The world's hegemony America has not kept the whole world at peace, but for China, the peace in most of the Western world has aided it to become the factory of the world. I surely don't believe it was fair to all people on the planet, but it was helpful for China's growth until 2008.

@@PascalCoppens by that theory, there must be bunch of chinas out there. can you name one? look at western MSM history, they've been cooking up Tibet for how long? then Xinjiang, then hkg and taiwan, and all around again nonstop. the point is they underestimated China, they never thought there would be a nation would grow like China, not in their wildest wet dream. if they knew, they would do all the necessary stuff decades ago to contain China, military included. (they as westerner)

@@PascalCoppens China is currently *at peace and not at war* with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like _roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports,_ etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc. Whereas the United States is *warmonger* being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place. If anything, it appears that the United States is a threat to global peace and stability.

Strongly agree

@@Shenzhou. I agree aswell but if we ever have to face off US VS CHINA WE GONE SHOW YALL WHO DADDY IS

Agreed. But it will take time for these countries to match the import levels from Western countries. This decade could balance more in that direction though.

@@PascalCoppens China will just be the factory of the 90% of the world.

@@PascalCoppens Yes and sadly people like me who live in the West will pay the price. Let's hope the western leaders will come to their senses and do what's best for their people.

Could you analyse India's economy along with China's?

@@PascalCoppens The West ─ Especially USA can't/don't have time to train Manufacturing Tech [Technicians, Skilled Workers and Manual Dexterity Shenzhen Productions] In USA where they would have facilities? Texas like Elon Musk Mega Bat Plants? Then transport products to west? a/ USA does not have money & Apples tried bringing back MacBook Pro Laptops productions to TX failed. It will take USA 10 years to have train Tech Teams ─ that have capacities like Shenzhen ─ in 10 million of well-trained Tech's [the same mistakes USA had done with Japan - Nippon ─ who was/is an ally‼ Shanghai Lockdown and Future #SupplyChains will expose USA Shortfalls Cheers☺...

Thanks

Asians respect the Russians . They are our neighbour for thousand of years.

Asian nations think of Russia pretty much the same way as Europe does. The stans fear a new invasion/ colonization. For Japan is an enemy, for China its an historical rival. And North Korea doesn't really matter.

Very well said.

totally agree. A civilization of over 5000 years of recorded history has a culture that is different from the west. Confucianism is deeply rooted in the Chinese culture, same as Buddhism and Taoism as integrated values in the Chinese culture and family values. The value of harmony and compassion in a society has high priority. The chinese word "harmony" is highly regarded as very precious and that effort to uphold it is considered a virtue.

Obviously, you have no knowledge of the FOSS (Free Open Source Software) world. Recommend you do some reading and self-education, it dominates how software is written and is used today. Even proprietary software that isn't free usually has some part of it that is FOSS. The globe's leading research typically is run on FOSS systems like Linux. A version of the world's leading AI is FOSS (AlphaZero), and the top two chess playing programs (Stockfish and Leela) are both FOSS, free for anyone to install and use. And, ironically... Although practically the entire world's computers and the Internet are based at least in part on FOSS, China decided to go build their own operating systems (HarmonyOS and EUS) and close off the rest of the world from using them.

Johann, while most of what you say is true, the Party itself ie the biggest and central red star on the Chinese flag does refer to itself as a communist party; presumably for good reason..

I like being an individual. I would dread the day china would be the economic and militairy nr 1 in the world. It would be 10x worse than the american empire. I hope we will get a decentralized world with freedom of expression privacy rule of law independent journalism and some democracy although the last mentioned is an abstract idea that doesn't exists. I don't want a behaviourist panopticon society where propaganda will tell is what to think and only get jobs houses jobs food and money like domesticated animals.

@@henk3202 Move to Mars

Their speed is cheap and it collapses to the ground.

As for the way they think. They can not think if you look cognitive and critical thinking is jail or death. There are no choices in China. Only what the CCP says and nothing more.

Murdering 15 million people to negate the effects of 25% tariffs by seeding a scientifically-proven bioweapon across the globe has forever ruined the Chinese Communist Party’s place in this global community of ours

Well, we will change that. We must think our national and local interests and we will...! Especially now with the deglobalization.

US does not want competition in Europe.

