Me too. She's brilliant.

Me too.

Same here. Popped up yesterday for me and I've been looking for her talks every since 😅

Brilliant woman.

Skewed analysis. 🤷

The American state can't be trusted by allies. My guess is America will go with applying perpetual sanctions on China rather than defending Taiwan. They will defend Japan and South Korea. At this time, it looks like Philippines will go with America. But, just like Hong Kong, western powers aren't going to protect ethnically Chinese from ethnically Chinese. If Taiwan does well enough that the CCP loses control, they've got a chance. But otherwise Taiwan will become a devastated backwater. Semiconductor fabs don't survive invasions.

No way! It depends on the will and ability of the 1.4 billion Chinese people!

Even Xi and CCP can’t risk their power to against the will of the Chinese people to take Taiwan!

@@bzhu3233If that were the case, the U.S. should have been freaked out of the West Pacific many years ago.

Yes. That is why got QUAD and AUKUS

listening to white people talk about how much china wants taiwan will always have layers of reasons lost in translation

she gave the stupidest reason for china wanting taiwan.

I used to believe such theory until I saw the Beijing's olympic. The genie is out and it wont be going back, in fact it cannot, the bottle is too small.

she is very good, very well reasoned and succinct.

Same as me, due to a bad home environment I couldn't concentrate at school, however the history teacher made history become alive

this lady is justifying u.s foreign policy on china by telling you that while the chinese government lifted 800 million people out of poverty, they are only doing it to stay in power, therefore there should be sanctions. and china should go back to being poor so the chinese people can have a reason to overthrow their government. This is some next level hubris and the level of delusional thinking in the western think tanks.

she is so wrong....women. know nothing for conquering.

I was in China around Beijing Olympic's time. That was an optimistic times, Deng has long passed but the fruits of his reforms is entering its zenith. Cross-straights relations is warming, Hong Kong & Macao's self rule was generally respected. There were faint hope that China might gradually transition into a Taiwan's style democracy, and Hong Kongers might soon be directly electing their Chief Executive as promised in Basic Law. Now, all gone down the drains.

Sarah is being biased on China. She avoided and omitted JZM era... were the U$ Bombing of Chinese embassy happened (followed a day or two by Philippine grounding a navy ship in a reef)... the EP-3 incident. And in HJT era... the sabotages on China's Olympic Torch tour and smear on Chinese sports (ie. alleged cheating and child abuse)... Staged "uprising" in Tibetan places that were violent (murders and maiming)... Obama's "Pivot to Asia" policy . And so on and so forth !

​@@chieftanke Funny twist and spin ! U$ covert Destabilization Ops against Ma administration (ie. "sunflower movement")... against HK gov't legislatures (ie. "umbrella movement"). "sunflower movement"

​@chieftanke Yes, I remember those times when most people thought the CCP would somehow become less inhumane, but, nowadays, it's over.

@@wuhaninstituteofvirology5226 Funny fake news and disinformation 🤡 On the first day of Beijing Olympics... Beijing's taxi company's 2-way radio got hijacked. Fox News' Megyn Kelly was falsely alleging child abuse by China on its athletes training. Months prior ...U$ masterminded "Tibetan uprising" that led to murders and maiming of Han-Chinese living in Tibetan places. U$ masterminded "sunflower movement" against KMT's Ma administration... also the "umbrella movement" in Hongkong .

Hello Now u even found me

There are some things worth more than making money like religion and pride to vast populations of people

no she isn't she is spewing all kinds of nonsense about why china wants to reunite with taiwan.

Yea Sarah talks a good game but most of it is BS , we are all products of our environment , if she lived in the real world she would have a bit more credibility

@@levelazn Done leave us hanging! Tell us why.

Ain't gonna work . U$ and UK sanctioned Japan ...so Japan decided to attacked them !

The most brillant people are Never allowed to work for government. The democrats only wants puppets and marketing folks, NOT talented folks. That is why they are attacking Trump constantly.

The US doesn't really want CAPITALISM! BET, you don't even know where taiwan is on a map.

So why did Lincoln take the confederate South back when the latter wanted outta the union? South had decided they would be just fine on their own but Lincoln went for war to stop it. Cannot have it both ways, lady Paine.

​@TellenJones So I guess there was nobody in the South that wanted out? Strawman argument.

Sarah Paine's same argument goes true with the capitalist power in the US. So its more than likely direct head on collision would happen between the communist china and capitalist us long before Taiwan would be levelled by its motherland, China

U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States kzfaq.info/get/bejne/psuXes2X1N3GlKs.html

I don't think she has the least clue about China and Taiwan, and Chinese thinking in large. Sigh!.

