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Here are my predictions for the future. I take the liberty to spend times to compile this because many of my followers see posts being a beautiful collection of random insights into the world. I am currently collecting as much information as possible because I personally made few predictions long ago in 2010s to forsee the future. - Rise of the Artificial Intelligence will put people out of work and revolutionize the world into the greater industrial revolution. AI search engine will dethrone Google as I predicted in 2011 but can't imagine how until I saw Bing fused with ChatGPT which is still in infancy. The Chinese prowess in automation around 2014 led me to believe that China will rule the world industrially. However, They will no longer be a workshop of everything but China will share their industrial prowess in their communist sphere. These members of a new Asian industrial world will be Russia, Vietnam, North Korea, possibly India (I am not sure yet), Iran, and Southeast Asia (but most automation industry will be in Vietnam). Chinese overcapcity will destroy the G7 economy and its puppets in OECD. - Global financial systems will be determined by digital networks. Blockchain technology is the primate level of technology to digitalizing the transaction systems that have already surpassed SWIFT wire transfer. The future transaction systems will be involved in quantum computing onward better than blockchain. China and Russia will formulate a group (BRICS didn't existing when I made this prediction) to dedollarize transaction systems to stop the USA from abusing their sanctions which largely involve shutting down SWIFT usage for people that Americans hate. The future transaction systems will be very easy in crossborders and multipolarized away from US/EU control to assure fairness to all. The new financial systems will be built around the global digital transactions networks but Asia will be the center of this new financial regime. I can see that China will be number one where Hong Kong is the first haven, then the second center will be likely somewhere in Russia but they will focus mostly on commodity exchanges to take away dominance of London/Chicago commodities exchange. The third place which can be almost important as Hong Kong or anywhere in China will be divided between Singapore and HCM City/Hanoi in Vietnam. I mention Vietnam because China and US design Vietnam as an important place to play neutrality trade since both sides merely pretend fighting each other. - The role of US as a world superpower will be gone but the world will see two more new superpower states in the name of Russia and China. India will not join the club because their internal problems are structurally making them hard to be bigger; however, they will at least remain stronger than EU in long term. The EU will likely disintegrate or cease to become relevant but Germany will hover around top 10 of world economies because they are quite open to reform to accommodate with changing times. The multipolar world will rise as the roles of nations will start becoming irrelevant to pave a way for the world government in far future around 2070s: United Nations. - Decline of old states in Europe will be apparent. The EU will likely disintegrate or exist as an irrelevant country club. Many great European countries like France, Spain, Italy will cease to exist due to demographic collapse and rise of Muslims. I forsee that Europe will become an Islamic caliphate in near future. Germany will still maintain itself a world power hovering around top 7 of the world economies because Germans will successfully maintain their crucial role with Russia and China through technological cooperation. The EU will be a garbage dump filled with migrants, while Germany will be the headmaster and France will be the security guard. The UK will be an American penal colony after City of London will be transferred to the City of New York where all dark money of the world will be recycled in the US. The UK as a penal colony will resemble more like Haiti where the most violent migrants will be deported there to constantly wage civil wars against each other. - Middle East will rise to replace Europe in her place to be the world's centre of culture, finance, economy. The matter of Israel/Palestine won't be resolved but I can see there will be an one state solution where all sides will be happy - I don't know what state will take place. There will be huge polarity between Muslims in Europe and Muslims in Middle East/North Africa. European Muslims will be more radical, while Muslims in Middle East/Africa will be more progressive. I expect that Iran will likely control and lead the Unmah at this point as the future of Saudi Arabia and other Sunni states will devolve into dependent countries to Iran. Sunni elites have squandered most of their wealth on unproductive projects and non-functional armies for years, so it is poetic that we will many Muslim royal families disappearing in coming years or joining with Iranian revolutionaries. In the Islamic world, Iran will lead the Unmah and partially have influence over new Europe which it will share with Russia who likely controls most of Europe indirectly. The new Middle East will be largely under presence of China and guaranteed by military protection from Iran/Russia. - Russia will likely become a peer superpower state with China to dethrone the US. At the same time, I also believe that the US will remain a large world power with diminished superpower status where its military has withdrawn from key places in the world. The US will seize total control over Anglosphere where we will see the UK or Australia becoming American territories like Puerto Rico. Perhaps, British royal family will likely cease to exist as their Crown estate will be sold to American corporations. The US will be the most diverse place in the world with a stable demographics along side with Russia, China, Southeast Asia, India, Middle East. The US will remain a strong world power for years to come but it won't interfere much in world affairs, unlike China and Russia. I see the US will also lose control over Latin America (LATAM) and