The United States is the most powerful country in NATO, so the admission of Russia into NATO would challenge U.S dominance over NATO, and that's why Russia's admission into NATO was rejected. The U.S believes that only they are allowed to puppeteer NATO.

@@Shenzhou. Russia is too big to be in NATO anyways. The rest of the world would already see broken treaty of Cold War. India and China will see it as major expansionist threat.

@@makemap Too big? If a big country like the United States can join NATO, I don't think size matters as a consideration. However I do agree with your second point that Russia joining NATO would be taken as a major expansionist threat by India and China. The best thing would be to dissolve NATO, since after the USSR's collapse, it doesn't serve any interest, except perhaps the U.S's hegemonic interests.

@@Shenzhou. NATO came out of US moron. The only reason NATO exists. North American. Russia has half of fking Asia. Entire Asian continent would be pissed to see NATO at their door step attempting forceful joining and merging. Why you think other Asian countries create ASEAN? It is to stay away from European military puppeteer under NATO. It is exactly what USSR did with other countries army before grand takeover. NATO is playing the same game, if not better and worst at the same time due to white supremacist infiltration. First the military will all back each other up. Then the civilians will be put down and the country will be forced merged. Go look at Axis Pact when Hitler was forced to send troops to help Italy and started taking over Italy before rebelling. Same thing happened with French under Vichy French. US is exactly Germany from Axis pact right now. They will be the ones forced to send troops to help when one NATO country decides to attack Asia.

cf Australia lol

And the West, on the contrary, becomes an Idiocracy.

And long term economic planning

no, it comes from treating workers like commodity and not even pay living wages, that's how China became manufacturing hub.

You are absolutely to the point

I did write some pages on the Yellow Peril in my new book. I agree that the world is much larger than the West, which I also explain in my video. But from trade point of view, the smaller West still represents the majority of imports from China in monatary value.

To really understand this current world politics no one should skip reading about Mystery Babylon led by the Beast that dictates the whole world in the Book of Revelation.

He's not a historian but an international business expert.

USA,EU, Aus, Jpn, S.Corea and Canada are almost 2/3 of the world economy PS-I am not from these countries

@@LudihemicarBg China's economy will be greater than all those countries combined!

Regimes is indeed a way to describe another way of governance that typically the other regime does not agree with. When I use this, I do this to emphasize the opposing view of people is, not to confirm it, as my goal is to give more context to China.

Glad that you point this out.

What is the evidence for blocking investigation of what happened in Bucha?

@@Andy-P , One would have to ask the Brits for that.

@@resnica3557 There is none from what I can see. Bucha has shown the world what happens in Russian occupied territories. While I don't see NATO getting invovled they will help with weapons and finance.

That is a great topic. Will make a video about it for sure. thx

US dollar is backed by trust of the value and faith in the US government. The trust/faith will last until it doesn't. But US dollar is also backed by its purchasing power.

@@bingbong5159 ...us dollar backed by its purchase power? Please explain?

@@bingbong5159 Trust in the US government? there isn’t trust anymore on the dollar. The placing of sanctions has caused this. Nations are slowly moving away from SWIFT.

@@algung2522 All currencies are “backed” by their Purchasing Power, i.e., what you can buy with them. If no one will accept a given currency in trade for goods and/or services, that currency has no value. That includes the US dollar. Which is to say that the USD is “backed” by The economy of USA (whose 330m people are 4.25% of the world population and not all of whom work, but who produce 20% of the world’s total economic output/income), plus every other entity in the world that will accept the USD in trade for goods & services. But, the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar has fallen over time, as money supply has grown. The trust of the value and faith in the US government have also fallen over time, as the huge debts, inflation, sanctions on other country, stealing/freezing other country reserve/asset and etc.

Even the cap worn by Trump in the Boycott China campaign was made in China.

THAT is actually the crus. Over and over and over the west shows it prefers cheap to local. Until that changes - and people basically take the financial hit - china wins.

No..they don't have.. India is corrupted.. Indonesia is not efficient.. Mexico is full of cartels Only Vietnam maybe .but Vietnam is too small relative to China

Not easily over next 10 years in my view.

Agreed. China is not stopping any other country from becoming a factory hub for export. But China is setting the "standard" for the next factory of the world (if any) after China.

The US will not be competitive until the dollar loses its reserve currency role. Meanwhile, the EU will become less competitive without the cheap Russian energy it has relied on for so long, not to mention the many, many other commodities Russia produces. They seem determined to cut their economic sustenance. Frankly, things look bleak for Europe.

