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@Kanthan2030
Dec 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Xi Jinping's visit to Saudi Arabia is confirmed for Dec 7. While the US is nervous & angry, Middle East will continue to shift towards China/Asia for many reasons.

Even the ads in #FIFAWorldCup at Qatar reveal the difference between USA and China: Budweiser v. Hisense!
Hisense is the world's #2 household appliance company and makes TV, refrigerators, washing machines etc., which are all quite hi-tech now. Other popular Chinese ad: Vivo (smartphones)

Meanwhile, America has ads for beer and junk food (Coca Cola and McDonald's) in Qatar.
China has real skills and lots of money that it invests in pragmatic ways.

Chinese companies build stadiums, solar farms, 5G networks, entire cities and so on.

Arab countries also receive a lot of FDI from China.

#SaudiArabia #Kuwait #UAE #Qatar
Of course, China is the world’s #1 importer of oil and natural gas, making it the Middle East’s best customer.

In the future, Petro-Yuan will be a reality — when OPEC and others will sell oil for Chinese Yuan.

That will also be bad news for the dollar and US hegemony.
In 2016, Xi Jinping visited the Middle East for the first time. And Saudi Prince Salman (MBS) was at the airport to welcome Xi.

Both have long-term and strategic visions -- #BRI is key but not the only item.
Xi Jinping’s visit will also include the first China-Arab Summit. This will be a momentous event since the Chinese gov must have a really big vision and plan.

Not like the Trump-Arab Summit five years ago! 😃

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Jul 29
The road to free market was not easy in China.

Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening up started in 1978.

1. But China did not right away embrace private enterprises and capitalism.

2. Private enterprises were illegal and not even officially recognized until 1988! (A few Special Economic Zones like Shenzhen had more freedom)Image
3. Some entrepreneurs in the 1980s were allowed to run private businesses under the "red hat" -- i.e., pretending to be collectives or government-owned.

4. 1980s: There were also high taxes and numerous restrictions such as maximum 5 employees in a private enterprise. Image
5. Only in 1994 did private enterprises get many legal protections and freedom.

6. In 1999, the Chinese Constitution was amended to acknowledge that the private sector is an "important component" of the economy.

Beijing in 1990: Image
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Jul 26
Hitler was funded by Western oligarchs, corporations & bankers.

Rockefeller, Wall Street, British royal family etc. were all invested in Nazi Germany; and Zionists were making deal with him.

If Hitler had defeated Russia, Hollywood would have made very different movies.

Time magazine 1936:Image
Nazi-Zionists collaboration:
General Motors (GM), Ford and Chrysler built all kinds of war machines for Hitler.

Luftwaffe, the Nazi airforce, depended on engines made by GM.
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Jun 30
Lying Media are recycling their Xinjiang propaganda, now aimed at Tibet, China.

Interestingly, last week, I went to a primary school in Lhasa, which had some boarding students!

Why? Because their parents literally live in remote mountains where there are no schools!

🧵 on my visit.

Here’s a description of the media below:

1. This was the welcome dance!😍
2. The primary school (quite big & fancy)
3. The rooms where the kids sleep
4. Classroom for learning Tibetan language
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Me trying calligraphy for the first time and actually drawing the character of “heaven” without knowing it! 😆

The school principal was super nice, sincere, smart, and full of energy. So I took a photo with her at the end.

#Tibet #China
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Second pic: A child writing Tibetan language.

The kids have a lot of extracurricular activities in this primary school.

Not sure if this is true for all schools in Lhasa or these are some gifted children.

#Tibet #China Image
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Jun 20
India is all talk, no action.

Without R&D spending, there won’t be real innovation, patents, homegrown products or giant companies.

Only 0.7% of GDP goes towards research and development. Image
Look at the top 10 research institutes in the world.

8 out of 10 are from China. Image
And the prestigious international patents (WIPO PCT)

China #1, USA #2, India #9.

China = 15x India. Image
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Apr 19
I bought a 1965 Playboy magazine from an old bookstore.

Here are some fascinating things about the magazine:

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First, it wasn’t raunchy by today’s standards!

Shows how far we have gone (in the wrong direction?).

Even the Playboy of the Month photo in the centerfold wouldn’t be considered pornographic today. Image
There were way more photos for fashion and lifestyle than semi-naked women. Perhaps a ratio of 20 to 1. Image
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Mar 25
My thread on the futility of Trump’s well-intentioned but misguided economic policies of trade wars and tariffs to revive American manufacturing:
Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan… it’s an American political tradition to impose tariffs, even though they have never helped create jobs or protect manufacturing! 😆
When the American Civil War ended in 1865, half of all Americans were farmers.

For them, working in factories was a big upgrade in wages and lifestyle.
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