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Do you make any cars which are viable in Europe?
I'm not sure who "you" is here but, yes, lots of American cars are sold in Europe.
What do you mean? I only know some people who own a Tesla, otherwise, that's it
Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
No one said anything about trusting an opinion or a presented fact, you should always do your own research that's the point. On a more anecdotal side the people I tend to "trust" the least at least on the internet are those who often come out with citations for everything and dump a huge wall of text. The problem with the internet is that you can find a citation for everything, I can find that enough citations that l…
So, you object to people asking for citations because citations suck? The problem then comes back to how to know which to trust, which usually requires a reasonable degree of proficiency in and knowledge of the subject. My point was partially that if I encounter you in another environment, I can quickly and easily assess whether you have the required proficiency, even if I don't possess it. It's much harder to do tha…
No need to go there, but none the less it seems interesting. Mostly because I don't know much about bonds
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There is no end to Federalist greed for power, is there...
So you'd rather be subject to an autocratic Chinese world order than participate in a federalist Europe? Now that's an interesting view... If you really object to a federal Europe that much, I suggest you offer a better solution for how Europe can compete on the world stage with China and the US in the future, and do so successfully.
That one is easy now, human rights and middle class.
People willing to work will have a lot less problems in Europe than anywhere else. Even when falling suddenly ill
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Why? These things are not even remotely on the same scale. How are you going to reconcile an event that caused ~20k some odd deaths (recent foreign consul leaks during the time) that was nearly 100% covered up by the government vs. Kent State? That's a bit ridiculous imo.
Well, one event threatened a whole regime (and the country's stability) the other was some hippie students protesting at their university. And still, "twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds" -- killing 4 and injuring many more. Which begs the question, if there was major potentially elite affecting / government toppling issue instead of a small scale anti-war protest at a loc…
Interesting question. I do think you are trying to take Kent State out of context though - it wasn't a single event. It was the culmination of anti-war protests in the US, and caused massive and very quick social change once it happened.
These what-ifs of history are certainly interesting though!
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Exports of what? iPhones? These are all made in China, and with the dollar dropping against the Yuan, anything the US imports from China (and also from Europe) will be getting more expensive. And with the dollar dropping, bonds in dollars will be less interesting for investors. Basically, the article suggests that where Trump is aiming to MAGA, the entire opposite seems to happen: the rest of the world accellerates w…
Do you make any cars which are viable in Europe?
There are plenty of brands common on European roads that are American brands. Opel and Ford being the non-luxury examples.
Oh and if you take the "but designed and built in ..." standard, then there simply is no European car anymore. Most components are Chinese, Indian, or at the very least Eastern European (outside of EU)
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This is kind of ridiculous. The purpose of reserves is not to send political messages. It's to provide a mechanism to manage monetary policy and it does that through buying back its liabilities. To do this effectively you must hold a strong currency as your reserve- there's no point holding Zimbabwe dollars. So any reasonable reserves for a European country today will be part Dollar, Pound, Yen and Yuan. How much of…
> It's not a good sign for the US IMHO this isn't necessarily true. A weaker dollar could mean stronger exports.
Weaker dollar could fuel housing bubble, too.
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You've not mentioned where you're from. You're on an American site, and you talked about Brexit, so I assumed British or American. >English used to be the most important language, these days it’s German and Chinese I'm having a very hard time thinking of a country where both German and Chinese are more important than English. Where is this?
I’m Danish. I did specify “native > English > ..,” though, so I figured that gave the non-English native thing away. Our most utilized languages in business and tourism used to be English, German and French. It’s now German, Chinese and English, in that order. In everyday usage English is still important and will remain so for years to come. But if you’re looking for languages with professional application Chinese is…
>It’s now German, Chinese and English, in that order.
>business and tourism
A search of the number of tourists from different countries visiting Denmark shows that the number of tourists from the UK and America still dwarf the number of visitors from China. So I'm not sure why you'd say that Chinese is more important than English for tourism.
It also looks like Germans have always been the largest group visiting Denmark--that hasn't changed.
As for business in general, China makes up about 4% of exports and 7% of Danish imports. So I'm not really sure by what metric you're putting Chinese above English.
> But if you’re looking for languages with professional application Chinese is at the top.
If that's true, it's more likely because 86% of Danes speak English so it's not really much of an advantage within Denmark.
China is a growing economy, but English is still the language of world commerce, science, and entertainment.
I think that you're mistaking growth rates with absolute values.
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I'm not sure who "you" is here but, yes, lots of American cars are sold in Europe.
What do you mean? I only know some people who own a Tesla, otherwise, that's it
For instance, Ford still makes up something like 8% of Europe's market (http://shareholder.ford.com/~/media/Files/F/Ford-IR/events-a...) -- maybe not the unstoppable juggernaut of the continent, but a lot of vehicles. And there are a number of European Ford models not even available for sale in the US (mostly hatchbacks). That's just one maker.
Perhaps they sell better in the UK than continental Europe or something, I don't know, but tens of thousands of cars sold per month is not nothing.
Another chart shows that even the largest maker, VW, only has like 23% of the market: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263421/market-share-of-s...
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure who "you" is here but, yes, lots of American cars are sold in Europe.
"lots" would need to be quantified. Mentally scanning the garage at work, I do not think I saw one American car (France, very large company). I casually glanced through a few Google images matches for "traffic in Paris". I do not know much about cars but all seemed to be European or Japanese.
I shared some links with the other guy, but anyway about 8% of Europe's market is Ford and 4% GM. FCA (sort of a joint Italo-American venture) is another 7% if you want to count them. So that's almost a fifth of the market if you add all those up.
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#250>I also work with multiple ex-pats that fled fearing for their life due to persecution based on their religion (Falung Gong)
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Hi，I don`t think so.
I come from China, when "Falung Gong" come out I am at college, after so many years I still believe what the GOV define the movement right, it is "cults and religious extremists".
Why I believe that?
1. The "Falung Gong" is alt kind of "qi gong", I did have seen some people practice "qi gong" to keep healthy, basically, it is unscientific and ignorant.
2. "qi gong", "gong fu", "tai ji" has no leader, but "Falung Gong" has a leader. And the leader can't sacrifice himself but lead some other kind people sacrificed.
3.Now I am a more fan of the old lead "Jiang Ze Min".(Like many others in Chinese social networks, lol). I think He may make the right decision.
At last I don't think the GOV have the ability to stop and kill any movement is a good phenomenon， But there is still a line which clearly divides the cult movement from ordinary movement.
Scientific, liberal and democracy may be the most valuable thing to pursue by China people in the future. But the "Falung Gong" like cult which fool good people did not worth any remembering.