Why does New York look so outdated compared to Chinese cities like Shanghai or Shenzhen?
Look, let’s take all the dick-swinging out of this argument (from both parties) and look at it rationally. At one point in time, not that long ago, New…
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…
I do not buy Chinese products (unless disposable) because I know they will be low quality. Why does China only seem to make low end products? Why do they not mimic Germany where the standard is higher?
One of my partners is an Indonesian. He doesn’t know Chinese very well, so he asked me to go with him to the China Canton Fair this year….
How likely is Mandarin to surpass English as the global lingua franca?
Virtually zero chance. There are many reasons why English is the lingua franca today. It’s widespread around the world. The British Empire was pretty effective at spreading it…
What will happen when China cancels a deal with Boeing?
The deal isn’t cancelled China instructed their Airlines not to take deliveries of any Boeing Aircraft because of the 125% Tariffs which would cause the price of the…
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…