers and pundits alike. Many of them believe China’s industries are not sustainable, and the cars it wants to foist on the public are cut-rate spyware machines designed to murder American citizens whenever the Chinese Communist Party flips the kill switch.

ikanreed posted:

I Went To China And Drove A Dozen Electric Cars. Western Automakers Are Cooked

Still inferior at the pickup trucks that require a ladder to board game, though.

ikanreed posted:

I Went To China And Drove A Dozen Electric Cars. Western Automakers Are Cooked

OhFunny posted:

A section of this article is aptly titled "All We Do Is Complain While China Advances."

A lot of cope in the comments section.

Josef bugman posted:

I mean it kind of proves Lenin right about how the Capitalists will just keep giving you rope.

Josef bugman posted:

I mean it kind of proves Lenin right about how the Capitalists will just keep giving you rope.

Mandel Brotset posted:

yes but it has a label on it reminding you that it is a violation of federal statutes to use it to hang capitalists

Spergin Morlock posted:

projection lol

AnimeIsTrash posted:

its really funny to see americans heckle chinese production when they cant even keep planes in the sky

ikanreed posted:

I Went To China And Drove A Dozen Electric Cars. Western Automakers Are Cooked

Still inferior at the pickup trucks that require a ladder to board game, though.

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Western brands like Peet’s Coffee and KFC littered the terminal, with queues of Chinese folks and international tourists alike sucking down localized versions of iced coffee and tea lattes or chomping down on chicken sandwiches that were significantly more flavorful than what I could get at home.

Cao Ni Ma posted:

The US is just going to create an environment where it and the vassal states just erect massive protectionist policies to keep china non competitive in their gardens but the global south ends up reaping the benefits from it. So you'll have a two tiered system, the west continues to overpay for its hardware/tools/etc, which makes everything more expensive/ less competitive and the global south is allowed to expand faster for less because of china's efficient industrialization. This makes countries less likely to fall for western predation and just further weakens them, which causes them to be even less competitive.

mila kunis posted:

False. All the USA has to do is capture elites in the global south and make them keep the Chinese out

An Jung-geun posted:

Brazenly committing genocide in the Global South tends to make that more difficult

mila kunis posted:

False. All the USA has to do is capture elites in the global south and make them keep the Chinese out

mila kunis posted:

Jordan and Egypt are right next door to the genocide and continue to be US puppet regimes

mila kunis posted:

I mean, I personally would love it if america's ability to maintain captive states evaporated but after the coup in Pakistan I think they still got it. Never count out touchdown Uncle Sam