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Inside China Business
Добавлен 8 окт 2011
Key insights and strategies for global business owners and managers, from inside the world's factory and supply chains.
We live and work in Mainland China, and travel extensively throughout the country to find the highest-quality products at competitive prices, for markets abroad.
During many of our videos, we are saying a quiet prayer for the peace of the world, and that our content is helpful to our listeners.
Several viewers have written, expressing their appreciation and generous offers to send money. It is very satisfying to learn that we are sharing information that is helpful. Please consider, instead, supporting one of the many orphanages or ministries here in South Asia, or elsewhere in the developing world.
Thank you.
Kevin
kdwalmsley@directequipmentcorp.com
For transcripts and direct links, and additional resources, please visit our Substack at kdwalmsley.substack.com/
We live and work in Mainland China, and travel extensively throughout the country to find the highest-quality products at competitive prices, for markets abroad.
During many of our videos, we are saying a quiet prayer for the peace of the world, and that our content is helpful to our listeners.
Several viewers have written, expressing their appreciation and generous offers to send money. It is very satisfying to learn that we are sharing information that is helpful. Please consider, instead, supporting one of the many orphanages or ministries here in South Asia, or elsewhere in the developing world.
Thank you.
Kevin
kdwalmsley@directequipmentcorp.com
For transcripts and direct links, and additional resources, please visit our Substack at kdwalmsley.substack.com/
Bitcoin and the BRICS will make Hong Kong the biggest financial center in the world
Hong Kong is rapidly building its banking and trading systems to compete as a major hub for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
But the objectives for China, and Hong Kong's advantages as a major financial center, do not necessarily involve crypto speculation by hedge funds and wealth managers. Instead, Hong Kong will serve as the banking center for companies and countries that use Bitcoin for real business activities, and the trade of tangible products and actual services.
Most of the world's natural resources economies can profitably mine Bitcoin, based on recent market prices. To do so, they need access to capital equipment that produces power, and Bitcoin rigs that convert electricity t...
But the objectives for China, and Hong Kong's advantages as a major financial center, do not necessarily involve crypto speculation by hedge funds and wealth managers. Instead, Hong Kong will serve as the banking center for companies and countries that use Bitcoin for real business activities, and the trade of tangible products and actual services.
Most of the world's natural resources economies can profitably mine Bitcoin, based on recent market prices. To do so, they need access to capital equipment that produces power, and Bitcoin rigs that convert electricity t...
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Panic in global metals markets as China rare earth export bans close brokerage hubs
Просмотров 73 тыс.9 часов назад
China has tightened its export bans on materials with military applications. Its customs office is approving sales only to well-known end users, and for non-military use only. China also has successfully closed off access to its markets by brokers and resellers. These hubs in Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, and London report being unable to procure any metals in 2024. The Chinese bans are pushing m...
Investor Alert: Revolutionary ironmaking method will nullify tariffs and scramble iron ore markets
Просмотров 79 тыс.12 часов назад
"Flash Ironmaking" is a new technique, involving spraying iron ore powders into hot smelters. Chinese researchers report a 3,600-fold boom in productivity and time savings. China is heavily dependent on imports of higher-grade iron ores from Australia, Brazil, and Chile, with imports totaling over a billion tons per year. But this new method can successfully employ lower-yield ores, which China...
The US wants to build a supply chain for lithium batteries. But the math doesn't work.
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The United States imports about $2 billion of lithium ion batteries from China each month. These batteries are used to power electric vehicles from Tesla, and from other major equipment manufacturers. Washington officials and industry leaders hope to build an entire supply chain for these batteries in North America. But in order to do so, and protect our nascent industry from China's low pricin...
CATL, BYD, and Tesla expose Europe's EV battery 'reshoring': only China and Korea can build them
Просмотров 56 тыс.19 часов назад
European governments are hoping to "reshore" the EV and battery industries, to reduce dependency on Asian factories and bring back manufacturing jobs. But the EV industry was never in Europe, nor in North America, at either the scale or the levels of efficiency and engineering expertise that we observe in Chinese or South Korean plants. CATL is the world's biggest battery maker, and employs ove...
Investor alert: China is drinking a lot more coffee, and taking the supply chains off our exchanges
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China is the fastest-growing coffee market in the world. There are now more coffee shops in China than in any other country, by far, up from virtually zero just twenty years ago. It is instructive to observe how China is meeting this new, booming demand, because it is so similar to China's supply chain strategies across entire industrial and consumer sectors. For this presentation, we will foll...
