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rikberry31 said:
I will agree with on some things. It is true that they value human life very little and will not hesitate to sacrifice a lot of it. Also I think that China will someday overtake Taiwan, but it will be peacefully. China has spent the decades getting their tentacles in to Taiwan, and that is how they operate. They were attempting the same thing in Panama and Venezuela until we put a stop to it.
But for the time being the U.S. cannot allow China to take control of Taiwan because we get vitally important stuff from Taiwan. Actually China does too and that is the main reason they want us out. We are currently (finally) setting up shop here to make those products domestically. Until we get that up and running, we need access to Taiwan.
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Yeah, I agree with you about China, they are patient and sort of play the long game.

This probably sounds like a silly question, but what are some examples of some of the vitally important stuff we get from Taiwan?
 
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DirtyDawg said:
Yeah, I agree with you about China, they are patient and sort of play the long game.

This probably sounds like a silly question, but what are some examples of some of the vitally important stuff we get from Taiwan?
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How do they play the long game? They literally made the single worse economic and public policy in the one child policy. That has set them on a course for societal and economic failure. They have ghost cities everywhere bc they can't project worth a damn urban sprawl and planning. "The wise and long game" is just a made up belief we have here
 
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volfanhill said:
How do they play the long game? They literally made the single worse economic and public policy in the one child policy. That has set them on a course for societal and economic failure. They have ghost cities everywhere bc they can't project worth a damn urban sprawl and planning. "The wise and long game" is just a made up belief we have here
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Their leadership tends to stay in power a lot longer than ours does though, so they can push their good and bad programs further along.
 
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volfanhill said:
How do they play the long game? They literally made the single worse economic and public policy in the one child policy. That has set them on a course for societal and economic failure. They have ghost cities everywhere bc they can't project worth a damn urban sprawl and planning. "The wise and long game" is just a made up belief we have here
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Yes, I chose a poor way to say what I meant. I 100% agree with you on China. I don’t know a great deal about the Chinese, but I’ve a very good friend that has spent a great deal of time living there and teaching English, and he tells me exactly what you say but he makes it sound much much worse. He is one of the smartest people I know, he speaks I think Mandarin fluently. I remember a bit about him saying how ridiculously backwards they are, and he did talk about ghost cities and the like.

I’m not educated on exactly how things are there, except to say that bc of my friend I do understand the point you’re making and I agree. It’s been awhile so I don’t remember exactly, but I do remember being very shocked at what he would tell me. Things that seem almost unreal bc it goes very much against everything I’d always naively assumed about China.
 
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volfanhill said:
How do they play the long game? They literally made the single worse economic and public policy in the one child policy. That has set them on a course for societal and economic failure. They have ghost cities everywhere bc they can't project worth a damn urban sprawl and planning. "The wise and long game" is just a made up belief we have here
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Absolutely correct. China is in really bad shape long term. When is becomes apparent that they are on the verge of collapse there will be millions in the streets over there and global economic panic. My advice: Save some cash to drop in U.S. manufacturing stocks when the market tanks, much preferably in companies that don't rely heavily on parts from China.
 
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trout-vol said:
I had read where the Saudis pipeline has been fully repaired which will basically bypass the Straits to allow takers to fill up away from The Straits.
You're seeing a complete change of how oil is being delivered
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Yea Saudi oil can get out. They use that pipeline and it's basically at max capacity at 7 million barrels a day. 20 million other barrels go through the Strait and it's not Saudi oil
 
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