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Sarah’s Low Cost Electric Vehicles

China has been producing electric cars at low cost and examples of prices five years ago are shown here (May of 2020)

Robocars of China

How China was promoting robotics and automated vehicles (August 2018). This initiative was at the provincial level (Guizhou Province), intended to build support for innovation.

Dinner and Covid

Discussion of the pandemic from China (May 2020)

Communism
Explaining Communism to Sarah (May 2020)

500 — Teaching in China

Jack is teaching a class of 500, making friends and promoting English and Youth Exchange (Dec 2018)
The New Obsession

The Obsession bar of Guiyang hosting jazz and a fusion with Western culture.
Jesse Pitts – Hero

Discussion with Ray about Professor Jesse Pitts multiculturalism, wartime events, and the relationship with China – WWII Flying Tigers and heroism in the skies over Germany. (June 2022)

Local Government Related issues —

Consolidation 1`
Local Government Streamlining.

We can do better with streamlining the local government structure, allowing better listening and response to the needs of the people. This is Part I of a two-hour discussion on streamlining local government. The City of Battle Creek and Battle Creek Township is the most recent model of modernization. That consolidation occurred in 1982 (Roughly 42 years ago as of 2026)

Consolidation 2

Continuation of the local government streamlining video.

Tragedy at Brown Bridge Reloaded

Video shows Brown Bridge Pond and the Boardman River, before and after dam removal (June 2017)
The New Nasa

When the USA space program faltered . . . Inspiring the Young
(June 2011)

Chinese Driverless Cars are Coming to the West

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The NY Times has an article about driverless cars coming to Western Countries and this product has legs and a market.  Soon these vehicles will become part of a fleet of “Connected” dirverless cars.  Imagine a “train” of cars without drivers. The technical problems are largely solved and the driverless cars have political problems, but few technolical obstacles.

Global perceptions of China are shifting — thanks to Trump

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This is an article from: Nikkei Asia: Abishur Prakash

February 17, 2025 05:05 JST

Abishur Prakash is the founder of The Geopolitical Business, Inc, a Toronto-based strategy advisory firm, and produces the Mr. Geopolitics insights for global leaders.

Since 2020, the global perception of China has shifted. After decades of embracement and outreach, China has been getting the cold shoulder.

Each nation has its reasons.

A decade ago, nobody was trying to keep China at bay. Today, many walls and barriers restrict China’s footprint. But tomorrow, views on China may be about to change again.

The moves U.S. President Donald Trump makes toward allies and adversaries could end up making America the “black sheep.” In fact, China may have already caught wind of such a possible switch on the horizon.

Over the past few months, in anticipation of Trump’s return, China has shored up ties with several key Asian nations, engaging in “rapid rapprochement” toward relationships that have been simmering for years.

With Japan, China proposed restarting imports of Japanese seafood, which were banned in 2023 after Tokyo released treated Fukushima water into the Pacific Ocean. With India, an agreement has been reached on an almost half-decade border dispute. With Australia, trade ties, derailed after the pandemic, have been restored, as Australian exports to China passed $145 billion in 2023, the highest on record.

Why is China doing this?

One explanation is that China is stabilizing its relationship with the U.S.’s sphere of influence to ensure American allies are not as angry at Beijing as they are at Washington. However, simply buying seafood will not reset China-Japan relations. And India is not part of that U.S. sphere.

A more plausible explanation is that China is positioning itself for a changing of the winds.

As Trump angers nations, some could move closer to China to offset his moves. Across Asia, China is opening doors that have been slowly closing, in preparation for countries rebalancing themselves.

This does not mean China will try to be everybody’s best friend. That train left the station a long time ago. But, if today, there are only two paths for countries in dealing with China (cosying up as a partner, or giving it the cold shoulder), now there is a third: China as a more stable, pragmatic and approachable nation than the U.S. — even with the hangups countries have toward Beijing.

The boldest Trump moves, like the 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico or the withdrawal of the U.S. from international treaties and bodies like the Paris climate agreement or the World Health Organization, may push many to walk on the path China is now laying down.

The New Old China

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China Deflation. . .

The Covid Crackdown and now the trade war have created massive issues for the Beijing economy. How will the US and China work together to get through this? We have seen how the old round robin of revenge works in trade wars. We see some preNixon China emerging and we don’t know if the US and China are drifting apart or closer together. Deflation in China is nothing to sneeze at though:

China’s falling prices are a more profound problem than U.S. inflation (yahoo.com)

 

US Congress and China

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An ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.”

What about doing business in China. Here is food for thought:

U.S. trade with China has declined, even as Beijing deals with strains on its own economy.

US Congress on Business in China

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I try to stay out of politics with the Toiurguizhou Web site. After ten years in business, this is the only “Dot Com” I know of that isn’t blocked.  Well this last post might be considered a little political, but desperate times call for desperate measures . . .

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One of the best performers ever.

One of the best performers I ever saw in China was about 2004 in Guiyang.  Her concert was sold out and was supposed to start at 8pm. But first, the introductions:

There were a massive number of important party officials that needed to be introduced before the concert. I was impatient because I saw a storm moving in and there were about 10,000 people in the stadium, all waiting in anticipation. I thought it would be a huge storm and I thought we would get drenched. A good friend of mine was the translator.

The host read the life story of each official, maybe 20, and my friend translated. My friend was an excellent translator and said her translation for each official was about 10 or 20 words, when the Chinese version was 100 or 200 words for each person. When I teased her later about her abbreviated translations, she said: “Nobody cares about the introductions . . .” She was right. These introductions  went on a really long time, over a half an hour. Then the warm up band played a little while, and then Coco finally came on about 10 PM. There was a huge storm on 3 sides of the stadium and I had hoped it would pass.

Coco was fearless and came out as it started raining, and then the lightening. There was a lot of lightening. Finally a big lightening bolt hit nearby and took out a lot of lights. The complete sound system was burnt up. Oh well. I heard 15 minutes or so. It was another adventure finding my ride home, but that is another story.

Coco was a huge star. It is such a shame to lose her.