USA no longer able to compete in manufacturing, spreading overcapacity lies

 It is all about inability to compete. Were the USA in a dominating position in manufacturing, overcapacity will be a dirty word. They will claim this is globalization and comparative advantage must be observed for the betterment of the world.

Too bad about trying to flog a dead horse. The whole world is benefitting now from cheap, but not necessarily inferior quality goods. China can make high end goods as well, like luxury begs and Rolex watches, if the price is right. iPhones made in China is another classic example. What the USA customer wants is cheap goods and China just oblige using cheaper materials. It is the same as buying a cheap car versus an expensive high-end car, where the price differential determines the quality. China never put a gun to USA consumer's head or consumers of other countries to demand that they must buy cheap Chinese goods. They can always buy expensive high-end bags, also made in China without the label, or from Japan and the EU, paying a different price.

The USA can only compete by getting rid of the competition, like what they did to the Germans and Japanese. The latter two were also not making enough of cheap products like China, due to their high cost of input like higher wages and supply chain restrictions. China is in a different position, leveraging on its cheap wages (though that is not the case today), cheap energy, automation and robotics and its total almost in-house supply chain enabling China to cut away middlemen costs as well.


Anonymous

More Chinese weapons for iran

More Chinese cargo planes are going to land in Iran over the next couple of months. Iran's Defense Minister, Aziz Nasir Zadeh is in China attending the SCO meeting and, in all probability, also on a buying spree as well. J10cs, PL15E and other air defense hardware are on the agenda.

The less talked about is the rail link between Iran and China which just opened on May 25, 2025, just weeks before the Israeli pre-emptive strike. Was it a co-incidence or a calculated move, knowing that cargos are going to move to and from China in bulk, which will make the airspace over Iran less free and easy for Israel's F35s, if Chinese air defense equipment starts arriving in Iran which will not make the Israeli strike on an unprepared Iran just child's play.

Iran has a 25-year US$400 billion 'strategic co-operation pact' with China, which goes to show what those rail carriages are now capable of delivering to Iran. Oil from Iran to China is the static, but what is China providing Iran is not clear cut. 'Strategic co-operation' covers a lot of things.

Suffice to say, the strike on Iran was, as much as over the crippling of Iran's nuclear ambition, also meant to cripple Iran's oil flow to China, another avenue to hit China's underbelly. But as the plot goes awry with Iran touting to blockade the Straits of Hormuz, the USA is in panic mode, even telling China to use its influence to deter Iran from closing down the Straits of Hormuz. Why would China really be rattled over the closure of the Straits of Hormuz' when oil shipments could now even be delivered using the rail link? More expensive and inconvenient, but not totally impossible.


Anonymous

When manufacturing returns to USA, overcapacity would become a beautiful word, like tariff

If Trump manages to lure all manufacturing he gloated about to the USA and the USA becomes the factory of the world, Trump will outlaw the demonization of the word 'overcapacity'. Overcapacity will then become the next big and beautiful word that Trump discovered, like the word tariff. When a man-child discovers a little word, it is big news, like a toddler in kindergarten.

The real dirtiness in the word 'overcapacity' should be literally applied to the overcapacity in money printing and military spending of the USA. In a literal sense, the rampant corruption evident in these two overhyped entities, the Fed/US Treasury and Pentagon is well defined.

Printing money in the trillions from thin air, without backing, is as bad as counterfeiting if done by anyone else. And let us not talk about the massive corruption inside the Pentagon, where contractors ripped them off like fools. Perhaps not just ripping them off but leveraging on the whole corrupt hierarchy allowing such corruption to fester.

The game is going to be over soon. As the debt spirals with another couple of trillions added, the interest payments alone will collapse the house of cards. USA leaders keep insisting that the USA can never default and its debts can go up forever without collapsing. Wonder who is going to lend them more money to prop up the house of cards. The UK?


