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“中国沉没” - The Sinking of China

Will wait for the day China crashed like Japan. Then see if democracy can happen.
 
The West has been left perplexed as to why China did not experience a similar downturn to Japan in '93, when its economy and property market collapsed, despite having waited and expected such a scenario since 2021 following the Covid-19 pandemic.
 
The West has been left perplexed as to why China did not experience a similar downturn to Japan in '93, when its economy and property market collapsed, despite having waited and expected such a scenario since 2021 following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Japan, taiwan and south Korea vulnerable to trade with US.
Under Xi, he quickly reduce US trade but increase trade with other regions. Including south America.
 
Household spending in Singapore is very low because many Singapore families spend huge proportion of their income on:
Condo and hdb instalment
COE instalment
Tuition
Maid salary and maid levy
 

Vietnam's budget carrier Vietjet ends operations of Chinese-made COMAC aircraft​

https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplu...ns-of-chinese-made-comac-aircraft-sources-say

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China has paid a high price for dominance in rare earths​

https://u.osu.edu/mclc/2025/07/07/china-has-paid-a-high-price-for-dominance-in-rare-earths/

Chinese mines and refineries produce most of the world’s rare earth metals and practically all of a few crucial kinds of rare earths. This has given China’s government near complete control over a critical choke point in global trade.

But for decades in northern China, toxic sludge from rare earth processing has been dumped into a four-square-mile artificial lake. In south-central China, rare earth mines have poisoned dozens of once-green valleys and left hillsides stripped to barren red clay.

In China, the worst damage occurred in and around Baotou, a flat, industrial city of two million people in China’s Inner Mongolia, on the southern edge of the Gobi Desert. Baotou calls itself the world capital of the rare earth industry, but the city and its people bear the scars from decades of poorly regulated rare earths production.

An artificial lake of sludge known as the Weikuang Dam, four square miles in size, holds the waste left over after metals are extracted from mined ore. During the winter and spring, the sludge dries out. The dust that then blows off the lake is contaminated with lead, cadmium and other heavy metals, including traces of radioactive thorium, according to technical papers by Chinese scholars.

During the summer rainy season, the sludge becomes coated with a layer of water that mixes with poisons and thorium. This dangerous mix seeps into the groundwater underneath the lake. The Weikuang Dam, also known as a tailings lake, is seven miles north of the Yellow River and was built in the 1950s without the thick, waterproof liner underneath that became standard in the West in the 1970s. Baotou’s lake is so large that it cannot easily be rebuilt with a liner.

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The artificial lake of sludge is contaminated with lead, cadmium and other heavy metals, including traces of radioactive thorium, according to technical papers by Chinese scholars.
 
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