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[@DavidR870617](/creator/twitter/DavidR870617)
"Bessent Chinese vice premier to meet to try to defuse US tariff hike"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979492599867351509) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-18T10:19Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"Only a moron unfamiliar with companies like Siemens and BASF and Herrenknecht and Voith (that transferred XX% of China's know-how today) could compose such drivel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979810350230012107) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T07:22Z XXX followers, XXX engagements


"Next week China will publish Q3 per-capita disposable income and per-capita consumption.also RMB share of global payments for September will be out from SWIFT (correct to the first decimal place even if other systems are not accounted for)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979720660579741904) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T01:26Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"Power of Siberia X pipeline (in XX years) Gazprom's lifeline is the extent of what Russia and China can do in compressors or turbines (for pipeline compressor stations) certainly not LNG (modern train size at least 5MTPY)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979824436724506898) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T08:18Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"Wish every Indian knew income in USD in India is not even a twentieth of income in America at median which is why hundreds of thousands of dirt-poor people stream into America as cheap IT labor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1980197136240103645) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-20T08:59Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"LMAO India is $16T that's why it sends cheap IT labor by the hundreds of thousands every year to America.& Russia is $7T but worthless to prevent its seized assets from being milked.IDIOT PPP-GDP is compensatory to make dirt-poor countries feel better.see BRICS currency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979327478901674067) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-17T23:23Z XXX followers, XXX engagements


"If the steel sheet thickness is the same as a $35K car here and has a full complement of airbags and still sells for under $10K in China that would be meritorious.but under $10K cars in China are not the same sheet thickness nor have side airbags"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979332595466014960) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-17T23:43Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"In China death payout of $50K would be very high unacceptable here.you get what you pay for (beyond the general deflation in everything there because of collapsing real estate)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979333045401587727) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-17T23:45Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"China's low-income deflation model can't work here income is very high and life is valued way more.sorry it is what it is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979333421794234617) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-17T23:47Z XXX followers, XX engagements


""$16T GDP" but most out-migrants in search of USD.brainless morons think "PPP-GDP" is worth anything (the larger the PPP factor the dirt-poorer the country).UAE/KSA/KUW don't give citizenship unless X or X generations have lived there since 1930s (when all were Brit colonies)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979456326888464527) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-18T07:55Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"These numbers add up to XXX% because both ends of an exchange transaction are counted but the only poor world currency with a shot at Tier X as a universal trade tender is RMB.INR and RUB are duds so given PPP-GDP fantasy compensatory nonsense by WB/IMF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979492798073102613) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-18T10:20Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"None of this disputes poor countries' actual GDP is higher than USD GDP but by no more than a factor of 2.0.x4 and x3 are nothing more than fantasy.Japan has way more cars registered than Russia India is not even a third of China or America (and half of them sub-$10K junk)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979559164197343717) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-18T14:44Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"He has no prayer in New Jersey.even though blue states will vote R in state office contests not for federal office (US President US Senator)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979599089055760402) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-18T17:22Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"The adoption of Judaism in 9th century (or therabouts) Europe by some might have been simply to practice banking (then banned by the Catholic church).of course they suffered terribly in succeeding centuries because of it but there might be no stronger connection to the Levant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979804751710781461) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T07:00Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"No matter what his paymaster Gazprom ain't getting European offtake back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979823777119867033) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T08:15Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"Do idiots in India know barely X% of households have an income that converts to over US$10000 a year The other XX% don't even make $10000 a year does that explain why these guys flee India by the millions every year Education needed in that country about its reality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1980328231690727614) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-20T17:40Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"Lest the rest of South Asia get any great pleasure out of this same holds true for Pakistan Bangladesh Sri Lanka and Nepal.and Afghanistan too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1980330333972394229) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-20T17:48Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"Transferring LNG is a whole different proposition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979808833209049120) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T07:16Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"North America Western Europe and Japan are over 2/3rds of all commercial flights worldwide.till that number gets below half there is no BRICS currency co-rule despite the hype"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979826159371366775) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T08:25Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"Indians should seriously reflect on what makes top decile Indians flee to earn in USD or EUR it's certainly not because India is "rich".largest out-migration country (absolute numbers) in history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979864921979728373) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T10:59Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"China's per capita electricity use is smaller than rich countries' if you take out the cheap labor exports part.UAE/Canada smelt a lot of Aluminum for export besides exporting power but they are rich countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979911673717600534) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T14:05Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"Expanding Asia's spots from X to XX will still not make a difference for the world's biggest population India absolutelty pathetic in athletic ability in line with its horrendously low mean and median per-capita income under $2000 a year both"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1980195484321882192) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-20T08:52Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"Income in USD matters which is why India produces ZERO IP and sucks at athletics (real sports not 10-nation half-sports)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1980197779264913437) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-20T09:01Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"Most of these idiots compiling these comparisons don't really know what they're talking about at a deeper level"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1980205233390408055) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-20T09:31Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"You get what you pay for.if you get your analysis in Bengaluru for $X an hour that's exactly what you're going to get.$12 an hour in Hong Kong ain't exactly much better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1980205600425537559) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-20T09:33Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"Poor countries importing oil are helped by low oil price.otherwise their currencies would be even weaker against the dollar making current account deficits worse.and Russia is attempting a foolhardy LNG ship to ship transfer smh"  
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"There are donors like Germany in EU and there are net takers.Hungary and Slovakia are net takers.these countries in the former Warsaw Pact are poorer than Western Europe and house technogical satellites (for lower cost manufacturing) of Western European companies"  
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"Poland bought x3 China gold tons this year.for all the hype"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1980577425043128364) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-21T10:10Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"China's personal consumption (not commodities to make export goods bearing cheap labor) in USD is not even half America's (even with x4 population).with median per-capita income only 1/10th America's is that so difficult to understand His reply tries to obfuscate original post"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979192705499476069) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-17T14:28Z XXX followers, 4676 engagements