Of course. Before China, it was Korea, before Korea, it was Japan. Cheap labor is cheap labor and now that Chinese competitiveness is in decline, Vietnam, Indonesia, India look like good alternatives.

Glad you enjoyed it!

@@PascalCoppens Like always. And, please keep them coming!

@@PascalCoppens the west needs China more than vice versa , go decouple all your factories from China and see who suffers more , in case anyone has any doubt.

fact is : we are well prepared for any slime the west is planning to throw at us , no big deal even if China stops all contacts with the west , we have reached such a stage of self-rejuvenation that nothing can stop us from turning out better and better products (design quality price) at a faster and faster pace.

I use to think the same but having been to China, I know better now. It's a country built on sand in a place that has lots of earthquakes. Just a matter of time before it all falls down.

True

Every soon all the central Asia countries, South Asia countries, East Asia countries, mainland southeast Asia countries, island southeast Asia countries, Africa, central and south America, Russia, and non NATO members of western European countries will be united against US led NATO.

Actually no, it is not. The dam is breached, the dollar will go down. The question is the timeframe, but there is no difficulty in predicting that it goes down. Not with the US also being over in debt and approaching some very bad inflation and recession.

Thanks!

@@PascalCoppens you're welcome

I raise my hands

Russia caused the crisis and China supporting Russia is concerning for the EU. De-coupling and changing some supply chains will continue.

That suggestion that the Ukraine war is caused by the US and EU in some way is preposterous and ignores what Ukrainians themselves from Zelensky to the ordinary person on the street are saying. Your perspective of finding fault with American policy is promoted by people like Prof John Mearsheim (University of Chicago), saying the people of Ukraine are misled and swindled by liberal Western democracies who entice the people by putting crazy thoughts in their heads that they should be entitled to choose their own leaders and govern themselves. Prof Mearsheim and others who support this theory don't believe in the inalienable rights as described in the American Declaration of Independence that no matter who you are and where you live that every person has a right to pursue life, liberty and happiness. Instead, Putin has his rights to autocratically decide he is the best to rule the Ukrainian people, and in fact the Ukrainians and Russians are one people to be brought back into a Russian Empire. I think that if you also look at every war the United States has ever been in, the instances where the US has invaded and conquered to take territory and rule the people are very rare and not the recent wars during your lifetime. Those rare wars that resulted in the American territories of Puerto Rico, Samoa, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands and do include places like Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam. After practically every conflict after the problem objective was neutralized, the US has left and allowed the people to choose their new government even if the government may be at times very unfriendly to the US (No one can say the Taliban or the existing Iraq government are US puppets). You'll probably also find that practically every country no matter how big or small or whatever political type has had an opportunity to succeed under the current World Order, because small countries can usually depend on the US to protect their interests from bullying countries even if they they don't have a military to defend themselves. Only those who are bent on destroying the World Order attract the attention and possible ire, and they include violent terrorism as well as invading countries.

@@Andy-P What about the many crisis that the West has brought upon other countries in the past 50 years? Oh I get it, they were not caused by Russia or China so they don't count. De-couple if you wish. your lost. Each EU country has their own advantages and disadvantages in terms of raw materials, labors, technologies ... etc, and it basically requiring efforts all of the EU members to form a basic self-sustainable supply chain; the question is, do you actually think the EU members would all actually be united as one? Or likely it would take them another 100 years, debating on gender issues?

@@MMLL369 I never supported those "forever wars" the west shouldn't of got so involved.

But the US is still in the Cold War mindset of a century ago and will not change until it fails, and like other empires, history repeats itself.

You got it !

The truth is, it doesn't matter if the products were made in Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Pakistan...etc, a lot of them were just Chinese owners relocating their facilities to these countries for lower cost of labors. Raw materials continue relying on the supply chain in China. I personally was hired on a project for such relocation. Old equipment were shipped to the new overseas plants while, the original plant received updated, advanced and environmental friendly equipment.

It's always risky for any country to rely on anything else than raw population numbers for national productivity. It's a simple proposition. Every child or human citizen will almost certainly work and contribute during their lifetime so population growth almost guarantees productivity growth. But, if you rely on ingenuity, invention and technology to fill that gap of a couple percentage point population decline every year, that's a couple percentages you're short before you even start counting productivity. It's a major drag which maybe doesn't look too bad in today's Chinese economy but in 15 years or so from now could look completely different... Maybe the Chinese economy in 15 years isn't producing 7.5% or more annually. Maybe when the CCP transitions off debt-based Real Estate growth, new GDP growth won't look very good.