@wohetang even your name screams CCP troll

​@@howardcroft3748lel anyone you disagree with is a "ccp troll" 😂 Go find an echo chamber somewhere else kiddo

Its hilarious to hear the whitest of whitey white people talk about how China's "doing it wrong", which is why the U.S. has made the bet to isolate itself on the world stage by sanctioning 20% of global population, because they're failing so hard. To list the failures this women left out of her spiel: HSR across the entire nation, self construction space station, re-usable rockets, asteroid mining, #1 hydro electric power in the world, 30% re-usable energy sources, Xiong An smart city, Greater Bay Area 70M+ tech center, largest gold producer in the world, the #1 auto manufacturer in the world at the rock bottom price, 10yr head start on 5G deployment with fresh new 6G satellites already launched, independent Beidou GPS, hypersonic projectiles, #1 manufacturer to the globe of which the U.S. is a mere 4% with all of NATO making up 18% and China alone dwarfing all at 20%. This lady is comedy.

Enjoy the bovine manure fed to you by your favourite fake news propagandist

Definitely would be an asset as a cabinet position.

She works for the Military . 🤦

@@peekaboopeekaboo1165 so what?

@@jwbjpb1338 Her analysis are skewed.

@@peekaboopeekaboo1165 no they are spot on right. She’s far far far far more educated and intelligent than you

It's unfortunate you use the example of the democrats, as Donald Trump did just about whatever was in his power to stay in power on January the 6th. Before then, whether it was Hillary Clinton or Al Gore, the losing candidate would concede the election within 24 hours.

Not even growth of business world, but growth of BIG business. Probably because the big businesses provide most of the campaign donations.

In democracies it is about maintaining the process. Money gives you freedom to choose.

Bold of you to assume that the CCP is regulating the dream world of Chinese investor bros out of the goodness of their hearts and for the welfare of the commoner.

ah yes the very common eastern notion that countries being poorer will magically improve citizens welfare. India, china 1980-2020, taiwan, south korea, japan, and a dozen other eastern countries disagree with you.

Unamazing teacher .🤷

​@@peekaboopeekaboo1165Sarah Paine's same argument goes true with the capitalist power in the US. So its more than likely direct head on collision would happen between the communist china and capitalist us long before Taiwan would be levelled by its motherland, China

@@johnchan4136 American patriot Gen. Smedley Butler revealed what American national policy is all about ... War is a racket ! Deep State has abandoned the KMT in behalf of it's new ally, the DPP .

That discussion could fill an entire semester!

She does, but it isn’t shared for obvious reasons.

When the TMCS factory is completed in Arizona, all bets are off. The US will not care if China invades Taiwan. It will use it as an excuse to totally destroy the PLA.

I noticed how she worded how the west thinks the government works. I wonder how she thinks it actually works in the west 😂😅

I think this would direct to the island chain strategy developed against the Soviet. The island chain has Taiwan as the gate to opening up the entire indo pacific as a deterrent for expansion of Soviet. The island chain consists different chains, first chain is Taiwan, Philippines and Japan. And we can see already China is already harassing all of them. So how much would US be there to deter this, we will find out.

Where can we find thst?

@@barreloffun10 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j8mGhsqK35u3emw.htmlsi=OOfssPBuqLhOAus7

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Only if you want a laugh.

i think she speak very good but all wrong..LOL

she is basically projecting american behavior on to china. whenever she mentions china just swap it out with the u.s and you will have an accurate idea about why u.s doesnt' want china to reunite with taiwan

England and America have extremely similar cultures, both bonded by a shared language and historical identity. But they are unique, separate nations because they both ultimately have different geographical interests. China has no call to reabsorb Taiwan other than its Imperial history. If they want to play in the global world system, they need to let that go

@@kaixiang5390ha

Unfortunately most traditional cultural in China is erased due to cultural revolution but preserved in Taiwan. However, Taiwan has its own culture too due to different colonization from Dutch, China, and Japan. Taiwan was only been part of China for 200 years v the 5k of China, even then it was 40% controlled. Education system in Taiwan is very Japan and US, such as cleaning up in schools but its also very westernized compared to rest of Asia. Matsu goddess is popular in Taiwan because she protects the island from the water. This is less so found in China. This is why Chinese would call Taiwanese western dogs.

