Fierce local resistance to lithium battery factory shows why supply chains cannot go back to the US
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Love this story. It's so hilarious. The Americans just can't get out of their own way. This is why the Empire is crumbling.
it is like they r trapped in the ideologies frame 🖼 and can’t get out
That's America, everyone for themself. Whine about it when it doesn't suite them. It's a recipe for failure and failing we are.
including the advocate for climate change
@@jemfalorthey even paid a young girl to promote it
It is not the Chinese who defeated the American manufacturing industry, but the Americans.
Everyone for themselves in America!
politically and economically. the so called myth of melting pot taught in grade school is a total lie in reality and life here
Chinese industry learned how to keep things clean after the Chinese leadership heard from the people, the base of power.
Chinese industries dumped toxic materials into rivers and lands, just like American industry did before they transferred the factories to China. The difference is that American banned the industries and moved them out and Chinese government made the industries to improve to stay. When I worked in a city near Guangzhou for about a year, I noticed that many buildings were dark but the air was very clean. The residents told me that, historically, this town was famous for making pottery with kilns to burn coal for many centuries. When China decided to clean up its air, it outlawed this entire industry. There is only one historical kiln allowed to stay for a local university to use a few times a week. The site becomes a tourist spot. Yet, this city is still famous for its art of pottery, except only arts are allowed to make by this only remaining site.
Chinese think about people and the country and Americans think how they can get richer as fast and simple as possible (by "investing" in the financial bubbles, printing money).
Air in China is as clean as that in the US sky now, if not cleaner!
@@DragonYang01 I live in Dongguan city, Guangdong. I know that some foundries use electricity instead of coal as energy.
There is a reason for that.
Liberals can always get out of power, disclaim all responsibility, and blame the other guys.
In China, there is only the communist party.
There is no one else to blame.
So they MUST fix it.
Geramny also has lithium, and they don't want to pollute either. But they don't want Chinese EVs, they want German EVs. Leave it to the lawyers to lead the countries...
Yeah... German EVs running on fossil fuel... diesel out of all kind!
China's leadership is all engineering degree holders. They actually think about what they're doing. 😂
😂😂😂
When all those factories in the US’re ready for production, lithium might no longer be needed for making batteries.
correct.. the Chinese are already very advance with their salt ion batteries..
U$ have already lost, but they don't even know it. So now they spiraling out of control, freaking out every single day, obsessing about progress in China, but not having any answers other than sanctions after sanctions.
Wow, you said it all without breaking out in laughter or tears.
😂😂😂
The very beauty of Democracy 👉 0:02 - "If you want to get elected to political office in the United States give some speeches about how important it is to open new factories in the United States then after you get elected make sure you make it impossible for this to actually happen." (P.S.: I reside somewhere not within the US, but somehow the politicians where I reside practice exactly what's described in the quote. 😂😂😂 Is that how it goes? Great minds think alike? )
"Mexico will pay for the wall"... No. US taxpayers did... 😂
Great minds think alike, weak minds think alike as well.
@@peanut0brainget the America great
Americans need to educate themselves. Which government, Chinese or American, has been working for the people and delivering for the people? CCP has been doing so much VISIONARY complex international work, policy work for different internal industries to FIX problems, trying to make good policies for the people to improve community development. These things don't happen overnight. CCP is not perfect, but doing a darn fine job in an increasingly complicated world. It is not just rhetoric.... unlike in America!!!!
Stop telling the truth for gods sake. The us does not want to think that china does any good. They just want to demonise them and fearmonger their citizens against china. Actually the us is fearful of china's development. The us should be the last to throw stones when you look at their track record.
you are not afraid of being kicked out by talking something good about CCP?!
The short-term behavior of short-term temporary workers. The long-term planning of professional politicians.
It's a conversation the US needs to honestly discuss with it's people ....I just realized what an impossible task that is. Nevermind.
and western people don't really want to work in them
WOW !!
That residential area of Fujian at the end is absolutely gorgeous.
