3/29/2024

Unable to compete with China turning Washington into a bunch of lunatics

 Janet Yellen is yelling loudly about China's industrial over capacity threatening everybody and is a danger to the whole world. Everything that China does is now a danger to the USA and the Anglo-Saxon clique. For those in the Global South, China's industrial overcapacity can be seen as bringing prosperity to them, not a threat, and is a blessing in disguise for them, as they can buy consumer needs cheaper by the dozen, while building infrastructures cheaply that the West look on in envy. This is competing too well with the Western countries like the USA and this is what the danger that she is trying to impress upon the world all about.

Let me ask those countries that are facing USA sanctions about what the USA's Military Industrial overcapacity is doing to them and others. The USA spending on its military is larger than the military spending of the next 10 countries combined and makes up 40% of total global military spending globally. Is that not a danger to the world? What are military spending for? For spreading love of Muslims?

The USA is also trying to corner the world semiconductor business by building up its chip monopoly, even giving incentives to chipmakers to build factories in USA, all to decouple or de-risk from and to suppress China's chip industry. Is this not threatening China and Russia, Iran and others as well? Can we not see the hypocrisy in all the mickey mouse propaganda?

China is not going to stand still and let the USA succeed in monopolizing the chip making business and is putting top priority into research and development in the chip sector. The USA is nervous, knowing China can overcome its shortcomings given time and short circuit the USA plan. Overcapacity is turning into China's trump card, as it will not be at the mercy of the USA and the West and be in a position to kill all competition by lowering prices with its upper hand position. Moreover, its huge domestic market is a great advantage to absorb whatever overcapacity there is.

If I may venture to say, had China not spent so much of its resources to improve its military, China would have ended up like Iraq and Libya. China would now have been at the mercy of the USA and the West. China learnt good lessons during the Opium War and the century of humiliation at the hands of the Western powers. Most of all, China cannot afford not to upgrade its military in all areas to counter the USA's provocation. Had it not done so, China would in a very weak position like it was during the Opium War period and suffer another century of humiliation.

Thinking ahead is the best policy for China and I have to stress again that China must keep upgrading its army, air force and naval fleet particularly its nuclear submarine fleet. A nuclear submarine fleet of substance is a imminent need to ensure a second-strike capability in case land based retaliatory assets are destroyed.

And had China not been upgrading its technology, there would not be a Tiangong Space Station, ability to embark on a mission to the moon, landing a probe on Mars, constructing a high-speed train system, These are Chinese technology developed through hard work in research and curved out of adversity by being prevented from acquiring by the West. Huawei, BYD, TikTok etc, are all Chinese enterprises competing so well and on par with the USA and the West that they have to put obstacles to prevent their rise with fallacious claims bordering on fiction. Had China not got its hands on all the important resources like rare earth, lithium, graphite, it would have been crippled by the West in all its industrial endeavours.

Anonymous

7 comments:

Virgo49 said...

Good morning All

Think the most deterrent factor the Scoundrels Collective West won't dare to invade China and North Korea are their Necular Arsenals.

They also afraid to be burned to cinders and dust and charcoals.

That's why they're to con and persuade all especially the North Koreans and the Iranians to disband or disarm their Necular Eggs.

Analogy you are fighting them with knives whereas they are holding their guns.

If you are without your Necular Eggs, they will break your heads like Eggs.

These scums wanted all to disband whereas they themselves only held the Upper Hand of having their Necular untouched.

So in the case they agreed to have a non-proferiation of Necular Arms and all have to disband, BEWARE these bastards would secretly kept their own.

Anonymous said...

The danger that she is talking about is that China's industrial overcapacity is a threat to the USA itself, because the USA is not in a position to monopolize sectors like solar energy, EVs, and sooner or later semiconductors. These are sectors, (besides semiconductors), that China has already left the USA behind. And the next big global growth sector is going to be solar energy, which China is way ahead, with 95% hold on solar panel sales.

The USA already had a hold on oil and gas sales to Europe (which is what the blowing up of Nord Stream pipelines was all about) and is looking haplessly at China's lead in solar panels that will be in demand in Europe and the Global South going forward. The USA's intention is to eventually take a bigger share and monopolize the renewable energy market besides fossil fuel, which the USA has in abundance and is making a killing in Europe today besides killing Europe as well. That is their intention in demonizing China on every front and Yellen is in reality insisting openly that China must stop its industrial manufacturing advance to let the USA catch up. She is planning to visit China again to warn China about the industrial overcapacity. Warn China? Xi must be shivering in his pants.

The argument and fallacious claim that China has been subsidizing its industries holds no water and a no brainer if true, when the USA is the biggest culprit by any yard (meter if you like) of measurement. A finger pointed at China has three other fingers pointing at the USA itself. The USA is the biggest culprit in the world when it comes to subsidies given to industries like semiconductors and oil exploration entities and everyone knows that. It is just like the biggest and blackest pot calling the kettle black for subsidies given to industries. Those subsidies given to chip manufacturers in Arizona recently is a perfect example, besides propping up banks, financial institutions using taxpayer's money, which is a form of subsidy as well.

The next trade war between USA and China will be over EVs and solar panels, which is coming up and the USA is preparing the ground by hyping it up. The USA will erect sanctions against China for sure. But the main market for such renewable energy items is not just the USA and Europe. China is looking at the bigger picture, the Global South and the vast population in Africa. This is where the demand is going to be sooner or later, and USA solar panel manufacturers trying to compete with China in those countries will end belly up.

Africa is done with the USA and the West and will support China. Africa will care little about USA's sanction against Chinese solar panels. After all it is going to be cheaper when China is banned from selling in Europe and will sell to Africa instead. Just like China and India getting cheaper oil and gas when Russia is banned from selling to Europe. Europe can ban Chinese solar panels and pay a heavy price by buying from the USA, just like oil and gas. But let them be. Yellen is now mad with China, having been shot down over her oil cap madness against Russia, which is a failure of sorts.

Anonymous said...

When all else fail, using Yellen to nag at China may succeed. If that fails, using the cackling of Kamala Harris may be helpful. Or her laughter may scare the Chinese into compliance. This is called scrapping the bottom of the barrel for solutions.

And after Yellen visits Beijing, they will come out with all the narrative that she did so much about human rights issues, close down China's industrial overcapacity and all the mickey mouse propaganda.

I am apt to think that this visit is more about another attempt being used by Yellen, with her begging bowl, to beg China to buy more treasuries. But of course, this will be in secret. After all they already claimed the USA economy is going great guns, with Wall Street breaking records every day, with job creation out of this world, with the USA winning the chips war hands down, and as for the debt ceiling that is not an issue. Just printing more toilet rolls will take care of the diarrhea afflicting the USA's economic bowel sickness. Leave all the problems to Powell and Yellen, the expert jugglers to solve.

Anonymous said...

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Chua Chin Leng aka redbean said...

Agree.

Anonymous said...

Helicopter Ben was throwing money out of helicopters many years ago. They really had lots of money, or toilet papers to throw then.

Now, why are they going around begging others to buy their treasury bills. Just print more toilet papers and throw them from helicopter will solve all the problem.

Virgo49 said...

https://youtu.be/4yZKjbGgxFY?si=EZUbQ7ODABX_YeJY

One of the many Inside China Business