​@@jamiel6405Well, Mazu is the god about the sea. China is quite large, so why do inland areas believe in Mazu? In China's coastal Fujian province, Mazu culture is quite prevalent. In fact, every year I get news about Mazu commemoration in Fujian Province. I don't know if you're a Chinese speaker. If you're not, you're receiving a one-sided message. If you are, then I believe that's the beauty of journalism.

If sanctions comparable to those imposed on Russia were to be imposed on China (and 1 to 1 comparison really doesn't work here because Russia had WAY less to lose than China does), HALF A BILLION would starve to death (China imports over 70 percent of their food). At that point, their governing elite would have no control over how they look and that's the last thing you would need to worry about. That's besides the utter military impossibility of invading heavily defended, urban + mountainous island, so the notion of China "giving Taiwan up" once they had it, is rather irrelevant.

On your second point, the US has lots of rare earth minerals, but it is a hassle to mine them as it causes lots of environmental damage, and the fact that China is selling them cheap, there is no point of mining them. Nationalism is the only card left for the CCP to play as the professor said, and if China really were to launch the attack on Taiwan, it would possibly be the end for them because they do not have the necessary power to withstand the US counterattack, as well as Japan and S. Korea. I would hesitate to agree with the professor on the point of lifting lots of people out of poverty. The former Premier Li Keqiang (who passed away under circumstances that suggest foul play) said in 2021 that 600 million people are making RMB 1000 a month, which is hardly enough to live on as the tax, and health insurance, take a big chunk out of their paycheck.

@@edtjfc1 Intriguing!

And that china is the largest trading partner of virtually every country on earth. So it's difficult to make people implement, especially since nobody actually legally recognize Taiwan as a separate state, so they can all use legality to refuse US call. In the end, probably just strong allies of US will heed the sanction, which won't do much to china.

@@henli-rw5dw I hate to disagree with your assessment. China's allies are Iran, Russia, some unimportant republics from the Soviet era, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc. The US already has Japan and Korea as guard dogs in the Taiwan Strait. Japan declared that any harm to Taiwan is the same as declaring war on Japan. The European Union is also on the US side for now. The lure of the Chinese market is not worth the trouble anymore as the pandemic clearly shows that China did not behave as a civilized country should. China's cahoots with Russia did not pan out either, as Russia turned out to be a paper tiger. Taiwan is not the ultimate aim of China, its true aim is to be the supreme honcho in the Pacific and the plan was for Russia to bring havoc to Western Europe. The line on the sand is drawn, the tricky point is Trump as he stated numerous times he would bring the Russia-Ukraine war if elected president again which looks ominously very likely. That would be a grave mistake, Ukraine more than likely would lose more territory and that would embolden Putin who was on the brink of being toppled last year.

Even in Scandinavia we don't have top politicians like her but we have some listening to people like her.

China might do it, but it might not. That's the power of sanctions.

I believe it is so because Xi needs to save face for himself. Mao stated that Taiwan is not part of China, and should be independent. The KMT who fled from China just simply brought along ROC. Before that it was imperial Japan, and before that was a short lived republic of Formosa.

​@@jamiel6405 Taiwan presents a continuous strategic threat to the PRC. The US govt. takes the threat seriously, because they have brought the strategic chip manufacture, Taiwan Semi Conductor to Arizona.

@@jamiel6405 you are really a joke.

@@jamiel6405 Taiwan is a province of China, says UN spokesperson kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fsx_fpiEkqjFnJ8.html

Very true. China is the top #1 trading partner with most of the countries in the world. Besides it has SCO and BRICS+ two large international organizations behind it. Remember western countries only has total 12% population in the world (even less than China's) and the rest of the world has 88%.

I think you're overlooking the fact that a significant percentage of their manufacturing customer base has left China, is in the process of leaving, or says that they plan to leave. The next tier of manufacturing countries are absorbing the business as fast as they can. Expect this to continue. Eventually, they'll be like Russia...no really attractive customers.

@@jamesw1659 As a matter of fact, most of those left are often low tech and labor intensive products. As China's labor cost and living expense have been kept increasing over the last 10-15 years, these companies need to find the next low cost countries like Vietnam, India and some other Southeast Asia countries. In fact China is currently in the middle of transition to move its economy and manufacture to the upper value chain like 5-6G, EV, HSR, etc. Even those companies who moved out of China are still importing materials and components made in China as China is controlling a large part of global supply chain.

