China's robots the new growth engine

 Robots emerge as China’s new export engine amid rising global demand, potentially reshaping jobs

As China ramps up exports of robots and AI, global buyers are turning to automation to tackle risky and repetitive jobs, raising questions about how work will change.

GUANGZHOU: Installing cables on live power lines. Cleaning skyscraper windows hundreds of metres above the ground. Chasing birds away from airport runways.

These are jobs long considered too dangerous, repetitive or labour intensive for humans.

At the Canton Fair in Guangzhou which is China’s largest trade exhibition first launched in 1957 and held twice yearly, Chinese companies are showing how robots may increasingly be able to do them instead - and some overseas buyers are already placing orders for the machines. CNA

How come nobody thinks of this? Replacing human labour with cheap and union free disputes must be the way to go in the future. Oops, we know, we are quietly trying to design the perfect robots, still in the thinking stage, like trying to perfect driverless cars and drones. We will build the perfect drones, the perfect driverless cars, the perfect robots that are better than what is coming out from China. We have the best foreign talents working for us, cheap and good foreign talents from God knows where.

Why are the industrial powerhouse of America and Europe not coming out with such products to compete with China? Oh, they are very busy producing ammunitions and weapons of mass destruction. Those machine can sell for very high prices, with very high profits, to mass murderers who love wars and killings and to prove their male libido, to prove they have the biggest dick. Who cares about such nonsensical things, selling only for a few dollars, got to sell in the millions to make $1m. Selling a F35 is enough to make at least $50m, just one piece. And the queue is so long, cannot cope with production deadline. Selling high value products is the smart thing to do.

Just let the Chinese produce them to feed their cheap labour. And not to worry, there is the world factory called India that will come up with better products and cheaper to compete with China. India is the bright hope, just wait for another century and China will be history.  Quick, quick, invest in India, in Tata or maybe HAL for the future.

In the meantime we are working very hard to produce the best drones, best driverless cars, best robots. Why try to reinvent the wheel? What? What?

I think a better and more realistic option is to wait for world best products from America or Europe and pay through your nose. Caveat, this time the Americans and Europeans cannot claim their products are world best because the China have better ones already sold in the market. But the Americans can accuse the Chinese of stealing their blueprints, can sue the Chinese in American kangaroo courts and demand payments in the millions or billions, like stealing the blueprints of their ancient rockets that were supposed to have gone to the moon, but now all lost, stolen by the Chinese.

Poor Americans now have to redesign their rockets for their moon mission from scratch but cannot get it right, got to retest everything, because they have no record or knowledge of anything related to moon mission. They even have to test if man can survive passing through the Van Allen radiation belt, whether their technology can withstand the heat on reentry, retest their space suit.  My advice for the Americans, just order them from Alibaba or Shopee, cheap and good and can arrive by tomorrow morning. No need to sweat the small stuff, wasting billions all for nothing.

'Buyers from Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Latin America say the technology could help address labour shortages, rising costs and workplace safety risks.' Why no buyers from America? The same reasons why the Americans are not buying Chinese EVs. Another reason to ban Chinese robots by the Americans, it creates unemployment, it steal jobs.

Robotics are not good for countries that see economic growth coming only from increasing population growth. It will kill their logic and reasoning to import more foreign labour and talent. China, with 1.4b population should not be making robots as they have all the manpower they need. The robots will create unemployment. NG. This is conventional economic wisdom.

Lunatic Trump hallucinating in broad daylight

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (Mar 24) that Iran had made a major energy-related concession to the United States, describing it as a positive development, although he did not give details.

Trump suggested the gift was related to the Strait of Hormuz, the oil transit waterway that the United States has struggled to keep open.

"They gave us a present and the present arrived today, and it was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

"It wasn't nuclear, it was oil-and gas-related, and it was a very nice thing they did."

Trump, reiterating that he felt the United States had already won the war, indicated that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth was disappointed as how quickly the campaign had gone.

