China selling quality goods and services for the price of dirt

 The scam of branded goods has been completely destroyed by China and people are now smarter, saving a lot of money from not buying branded goods at ransom prices. The people of the world can now afford to buy and use all the good products and services they so desired at a fraction of the prices they used to pay to western brands. China will make the same products, with the same material and selling to the consumers for a song. And if the customers want a brand stitched on, China can also do it with an additional $10. After all, all the branded products are made in China by skilled Chinese artisans, cheaper but not cheap labour. The prices charged by the brand owners were mostly the jacked up prices for obscene profits. 

China has now moved one step ahead, since labour cost is rising, China is moving into robotics. The whole production line can be manned by cheaper robots that worked 24/7 with no extra pay, no time off for lunch break or sick leave, no labour union problems. Just pure productivity and efficiency. China can go on innovating and producing goods and services at very affordable prices. Can you imagine how much a good Chinese EV will be in the market if left to the American and western brands? What Tesla is charging is a good example of the value for money versus Chinese EVs. Soon Tesla too will be priced out of the market, unable to compete in quality, design, technology and price.

China did not capitalise on the quality of its products and services by charging high prices like the Americans and the West. China prices its goods and services for the masses in the whole world. The average consumer in the world is now faced with ample choices of good products and services at very affordable prices which they could not afford if made in the West. 

China is selling its products and services to the whole world and did not demand to be paid in dollars and high prices. China is literally asking countries to pay with dirt. Just give China dirt in exchange for quality high tech products and services. And if countries did not have the capacity and technology to deliver the dirt, China will bring in the equipment to transport the dirt and ship them to China, without overcharging. No money never mind, just dirt will do.

For countries that are able and want to add value to their dirt, China can assist by selling them the technology and equipment as well. China is in a way helping the rest of the world to be richer by making things affordable, give them real value for paying less.

Can you imagine what the world of the average and less developed people be like without the abundance of good quality goods and services from China, clothes costing a few dollars a piece, mobile phones at less than a hundred bucks, EVs for less than US$10k, and efficient infrastructure, highways, high speed trains, ports etc etc to be had by trading their dirt? Many countries are limited by their size, small population, educational and technology level, infrastructure... to make high tech stuffs they need. And China is there to offer them whatever they need, for the price of a song, or some dirt...with no strings attached. The Americans wanted to sell AI only to those with deep pockets. China is offering AI to the man on the street. The average guy have all the AIs they need for free. The Americans cannot stop China from pushing out AI applications for the world cheaply.

Some silly countries still want to buy American and western goods and willing to pay ripoff prices for lower quality goods. It is ok if they have a lot of easy money.

India only has one plan...takeover. India is out to take everything, companies, industries, countries, and there are silly people inviting India to takeover everything

India is in big trouble going forward. India has many issues to take care of besides trying to stay as the sixth biggest economy in the world.

The most difficult problem for India right now is creating jobs for 12 million new university graduates coming onstream into the job market every year, without the corresponding mass job creation afforded by manufacturing. India is still largely an agrarian society, with more than 40% of its population still engaged in agriculture cum husbandry activities. The rise of AI and the Middle East war have added further pressure on India. Much of India's service industry that had been catering to Western companies using Indian workers for back-office jobs, have now been replaced by AI. The Iran War has also added another layer of problem for India, with Indian workers returning home to compete with new Indian graduates for jobs. These returning workers are educated and experienced, fighting for the tight job opportunities available. Therein lies the massive problem for India.

Of course, India can do what China did, albeit in 30 to 50 years' time optimistically speaking, but foreign direct investments have dried up from USA and the West. The USA, under Trump has classified India as a shithole, so think about that. The Europeans are no rich uncles themselves, already devastated by the Ukraine War and energy problems. Now, Europe is fighting a tariff war against the USA, so forget about European investing big in India.

The only source of investments for India is China. Chinese investments worldwide had been reported to be around US$130 billion annually, but in the face of the problems between India and China, it is unlikely to attract Chinese FDI into India. After all, the Chinese Government has warned Chinese companies to stay away from India. India wanted to please the USA by biting the hand that could help it with good investments, but India bit the hand of the Chinese over and over again.

Another big problem for India going big into manufacturing is the lack of infrastructures. There is no high-speed rail or even up-to-date rail network, roads are just pot-hole tracks, movement of raw materials and finished goods takes ages, and the supply chain for manufacturing is still largely outside the country. Moreover, the whole country is still highly corrupted, from the top Government leaders to the foot soldiers carrying out the duty of administrating policies. It is always the outstretch hand for bribes in order for things to be allowed to be done.

As I said before, all that hype about India's big expanding population as a dividend to be reaped is all hubris. It is more a massive liability for India to have a bursting young population without jobs. An expanding population is a boom for advanced countries like Japan and some European states, but not in a country as poor as India, whatever the showboating about a young population is trying to sell.


Anonymous

China building more pipelines overland

Russia now has oil pipelines to move oil to China, and this is no longer a problem for both countries trying to evade choke points nor sanctions.

