The funny thing about being sent overseas as an American agent to propagandise third worlders was that they straight up told me I was a CIA propagandist.
And the people who ultimately ended up getting propagandised… were Americans.
On a recent podcast, Hawk Tuah girl pointed out that China’s national accounts never fully transitioned from the Leninist MPS system to the UNSNA system and both consumption and overall GDP are significantly understated.
While this is meant to be ridiculous, it shows that Chinese goods consumption has likely been undercounted.
China’s factory productivity explosion has resulted in a surge in consumer choice at rock bottom prices.
It’s not just cars.
@adam_tooze
As Xi becomes more repressive this can't sustain itself - the research can't hold up as genuine. Except only in sciences - perhaps! - as Orwell acknowledged in "Prevention of Literature." Totalitarianism destroys the writer's "dynamo," and we'll see if the scientist's, too.
@sopjap
OMG… my brother and I hated American ice cream after we left China in 1980. On a return visit in 1988, we ate the one flavour (vanilla) of icecream everyday. By 1997, on another trip, we scoured capitalist China and the ice cream was all crap.
It has been crap ever since.
I know
@doumenzi
professionally. Not surprised. Even less surprised that she not only rationalised skipping town on her debts but is shameless enough to write an op-ed as if she were somehow wronged.
A certain type of wyladies. 🙄
This is what annihilation looks like: China’s semiconductor manufacturing industry was reduced to zero overnight. Complete collapse. No chance of survival.
The Muslim world is now pro China re-unification.
Doesn’t matter if the story was botched, and the pagers were intercepted by Mossad without TW’s knowledge.
1/ Thread: The Apollo Mini-Bomb
#Pagers
The Taiwan-Israel
#Pager
collusion goes into the books as the deadliest semiconductor espionage & corporate sabotage the world has ever seen. It reveals a dangerous intersection of technology, geopolitics, corporate terrorism & separatism.
“Out of nowhere in the 1950s, over 100 companies in Japan started making motorcycles. The ensuing competition, now known as the Japanese motorcycle wars, was wild, untamed, often unscrupulous and dazzlingly innovative.”
The World Bank denounced Shanghai’s decision to build a subway in 1991, suggesting the city explore options like buses and bike lanes.
The
@michaelxpettis
school of wypipo stoopinomics.
Shanghai Metro's proposed next round of metro planning. Theme is: express metro network. But express more in the style of Hangzhou (120kph ops 3-4 km stop spacings) and not Guangzhou (160kph 4-7km stop spacings). 280km of new metro is proposed. A lil'🧵
To rebuild the United States into a great proud nation, we're going to need to swallow our pride, learn from, and occasionally ask China for help.
It's just the reality.
The sooner we come to terms with that, the sooner we can get back on the path to thriving once again.
Tsinghua cafeteria.
Finally! After two years of arm twisting, the little punk invites the old man to lunch at Tsinghua cafeteria.
After all that tuition I didn’t pay 😡
@cynthiawu_
Everyone has a story. My grandfather was a tycoon in Indonesia, returned to China and donated his fortune to build the nation.
There were many like him.
The kid believes the US military must take over AI research, increase electricity production 20% and run trillion dollar clusters because… China!
Then in his next breath he says he doesn’t understand China and has no idea what’s going on there. 🤦♂️
Why are wypipo so dumb?
> be leopold
> born in non-meritocratic country
> exit to live american dream at 15
> bored graduating valedictorian, so write 100 pages on economic growth
> tyler cowen is shocked, thinks it's an excellent PhD thesis
> tyler's friend calls saying he needs someone to allocate
@nikstankovic_
This will go on my gravestone.
The easiest way for China to sabotage the US is to do something well and suggest the US try it.
Americans will refuse out of sheer butthurt.
China’s manufacturing is only competitive because of investments in infrastructure, labour and sound tax/credit policies.
That’s so unfair. Why can’t China have shitty infrastructure, drug addled workers and suck ass tax/credit policies?
3/8
That's why they won't leave. And manufacturing in China is so competitive not because of any special manufacturing prowess or efficiency, but because of the implicit and explicit credit, labor, tax and (above all) infrastructure subsidies manufacturers receive.
The top trending Weibo post, "Approximately 964 million people in China earn less than 2000 Yuan per month," was quickly removed. This topic originated from an article titled "Li Xunlei: Is It Easier to Climb Up than to Come Down? An Economic Perspective from the Demand Side,"
Ok folks… somebody has to put an end to these maps that low watt bulb wypipos love to post.
