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- yuekit0
- So... chopsticks vs eating with hands... hands win?shapesalad
- Some people also think China was never #1 and in decline for quite a while
Meanwhile India would be way past even the most conservative estimates...grafician - can they stop fucking for once?milfhunter
- shapesalad1
Jack Ma, the billionaire co-founder of Alibaba who disappeared from public life in 2020, has taken up a teaching role in Japan
https://www.businessinsider.nl/j…
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Any company in China is legally not owned by the owners, it's owned by the CCP and any moment in time, they can take it under their control if they think you are becoming to powerful.
Additionally if you invest in Chinese stocks while sitting in the USA etc... you are not buying directly shares, you are buying pieces of paper that are supposed to represent the companies stock 1:1. Again all at the whim of the CCP. All based on company reports that are not audited independently, numbers fudged.
So when Buffet says he's investing in Chinese stock... he might as well invest in Crypto dog coins.
- ADRs represents one or more shares of foreign stock or a fraction of a share.
Not necessarily 1:1, and it doesn't even has to be the exact company.sted - you miss the point sted, there are no "stocks" in China :)grafician
- @shape upvoting this, it's hilarious
"Ma will be conducting research and teaching about sustainable agriculture and food production."grafician - can they make money from theses "not stocks" tho? i think the whole point is to make money, instead of buying stocks.pango
- ADRs represents one or more shares of foreign stock or a fraction of a share.
- sted1
- if you believe in reincarnation, do not come back as a pig. poor, intelligent pigs...hotroddy
- also, this is the origin of the following deadly virushotroddy
- Human flesh is most similar to Pork in texture and flavour. Worth thinking about when eating port.shapesalad
- If that's the case, I'll have no problem eating your ass in a survival situation..hotroddy
- I’m sure it smells great!jmckinno
- are you 2 flirting? what's with all this ass eating talk?pango
- shapesalad0
We all know what Made in China or Made in PRC means... it means it'll fall apart after the first use. What that means for Chinese made EV's:
Those new British electric Mini's... Made in China.
BYD... a company idiots like Buffet love to throw money at.
- yuekit0
If China invades Taiwan while the war in Ukraine is still going on, will we already be in World War 3?
Seems likely China, with little left to lose, would then start openly supporting Putin's war in Europe and supplying Russia with arms. The EU and NATO would accelerate support of Ukraine in response. The USA and Japan would intervene to help defend Taiwan.
- It's Friday Thread!Nairn
- The LAST thing China would ever do is invade Taiwan. For years they have been trying political and societal change, economic influence etc.shapesalad
- Recently the military exercises are looking at 'cutting' off Taiwan, controlling shipping routes and air space over Taiwan.shapesalad
- Go look at the weather/ocean forecasts each day for the Taiwan Strait and tell me if you think China can not only invade, but sustain the invasion + mil supplyshapesalad
- Look at how Putin has egg on his face, what was supposed to be an easy few day Take of Ukraine has descended into a mess for Putin.shapesalad
- You think the CCP are willing to take that amount of risk? Putin could literally drive tanks into Ukraine.shapesalad
- China needs to navigate a rough strait with frequent typhoons. There's a political part in Taiwan that is CCP controlled,shapesalad
- they want closer ties to China for peace reasons...This is the preferred route for CCP, if they can get them voted in, it's a lot cheaper and less risky for CCPshapesalad
- *political partyshapesalad
- Also look at the demographics of China - they are no young people due to that 1 child policy. There are lots of middle age to old people. Not good for invasionsshapesalad
- -- However. If USA/EU start making nano thin chips, removing the current reliance on Taiwan... Taiwan loses it's economy and value to the West =shapesalad
- the Taiwanese will find it tough going economically. Housing there is already crazy priced due to HK fleeing and buying up properties.shapesalad
- Youth facing no future prospects and tough economics will be more willing to vote in a party that has closer ties to CCP, if a carrot is dangled before them.shapesalad
- --- I really wish I'd studied economics and international relations and got a job as an Analyst.shapesalad
- shapesalad I agree...it looks to me like war would be a disaster for China. But the US military seems convinced China is preparing to invade.yuekit
- https://www.youtube.…yuekit
- It's not just about Taiwan, because once China takes control of the island they would be able to threaten Japan.yuekit
- https://scholars-sta…yuekit
- So it could be a way to push back US forces in the region and coerce Japan and Korea to come over more to China's side.yuekit
- But yeah I do continue to wonder if the CCP would take the risk. People in Taiwan seem to be less worried than the Americans.yuekit
- USA have seen the recent China demo of how they can cut off Taiwan. And I think it's worked. USA now saying they don't want to rely on TW chips.shapesalad
- TW saying to USA - hey, don't forget about us guys. USA and EU have realised it's too economically dangerous to rely on chips from TW and are planning own chipshapesalad
- manufacturing. Leaving TW alone, is more of a problem of Japan.shapesalad
- I think the USA is still very committed to it. Notice how Biden repeatedly said they would intervene militarily.yuekit
- Also there's the AUKUS deal, Japan is building up its military and the USA is expanding its bases on the Philippines.yuekit
- Gnash0
Warren Buffett just dumped $4 billion stake in Taiwan chipmaker giant TSMC.