BUT, The west and its allies currently controls around 60% of the global gdp. Even though they only made up around 12% of the world population. This doesn't include 3rd party countries that are leaning towards the west like Philippines or Mexico. The Collapse of China's industrial capacity would help boosts countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil, Philippines, Thailand, etc.These countries are not gonna cut ties with china. But they would be snatching manufacturing demands from the west.

@@nntflow7058 Well they don't want huge inflation jump, they will have to trade with China for many affordable products. Remember China is the top trading partner with most of these countries. In the worst case, it may hurt China to some degree, but will also hurt those countries badly. That's why even this de-coupling slogan has been shouted for the last 5-6 years, it hasn't changed much in the real world - "China's export volumes rose 7.1% in the first two months of 2024, far exceeding a Reuters forecast of 1.9%". As for those 3rd world countries you mentioned, they are mostly taking in the labor intensive work China exports to them while China moves to upper value chain.

Her “insights” are neither deep nor even factual.

Nonsense. In democracies, the government cares quite a bit whether it's inclined that way or not, because the people are the ones that vote them in and out of office. The problem with democracies is the opposite. Politicians are incentivized to give the people whatever their hearts desire, even when it's not in their long term interests. This is what deficit spending is so hard to stop.

The US government can only continue with the people’s support. The PRC doesn’t need the people’s support, it only requires the CCP

@@ronaldbell7429 you just said politicians are incentivized to give what people want even if it’s not in their long term interest :) rest my case

@@charlesqin1885 What you're doing is called conflation. You originally meant one thing with "people's interest" but you'll happily use any other definition of "people's interest" so that you're always right. It's a very dishonest and unintelligent way to argue.

@@ronaldbell7429 well, I am sorry to hear that you were able to conflate two apparent interpretations of what seems to be a clearly written piece of English.

aren't the ccp wumao always going on about how the US is a warmonger? 🤣 and this lady just explained the North Korea, South Korea example of generational deterioration/weakening of those put under sanctions. so if we do want to go to war we'd want you at a disadvantage so sanction away

Sanctions are actually accelerating the process. China has very strong productivity, but due to economic difficulties, domestic demand has decreased, and due to sanctions, external demand has decreased. Then the war is the only way to divert people‘s attention and create new demand to deal with unemployment.

I don’t think the concerned about Taiwan. They using Taiwan as an excuse to sanction China, much like Ukraine Russia case.

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also nuclear war more likely... If sanctions do indeed work and the war in taiwan rages on for years. The more weak the Chinese government will become and the more they will press the accelerator on the war. Just like Putin is doing and how Hitler & japan did in world war 2. You don't slow down, you accelerate. Every single resource and options will be used before trying to capitulate. And a nuclear option will be quite viable when you don't have nothing to loose already.

Really!!! Seems a pretty low bar to me. She just cherry picking reality to justify American mindset. She completely ignors or is ignorant of the totally different chinese culture and priorities plus the fundamentals of history. Compare what respective govrrmments has achieved for their people in the past 40 years, be honest, face reality.

Lol. Meds. Now.

its called propaganda. sorry you dont understand that..

@@user-fk9qn5cl3g The CCP oppressively censures political speech and engages in propaganda. It is a logical fallacy to claim that if the CCP spews propaganda then views expressed against the CCP must also be propaganda. The tension of the CCP vs America is *NOT* about two similar powers jockeying for supremacy -- it's about authoritarianism vs freedom and democracy.

I work with Chinese manufacturers. They plan 5, 10, 20 years ahead, not just for an election cycle. They make decisions for purpose, not just for profit. They started shifting gears from low cost, low quality goods to high technology, high quality products. Most Americans and Europeans don't even try to understand this.

India is not an ally of either Russia or China. They’re more than happy to play off the great powers against each other but they’re going to tie themselves to one or the other.

The notion of a power block which includes both China and India in any meaningful capacity is a Russian power fantasy. While the Indians are certainly more ambivalent towards Putin than the West, they are absolutely not neutral when it comes to China. Especially given they have overlapping territorial claims, and Chinese aid to Pakistan. Trying to ally with China and India simultaneously is Russia's mistake with Armenia and Azerbaijan on a much larger scale. You can't be allies with mortal enemies, you will inevitably have to alienate one. But more importantly, the Indians see the Americans as a more credible ally against the Chinese.

