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Does Trump want to turn America into China? How come politicians – including those on the right – want to nationalise steel in the …
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The China advantage is that the shrinking workforce is forcing them to turn to robot and if I am not mistaken, there is a Chinese factory that had went "dark",using all robot thus not human is needed on the factory floor and thus no light needed.
I'm with China 100%……….
China is not outsmarting Trump but rather america
Trump is now the most hated person on earth. He is a very smart moron.
Did he say that Shanghai had built 500 parks and is going to build another 500 in next 20 yrs?
Trump went into war with China without preparation. 可能他还在经年期。
China is taking the piss out of America and the rest of the world is just watching America go right into the rabbit hole
Trump is a thug and a bully.
The Chinese have been building and improving in the last 2 decades. In so many areas they have become number 1 1. Drones 2. High speed rail 3. Non cash seamless digital economy 4. Shipbuilding 5. Mobiles 6. Consumer electronics 7. Robotics 8. EVs 9. Batteries 10. Modern infrastructure 11. Hypersonic weapons 12. Nuclear reactors incld Thorium 13. CCTV and face recognition 14. 5.5G 15. Toys 16. E bikes 17. TVs and screens 18. Auto parts 19. Rare earth metal refining and permanent magnets 20 and thousands more.
They have the largest pool of STEM graduates, tooling engineers, welders etc. ( expert specialists labor ).
On the arms race issue , if China spends US300B on weapons , US need spend US1T simply because they are an industrial power with way lower costs. They are the kings of mass production, just look at the IPhone. No other country even comes close to- highly specialized, highly tooled , high precision manufacturing.
Why does uk have 145% on china Isn’t that USA
These two are good to be together talking about the same language they both enjoyed when China is receiving or will be receiving the sticks as it relates to them.
China doesn't think like the way the speaker has described.
Chinese people are humble and respectful to the people they are dealing with. However, they will not hesitate to retaliate in kind when they see no reciprocating from the side who is out to bully them.
The commentary has revealed the truth in the conflict in trade and currency use in valuation and the countries reactions towards the series of consequences end up by the conflicts arising. 15:08
The trade wars have actually shrunk into a tug of war race between the two super economic powers that's America and China. While America has used the USD to its advantages in transection in almost all commodities and even properties as well. 5:09
Funny thing is the ordinary people in China nowadays are actually having much cheaper products coz all those supposedly exports are now staying for domestic consumption. So I personally spend much less on groceries. But of course as a Chinese we think of the bigger picture and I’m worried for those factories and the bosses who are losing money. Bad for then. But then again, they’re trying to get to other markets and I happen to know that elsewhere there’s a growing market for our products. So no worries. We’ll be alright.
Bunch of bullocks. First thing first, how is China's economics in trouble? China has been growing 5% as the 2nd largest economy in the world, how is this even near "in trouble"? Wake up, Chinese economy is strong. The only reason you think it was in trouble, it's through the housing crisis, which isn't even an issue in China, because you are looking it through western glasses. It is not an issue simply because the banks receive order from the centre government in a macro strategy to finance high tech departments, instead of throwing trillions of dollars in the housing market to artificially inflating it. Those money gone to the high tech has hatched numerous high tech companies including DeepSeek and such, whereas your thought of "trouble" through housing crisis is because when the housing market isn't rising in the west, home owners have the fear that their networth isn't going up. Houses are for people to live, not for people to profit, and the Chinese government certainly know that much better than you do.
People ask me why we learned English & French in the 90s and the 2000s in school, rather than Mandarin?!
My guy, China, as recently as 2003, had a smaller economy than freaking Italy 🤣
Easiest job in the world outsmarting the cretinous Trump!
Exactly Rory! It’s the lack of foresight in planning alternative, dignified employment for workers that is putting UK behind.
Good that they've taken up the issue of the steel works at Scunthorpe but sadly barely mentioned Grangemouth (closed at end April). So Scotland must surely be the only major oil and gas producing in the world with no refinery. Anglo-centric politics – so bugger Scottish workers yet again
It used to be a legitimate debate between the left and right vis-a-vis the role of the state in the economy with regards to "public goods". That basic services such as public transport, utilities and strategic industries were best state owned. The neo liberal economic orthodoxy of the last few decades seems to have made people forget this legitimate debate, to the extent that a significant amount of western "prediction" of the fall of China is based on the fact that China is a mixed socialist economy, that her state ownership of key infrastructural industries and a significant portion of the private sector would somehow lead to inefficiencies and collapse.
These commentaries also ignore the increasing wealth gap in western societies – a bequeath of neo liberalism and rampant unfettered, capitalism. The decline of public infrastructure in the west is clear for all to see. Likewise life expectancy and quality of life. Yet there is a tendency in the west to "lecture" China on her economic polity, a system that has lifted 850m people from poverty, created the only economy in the world that narrowed wealth gaps and controlled tech oligarchs, let alone lead the world in green technology etc.
China is not perfect. No country is. But the west needs to detached itself from the dogma of neo liberalism and study China objectively. Perhaps she has a thing or two to teach.
The Chinese companies will take it out the additional tariff cost on quality and pass on the tariffs. Peter Navarro refuses to recognize this and trump is just out of touch due to his early stage of dementia. A conman with dementia.
Are Viktor Orban and Gerhard Schröder Russian spies. They seem very chummy with Putin.