"Pete didn't want it to be settled," he said, but did not give details. CNA

After bombing Iran and killing so many Iranians, Trump is hallucinating that the Iranians are sending him Christmas present to make him happy like a child, happy like farks. Someone did send him a $400m Boeing with gold fittings. Some gave him trillions of dollars. Not the Iranians. Any Iranian would now want to squeeze the neck of an American and kill him immediately. But as usual, lunatic Trump was saying the Iranians love him, did not mind all the destructions in Iran, did not mind all the killings of Iranians, and now wanting to make peace with him, to lick his ass.

How deluded this lunatic can be? The only truth, a Freudian Slip, is that the Americans want this war to go on and on when he referred to Hegseth, 'Pete Hegseth was disappointed as how quickly the campaign had gone. "Pete didn't want it to be settled"' The real intent of the Americans and the Israelis is not simply to bomb Iran for a few days and kill a few Iranians. They want to destroy Iran totally, kill all the Iranians and to turn the Middle East into a mess, cripple the economies of the Arab and Muslim states. This is only the beginning and will end up like another 20 year Vietnam War.

What present did the Iranians sent to Trump? More clips from the Epstein Files to remind Trump of the fun he had with little girls? Or more pictures of American boys and girls in body bags or Iranian custody?

Iran and the Arab and Muslim states must prepared for their economies to be ruined for a long while. The biggest losers are the oil producing Arab and Muslim states, their refineries destroyed, infrastructure bombed and cannot sell their oil, their airlines cannot operate, ports closed.  UAE is begging for US dollars from the Americans, already running out of dollars.

When enemies call for ceasefire, it is not for peace

 Everybody is saying that USA and Israel are running out of weapons. Most of them are saying that USA weapons have been exhausted fighting the first 16 days of the Iran war. This is not propaganda from Iran but is inordinately clear on the ground, though never ever admitted. USA military bases in the Middle East have run out of defensive weapons to protect, which clearly is why they are sitting ducks in the face of cheap Iranian drones and missiles.

Furthermore, the fact that Israel is negotiating a ceasefire with Lebanon is no co-incidence. It is a sign of shortage of weapons, needing to regroup and rearm, perhaps waiting for the outcome of the other side of the war between USA and Iran, hoping the USA could decimate Iran and prevent the supply of further weapons to Hezbollah. That outcome could be pivotal to Israel's further move in Southern Lebanon.

Replenishment of weapons does not work like building models using Lego bricks. It took probably years to stockpile and could be exhausted in a matter of weeks. The movement of interceptors, from Ukraine to Israel earlier and from South Korea to the Middle East weeks ago, tells the whole story of how problematic it has become in producing them, more so with China now clamping down on rare earth elements. Telling the world that such movements are just strategic pivoting is no more than a cock and bull story.


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Will Indonesia replace Singapore as the American base in Asean

SINGAPORE: The signing of a “major” defence partnership between the United States and Indonesia reflects a “practical alignment of interests” between Jakarta’s push to modernise its armed forces and Washington’s efforts to deepen ties with a strategically vital Southeast Asian power, analysts told CNA.

It also signals a relationship that is on an “upward” trajectory, compared to their chequered past with Indonesian military officials previously barred from entering the US amid purported human rights violations. These include President Prabowo Subianto and reportedly also Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin....

And this, analysts say, may have a broader impact on the region and see Indonesia emerge as a “stronger and more credible voice” within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc.

“More broadly, the Major Defence Cooperation Partnership (MDCP) has the potential to elevate Indonesia’s status as a middle power with a firmer strategic footing in Southeast Asia,” said Teuku Rezasyah, an international relations lecturer at Indonesia’s President University and Padjadjaran University. CNA

This is a big move by the Indonesians amidst the American Operation to kill Iranians, a Muslim state. Indonesia has been making many friendly gestures to the Americans, including a place in the Piss Board to make Trump happy. Unfortunately, the Muslim community did not favour this and Indonesia did an about turn, not giving Trump the US$1b for a seat in his Piss Board.

