Trump gloating about his success in extorting $2.2 trillion from 3 Arab states

The average aircraft carrier costs between $5 billion to $10 billion to build. The exact cost of building an aircraft carrier depends on the carrier’s intended role, size, type, and the country manufacturing it. The manufacturing cost varies by each country, since countries that manufact…bing.com

The price of an American carrier is less than $10b a piece. The most advanced USS Gerald Ford is slightly more, about $13b. Trump's extortion trip to the three riches Arab countries, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE is going to bring in at least a couple of trillion from these states. Saudi Arabia has agreed to pay $600b and Trump is demanding for $1 trillion. Trump knows that these Arab states cannot say no as the American bases and soldiers are in their soil, waiting to conduct a regime change if Trump is unhappy. And Trump sarcastically told these Arab states that the American soldiers are there to protect them when the Arabs know that they were there to control and rule over them.

How many weapons can Saudi buy for $600b? All 11 American aircraft carriers, at $10b each, would cost only $110b. Saudi can ask for all the aircraft in the aircraft carriers and it may not even cost $300b, with another $300b to spare. Saudi Arabia would be the mightiest military power in the world by throwing $300b to Trump. Only caveat, does Saudi Arabia need all the aircraft carriers to threaten the world with invasion and war like the American terrorists?

Oh, Trump is going to sell the most advanced Nvidia chips to Saudi Arabia and to the other Arab states, to build super AI systems. Again, for what? Just to boast that they have hundreds of thousands of high end Nvidia chips to fry?

Qatar offered to buy 210 Boeing aircraft, to double or triple its fleet. This would cost nearly $200b. Easy money to Qatar and easy money for Trump to grab. Then there is UAE. How much would Trump squeeze from UAE to protect UAE from being attacked and invaded by the American terrorists or Israel, or from a regime change? Just $1.4 trillion.

The world's number one mafia boss, Trump, has made offers to the three richest Arab states and they cannot refuse. Did Trump send each of the sheik the head of his favourite horse to close the deal? Trump is so friendly and nice to the Arabs and they reciprocated generously by throwing billions or trillions at him. The evil American Empire has descended on the lands of the Arabs for peace and money. Who dares to refuse to pay up when the world's number one terrorist state demands protection money?

US criminalises the world for using Huawei chips

 The American gangster regime in Washington has passed a law to criminalise the use of Huawei chips, the Ascend 910 series. It is a crime to use these chips or equipment with these chips in them. And this gangster law is to apply to all the countries in the world.

China will soon also be criminalising the use of American chips in China, when China has developed all the chips it needs. Then there will be a complete decoupling of the chips and AI industries of the two countries. China may even criminalise the use of Apple products. It is a matter of time.

This new gangster law will have immediate impact on the people of the world. For the BRICS countries, it means nothing. They will just show the middle finger to the American gangsters. For countries still trading with the American gangsters, they would have to be careful. Some countries would ignore this and continue to use Huawei chips if needed.

The problem would be serious in American crony states. Would the American crony states in ASEAN apply this law to their citizens and arrest them for using Huawei chips? Some already succumbed and refused to use Huawei 5G for their communication networks under coercion from their American masters. American crony states are semi American colonies, being ordered around and bullied by the Americans, cannot do this, cannot do that, must be anti China, produce hate news and fake news against China and Russia.

Everyone would be watching which American crony state would be the first to arrest its citizens for using Huawei chips and extradite their citizens to the US, just like the Mickey Mouse that arrested their former president Duterte to be jailed and prosecuted for fighting terrorists and drug lords in their country. All the talks about independence, national sovereignty, national pride and dignity would go into the sewers when such crony states start to obey this American gangster law and criminalise their own citizens because of it. 

Can you believe it? Using a chip is a criminal offence! Using a laptop or mobile phone with Huawei chips is a criminal offence. Not even dare to use the most advanced Huawei 5G network to benefit their own country and people because of American coercion!

Technically, 1.4b Chinese users of Huawei laptops, mobile phones and equipment in China are criminals. This also applies to those in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Asia, India and SE Asia. The rogue regime is going bonkers, making enemies of the world except white men countries and their cronies.

Would you buy an Apple Made in India...and pay premium price for it?

