Western economists wondering why Chinese firms can have low profit margins and simultaneously be so competitive never stops being funny to me. Like they have magically forgotten the sina qua non of Capitalism which is that firms competing for profit maximizes overall welfare for the greatest number of people possible. They operate under the parameters of American finance capitalism where the goal is to maximize profits for shareholders. The industries with the lowest profit margins are those with the most competitive pressure, low barriers to entry, and

I've become ever more convinced that the primary reason the US perennially underestimates Chinese capabilities is because quixotically, the smartest whites gather in DC. More than any other city, DC is home to by far the most educated, credentialed, and talented white Americans. on the other hand the Chinese that make it in DC are at best average (for Chinese) because the smarter and more ambitious ones know they have absolutely zero future there and avoid it, leaving little more than striving teachers pet suck ups. This combination of white excellence

Liberalism is fundamentally an ideology of great privilege similar to noblesse oblige. It can really only exist under conditions of gross material and social disparity. Unlike the aristocrats superiority which was baked into their bones, the bourgeoisie's Liberal sensibilities are ephemeral and brittle because their socio-economic position is much more precarious. They can be easily cancelled by social censure far more readily than someone with land rents and armed retainers. It is why whenever Liberal societies undergo even the slightest stress or

One thing that I've noticed is that despite the number of people claiming programming degrees in India being prodigious, there are almost zero Indian video game developers or really an industry to speak of despite absolutely zero barriers to entry. The most prominent example of video game development being outsourced to India was the textbook disaster that was the cancelled Prince of Persia title. You would think that with such a huge young market there would be more local entrepreneurs trying to earn money from it. It isn't even a situation of relative

The real black pill of Western government dysfunction isn't that everything is happening by mistake or malevolence, but rather the present state was the historic inevitability of Liberalism combined with people actually trying to immanentize their ideology. The communists attempt to make their revolutionary vision was very real and very enthusiastic. The more enthusiastic, the more disastrous. Ultimately Liberalism stems from the same branch and moves slower, making changes only so fast as bourgeois society is willing to tolerate but they were heading in

Going to enjoy watching with no small sense of schadenfreude a lot of Americans lose billions investing in India. The one operative word that defines the country is "disappointment". There is a reason it's biggest native boosters all fled the place and it's Western cheerleaders are basically charicatures of Noah Smith writ large and small. When you fundamentally have a misunderstanding of the level of human capital actually present with a lot of politically enabled boosterism, a lot of terrible decisions are bound to be made.

The dignity of labor or who do you think you are. One of the greatest changes that the Communist revolution brought to China was that it permanently wiped out servant culture. By servant culture I mean the shared social expectation between social superior and social inferior as to what appropriate interactions should consist of and the bounds and norms restrain those. Those more critical of the Communists would say that this has simply made Chinese people rude and blunt, declasse even. More accurately it leveled the old social order in that the expected

The greatest obstacle to US attempts to subvert elite Chinese is the formers lack of hot women. Both governments can offer money and status, but America, representing the gay empire, can only offer cock and not pussy. This is why among the Chinese, the only partisans it can convert to its side are either women, homosexuals, or aging boomer dissidents who can no longer maintain an erection. This may sound hyperbolic but really 99% of the puppets the US government can trot out fall into one of those categories. It isn't just that the government cant

The only way to really do effective immigration restrictionism is apparently via the left. Every time you get the dunce right to attempt it, it just backfires spectacularly at least with Anglo countries. Denmark is a good example but to control your borders the messaging must be

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tailored in a passive aggressive fashion to appeal to the tastes of the professional managerial class. You aren't keeping out foreign riff raff, you are enabling foreign friends to retain talent and invest in themselves. Everything and I do mean everything must be deceitfully

It's really bizarre how Western propaganda is at this point engaged in telling it's audience not to believe their own eyes. A video clip of the Dalai Lama engaged in public pederasty in flagrante delicto is being spun as Chinese "disinformation". It's such a facetious lie because because if anything the Communist Party of China isn't even interested in running agitprop against Tibetan clericalism and otherwise protects their reputation by not broadcasting their pedophilic ways to the public. It only went viral in the West not because of the government

The US is literally the gay doppelganger of the PRC's system. Western China Watchers bitch and moan ominously about party control in private business through the appointment of open party commissars as if this was unique to China while conspicuously ignoring the existence of entire business functions that are fake and gay and staffed entirely by US government apparatchiks. The US is so dishonest that it doesn't even call them commissars but gives them openly Orwellian business titles like head of Trust, Integrity, Government Relations, Disinformation

