The United States now attacks China every
day, but you should understand by now that
means the Chinese government must have done
something right, not something wrong.
This is like starving in Africa, but you have
seen American politicians scold African countries
every day?
What I want to say is that China is now targeted
by the United States, which is enough to prove
that the path China is taking is extremely
correct.
If China is a country with a weak government,
its neighbors alone, like Japan, Russia, India,
Vietnam will not let go of China.
Why was Tik Tok not born in Japan or France?
Similarly, have you heard of which global
technology company in Russia is being attacked
by the United States?
The European Union has traditional technological
powerhouses such as Germany, France, the Netherlands,
and the United Kingdom, and has a very good
relationship with the United States.
Why are Huawei and Tik Tok not born in the
European Union?
Please note that not only Huawei and Tik Tok,
but the total number of Fortune 500 companies
in China has surpassed the United States and
rank number 1 in the world.
Is this also a gift from the United States
as Mike Pence said?
If so, why didn¡¦t the American "grant"
this gift to its allies, but "grant" to China?
It is precisely because of the internal and
external effectiveness of the Chinese government
that the world has a stable expectation for
the development of the Chinese market, and
political interests have long been converted
into economic interests.
While the US government is vigorously attacking
China, US companies are vigorously investing
in China, these companies seem to be very
optimistic about the living standards and
consumption potential of the Chinese people.
This is a bit embarrassing.
If according to the rhetoric of the US government,
the Chinese are all living in hell, and the
government has the final say on what they
buy, and they don¡¦t even have a minimum
"freedom."
How can society progress, Income growth or
consumption potential?
The US government should force and encourage
US companies to invest in Afghanistan and
Iraq.
After all, they are countries that have just
been "reformed" by the US.
Isn't it too risky to come to Communist China?
Let me give you an example.
I won¡¦t talk about Tesla, Apple, Exxon
Mobil, Goldman Sachs or Morgan, which we all
know have a huge presence in China.
Costco is the United States¡¦ second largest
retail company after Wal-Mart.
It just opened its fourth store in China.
You must know that since the first store opened
in Shanghai last August, Costco has opened
its fourth store in less than a year.
They all buy the land of the shops and invest
heavily in assets.
Some people may not be very familiar with
Costco, but it is actually a well-known American
retail brand.
Its single-store profitability is four times
that of Wal-Mart, and its annual sales exceed
150 billion U.S. dollars.
Everyone knows the world-renowned supermarket
Carrefour.
But its sales of just $90 billion is less
than 60% of Costco.
Munger, partner of Warren Buffett, said that
his Costco stock would not be sold even if
he died.
I give this example to tell everyone that
businessmen and companies are most sensitive
to the market, especially these top multinational
companies.
If they can¡¦t clearly judge the political
environment and economic attractiveness of
a market, they will not take risks to invest.
Costco is not only eager to open stores in
China, but also directly buy venues.
You must know that Costco has been in Japan
for more than 20 years, and currently there
are only about 10 stores, but less than a
year after entering China, it has opened four
stores.
Another example of a consumer company is Starbucks.
According to the latest documents submitted
by Starbucks, it plans to strategically shrink
the number of US stores and close as many
as 400 stores in the next 18 months.
In the future, 500 new stores will be opened
in China.
In addition, according to the London International
Coffee Organization, the size of China's coffee
market can reach around 300 billion yuan,
and it is expected to exceed one trillion
in 2025.
Why mention Starbucks, because in the international
investment market, the "Starbucks Index" has
long been an important tool indicator for
measuring the economic vitality of cities.
The prosperity of a block and its economy
can be measured by the number of Starbucks
stores.
According to the data in the first quarter
of this year, the number of paid members of
Starbucks in the Chinese market has reached
10.2 million , an increase of 40% year-on-year.
The United States, as the world's largest
coffee market, has been developed for so many
years.
Starbucks has only 18 million paid members.
The number of Starbucks stores in China has
reached 4,300, nearly three times that of
Japan.
Please note that this is not a problem of
China's large population, but the result of
the gradual growth of the middle class.
If the relatively large consumption of Tesla
or Apple products is due to the large number
of rich people, then Costco and Starbucks
investment in the Chinese market is completely
based on the general consumers.
Costco sells commodities that are large and
cheap, covering a wide range of people, while
Starbucks' consumer groups are basically urban
office workers.
The rise of China's economy is not just about
one or two cities like Beijing, Shanghai,
Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
Recently, the opening of a shopping Plaza
in Lhasa, Tibet, is also full of shops such
as Apple, Nike, KFC and other American brands.
Uyghur minorities account for more than 80%
of the population of Kashgar in Western Xinjiang,
and its GDP is equivalent to the sum of its
neighboring Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
It should be known that Kashgar ranks only
sixth in Xinjiang according to GDP.
The Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, which
ranks fourth in Xinjiang¡¦s GDP, has a GDP
almost equivalent to that of Afghanistan.
This is the truth of what American politicians
now call "concentration camps".
In southern Xinjiang, a dam has been built
for nearly ten years.
The Altash Water Conservancy Project is known
as the "Three Gorges" of Xinjiang.
After completion, it will completely solve
the flooding during the snowmelt season.
The irrigation area will add tens of thousands
of hectares of fertile land and support four
million people.
The western media does not tell anyone about
this.
During the British Magna Carta era, in the
Song Dynasty of China, China invented the
world's earliest banknotes and became the
world's most prosperous commercial market.
Among them was the invention of movable type
printing.