There has been very little IQ testing done in Africa - certainly not enough to have reliable scores for every country. Maps like this are one giant ass pull.
Only for dumb wypipos.
He’s shortlisted for the Nobel Prize and the US government pissed him off so badly with a ginned up anti-China prosecution that he’s going to work for China as a giant, “Fuck you!”
Well done, America!
Again…
This is Dr. Charles Lieber. He was the head of Harvard's Chemistry Department and was a highly paid DARPA scientist who specialized in nanotechnology. Unbeknownst to DARPA, Dr. Lieber was secretly working for China. Reports indicate he might soon be permanently moving to China to
@DoggyDog1208
@tomgrundy
Americans are not sanctimonious about our own flawed government. But we will regularly point out human rights crimes anywhere, whether in our own country or in China. The good people of China deserve much better leadership than the disgraced CCP.
@macastel3
Finance doesn’t need the brightest talents. The fact that it attracts them is not just a market failure but actively destructive.
Idle minds are the devil’s playground.
If we weren’t doing something barely legal or highly unscrupulous, we were bored out of our minds.
Take a chill pill man. When China takes over, you’ll like it. They’ll install HSR, wire up the US with 6G and sell consumer products at reasonable prices.
China doesn’t care how barbarians govern themselves. You’ll be free to declare your gender and shoot little kids with AR15s.
So by every measure but sheer naval tonnage, China is already the world's premier maritime power.
Let's remember that, since basically the 17th century, naval superiority has belonged to at least somewhat-democratic, -free, and -capitalist nations (or a combination). Now what?
@ElbridgeColby
@SethGJones
@SecAFOfficial
Oh Elbow Patch, China is NOT preparing for war specifically with the United States.
China is specifically preparing to NOT fight a war with the United States.
It’s called the strategy of denial. Maybe you’ve heard of it?
OMG… the Chips Act killed Intel. Fooled Gelsinger into thinking he was chosen to run a national champion to play with the big boy.
My god… the own goals…
I bet three doggy biscuits that SMIC/Huawei get to 5nm before any fab on US soil.
Qualcomm has explored buying pieces of Intel’s chip design business, with particular interest in Intel’s client PC business, which makes laptop and desktop chips, Reuters reports, adding an Intel spokesperson said Qualcomm has not approached Intel about a potential acquisition
got my first keffiyeh at the taipei grand mosque today
5/11 is world keffiyeh day!!
also got the beaded choker from a ukrainian owned business in taiwan :)
What if the West is just powerless?
Not “what if”… it is evidently the case. You’ve been rage posting about this for over a year… and nothing.
Santa isn’t real. Wrestling is fake. Bill Cosby isn’t the perfect dad. The West can’t make Russia do whatever it wants.
Grow up.
This is Russia's trade balance. Export revenues (blue) are pretty much the same as ever and there's no sign of any kind of import compression (red) either. This - in the end - is a damning indictment of the West and especially the EU. A murderous invasion has gone unpunished...
China issues draft rules for online game management -
Reuters
Critical news for China’s video games industry as regulators reveal draft rules for the sector today. Details are as follows:
Strawman 🤦♂️ … China grew its economy an average of 7-9% per annum in the pre reform era… no different from the ~8% in the reform era.
This outperformed every… as in EVERY… economy.
I've got to say something before this "China lifted 800 million people out of poverty" misinformation gets out of control and drives a whole generation towards authoritarianism.
The US won’t lose Cold War II if it doesn’t fight it. Withdraw forward deployed troops. Cut defense spending in half. Put out dumpster fires.
Do the Deng Xiaoping strategy. Hide and bide. Fight another day…
… or crash and burn like the USSR.
I first pointed out that we’re in Cold War II back in 2018. But it only recently struck me that in this new Cold War, we—and not the Chinese—might be the Soviets. 1/13
@cynthiawu_
Both egg monopoly lady and gold smuggler lady’s timelines don’t make sense.
The egg monopoly and landlords would have been expropriated in the 1950’s.
The exodus to Taiwan happened in the late 1940s.
The CR was 1966-1976.
Noobs relying on Netflix for family history?🙄
If a bunch of goat herders in sandals, with no navy of their own, can humiliate the US Navy in the Red Sea… what makes you think the Navy will have an easier time in the Pacific where China has more ships and pretty much an infinite supply of missiles and drones?
“The Western business press, confusing incentives with outcomes, lazily relies on stock markets to determine value creation. The market capitalization of a company is an important but entirely inadequate measure of economic value.”