She's manipulative. 🤷

US do not need Ukraine, they need Taiwan (for the moment)

This is the kind of cope like "Germans actually hated Hitler", it's bs. Propaganda does incredible things to people's minds

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Even though we don't have this exact situation in the West, we do have young men not finding a wife to have children with. But this does not result in a fighting force that would die for the country because they have nothing else to do. Quite the contrary, young lonely men think of their own country as being at at fault for that not an outside force. A married man with children plants roots in the country he is living in and wants it to do well - he is far more likely to want to fight for it. Unmarried men without children aren't idiots. Why would they get maimed or if they are lucky, die, for a country that hasn't offered them the basic needs of a human being? For men that is mostly a wife and children. Who would he be fighting for? Some old dude in the CCP? Honestly I believe it is far more likely, that like in the Arab spring, men would rather go and rebel against their own country's leadership than go die for them, especially when they have nothing to lose. Maybe it works for very young people, 18-24 because they still think they can do it. But any man over 28 that does not have a partner and children, the last thing he would do is die for his country that seems to have given him nothing to die for.

Funny twist and spin ! PRC Chinese men can find a wife in overseas Chinese community. Also in countries without an ethnic Chinese community. Chinese people were humiliated up to the 1940s ... with the Japanese phased invasions ! Even today... Japan refuses to admit it's Crimes Against Humanity ! Also refuses to return looted properties !

​@@minyaw1234 CPC continue to have majority support from the people . Ordinary Chinese knows why many of them became jobless ... due to Trump's unjust tariffs, sanctions and embargoes !... That's continued by Biden !

@@minyaw1234 It's not a state job to find young men a wife. The GDR actually did this, but no one could imagine a state-run arrangement agency nowadays.

"whereas the rest of the advanced economies have the opposite; 5% more women than men" - I don't think thats true. If you look at the population pyramids of most Western countries, there is a male surplus until around age 60. And while the surplus isn't large, it tends to be largest in the 20 to mid-30s age range. Even in countries such as Russia, where you tend to presume there is a large female surplus because of alcoholism and what not, there is a male surplus until the late 20s. I actually can't think of ANY country where there is a female surplus in that age range.

Why do you hate China so much? The last time, they did their own thing was from the 1950s-70s. That was so bad for the whole of China. Afterwards China got rich producing stuff to sell to the rest of the world. Why stop something that has brought so much money to China? YOU have NO idea about business obviously. ...

Before China joined the US led order, they were trying to make steel in backyard furnaces. Look at China before Deng's reforms. That is where China is heading.

Let's see would Trump sell it

They are not going to pay a dime for what is theirs. thats just principle, even if it means it would cost many time more. Read the history, imagine you are Chinese.

Taiwan is important to mainland China because it is a part of China, and China does not want a foreign military to use the island to attack the mainland as the Japanese have done. Do you know about the Cuban missile crisis?

I disagree. Sanctions have proven to put a cap on what a sanctioned economy can become. Yeah, they’ll survive but growth will stagnate. In china, that is really risky for the CCP.

@@tbe0116 - I hope you're right!

Biden has singlehandedly pushed them together to like each other. If Russia falls, guess whose next US will make trouble with?

@@tbe0116 Oh really is that Why Russia is doing so much better then western Europe hell even America? Their supermarkets are stocked, no mass homelessness, etc.

Taiwan only existed to contain as part of the first island chain. That and history

Because the US won’t allow the status quo circa 2012-2015 to continue.

China did leave Taiwan alone for many years as both sides benefited from trade and investment but now Taiwan is threatening to declare independence which is unacceptable for the Chinese.

They should. Like Sarah said, trade with each other and make money. But this is about power. Xi needs to save his face for the party.

Simple. Catalunya wants to be independent from Spain. Why can’t Spain just leave it alone and let it be independent?Simple! If Catalunya can be independent, why not Valencia? Why not Sevilla?😂😂You just apply the same logic thinking to China and the answer to the question why China couldn’t just let Taiwan alone is self-evident…😅

US would win if they started sanctioning & engaging trade war against China 25 years ago. But today, the table has turned. Today's China is much more powerful economically & advanced in infrastructure & supply chains. And they have considerable soft power.

China appears to be waiting for the USA to go broke paying Contractors to construct military facilities in Pacific Rim Locations. In 1967 that Cost defeated LBJ's plan to develop a War on poverty. The US was short on cash. So the Nixon Administration created a new Currency. Now the US Empire appears to have exceeded it's limitations?

China trade to gdp ratio for 2022 was 38.14%,....get your facts straight....

Look at a graph of Russia's GDP over the last 8 years. It's almost as big a joke as the russian army😂

Russia is poised to overtake Germany and Japan to become no. 4 economy of the world this year. They didn't do anything special, just that Germany and Japan tanking atm.