eventually end the embargo on Cuba to garner Cuban supports to maintain a stronghold in LATAM. The UK will be extremely irrelevant at this point, so I don't even care about them. - Around 2009, I saw Ukraine will be the hotbed of a war because its economy has been largely de-industrialized. In 2014, we saw that Ukraine became the battleground for world powers. My prediction for Ukraine has remained since 2009 to maintain the eventuality that Russia will either annex Ukraine or control Ukraine as vassal state. Through that, Russia will control over all of Europe economically along with China. The US will retreat from Europe. Ukrainian population will become largely extinct due to assimilation or death from warfare. I can see that the new Ukraine will be named as the People's Republic of Ukraine being led by new Ukrainians who are multipolar. The new Ukraine will be a world's economic power that will industrially surpass Japan and South Korea if they still exist. China will be the biggest economic contributor to the new Ukraine. - Africa will be significantly more industrialized as the European/American influence recedes from exploiting the continent. China will be playing the huge role over the development of Africa but they will not invest more on the levels with Middle East. Africa won't be a rich continent but it will emerge as a middle income continent where people will be well fed. Russia will play greater roles than China in this continent through acting as security guards for Chinese projects to defend against American sabotages. I will only see a wealthy Africa existing around after 2070 if the world is fully united at that time. - India will be at least on par with the new United States on this timeline. India will be always one step behind the US in advancement and development, while two steps behind China and Russia. If India doesn't improve its structural problems with caste systems, I see it will be also 0.5 step behind ASEAN states in the future. India will be a large world power with mediocrity, while Pakistan and Bangladesh will be slightly more improved. Nevertheless, India will hover around top 5 of the global economies in the future where European world powers are long gone. - ASEAN will be the new global alliance that will surpass and replace the defunct/irrelevant European Union. Southeast Asia will be the complementary world superpower that will be a neutral place for Russia, China, US to make money. I see Vietnam will be likely the one leading the whole place as Germany once led the EU. Taiwan will be long reunited with China but Taiwan will remain a dependent nation to China to host the PLA naval bases. Taiwan and Hong Kong will cooperate to fund the rise of ASEAN in initial steps. Japan and South Korea will completely lose their holdings over ASEAN because I forsee a dark path for them. - In Korean peninsula, South Korea will be economically crushed by China throughout all phases due to Chinese overcapacity. South Korea's huge demographic collapse and economic decline will allow North Korea to reunite in violence or just peacefully marching. New Korea will be quite a world power but will take a few years to emerge into Top 10 because of reconstruction efforts. At this point, I suspect that Japan will either become an American penal colony (like the UK) or the next Ukraine in 2014. For Japan, I will make two predictive scenarios that will happen much sooner than we think but one thing is certain that Japan will enter hyperinflation worse than the current Argentina that will impoverish Japanese people. Since Japan's hyperinflation is so great, Japan will import all migrants in the world to fill up its depopulating spaces in rural areas, and most migrants will be from Asia. Here are two scenarios that can happen for Japan. The US decides to retire the Ukraine project and promote Japan into delusionally fighting China-Russia under a hope of maintaining a global war economy. The new migrants in Japan will be new conscripts endlessly dying against China and Russia at frontlines of Japanese waters, while the US will maintain a buffer zones to continue its war economy with Japanese blood. Japanese companies will be controlled by foreign shareholders, and they will be forced into subcontractors for American war companies. Japan will be an ideal place to recycle global dark money, while Japanese lands/assets will be all owned by foreigners. There will be foreign concession territories where Japanese people are not allowed to enter, while foreign investors will exploit Japanese labor and new Japanese migrant labor for war-making factories. This first scenario will see Japan being totally under control of foreigners to hopelessly wage an unending war for global money. The second scenario will see Japan refusing the first option. Japanese leaders will be replaced or killed by Americans to pave for the Libya scenario where the country will divided by warlords who will mostly come from foreign bloods. Japan will be overwhelmed by receiving too many migrants who will be each striving to control over the empty land of Japan. The US military bases will remain in the first and second scenarios as neutral outposts to observe "savages" fighting each other. The second scenario will see Japan repeating a much worse version of Myanmar Civil War. In conclusion, I see Japan will likely choose the first scenario to become the battering ram for the US. - In terms of general technologies, I will see humanity continue making huge strides. Robotics will be play larger roles in these new advancements.. Humanity will have huge unemployment crises in all countries over the world. Many nations in the world will lobby and pay the US/EU to accept migrants, so these nations won't have social crises. There will be huge ethnic conflicts and civil wars in developed countries that accept migrants. The world will continue witnessing many small wars to keep global companies in Asia to US staying rich until 2070 where humanity will likely reach post-scarcity status. Many small wars will be in Africa, Latin America, Europe, Japan, Australia where there will be huge concentration of migrant population. These predictions can be updated overtimes, so please stay tune.

