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@MesoAnglic "Italy is also very much like this btw. I don't really see it discussed much but the end state of an aging industrialized country seems to be a bunch of highly unproductive "small businesses" that act as a welfare scheme"
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"Italy like Japan had its economic peak in the 90s (the il Sorpasso) where it was the main competitor to Germany in Europe and the 4th largest economy (behind only the US Japan and Germany) Since then it too has declined and so has the share of "small businesses""
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"@DoggyDog1208 @Ersatz_Solus X. I couldn't find Lynas using any Chinese equipment directly. Their rotary klins (newer ones specifically) are from Finland (Metso) at least the ones in Australia and probably soon the ones in Malaysia. There is a WordPress blog from before 2010 that says that the plant"
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"@ww_dasilva is he from or something"
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"@Argos_dk @seld_on Not even that. It was popularised hy this but its roots go way back to French and British economists primarily William Petty. He tried to argue that England (during the Civil War) needed to have a different tax income system and he made up a crude calculation of national"
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"@Ersatz_Solus I think Japanese supply is now majority non-Chinese the XX% Chinese figure was from 2021"
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"I think spending much time online for many people warps the perception of countries. Japan is still fine. It's still a major player in industrial robotics and most of the semiconductor supply chain and still present in high end consumer electronics. It isn't dependent on tourism"
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"@ShazCoder @luchuubit @Spottingthespot @UOD_NEWS @Clarivate Iraq has the unfortunate distinction of being the country with THE LOWEST r&d spending of any country (as % of GDP); literally every other country from Turkmenistan to North Korea spends more on that stuff. Iraqi academia is in general extremely byzantine bizarre and isolated"
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"Now a lot of the people who do that are the same people who make safe edgy jokes about Britain. Hating on it for seemingly no reason except for old colonial grudges. Some moved to being gaelophiles or even weebs. Now a lot of the weebs are becoming Sinophilic"
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"@saber_k086 what's the link"
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"@DoggyDog1208 @Ersatz_Solus Ask them about Chinese contractors (and probably more importantly subcontractors; wouldn't be surprised if Metso relied on a Chinese company even if Lynas directly doesn't) and their role in this I'd want to know"
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"@JonnyCapitalist @Ersatz_Solus @JSnorzy Prabowo has always said he wanted to take a softer approach to Israel compares to no recognition. And obviously they aren't working for Xi. My central point is I don't see why Malaysia would intervene to shut down a plant because China told them to. That's not how China moves"
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"@ShazCoder @luchuubit @Spottingthespot @UOD_NEWS @Clarivate I have friends who are uni profs researchers I'm pretty involved in the Iraqi math academic scene and when I previously said African academia is on average better than Iraq I really did mean that. I've had better experiences with African academics"
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