China Thread III (Tibet, Olympics, Myanmar, More)

This is not the main product. You should check their websiet at bydauto.com.

 

You should check the forum of all Chinese students in Germany. They basically consider Germany the country and the people, pretty much Nazis. They are trying to get their PhD and Master degrees and head back home.

Even though the current leaders are too busy to kiss foreigner' behind (esp. that useless Foreign Affair Department), think about those come-back students will be power position 10 years later. They have most understanding of Germany, and have much influences upon other Chinese regarding Germany, but they are basically saying that country and people are piece of animal dump.

Frankly I am stunned by their believing. I NEVER say any Chinese student in USA has such negative feeling toward America (of course, not include Bush and Neocon, or Nancy anti-China Pelosi type). Even Chinese in Japan doesn't rate Japanese such bad.

 

Really?

When it comes to the violation of human rights, the EU parliament can get pretty unintimate. And that's praiseworthy in my eyes!

If China wants a good relationship & cooperation with the EU, it has to respect human rights.

Thanx for that nice info.

Fortunately I know 2 Chinese students who don't think this way...

 

You pretty much in a stage that Chinese doesn't care much what EU thinks. You guys can take whatever human right craps to go against Jews and Muslims, or like French to facility genocide in Rwanda, but heck, it is a LOST point in China.

One of my friend, a CEO in a joint venture company told a head of German company that Germans will NEVER get any contract from his company because he doesn't want to work with Nazis. His Jewish American partner is laughing over it and treat him a good dinner.

Just let's wait to see when Chinese, not the government spinless ashholes, but ordinary ones, shut their doors to much any EU products, and how you guys can couple with the current financial crisis.

Just let you know that Germany is one of the most dislike country in China now. (With France).

 

How cute.

You seem to have really "bright" friends...

Then let them shut their doors...

Better then you may wish...

Wow!

 

China and Russia signed an agreement with China gave Russia upfront 25B and Russian will supply 300B tonnes of oil to China in next 20 years, 4% of China's demand. That is roughly price about $15 per barrel.

Also China and Russia will start using their own currencies on trade and out of USD. Russia will take their companies in Hong Kong for listing, to prepare the replacement of New York and London as THE world center of financing.

Middle East, esp. Saudi, will follow.

 

Russia's problem is bad. When it got the windfall of energy exports in 2008, there is no much industries in the country can suck up the extra cash inflow. So most of them went to properties and stocks. The Central Bank had to tighting up the interest rate, which drove big Oils borrowing money from European market.

When oil dropped below $70, all those companies on big, big trouble. Many money spent on pipelines that saw the demands and profits dropping same time. If oil goes down below $50, whole country will see some difficult time.

So this deal with China, even though upfront price is $15, but if their oil companies can get cash flow (they have $130B loans due 2009, only $50B relief from Central Bank) now, and finish the pipeline in East, they can charge a better price on Japan to even out the price. There are also other deals such as Russian nuclear power plants to supply electricity to China, and joint-ventual of producing heavy helicaptors, etc., will help Russia in such difficult time.

Basically, China will gurantee Russia on finance, so it will not go under again.

Just wait what Saudi will do. EU will get plunge into money hole with all Eastern European countries blowing off one by one with all the bad loans in EU banks. The biggest money is in China, second one in Middle East, and third one--the smallest one in Japan. Japan has to insure America's money need, so HK (with a little bit of Singapore) will be the new center.

 

I owned an electric car - Corbin Sparrow - back on 2001. If you are stopped in traffic the electric motor is not running, so you are not depleting the battery. Time in traffic does not matter only distance traveled does. (That is how the Corbin worked anyway, I'm not familiar with the specific car you mentioned.).


(I just saw this post and haven't really read much else in this thread.)

 

Putin tried to rebuild their own monetary system. It is in right direction, abeit that he is a little too aggressive. China is in a great position to build up Renmenbi dominated international trade relationship now.

Hong Kong, is same as Singapore and London which is playing by foreign capitals. NY is different with American capitals. So you understand why Hong Kong has the current problem. It can not be just an international financial island, it has to become THE financial center of China.

 

This is their website.

http://www.bydauto.com/

 

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This happened to Germany as well last year ... so you get the impression that this is a new Chinese "hobby".

 

That is why it appears in "Financial Time".

 

Nothing. A electric motor that only draws current when moving the wheel. One of the nice things about pure electric cars, is they don't need any transmission, or cooling system which make normal cars complex to maintain.

It was also very quite. Once time I stopped at a light and a pedestrian walked by without knowing I was even there.

 

A/C = rolling down the window. It did have a heater though.

light and stereo it all had, but the car ran off 13 car batteries, so while those drew power it was small compared to what the electric motor would draw.

The wife. When kid #2 arrived she demanded that we get minivan, so my favorite car had to go.

I'm still plotting to by another electric car.

I think plug-in hybrids are the way to go. I'd add a mandate that all cars have "flex-fuel" engine capable of using an arbitrary mixture of gasoline/ethanol/methanol.