It is precisely because of the introduction
of Chinese papermaking and movable type printing
to Europe that Europe has the opportunity
to publish a large number of religious readings
which greatly improved literacy rate and then
led to the Renaissance, the separation of
church and state and the enlightenment movement
made it a reality to form a secular regime
and bureaucracy to govern the country and
develop the economy.
And as early as three thousand years ago,
China already completed this process.
In 1532, Italian politician and thinker Niccolo
Machiavelli's "The Prince" was first published.
It is listed by Western critics as one of
the ten books that influence human history
on a par with the "Bible" and "Das Kapital".
In November 2015, it was rated as the 20 most
influential academic books.
Regarding the influence of "The Prince", when
the French kings Henry III and Henry IV were
assassinated they were carrying this book;
the Prince Frederick of Prussia took it as
the basis for his decision-making; Louis XIV
of France took it as the must-read before
going to bed; when people cleaned the battlefield
of Waterloo, they found an annotated French
version in Napoleon¡¦s car; Bismarck of
Germany was called a devout disciple of Machiavellianism;
Hitler said that he had always put the book
on his bedside and often drawing strength
from it; Mussolini of Italy said to people:
"I think this book is the highest guide for
politicians, and it still has vitality."
But to any Chinese who read this book knows
that the "imperial arts" described in the
book and the political required by an emperor
on how to integrate and unify a divided country,
was completed by the first Chinese Emperor
over 2200 years ago.
In other words, in the past hundreds of years,
this book was considered by all kinds of great
and shameless politicians in the West as the
supreme guide on how to rule the country,
is actually nothing more than opposing division
and unscrupulously establishing a unified
country, something every common Chinese in
the past two thousand years understood very
well.
In fact, when talking about how the current
Western society leads the world, there are
two real reasons, one is the industrial revolution
and the other is the colonial era.
The Industrial Revolution gave the West a
sense of superiority in the world for the
first time.
At this time, the era of scarcity was gradually
ending.
The so-called "Five Eyes Alliance" is a powerful
"democracy" that is actually based on the
colonization of the New World by the West.
The New World is vast and sparsely populated.
Everyone no longer competes fiercely for resources,
so they can maintain a sense of distance,
and they can survive hardly without competition.
You can imagine that in a place as big as
North America, there were only 5 million people
in 1800.
You must know that the arable land there is
more than 1.6 million square kilometers, which
is much more than the entire arable land of
China.
This makes these colonies have unusual "pursuits"
for privacy and freedom, private property,
etc., and have a certain sense of fear for
big governments based on the traditional history
of Eurasia.
You must know the population of China in 1800
was 300 million.
If there is no strong government, the competition
between people will enter a continuous fierce
and disordered state.
Weak regimes simply cannot cope with these
challenges.
Therefore, it is the needs of the people that
have shaped different national forms.
If you cannot learn to respect each other,
its contradictions will be difficult to reconcile.
The problem now is that the dividends brought
by the industrial revolution to Europe and
the United States are declining sharply, and
there are no more colonies for the West to
occupy, and the world has entered an era of
fierce face-to-face competition.
If Americans have no jobs, they have to blame
China instead of reclaiming a piece of land,
building a factory, and building a railway.
In my opinion, the industrial revolution is
not at all the product of Magna Carta and
other institutions, nor is it a product of
a specific social system, but a coincidence
of mankind.
It's like you can't say that China had the
first four great inventions, and you can come
to a conclusion that China's system is the
most advanced in the world and is conducive
to creation and invention.
In the same way, now that all technological
inventions and creations are simply regarded
as the products of the Western system, that
would be a big mistake.
Although China did not directly invent the
steam engine, most of the key technologies
related to the steam engine, such as pistons,
valves, belt drives, etc., appeared in China
much earlier than in Europe.
Even many scholars in Europe believe that
the invention of the steam engine in Europe
was inspired by Chinese technology.
But the lack of coal in the south of the Yangtze
River, where China's textile industry is very
developed, restricted the development of steam
engines and ironmaking.
It was accidental that Britain discovered
a large amount of coal that could be used
directly in the open air.
Regarding the industrial revolution, I will
give you another example.
For example, the Soviet Union is a planned
economy.
According to Western logic, under this system,
the entire society is not creative, but the
Soviet Union can still produce the world¡¦s
first artificial satellites, the Soviet Union
was once ahead of the world in rockets and
many material sciences.
I am not here to say good things about the
planned economy, but to tell everyone that
if there is no systematic and historical study
of human development any one-sided respect
for a single cognition will be dangerous.
Japan did not start the Meiji Restoration
until more than a hundred years ago, and,
like Germany, it was destroyed in World War
II.
However, the current level of technological
and economic development of these two countries
is even higher than that of the United Kingdom.
Can you say that the industrial revolution,
technological inventions and creations are
only derived from the institutional system
respected by British and American people?
It is precisely because the industrial revolution
has little to do with specific social systems
that the United States is now very worried
about the development of Chinese technology.
Assuming that the United States is very confident
that a set of American systems can have advantages
that the world can't match, and can sit back
and relax in the future technological innovation
competition, then there is no need to suppress
and contain Chinese technology companies.
Right?
What I want to say is, whether it is the accidental
outbreak of the Industrial Revolution in the
UK, or the large-scale development in the
United States, and then to Germany and Japan
to jump to a new level, in fact, once everyone
understands the power of the industrial revolution,
the industrialization development will happen
sooner or later.
Today, China¡¦s industrial scale and industrial
competitiveness, as well as the emerging technological
Cambrian explosion is the best proof for all
these.
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