Those houses in that landscape !!!
The western media is telling its people China is a third world country . LOL
Yeah, I like the ending scenes, BUT what the hell is that hushed prayer like talk in the background...wierd.
America is going to have to allow Chinese Electric Cars in.... eventually!
They're already building Chinese EV Factory in Hungary and on RBI Route 😊, hence Germany's and France's attitude towards Hungary, the new Manufacturing Hub of Europe...
The EU Von der Lying will ignore their own Law & block Hungary China EV from entering other EU countries.
Don't forget U r dealing with Brussels EU is US-vassals who has allowed US to blow up NS2 pipeline to destroy GERMAN economy.
Everything is security issues in the US even if it destroy US economy 😅 😂
Thanks for speaking the truth.
Grant, Support, Aid etc = SUBSIDY
Kevin, maybe it is a good experiment in the US to see how a country functions without a capable government. Question is why do Americans pay so much tax when the government is so bad.
We pay a lot of taxes because the US Government is bad!
I think the Chinese do sometimes see America as a huge testing ground for social experiments, usually watch it with both awe and disgust🧐
Lithium processing like semiconductors and active pharmaceutical ingredients is hard to make. You need high capital investments, veeeerrry low profit margin and especially highly skilled workforce. There is no country that can do that except for East Asia.
They want the cake and eat as well but unfortunately, the cake does not taste well n the consumers hate it. That sums up what is happening in US n the West
Let them eat cake.....rings a bell😂
Hence, "printing money" is the only choice for US
It's a thriving industry.
The dollar scam😂
even Japan recently with the yen
I live in NC and have been to Fujian several times (mostly Fuzhou). This video hits two places I like. Sadly, we will not protect our own interests. I am willing to bet that Nimby is the most common last name in the states these days. Lots of hypocritical Nimbys. We go to great length to kill great middle class work. Either you're management or work in a fungible service job.
NIMBY? Sorry, only the biggest kind of moron would want a lithium mine to destroy their environment, water, fauna.
Some people are proudly stupid but doesn't mean people should follow those twits.
Killer punchline at the end. Brilliant Kevin
By where I live, there’s a hill, and it’s prime location for homes with hilltop views. Even though it was already mapped. No subdivision was allowed.
Because the area is “home” for some “rare bug”.
Well said.
About 15 years ago, I sat in a lecture by Dr. Andrew J. Scott, an English economist, who said that developed countries should not be trying to bring back manufacturing as that is what economies in the industrial age do, which is what US went through over 200 years ago. He created hundreds of economic models of countries who went through the industrial age and they all went through hyper-growth for about ~30 years. After 30 years, these economies all transform themselves to a different economy. While the industrial age began earlier in the US, the US manufacturing escalated during WWII and then subsequently transformed itself into a service economy, which is the next phase of development of a matured economy. Remarkably, 15 years ago, Scott was prescient in projecting China's high growth manufacturing boom would last 30 years (if we assumed the rally began ~1991 and lasted until 2019) before undergoing an economic transformation. Now after 30 years of a heavy manufacturing economy, China is also changing its economy. It must continue to transform its manufacturing to a high tech economy, increase its service industry (and increase consumption), reduce its heavy dependence on investment (e.g., building infrastructure) and implement safety nets for its citizens to continue a strong GDP trajectory for years to come. Though the GDP PPP is larger for the Chinese economy, the US economy is more advanced and matured than that of the Chinese economy. On the other hand, US should continue its high tech development (but will have to fix its education system or encouraged more highly skilled workers to immigrant to the US) as well as continue as a service economy but one more focused on higher margin service businesses (e.g., the US should invest in businesses such as Nvidia which designs chips but not TSMC in Arizona, which manufacturers chips). The US should not strive to bring back low cost manufacturing such as these mining businesses as this is going backwards in economic development and would reduce GDP growth trajectory in the long run.
Government planning, vision and a timetable are needed. A good starting point would be to make education in the practical subjects free to all students wishing to learn.
