Mogao Caves, the standing monuments of ancient Chinese culture and artwork, in Dunhuang

Several foreign explorers and archaeologists removed massive hoards of ancient manuscripts and sacred art from the Mogao Caves (specifically the hidden "Library Cave," or Cave 17) in Dunhuang, China, during the early 20th century. 

While the chamber was originally discovered by a local Daoist monk named Wang Yuanlu in 1900, the key figure widely accused by China of "raiding" or looting the site is Sir Marc Aurel Stein. He was quickly followed by a succession of other international figures.  Wikipedia

One of the main items in this visit to China was to visit the Mogao Caves to see the extraordinary and splendid works of Buddhist arts created thousands of years, hidden in the more than 700 caves of Mogao in Dunhuang. The European explorers or thieves, led by Marc Stein, systematically looted the caves, cut and carted thousands of paintings, books and sculptures to Europe, now exhibited proudly in the museums of thieves. They will have to return them to China one day. But the damages had been done and many exquisite art works were damaged, some broken and destroyed, some lost. 

Below are some pics of a live show in Dunhuang, narrating the pains of the Chinese people during a time of weakness and could not stop the European thieves from stealing their national treasures from their land. The artworks were a sign of the advancement in Chinese culture, science and technology thousands of years ago, when the Chinese were using colours, textiles, embroidery, musical instruments, paper etc etc in a time when life was rich and vibrant, peaceful, trade prospered, while the European savages were still killing each other in their savage wars.

Mogao Caves. Behind every door is a cave housing exquisite ancient artworks over thousands of years old. Many looted, destroyed. Still many are still there, the caves can be 20m x 20m x 30m big. More than 700 of them, mainly in the eastern site called Caves of thousand Buddhas. On the western site, 22 caves were untouched and survived the looting. There  were many sculptures of Buddha, Mateiya, Guanyin, Ananda and Boddhistvas.

Wall paintings in the Mogao Caves

More paintings. Unfortunately no photography allowed inside the caves. There were from pictures available.

Dancers of a live show in Dunhuang portraying the beautiful sculptures of female sculptures that were stolen from the caves.

Every dancer represented a beautiful sculpture stolen from the caves and carted to Europe.

More dancers/sculptures

More.... All the stolen items are now claimed as the worthy possession of the Europeans, kept proudly in their museums of thieves. China will demand for their return one day when it is strong enough to do so. The European savages were just low down thieves. They looted, plundered and stole everything in their days of colonisation and imperialism.

America failed in 5G wants to leapfrog to 6G

 They could not even do a good job with 5G and wants to leapfrog to 6G? Dismantling those Huawei relaying stations and installing new relay stations already costs so much money and disruptions, that they are almost giving up on 5G and going to 6G.

Huawei holds the bulk of the patents for 5G, and I believe it is still collecting some form of licensing fees from other 5G operators. Huawei may not be allowed to operate in the USA and some other countries like the UK, but Huawei is still collecting patent rights from those operators using Huawei's 5G patents.

China already has a headstart in 6G and probably has registered the bulk of 6G patents.

The real reason the USA keeps Huawei's 5G system out is nothing more than its inability to control Huawei's technology for spying, both on Allies and China in particular. China is not going to use Hauwei's 5G to conduct espionage against China and other countries. 4G is totally redundant in China, so the inability to conduct espionage against China is a National Security Issue for the USA.

Anything that the USA cannot control is a National Security Issue. As I said earlier, the USA is now attempting to remove DeepSeek adoption and usage by civilians, a preview to a total ban later. This is expected, as USA AI giants are unable to compete with DeepSeek in low usage costs after investing an arm and a leg in AI and needs protection. Is this the way to nurture a competitive sector going forward? It is going to produce an uncompetitive environment going forward - a self-destruct move.

Anonymous 

India is learning the modus operandi of the USA but lacks the substance.