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Of course China is doing this. It offers all kinds of export subsidies to offload its excess inventory, sells at rock-bottom prices with zero tariffs and subsidies for Thailand, and is clearly intent on reneging on its promise to produce as many vehicles in Thailand as it exports there. On top of that, it’s staffing and supplying its Thai factory entirely with Chinese people and parts, shutting out Thai suppliers. Sadly, Thailand’s auto industry, which Japanese companies helped nurture, is already finished. And this is the reality of “Chinese EVs sweeping the world.” India, the next battleground, probably won’t allow this, so I doubt it’ll be easy to break Suzuki’s stronghold there.

In Japan, porn actresses and sex workers have somehow become socially accepted, and in some cases are even treated like celebrities or influencers. But if you think this would fly anywhere else in the world, you're dead wrong. Overseas, simply being a prostitute is usually enough to make you an object of social contempt on a par with a drug dealer and place you at the very bottom of the social hierarchy. No matter how much money you have or how beautifully you dress up, being a “prostitute” alone is enough to get you treated as the lowest of the low, so you're hardly someone to look up to. But what on earth is going on in Japan these days? Porn actresses are gaining popularity as entertainers, while sex workers live in luxury high-rise apartments on money earned through prostitution, wear designer clothes, adorn themselves with jewelry, and carry designer handbags around, walking around town with looks on their faces like, “I'm rich♪” “I'm a young lady♪” “I'm a princess♪” The purpose of conspicuous consumption is to show others how wealthy you are and flaunt your high social status. But in countries where prejudice against prostitutes is strong, no matter how much you spend on a ¥1 million handbag, one remark—“No, she's a prostitute”—is enough to send your status plummeting to the bottom of the social hierarchy. If the point of luxury consumption is to flaunt your social status, then it fails to achieve that purpose. That's precisely why there's such a strong deterrent against “engaging in prostitution” overseas. It's seen as an underground occupation for women, much as drug dealing is for men, and you have to be pretty far gone to get into it. But in Japan, where this restraint is weak, if you spend money earned by selling your body on luxuries, people around you envy you, and your social status goes up. No wonder young women are lining up to get into it. The point is that eliminating prejudice too thoroughly can be a problem, too.

Dude just got profiled by the WSJ. Quite a story. Christian Lamarco, 31. Went to a small Christian college in Pennsylvania with no Wall Street recruiting pipeline. Once drove to Carnegie Mellon to compete against Ivy Leaguers in a stock-picking contest. Finished second. Won $100. Cold-emailed his research to hedge funds, landed a job at a Chicago long-short fund, then quit in 2019 with just a few months of savings to start Culper Research. Moved to NYC, working out of a Brooklyn apartment. His team? Just two analysts. They started investigating Nvidia last year, then gave up. They doubted three guys could uncover something Wall Street had missed about the world's most valuable company. Picked it back up in March. Interviewed former Nvidia employees, dug through corporate filings in Singapore and Malaysia, examined scrubbed code, even studied YouTube footage outside a Taiwanese noodle shop. May 13: After a sleepless night, a bagel and a cigarette, he published a 40-page short report flagging Nvidia’s China exposure and Jensen Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang. The next day, Nvidia hit an all-time high. Nobody cared. Six months later, the story blew up…

【The more you know about the ready-mixed concrete industry, the more suspicious the president’s explanation sounds】 At Aso Concrete Industry in Kasuya, Fukuoka Prefecture, ready-mixed concrete that did not meet JIS standards was shipped. It may have been shipped to around 190 construction sites over the past five years. The JIS certification body determined that the company had covered this up by falsifying records and revoked its certification. President Kiyohara told reporters, “There are a very large number of projects” and “We are investigating.” But considering quality control in the ready-mixed concrete industry, this explanation leaves major questions unanswered. Ready-mixed concrete is a race against time At the plant, cement type, aggregates, water, admixtures, and other materials are controlled according to the mix design, and production times, shipment quantities, delivery destinations, and other details are recorded. Time management is also extremely important, from mixing at the plant to delivery at the site. Moreover, concrete is a material that supports structures such as buildings and bridges, and there are strict standards for quality checks after production. In other words, the day-to-day operations of a ready-mixed concrete plant depend entirely on “managing numbers and records” This raises questions ① What has become of the shipment records needed to identify the roughly 190 construction sites? ② Do production records of cement types and quantities used still exist? ③ If the records were falsified, what are they comparing the actual mix against to verify it? I think ③ is particularly important This issue is not just a quality problem involving the use of cement different from what was specified in the mix design. It also involves the determination that records were falsified to conceal that fact. If the records used to prove quality can no longer be trusted, what basis will be used to confirm the safety of products shipped over the past five years? I’d like to ask those familiar with quality control in the ready-mixed concrete industry

