Kind of reminds me of what Lew Kwan Yiu once said, about Taiwan, Singapore, and mainland China.
For China, Taiwan is family. Singapore is not.
Singapore seems like just a distant friend or relative.
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Kind of reminds me of what Lew Kwan Yiu once said, about Taiwan, Singapore, and mainland China.
For China, Taiwan is family. Singapore is not.
Singapore seems like just a distant friend or relative.
This is a very deep post, IMHO.
What I noticed, is that a lot of Chinese girls in the west, opt out of marrying a Chinese man. The simple reason I tend to believe, is that the burden is too much.
It is a burden to be Chinese, we must do our part and play our roles. That is the Confucian culture that came from antiquity passed all the way down until now.
But here, there is where life intervenes and things turn whacky. Most of these mixed marriages between a Chinese girl and white guy, their household eventually goes full Chinese. I think these Chinese girls figured something out, that us Chinese guys miss. They are working the system, so to speak. Well, if they are, then I guess that is good, I suppose. With white guys, the Chinese girl will push them around, to lessen the burden of being Chinese. That's pretty sharp I thought.
The part of trying to live one's life in a selfless manner, that came out of one of the ancient texts, forget which one.
It probably will come back, sometime, lol.
It is very interesting, this concept of a "Chinese Wall." First time I heard about this term, I thought, "Yeah, that is what that is exactly!"
As the years went on by, one day, I realized something. That other side of that wall, I don't understand it at all. I understand that it is there, and I can acknowledge its existence, but I do not understand it.
Like understand it, understand it.
That is why I consider myself to be fresh off the boat.
@horse bro I feel your pain, the reason I married a Chinese Girl, since I'm the only son the burden rest on me, so I had to break up with my Filipina lived in partner. Did I regret it? I loved them both and because of that love , I have to let one of them go free.This is a very deep post, IMHO.
What I noticed, is that a lot of Chinese girls in the west, opt out of marrying a Chinese man. The simple reason I tend to believe, is that the burden is too much.
It is a burden to be Chinese, we must do our part and play our roles. That is the Confucian culture that came from antiquity passed all the way down until now.
But here, there is where life intervenes and things turn whacky. Most of these mixed marriages between a Chinese girl and white guy, their household eventually goes full Chinese. I think these Chinese girls figured something out, that us Chinese guys miss. They are working the system, so to speak. Well, if they are, then I guess that is good, I suppose. With white guys, the Chinese girl will push them around, to lessen the burden of being Chinese. That's pretty sharp I thought.
The part of trying to live one's life in a selfless manner, that came out of one of the ancient texts, forget which one.
It probably will come back, sometime, lol.
It is very interesting, this concept of a "Chinese Wall." First time I heard about this term, I thought, "Yeah, that is what that is exactly!"
As the years went on by, one day, I realized something. That other side of that wall, I don't understand it at all. I understand that it is there, and I can acknowledge its existence, but I do not understand it.
Like understand it, understand it.
That is why I consider myself to be fresh off the boat.
"In September, Brussels is set to propose a ban on the trade of goods made using forced labour, with Xinjiang part of its thinking, while the US has already banned goods from the region. China denies any allegations of forced labour.
Also with China in mind, the EU and US will cooperate to “diversify supply chains for rare earth magnets” and “advance [the] transparency in and diversification” in the solar sector.
“Ninety per cent of solar panels come from China. Is that the right thing to do, or is that the right dependency or not? And what can we do about it?” asked a senior EU official, speaking on background to discuss the agenda."
Uh oh. Told ya.
They can try but Europeans and Americans are too expensive and have a need for a too high of a base income to make ends meet.
So i don't think NATOstan would ever be able to compete in the global marketplace with the global south unless they completely gut the western working class to the level of serfdom.
So basically they're looking at the current economy numbers and going "why yes, I would like a bit more inflation"?
Diversify to where? To Chinese shell companies repackaging and redistributing Chinese made parts in Southeast Asian countries? This is all talk, it would take a long time and a lot of capital if they want to bring it up to scale and it still would be too expensive if they opted for building it domestically than shipping it to the developing countries. Even if EU decides to ban it the next day, China still have other nations they can trade with and they would still be able to sell their goods to EU by finding loopholes around their regulation, which will likely be inadequate and lazy in enforcement in the first place.
This is just same isolating hype they tried on Russia, where their efforts are now looking weary and their "unity" starting to fall apart. As long as majority of the other countries still practice free trade, there will be holes and workarounds for these sanctions. They can't have their cake and eat it.
We know they are idiots. But you can never underestimate the underhandedness of these people.
To make silicon you need low energy costs. It takes like 4-5 years to pay back the energy used to make the solar panels. And they might last 20 years. Europe isn't going to have cheap energy any time soon if they insist on cutting Russian energy out of their market, banning coal, and slow walking nuclear. It is as simple as that. There was a lot of hype in the US about making thin-film solar panels with materials other than silicon at one point. Supposedly much cheaper than silicon but less efficient. Also might last less. Guess what, China just cut those silicon wafers thinner, and cut the costs of silicon cells down dramatically. And all those businesses became irrelevant.
Their problem with rare earths is you need them to make high power permanent magnets. And those are used on everything from wind turbine generators to electric car motors. So their whole US Democrat / EU Green Agenda depends on Chinese dominated supply chains. And they don't like that. They see it as replacing one dependency on energy source with someone they don't like with another they don't like either. Anyway, I expect the Republicans to win this year's elections and they will probably rollback a lot of this Green New Deal crap. But any sanctions they apply on China might stay.
To make silicon you need low energy costs. It takes like 4-5 years to pay back the energy used to make the solar panels. And they might last 20 years. Europe isn't going to have cheap energy any time soon if they insist on cutting Russian energy out of their market, banning coal, and slow walking nuclear. It is as simple as that. There was a lot of hype in the US about making thin-film solar panels with materials other than silicon at one point. Supposedly much cheaper than silicon but less efficient. Also might last less. Guess what, China just cut those silicon wafers thinner, and cut the costs of silicon cells down dramatically. And all those businesses became irrelevant.
Their problem with rare earths is you need them to make high power permanent magnets. And those are used on everything from wind turbine generators to electric car motors. So their whole US Democrat / EU Green Agenda depends on Chinese dominated supply chains. And they don't like that. They see it as replacing one dependency on energy source with someone they don't like with another they don't like either. Anyway, I expect the Republicans to win this year's elections and they will probably rollback a lot of this Green New Deal crap. But any sanctions they apply on China might stay.
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4-5 years 20 years ago maybe, way less now. Even in the UK with all the rain the energy pay-back time is less than 2 years, and that's 2013 data.
Considering cost per watt of cells has dropped by more than half since 2013, it should be even less now.
I bought a 100W panel from Aliexpress to charge my ebike, it was £59 shipped to my door! I don't see how the EU/US can compete with that?
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Actually only NZ$43 + NZ$2 delivery to NZ ... or roughly £20, including controller and USB ports
.. how on earth they could do that price