Italy has officially withdrawn from the Belt and Road Initiative, but can you say that this is Italy determined to withdraw from globalization?
The globalization we are talking about began in 1840, when the British opened the door to China with cannons and opium. Although this is all in the old chronology, the globalization in the past 183 years has been dominated by Europe and the United States. You can say that this is a strong commercial and cultural invasion. In the past, the British and later the Americans never planned the so-called globalization of accepting China in order to bring us civilization and development.
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In fact, when you develop and become rich and powerful, it is the biggest mistake that you do not lie down and be harvested as they wish.
Recently, we can see news about foreign companies withdrawing from China in the financial news every day. Of course, the news is biased. They all talk about one thing: China’s international competitiveness is declining, and we need to reflect on what we are doing. wrong.
Today I saw Teacher Zhang Xuefeng criticizing the worthless liberal arts students again. Teacher Zhang had torn off the glamorous disguise of the journalism major before. After all, the hegemony of public opinion is still in the hands of Europe and the United States. As long as you show strong patriotism Mind you, looking at the issue from China’s perspective, it goes without saying that in the industry, a group of big guys will definitely have all kinds of connotations of yin and yang. The butt determines the head. How did the position on the butt come from? Needless to say?
I still remember my philosophy teacher’s complete denial of Chinese culture and philosophy in class. When I was young, I thought it was cool to dare to criticize because I had independent thoughts. Later, when I gained some experience, I realized that this kind of disrespect is so low to the bone. What exactly does the distorted values brought about by self-confidence bring about.
When our understanding of the world is centered on Europe and the United States, we will certainly be very hurt when we look at this anti-globalization movement. Competition in Europe and the United States was frustrated under the previous system, so they wanted to open a new server and form small groups to exclude us. This is the truth about the regression of globalization.
Therefore, the withdrawal of foreign investment and the relocation of industrial chains outwards sound terrible. Then those who had benefited from the previous system and had a little say began to demand reflection.
If this were in Latin America, maybe a color revolution would begin.
History is nothing more than repeating itself with another vest.
In the 1970s and 1980s, probably the so-called independent intellectuals in Latin America would also think about why anti-globalization and international capital fled Latin America. From then on, Latin America became a curse word. After reflection, Latin America believed that its problem was that it was not liberal enough and needed to be more open, so it introduced the Chicago Boys to reform the country. What was the result? Of course, international capital is back and has taken away all the resources and assets that can be taken away at low prices, but it has not brought economic development to these countries.
You can say that heaven is too far and America is too close, but isn’t America always so close?
So why did the United States allow them to develop?
This is the herding model of nomads. After eating up one piece of pasture, they look for another, and the whole world is regarded as a pasture for capital.
It’s a pity that we have a 5,000-year-old farming civilization, and the way of doing things is different. You farm when you come, and it’s not the same when you leave. Gradually, Europe and the United States discovered that industrial civilization can no longer be defined by them.
After the Double 11 data came out, imported goods completely collapsed. Of course, this was due to the downgrade of consumption, but also the strong attack of domestic substitutes. In the end, everyone found that many products in Europe and the United States only had a high-looking LOGO. In addition, Nothing.
When we are poor and have low self-esteem, we need a LOGO to maintain our poor self-esteem. After being brainwashed by the rhetoric of consumerism, we really think that if we carry a bag, we can become immortals. When you are strong enough, you can carry a road. The canvas bags at the side stalls can lead the trend.
In recent years, Chinese people have become more confident, and are no longer as superstitious about imported goods as before. Therefore, the old routine of harvesting low-end labor force and exporting high-premium brands and technologies that Europe and the United States used can no longer be used.
They retreated, but ours continued to advance.
In many industries, Chinese manufacturing is catching up. The most terrible thing is that after our entire industry chain was integrated, our strong manufacturing capabilities caused an irreversible crushing of the European and American manufacturing industries.
Have you seen any industry in which Chinese manufacturing has squeezed out its European and American counterparts? Can they regain the market?
So Europe and the United States formed a small group, trying to use the same tricks they used to play on Latin America, Southeast Asia, and even Japan again on China by supporting countries such as India, Vietnam, and Mexico.
