James King

Perhaps it means a collapse in the share price of companies that are household names across the world, or it could mean a merger or acquisition at fire sale prices of one of these famous Japanese companies.

Just to end, a couple of data points.

Honda has experienced a severe collapse

in its China sales this year as competition from local Chinese companies has risen.

So its sales have dropped from 1.62 million units in 2020 to just about 640,000 units last year.

So that gives a sense of how badly Honda has been hit in the China market and is now being hit in several other markets around the world.

Pivotal moments, I think, for China, definitely.

Oh, yeah.

I'm looking forward to this topic.

This guest brings a wealth of knowledge every time we interact with him and have him on the guest, so really looking forward to this one.

How are you doing, Steve?

Um, in a way, yes.

And in a way, no.

Um,

I actually just had this conversation recently with my team, not with programming, but I take it the same way with the programming.

If I was working with a third-party company or integrator or whatnot, I'm not going to tell you the how.

here's my constraints and my requirement like you figure out the how to get the outcome we're looking for knowing this information um i think mike hit on a good point which

I have gone back and forth since Mike was talked about because I'm sure some of our listeners are yelling at the radio right now of job security.

Yeah, Mike is thinking holistically long-term.

I'll use this term as an end user.