@blob_watcher @RnaudBertrand @JonKBateman China as the insurgent rather than status quo power must pursue a fundamentally different strategy than the US. Doing tit for tat which the US is imagining is not so much self defeating as not really making Chinese capabilities stronger. The goal for Chinese industries is twofold @blob_watcher @RnaudBertrand @JonKBateman 1) Make it self reliant and 2) Capture market share from and supplant Western incumbents. This is why China will not pursue export controls to any degree because that is just shooting yourself in the foot. What it will instead is use Western businesses as competitive benchmarks

Washington economic consensus turns out to have been good for Washington and not anyone else. Who could have possibly foreseen this says economists employed by American universities, media, NGOs, and government? 🤔 There comes a point where gullibility turns to compradorism. The

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reality is that relying on immigration as a crutch doesn't work as good for countries without super high wages that can skim the cream of the crop. That privatizing everything results in different effects for smaller 50 million pop economies than large 300 million ones. Simple

One of the lessons that China should learn from Russia when it comes to Western targeted propaganda is to wade hip deep into their own internal culture wars. This isn't to earn supporters one way or the other but rather to ensure that their propaganda doesn't go unchallenged and sadly the only way to do that is to take a steaming dump on one (doesn't matter which) of their partisans shibboleths so that the other side reflexively questions the accusations. The farcical nature of the Russian electoral interference accusations from Democrats in favor of the

People need to stop making excuses for Western China watcher's ignorance and simply attributing everything to either the language barrier or the great firewall. These people are ignorant by choice and nature not by lack of opportunities. The simple proof of this is that Western China watchers are equally if not more ignorant about India than they are about China and neither excuse works for them in the slightest. Indian elites communicate entirely in English and there is zero reticence on their part in sharing their opinions nor hindrance in avenues of

One of the weirdest takes by Western China watchers is the claim that China is too autistic and undiplomatic. This is wrong because it misses the cart for the horse. The problem is not with Chinese diplomatic outreach but rather that Chinese diplomacy competes against the globe spanning leviathan of the American propaganda regime. This is an organization so powerful and subversive that it has legitimized mutilating the genitals of minors as a human right. It has turned the act of sodomy into a legally protected class. It has inverted cause and effect of

This is the most encouraging part of the Ukraine leak drama. Even in classified DoD documents, the US government continues to lie not just to the American public or politicians but to itself. It cannot accurately assess Ukrainian casualties even in internal communication because

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of political sensitivities. It's kind of like how no one is really interested in finding out who did the Nordstream bombings. Now it would be one thing if the facts were merely embarrassing to the DoD itself but it would only be embarrassing to the Ukrainian government which is

One of the really strange phenomenon is Liberals slavish obedience to "intelligence" services and their almost total subordination to the United States. You can tell how "independent" Swedish intelligence is having identified Iran of all places as a security threat to Sweden.

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Media and intelligence agencies are the prime vehicles for US infiltration. Two seemingly entire disparate vectors but actually quite similar if you understand personnel archetypes. Prestige media and intelligence agencies in the West recruit from almost overlapping demographics

The people running apologetics for the Dalai Lama overlook a simple reality. Pederasty is simply the norm of Tibetan Buddhism. When you argue whether or not his behavior was taken out of context, you ignore that rape of young boys is the default behavior of Tibetan lamas and not not exceptional. The Catholic Church gets a lot of flack because maybe 1/10 priests are sexual abusers. That would be a gross improvement for Tibetans who are probably averaging 3/4 rapists and the remaining non child rapists running cover for the majority who are. The entire

I think this is the most succinct statement of India's political economy I've ever read. For some inexplicable reason, India has developed a post industrial economic class without having first developed an industrial one. The economic foundation of every wealthy developed state

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outside of a few small ones resting on resource bounties or global financial arbitrage rest on a foundation of gradual up skilling through putting people into mass employment and disciplining labor. That has kind of skipped India for the most part where you have instead a lot of

This map of Chinese and US airbases while quantifying the basing advantage of the PLAAF doesn't quite detail just how terrible the distance disadvantage the US is working against. The only actual usable base in the event of a Taiwan war is Kadena because the other bases on Japan

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are at the extreme limits of F-35 range. They would not only have to take off with nothing but 4 internal missiles and external fuel tanks but their time on station is literally measured in seconds. This is all academic anyway because of the temporal factor. Chinese strike