Why don’t companies just make everything in the US to avoid tariffs?
Let’s take a single example. This is nickel, a ferromagnetic metal. It’s used in all sorts of applications from stainless steel to batteries to electroplating Now, Canada has…
Why is China the first in the world to counter the “reciprocal tariff”?
They are the largest economy on earth in terms of GDP (PPP). The US pretends like it is still the mid-1990s and they basically have unquestionable total dominance…
Why does China look so confident in this trade war vs. the USA?
You don’t have to be an expert, you just need to read newspapers regularly. China discovered already in 2016–20 that USA could change its attitude drastically on a…
Who would win the trade war, China or the US in 2025?
Let’s see China exports roughly around 12.50% of its total exports to the US markets Of this nearly 7.50% consist of finished products owned in full or in…
Is it true that students in China are taught that China defeated Japan in World War 2 even though the overwhelming force was actually the US?
Here are some pictures from the history textbooks Chinese History (the old ones and the new one): So it says it’s China and the world that defeated Japan….
Which one was worse, Indonesia under Dutch rule or Japanese rule?
My paternal grandmother is still alive and still remembers the colonial era. At that time, she was still a teenager and often told me about the Dutch and…
After two opium wars, how was the number of opium addicts of China?
The opium hit China hard after the wars — Men lay in dens with their pipes, women too. The smoke curled up and they dreamed. They did not…
Why has Trump caved and decided to pause tariffs for 90 days? Did he get scared of China?
Alright, here’s my take on this in a polished but chill vibe: I’m not buying for a sec that this was Trump’s grand master plan from the start,…
How close was Britain from losing WW2?
My grandfather was a ww2 vet; he told me that after we got crushed by Hitler he stumbled upon a photograph of british ladies clearing their destroyed homes…
Were the tanks sent to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease returned after the war?
No, and here’s the deal: pretty much nothing sent through Lend-Lease came back, despite what the “lending” part might suggest. The Soviets got around 7,000 tanks, mostly M4…