buckle up
- Tencent steps in, buys up stock, war won without shots fired.Nairn
- In Februarysted
- Buffet is not ALWAYS right. His failures are always drowned out with the worshipping of his success.shapesalad
- Buffet has zero morals. Invests in CCP / China.shapesalad
- NBQ000
China to close airspace north of Taiwan April 16-18, sources say
https://www.reuters.com/world/as…
China is probably preparing to start a war, Taiwan's Foreign Ministry, Joseph Wu, said, after simulation of "strikes" across #Taiwan during #China's military exercises, CNN reported.
- Reports now is that it’s for 30 minutes, but who knows.
https://www.taiwanne…instrmntl
- Reports now is that it’s for 30 minutes, but who knows.
- sted0
this is going to be fun for all
"China is considering banning the export of technologies used to produce high-performance rare earth magnets deployed in electric vehicles, wind turbine motors and other products, citing “national security” as a reason, it has been learned."
- I wonder what they're referring to, specifically? Certainly, it wouldn't take much to de-leverage their current hold over production of rare earthsNairn
- oke this will just move the market to another place.milfhunter
- Probably a response to the USA's attempt to ban advanced computer chips from being exported to China.yuekit
- Oh, it definitely is a response to US limitations, but WHAT are China threatening to limit here? What Tech do they have that everywhere else does not already?Nairn
- it isn't tech, its raw material.
more here:
https://japannews.yo…sted - in that case, they've over-played their hand. From your original post though, that doesn't sound like what they're limiting.Nairn
- "the export of technologies used to produce high-performance rare earth magnets", rather than the raw materials themselves.Nairn
- @sted Sweden will play part in the solution since they found a shitload of rare metals up in the north.milfhunter
- Gnash1
- India fucking like rabbitsutopian
- Many bobs and vagines ^Gnash
- *vaganassted
- Can you add Africa? It's basically a straight up line to 2100grafician
- Also India way bellow 1B and China well bellow 800M, something like 600M wound be fair by 2050
by 2100 something like 400M, nobody wants to live in China mangrafician - And Europe/Us around 350 + a lot of immigrants, so like 400M would be fairgrafician
- we lost 1M people in Romania from the last status update last year, France and Germany at least 4-5Mgrafician
- The next 50-100 years it's all Africa man, that's the way it is and will begrafician
- India gov is so corrupt and their infrastructure so broken, how the fuck they going to handle those numbers?inteliboy
- utopian0
Chinese satellite beams green lasers over Hawaii.
Astronomers say a Chinese satellite has been caught on video beaming down green lasers over the Hawaiian Islands.
A National Astronomical Observatory of Japan livestream camera atop the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea recorded the footage in late January.The lasers flashed for just a couple of seconds and were initially thought to be from a NASA altimeter satellite. The NAOJ put out a correction note on Monday, Feb. 6 that said NASA scientists “did a simulation of the trajectory of satellites that have a similar instrument and found a most likely candidate as the ACDL instrument by the Chinese Daqi-1/AEMS satellite.”
“It’s a Chinese satellite that is measuring pollutants, among other things,” said University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy’s Roy Gal. “It has many different instruments on it ... Some kind of topographical mapping or they’re also used for measuring stuff in Earth’s atmosphere, and I think that’s what it is, environmental measurement satellite.”
- NBQ001
- Git-R-Done u-Commies!utopian
- It does not cost much to make Uncle Sam wet his pants. Only 118RMB on Taobao ($17.42 USD)
https://i.imgur.com/…PioneerDJ303
- NBQ00-1
War with China over Taiwan is likely in 2025, warns U.S. General Mike Minihan: ‘I hope I am wrong’
- He’s wrong.shapesalad
- You know more than him then :)NBQ00
- 2008, then 2016, then 2022, then 2025, then 2029, then 2036, then 2038.......toemaas
- sted0
China has extended the olive branch to Western democracies and global capitalists alike, promising a new era of detente after the coercive “wolf warrior” diplomacy of the last five years.
Vice-premier Liu He, the economic plenipotentiary of Xi Jinping’s China, told a gathering of business leaders and ministers in Davos that China is back inside the tent and eager to restore the money-making bonhomie of the golden years.
“We must let the market play the fundamental role in the allocation of resources, and let the government play a better role. Some people say China will go for the planned economy. That’s by no means possible,” he said.
- lost too much money during covid?pango
- so they're admitting the dictatorship and hostile behaviour of the CCP/ Xi towards its citizens and the West/ Taiwan was not a good idea after all?NBQ00
- economic reasons?
or they are turning to the two-faced foreign politics, like rassa.sted - The writings on the wall. They’re graspingGnash