​@@elmoheadus is tanking the German and Japanese economy

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Isn't that kinda racist though? If the Australians started saying my country, New Zealand, is racially part of Australia, as we have both have majory uk-immigrant ancestry, and they will invade so we will play Australian Rules Football instead of Rugby Union, they would be laughed out of town. Unification of racial territory is a nothing

With only a few exceptions, most Taiwanese don't want to live under Xi's CCP dictatorial regime.

Correct. The Chinese mindset and civilization is diffrent from the "Deist" "Enlightened" west and the maverick American cowboy mindset. China was correct to choose isolation, but the West punished her for it which has now resulted in the west's decline and china's quiet rise.

Even if it will cost lives and economic progress?

"Unification uber alles" is CCP propaganda. Plenty of powerful dynasties have ruled over parts of China for centuries without ever being "complete". The Song prospered for three centuries while sharing power alongside the Western Xia and Liao kingdoms. The Tang never fully conquered the Sichuan basin and coexisted with the Nanzhao kingdom. The idea that "unification is the most important goal" and that China deserves a pass for being an invading agressor is CCP bullshit. It was the most important goal for Mao because he was unable to finish the civil war. For China itself, and for the welfare of the Chinese people, it does not matter at all.

Just to illustrate probably how little you know, without google searching it, answer some basic questions about history. Start with this one: who was the first leader of national stature or greater, to institute the end of slavery and land reform in the same calendar year? Name who, when and where. How do you like this bot?

'Fer sure.... also fittingly known as the "Little Pinks"! ;-p

Funny stupidity . PRC got sanctioned and embargoed by the U$ ... following it's founding on Oct 1st 1949 . Even after establishment of official diplomatic ties ...U$ never stop it's destabilization operations against the CPC .

And people who are smart enough to spell b-o-t-s

@@richardlo4867 The way you refute your own suspicion of bots is to read more; after all, these authors I am suggesting happen to be humans of the Western civilization; Blum, Pilger, Sutton, Chomsky, Wolff, Hudson, and at least a dozen intellectuals from Europe, present day, I may add. Read enough, you will not have to worry about bots, worry about what dedicated humans from the West say. Daniel A. Bell is another one; not well known.

Just as Beijing never has ruled Taipei, Taipei has never ruled Beijing. In the Taiwan case we are talking about a sane democracy that wants de facto independence.

@@jensstergard9380that’s a BS argument. Any new challenger to power in a civil war could be said to have “never ruled”. But that doesn’t make the territory not controlled by that party an independent country.

​@@xsu-is7vqTaiwan practically is an independent country today. The only thing missing is the official status of independence. The Taiwan issue could be simply solved by China accepting what Taiwan is today.

@@ThomasVWorm Or, crazy idea, other countries should butt out and let Chinese people resolve it on their own.

@@xsu-is7vq ok, let the Taiwanese have a public vote about it, since where they want belong to, is just their own business.

No, decoupling from China will create more jobs in the rest of the world.

America can find other sources of cheap labor, and although it will be hard, a non-Chinese based manufacturing sector can be rebuilt in North America, India, Indonesia. It is not at all clear whether China can migrate to an internally focused non-export economy based consumption economy. The amount of goods that can be transported by land to Russia and Central Asia isn't adequate to support the size of China's current industrial base. I know that it is hard to imagine, but China only became the dominant industrial power in the last 25 years. Our economy has choices. China's doesn't.

@@richdobbs6595 You live like 40 years in the past. You don´t go to China for cheap labor lolz.

@@GregorClegane402 No, the main advantage that China has is its manufacturing infrastructure and its over investment in particular industrial segments. The cheap labor in any case will be coming from elsewhere.

@@GregorClegane402 40 years in the past is massively overstating things. China was poorer than much of Africa is now not even 20 years ago. Their issue now is they're still relatively cheap, but they aren't as productive as the west on a per capita basis, they're maybe 20% as productive per working hour. They're more productive than India or Pakistan, but the gap is much smaller than between China and the west.

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This is straight up projection of the actual decline of the US empire. 34 trillion debt that grows by 1 trillion every 95 days. Manufacturing jobs are NOT return to the US. Some manufacturing is moving from China to Vietnam and India, NOT the US. US sanctions against cheap Russian energy is also driving manufacturing from Europe to China. The US intends to contain China by making Taiwan Ukraine 2.0.

Milton Friedman is looking down from on high and smiling.

what are you talking about?

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