Quote (Black XistenZ @ Nov 19 2022 11:39am)
For the German Greens, nuclear energy is not part of the green agenda. Also, the French neglected their nuclear power plants for years, leading to a lot of them having to be shut down for maintenance this summer.
K, so fix it?
China is building 150 nuclear plants over the next few decades, are you just gonna sit there arguing that Europeans are too stupid and corrupt to match them?
Quote (Black XistenZ @ Nov 19 2022 11:39am)
We will see where they settle in the long run.
We can see where things are settling in just 9 months.
When they leave they aren't coming back, you know that, right? To lure them back requires advantages versus where they'll be that are similar to the disadvantages that they are pushing them to leave presently.
What do you suppose that's gonna be? Energy cost
parity, which you won't even have versus America or China, isn't going to be sufficient. You think the European workforce is that much better? That the regulatory environment is that much better? You think Europe is going to go mercantilist and demand onshoring?
Quote (Hamsterbaby @ Nov 19 2022 11:41am)
Personally please don't be earlier.
I had a discussion on this with a few close friends from China , HK and Taiwan during our drinking session 2 weeks back.
China will need to decouple from the United States " first" or as much as possible before that even happen. it will take at least 8 to 10 years in my opinion.
Some of my mates say that they are watching the Russia /Ukraine situation very clearly before making any moves , it needs to be calculated very carefully.
Of course it should be approached carefully, but the antagonist China is facing doesn't have the ability to act carefully. It just stumbles from one insane escalation to the next while competing factions counteract each others movements depending on how hawkish they are.
Consider this, from a recent story about chip sanctions:
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There’s a sense in Japan that US companies will manage to continue to do business with China while others suffer. One complaint was the controls will spur Beijing to advance its chip technology, leaving the US and China strengthened and everyone else at a disadvantage.
Yet American equipment suppliers are livid.
Applied Materials, Lam Research and KLA helped Washington craft a detailed list of very targeted items that they identified as choke points for Beijing’s development of chip technologies after meeting with Raimondo in July to talk about how to limit China’s capabilities without hurting the US companies’ market shares.
They were promised the government wouldn’t move ahead with the controls before having allies onboard. However, the government officials failed to convince partners or inform the chip firms of their plans to implement the measures in October. Just days before the announcement, they were no longer picking up calls from the companies concerned. The firms are now skeptical of a deal within the nine-month timeframe cited by Raimondo. All three companies declined to comment for this story.
America is volatile, and it's running out of time. There are no longer any Kissingers or Brennans or Brzezinskis in America, now they have Nulands and Blinkens and Sullivans. In other words: morons.
This post was edited by kusotarre1 on Nov 19 2022 01:56pm