Quote from @Dominic Mazzarella: Quote from @James Wise: TikTok is supposed to be shut down in the U.S on 1.19.2025 unless the Supreme Court blocks or delays the U.S. ban per Trump's request.I won't pretend to have any idea how the inner workings of the data collection between China and the USA effect the world, but on a personally business not, I like it.

I’m on the verge of giving Booking.com the boot , too many cancellations and the worst part is when you call customer service, which is China ….in order to validate you as a host they give you a call back so you can’t get your answer quickly and the callback takes a few minutes and half the time the call does not make it through- enough to make you wanna scream.

We need to move away from dependence on China for both political and also capacity reasons as their population ages. 

I wouldn't start investing in the US if you have no plans on coming back from living in China.

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“One of the scariest things that happen in the worst-case scenarios is people turn on people,” he said in one clip after listing a few such scenarios: a new, more-virulent pandemic; artificial intelligence run amok; nuclear war; or “the real war with China and Russia and cybertechnology and the Cold War.”RAD’s survivalist-camp business is in the process of gaining control of 20,000 acres of rural property across multiple sites nationwide, Mendenhall said in an interview last month with the financial blogger and stock picker Jim Woods on Woods’ podcast, Way of the Renaissance Man.But the bulk of the business’ holdings consists of residential real estate, filings show.

When it becomes exploitative as it has with China, it's bad and defensive actions are required.

As world economics and geo politics have become more of a constant, this Teak investment will serve for diversification in asset class, maturity- since you don't have to harvest, currency arbitrage since main customers are China/India/Europe. 

Our market for the Teak will be China and India.  

The market is primarily China, India, Malaysia and Europe.