Europe will bankrupt itself trying to arm its military in the middle of an energy crisis, hostile USA, China shock 2.0 and incoming debt crisis. Russia's strategy is to do to Europe what Europe did to the USSR

Notes) The shocking reality of Renesas’ “banishment room”! A 50-something engineer who refused to accept a request to resign is “arranging chairs for the new-hire orientation”… Facing an agonizing choice between layoffs, demotion, or a pay cut, employees are pushed to the brink | The terror of layoffs at a profitable company! The despair of voluntary retirement offers and mandatory retirement from management positions that hit general managers and section managers | The cruelty of career advancement and pay | Diamond Online

The Economy of East Asia will be wrecked hard as the storm of next Ukraine is dawning into the region. The US is pulling the rugs to economically retreat from East Asia, while it will still hold the flank of Southeast Asia strongly through Australia and New Zealand. China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea should expect decades-long warfare with tremendous economic losses. This is unfolding as I have predicted. Everyone knows the AI bubble burst is coming but they don't know real intention behind it. It is to start a permanent war in East Asia.

Lutnick and NVIDIA are losing influence in Washington. "The Commerce Department is finalizing a long-awaited rule that will prevent Chinese AI firms from remotely accessing advanced AI chips through data centers in other countries, according to two people familiar with the process."

With the breakup and privatization in April 1987, politicians paid lip service to “protecting the regions,” while meticulously building mechanisms into the institutional design that forced the closure of unprofitable lines and the dumping of their burdens on local communities. A railway network is, by its very nature, social infrastructure sustained by the entire network supporting itself: enormous profits from major metropolitan areas and trunk lines offset losses on lines in depopulated areas, freight lines, and local lines. The moment the network was split into regional corporations and required to pursue profits, closing unprofitable local lines was transformed into a rational obligation of corporate management. For the politicians and bureaucrats who championed privatization (the so-called “JNR Reform Three,” among others), the overriding objective was to dismantle Sohyo and Kokuro and sell off the profitable assets to private interests and financial markets. The moment that was accomplished, the promise not to abandon the regions was reduced to a stain on the minutes of a meeting for which no one bore responsibility. Today, when JR companies push to close unprofitable local lines, both the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the Liberal Democratic Party cite the sharp decline in ridership caused by a declining and aging population and the spread of private cars, insisting that circumstances have changed since the promises made at privatization. They themselves have cut local jobs and infrastructure to push forward the concentration of everything in Tokyo—neoliberal structural reform—and then use the resulting depopulation as a reason to close lines. It is circular reasoning. Under JNR, closing a line was the transport minister’s responsibility, but by outsourcing the decision to the private sector, they perfected a system for dismantling local infrastructure without getting their own hands dirty. The claim that “privatization would allow the debt to be repaid” was also a complete lie. The debt dumped on the JNR Settlement Corporation ballooned because of failed land sales and soaring interest, was ultimately shifted onto the general account, and is still being paid off by the public today. JNR privatization was the first successful experience of the structural reforms that followed: postal service privatization, water utility privatization, the abolition of the Seed Act, and the corporatization of national universities—all dismantling assets held in common by the public and selling them off to provide the funds for dividends to foreign capital and major shareholders. By carving up the nation’s arteries—the railways, which carry freight, move people, and provide logistics infrastructure in times of emergency—according to the single yardstick of profitability, they fragmented the regions, thinned out the freight network, and even lost alternative routes for use during disasters. Far from being ashamed to face the public, the elite regard JNR privatization as a resounding success of structural reform and a source of self-congratulation. What lies behind it is nothing other than the arrogance of ruthless winners who will impose market principles and particular political objectives even at the cost of the public’s foundations for living.

