re: Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified. Especially Ford

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That is the type of innovation that can be achieved when your investment of time and brain power is not wasted on Unity, DEI, Inclusion, Equity, and Unnecessary Green Initiatives.

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And UAW?

I'll watch one YouTube video stating that China is on the brink of a CCP collapse as their economy is being destroyed & their population, particularly the younger generations, are becoming increasingly fed up with it.

I'll watch another one stating that China is on the bring of realizing a grand utopia and will soon be utilizing technologies decades ahead of the West.

I don't particularly lean towards either extreme, although if I were to choose I'd go towards option 1. All of the supposedly revolutionary tech that they either have, or are on the cusp of getting, reminds me of the time the Soviet Union created the world crushing Mig so far above anything America had, despite it only existing on paper, that America just decided to create the F-15.

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“It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen,” said Ford’s chief executive about his recent trip to China. After visiting a string of factories, Jim Farley was left astonished by the technical innovations being packed into Chinese cars – from self-driving software to facial recognition. “Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West,” Farley warned in July. “We are in a global competition with China, and it’s not just EVs. And if we lose this, we do not have a future at Ford.” The car industry boss is not the only Western executive to have returned shaken following a visit to the Far East. Andrew Forrest, the Australian billionaire behind mining giant Fortescue – which is investing massively in green energy – says his trips to China convinced him to abandon his company’s attempts to manufacture electric vehicle powertrains in-house. “I can take you to factories [in China] now, where you’ll basically be alongside a big conveyor and the machines come out of the floor and begin to assemble parts,” he says. “And you’re walking alongside this conveyor, and after about 800, 900 metres, a truck drives out. There are no people – everything is robotic.”

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And because of our retarded policies regarding Russia and Ukraine, we've pushed China and India and Russia closer than ever before.

Massive strategic blunder that will mortally imperil the future of the US.

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BMW and Mercedes are close to scrapping their EVs and they just hit market.

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VW and Toyota are also moving away from evs and more to hybrids because it's what people want to buy

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We imported the third world because Americans don't want to work. Our "import"s have a much better work ethic.

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That’s why Mexican restaurants near me are seating every other seat. Right baw?


They aren’t working. They were getting checks from the fed.