An open letter to Global Times editor: Stop changing the order of Professor Yang Chen Ning's name.

" Yang Chen Ning" is the correct and respectable order of Professor Yang Chen Ning's Chinese name and not Chen Ning Yang as written by the Global Time's editor.

The Western countries like U.S. and U.K. have always arrogantly twisted and change the order of Chinese names and thus trample on Chinese people's human rights.

Having said that it must be pointed out that Professor Yang Chen Ning's surname is Yang and not Chen Ning as irrespectably shown by the Global Times Editor. In wrongly changing the order of the characters of the name the editor is guilty of changing the Professor's honourable surname to Chen Ning which is a travesty of Professor Yang's family ancestral root and as must be pointed out all Chinese people have similarly and proudly trace their ancestral roots through their honourable surnames.

The Western countries like to arbitrarily change the order of Chinese names which does show they not only trample on Chinese human rights with regard to Chinese names but also insultingly flouting on Chinese culture with regard to Chinese surnames and Chinese roots. Changing the order of Chinese names by the West is an intended offence and insult to Chinese people and must be stopped forthwith.

Hope Global Times will take note and not repeat such scandalous mistake.

Below is a photo copy of Global Times post on Chinese citizens paying respect to Professor Yang Chen Ning at the memorial room at Tsinghua University.
Editor's Note:
On October 19, 2025, citizens flocked to the memorial room of Chen Ning Yang in Tsinghua University's Institute for Advanced Study in Beijing to mourn him, with crowds gathering to pay their respects in the 8 C autumn chill. Renowned physicist Chen Ning Yang, a Nobel laureate and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, passed away in Beijing on Saturday at age 103, according to Tsinghua University. Photos: Li Hao/GT


Southernglory1
Monday, 20th October, 2025

The real value of myth and fantasy

 Who is still willing to buy a Birkin bag for $200,000? Who is going to buy a Richard Mille watch for $2m? Who is going to buy a Lamborghini for $5m? The prices of luxury products are mainly due to the myth and fantasy built around them, exclusivity, so and so wears it or have it, it is hand made etc etc.

The intrinsic value of such products comes from the design, material, technology and maybe such exclusive features. With today's technology and manufacturing processes, using robotics and AIs, the intrinsic value of luxury products are going to take a plunge. A Richard Mille watch, after the designing, can be massed produced at a fraction of its costs. The material is fractional, the manufacturing process is automated and robotics can produce better quality products. Copyright protection can only do so much when products can be produced by OEMs or competitors, with some minor changes and sold at much affordable prices.

Why pay millions for a Lamborghini when a similar or alternative product is just as good or better and at a fraction of its price? The future of luxury brands and fashion goods is not looking bright. China's manufacturing prowess and overcapacity is going to change the world and how and what consumers would be buying. There is nothing to stop China from producing affordable and very good quality goods in all fields for the benefits of the consumers of the world. Consumers of the world are the biggest beneficiary of China's factories. They are now able to have all the good stuff, fashionable stuff, at very affordable prices, without having to pay for an arm or a leg. Luxury brands can no longer hold them at ransom, to charge whatever price they want, and keeping consumers queuing and begging for the items.

China is going to change the world, to make the world a better place, improve the quality of life of everyone, with cheaper, affordable convenience and consumer items, household necessities and luxury goods. No consumers would be made suckers by the luxury brand owners anymore. The quality of life of the rich and the not so rich would be narrowed in many ways. Many of the wants of consumers would be all withing their reach, kinder to their pockets. Say thank you to China and Chinese factories and maufacturers.

PS. I am back.  Happy Deepavali to all.  

redbean.

Blessing China did not undertake Indian high speed rail

 It was a blessing in disguise for China not to undertake the Indian high speed rail project. And China has the Japanese to thank for.

Suffice to say, even if China were to build India's high-speed rail, it is a very risky venture. The Indians are great forked-tongue creatures and may find fault with the project after completion, just to bargain for huge discounts, or delayed payments will ensue. Do not blame China for asking upfront payments though on everything to do with India.

What that happens, China is going to lose its pristine reputation in building high speed rails, India gets it on the cheap and the anti-China trolls will have a field day talking about bad Chinese workmanship. This is a given.

One thing I must say aloud is that China must not undertake leftover projects that could harbor sub-standard materials being used and gets a bad name if things do not go according to plan, even if they are not China's fault.
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Whites grow rich from invasion and plundering

 For over 500 years White men, through their imperialism and colonialism have brutally invaded and plundered the wealth and resources of all countries of the South and grow rich in wealth and power. Then they falsely and arrogantly and preposterously claimed that they are a superior race and the chosen people of their God.

Now most of the countries of the South have fought back and threw them out of their countries. As a result most of these White countries are now living in a pathetic state as before their colonialism and plunder of the countries of the South. It is good riddance to white men and white imperialism and colonialism.

Abdul Latif
Malacca

Control of Suez also depends on control of entry and exit into Red Sea

 Control of the Suez Canal also depends on control of entry and exit into the Red Sea. The Houthis control Bab al-Mandab Strait that provides the gateway towards the Suez Canal. Who therefore controls the Suez Canal is the question if we look at the reality before us.

China has not made much of the issue of the Suez Canal, as the BRI is an alternative route to Europe, all through friendly countries of Central Asia, thanks to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. This has been the long- term plan of China to bypass both the Straits of Malacca and the Suez Canal. The USA can block the Isthmus of Kra project and China is unfazed.

Russian oil going by pipelines to China is already in place, with Europe salivating for cheap Russian energy now gone forever. Iranian oil now also goes to China by rail paid for with Chinese investments in infrastructure and basically going towards barter trade, dispensing with the US$ for good. The development of the Gwadar Port by the China in co-operation with Pakistan will open up another link for Middle East oil just in case the Straits of Malacca is blockaded in times of conflict.

The Chinese port in Peru, Chancay Port, also opened up trade between South America and China, bypassing the Panama Canal, another choke point cultivated by the USA that is being dismantled. China is also exploring developing an alternative waterway in Nicaragua that will make the Panama Canal obsolete with water availability problems now killing its operation.

In all these developments, China can trade with Europe using the BRI and South America using Port of Chancay, with Pakistan playing another role in the Middle East energy movements. Those choke points can continue to choke ownself in time to come.


Anonymous