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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: THE ANT who wrote (175071)	7/18/2021 6:03:32 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217847

Re <<Bad>> Might turn out okay, if we, as we watch & brief, at grassroots level compare Shenzhen with Silicon Valley, for example, or Beijing to Washington DC, Shanghai to New York, Chongqin to wherever and Wuhan to Chicago. Not saying better or worse. Aware that certainly / of course different. The trajectories of each city has little to do with the happenings in its pairing counter-part, and everything to do with its near-neighbor cities. It might be the case that the issue (not a problem for I do not prefer such framing as many happenings are ‘just-is’ in character) with whatever necessitated Magna Carta was that it be a system of governance evolved to help the insiders make it through to the next phase, mostly by way of tee-ing up conquest and etc etc etc wrapped within a sheen of for the people by the people against other people. That thread, historical perspective full-on, is coming to an inevitable end given natural course of consequential follow-on events. What happens next in each threading we cannot know but certainly should speculate on, then watch & brief. To watch & brief i suspect we must continuously zoom-in and zoom-out, from the level of weeds to plane of orbital space. The Sino-USA contest is arguably not about ideology. Never the less a struggle, possibly existential. Can be without winners, simply because for both sides are struggling against own historical threading and nothing more. China has neither the inclination nor the bandwidth to change USA. In time USA shall realize whatever ails the USA, if anything ails the USA, is within USA. The problem or rather, the issue, with China is that China cannot be pushed around. USA devoting bandwidth on China since 100+ years ago has been a mug’s undertaking; fruitless. An aside for a moment, in the meantime, am told 40% of Covid death were folks with diabetes. If true, sounds like the issue of Covid is an issue of diabetes. If again true, then … In any case, here in HK we are now being told to live with Covid protocol to at least mid-2022 … or 2025. Protracted endurance struggle on. Bandwidth of societies best be prepared. Otherwise … etc etc Back to my original thought trail. The merging of the Covid story with that of 2026 / 2032 thread speculation is one possibility I had heretofore not considered, because I as many mistakenly believed that the CoVid story was a shorter story. Am now compelled to consider otherwise as my friend visiting wishes to dialogue on the Great Bay Initiative (“GBI”) happening here for the sake of the next generation and kids about to apply to schools, and perhaps coincidentally GBI was also the topic with another group of friends over lunch on Saturday, in context of where to spend time and allocation. The discussions feel qualitatively different from the sorts that appear to be happening in the MSM re the USA game plan going forward. It currently does not feel China is in competition with any other domain. There is simply no such framing. If China is leading, pacing or just tagging along, or opposing, China does not appear to know such is the case or cares except to the extent of tweaking the plans at the margin, changing some priorities as far as timing and resource allocation go. Very strange, too strange. As if China heading to where China plans to head to irrespective of other domains do or not do, join-in or decouple away. Wait & see, watch & brief. Here in the east the lunches tend to be long / drawn out affairs, with the fellows at one table and the ladies another, and the kids a third. Dinner tends to wrap up early and single gender, by my impression.