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Wow! This post has everything! Opium War, debt-to-income ratio, the history of line, "poor" Canadian production cars, tennis matches, and even the Illuminati! You gotta believe a post when the Illuminati is involved!

I don't have time today or this weekend to go through everything...but immediately, I know this...

Please look up where some of these long-lived Japanese and Korean cars are produced...models such as Honda Accord and Honda Civic and Toyota Camry and Toyota Accord. I also want to say that your statement...

"Since our modern society have a growing mentality that most items being disposable, lack of incentive for our generation to be street smart in fixing and salvaging for longevity..."

...is a bit dumbfound. A product that is made for longevity does not need any street smart to fix or salvage if it does not break down. If your argument is that North America cars are poor because North Americans don't know how or don't spend time to fix them, while cars in China last long because people spent time to fix them...well...a car that breaks down at Year 5, regardless if people fix it or not, still broke down at Year 5. The argument should be whether this car should break down at Year 5, not whether people can or do fix it.

I don't know much about fixing cars. I can tell if a car is showing signs of wear or issue though. Our 1992 Accord lasted 15 years before it was sold, and our 2002 Camry is still taking me on adventures. My knowledge and ability to fix cars has nothing to so with the longevity of these cars.

I don't deny that cars made by Honda and Toyota are known for longevity compare to cars made by Ford and Dodge. However, when you make an argument, please make it a bit clearer as to what you wish to say. And both our model of cars were produced in North America (Marysville, Ohio and Georgetown, Kentucky).

Also, please be aware not to broadly lump Asian quality with Chinese quality. Japanese engineering and manufacturing has come a LONG way...and it took 30-40 years to get there post-war. Older members here will remember that once upon a time, Japanese products received the same "crap" designation as Chinese products today. Currently, I would pay $300 (if I can afford) for a JDM Daiwa reel but only willing to pay $50 (if even that) for a China domestic manufactured reel. That speaks volume in terms of quality. Do not even put Japanese quality with Chinese quality.

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Please look at the Japanese asset price bubble and what caused it...

"The bubble episode has been characterized by rapid acceleration of asset prices, overheated economic activity, as well as uncontrolled money supply and credit expansion. More specifically, over-confidence and speculation over asset and stock prices has been closely associated with excessive monetary easing policy at that time."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_as...ice_bubble

Then look at some history of China's hidden inflation and what the Chinese government is trying to do to mitigate it (or cover it up)...I see uncontrolled money supply and credit expansion...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-19...vanec.html

And in fact the inflation is not over yet...just hidden

http://www.scmp.com/article/994262/china...ue-picture

And now in 2014, China is still trying (for several years) to suppress the RMB from appreciation...which continue to make China's export cheap, and increasing the export surplus...and that will lead to more trouble...following Japan's footstep...

As Chinese production cost begin to increase due to increasing wages, increasing need to comply with worker's benefits (http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2012/...ees.html), increasing need to comply with environmental protection, and increasing demand of limited resources and labour force...there will be a shift...and when that shift comes, watch out!

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BTW, I also want to say that as much as I think it is silly for the US to spend so much on military spending on wars that it has no business in, at the same time, if it wasn't for the US spending on wars in the past, especially in World War II support toward China's war effort, China wouldn't be China right now...we'd be speaking Japanese...so before you start bad mouthing everything, be grateful that this "world bully" had also work in your favour in the past.