US price tag for China's gallium export ban: $602 billion and new monopolies for Huawei
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In retaliation over semiconductor export bans, China banned exports of gallium. A mere 30% reduction in gallium supplies to global markets would result in a $602 billion hit to the US economy alone, according to experts. What's more, gallium is a critical component in 5G telecom gear, a market where Huawei already has large advantages and is believed to be at least a generation ahead of competi...
Why South America now does all its business with China: US companies, investors are dumb and lazy
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In the past twenty years, China has become the leading trade partner for most of the countries in South America. This is despite strong overtures by Latin America for increased trade and stronger ties with North America and Western Europe. China has poured hundreds of billions of dollars of Foreign Direct Investment into South America. China's Belt and Road Initiative involved large upgrades to...
New trade routes from Brazil and Russia are putting US farmers, ranchers out of business
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Record grain harvests in China and India are reducing Asia's dependency on imports, to levels far below those forecasted in prior years. But more of the BRICS nation supply chains for grains are shifting away from North America and Europe, and to Russia and Kazakhstan. South America's ag sector is also booming, also in grains and soybeans. But Brazil is exporting record volumes of beef to China...
China's BYD and Great Wall pour billions into Brazil after Ford, Mercedes abandon the market
Просмотров 56 тыс.14 дней назад
BYD and Great Wall are Chinese carmakers, who enjoy surprising success in Brazil. This after Ford and Mercedes shuttered plants there, and industry experts widely predicted that Brazilian consumers would not accept Chinese brands, nor electric vehicles. But the economics of EV's, particularly in Brazil, are obvious in retrospect. What's more, the economics of manufacturing EV's in Brazil are si...
China's overcapacity and shipbuilding
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Over half of the world's ships are now built in Chinese shipyards, which have grown by nearly 3 times in just ten years. At no time in recent history, and perhaps ever, has the world's shipbuilding industry been so dominated by a single country. In order to meet the skyrocketing demand for new ships, which has more than doubled in just the past four years, China first had to invest heavily in s...
Global Majority nations are de-dollarizing trade with Panda Bonds and African banks
Просмотров 53 тыс.14 дней назад
Top African banks are key in the BRICS push to do more trade outside the US Dollar, and especially outside Western systems. By setting up branches inside China, African banks are able to borrow and lend in renminbi, the Chinese currency. This allows for cross-border trades to be settled in local currencies and RMB, instead of through USD-denominated letters of credit or debt markets. Panda Bond...
Flying cars and heavy drones fueling China's new low-altitude economy
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China is racing to build a zero-to-one economy in 3-D low-altitude space. They already enjoy near-monopolies on advanced drone technologies and manufacturing, along with electric batteries. Now China's central government and each of its provinces are pushing ambitious plans to incorporate heavy electric drones into key areas of the Chinese economy, then roll out those technologies across the wo...
China's AI hospitals will transform medicine across the world. But not in the United States.
Просмотров 55 тыс.21 день назад
China has invested heavily in AI across medical applications. Population-scale testing is now underway at Beijing's Tsinghua University, and in Shanghai at Tongji University. Dramatic improvements are already evident in the observed error rates in diagnosis and treatment recommendations. In the US, diagnostic errors across all disease is over 11%, with high percentages of Americans reporting si...
China blows up diamond market and DeBeers with near-monopoly on manmade superhard materials
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China produces 95% of the world's manmade diamonds. Lab-grown diamonds are now vital components in industrial machinery, cutting tools, and even in semiconductors and electronics. For decades, DeBeers has deftly manipulated the supply and pricing in the global diamond markets. But China's booming production of manmade stones, including for jewelry, now has DeBeers struggling to maintain market ...
The Pentagon's new plan to protect Pacific air assets from Chinese missiles may be the dumbest ever
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The Pentagon's new plan to protect Pacific air assets from Chinese missiles may be the dumbest ever
New US sanctions on Russian LNG creating panic in Asian markets; Japan and Korea most affected
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New US sanctions on Russian LNG creating panic in Asian markets; Japan and Korea most affected
China's economic model has a weak spot. Here's their plan to fix it.
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China's economic model has a weak spot. Here's their plan to fix it.
