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Chitchat one belt and maritime silk road

eatshitndie

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to push tiong-made junk to the rest of asia and europe, tiongland is embarking on an ambitious plan to build one belt over the asiatic land mass and the maritime silkroad to encircle and complement the land route. in order to realize the maritime route, tiongland needs to go through south china sea and sinkapore. the combo one belt and maritime silk road also bring together central asian states, russia, iran, turkey and europe into the mix. america is totally left out of this giant undertaking as she is not in the geography of both land and sea routes. but america has presence in the path - a very strategic and military presence in sg. if sg is (rightfully) stubborn to remain an american military strategic strongpoint, tiongs will have to find alternatives to close the maritime route. various alternatives such as bypassing sg altogether are in tiongs' playbook.

on the other side of the geography (pacific), it figures that tpp for so called "free trade" in the pacific is not so much about trade but more about geopolitics and alliances to keep tiongs and ruskies out. it's the tic for tac vendetta of the obama admin to form own exclusive club when others are keeping him out and forming their exclusive club. and by invitation only. sg has the opportunity to straddle both exclusive clubs but may suffer the embarassment and indignity of losing invitations to both. now that the tpp will die an untimely death under the incoming trump admin, will sg suck up to tiongs and beg for inclusion in the dubious one belt and maritime silk road cartel of cheap junk and useless trash distribution?

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kryonlight

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Wow! I thought you have fully comprehended the 6.9 k's of sinkies, no? If PAP can't deliver good paying jobs to sinkies, there will be no 6.9 k's, and PAP will be fired on the spot in GE 2020.

You have chosen Trump, and that marks the end of the US Empire. The world will be pivoting towards China for the next 50 years. No one is going to look up to the Americans anymore.
 

frenchbriefs

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sea freight will always be cheaper than overland transport by far......

a ship can carry up to fifteen thousand containers,a train can haul maybe one hundred?
 

AsiaDK

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Industrial Revolution 4.0 will make OBOR irrelevant. Even Foxconn will have to shift facilities to US.

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syed putra

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I think that maybe even more. I still prefer transport maritime at this point.




The record was set on june 21, 2001 in western australia between newman and port headland, a distance of 275km (170 miles) and the train consisted of 682 loaded iron ore wagons and 8 GE AC6000 locomotives giving a gross weight of almost 100,000 tonnes and moved 82,262 tonnes of ore.

The trains would get the goods to europe from china faster. Uses less crew such as this long train operated by just one driver.
 

eatshitndie

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Maybe foxxcon shifting to US for tax reasons now that its been slashed by trump to 19%.
also planning to open more facilities in u.s. but will have to be in cheaper locations with tax breaks, not in sillycon valley or california in general. relying on factories in prc is too risky and uncertain. eventually labor cost will catch up to 69% majority automated factories.
 
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