@@silversurfer8237US offers student loans, which created a debt crisis for young people
First, the common sense questions you need to face are as follows:
1. You said "US economy... the bulk of the economy is in the service industry". In fact, it is more accurately the financial services industry (banks, securities, insurance, trusts, funds, etc.), which is related to the "overcapacity" of US dollars and US debts. Most of the U.S. GDP is composed of financial bubbles, and one of the manifestations of the crisis is the downgrading of U.S. debt credit ratings and bank failures.
- In May 2023, the US faces the crisis of bank failure. After JPMorgan Chase acquired First Republic Bank , customers' deposits "disappeared" "legally and compliantly" like magic. However, the debt owed by the customer to the bank still exists and will not disappear. In a nutshell, what I owe you does not need to be repaid; but what you owe me must be repaid with interest.
- On June 26, 2023, U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen said that more U.S. banks may seek mergers with the same model as JPMorgan Chase this year(2023), and all bank customers are at risk.
- From January to March 2024 alone, the US Treasury Department issued a record $7.2 trillion in bonds. In 2023, the GDP of Germany ranked third in the world was 4.457 trillion dollars, that of Japan ranked fourth was 4.212 trillion dollars, and that of India ranked fifth was 3.572 trillion dollars. In order to prevent Germany from being sucked dry by the United States, German companies have gone to China for safety.
- On April 1, 2024, David Haggith, an economics writer, said the U.S. commercial real estate (CRE) crisis may be worse than the market is talking about. He warned that this would cause millions of people to go bankrupt, and that 1,619 banks may be at risk of failure if the Federal Reserve does not "step in" to rescue them.
- In April 2024, one year later, Yellen had just finished her visit to China and returned empty-handed. Then, China’s “overcapacity” was raised.
2. You said "China's heavier weight on investment which means if they stop investing, there would be a short fall in GDP". This is not the case. This is beyond the scope of your knowledge. You need to learn another content from the blogger." Foreign Direct Investment into China is hitting 30-year lows. But Chinese exports are soaring. How?"
3. You said that "US has better... although they have a funding issue". You think that a system that 'have a funding issue' and may collapse at any time is 'better'. This logic is irrational. And then you conclude, 'which drives consumption and allows more consumer spending', which is contrary to the real situation.
on April 23, CNN reported that the persistently high inflation rate in the United States has brought difficulties to consumers. They are unable to afford consumption other than daily necessities and are forced to cut back on spending. As a result, many department store products are unsaleable.
4. When you say "a better judicial system protects companies," do you mean that people who reported on Boeing's quality issues have been killed one after another, and all of this has nothing to do with Boeing?
- When the US failed in the market rules it set, it arrested and sentenced Frédéric Pierucci, the former global head of the boiler division of France's Alstom, and arrested and threatened Meng Wanzhou of China's Huawei. Ask other countries to sanction China and see which of your countries dares to do business with China!
- Forcefully buy TIKT-O-C-K! Not selling? BAN!
5. China has been growing at a high speed for 40 consecutive years. You cannot find the same scale of growth in the world. If you spread rumors that China's GDP figures are false, this lack of moral words and deeds just proves your ignorance and narrow-mindedness.
Based on your rational logic ability and professionalism, your degrees in the 'US and UK' have not improved your analytical skills and independent thinking abilities. This is a failure of education from the relevant universities in the 'US and UK' that awarded you degrees. Because, 'You don't understand economics', compared with bloggers, you are just a bookcase with books. BTW, You forget that there are millions of people with economics degrees in the world, and the density will be higher here. I suggest you avoid embarrassing yourself.
