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  • Originally posted by Oracle View Post
    I'm half-Vietnamese, half-Japanese.
    A few weeks ago, you went to great lengths to try and convince me that you were an expact Chinese in India by including a image of your WAB profile. I would not be surprised that you have removed it since.
    Last edited by Funtastic; 20 Oct 18,, 20:00.

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    • Originally posted by Funtastic View Post
      A few weeks ago, you went to great lengths to try and convince me that you were an expact Chinese in India by including a image of your WAB profile. I would not be surprised that you have removed it since.
      Oh, so you read this board without logging in. Anyway, my citizenship is a secret. I might even be a Taiwanese. You can ask people around here, no one really knows. Some think I'm from the CIA, while some consider me to be Harry Potter.
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      Go check my profile again. Shhhh!
      Last edited by Oracle; 21 Oct 18,, 02:09.
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      • For crying out loud his name is a dead giveaway, duh...
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        • Peking University academic pulls up China's Economic model

          China factory growth weakest in over 2 years, slump in export orders deepens
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          • U.S-China divisions take centre stage at APEC summit

            U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said there would be no end to American tariffs until China changed its ways, after its president, Xi Jinping, warned that the shadow of protectionism and unilateralism was hanging over global growth
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            • Despite Trump, US MNCs flock to India for engineering talent

              Trump cannot solve this problem. If it is indeed a problem. Businesses will always flock to cheaper destinations.

              Trump on China: 'Can't have trade that's meant for stupid people'
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              • What the hell is a “marketization index,” and who compiles it? If, as the next paragraphs hints (without saying so), it is a measure of state ownership in the economy, then the key issue is poor data. Small companies always, in any developing economy, slip right through the cracks. As they are the most dynamic and fastest growing (and closing) companies in the economy, there is a major hole in any argument that purports to explain economic success by way of state sector shrinkage.

                The second mover example is closer to the mark, but the main sources of the China Miracle are (1) agricultural reform drawing workers to the countryside and creating surplus capital for investment in urban infrastructure; (2) deregulation permitting private employment; (3) gradual evolution of broadly predictable and reasonable regulatory structure; (4) Hong Kong (highly) risk capital injections early on; and (5) access to foreign markets at world tariff rates.

                Numbers 1, 4 and 5 have largely run their courses. Future growth is most likely to come from continued deregulation (more accurately: de-licensing) and the extremely long term – many decades – emergence of a strong civil society backed up by an independent and respected judiciary.
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                Consumer goods sales were up 5.6% in real terms (if you believe the numbers) in October, and 9.2% in the first ten months of the year, both vis-a-vis 12 months ago.
                http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/Pres...6_1634118.html

                The “weakest in over 2 years” story is a straight forward lie. The purchasing managers' index is a useful tool for understanding an economy, except when minimally informed journalists get ahold of it and think it is the same as output, investment or trade. Industrial production was up 5.9% in October and 6.4% in January-October (insert data caveat).
                http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/Pres...5_1633819.html
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                • Jack Ma Confirmed as Chinese Communist Party Member

                  I had this doubt though when the trade spat started and he was fortifying his opinion on globalisation i.e. Xi Xingping.
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                  • Stop China’s Infiltration of US Railroads

                    America shouldn’t be buying Chinese railcars, ceding control of its rail industry, or injecting spyware-laden rolling stock into its transportation network.

                    A myriad of problems has led to a “surprising level of foreign dependence on competitor nations,” according to the White House’s long-awaited report on the severe challenges facing our manufacturing and defense industrial base. A look at one field — manufacturing the railroad cars that carry America’s commuters and freight — reveals growing dangers that demand urgent action.

                    Transportation is among the priority sectors under the Made in China 2025 industrial policy, which aims to help Chinese firms in various sectors reach the highest levels of the global manufacturing chain. In the business of railcars, the banner is being carried by China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation, a massive state-owned conglomerate with deep ties to the Communist Party of China.

                    CRRC has set up two U.S. subsidiaries — CRRC MA in Massachusetts and CRRC Sifang Americas in Chicago — and pursues U.S. contracts with predatory zeal. Since 2014, the company has been awarded four contracts totaling $2.5 billion to build metro cars for the cities of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In each case, CRRC used massive subsidies and other resources from the Chinese government to dramatically underbid its competitors —regularly by 20 percent or more. In one case, the Chinese bid was half as much as another competitor. To have any company consistently come in so low is unheard of.

                    It is clear that these bids aim not for short-term profit, but medium-term market domination. The pattern was set in Australia, where it took less than a decade for China to gain control of the freight-railcar market. A recently deleted tweet by CRRC boasted that the company controls 83 percent of the global rail market and asked followers, “How long will it take for us conquering [sic] the remaining 17 percent?”

                    But the increasing presence of made-in-China rolling stock on North American rails means more than the loss of manufacturing jobs. Modern railcars are not just boxes on wheels, but full-fledged parts of the Internet of Things that soak up and transmit information.

