How Did China Become So Big?
The current extent of China’s borders were created by imperial conquests and settler colonialism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzQsdld7T_k
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China’s Debt Problem Is 300% Bigger Than America’s
China’s Debt Problem Is 300% Bigger Than America’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LygiZAFZ86Y
Huge explosion at ‘vital’ Russia oil refinery | Ukraine: The Latest
China has been providing drone parts to Russia, supporting Russia in its invasion for territorial conquest.
China wants Russia to win to keep Russia a larger threat. This distracts the U.S. from China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMI8JYBvZM4
China’s Shadow Moves: Ukraine, State Capitalism, and AI Ambitions | China Watch
Trump’s tariffs are likely to produce a record trade surplus for China as imports from China are frontloaded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze8fbNgsZ0s
Threats and Cash: How China Meddles in U.S. Local Elections
The Chinese government didn’t like that a New York state resident had a meeting with Taiwanese officials. They found someone to run against her, supported the opponent, and she lost the election. The Chinese government intervened in this election and successfully changed who represents Americans. The Chinese government has done this to multiple people in multiple elections in multiple countries.
Chinese groups in America have people pledge to achieving Chinese Communist Party specific goals. Chinese Americans in these groups have business interest in China, and the Chinese government can control them by threatening these business interests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lISewNerBlA
How China’s $285M Export Hub in Brazil Will Cost U.S. Billions | WSJ Center Point
Because of the trade war, China is getting more agriculture goods from Brazil than the U.S.. China is building a port in Brazil to get even more from Brazil and even less from the U.S.. Too bad for U.S. farmers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4l_wHA8kvk
How the U.S. Just Handed the Renewable Future to China
Trump’s big beautiful bill takes away money from growing renewable energy that employs more jobs than coal and toward dying coal. It’s not just bad for the environment, it’s bad business. The bill makes it difficult to use components from China, even though China is one of our key suppliers. This will limit U.S. production.
The bill expands fossil fuel subsidies. Subsidies are essentially giving money to companies. This should be done when certain industries are important to emphasize above and beyond the incentive for profit-making, like environmental benefits. Considering fossil fuels cause deadly air pollution as well as contribute to global warming, subsidizing them makes no sense.
Fossil fuel industries are already built out, so subsidies pay such companies for doing stuff that they were doing anyways. Renewable industries are still developing and growing, so subsidies actually create new business. Once you consider the environmental impacts, fossil fuel subsidies net a negative return.
Trump’s bill has led to a lot of fired scientists. Foreign countries are offering bonuses to hire these scientists. These nonsense policies are producing American brain drain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tNp2vsxEzk
BRICS Breaking
Russia gets more oil revenue from India than China, fueling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8_3HiGh9rE
U.S. Revenue Grab on Chip Exports Raises Legal, Economic Alarms
“Nvidia, which makes up 92 percent of the global GPU market, and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which has the remaining 8 percent, have reached a deal with the Trump administration. They’ll get export licenses for the sale of certain chips to China in exchange for 15 percent of the revenues generated by the sales, reports the Financial Times.
“No US company has ever agreed to pay a portion of their revenues to obtain export licences,” the paper notes.
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The new agreement is not only unusual—it could be illegal, too. The Constitution states in no uncertain terms, “No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.” Yet this is what the Trump administration is effectively doing by conditioning permission to export these products on the forfeiture of 15 percent of sales revenue. Padilla appears to agree, telling the Post that “this arrangement seems like bribery or blackmail, or both.
Even if the deal brokered between the chipmakers and the federal government were legal, it would still be uneconomical. The revenue—hundreds of millions of dollars—will be directed to a Treasury Department slush fund that will allocate it arbitrarily. Nvidia and AMD have a stronger incentive, more information, and a better track record with investing dollars in a manner that yields a high return on investment.
U.S. export controls have not stopped China from developing AI, but they have denied American GPU firms access to much-needed revenue. Imposing this constitutionally dubious 15 percent tax is yet another example of unnecessary interference with the private sector.”
https://reason.com/2025/08/11/u-s-revenue-grab-on-chip-exports-raises-legal-economic-alarms/
The U.S. is behind in drone warfare – Can it catch up?
The U.S. military needs to catch up on drone warfare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWQLliiCtu4