Taking a look at why russias economy is still humming. How Companies Want to de, coupled from china and how robots are becoming more and more human. Philadelphia los angeles, san francisco, chicago, just a few examples of the big cities across the us facing yet another wave of organized retail crime, another uptake of so called smashing grep and flash them obsessed incidents. A growing problem for national and local retailers. Beacon small with merchandise worth billions of dollars lost or at risk. Robert co president of the Illinois Retail merchant association. He is one of many sounding the low that were now seeing for the 1st time, then organize retail crime and retail staff to showing up in the reports that are issued by publicly traded corporations that never used to be the case. And that should be a wake up call to everyone. Just how serious this is. Philadelphia september 26th, 2023. In the early evening hours, a flash mob forensics and apple store. It takes just a minute or 2 laptops i ipads, iphones worth tens of thousands of dollars are stolen or destroyed. Just a day later. A Virgin Megastore is it and what appears to be a smashing grip. A metal gate is caught windows and doors are smashed, and then the crowd slots. The store within just one or 2 minutes. Its all over the recipe for success. When police finally arrives, the perpetrators along go. These are groups of young people that are coordinated. This is orchestrated, this is not an impulsive con. This is planned for and to today the planning is done on the phone. I can bring together a group of my compatriots with the text. We can plan what were going to do, where were going to do it. And when were going to do it with our phone, you dont need to be in, in a dark rooms plan again in a basement anywhere. You can communicate a spontaneously and in real time on the phone. Awful. Originally o gives a lot of interviews these days. Local media are asking the criminal justice and psychology professor to weigh in. When ever theres a new smashing graph incident in the city. And there are quite a few the most popular targets height and retailers and Department Stores on chicago is magnificent miles or meg mile, as locals. Call it more strong, neiman marcus, leave a total of candidate goose and other luxury retailers all hits by completed or at least attempted smashing grafts. These got so bad, the Chicago Police department and the Cook County Sheriffs Office has visibly stepped up, their presence on mac mile re simply moore officers on foot patrol. The nice try. But ultimately in effective critics say, what we really need is aggressive. 0 tolerance prosecution and unfortunately we really dont have aggressive prosecution. And that sends the message then that its ok that evolve as low as large. Why do we need there is kelly and safety and slash they co own a unique street where and sneakers store called fleet the stores in chicago was little italy district, far from the climber and plates of downtown smack. My there is a fabian, have been victims of the templates and completed smashing graphs. 6 types so far. I think um were so attractive to them because of what, you know, the product that we k. No, its really hard to find street where thats not that available in chicago where were located and its only a certain amount that you can get in certain places that you can get it believe is successful smashing graphing their store happened in october 23. It was a game changer for theirs and saving because this happened in the Early Morning hours of october 25th. A cost smashed into the store front. At least 5 mast perpetrators grab as much merchandise as can in just minutes. Then theyll even waiting cars in time to get a car, maybe 3 or 4 or 5 of them will know what it is already. Let me know to and the other 2 hours. And then once that car, okay, there was i oh my goodness. And then to get here that the camera on my phone and i see a g o in the building over here and they almost buy merchandise worth 70000. 00. Got damage to the property around 30000. 00 insurance. No, its a missed that there is insurance for retail theft. There is no insurance for retail staffed. There is insurance for property. Um, so if you know you in property, meaning if they broke a window or smash through a window or door tore down displays, those things could be covered, but it is impacting rates. And often the retailers have to decide if its worth it to report. Theyve been hit multiple times. If they report every time theyre hit to the insurance company, their insurance rate skyrocket and they can no longer in for an insurance, regular way, man or the club owner, sledge, and kelly. You have to eat the cost for the loss of merchandise and their property insurance premiums ro, significantly on top of that, they have to invest even more and secure more cameras and sensors fully on security. Got reinforced shop window frames, bullets resistant, glass and bars in the front of the store, all adding up to operating costs for the community. Theres a sense of helplessness to the retailers, especially feel hopelessness. Theyre doing everything they can up to certain limit to protect their business. The illinois attorney general has recently created a task for us to combat smashing. Grab trying california as governor, has promised hundreds of millions of dollars more over the next 5 years. For the fight against organized retail crime, other cities and states in the us are following suit in one way or another. Not a quick fix business to say, but the 1st step in the right direction. A good 2 years since the spouse of the russian war is the question that goes to craig and often more and more sanctions from western countries. The russian economy is still doing surprisingly well. Contrary to pull expectations. Why is that the production is ramped up again . Orders are being placed in the Construction Industry and tourism is booming in russia. I think if there is this great growth forecast of i think 2. 6 percent. At the same time, vital income from the sale of natural gas has fallen dramatically. Russia laws made by everything that they use as a result of western sanctions. Just how well as the russian economy performing and how much longer can the country afford to wages war of aggression against ukraine. Russias investing billions of bureaus in new pipelines for natural gas, one toward china was recently opened. The russians urgently need new customers. Their volume was involved with the 5 lies on favor. The fact that when you compare them for want to defy players come for support. Uh to today you all kinds of sports to, to china, and even the new infrastructure of products. Like all else, id be a to us 1000000000 the fund state, the whats more, the price of natural gas is falling before natural gas. I expect a downward pressure on prices to continue, mainly because of u l n g supply Company Online that towards the end of this year and the beginning of next year. Russian is dependent on this income to pay for its import imports like components for the automotive industry, which are increasingly coming from china after the europeans withdrew from russia. The industry has already been able to recover things to deliveries from china. The russian economy is being kept afloat, including with computer technology. See that the china is, of course, not officially participating in the sanctions. So its not a partner of the western states, so to speak. When it comes to sanction i sort tobacco visitors documents on 2nd feeling good goods continued to find their way to russia. Despite sanctions, even from germany, simply by being routed by the 3rd countries, exports to kick us down. For example, have exploded and surprised surprise. Its mostly cars, the stuff gets true that the russian economy is growing, but of course you have to say from what level its growing, so to speak. And what kind of growth is it just said bucks to take tourism, for example, because the plains from russia are no longer allowed to land in the u. Many russians go on vacation in their own country. More important is the defense industry, the real driver of growth. It generates 10 percent of g d. P. Other sectors, such as the steel industry, also benefit. According to russian data, the economy is growing faster than most western countries. Far along the slump in 2022 i see a specialist english. Whats the, whats happening right now is that russia is actually in a way, almost ironically, becoming more like the soviet union in that it has high spending on the military. And to some extent of the industry, while at the same time, the level of consumption is falling for the population. And that is the profile, so to speak, that ultimately brought the soviet union to its needed of us that this is a way to do it. Now how do you think thats the process . In contrast to the soviet union put in can afford to do this by incurring debt. Does come with the concepts you can ride that for quite a while. Rush, i had a very low debt level at the start of the war and still has a low debt level even now. And so its done. Russia is unlikely to run out of money anytime soon. Revenues from oil sales are roughly the same as they were before the war and ukraine, despite sanctions aimed at enforcing a price cap of 60. 00 us dollars per barrel of transportation. Of all i left um probably are violating that because so there is a we, im for as many to on the side of the ideas. There is also a shadow trading uh where you know all the is uh, uh, discharged. Uh, and the charge of the on another bus or the overseas. Uh more and more oil is ending up in india. Its most important. The oil supplier is now restaurants. Have the sanctions against russia failed . Have they impacted the war over say, sanctions, where was this a um because they actually im kind of, they divided them over to the also im for example alan g project. I know the lesson for western countries including the e. U is certainly that its almost impossible to impose water type sanctions on a country of this size box that this is antonia and china is having the last class. Its being supplied with natural gas and oil. Its low, the world market price ended selling more goods to russia with virtually no competition from the west de risk and o d company thats currently the big question when it comes to telling us so many gym and companies. The country is extremely important as a production location and as a market, but they also want to remain castle under increasing the looking for new strategies in dealing with the peoples republic. Thats also the case of a Medium Sized Company dbm, published around 2000 if that nearly 15000 employees worldwide work in china. This is mostly in the town of just under 4000 in southwestern, germany. My 1st impression, the small town doesnt look as if there any Major InternationalCompanies Operating there for the place is known as the valley of the fans. There is just one company. A bmw passed the field under the door like many other german Medium Sized Companies in manufacturing em paps is also focused on china because they need the country both as a production location strong and as a sales of market types of types locked on. And they are now drawing up plans to reduce the risk, so theyre trying to business either seen august shift to we dont see them. The company has almost 15000 employees worldwide, which around 2000 are in china cb and perhaps has been producing that for almost 30 years. I have an appointment with thomas noon becker, head of asia. He has to join a Video Conference to talk to his colleagues in shanghai however. So i have time to check out the show room. The fans manufactured here, i used in many different industries. Sometimes for cooling, largest Semi Conductor factories sometimes installed in small heat pumps for the home. Yeah, so how come to our meeting . So its good to 0. Im joining the Video Conference. The aim is to make china more self sufficient location. Since there have always been supply chain disruptions in the past, such as during the corona virus pandemic, with a new headquarters in shanghai operations are to become more self sufficient, including the infrastructure to yes. So this means that the China Business is becoming more independent of a headquarters in germany. Local for local is the new strategies and the monitor, the yeah, weve been doing local for local for several years now. And were also trying to the couple of the supply chains, the examples, and were also trying to develop and prepare various scenarios. I with different plans and for to provide a home for example, were planning to be able to relocate production lines from china to india within 2 to 3 months and young even if we dont hire and the engine back to have to be me. So to mr. Me the heisman, basically we want to manufacturer and china afford china and want to achieve a 95 percent globalization rate there. And then in the next 2 years. Okay, the overall delta, i mean, even in times of increasing geopolitical tensions, the goal is for the business to stay intact. Well, the strategy work. We discussed this with company boss close guy store for he is currently re thinking the globalization strategy of the past few decades as 2 components as possible should be sent back and forth between europe, asia, pacific, and america. Everything should be supplied, produced, and sold locally. I ask him specifically, what would happen if more suddenly broke out between china and taiwan. We have gotten emily set up our organization in china in such a way that we can separate the Chinese Company from the rest of the world at any time within a very short period of time. We are preparing for this and we are prepared for it. And i cant yet st wouldnt we must do in this specific case. And if i have such an event occurs is a bmw paps new strategy, an isolated case or a general trend. I ask Economics Expert during motus and cologne, if, if they were seen companies in china actually focusing more and more strongly on localisation, this means that Many Companies seem to be focusing much more on their own trying to business. This is obviously possible and Many Companies are moving in this direction to maxim olson c o close guys, door for is certain that although the new strategy will cost more money in the short term, it will pay off over the long haul for the environment too. Since transporting fewer goods means saving more c, o 2 emissions. Ive been sending them of which basically are increasingly moving away from how we originally thought about globalization. Like moving production and via Global Networks and to wherever the costs are lowest, regardless of where they are in the world. And can you mail me a time to say goodbye . Probably also a farewell to the globalization. We thought we knew the, the cost of its a Major Economic block such as china, the you in the us are drifting further and further apart its own. And thats why companies are increasing the relying on the new strategy of having local supply chains. As long as the geopolitical tensions continue to rise, this trend is likely to continue in both like the new regionalization strategy will reduce the risk of globalized supply chains. The Industrial Site and most again, well also have to focus more on the european markets. The little one, tap humanoid robots, thats a global race only for the best ones. They can look fast at the we can just styles with the public sites artificial intelligence, they often already superior to humans when it comes to calculation problems and factual knowledge. But will they soon be able to think and act independently, likes the android named data photo style tract memory su, wanted you to have it is possible or is that still Science Fiction . The robots can walk almost as well as humans, with a head, arms, torso and legs. Example one, humanoid robots. Atlas from boston, dynamics is one of them is supposed to help with the work and even construction scaffolding isnt a problem for him. Its a lot, but is he actually able to think atlas has amazing dynamics. It can do amazing physical things, but he doesnt talk. Its not a robot that could give you information. Experts are expecting great progress and Robot Development and where will they be used in industry would be have the board which can walk away and run, then jump and things like that. I definitely think even in the next couple of is able to see human lives. You know, doing that much better, that humans, the 500 employees at boston dynamics are working in teams on the most advanced humanoid ever. Atlas has its own battery and ways, 86 kilos. He learns from mistakes when he calls down and learns to plan his steps. So a predictor controller is a way of doing controls by thinking about whats going to happen in the future. And a really simple example is that when you stand up as a person, your heart has to pump harder to make sure you have enough Blood Pressure to do that. And in fact, if you look at peoples heart rates, they go up before they start seeing your body sort of thinking about what is my heart going to need to do now. So that in half a 2nd and ready to be stand, humanoid robots as workers, a huge market. This is the high tech trade fair, c e s. In the us. Were, chinese manufacturers are exhibiting the uni tree h. One thing the future way, amount of property to the poly or just the robots as a general purpose for different any of the st. Back out warehouse logistics and the specially the how does it and the environment to replace q mat. They are already being tested in warehouse is operated by g x o and amazon. The us manufacturer, agility has launched a prototype on the market that is able to pick out packages and place them on the conveyor belts. The and thats what makes, even though its different than other robots, is theyre able to do more adaptable workflows because the geometry is very similar to a person. Tesla is also working on is humanoid optimists. But when will human noise robots be able to think and solve problems . Will answer this question at the end of the video. Example number 200 head robots. They are called quanto pads. Quadra stands for 4 and pads for feet. In other words, 4 legs. They are already commonly used commercially in industry. Spock from boston dynamics performs inspections, films and logs problems and can turn levers. Such robots could soon become the heavy laborers of the human race. We wanted to wash your dishes and a dishwasher or be in a manufacturing plant, you know, assembling guys are, you know, be in with houses, you know, lifting things and putting them like really doing things where, you know, humans feel that theyre unsafe or doing something with the status for them and they really dont want to do it. Spock is also inaction at the german Mail Order Company auto key does patrols and checks on the complex systems. Opportunities. Ask you an example number 3 avatars. Hello again. So these looking things on the spot and have intelligence. But i think thats not a question. I think the question is, how long will it take us to get to i think the idea of human rights robots being equal to humans in intellect and social capability is pretty far off. Still, i think were quite far away from that. 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