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.

Epstein Files - When you trust Jews as friends, you don't need enemies

 Trump trusts Netanyahu and think he is safe. All the videos about him in Epstein's Island have stopped showing up as long as he behaves. All the senators and congressmen and women have stopped trying to expose him and impeach him for his despicable exploitation of young girls in the company of Epstein. Trump is very smart to have great friends like Epstein and Netanyahu. Caveat, he would be smarter if he did not have such friends in the first place. Now he is a kept man, to do the bidding of Netanyahu or else.

Trump does not need enemies with friends like Epstein and Netanyahu. The Americans do not need enemies with friends like the Jews. The Arabs and Muslims too do not need enemies with Israel or USA as their friends. See how happy and peaceful are the immediate neighbours of Israel! Oops, for the Palestinians, Hezbollah, Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis, things are obviously different when they are not friends of Israel. Iran and the rest of the Arab and Muslim states are distant neighbours.

The Europeans are feeling very uncomfortable. Some nobles and royalties are regretting having Israeli friends like Epstein and Maxwell. But they have had their fun and should not complain. European states are different, will not get close to Israel, now carrying a ten foot pole. Only the Germans are still with Israel, trying to mitigate their WW2 crimes against the Jews. 

No decent or sensible country will want to openly call Israel as friends. The crimes against humanity and genocides are too horrific to stomach and to will away. The Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims paid a very heavy price for trusting the Jews, but not learning anything and are still trusting the Jews, conducting talks for cease fire, not for eternal peace. Every time the Jews need a breather, need to restock their ammunition, they will for a cease fire talk with the ever gullible Arabs and Muslims. And the Jews are never disappointed by the ever trusting Arabs and Muslims, who still believe they can be friends with the Jews and can live happily ever after, after every cease fire talk. They never believe that history repeats itself over and over again, to those that trust the Jews and the Americans and happening everyday.

When you have friends like the Jews and also the Americans, there is no need for enemies. Caveat, the gullible will never believe in this. Do not tell them when they are making mistakes over and over again.

For a sitting USA President, a Christian state, making mockery of Jesus is unforgivable

Laughable when their religion is under attack and no one seems perturbed, except the Pope. Trump claims he is a Christian, holding the bible upside down for a photoshoot years ago and conducting prayer sessions in the Oval Office. I wonder who he was praying to. Oh, probably Judaism, the religion of the Jews.

For a sitting USA President, of a so-called Christian state, making a mockery of Jesus is unforgivable. For the common man it would have been excusable pleading insanity. Trump cannot plead insanity or he will be removed from office, lol. Trump has committed nothing more than blasphemy, clear and simple. What has Christian leaders of the world have to say? What does 'principled' people have to say?

In any other religion, mocking the very epitome of the religion and mocking its very structure, means severe consequences. Salman Rushdie, who wrote the 'The Satanic Verses' was targeted by Iran with a Fatwa for his death for insulting Islam. He lost an eye after surviving an assassination attempt on his life. The followers of Islam do not joke about their religion.

By the way there are so many people on social media that claims Jesus did not even exist, as no records were found in the Roman writings of his very existence. The Romans were meticulous in keeping historical records and yet the man Jesus had never appeared in those records. I am just saying this after listening to the words of many others. Believe it or not can always be gleaned from social media sources available everywhere and I am not one to argue about their relevance or truthfulness.


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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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