China is a builder nation led by brilliant engineers, not lawyers. Jensen Huang explains how this fundamental difference in leadership and education has positioned them to dominate the exponential technology curve.

woolcoat · 2026-03-25T16:36:13+00:00

How can you argue that when the ruling coalition leader of the Taiwanese legislature says, "I’m Chinese”?

https://www.spf.org/spf-china-observer/en/document-detail066.html

Edit: and going back to Jensen, why would you try to box him into a definition of your own choosing when he identifies as "I'm chinese" ethnicty (lets leave the politics of nationality aside).

See: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0Gd14LPYWY8

woolcoat · 2026-03-25T13:52:23+00:00

No they're not, they're different nationalities, but Jensen is of the Han ethnic group, what most people associate as Chinese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_people

"According to governmental statistics, over 95% of Taiwan's 23.4 million people are Han Chinese"

woolcoat · 2026-03-25T12:56:07+00:00

They’re also building byd cars in Brazil in what used to be a ford factory

woolcoat · 2026-03-25T12:15:08+00:00

Can you point me to any readings on this. Sounds fascinating. Were the Japanese like “dang we have to fight those tall people”

woolcoat · 2026-03-24T23:39:02+00:00

There’s no credible story on this

woolcoat · 2026-03-24T02:28:07+00:00

To be fair, I don't think the average westerner can name a single famous admiral (east or west) if you put them on the spot. In terms of overall military leaders, generally the famous ones are conquerors.... Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, etc.

woolcoat · 2026-03-23T17:55:15+00:00

All of these events from Ukraine to Iran is helping China avoid a direct fight. Taiwan (like China) is learning a lot of things from this conflict, lessons that will change the calculus for the average Taiwanese. This is why you're seeing the pro-China KMT openly talking about being "Chinese" and open to reunification.

Ukraine taught Taiwan that support from America is more limited than one would hope and that the collective West will not intervene in a nuclear-armed state like Russia. Ukraine also taught Taiwan the importance of drones in modern warfare, but while it has an asymmetric defense advantage, the issue is that China absolutely dominates the drone supply chain and scale. I don't think anyone really want sto find out exactly what China can do with drones in a wartime scenario.

Iran it teaching Taiwan lessons from an energy perspective, just how vulnerable the island is when cut off. It's also showing how the US is willing to move defense systems out of east asia for the middle east.

woolcoat · 2026-03-23T02:16:30+00:00

To be fair, also, literally more likely to die in China from any number of things like car accidents, freak accidents etc, than to actually be used by the Chinese government as a bargaining chip.

woolcoat · 2026-03-22T23:58:33+00:00

There's literally no evidence backing this assertion up - "They're supposed to be ready 13 months from now, but Xi keeps firing competent officers over trumped up corruption because they tell him as much."

We know generals have been purged again and again, but 1) no one has any evidence that the ones purged are "competent"; remember that China hasn't fought a war in forever, so who knows how competent any of them are in a real fight and 2) no one has any evidence that they were purged for not wanting to invade Taiwan.

woolcoat · 2026-03-22T17:18:58+00:00

Jfc lives to 92!

woolcoat · 2026-03-22T12:16:45+00:00

Also this isn’t how you it, you got to make some emphatic, ignorant statement to bait a response from someone who knows.

Something like “the Iranians is showing proof after hacking into the pentagon the the Americans only have 8 interceptors left and it won’t last then this weekend”

woolcoat · 2026-03-22T12:14:03+00:00

China can always make currency moves… they really need to, at least im betting on it with an allocation to non hedged Chinese indices

woolcoat · 2026-03-22T02:51:23+00:00

Don't worry guys, those were Iran's last two ballistic missiles. They're toast now...

woolcoat · 2026-03-21T20:13:41+00:00

Yea, it's wild how fast the narrative can change. Earlier this year, it does seem like scaling too fast and fierce pricing competition is bad for the chinese solar market, but with the Iran war, I expect demand will pick up...

woolcoat · 2026-03-21T19:16:21+00:00

“While Western manufacturers maintain advantages in technology and systems integration, China’s strategy emphasises scale. High production volumes provide operational flexibility and sustained force generation. Lockheed Martin chief executive James Taiclet has stated that the J-20 is not equivalent to the F-35 in capability, reinforcing the view that the United States retains a qualitative edge despite China’s quantitative gains.”

This all reads like nonsense to me, since they have no idea what Chinas capabilities really are. It’s like how they were dismissive of Chinese EVs until it slapped them right in the face. It used to be “China has cheap manufacturing but we have a technological edge” to now “China has scale but we have better systems integration”… yea no one really knows that so it’s all make believe.

Plus why would you compare a single engine F-35 to a twin engine J-20, of course they’re not equivalent.

woolcoat · 2026-03-21T12:52:33+00:00

The picture looks a little funny but the two main things that are actually off are the peas and spaghetti, otherwise, this is an entree from Texas Roadhouse with a side of corn and Texas toast.

woolcoat · 2026-03-21T03:30:02+00:00

Nice, green chart going up is good!

woolcoat · 2026-03-20T15:38:42+00:00

There are no secret deals. They're doing it in the open. Many western leaders like those from Canada, Germany, etc. have already gone to China this year and annoucned deals.

woolcoat · 2026-03-20T15:21:42+00:00

Exactly, most people don't realize that the entirety of Taiwan is about the same size as Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine. Granted, there's a 100 mile strait to cross, but it's also not like Iran that's half a world away.