If a push comes to a shove, China and Iran too, may find it feasible to have similar pipelines to facilitate the movement of Iranian oil to China. There was already a proposal to build a pipeline from Gwadar Port in Pakistan to Kashgar, China, for Middle East oil, to avoid the Straits of Malacca, but which due to geological constraints, has been mothballed. Those constraints involve building the pipeline across mountainous terrain thousands of meters high. But China is fully capable of building at such heights, such as its high-speed rail construction in freezing conditions and low oxygen environment.

When situations become untenable due to the Middle East war prolonging and for future proofing, killing two birds with one stone may take place, which means constructing the Iran link to connect to the resurrected Gwadar Port line running towards Kashgar, China. This is just my thinking, and I am sure the Chinese are also looking forward as well to such a possibility.


Anonymous

China is dominating in every sectors, including scientific paper. India can print fake degrees but not fake scientific papers

Weaponization of the US$ provided a means for the USA to punish other countries for a period of time, but the effect is waning as countries found ways to get around those sanctions. Needless to say, no country had ever collapse due to USA sanctions, and sanctioned countries are learning from the experience of those who would not fall. Hyping gloom and doom as a consequence of those sanctions is no more a fear factor to threaten countries today.

De-dollarization must be seen as a godsend as countries can now trade outside the US$ and avoid the sanctions, even as they are asking - who is next. The Iran War is going to see de-dollarization up a notch with Russia and Iran now selling oil in Yuan. This move by Russia and Iran is no small potato, as both are major oil producers. Other Gulf oil producers will in time have to consider accepting Yuan, (if they have not done so already), as a currency for settlement when selling oil to China, the biggest market by far.

I have been watching videos of the changing landscape around the world regarding who is dominating in which sector. There are indeed somewhat of a surprise for me that China has grown to dominate in so many sectors of the global landscape which is fermenting a natural worrying reaction by the USA. China's domination in churning out scientific papers in chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering and construction, which were the monopoly of the USA before, is now turned on its head. China has dominated the registration of patents (which is about new inventions) and is the top dog in this sector. China has stamped its domination in EVs, drones, shipbuilding and renewable energy harvesting, leaving the rest of the world fighting for runners-up position.


Anonymous

Operation Kill Iranians - 65 days and still counting

 65 days into the killing of Iranians, and simultaneously killing Arabs and Muslims in Gaza, Palestine and Lebanon. No reporting by western media to many means the killing has stopped. That is the attention span of the braindead and unthinking. And there is a temporary ceasefire! Anyone knows what is the meaning of a ceasefire? Let me explain simply what this means. It is just a break for the killers to prepare for the next killing, a bigger killing with more weapons and firepower. Trump is ordering whatever troops, warplanes and warships he can ordered to the region for his next big game, to wipe out the Iranians as a civilisation. Just musing, is this a joke or another deadly case of stupidity cannot be cured? Are the Iranians preparing for their final termination by the American terrorists, still trusting the American and Israeli terrorists that they would be spared, to allow to exist as a people on this planet?

Pete Hegseth was telling his version of the truth in the Senate hearing. He was asked why are the American terrorists still killing Iranians when he claimed to have obliterated the Iranians nuclear facilities. Was not this objective achieved, to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons? His reply for continuing to want to kill the Iranians...the Iranians still have the ambition to want to have nuclear weapons, so must be killed to end their ambition. This is now the next reason to kill Iranians, not nuclear facilities, but Iranian ambition to have nuclear weapons. How did he know? He cooked it up. 

Before this Operation Kill Iranians, the Ayatollah, the highest authority in Iran, the spiritual leader, had forbade Iran from having nuclear weapons on religious ground. This is more powerful than any political undertaking. But lunatic Trump chose to disbelieve in this, and hellbent on killing Iranians by claiming that Iran is closed to having nuclear bomb, which the world knows is a big vicious American lie. Trump would not admit that he was taking orders from the Jews to kill Iranians.

There is a temporary pause now, a ceasefire, while Trump continue to amass his weapons, war machines and troops for the KILL, while pretending to be negotiating with the Iranians. Once beaten twice shy. Cheated twice and still wanting to believe the evil Americans and waiting to be cheated a third time is simply unbelieveable. How stupid can the Iranians be? Or how stupid the American terrorists think the Iranians are, to wait to be cheated for the third time? This third time is going to seal the fate of the Iranians, to fulfill Trump and Netanyahu's objective to wipe out the Iranians. Both have not change their positions. Pete Hegseth had said it out as clear as he could in the Senate. The ultimate goal is to kill all the Iranians by whatever excuses.

65 days have gone by without the American terrorists showing any sign of retreating. Their plans to continue to deceive the Iranians that peace is around the corner and planning for the Final Solution should the Iranians make a mistake. That is all that is needed to wipe out the Iranians. Just one mistake to finish them off for good, for the good of Israel and the American terrorists. And the Middle East will be at peace under the Order of Israel and American terrorist rule!

This day is approaching fast, with little resistance from the Arabs and Muslims, with some siding with the Americans quietly, some already in bed with the American terrorists and so happy about it. How many days would it take to wipe out the Iranian civilisation?