QUOTE(y500 @ Apr 8 2025, 11:52 AM)
Imagine CN KR JP all united against murika..
QUOTE(haya @ Apr 8 2025, 12:27 PM)
EU can't even agree as a bloc, much less tie up with CN KR JP + SEA + Africa + Latin America
Let me know when ASEAN can work together as a bloc (ref: Myanmar issues)
If Trump can unite the East Asian states with their historical baggage, SEA with the different priorities, Africa with their different problems, and how much does those 3 parties know about Latin America, that would be a literal achievement in its own right.
Which with Trump, one cannot rule out...........
The only way for CN KR JP talks to work is if CN is willing to give up some of their manufacturing and market pricing practices to accommodate the koreans and japs. otherwise the koreans and japs are not stupid, they know the chinese many of them have this thinking "what can you sell me I cant make cheaper? you go eat dust!". even non PRC chinese have this thinking egs:
QUOTE(Avex @ Mar 31 2025, 10:24 AM)
not going to happened. South Korea has nothing left to offer China. Japan maybe their carbon fibre tech, that is just 1 series ahead of china, other than that nothing much from Japan anymore
QUOTE(h@ksam @ Mar 31 2025, 10:15 AM)
Japan and Korea wasting their time, how are they planning to sell anything to China? lol