China Cards - China Factories, China Market, China Finance, China Consumer Goods, China....

 A couple of decades ago when China was opening up to the war, everything was so attractive in China. Everything was cheap, cheap and cheap. And to make things more attractive, the Chinese govt was happy to cooperate, and there were abundance of land and low cost labour, disciplined and conscientious, to toil for whoever willing to set up production in China. All the first movers were smiling all the way to the banks. Where on earth can manufacturers find to plentiful of skilled labour that just worked and worked, and super efficient and at super low cost, without complaining. No labour problem, just pure exploitation by the capitalists. No one cared about slave labour or the rights and welfare of the workers, fair wages. Every investor was in for the ride.

Soon it was spreading around that to compete and succeed, one must have a factory in China to take full advantage of cheap labour cost and cheap in everything. This was the first China Card. And with increasing spending power of the workers, a Chinese middle class quickly took shape. Manufacturing in China is one part of the equation. The other even more attractive part is the growing consumer market in China. How to sell to 1.4b people that are increasing getting rich and wanting to consume, to buy everything to improve their lives? The Chinese market was the second China card to make money, plenty of money.

The rapid growth and changes in China was like a fiction scripted in Hollywood, a fantasy in the good sense. Everyone is happily making fortunes from China and with China becoming the factory of the world, selling good and affordable stuff to the whole world, and with great efficiency. In a way, many useful and valuable China Cards appeared for all to collect and benefit from the China fantasy. 

Chinese money became readily available to the world through Chinese banks, with interest rates that are cheaper than the IMF and World Bank. This is a boon to developing countries that needed cheap financing to uplift the life of their people through economic development. The China Finance Card was followed closely with China Infrastructure Card, with countries jumping on board the BRI high speed train. Te combination of Chinese Finance and Infrastructure technology have been a big boost and blessing to many countries in the Global South with many crying for more.

China did not disappoint. Now there are many must have China Cards... for Chinese EVs, both as consumer and joint manufacturing, China Space Station, China EV Batteries, China Bullet Trains, China Supply Chains, Rare Earth, Chinese Chips, etc etc are filling the pockets of not only countries in the Global South but also countries in the developed world. China is offering every useful and of good value to the rest of the world with no strings attached.

The next China Card will be on China STEM Talents. This most crucial element that made China what it is today has been missed by countries of the world. China did not brag about them and they are still not on offer to the world. The Chinese STEM talents are real talents, not fake talents, not big mouth braggarts that talked but unable to deliver. They are all armed with the best degrees from the top universities in the West, topping their classes year after year. Soon the rest of the world would wise up to these rare talents and would be grabbing them for their own national interests. If these talents can do what they did for China, they could do the same for countries of the world. And not to forget, they are quietly contributing to Silicon Valley and many high tech American companies, without fanfare, working in the background. Also in American R&D and their academia.

For the moment, the clowns in Washington are chasing the Chinese STEM talents out of America. This is a golden opportunity to grab these talents during this transition period. The loss to the Americans is gain for countries that could grab these talents on their way home, to serve in their motherland.

Ssssshhh, China is not talking about this China Card. This is perhaps the most valuable of all the China Cards. China is going to build moon stations in 2030, with their STEM talents.

PS. Not to forget, the BRICS Card!