So I am back in the USA, took a flight yesterday from Seoul to DFW that went back in time to get home before I left if that makes any sense. So April 7th was the longest day of my life literally. Trip was good, looks like I will probably land at least two clients. Taiwan was better business wise than Korea, but that's mostly because Taiwan is an under explored market and Taiwan had better looking women in my opinion.
1. Pollution. I am on the conservative side of most economic issues and I do believe in Global Warming/Climate Change, etc. However, the USA people ripping on local companies need to get out of the country and check out Asia. IT SUCKS over there, especially Seoul. When we were there, it was like a hazy soup just hung around the whole time. Our tour guide said that it is pollution that comes from the east coast of china and just hovers over the Korean peninsula. Many in Korea wear the masks because of the pollution and there is a lot of concern for the young people, children, who grow up there that they will end up with permanent damage. If SJWs or at least those complaining about climate change want to force change, then they should require any trade deal with China to include significant pollution reduction requirements, because it sucks. It was hard to tell if it was pollution or just rainy weather in Taiwan because it was cloudy and rained most of the time. I spoke with an investment group in Seoul who came from Hong Kong and they were saying that if China every removes or reduces outflow restrictions that all the rich Chinese will start buying up property and moving to the USA. One of the individuals in that group who is American is trying to buy up property in Seattle and California in anticipation of more Chinese outflow. He said that any area that is nice, has good weather, a large asian population and great schools will be real estate gold. Anyways, I get the complaints about USA, but we are no where near the main culprit.
2. Industrialized nation birth rates: So Taiwan and Korea have really low birth rates. The USA still has a decent birth rate, but all of the birthrates pale in comparison to African, especially Islam dominated African nations. Taiwan and Korea are foreseeing a problem with the lack of workforce to provide for the older generations as the percentage of workforce diminishes compared to the old. We are seeing similar issues in US, but not as grand of scale. I know Germany has the same issue as do many European nations. How do you solve that issue? 1. Either older generation or younger generation has to sacrifice OR, 2. You have to promote immigration from young people from other countries. Germany has chosen #2, but then those people move to other EU countries. USA has utilized #2 until this most recent Administration. Korea and Taiwan have very little immigration, in fact, they are very homogeneous. They will have to change their approach or they will have the same problems that Japan currently faces. Also, I hope those who practice Islam are nice, because at the current rates, they will have the greatest population of the religions in the near future. As for countries, it will be interesting to see how third world countries respond to China taking control of their infrastructure through their loan programs. China gives loans, the countries default, then China takes the resources. It is a smart business design, but will probably require military support to enforce. Good news though is that USA will probably slip from enemy numero uno for most of those countries.
3. Libya has another round of civil war. If Bush owns Iraq, then Obama and HRC own Libya. Talk about a cluster of sh!t. The US has announced troop evacuation from Libya (smart move) as Haftar increases his assault on Tripoli. Many expect the UN backed government to fall without additional support from US, which is looks like US will not provide. Should we provide it? I am conflicted on it. We helped overthrow the existing government and we have chaos now, but I think the requirement would be that the USA either plan on maintaining a presence for decades or give up and maybe end up with another version of Iran. That's really the situation that we face, right? I mean, if you look at the countries, we didn't fight to keep control of Iran and now we have an enemy. We have fought to maintain Iraq and it is very costly both financially and lives, but we have a quasi ally in the region. The old school method of US controlling countries through control of a dictator seems much easier than the messes we face now. You look at Libya and Iraq and you begin to think that maybe Trump made the smart move by letting Assad stay in power in Syria. Otherwise we would have a cluster there and it would be worse as it would be an involvement against Russia as well as it is their neighbor. Anyways, Libya is now in peril as to whether it will be US friendly going forward. US is about to be left with Egypt as a friend in Northern Africa. France is attempting to keep their control there as well, but that effort has been fleeting.
4. North Korea - the highlight of my trip was visiting different areas along the border of the DMZ. I was able to observe a North Korean village from the Odusan Observatory (not my pic):
I was able to see a collection of people planting or at least working the field by hand. I was fortunate to see a vehicle (rare) dropping people off for work. I was able to see a North Korean guard tower which was cool. It is a bit conflicting to stare and point at people like they are in a zoo and also to be 3 miles away from people who are literally starving and do nothing about it. I hope that a resolution can happen.
Obviously 5G is important in my business and we spoke about it in meetings very often. I joked that the repercussions of the communications on human health haven't been realized. Such that all this communication via high frequency could lead to health problems such as cancer. I joked that it would be fitting that 5G would kill off the world and North Korea would be the only ones left.
Unfortunately the JSA was closed, that would have been awesome to visit. Even without it, this was by far the highlight of the trip.
5. Media must have made a deal for Kamala Harris because ever candidate running who has a shot to defeat her is getting murdered in the media. Apparently Biden's creepiness wasn't a big issue while he was VP or even during 2016, but now it matters. That's the media today. They have made critiques of Beto and Bernie as well. I guess the Bs are top enemies. Look out Cory Booker and Mayor Pete Buttigieg. SNL made fun of Biden this past weekend and I have to admit, it was hilarious. But it does seem odd that there is this sudden attack on Biden as rumors surface that he is going to run. Even my mother in law is like, he shouldn't run, he is creepy around women. My response was, was that ok from 2008-2016? It's just odd that now it isn't ok.
There are around 17 people seriously running, not including Howard Schultz.