No antimony from China means no artillery shells for NATO, Ukraine
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No antimony from China means no artillery shells for NATO, Ukraine
Trump tariffs, Wegovy, and why one fat American is worth more than 7 fat Chinese
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Trump tariffs, Wegovy, and why one fat American is worth more than 7 fat Chinese
Canada's premiers threaten Mexico, demand Mexican trade war with China. Will Mexico care?
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Canada's premiers threaten Mexico, demand Mexican trade war with China. Will Mexico care?
Why is China's electricity so cheap?
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Why is China's electricity so cheap?
The Pentagon is running out of missiles. After December 1, that will be a big problem.
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The Pentagon is running out of missiles. After December 1, that will be a big problem.
As Boeing and Airbus struggle with fake parts and order backlogs, China's COMAC scoops up new orders
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As Boeing and Airbus struggle with fake parts and order backlogs, China's COMAC scoops up new orders
China's companies dominate in fast-growth economies across Global South and BRICS; US firms absent
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China's companies dominate in fast-growth economies across Global South and BRICS; US firms absent
Huawei tightens its grip on global telecom markets in another failure of Western sanctions
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Huawei tightens its grip on global telecom markets in another failure of Western sanctions
Why is China hiding 700 billion dollars?
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Why is China hiding 700 billion dollars?
India and China push gold to record highs, then pull from Western vaults after Russia sanctions
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India and China push gold to record highs, then pull from Western vaults after Russia sanctions
Investor Alert: Caterpillar, Volvo sales under pressure by China's push for self-sufficiency
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Investor Alert: Caterpillar, Volvo sales under pressure by China's push for self-sufficiency
Can China catch Elon Musk and SpaceX?
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Can China catch Elon Musk and SpaceX?
Thank you
This perspective is such a good insite
Drug cartels exist right under your noses.
Will the seagull be fitted with a LFP Blade battery or a Sodium ion battery, if the latter what is the lifespan of this type of battery.
Alabama is first in graphite
the us way is to keep people poor by increasing prices continually.
It isn't Chinese Competition that will destroy these careers, it's the stupidity of the American Government and American Society in geneal that will do so.
China was happy catching and supplying the fish and enjoying the fish menu cooked by someone else. Now that fish cook decides he can do without the fish 😅
Sorry but how much time and energy is needed for the iron ore powder to be created? We should take into consideration the total time consumed and energy for powder and final melt
The Drumpf is going to destroy America. It will be the only positive thing he's ever done in his life!
The more of these videos I watch the more I come to realize how blind most of us Americans are to reality on the ground.
Sounds like Republican’s “America First policies” do not work when you are not a self-sufficient island, and you need most of your resources from around the world.
For video transcript and direct links, please visit open.substack.com/pub/kdwalmsley/p/two-problems-in-the-chip-war-we-need?
I just discovered your page and wow man, excellent content.
Evs are lighter?? Compared to what?? An elephant?
Kevin I'm wondering if you would comment on where the real blame for the downfall of US automobile manufacturing should be placed on? I.e. federal and state government or auto executives or labor unions
There's lots of germanium , antimony ect about, U find in entrenched within the soil of Ukrainian battlefields
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For video transcript and direct links: open.substack.com/pub/kdwalmsley/p/wind-power-china-races-ahead-of-europe
No one can fool reality!
Yeah! More junk china steel!
For video transcript and direct links, please visit open.substack.com/pub/kdwalmsley/p/investor-alert-china-is-drinking
America first.. 25% to 900% tariffs on Chinese goods sounds bad but the Idea of allowing the the Chines to kill off American EV manufacturing would be an even greater nightmare. Don't care if investing in the rebuilding of an American based supply chain system is expensive. Surrendering any parts of our economy to Chinese Communist should never be a plan.
It seems the West has incentives to not be successful, like Britishvolt, Solyndra, etc. ... and politicians [mostly lawyers] believe they know business.
For video transcript and direct links, please visit open.substack.com/pub/kdwalmsley/p/urbanization-and-industrial-clustering
We are specialized in fotosyntesis and came tô the same conglusion
Thè only thing thàt kills thè economy of the wprld is the dollar .AS THE BRICS NATION emèrges they themselves ŵill benefit bec thèir monèy value would bè base on thwir àgreed price no dollar involvement which ŵill add to the vàlue bec they will tell the bank ŵhat is the value of dollar so the west ŵill bè earning thru buying of tje dollar
Kevin can I take a wild ass guess about the guys from west who sold low! Jewish hedge fund managers!
