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Randomuser said:
I feel like everything most people know about Tibet (Or Xizang) are westoids scamming us.

Apparently the current Dalai Lama isn't even born in Tibet but in Qinghai. His family doesnt even speak Tibetan and he said his first language is actually a Chinese dialect.

And of course we know the system of for example how Tibet must report to the Chinese emperor and they need to get approved for their Dalai Lama. This is best documented in the Qing dynasty

Also a lot of people think Tibetans are peaceful people coz of the current Dalai Lama. But thats actually insulting against Tibetans coz apparently they might be descendants of the ancient Qiang people who are basically mountain nomads and were noted to be very fierce. They even had the Tibetan empire during Tang dynasty. Just coz they are buddhist doesn't mean they are peaceful. Mongols are buddhists too and hell the whole Dalai Lama system comes from them. The best MMA gym in China is near Tibet and is filled with them. Initially I thought it was Tibetans being forced into it but I realize now its simply them reliving their true ancestry memories.

To cut it short, Tibetans are more like one of the ethnic minorities of China that just happen to have strong PR from buddhism. The west somehow managed to convince people they are somehow separate from China. When you look at their history, I would argue its actually the complete opposite and they are one of the most connected ethnic minorities to China. They literally had positions in the Forbidden City. Other ethnic minorities don't even have that!

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Also He isn't even the spiritual leader of the all of Tibetan Buddhism but one sect, afterall tibetan buddhist in Nepal, Bhutan and maybe Sikkim don't recognized him as their leader.
 
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China Hints at Rare Earths Progress With E.U. Before Talks With U.S.
Beijing has approved more export licenses for the critical minerals and magnets in recent days, but supplies remain scarce and factories in the West are running out.
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EU must reduce its rare earth reliance on China, says EU's Sejourne
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FriedButter said:
According to the Penn Wharton Model,

If US federal Debt reaches 200% of GDP then the US enters into a death spiral. Tax revenue can no longer be raised high enough to cover interest payments, which is the Greek Meltdown Scenario.

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The situation isn't quite as dire as that. The US federal debt is in US dollars and the government can simply print more dollars to pay it back. The real danger though is that investors lose confidence in the dollar, and stop funding further borrowing by the US government, thereby crashing the value of the US dollar. So while the debt is a serious concern, the real leading indicator for trouble is going to be the US bond market.

 
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GulfLander said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1931176536276922811
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iewgnem said:
The whole concept of moving production to the US is a fallacy by people who doesn't know anything about production.
US companies don't own any production, they only control which producer they source from.
To move production, they can only try to convince their Chinese supplier to build a factory somewhere, as Tesla unsuccessfully tried to do.
US companies themselves have no ability to move anything anywhere because US companies has no production.
All this means is, ironically, being hostile to China and talking big about moving production away from China are the worst thing you can do to achieve that goal, no Chinese supplier will help you if you act like that.
India is learning this the hard way.
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You can't have a manufacturing sector without production chains. It takes a generation to build up the production chains, as the industrialization of China demonstrates.

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China is allowing limited exports of rare earths to Europe as the EV negotiation progresses to the final stage.

China Says Progress Made With EU on Electric Vehicle Price Talks​

China’s commerce ministry said talks with the European Union on setting minimum prices for Chinese-made electric vehicles have “entered final stages,” although more work is required to reach a deal.
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4Tran said:
The situation isn't quite as dire as that. The US federal debt is in US dollars and the government can simply print more dollars to pay it back.
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That is hyperinflation. If interest payments exceed tax revenue then printing more money won’t actually solve anything. Paying off current debts by obtaining more debt (money printing) is a death spiral.

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The real danger though is that investors lose confidence in the dollar, and stop funding further borrowing by the US government, thereby crashing the value of the US dollar. So while the debt is a serious concern, the real leading indicator for trouble is going to be the US bond market.
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Half of the WSJ video already discussed that point. Penn Wharton Model of 200% is under “most favorable of assumptions” as a breaking point.
 
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