China in trouble.

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China has 90 million empty apartment spaces... They could house everyone in Germany or Britain...

Does China have 90 million empty apartments?

So says Bloomie: A Nation of Empty Apartments There are enough empty apartments in China to house an estimated 90 million people. Note the source. And here it is: There is enough empty property in China to house over 90m people, says Logan Wright, a Hong Kong-based director at Rhodium Group, a...

www.macrobusiness.com.au

Here is another look at China's capital investment problems...

 

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Here is an article about China's population decline and how to reverse it by doing what Sweden has done to stop their population decline or doing what Australia has tried as well... Their programs did not work so do what Russia did in 1950 and it worked tax childless men... Taxing people work for the Muslims by taxing people they converted their conquered populations to Islam... TAXES ARE GOOD FOR TWO THINGS PUNISHING BAD BEHAVIOR AND CREATING REVENUE FOR THE STATE... Tax cuts and incentives are just a way to hide welfare programs for the affluent... @rittmeister , @jgoodguy , @O' Be Joyful , @diane , @Wehrkraftzersetzer , @Tom

NY times article...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/upshot/china-population-decline.html

Here is another program...

Bachelor tax - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

A bachelor tax is a punitive tax imposed on unmarried men. In the modern era, many countries do vary tax rates by marital status, so current references to bachelor taxes are typically implicit rather than explicit; and given the state of tax law is very complicated, as tax accountancy concepts like income splitting can come into play.[1][2]

The Russian plan...

Tax on childlessness - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The tax on childlessness (Russian: налог на бездетность, romanized: nalog na bezdetnost) was imposed in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries, starting in the 1940s, as part of their natalist policies. Joseph Stalin's regime created the tax in order to encourage adult people to reproduce, thus increasing the number of people and the population of the Soviet Union. The 6% income tax affected men from the age of 25 to 50, and married women from 20 to 45 years of age.[1]

 

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The cold war with China is being fought in the Netherlands. We struck the first blow... Nike! Nike!... Buy ASML stock... @rittmeister , @O' Be Joyful , @Wehrkraftzersetzer , @jgoodguy , @diane

 

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Here is the story of us blocking China from tech....

US, Netherlands strike deal on blocking chip exports to China

Dutch government backs Washington’s quest to stop China’s rise on tech.

www.politico.eu

The agreement is a major win for Washington in its efforts to stop the rise of China as a tech superpower. It will notably stop some of the sales of advanced microchip printing equipment by Dutch giant ASML, one of the few companies in the world able to produce the printers needed to manufacture high-end semiconductors that are at the center of the growing tech war between the U.S. and China.

 

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China's man-made islands are sinking... Do people think they are sinking?

Sunk: How China's Man-Made Islands Are Falling Apart and Sinking Into the Ocean

Shoddy construction plus climate change equals unstable islands.

nationalinterest.org

“Yet not everything is going China’s way,” The Economist added. “Rumors suggest the new islands’ concrete is crumbling and their foundations turning to sponge in a hostile climate. And that is before considering what a direct hit from a super-typhoon might do.”

Photos of the Islands..

China's Man-Made South China Sea Islands Like You've Never Seen Them Before

New aerial images of Beijing's manmade islands in the South China Sea provide greater detail about their infrastructure and defenses.

www.thedrive.com

New, highly detailed images of the artificial islands China has built in the South China Sea have emerged. They show the intricacies of the radar installations, airfields, and naval gun emplacements, among buildings and other structures, located there.

Here is a video about the island and Vietnam is making its own man-made island too...

Here is this a bonus this video points out we do not have the military logistics to fight a war in the Pacific...

 

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The Chinese have been biltzscaling for decades. The Chinese have been keeping wages low and subsidizing their export business. They have been doing what venture capitalists have been doing for the last two decades in silicon valley. They have been subsidizing start-up tech companies so they can offer their services for under the cost to force out the competition and grab market share and create a monopoly. Its called Biltzscaling...

China workers are too poor to support drive the Chinese economy toward a consumption base economy.

This article claims the video's take is incorrect...

The Illogic of Consumption as a Growth Driver

China's economic policy overlooks the fact that growth triggers consumption, not the other way around.

carnegieendowment.org

But the argument promoted by these analysts is flawed. The primary reason for these imbalances is not financial repression but a broadly successful urbanization-cum-industrialization process. This process has led to a fall in household income as a share of GDP and a rising savings rate, which together explain the steady and sharp decline in consumption as a share of GDP over the past decade and half.

 

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Here is a great summary of why China's GDP numbers are false...

 

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Here like an update on China's debit mountain...

 

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We are fighting and winning a second front in our Cold War with China. We have again fired shots like in the chip war. The new front is underwater internet cables around the world. These undersea cables carry most of the internet traffic around the world, forget satellites. How long can we stay ahead our laws are outdated and no one is enforcing international laws...

 

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America is bringing back OT bases around the world. They are acoustic bases that study the sound of the oceans to hunt submarines. If you remember about 20 years ago after the Cold War, the Navy released a bunch of audio of whale sounds. Those sounds were collected from these bases during the Cold War... They are back...

US reviving Cold War-era underwater surveillance network to tackle China

A Reuters report has indicated that the US is working to resuscitate its Cold War-era submarine surveillance network in the wake of China’s rising naval power. According to the report, the US Navy has renamed its monitoring system at Whidbey Island off Seattle to Theater Undersea Surveillance...

www.wionews.com

According to the report, the US Navy has renamed its monitoring system at Whidbey Island off Seattle to Theater Undersea Surveillance Command, with the new mission of modernizing America’s existing network of underwater acoustic spy cables and retrofitting a fleet of surveillance ships with cutting-edge sensors and subsea microphones.

 

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Here is our original Cold War sub-hunting program...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS

Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) was the original name for a submarine detection system based on passive sonar developed by the United States Navy to track Soviet submarines. The system's true nature was classified with the name and acronym SOSUS classified as well. The unclassified name Project Caesar was used to cover the installation of the system and a cover story developed regarding the shore stations, identified only as a Naval Facility (NAVFAC), being for oceanographic research. The name changed to Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS) in 1985, as the fixed bottom arrays were supplemented by the mobile Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) and other new systems. The commands and personnel were covered by the "oceanographic" term until 1991 when the mission was declassified. As a result, the commands, Oceanographic System Atlantic and Oceanographic System Pacific became Undersea Surveillance Atlantic and Undersea Surveillance Pacific, and personnel were able to wear insignia reflecting the mission.

Cold War-era underwater surveillance network was called - Google Zoeken

Just over 66 years ago, one of the Navy's most secretive communities began. Its members went by the code word SOSUS, which means “Sound Surveillance System.” A new front line in the Cold War, they had one mission: FIND SUBMARINES.

Lack of knowledge and information concerning oceanographic and acoustic conditions off the continental coasts hampered the U.S. Navy’s efforts against the submarine threat during World War II. It was apparent the German Navy had better information and a better understanding of how to use the Atlantic Ocean. Consequently, since the war, the U.S. Navy has maintained a continuous program of oceanographic surveys designed to provide more detailed information on currents, temperature, salinity, and other factors that comprise the oceanic environment and affect the transmission of sound in saltwater. The U.S. Navy was determined never to again lag behind others in its knowledge of this vital battlespace.

 

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There is no China-debt trap... ??? Sounds like the West is crying wolf??? Year old video...

 

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China's ambassador thinks the former Soviet state does not exist...

China Sparks Anger in Europe

#shorts #china

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The Chinese leader's next step to bring an Emperor....

China in a surprise announcement says it is eliminating an annual news conference by the premier