@@WellSalt-Studio Good question. I have an econ degree. US economy is more advanced because the bulk of the economy is in the service industry (manufacturing is where the growth of newer economies comes from; for example, Mexico), most of GDP is comprised of consumption (Nobel Prize economist Stiglitz talks about how China's consumers should spend more so GDP growth can derive more from consumption in order to achieve a more substainable growth rate), US has better retirement and social security net set up, which drives consumption and allows more consumer spending and US has better justice system protecting businesses (e.g., China has a problem of business frauds, two accounting books, etc.,), etc. The weight of the components of Chinese GDP components aren't set up for high growth indefinitely; it needs to transform itself. Currently, the reason the Chinese economy is growing at 5% is because the Chinese government can spend enough money to hit the 5% mark. However, relying more on consumper consumption is more sustainable on the long-term but that requires better social safety net, which is lagging in China. Finally, Chinese GDP per capital both in nominal and PPP terms are significantly lagging US per capita. That said, if Chinese economy fixes itself, it can growth to a nominal GDP rate of 3x US. Again, that is because it's not as matured or advanced as the US, hence there is more room for growth. (that is why growth rates come from emerging markets not from matured and advanced economies).
@@ching-yi2007 First, the common sense questions you need to face are as follows:
1. You said "US economy... the bulk of the economy is in the service industry". In fact, it is more accurately the financial services industry (banks, securities, insurance, trusts, funds, etc.), which is related to the "overcapacity" of US dollars and US debts. Most of the U.S. GDP is composed of financial bubbles, and one of the manifestations of the crisis is the downgrading of U.S. debt credit ratings and bank failures.
- In May 2023, the US faces the crisis of bank failure. After JPMorgan Chase acquired First Republic Bank , customers' deposits "disappeared" "legally and compliantly" like magic. However, the debt owed by the customer to the bank still exists and will not disappear. In a nutshell, what I owe you does not need to be repaid; but what you owe me must be repaid with interest.
- On June 26, 2023, U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen said that more U.S. banks may seek mergers with the same model as JPMorgan Chase this year(2023), and all bank customers are at risk.
- From January to March 2024 alone, the US Treasury Department issued a record $7.2 trillion in bonds. In 2023, the GDP of Germany ranked third in the world was 4.457 trillion dollars, that of Japan ranked fourth was 4.212 trillion dollars, and that of India ranked fifth was 3.572 trillion dollars. In order to prevent Germany from being sucked dry by the United States, German companies have gone to China for safety.
- On April 1, 2024, David Haggith, an economics writer, said the U.S. commercial real estate (CRE) crisis may be worse than the market is talking about. He warned that this would cause millions of people to go bankrupt, and that 1,619 banks may be at risk of failure if the Federal Reserve does not "step in" to rescue them.
- In April 2024, one year later, Yellen had just finished her visit to China and returned empty-handed. Then, China’s “overcapacity” was raised.
2. You said "China's heavier weight on investment which means if they stop investing, there would be a short fall in GDP". This is not the case. This is beyond the scope of your knowledge. You need to learn another content from the blogger." Foreign Direct Investment into China is hitting 30-year lows. But Chinese exports are soaring. How?"
3. You said that "US has better... although they have a funding issue". You think that a system that 'have a funding issue' and may collapse at any time is 'better'. This logic is irrational. And then you conclude, 'which drives consumption and allows more consumer spending', which is contrary to the real situation.
on April 23, CNN reported that the persistently high inflation rate in the United States has brought difficulties to consumers. They are unable to afford consumption other than daily necessities and are forced to cut back on spending. As a result, many department store products are unsaleable.
4. When you say "a better judicial system protects companies," do you mean that people who reported on Boeing's quality issues have been killed one after another, and all of this has nothing to do with Boeing?
- When the US failed in the market rules it set, it arrested and sentenced Frédéric Pierucci, the former global head of the boiler division of France's Alstom, and arrested and threatened Meng Wanzhou of China's Huawei. Ask other countries to sanction China and see which of your countries dares to do business with China!
- Forcefully buy TIKT-O-C-K! Not selling? BAN!
5. China has been growing at a high speed for 40 consecutive years. You cannot find the same scale of growth in the world. If you spread rumors that China's GDP figures are false, this lack of moral words and deeds just proves your ignorance and narrow-mindedness.