Trump's lying has the backing of the Anglo-Saxon White clique and his US$ hegemony. Modi has nothing to back him up - not from neighbors, not from the Muslims in India, not the Chinese, not the Rupee and of course none of the Whites. Only his religious Hindu fanatics in India look upon Modi as a Hindu God.
Therefore, Modi, in trying to out lie Trump is sure to be trampled like the grass under the foot of fighting elephants. One threat from Trump and Modi bends over backwards just like the old days of the British lording over the Indians. Yes, Sahib, what is your wish would be Modi's answer.

Trump is now playing Modi's backside by calling on Apple not to invest further in India. Strangely, it is not the Chinese telling Apple to do that. The Chinese are laughing their heads off now, and Tim Cook is having a tough decision to make. For Apple to reshore to USA to make iPhones is out of the question, as making iPhones costing a few thousand dollar is not going to sell in the face of competition from Samsung and other Chinese brands.

When Trump can tell that to Apple, isn't it true that he would also be advising other USA companies to refrain from investing in India too as time goes by. Jeffrey Sachs warned Modi earlier about getting played out by the USA and it is coming true. Think about that.

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When would Singapore get its autonomous driverless taxis?

Adoption of autonomous vehicles is one race Singapore is not keen on winning

Cities such as Guangzhou and San Francisco already have robotaxis and autonomous buses for public use, but Singapore is treading carefully. This deliberate pace is not hesitation but to ensure safety, among other reasons.  CNA

The above headline in CNA seems out of sync with Singapore's number one in everything mindset. Singapore is taking it slowly, deliberately, and not keen on winning, not wanting to be the first in SE Asia or the world to have autonomous driving cars on the road. 

Actually, Singapore has been testing this technology for more than a decade and still testing. On the other hand, autonomous driving taxis have been on the roads for more than a decade in many cities in China. The US also have them on the road in more progressive and modern cities. In other words, the technology is maturing.  And for Singapore to say that it wants to be the first to get it right the first time is a no brainer. China already got it right more than a decade ago. Singapore is too late, behind time.

What is holding Singapore back from wanting to be in the race for smart cities? Is it because the infrastructure is not there, no good 5G network to keep the technology safe on the road? Half baked western 5G network is not good enough for autonomous self driving cars. Period.

What else is holding back? Crowded cities? The cities in China and cities like Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco are not crowded? Tokyo is not crowded?  Or these cities are not safety conscious, did not care about the safety of their people? What are the among other reasons?

What do you think?

American Inquisition has started by the authoritarian Trump regime

  The authoritarian Trump regime has started an American version of the Spanish Inquisition by attacking the American tertiary learning institutions. Trump is in a way wanting all the American universities to hang his photos in every classroom and lecture hall. He is going to vet and approve the academic staff. He is also going to dictate the student enrolment with the barring of Chinese students top on his list, the banning of Chinese lecturers, researchers and PhD students, in his anti China war.

Many foreign students have their visas terminated and ordered out of the USA for the slightest infringement of American laws like traffic offences and minor indiscretion, or for engaging in student activities and protests, particularly anti Israel and pro Palestinian protests in campus.

The academics and students are now living in fear for being burnt on the stakes at the whims and fancies of the Trump regime and are protesting. The regime is on a witch hunt and acting ruthlessly like religious bigots during the Spanish Inquisition.

This is in addition to the reckless and irresponsible arrest and deportation of immigrants, with many wrongful arrests and deportation to the gulags in El Salvador, guilty without the right to defend themselves in the American courts. No protection of their human rights. The Trump regime does not care. Families were broken up, children deported, bread winners deported, many with no criminal records but mistaken identities. Trump's secret police are no different from the SS of Hitler. No one is safe in America.

America is in chaos, not just because of the trade wars but the Trump Inquisition. The American education industry is going to collapse. No foreign students especially those from China and India would feel safe to want to enroll in American universities. Many foreign academics and professors and researchers would be arrested and imprisoned or force to leave America.

This is what is happening to the evil American Empire, touted as the citadel of democracy, human rights, rules of law country but more like a gangster run mafia Dom. Would the Americans allow mafia chief Trump and his gangsters to take down America or would they rise to take down these hooligans?