That was pretty good!
How come I got this sneaking suspicion that was that guy Carl Zha in that disguise?
I am kind of convinced of that.
@horse bro I'll repost a previous podcast of his with Daniel and Mr Teen.That was pretty good!
How come I got this sneaking suspicion that was that guy Carl Zha in that disguise?
I am kind of convinced of that.
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They talk a lot about decoupling but the truth is that the only decoupling I see its from China's side.
Month-by-month Chinese companies are systemically removing US components and tech. Give it another 2-3 years and we will see in the end, who managed to decouple from the other
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Mr T
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State-to-state relations improved years before. One of Xi's early successes was to find a way to bury the hatchet with Japan (which makes China's heightened military posture against Japan in the last few years even stranger).
Anyway, you're missing the point. The Chinese "boycott" was short-lived. Even before Xi became President, Japanese car sales recovered.
The current South Korean government is more pro-China than Japan's is. For a start it refused sales of the T-50 to Taiwan, which originally Taipei wanted as a trainer. Whereas Japan is providing technical assistance for Taiwan building its own submarines. Japan also has a greater depth of governmental relations with Taiwan compared to South Korea.
That's a huge difference on foreign policy on what the CCP repeatedly says is a core political matter.
That's a point of convenience for those manufacturers. I don't think it's a reason people buy those cars - cars made in Japan were also popular.
See above. Sales of Japanese cars have been consistently good and were good before the subsidies.
Isn't this rather the point? That Chinese people buy what they think are reliable, good quality items. Therefore, contrary to what emblem suggested, it's not straightforward just to replicate a foreign brand, say it's Chinese and then expect people to change their shopping habits.
@voyager1 the Chinese had no choice, most critical component have US parts and it permeates the whole industry, its painstaking work but the reward is great even though a generation behind is better than nothing.
Mr T
Senior Member
That's not the comment I was addressing. emblem was specifically talking about replacing foreign brands with new domestic ones. I pointed out that's not easy. If it was, Chinese companies would have already taken over all of the domestic business from those foreign competitors.
It is possible a Chinese boycott will actually run this time, compared to previous times when it all blew over in a matter of weeks/months. But if Chinese consumers stop buying foreign goods it will almost certainly be because they made a conscious decision to change their habits, rather than because magically a Chinese company will develop something more desirable.
solarz
Brigadier
That was pretty good!
How come I got this sneaking suspicion that was that guy Carl Zha in that disguise?
I am kind of convinced of that.
That would make this video really weird:
In this situation, the people simply has had enough of the lecturing and bullying that they west has been doing for generations on end and given the collapsing status of the USA, both on an economic, social and health front, now is as good as time as any to finally show that China can do things there way. The more that America keeps on lecturing China on human rights while not addressing there own hypocrisy as well as committing worse deeds which any sense of irony, well changing their spending habits is not going to be that hard when it becomes a life and death situation for the nation. Especially when these foreign companies started this fight and also, given the Chinese capabilities in manufacturing, well, this could become a new form of industry that can eventually take off when the whole nation is behind this move. Its simply that the nation didn't have the incentive until now to really fight back.