Yes it is interesting! I was not aware, who is getting the lion share on the end of the day . Looks like it’s going to change.
Wim win for all. China get raw material, lower labour and markets. South America get investment, infrastructure, no political preferences, improve wealth and living standards. America lost on regime change, economy coercion and instigated wars.
I am Chinese and I grew up in the US and went to university in the US in the late 90s. From early 2000 till 2018 many Chinese chose US for higher education because entrepreneurs are making money but China didn't have enough universities. I am located in Shenzhen and in the early 2000s, it only had one university for a population of over 15mil. Now it has 17 if we include technical vocational schools. I have friends in Hong Kong that graduated university in the US chose to send their kids to universities in Hong Kong because it's a fraction of the price, better quality, and much safer
There is a problem here. To start mining one needs to invest a money. If Bitcoin than crashes (like it has done four times before), you go bankrupt.. The point is, finances will probably move to bitcoin but it will take more time to make Bitcoin stable enough, it will not happen overnight but in waves.
Who gives a ...it will be nothing but words from a paper 🐯, backed up by nothing, unless theres a genuine product on display - they can sure say anything they want
And their chip factories are making pico meter scale AI processors 1000 times Smaller than ASML.
keep dreaming
Chinese meme coin rugpull?
Who pays your bills?
I think stablecoins may be even more important than bitcoin as it allows trading in dollars without having to touch actual dollars, so it's much more sanction-proof.
This trading block was established because Trump wouldn't trade, unless he received exclusive access to the products. This just wasn't fair to every other country. He was also flighty applying changing 'tanty' tariffs etc. He was not being fair or trustworthy. The BRICS blockchain trading platform was required to get a fair trading environment. It also allowed agreements with guaranteed long term prices, which made it safe to make costly upfront investments.
why has nobody asked US citizens if we want this trade war with China??
These people are living in the stratosphere. Lost reality.
What are these people thinking?????????
I want to hear a reporter yell out to Trump somewhere in public - 'Mr. President, what about the gallium from China' Do you know such a reporter that can do that? We need much more of this kind of thing. the questions are always about immigration, inflation and other such surface manifestations, but where are the truly deep challenging questions? Has to be done in public so that a bunch of cameras catch it
American rulers must be wondering how to sanction bitcoin now, especially now that the bitcoin community joined Trump and got a friendly administration.
Well to be fair the US has quite a bit of resources too, but it seems it's so tangled up in red tape and various issues that it may as well not have them. For example refineries were built to refine not the type of oil that is typically mined in the US, so oil drilled in the US has to be shipped elsewhere for refinement and the oil for US refineries has to be imported. Go figure that one..
Instead, Trump threatened to take over Panama Canal. I do not think Panama will welcome Americans.
It is really hard to believe that America first invents the Technology n than leaves it aside sometimes, citing difficulties in mass production… while another country like China sees the possibility n does further development n research… they are usually accused of copying n stealing technology from the West
US politicians only care about stock price and donation from big companies, and don't care about industry. Rotten Apple...
Software is very difficult to develop well, especially if it is building on a large, pre-existing library. It would be much easier to bring new people into exoerienced teams than share information and expect them to figure out the end to end development project. With regards sharing data , it is valued by Xi's teams to develiop open standards and share them. Trump refused to allow them to share anything developed for him, nor allow anyone else to sell it. This is a fundamentally flawed approach with software brcause of the time it takes to make it, and the efficiency ofvreusability. It's also mot collaborative. I also think, I need to confirm, but I believe Xi wants teams developing simular products and services that have overlappung value strreams, licated together because it simplifies quality reviews, fosters cross-polination of ideas, and is more efficient, more environmentally sound. If one factory ipark is focssed on one product type, you can afford to invest heavily in continuodmsly developing the best methods, equipment. Replixating factories doesn't acvount for RnD innovation.We spend 20-50% of our time innovating. It would be wasteful to duplicate. I do think education for speciakist skills like this should be taught by industry, in a hybrid school/apprentice context.
Spend more on the military than the next eight countries…. but worried China will catch up? How poorly managed does the spending need to be for this to be the actual reason?