Anonymous

China arming the Arab and Muslim states against western hegemony

Pakistan is using J10C, PL15 and the whole defence operating system. Egypt is using the same system. Iran is negotiating to buy the same system. Indonesia is doing likewise. The success of the Chinese weapon system using J10C and PL15 against the best and most hyped French Rafales is an eye opener. It is now battle tested and no more propaganda and western negative narrative can change this reality. And the better Chinese system is cheaper and did not come with all the political conditions, and no kill switches. More important, they are the nemesis of the Americans and the West, the oppressors of the rest of the world.

China has no reason to undermine the weapon systems they sold to be used against China's enemy number one. China has all the reasons to want the users of its systems to triumph over the Americans and the West. It is not just about money and profit. It is to take down American and western domination and hegemony. Countries of the Global South can have all the confidence to use Chinese weapon systems against the Americans and the West. It would be a beautiful day when the Chinese systems used in the Middle East, by Iran or Egypt or other Arab and Muslim states to knock down all the F35s, F15s and all the jests the West claimed to be world best, like the myths of the Iron Dome and Patriot missile systems or THAAD.

The day of reckoning is near. The battlefield is the best and undisputable judge of what is best and what is real. The Chinese weapon systems are just like the EVs, proven on the roads by the users and will debunk all the western military myths of superiority. Like the EVs, it will replace all the overhyped and overprices western weapon systems. Chinese equipment and weapons are cheap and good.

Who would still be silly enough to pay until their pants dropped for questionable products like the F35s or the already proven no match Rafales? Who would still be craving for Patriot missiles or Israeli Iron Domes? Who would still be fearful of the American aircraft carriers? If in still in doubt, ask the Houthis.

The Arab and Muslim states would no longer be oppressed and suppressed by the Americans, the Israelis and the West. Their liberation Day is here, with the best weapons China can provide to fight for their own freedom against the oppressive and bullying Americans and the West. The cocky Mickey Mouse Israel has found its match in Iran. Iran has proven that it can wipe out the whole of Israel. If the war continues, there will be no Tel Aviv, Haifa or any Israeli city left standing.

Thank goodness, Iran is learning fast from its lazy past

Thank goodness, Iran is learning fast from its lazy past. The new mantra is 'be prepared' for another surprise attack, which is going to come sooner than later. They have to keep the reality show running with Trump and Netanyahu losing support at home and overseas. Understand that Israelis are now running to Cyprus, which some are saying is turning Cyprus into another Gaza sooner or later. Cypriots better wake up.

Iran is rooting out all the Israeli spies planted inside the country by Israel, that have been giving Israel privy knowledge of important Iranian leader's whereabouts or intended movements for easy assassination. It is surprising that Iranian leaders, military or civilian, were always at the right place and the right time for Israel's assassination squad. Cutting off the IAEA from monitoring its 'destroyed' nuclear facilities is another important step forward to take for Iran.

Iran has now come out officially to say, instead of denying, that those bunker buster strikes have done heavy damage to its nuclear facilities. This is probably now a new strategy being adopted to give Trump the fake satisfaction and a boost to his ego and prevent him from launching further attacks since those facilities have been proven to be destroyed. So far, most analyzing of the damage have all been based on satellite images, nothing on ground-based information. This is where getting out the IAEA sniffer dogs snooping around is important.

There is now much speculation as to where those enriched Uranium are, with some saying it has been moved somewhere outside Iran. True or not I am not sure. If some countries were even on the verge of supplying nukes to Iran should Israel resort to using nukes, what is there to prevent them from allowing Iran to conduct its enrichment program outside Iran and in another country? Unlikely and difficult, but not impossible.

Oh, by the way, the Channel News America woodwork came out with another big news that the Hamas leader that planned the October 7 attack on Israel has been killed. I thought he had been killed many times before if I am not mistaken, LOL. A few days ago, social media also reported that an Iranian leader said to have been killed in an Israeli attack was also shown walking around alive. So much for make-believe.


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