@@tonysu8860 Not everyone wants to be born just to contribute something tho. Better still to have robots than find out your children hating to be alive lmao.

China will not sanction any country which wants to surpass her .

China is big enough to do both, and they are doing it

China is not trying to stop any other country from potentially becoming a world factory in their own right. What China is doing is improving our manufacturing capabilities, and basically setting the standard for the next factory of the world (if any) after China.

China is trying to shed the cheap or low tech manufacturing. It wants and actively trying to attract the high yield - high tech manufacturing because its labor is also becoming high. In fact, it is bringing its low tech or medium technology factories outside to its nearby SE Asia neighbors and some in africa and europe where labor is cheaper.

China is not just cheap the quality is improving because of better system than the West who only profits over lives. I was comparing US made and Chinese made on some items and Chinese can do better at a much lower cost. US killed itself by going against the constitution and Abraham Lincolns warning. US is suppose to be full of civilian militia to say no to any kind of slavery and slave classing esp when it comes to Corporation. That never happen. Look at US right now. You can see the old pyramid scheme of European colonialism. So much for freedom, am I right? The excuse would be calling it communist.

Hey, there is an interview with Chris hedges by cgtn I thought you might be interested in. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mqinl7ypvKmmh2w.html

Japan is occupied by the US Military. They have lost their sovereignty, their culture and their freedom. The US is using them for a comfort stop. Schoolgirls display themselves on street corners. Families are falling apart with the rise in Pornography Drugs. Prostitution and their cruel work culture The suicide rate is extreme. The US has the upper hand so Japan is stuffed. And the people are never going to be their own masters while the US runs their show. Very Sad!

Democracy is a bad system, it’s a good thing there’s is no democracy there

Where's Chezia? Do you mean Czech Republic 🇨🇿, I had only seen one product in my life that’s made in Czech, that’s a binocular from the Socialist Republic ofCzechoslovakia. I think Czech lives on the welfare cheque provided by 1st class European Union 🇪🇺 members like 🇩🇪 🇫🇷.

US trying to puppet China will not work. China is a land of curse for foreign controllers since the Mongol invasions.

@@samad3251 Czechia is the official name of the Czech Republic. They're a major producer of machine tools and other industrial equipment, autos (Škoda under Volkswagen Group), locomotives/railway equipment, chemicals and even IT products.

That is indeed a lot of countries. We see same countries when it comes to not putting sanctions on Russia. Telling

From a globalisation perspective, I do believe US did.

@@PascalCoppens What usa did and does go against globalisation; sanctions for instance. Freezing the reserves of other sovereign nations does not make peace.

Alri GF HT

I read that too. Most US companies making losses in China left already.

And millions of non-US

Sure. I include much of that as well

The world should exclude the troublemaker USA

Thank you. Appreciated!

Glad you think so!

Thanks!

Thanks

Support for China represents peace, support for the United States represents colonialism

It already has. Africa and South America. Chinese companies have even gone to the west like America for manufacturing.

Countries are mutually beneficial, and whoever is the first not to purchase Chinese goods will be the first to lose global competitiveness. This is reality

6) Quantity over Quality: you refer to enigineers. Not to say there arent many very bright minds who graduate in China. But generally the competence is a lot lower than western standards. 7) Huge infrastructure projects... Yes. But a lot of these projects are very non productive and were only set up to keep inflating various bubbles. Bubbles that are popping in slow motion as we speak. 7) Deep mistrust from many partners and not to say all neighbours. It is one thing to do trade but it is another one to accept to the heart an economical superpower as a dominant and leading example.

@@jeroendebruyne2165 Good points. 9) Labor costs. The migration out of the countryside to increase urbanization has ended and even before the trade war, incomes had risen enough to erase the advantage of labor costs in China. Southeast Asia, while smaller in population and skillset, now can now better compete on low skilled labor.

you are right. Why not?

@@PascalCoppens i am unable to answer why countries shouldn't buy from the usa as the default answer. I sense that the general sentiment among many economist/politicians seems to be "usa good, so buy more. China bad, so buy less, but because china cheap, therefore buy more."

