Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Why so many countries don't like China.


Why so many countries don't like China.
It's not about history, but reality. Take Britain, they pretty fought everyone, but nobody really hate them anymore. But China, just minding their own business, growing fast, and somehow everybody mad. Why, when China grows, it messes with other people's profits. Let's start with fresh example. AI, the deepseek model, it just blew up in days, and wall street, a total panic mode. Microsoft down 3.5%, Amazon down 0.24% in first hour, Oracle dropped 8%, Nvidia a massive 17% crash. $589 Billion in market value just gone. The biggest one day market wipeout ever. CEO, investors and regular employees are unhappy. In 1994, China going big on infrastructure—subways, tunnels. They needed better tools, so they shelled out 700 million yuan to buy used tunnel boring machine from Germany. Those German engineers, total jerk. They---



think even in 10 years, China won't make this. By 2008, China builds its own tunnel boring machines. By 2020, 1000 units all locally made. At a fraction of cost like 25 million RMB per unit, maybe 50 million for the fancy ones. And Germany, no one buying theirs anymore. In 2015, China's making billions of ballpoint pens. But they still had to import that tiny little ball at the tip – crazy right. Foreign companies were selling it for $120,000 per ton. Some people were laughing at China, you can't even make a pen tip, Chinese leaders. Taiyuan steel made one single batch of the stuff. That one batch was enough for 650 years of global pen production. Prices dropped from $120,000 per ton to $50,000. Two out of the world's three major suppliers went bankrupt. Think about Sweden, small country. They got big company like Ericsson, Volvo,

ABB Robotics, Ikea - China putting massive pressure on every single one of them. Like who even buy Ericson phones anymore? China’s domestic market is big enough to wipe them out. 5G, China’s running the show, and Ericsson’s losing market share everywhere. Same with Nokia, Samsung. Volvo used to be a big deal. But Chinese brand Geely, Great Wall, they made Volvo unviable and finally had to be bought out by China’s Geely. ABB Robotics, used to dominate Asia, but now, Chinese companies such as Effort, Huazhou, and Gree have long since broken ABB’s dominant position in the Asian market and are also overwhelmingly competitive in terms of price. Then, like Ikea, used to be the king of home furniture retail China. I mean it was the go to place. But Chinese brand like QuanU, Sofia, and OuMei just


took off. Ikea had to rethink the whole strategy. It’s tough. This kind of thing is happening everywhere. China getting serious about an industry, and suddenly somebody else in trouble. Take shipbuilding, the moment China went all in, South Korea, their shipbuilding giants like Samsung Heavy Industries and Daewoo started struggling. Orders dried up. They have to subcontract to Chinese shipyards. Look at Germany car industry. China’s EV are like everywhere now. BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes, their gas power cars not selling like they used to. And solar panels, China’s solar industry is like massive now. Meanwhile, Western solar companies not doing great. Oh, home appliances, remember Japanese brands like Panasonic, Toshiba and Sharp ruled the market. Now, they are struggling to keep up with Chinese brands.


Motorcycles? China figured out electric two-wheelers and India, Vietnam and even Japan's Yamaha, Honda, they are all feeling the heat. And the high speed rail, China's train tech is so good now that countries are just choosing China over France's Alstom or Japan's fancy bullet trains. And drones? China's DJI basically owns the consumer drone market. And US and Israel? Not happy about that. They also tried banning DJI to give their countries a fighting chance. Yeah, when China step into a market, things change fast. For regular folks, this is great, lower prices, more choices. But for the people running the industries? They got to compete or not exist anymore. When you mess with people's money, they do not like you. I mean nobody want to work harder if they don't have to. Before, all these


companies were just coasting. But China making them actually try and they hate that. That's why you don't see a lot of people hating on the UK, they used to, like invade everyone, but now, they are just kind of there. Not a threat, nobody really cares. Same thing with China in the past. Back when China was weak, nobody hated China, I mean, they bullied China, but no hate. But now, China's a competitor. That's why people don't like China. Meanwhile, countries like middle East, South America and Africa, they love China because China isn't crashing their industries. They just bring in affordable products, build stuff and don't cause problems. But, the end of the day, it doesn't matter somebody don't like China. What matter is strength. Chinese people don't really care about it.


They just want to grow stronger and live a better life. So, you don't have to like China, but it's probably not a good idea to provoke them because the sleeping dragon has already awakened.



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