Andre’s Reviews > Der chinesische (Alb)Traum: Wie aus Chinas Aufstieg die größte geopolitische Herausforderung für den Westen wurde > Status Update

Well, that ended grim. Understandable.

so the problems for foreign firms in China were known for such a long time..

what´? No examples of japanese atrocities over the ages? Only german, english and french? Plus, he should have stated that this identifying with victim status is very dangerous.

I had seen this comparison between china and japan as well, but like he said here, japan had a very different system and was no terrirtorial expansionist power after World War 2

He wrote about the many many buildings built but not how many of them stay empty or fall apart.

true, when it is convenient or allegedly for a good cause, many people will become very authoriterian.

So 1024 was the first paper money, then Kublai Khan enriched himself in 1273 on behalf of the citizens with it by forbidding private gold and silver ownership. And later the ming emperors used the same trick and so did the communists.

I never heard of Baotou but this text about high cancer rates does ring a bell. And all due to rare earth minerals, which are not rare just difficult to extract.

So the percentage of coal power in china lowered but the absolute number rose. And so does the number of nuclear power plants. And china does it for energy autonomy and producing steel for construction. And it looking eco-friendly is mostly due to damms producing electricity and they have a higher percentage than wind and solar but still dwarved by coal and nuclear.

China was the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2006 already? Economists calculated it would overtake the US in 2020 but it did it in 2006 already, in 2020 it was at 28 % and I know that now it is more like 30 %. And true, what good to ev-cars if factories produce most air pollution; factories that produce said electricity.