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"The problem for Chinese manufacturers is not just the tariffs but the uncertainty of timing and sudden changes to policy.  They say no one is willing to make a big move on production or shipments until the trade landscape becomes more predictable.  This means most Chinese factories are frozen in stasis.

China has been suffering from a deflationary crisis since 2023.  An uptick in exports during the pandemic was offset by the CCP's draconian lockdowns.  This was, essentially, fiscal suicide on the part of the government and China has been struggling ever since.  Their property market has imploded, partially due to overbuilding through government subsidized infrastructure programs that flooded the market with poorly constructed homes and buildings that were then left to rot.  Corporate defaults have run rampant and left investors with nothing."

Þeir gerðu það við sig sjálfir.

Kína er samt framar í tækninni en Evrópa

"China showcased more than 20 bipedal robots lin Beijing’s Yizhuang tech district on Saturday to compete in what was billed as the world’s first humanoid half-marathon.

The event drew teams from Chinese universities and tech firms eager to demonstrate the country’s progress in humanoid robotics, a sector where the Chinese Communist Party is aggressively trying to close the gap with the United States, which continues to lead in cutting-edge models."

Evrópa hefur bara reglugerðir, enga tækni.  Evrópa eru mongólíti heimsins.

Menn með framsæknar og áhugaverðar hugmyndir

"A Southern California mayor is under fire for wanting to eliminate his city’s homeless population by giving them “all the fentanyl they want” — a shocking remark he reinforced by calling for a federal “purge.”"

Talibanarnir hreinsa bara rónana til og þvinga þá til að vinna.

Uppljóstrað um glæpi

"LONSDALE: […] entitlements have lots of fraud too, probably. But I’ve been a little bit shocked.

I knew there was waste, but there seems like a lot of scams they’re finding. It’s like a lot more scams, I guess, than I even knew.

THIEL: I think there were scams. I think the nonprofit stuff is…

LONSDALE: The NGO stuff is out of control.

THIEL: Is really out of control. It’s sort of like… I don’t know.

It’s sort of like virtue signaling is a sign that you’re doing something evil. And so much of this left-wing philanthropy nonprofit world, I think it was just a cover for borderline criminal activity.

Thiel went on to say actions have consequences, “And one of the people who looked at this a lot thinks you could just prosecute these people for fraud. Something like this is what Oliver North was prosecuted for in the Iran-Contra scandal in the 80s, was he mischaracterized the money and he mislabeled it. And it was accused of defrauding the government."

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