"The problem with Russian stooges is they can't accept that Russia's actual GDP is no bigger than Germany's and certainly smaller than Japan's.yes there is a thermonukes-GDP mismatch (and inferiority complex) which is why Russia is dangerous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979819722733711586) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T07:59Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"And he was the principal exhorter of invasion of Libya by NATO to kill Gadaffi think he was trying to get rid of a witness What goes around comes around"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979902469820866608) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T13:28Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"Saudi Arabia makes steel but with Electric arc furnaces (if ore direct reduction and then arc furnace)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979912540919300333) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T14:08Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"China learned HSR & HVDC (Thyristor version) from Siemens TBM from Herrenknecht Chemical processes from BASF Hydro from Voith robots from Kuka.that's just the technology transfer from Germany.nuclear PWR reverse engineered from Westinghouse CNC machine tools from Japan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979961185635119187) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T17:21Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"Nothing wrong with technology adoption but some idiots seem unaware that is adoption and not IP creation.these are mostly imbeciles without any exposure to Industry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979964085799117012) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T17:33Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"I mean if Europe did it nothing Russia could do.other than bomb Ukraine in impotent rage.not like ruble is going to become reserve because people lost trust in the Euro or USD because of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979969672037445752) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T17:55Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"US will back it should Putin think he can keep stringing Trump along for a series of meet & greets without actually producing anything substantive towards ending the war.in other words this balking is only till the Budapest meeting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1980327327583334709) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-20T17:36Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"Making (carbon) steel from ore in (especially Northern) Europe was always a losing proposition given the labor rate.but now all the Mittelstand IP (TBM Hydro robotics) has been given away to China EVs is pure China IP (motors/inverters became world heritage long ago) though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1980635873160183863) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-21T14:02Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"I'll say this most poor societies are incapable of absorbing and transferring this much technology in XX years.India comes a distant second Brazil third everyone else zero and continuing to depend on imports every time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1979999419861758436) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-19T19:53Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"There are a number of key technologies (Gas turbines HVDC (IGBT version) instrumentation (sensors/actuators) that China still lags in behind Germany but things like HSR not anympre.a carbon copy of Siemens distributed traction now runs @ 3+miles/min average speed in China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DavidR870617/status/1980640546432643255) [@DavidR870617](/creator/x/DavidR870617) 2025-10-21T14:21Z XXX followers, XX engagements