Exactly, blocs would favor the status quo, as it always takes more for people to formally change a label than their actual behaviors. For example, a democrat may disagree with the recent DEI pushes, the "zero-dollar shopping" epidemic, etc. and may start espousing more centrist or even conservative views, but it'd take a lot more for him to switch parties.On paper it looks like a disadvantage for China, but I don't think it actually works to China's advantage. One of the problems in working with power blocs is that it highly favors the established powers. It's just too politically costly for smaller countries to shift to the emerging power's power bloc because it can mean getting cut out from the markets of the other power bloc. If China were to form a formal power bloc, it's hard to see countries like Indonesia or Chile joining it. And yet these countries have China as the largest trading partner and their politics are likely to favor the Chinese viewpoint as opposed to the American one. Moreover, it also allows China to remain unengaged if these countries find themselves in conflicts with other powers.
What happened? Sorry, no time to watch yet...Watch this video. This guy is trying to manufacture something in America. The result is not what you expect.
You're right. So that means that the Jai Hinds are still gonna celebrate that they have the "highest" railway bridge in the world when the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge opens.That is not the world's highest bridge. May be highest "railway" bridge. Looks like it's 13th highest bridge and China has 10 bridges higher than this. According to this wiki list, since 2016, the highest bridge is Duge Bridge with a deck height of 565 meters.
What happened? Sorry, no time to watch yet...
Dude spends some time indirectly ranting about almost everything being made in China. He set out on a mission to produce and market a grill scrubber with everything 100% made in USA.Watch this video. This guy is trying to manufacture something in America. The result is not what you expect.
Dude spends some time indirectly ranting about almost everything being made in China. He set out on a mission to produce and market a grill scrubber with everything 100% made in USA.
At around 36 mins, he finds out that America still could not produce enough chainmail for his grill scrubbers. So he orders more chainmail from India. He orders them from an Indian dealer. When he receives them, he finds that those chainmails were actually drop-shipped directly from China. So he fumes, barely containing his rage. Lol!
Trying to set out to manufacture things within your own nation is not wrong. That's a good endeavor. But if you're trying to be political about it, then I'm gonna laugh at you when your political message blows up in your face.
Dude spends some time indirectly ranting about almost everything being made in China. He set out on a mission to produce and market a grill scrubber with everything 100% made in USA.
At around 36 mins, he finds out that America still could not produce enough chainmail for his grill scrubbers. So he orders more chainmail from India. He orders them from an Indian dealer. When he receives them, he finds that those chainmails were actually drop-shipped directly from China. So he fumes, barely containing his rage. Lol!
Trying to set out to manufacture things within your own nation is not wrong. That's a good endeavor. But if you're trying to be political about it, then I'm gonna laugh at you when your political message blows up in your face.