Right now it is Bernie or Biden in the lead in most polls, but Bernie is killing it on the money haul. He was almost double the next closest candidate. Now watch, I anticipate that most of the Dem candidates will go after that rich dem money and abandon the "we don't take money from large donations" narrative. I think Harris will be in that group.
1. Pollution. I am on the conservative side of most economic issues and I do believe in Global Warming/Climate Change, etc. However, the USA people ripping on local companies need to get out of the country and check out Asia. IT SUCKS over there, especially Seoul. When we were there, it was like a hazy soup just hung around the whole time. Our tour guide said that it is pollution that comes from the east coast of china and just hovers over the Korean peninsula. Many in Korea wear the masks because of the pollution and there is a lot of concern for the young people, children, who grow up there that they will end up with permanent damage. If SJWs or at least those complaining about climate change want to force change, then they should require any trade deal with China to include significant pollution reduction requirements, because it sucks. It was hard to tell if it was pollution or just rainy weather in Taiwan because it was cloudy and rained most of the time. I spoke with an investment group in Seoul who came from Hong Kong and they were saying that if China every removes or reduces outflow restrictions that all the rich Chinese will start buying up property and moving to the USA. One of the individuals in that group who is American is trying to buy up property in Seattle and California in anticipation of more Chinese outflow. He said that any area that is nice, has good weather, a large asian population and great schools will be real estate gold. Anyways, I get the complaints about USA, but we are no where near the main culprit.
2. Industrialized nation birth rates: So Taiwan and Korea have really low birth rates. The USA still has a decent birth rate, but all of the birthrates pale in comparison to African, especially Islam dominated African nations. Taiwan and Korea are foreseeing a problem with the lack of workforce to provide for the older generations as the percentage of workforce diminishes compared to the old. We are seeing similar issues in US, but not as grand of scale. I know Germany has the same issue as do many European nations. How do you solve that issue? 1. Either older generation or younger generation has to sacrifice OR, 2. You have to promote immigration from young people from other countries. Germany has chosen #2, but then those people move to other EU countries. USA has utilized #2 until this most recent Administration. Korea and Taiwan have very little immigration, in fact, they are very homogeneous. They will have to change their approach or they will have the same problems that Japan currently faces. Also, I hope those who practice Islam are nice, because at the current rates, they will have the greatest population of the religions in the near future. As for countries, it will be interesting to see how third world countries respond to China taking control of their infrastructure through their loan programs. China gives loans, the countries default, then China takes the resources. It is a smart business design, but will probably require military support to enforce. Good news though is that USA will probably slip from enemy numero uno for most of those countries.
3. Libya has another round of civil war. If Bush owns Iraq, then Obama and HRC own Libya. Talk about a cluster of sh!t. The US has announced troop evacuation from Libya (smart move) as Haftar increases his assault on Tripoli. Many expect the UN backed government to fall without additional support from US, which is looks like US will not provide. Should we provide it? I am conflicted on it. We helped overthrow the existing government and we have chaos now, but I think the requirement would be that the USA either plan on maintaining a presence for decades or give up and maybe end up with another version of Iran. That's really the situation that we face, right? I mean, if you look at the countries, we didn't fight to keep control of Iran and now we have an enemy. We have fought to maintain Iraq and it is very costly both financially and lives, but we have a quasi ally in the region. The old school method of US controlling countries through control of a dictator seems much easier than the messes we face now. You look at Libya and Iraq and you begin to think that maybe Trump made the smart move by letting Assad stay in power in Syria. Otherwise we would have a cluster there and it would be worse as it would be an involvement against Russia as well as it is their neighbor. Anyways, Libya is now in peril as to whether it will be US friendly going forward. US is about to be left with Egypt as a friend in Northern Africa. France is attempting to keep their control there as well, but that effort has been fleeting.
4. North Korea - the highlight of my trip was visiting different areas along the border of the DMZ. I was able to observe a North Korean village from the Odusan Observatory (not my pic):
I was able to see a collection of people planting or at least working the field by hand. I was fortunate to see a vehicle (rare) dropping people off for work. I was able to see a North Korean guard tower which was cool. It is a bit conflicting to stare and point at people like they are in a zoo and also to be 3 miles away from people who are literally starving and do nothing about it. I hope that a resolution can happen.
Obviously 5G is important in my business and we spoke about it in meetings very often. I joked that the repercussions of the communications on human health haven't been realized. Such that all this communication via high frequency could lead to health problems such as cancer. I joked that it would be fitting that 5G would kill off the world and North Korea would be the only ones left.
Unfortunately the JSA was closed, that would have been awesome to visit. Even without it, this was by far the highlight of the trip.
5. Media must have made a deal for Kamala Harris because ever candidate running who has a shot to defeat her is getting murdered in the media. Apparently Biden's creepiness wasn't a big issue while he was VP or even during 2016, but now it matters. That's the media today. They have made critiques of Beto and Bernie as well. I guess the Bs are top enemies. Look out Cory Booker and Mayor Pete Buttigieg. SNL made fun of Biden this past weekend and I have to admit, it was hilarious. But it does seem odd that there is this sudden attack on Biden as rumors surface that he is going to run. Even my mother in law is like, he shouldn't run, he is creepy around women. My response was, was that ok from 2008-2016? It's just odd that now it isn't ok.
There are around 17 people seriously running, not including Howard Schultz.
Right now it is Bernie or Biden in the lead in most polls, but Bernie is killing it on the money haul. He was almost double the next closest candidate. Now watch, I anticipate that most of the Dem candidates will go after that rich dem money and abandon the "we don't take money from large donations" narrative. I think Harris will be in that group.
