| | | ah, i see your implicit world view, and frankly it smells of unbecoming fear. it does not sound like the you i know. the implicit view reminds me of what a clinton-termed 'deplorable' would note. the explicit note is comprised of much untruths, a/k/a fake news.
let me throw more sun shine on the dialogue.
it would be surprising that perception re china does not change.
the change is driven by one item in the main, that china the rebel can and is upending what is, given that china has the capability, capacity, inclination and the protocol, and
china is constituting a community of shared interest, albeit that shared interest is not to the advantage of all (equally) in the constituent geographies.
if the upending was not happening no one would worry, least of all you.
please do look in the mirror or any other reflective surface, reflect, ruminate, collate the facts, and discern the truth.
just for example, two and half decades ago your telecom expertise was crucial and ericsson and such made use of that expertise all over, even as such retained me to crack open then non-existent china market when ericsson's china team numbered paltry 21.
later, predictably, we faced competition from folks who did a half-a$$ job but for 1/6 our accustomed fee, and so we (hopefully including you) 'strategically repositioned, and tactically re-calibrated' / essentially retreated to further upmarket and / or developed a new practice (in my case, instead of helping companies getting into china via strategic alliances and investment transactions, gradually shifted to almost 100% china-inside-out, and coal trading).
just for illustrative example, whatever we were doing back in 1982 - 1999, a good run, is no more a market of desire but an arena of blue collar-dom,
whatever we toiled at 1998 - 2010 is an impossibly hard slog
whatever we diversified into circa 2003 - 2008 came to a harsh stop
whatever we laboured at 2005 - 2011 can no longer be, and
whatever we treaded on 2010 - 2016 is only waiting to be globalised, and only a question of whether we are able to monitise before the cruel happening or go down with the boat.
so, yes, the blowback against globalisation happens, and the deplorables enthusiastically sign-on as full members of the counter revolution.
the enthusiasm to roll back the clock is especially fervent from those who had a good series of early run at engaging w/ globalization but now cut down by yet one more wave of 'barbarians' entering the gate who are better armed and hungrier than ever, or rebels more suitably prepared and ever more enthusiastic, depending on one's point of view and current stance in the globalisation feeding chain.
what i described above is otherwise known as progress, a later wave of the river pushing out the earlier crest, and that which can neither be reversed without unaffordable harsh and unintended consequences, nor stopped, by electioneering or otherwise.
this is what makes the next 15 years so very exciting, but not so much for resource exporters and tier 2 / 3 aggregates stuck in the old ways and unable to make the leap, and not so much for out-of-fuel tier 1 states about to be downgraded. this coming excitement shall evolve into fun as the days pass and nights follow.
resistance is futile.
opposition is pointless.
forward, ever forward, the only sensible way, by way of learning, diligence, savings, and adapting, and oh, by swarming, surging, to enter the citadel and do stuff.
the matter is far less a matter of tier 1, 2, or 3 states, and clearly evolving into a case of tier 1, 2, or 3 people, everywhere, and the gaps had opened up and now deepening even as widening.
some people somewhere believe they can vote themselves into tier 1 status. let us watch.
other people hope they can vote to keep themselves away from tier 2 / 3. let us brief.
others know they must engage with the unfamiliar, and quickly do better, let us wish them the best.
the titanic struggle is less about you and i. the clash of what was and what shall be is about the next generation and the future of the planet. the predictable outcome is to be championed, and welcomed. it is what the youth want and they are the future. we are expendable individuals. they are the precious collective. they are not afraid, for they do not know fear.
you do see that don't you?
watch & brief, 2018 - 2026, teotwawki followed by darkest interregnum, then, wonders. |
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