India is learning the modus operandi of the USA but lacks the substance. Its military is weak but overhyped. In fact, India did not rank among the top three military powers and is ranked below Russia's third placing. The Indians are now raving mad, claiming that in terms of GDP, Russia is nowhere near to India, lol.


But India's GDP is suspect which even the IMF does not concur and has raised questions with. More than that, even Indian academics themselves are not convinced that India's GDP growth is real. The poverty, the lack of amenities, the poor infrastructures like roads and rails, and corruption have often been cited to counter the balloon blowing. The Indian Government is great for spending on glamor projects, like bidding for the Olympics, but not much to improve the ground. Moreover, India's GDP growth is all a matter of moving goalposts like comparing with the lowest starting base, which had been caught red-handed. Some analysts have been saying that India's 7% GDP growth is a mirage and more likely just half of that in reality.

But the Indian people are too dull of mind to notice it, only believing in what Modi's Government is trotting out. That is the behavior of a cult following the positioning of Hindu fanaticism at its core. The same as the MAGA base cult in the USA.


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Wars heating up

 While I was away, it seems that wars are everywhere and heating up. At home, our relationship with Indonesia is souring with verbal cannons firing by the brave from both sides. This is very different from dealing with citizens that can't retort or hit back. Indonesia will not only talk back, but will hit back.

More interesting is the war in the Middle East when the American terrorists cannot hide in the safety of Saudi Arabia. Now I understand why Saudis are involved. The American terrorists think Iran will not hit Saudi Arabia and park their hardware and soldiers there. No way. 

And the most treacherous AngloSaxon, the Brits, the root cause of all the disputes in the world, think they are up to it to fight the Houthis by sending their air force to Saudi Arabia. Nice. Time to kill the Brits too. The Houthis can hit back. Present low thinking Brit leaders are not like the past. And their opponents are not armed with bows and arrows.

Iran just threatened to blow up the S$2 trillion American data centres and cables in the Middle East. The unthinking American terrorists not only have military bases there, their high tech companies have their data centres there too. All high value targets to be destroyed by cheap Iranian drones while the Americans are throwing their million dollar bombs at schools and the mountains in Iran. 

This asymmetrical warfare is looking hilarious and stupid on the part of the low thinking Clowns in Washington.

As the war drags on, America will be bankrupt in no time, throwing taxpayers' money away while making the warmongers very rich.

Which country is going to collapse soon, not in 20 years?

The more white savages badmouth China the more they remind others of white atrocities and aggression

 Because China does not participate in killing using wars over the last several decades, so they keep bringing up the Tiananmen Square incident, Mao's Great Leap Forward casualties and persecution of anti-Government dissidents. They may even bring up the COVID story in Wuhan.

Those dissidents from Hong Kong, fearing persecution, thought that the West loved them so much, throwing a carrot for them to flee to avoid persecution and enjoy a life of luxury. Now, those dissidents from Hong Kong are regretting their asylum seeking antic in the UK. Without decent jobs, without homes, high living costs and being threatened to be exiled to Rwanda, life is not what they had hoped for. Some had been talking about returning to Hong Kong, but those who still live comfortably in Hong Kong are telling them to stay away.

Why would those in Hong Kong want them back to create trouble when the time comes? Hong Kong is peacefully prospering now, leveraging on the Chinese mainland progress, with just another twenty years left to go before the Chinese Government takes over control of Hong Kong fully. Whether Hong Kong gets to retain its 'one country two systems' is left to be seen. But what the mainland Chinese are enjoying is not anything inferior to what Hong Kong people are enjoying, except being able to vote. The voting is after all still vetted by the Chinese Government to prevent subterfuge.

But closer to the end of the 50-year timeline for Hong Kong's capitalist Government to return fully under China's control, expect plenty of attempts to instigate and create uncertainties, chaos and fear in Hong Kong. I can bet this is going to happen. It is in the playbook of the USA and the West. They will never miss the opportunity to extract their pound of flesh from China.

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