Outsmarting Trump doesn't take much effort 😂😅
Let's see if China is in trouble as Mr blue suit said, you are not talking about America in deep shit, China is way far away from the US, US don't take care of their citizens because they take care of the wealthy period
If China can lift 800 millions of people in good condition is the US doing that
China will stand, the same Russia will stand
Capitalist is killing the world, wars every time, the US will not catch up to China, when every time you economy is going you look someone to blame, the word China is a treat it's makes me sick, how does it happen
The US is the treat to the whole world thinking the world is in their hands, the US disturbed the world bullying sanctions toppling leaders, propaganda it people nine hundred military bases for what reason
The trade balance is a excuse only the US has a one trillion trade balance that they don't talk about and China didn't protest, hearing China millionaire are leaving China I have been hearing that long ago and still China is rising, countries are dumbing your bonds are mentioning it, what ever mr blue suit is saying asked him if he ever travel to China so called experts, how expert can fixed the American debt still now every day lots of experts sitting on paid TV saying rubbish
Maga in canada = make america go away!🤣
Alastair we all knew that you were comee you really show you colours with WMD
It was fun to hear about China is weak now and it’s the best time to hit China. What a backward story.
If we for a moment look at the international numbers for 2025 before the tariffs – we would realize, the US is without any doubt desperate right now now.
US debt has being stopped now by 36.1 trillion $. No new loans possible. The US trade deficit is between 122 -131 billion $ each month ..! and the GTP growth is about 2%.
Whilst at the same time China has a huge amount of savings, and did borrow over a trillion $ to US. China has a surplus about 101.6 billion $ in March and each month l, for years now. And China has an GTP growth about 5,6% This is nearly 3x the American growth rate. When we see the Chinese trade to US is in 2025 down from 12% to only 6% of total Export, there is not much effect the trade war has on China. Why? When we realize, the US population is just 4% of the Worlds population, then we see there are 96% of the world’s population who still buy Chinese goods and services. So how important is the US really…? The 4% is trying to bully the 96%…? Who is desperate in this game…? China or the United States?
Some information is good. But a lot of the biased data about China. If you have being in China the last years, there is absolutely no sign of dictatorship. People are save and the government is providing a logistic in their life, 25 years ahead of Europe and US. It is decentralized and the Meyers in the cities are competing with each other. The housing crisis was created by private investors from China, but also foreign investors, speculating in the rapid growth. The prizes did soar unrealistically. China didn’t support this speculations and when the first bankruptcy did occur, the government did not bail out this companies. The deflated the bobble deliberately and now the housing prizes are bak to normal again. So this myth was created by Western propaganda. No reason to parroting it over and over again.
Food is riculously expensive in the US…..I spend like $25 on a meal in McDonald's…….its $4 in China
You can't beat China…..they have a workforce willing to work 24/7 365…….Trump was hoping Americans would work for $2 per hour….ain't gonna happen
Just came from the “Daily” comment section.
I’m convinced said section is almost purely bot driven agenda bs.
An article about an ancient indigenous Australian tradition generated patriotic Aussie comments…entirely from British accounts😂
100% strike rate as of 1 hour ago. “228” comments.
China’s MO is outsmarting everyone they deal with! If EU is smart, then EU should know that China has been playing the upper hands on everyone.
As they say you can not have a niddle with two sharp end.
Oh I remember what nationalised industries were like, they didn't pay millions to many CEOs nor did they asset strip everything. All the Tories policies to sell them off and put money in their own pockets, look at the state of the country now!
Out of curiosity, has either one of you been to China? Or spent a significant amount of time in the country that you are commenting on?
It's over. “A 2025 Bankrate report found that 59% of Americans, in excess of two hundred million US Citizens, don't have enough savings to cover an unexpected $1,000 emergency expense.” How did this poverty happen?
“A study by an MIT economist Peter Temin, Professor Emeritus of Economics shows that the United States of America has regressed materially to a third-world nation for most of its citizens”
Alistair Campball is a grub, Rory Stewart is a disingenuous dweeb
The US has never been a worse position with indebtedness and the Trump administration. A long term strategic plan of both debt reduction and strengthening ties with allies cannot happen with current gaggle of rank amateurs and sycophants wrecking the economy.
Why does Alistair always sound quieter than Rory?
Rory u are soooooo brilliant. Why Britain didn’t somehow keep u here l can’t begin to understand! However at least u can lecture to the whole world. Your analysts of the global market is sooo clear and distinct, the USA must relish u as a lecturer, but why aren’t u lecturing at Oxbridge! This country needs u, and then all those flights to the U.K. isn’t environmentally friendly???
Rory u are soooooo brilliant. Why Britain didn’t somehow keep u here l can’t begin to understand! However at least u can lecture to the whole world. Your analysts of the global market is sooo clear and distinct, the USA must relish u as a lecturer, but why aren’t u lecturing at Oxbridge! This country needs u, and then all those flights to the U.K. isn’t environmentally friendly???
What a brilliant talk! Love u two!
USA population has zero resilience , the Chinese population can deal with this nonsense much more easily than the Americans . And deepseek changes everything – if you withhold technology from China they will reinvent the wheel and it will be better than the original
Yah , thanks to both democrat and republicans in congress who let china to get this level of power and leverage as your saying , and thank to president Trump that is finally standing to china .
America has been the big dog on the block for 70 years, but now a couple more big dogs have showed up: China, India, The EU and America is mad. Hey, this is my block.
English please not gibberish