Sony’s exclusive supply of image sensors to Apple for the iPhone is finally coming to an end: Apple will switch some or all of its supply to Samsung-made sensors from the US. My reporting on Sony spanning more than a year revealed initial panic, followed by resignation. Clearly. For details, see my article ➡️

All right!! Dig up every instance and hit them with a class-action lawsuit for damages!! Even if Aso Concrete goes under, its parent company will pay, so no problem!! Non-standard concrete from Aso Concrete Industry may have been used in buildings in Fukuoka Prefecture… The number of buildings affected is still under investigation: Yomiuri Shimbun

Reuters exclusive reveals the real motive behind the military operation that led to Maduro’s capture The investigation revealed that a week before the January 3 military operation, Vice President JD Vance discussed the future sale of Venezuelan crude oil with a trader at Vitol and a major donor to his campaign, paving the way for Vitol and Trafigura to receive, without a bidding process, the oil marketing monopoly that has already generated hundreds of millions of dollars for them. Flight records place JD Vance’s official plane and John Addison’s (a Vitol trader) private jet together on December 27 in Bozeman, Montana, heading to the exclusive Yellowstone Club. According to a source familiar with the meeting, Vance asked how quickly they could sell Venezuelan crude oil if the US took control of the supply. Although Addison traded gasoline in the US and lacked technical experience in international crude oil contracts, he had donated $300,000 to Vance in 2022 and $7 million to Trump committees in 2024 (the same year Vitol paid $50 million in California to settle a price manipulation case in which Addison was implicated). Recommended by Vance, Addison received a call from Energy Secretary Chris Wright on January 5 (two days after the operation). The White House bypassed a public bidding process, and by January 9, Vitol and Trafigura already had the licenses. With more than 200 million barrels exported so far in 2026, experts estimate that the traders are earning between $3 and $3.50 per barrel (a margin of 3.5% to 4%, higher than Vitol’s usual 1%–3%). Both firms are keeping their contracts with PDVSA secret, and Vitol confirmed that it also has a business relationship with NABEP, Alejandro Betancourt’s oil company. This report adds to the leak of the KPMG report published yesterday by The New York Times, according to which Vitol and Trafigura accounted for 61% of the $12.26 billion deposited into Venezuela’s escrow account before Washington transferred nearly all of those funds back to the Central Bank of Venezuela. In other words: A week before the military attack, the Trump administration was already coordinating at a private ski club how to divide up the marketing of Venezuelan oil among its major campaign donors without a public bidding process.

A story about how a presidential decree from Putin could squeeze the money flowing to Japan’s semiconductor industry. Russia: “We’re putting seven JT Group companies under temporary state control.” ↓ JT: Russian operations account for about 25% of adjusted operating profit ↓ Goldman Sachs Securities: “Dividends could fall by about 25%” ↓ Government: The largest shareholder, holding 37.55% of JT shares. Dividends fund “industrial investment” ↓ Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry: Seeking ¥400 billion from that industrial investment for Rapidus over fiscal years 2027–2029 → The tobacco company gets taken, and the purse for the national semiconductor push gets squeezed Senior Finance Ministry official: “There’s only so much the government can do as a shareholder” → Even though it’s the largest shareholder So Japan’s industrial policy was riding on tobacco dividends, huh...

A clan-based society is, plain and simple, a primitive tribal form that has never properly evolved. The South never developed a writing system, has no common language, and has no decent clothes to cover people’s bodies. The Chinese characters, Manchu, qipao, and hanfu that southerners cite are all imports from northern civilization. Even today, southerners are still mainly concerned with breeding, eating, and making money. They generally have little desire to study, routinely torture and kill animals, and have barbaric eating habits. Their social customs generally involve bullying the weak. With the added influence of sweatshops, they see money as something to suck dry, with no future.

The Korean gaming industry is doomed. Do not invest. South Korea’s median age is 47. People stop playing games as they get older. When Lineage, Ragnarok Online, StarCraft, Diablo II, and others swept the country, South Korea’s median age was in the 30s. The situation is very different now. That is why, unless a game company is export-driven, it is bound to go under. Krafton is an export-driven company. More than 90% of its profits come from China. That is the only reason it is still hanging on. As for the rest, well. As AI lowers game development costs, the barriers to entry are falling too, making it hard to maintain an economic moat. President Lee Jae-myung, when he was a candidate, once made a campaign pledge to revive the gaming industry, but unfortunately, nothing has been implemented, so the Korean gaming industry is set for one shutdown after another. Do not invest. Not just the gaming industry—every industry that is “domestic-market-focused + targeting younger generations” will go under. I am not joking. Entertainment, cosmetics, interior design, construction, and other companies with no overseas sales are all going under. Do not invest in any company focused on the domestic market.

Basically the article is an implicit ad to join Western "regional" supply chain Written by the Chinese Malaysian co-founder and group CEO of the super-app Grab. Fitting slave mentality of being a "high value" cog in their Western master's machine.

SoftBank is performing so badly that even Musk thinks they’re weirdly dumb