                    The commuter trains manufactured by CRRC will contain Wi-Fi systems, automatic train control, automatic passenger counters, surveillance cameras and internet-of-things technology that will be deeply integrated into the information and communication technology infrastructure of transit authorities, all sole-sourced from a Chinese state-owned enterprise. Chinese surveillance cameras could track the movements and routines of passengers, searching for high-value targets from whose devices intelligence officials can vacuum data from using the train’s Wi-Fi systems. This is not an unrealistic prospect. Already, China is openly developing a system of “algorithmic surveillance” that uses advances in artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology to enable the Chinese Communist Party to monitor the movements and patterns of its own citizens, purportedly to fight crime.

                    The risks are even sharper in freight cars, whose onboard GPS systems and telematics monitor the contents and health of trains carrying sensitive cargo such as toxic chemicals and military equipment. If China is allowed to insert its railcars into U.S. freight networks, it could give Beijing early and reliable warning about U.S. military mobilization and logistical preparations for conflict. It could also give China a destabilizing economic competitive edge, by detecting, say, shortages of critical material such as oil or chlorine gas based on a change in their movements on freight railroads.

                    As well, Chinese internet-connected products on U.S. rails could be designed to be more susceptible to cyber-attack or hacking by third parties, as has been done with numerous other products.

                    While CRRC has yet to produce any freight railcars for the U.S. market, it is clearly on their radar. In 2014, CRRC launched a now-defunct joint venture with an American firm in Wilmington, North Carolina to build freight cars, but shuttered the facility before filling any orders following rounds of layoffs and a federal investigation into Vertex’s ties to the Chinese government. They have also already begun making inroads in Canada with the establishment of a freight railcar assembly facility in Moncton, New Brunswick. Should CRRC shift its focus to freight in the United States, it is likely that CRRC would underbid any American competitors and quickly start to dominate the country’s freight railcar fleet.

                    U.S. lawmakers have recognized and taken steps to address similar threats to products such as computer chips, drones, and cellular technology, and indeed, both chambers of Congress recently passed a ban on federal funding from going to CRRC. Yet policymakers may not fully understand the scope or impact of China’s incursion into an increasingly digitized rail network. CRRC is likely to continue to win contracts without federal funding and the security of the trains already being built will continue to remain in question. There may not be a silver bullet to this problem, but it’s time for our nation’s leaders to put an end to CRRC’s infiltration of the U.S. rail manufacturing industry by developing comprehensive solutions to ensure the integrity of our nation’s transportation systems. Nothing stands in their way.
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                    • Mnuchin Says China Agrees to Lower Auto Tariffs; Beijing Silent

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                      • Mnuchin bloviates US feelgood propaganda for you Americans only. It's pretty well a certainty that the US can't win an economics war against China, yet it knows that a hot war is prohibitive.

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                        • Originally posted by montgomery View Post
                          Mnuchin bloviates US feelgood propaganda for you Americans only. It's pretty well a certainty that the US can't win an economics war against China, yet it knows that a hot war is prohibitive.
                          Yeah sure. My reading says Xi is desperate to get the trade deal done. And thanks for your opinion. So what do you think? Your opinion? I will then do my research and get back.
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                          • Originally posted by Oracle View Post
                            Yeah sure. My reading says Xi is desperate to get the trade deal done. And thanks for your opinion. So what do you think? Your opinion? I will then do my research and get back.
                            I'm just happy to hear you have grown to be able to hear the opinions of others now. And as for that opinion, I don't disagree. But I'll just remind you that the EU on the western front has just slapped another 19 billion on the US on account of the airlines squabble.

                            The US/Trump has chosen to fight it's latest war on all fronts. That's something you might want to research?

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                            • The US on Friday hiked tariffs on $200bn worth of Chinese goods, prompting Beijing to promise retaliation and escalating the chances of a full-blown trade war between the world’s two economic superpowers.

                              At 12:01am on Friday in Washington, tariffs on Chinese goods were raised to 25% from 10%. The tax hike covers more than 6,000 products.
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                              • “China throws trade war tariff exclusion lifelines that it thought it would never need,” SCMP May 14, 2019 by Finbarr Bermingham, https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-e...nes-it-thought

                                • On May 10, the US raised from 10% to 25% import duties on $200 billion worth of goods from China. 2,494 items will be subject to a 25 per cent tariff; 1,078 will be face a 20 per cent tariff; 974 items will take a tariff hit of 10 per cent, while the tariff on 595 items will remain at 5 per cent.

                                • On May 13, China imposed higher duties on $60 billion worth of imports.

                                • To minimize the impact on companies, China is copying the US practice of offering some relief to those most severely affected.

                                • On May 14, the US announced it had started a process by which it might, several months from now, impose 25% duties on just about all imports from China.
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