Now India has become a hot spot, the Indian stock market has almost skyrocketed, and Apple is forcing the industry chain to move to India.
So if Apple and Foxconn withdraw from China, what impact will it have on the Chinese economy?
This question can be asked in reverse: when Apple withdraws from China, how will China’s mobile phone geniuses seize Apple’s market share around the world?
This type of problem has been successfully solved in many industries before.
The stubborn problem in the United States is that financial capital controls the real economy. Why is Apple becoming more and more mediocre? The Apple press conference even invites Mother Nature to dance and play environmental jokes. Isn’t the greatest environmental protection not to buy new products and reuse old apples? To the end of the world? If that’s the case, what else will Apple do to launch new products?
Without hard-core technology to attract consumers, we can only rely on boring values to export. Are values comparable to cost performance?
When the track returns to cost-effectiveness, Chinese manufacturing is invincible. After all, our capital market feeds back the real economy, and the first thing the real economy in the United States has to do is to be sucked by the capital market.
At this important meeting, a saying was mentioned: “Establish first and then break”. It was very well said. From my understanding, establishing is to stabilize the original globalization pattern as much as possible and maintain our dominant position in the manufacturing industry. The key is to find another way out and avoid being led by the direction of globalization led by Europe and the United States.
In fact, this problem is also plaguing Europe and the United States now. The dividends of globalization have been reaped. If we have to force decoupling and go against the big Eastern countries, it means that the cake of globalization will become smaller. It may not be possible to defeat head-on competition. The characteristic of farming civilization is that it is stable, digs deep and accumulates grain widely, and can use the advantages of unified control to carry out macro-control and smooth out cyclical influences.
At this point, Europe and the United States are far behind.
This wave of financial crisis in Europe and the United States does not dare to trigger their own financial crisis to harvest the world. There is no need for hard landing or soft landing. Now it continues to float without landing, but the laws of nature are there after all. The longer it floats, the bigger the problem will be, and the explosion will The consequences are more terrible.
The United States is now betting all its money on AI, but I believe that without the support of the industrial base of the entire industry chain, the biggest role of AI models such as ChatGPT is to destroy its own service industry.
Lawyers, accountants, and doctors in the United States are all valuable because the entry threshold is high enough. In the end, you find that such a high threshold is not a problem for AI. How can you maintain the status of these service industries?
Calculating it layer by layer, the result is that it is unreasonable for Europe and the United States to charge so many service fees. Wouldn’t this cost the lives of the aloof consumer countries? May I ask why you spend so much? What is there to sustain your consumption? Relying on mandatory services that are not that valuable?
Some time ago, when I had nothing to do, I liked to watch the live broadcast of Wenjie Automation Workshop. Later, I visited many videos of unmanned chemical factories in traditional industries on Douyin. So, can’t traditional industries have high technology? I saw traditional textile factories upgraded to fully automated and unmanned factories, and I was shocked. With such production efficiency, how can India and Vietnam compete with labor costs?
As for Europe and the United States, how can they compete without the foundation of the industrial chain?
AI+manufacturing, in the future global industrial chain, we can single-handedly redefine globalization. With such a hard-core industrial foundation, the so-called financial hegemony and public opinion hegemony may collapse faster than everyone thinks.
What exactly is the regression of globalization? Add a subject, the regression of globalization led by Europe and the United States, and it becomes much clearer.
When the enemy retreats and we advance, when positional warfare breaks out, and the old model switches to a new one, someone will definitely become a victim. This is the price of growth.
This reminds me of the very sensational words of Teacher Fang: A grain of ashes of the times becomes a big mountain when it falls on everyone’s shoulders.
Metamorphosis always requires some pain. You can’t give up on growth just because it is too painful. Just like giving birth to a child, the process is very painful, but no matter how painful it is, you have to get through it. If you give up, you will definitely kill two people. Go over and welcome new life.
Originally I was not that optimistic. I just saw that there are too many pig opponents in the world. It is a bit difficult to be optimistic or not. The great powers have been crippled by themselves. Thank you to the financial capitalists for their help.