Thanks for sharing. I agree China has many problems to tackle still. Personally, I believe China policy is in a phase of control, but I am confident it is a cycle as always, and will lose up soon again. I could be wrong.

I do recognize that

Or Africa will become as rich as poorer Europe.

@@PascalCoppens I'm specifically thinking Germany and Nordic countries which don't have energy security and are not part of the belt and road initiative. The tide has turned.

I really feel sorry for your mindset But I want you to know two things in mind 1) there were countries that was world factory before china and there are going to be countries to take over from china 2) Europe/USA was already rich before china started thinking about building china

@@godwinmarvo9012 such a narrow minded viewpoint won't age well.

Thanks

You indeed see that happening

Thanks for adding the quote of Jean Jaurès

The issue with inquiry on origin of covid, was that it became politicized. Economic threats to pressure countries is never a good idea, but this is what the West has been doing for long with its economical sanctions. .

My country Australia wants to dump China. Bad Move...... but our leaders are thick as 3 planks!

Thanks for sharing.

Yes. I'm sure that Europe will be "decoupling" and stop buying petroleum and natural gas from Russia any day now.

you are comparing apples and oranges. China has way way way more business going on than Russia. About the only thing Russia has are energy resource and military hardware sales. World burn in the name of whatever in the human history, but the real reasons are typically about money/power. Until the risk is higher than the profit, foreign companies won't leave China. And in China, the profit margin is much much higher than the risk compare to Russia.

Domestically, foreign companies facing stiffer competition from local rivals product by product, industry by industry. Even heard of "guochao" phenomenon in the consumer goods sector?

Unlike Chinese companies focus on long term goals, western companies focus on quarter ends. Executives in western corporations risk losing their jobs if they had a bad year. It is highly that they would change their supply chains at a detriment to their short term profits, but with no immediate tangible benefits.

It looks like that is the trend.

Thanks for the tips!

Bla Bla Bla... Make a video 2 explain ur points.

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Even earlier in my view. Thx!

Thanks! Not sure I have political ambitions though!

indeed.

Strange. Thanks for watching though.

Thanks. I made another video earlier on common prosperity, so totally understand your meaning

You must be kidding. Oh my, you are blind to the evil of the CCP. Or maybe you are just part of the propaganda machine.

you can live in the west or the east and not be a westerner. if western societies were to adopt chinese characteristics and learn from them, it would be a boon for them. but they are too arrogant and selfish to do so. I mean china has used world bank, western input which work to improve itself and it do succesfully. china can claim to have developed itself and that development affects global south and global north without invading or firing a single shot, can any western country claim that?

Currently, Walmart estimates Chinese suppliers make up 70-80 percent of its U.S. merchandise, according to the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

There are enough books talking about how evil Xi Jinping is.

As there is a demographic challenge with a lack of young people, automation could solve that issue. But totally right that lots of people om China still earn less than 300 USD per month. They will be the growth for China this decade as many move to Middle class. Therefore there should be lots of lower paying new jobs in service sectors like delivery and drivers and hospitality...

@@PascalCoppens I don't know about that. Take a look at Detroit and some other auto making cities what happened. Jobs lost to automation. Then Wall Streets, you go to the "Floor" where trades used to take place, and it's practically empty. Today you trade directly, those jobs are lost. What I'm trying to say is, China has a lot of people, I can only assume ... say 1 Billion on labor doing things like "Pick and Place", like Foxconn assembling iPhone or what ever. I used "Pick and Place" as an example because in the electronic industry that's the name for the machine that picks a part and places it in the electronic board ( PCB ) for it to be solder. Apple could design the iPhone so no labor is required in the assembly . If that happens Foxconn could reduce labor from 1 Million people to say 200,000.. You would then have 800,000 looking for a new job. That's just one factory, Then you have other that are just not willing to have China manufacturing because all the social political problems. Plus now, the Russia - Ukraine War tells the world where China is really at. More factories, business will get out of China, less jobs by the millions. Right now China has a huge problem on employment. Who is going the give them food, health, shelter, etc? Plus the population you are taking about is old, and that's another problem China has, it's a huge population with Health Care problems. It's the amount of people that needs job and most are not educated enough to get another job or educated in a new one. Those are real people, with jobs or not they need to eat.

Smart man!

Glad you like them!