I also read the assumption on some social media sites that China's navy is now a joke. Is it because China is not trying to project power and using its aircraft carriers for patrolling just the South China Sea? Now everything that China is doing is propagandized as jokes.
Elon Musk thought that Chinese EVs were a joke years ago when interviewed about China making EVs. That was when Tesla ruled the waves. Now, I do not think he has that same warped mentality. Tesla still depends on Chinese battery makers, and I am sure he does not think that CATL is also a joke.
I am also doubly sure that Steve Jobs did not think that China's cheap workforce was a joke when he decided to invest his iPhone production in China. If that was the case, Steve would have chosen India for even cheaper workers. Now, recently Apple did try to diversify some of its production lines to India and met with problems. The supply chain is not there, the power supply sources unreliable and the workers not at all qualified. With high rejection rates, the savings on labor is negated by the high rejection rates.
Let the USA and the West just presumed that everything Chinese is a joke - the EVs are a joke, the high-speed rails are a joke, the buildings and bridges are tofu models and a joke, the education system is a joke, its supply chain is a joke, its rare earth domination is a joke. I can go on and on. But what is the point. The truth hurts and it will hurt sooner of later.
Anonymous
While Trump, his regime and the USA people want to treat China as a joke, the whole world is beginning to see USA as a bigger joke. The war on Iran has exposed the biggest joke about USA military power. Not that it had not been already exposed in Vietnam and Afghanistan. The irony is that the world does not see the woods from the trees regarding the fate of a falling superpower.
ReplyDeleteChina giving visa free travel to foreign visitors is a masterstroke to let foreign visitors see and experience the real China and undo the brainwashing that they had been subjected to for decades. No amount of propaganda can win against experiencing the reality. Just the high-speed rail experience in China is enough to floor visitors, with high-speed rail stations overshadowing airports in their own country. Do they think those are a joke?
And the low cost of living is another shocking experience that foreign travelers have noticed while in China. The food available at supermarkets are cheap, eating out is cheap, transportation is cheap and above all homes, rental flats and hotels are cheap as well. Medical treatment in China is also cheaper and more efficient. For comparison of cost, each Chinese ambulance costs about US$60,000 each fully equipped and delivered in weeks. An ambulance made in USA cost about US$500,000 and takes three years to deliver. That is the extent of the greed inside a democracy that works for the top 1% to make more money at the expense of the bottom feeders. Do USA voters realized that they have landed on the wrong side of the bargain, paying for essential things that should be heavily subsidized. What has USA voters benefitted from having a right to vote but ended up being more heavily squeezed each time.