If Taiwan's "economics degree" is of this level, it can only mean that Taiwan's education has failed.
Taiwan Province of China (a rebel government in China) breeds a group of rabid dogs - the "1450 Cyber Army", whose goal is to spread rumors, slander and attack China, and to spread rumors, slander and attack individuals and organizations within Taiwan Province that oppose the words and deeds of the DPP. They charge for rumors about China, and they often use their identity as Chinese to frame China. If they leave the topic of China and don't get the reward of dog bones, it will not survive. YT gave them the right to manage the content in Greater China. Real voices from China will be blocked or restricted by them.
If anyone doesn't know the nasty behavior of China's rebel government in Taiwan Province Province, please search for' 1450 Taiwan' by yourself.
The same challenge is happening in Serbia. BYD wants to set up a battery factory there. It is already under construction. But the locals are partitioning to stop it. What gives?
Same reason we kicked out Rio Tinto: multinationals making billions while poisoning our land isn't acceptable anymore. They saw what is happening in Debrecen, Hungary and the 300-400 acres of construction of these factories. It's not done for the people of the villages, nobody asked them, but for the benefit of European consumers and foreign companies. People don't want to be the Congo, Bolivia and other dirt poor countries that have no other options to destroy their environment.
@@vladaYou can’t have your cake and eat it too. You can’t have factories without some cost to your environment. You can’t have manufacturing jobs without development. If you people want to maintain your quaint, nice lifestyles with no factories, just stop whining about the Chinese that is willing to do the work and make things and flooding your markets and stealing your jobs.
@@vladathe options for Congo and Bolivia are there, they're just blocked by soldiers wielding US and European made guns
That was why Uncle Sam is so successful as a comedian. 🤡😂😂😂😂
It IS hilarious if not for the sad truth
❤❤❤Kevin, … and thus wishful thinking clashes with the cost of hypocrisy… we truly live in a delusional matrix.. take another red pill and get back into our matrix. Cheers, what me worry⁉️🇺🇸
You are really moving !!!!!
While what can you expect from Americans? Lithium mining for green is great, just not in my backyard.
Lithium mining is not great nor is it green in any way. Only a total idiot believes it is green and only a bigger moron would ruin his land and water table, poisoning people and animals for the benefit of multinationals. Stop pretending that eastern capitalism is more moral than European or Americans..
Thank you
There are several lithium recycling corporations around the U.S. and Canada: ReCyclico, Redwood Materials, Li-Cycle, Battery Recyclers of America... Isn't Tesla even recycling?
Why isn't the U.S. government ordering that any lithium mining be environmentally sustainable and that lithium batteries recycling be mandatory?
They go with what momentarily catches their eye.....like frogs....zap...a Don Martin moment😂😂
NIMBY is the typical symptoms of individualism. Good luck.
Excellent analysis
I guess the experience of India in Bophal of an American factory speaks volumes😢
Lithium mines truly are the epitome of "green" and "sustainable".
Or cobalt ones. 10 million liters of fresh water, every day. Very "green", indeed ...
This is a typical first world not-in-my-backyard mentality. You just can't have the cake and eat it. Selfishness evolves to become American entitlement.
BS. Don't want the cake, f*** off our land is not hard to understand. Not American and my people protested against a lithium mine that would have destroyed environment and water table because we care about those things. We're not obsessive capitalists that see people as unimportant and land as something they should exploit because you got a hard on for the green BS. You might be a delusional soft skull but doesn't mean everyone is.
Damn you do , Damn you don't
Nothing works smoothly in US
😂
lgbtq很顺利，当然支持以色列也很顺利。😂
Lol, with "US speed", China will already move on from lithium battery 😅. Oh wait they already moving on using Sodium or H2O as their battery based 😊. And probably California will get their own high speed train before the factory working.
America has soda ash
For sodium ion battery
But they will drop that ball
@@DW-op7ly Americans just love their soda, especially sports games are on tv.
