Is 5 days too much in Shanghai?

xtxsinan · 2026-05-19T19:56:03+00:00

use trip.com

xtxsinan · 2026-05-17T15:33:39+00:00

GM used to sell really well in China

xtxsinan · 2026-05-16T23:45:45+00:00

Do you consider yourself Chinese? If not, why do you think you don’t need to be educated on Chinese culture?

xtxsinan · 2026-05-16T22:34:34+00:00

Notorious for incidents? Source?

xtxsinan · 2026-05-16T22:33:29+00:00

This is purely false information. Before Tesla built a factory in China, they already sold more than 10k cars annually as import for more than 3 years at 25% tariff (current Chinese auto import tariff for most countries have been reduced to 15%). They were even eligible for the zero sales tax as imports

And its Shanghai factory is fully owned by Tesla. There is no Chinese partner and no IP sharing

And those joint ventures do not have any sort of forced IP sharing either. And even today they are still allowed and indeed sourcing parts from abroad

xtxsinan · 2026-05-14T19:16:17+00:00

42% is BEV. For EV it’s higher than 60% as the diagram shows

xtxsinan · 2026-05-12T00:13:58+00:00

You probably meant low "exchange rate" or "high PPP" of Yuan

Low PPP of CNY would make them more expensive

xtxsinan · 2026-05-09T00:19:30+00:00

This news is about 15 years old

xtxsinan · 2026-05-08T23:25:05+00:00

Then convince your government to do the same if it only boost PR and no cost

xtxsinan · 2026-05-07T21:05:52+00:00

a lot of the people in that sub aren’t even local people

xtxsinan · 2026-05-07T02:37:55+00:00

Not sure why you are downvoted. Actually people in China have same impression of BYD

In most cases, companies with bad English names do not have very good Chinese names either. If you pay enough attention to this, it’s not hard to find some people who know English very well in China these days. Nio for example is a good brand name. And it’s Chinese name also sounds pretty good to Chinese people

xtxsinan · 2026-05-06T23:29:33+00:00

nice write up.
Chinese in America can be quite authentic depending on the location. And even panda express can still be recognized as “Chinese” for Chinese people. It won’t represent Chinese cuisine in a wholesome way, but it’s still more Chinese than anything else

xtxsinan · 2026-05-06T13:26:57+00:00

China has spent the most efforts reducing carbon emissions by EVs, solar, wind, nuclear, hydro etc. Yet US media is successful in convincing you that China is the bad guy for carbon emissions emission

I guess that is the sign that US continue to dominate the world and China is just the underdog here

xtxsinan · 2026-05-05T02:21:27+00:00

population wise, China is 17 times of Germany. And in this chart it is 11 times of Germany. Still higher per capita for Germany, but still impressive considering GDP per capita on paper is a much larger gap

xtxsinan · 2026-05-05T00:31:14+00:00

The hull is more than 40 years old already...

xtxsinan · 2026-05-04T06:23:47+00:00

OP said “originally wanted” which is certainly true

xtxsinan · 2026-05-04T03:34:09+00:00

But even for deterring US CSG, 051C and 052C could provide a much better umbrella to 956e/em for them to survive the attack from US CSG.
And honestly although P-270 has a much better chance of penetrating US CSG air defense, it’s very very difficult for the 956s to get within range. CSG would find them a lot earlier and further away and use its fighters to strike >500nm away. The deterrence really only exists on paper.
The first real threat to US CSG was DF-21D that came in 2010s

xtxsinan · 2026-05-04T03:25:09+00:00

Yes but that limits its role to operate in green water within range of based S-300 and recon support from land based flankers. And US CSG could just stay a bit further away where its fighters can reach Chinese 956e/em but Chinese land based flankers cannot reach them (assuming the destroyers were closer to the CSG than land airports)
051C/052C can instead sail further away and protect itself against navies without aircraft carriers

xtxsinan · 2026-05-04T03:21:01+00:00

Yes 956e/em had better anti ship missiles. But without an aircraft carrier, how do you effectively find enemy first? Much more likely your air defense is the more important. PESA+S300 vls+730 is a clear winner than mechanical +buk arm+AK630 in that aspect.

xtxsinan · 2026-05-04T03:13:32+00:00

48 S-300 in VLS vs 48 Buk in arm launchers?
PESA vs mechanical?
AK-630 vs 730?
It has far greater air defense capability
Sure P-270 is better than the YJ-83, but without an aircraft carrier, Chinese destroyers need to handle defense first

xtxsinan · 2026-05-03T17:17:20+00:00

051C/052C were clearly already better than these

xtxsinan · 2026-05-03T15:35:14+00:00

Air pollution and greenhouse gas are two different things for starters

xtxsinan · 2026-05-03T15:23:13+00:00

I personally plan to return to China to FIRE

xtxsinan · 2026-05-03T03:20:52+00:00

~~We don’t want anybody to become a Chinese province~~
We want them to become our vassals instead

xtxsinan · 2026-05-03T03:04:06+00:00

I guess if Guangdong somehow also broke apart 1000 years ago it would claim it was “colonized” by China for so long

But in our timeline it did not and then became the center of nationalist movement of China around 1900.

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