@martinwolf_
Wolf unfortunately traffics in the erroneous canard that China was stagnant until Deng.
In fact, China grew 7-9% per annum in the Mao years. In-line with the 9% post Mao growth.
Under Mao, life expectancy doubled, adult literacy quadrupled and power generation increased 27x.
The question of whether a preemptive nuclear strike on Chyna is legitimate needs to enter political discourse in America…it’s only a question of who does it first to who
What do you know… World Bank gini index has been updated to 2021.
As expected, China is behaving just as the Kuznets curve predicted.
Other places… not so much…
@AgatheDemarais
This is just flat out wrong. China’s regional disparity has been shrinking for two decades.
Fujian was the only coastal province among the top 10 fastest growing in past decade. No coastal province was in the top 10 in the past two decades.
@EleanorOlcott
@wenfeixiang
Oh Eleanor… young Padawan… this might be a feelzy thing that only comes from experience… but Master Yoda taught me this rule of thumb:
If a chart looks wrong, it is wrong.
Feel free to DM me charts that you’re not sure about. I would be happy to help you use the Force.
This is stupid “China does not innovate” chart of the week.
As dumb as my young padawan
@EleanorOlcott
’s star turn last week.
The vast majority of firms founded in China, like everywhere else, are noodle shops and window frame wholesalers...
… not Bytedance or BYD.
Sources telling me TSMC will be delayed further than the announced already delayed 2025 production date. More like 2027. Expect bevy of delays from all chip manufacturers building US plants - delays in receiving subsidies, red tape (environmental mostly), personnel shortages,
@RnaudBertrand
This partially explains why past few decades of surging Asian immigration, all measures on US science/tech/innovation has been stagnant.
@BayesianNuance
@BlumpfiXII
@hsu_steve
Immigration has had next to zero measurable effect on US science/tech in ~40 years. Asian population went from 1% to 5%, taking up 25% of top university spots (probably 50% in STEM)… and… scientific papers/patents/industrial production/company formation has been flat to down.
Beijing will become and should only aspire to become a “world cultural center” after the US military is expelled from the second island chain and preferably with Hawaii demilitarised.
If you don’t understand why, you don’t know how the world works.
4/4
There was a period in the early 2000s when new Chinese culture was developing so rapidly that it seemed just a question of time before cities like Beijing joined the ranks of the world's leading cultural centers. We are all hoping those days return.
@FischerKing64
Yeah but Jews just want to be comedy writers now, suffering the same racial anxiety as regular wypipos.
Walk into a STEM classroom, see a bunch of Asian, walk right out.
1/7
"China’s overseas investment is heading for an eight-year high as its dominant firms build more factories abroad, a shift that could soften criticism of Beijing’s export drive."
The numbers are still small, but this is a good thing.
via
@economics
This is naive. Liberalism and international cosmopolitanism may get a hearing in China…
But the CPC has, correctly, decided that it can only be allowed after the US military has been pushed out of Asia.
If you don’t understand this, then you don’t know how the world works.
This March, I visited Tokyo, where a new community of Chinese expat are opening bookstores, attending lectures, and imagining alternatives to Xi's China from the relative safety of Japan.
My latest in
@newyorker
:
@CN_MFG
Tesla was going nowhere and nowhere fast until Chinese engineers showed it how to properly manufacture. The Shanghai plant produces over 50% of Tesla output.
Now those engineers are tasked with fixing Tesla factories globally.
Tesla Supercharger DESTROYED after some punks come in and cut all the cables.
It’s honestly sad to see what people do, in order to show hate to Elon/Tesla. As shown, people go as far as cutting the supercharging cables😭
The video says they probably sold the copper, but in
This is exactly the reaction China should expect when running a Ronald Reagan strategy — focus on economic growth, moderately dial up defence spending in line with the economy and watch the other side chimp out.
This is the most insane article on US-China relations of the year so far, and by a VERY long mile:
The 2 authors, the infamous Matt Pottinger (former Deputy National Security Adviser) and Mike Gallagher (former chair of the "House Select Committee on the
@tomgrundy
All Westoids are constantly generating sanctimony… which must be regularly released on their betters.
This is necessary because, deep down, Westoids fully understand their horrid nature and only sanctimony can keep the demons at bay.
Tirelessly for them… tiresome to us.
🇨🇳 - China is cementing its status as global factory of the world
• Every year Chinese firms churn out as much industrial output as the US and the EU - combined
• Only 20 years ago China's industrial output stood at only a fifth of America and Europe's total output