@@cool-eye3674 😂
Sodium? H2O? Sure, bring it on.
Lithium? 🖕
@@vlada there are already sodium ion batteries in cars already
The biggest reserve of lithium in the US appears to be the Salton Sea in the California desert. Gavin Newscum is promoting the mining of the lithium, but no word about a battery plant. I will say that the mojave desert is a great place to make something as it is useless for anything else. We'll see if Newscum's policies of CA being the king of the EV can be realized.......but I doubt it.
Isn't Sodium ion battery or solid state battery coming to replace Lithium?
I guess it's a case of the body is willing but the spirit is weak???
More power to them!!!
How can we fund those protestors?
This story kinda reminds me of one story during the Obama years, where steel mills were shut down because of high cost and poor management. Some even suggested China was making American steel company unprofitable. These towns whose livelihoods depend on the industry were in a dire state. Lucky some of the plants were aquired by Chinese investors, and much needed jobs were brought back to these communities. I'm wondering if those plants were shut down like Tik Tok.
The demise of a collapse empire
TsingTao advert in the background. Before China was opened to free trade, this beer makes QinDao known to the world.
China news is very interesting to me.
too many sheeps，sad
be good
Many disasters happened recently causing by putting profits before safety measures will haunt americans for long.
V FUNNY V SHARP
i want to have my cake and eat it too.
Quite the irony right?
Why do you want America to do better?
lithium is not in short supply. You can get this stuff everywhere. What do you with the lithium after you mine them, selling to the Chinese?
Chinese didn't ask the United States to sell lithium ore.
On the contrary, the United States is shouting every day to make batteries (including raw materials) completely independently.
Mountain king nc.
Democracy at its best 😂
Haha, the truth hurts.
Americans have accustomed to live in Internet, they think every productions can come from thin air.😅
it makes sense to preserve the pristine environment; if china and usa go along better then it would be better if china continued mining lithium and sold ev cars to the usa without tariffs; that way usa gets ev cars good for environment whilst china gets the dirty envrionement
不是我不尊重环保，但西方的环保主义者真的要命
Trump has a much simpler solution. Just tax the hell out of all importers. 😂😂
Great... but it works both ways doesn't it.
Energyx mines it at 90% rates vs 30% of conventional with lowest waste ouput as it uses filtration to extract not ponds up millions of gallons water pools to extract. American startup backed by GM 50million and 450 million ready if they go ipo. Already taken 5 million us energy gov funding. Thus no about mining or pollution but about pleasing liberal environmentalist.
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well, the lithium part of the problem will dissolve: sodium batteries will replace almost all.
and there are reports of water-based batteries much better than both.
but the principle is sound: nimby, here in oz, 'not-in-my-backyard.'
labor cost plus over-seas sales make repatriating industry foolish, except to politicians.
reality is, our social, political, industrial customs are hopelessly out of touch with modern reality.
someday, perhaps we will establish some mix of democracy, socialism which reflects reality and brings peace and justice to human society. or maybe we'll drive ourselves into extinction.
this seems more likely to me, but there's no use in betting on extinction, so fingers crossed and hope for sanity.
A step forward and two steps back 😂 American dreaming
This is the problem with the western style vote based democracy. It's good for profit sharing but not good for responsibility sharing. It worked well during industrialization and colonial era when priced were paid elsewhere. Western democracy is not the end of history, history is seeing the end of it.
God talks and miracles follow. All religious people imitate God after secularization and name it politics.
Demhypocrisy
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中国民主-以人民为主（月薪3000的不配）
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There are several lithium recycling corporations around the U.S. and Canada: ReCyclico, Redwood Materials, Li-Cycle, Battery Recyclers of America... Isn't Tesla even recycling?
Why isn't the U.S. government ordering that any lithium mining be environmentally sustainable and that lithium batteries recycling be mandatory?
And also mandatory environmental cleanup and restoration when the mine life cycle has ended.