This announcement of a major defence partnership is even more important than being a member of the Piss Board. With increasing military cooperation and the purchase of world class American weapons systems, hopefully not the same types that were offered to the Arabs, Indonesia would become the most powerful nation in Asean, militarily. On the cards must be the most coveted F35s, the real stuff, with no kill switches and with weapons system that would not be subject to Israeli approval. Would Indonesia be able to buy whatever weapons that Singapore can buy from the Americans and of the same quality? Indonesia's F35s would definitely be based in Indonesia, if the Americans agreed to sell.

Further improvement in relations will be military bases or access to Indonesia military bases by the Americans. This would upend Singapore's relationship with the Americans. Maybe Malaysia will be next to join the party. And the biggest winner will be the Americans, fully integrated into Asean and with a bigger military presence in the region.

One good thing, with good relations with the Americans, the Strait of Malacca will be safe from being blockade by the Americans. Trump will not say he wants to take the Strait of Malacca for the national security of America when he has so many friends in Asean, unlike in Europe. Being friends of America has its advantages. The Strait of Malacca will not go the Greenland way.

What would the Iranians be thinking?

New Rules Based Order taking shape under Mafia Pax Americano

 Quietly but surely a new Americano Rules Based Order or Disorder is taking shape and would soon be a fait accompli. It is based on the Rule of Lawlessness personified in lunatic Trump. Trump is the pride of the American Empire and well loved and supported by the American people for his genius and exploits in his alternate world where he thrives in felony, cheating and bankruptcies, raping little girls, killings, massacres and genocides, where he can threaten and bully anyone he likes without a second thought, where he can take anything he wants, little pussies, or President and First Lady of foreign countries, or land and countries. Under this great mafia chief, the American can do anything they want, He, Jesus Donald Trump, is the law under heaven.

Not only the Americans love him, Congress and the Senate are all behind him in their silent consent, even going to war with no need for Congressional approval. So far so good as long as he claims he is winning, he is the one calling the shot, doing the bombing and killings with no consequences and with very few dead American boys and girls, only 13...if you believe this is true. The Israeli terrorists just killed more than 2,000 Lebanese in one week of bombing! And the Americans believe him and not wanting to know the truth...as long as the body bags are not coming home, or the number is not disclosed.

Not only the Americans are behind this lunatic. The whole world is also accepting this gangster Rules Based Order without saying a word in condemnation. The American terrorists are behaving like pirates, like they own and rule the world, attacking commercial ships, boarding them to check their cargoes, arresting ships in international waters. The world looks on in disbelief and in quiet acquiescence. What to do, too weak to fight the American terrorists. The world will only condemn countries and behaviours that they did not agree, like against China, Russia and Iran for their aggressiveness and wanting to take over the world, because the American terrorists said so.

Let me repeat, no world leader dares to condemn the killings of Palestinians, Iranians, Arabs and Muslims. Anyone disagree? Many may even accept that this is the lesser evil, without saying it.  Some proudly say it out loud that they support the evil American Empire, they will support lunatic Trump and his despicable behaviours. And they will not condemn him. The ethos of world leaders is so sick, more despicable than Trump, that they cannot see anything wrong kissing the ass of this pedophiles, rapists, mass murderers and Jesus impersonate or Satan reincarnate. Evil is goodness, Trump is virtuous and everything to loathe and dying for in America.

The world is not resisting, and is preparing to live under the evil Mafia Pax Americano, led by Jesus Donald Trump and his clowns in Washington for another 1,000 years. No one questions how dare Trump to think he is Jesus. And no one is offended, thinking it is fun to mock Jesus like Trump did. This is the new trend in Trump's fan club. Poor thing Jesus! Right and wrong is very confusing. It is so difficult to tell, really, when they all idolise Jesus Donald Trump.