For little European countries to threaten China and talking big about containing China or even going to war with China is basically a joke. Every European country today is a small country, a country that could face bankruptcy any time. Many were ex empires but no longer a force to be reckoned with. Britain is still strutting around as a mischief maker and create problems for other countries, playing a big role in the Ukraine War. In reality, Britain is a spent force, being the country taken over by its ex colony, and being ruled by ex colonised people as Britain could no longer produce decent and able white leaders. Germany, still strong economically, will have its economy collapsed without the Chinese market. The rest of Europe are all on the brink of bankruptcy.
In the 19th and 20th Centuries, with the advantage of the Industrial Revolution and the manufacturing of guns and weapons of war, little European countries could take advantage of underdeveloped countries dwelling in the age of bows and arrows and were able to conquer and subdue the weaker and less developed countries. They could take their time in their slow boats to even attack and cripple China with a few thousand soldiers. Long gone were those days when they could gang up together to cut China to pieces.
For these little European states to still think and behave like they are big powers is a sure sign of lunacy. They could not appreciate the new world today, the new China today, and the new realities. Even if the whole of Europe were to join forces to go to war with China, it would be a no show. The warships could not get pass the Indian Ocean without being sunk by Chinese anti ship missiles. Any ship that escaped the Indian Ocean would be stopped in the southern corner of the South China Sea as they emerged from the Malacca Strait. They have no chance to get nearer to China than the island of Singapore. The Americans may view the Straits of Malacca as a choke point against China. China's plan would be to ensure no enemy ship could leave Singapore to enter the South China Sea.
Australia is behaving like a foolish child, thinking that it can be a big bully in the region. Indonesia is enough to run all over Australia if they put their minds to it. The Americans would only sell Indonesia a few warplanes for show, a token that would not be a threat to Australia. But Indonesia can now buy all the weapons it needs from China and Russia to outsize the few pieces of war machine in Australia.
The only contender to pose a threat to China is the USA, but not for long. The USA cannot win a conventional war against China. It could not even wage a naval war against China in the Pacific Ocean. China is now fully capable to sinking every American warship on the western Pacific Ocean. There could not be any land wars on China's western flank, ie Central Asia as the region would be occupied by Russian and Central Asian countries that are friendly to China.
With the Indian Ocean fully within range of Chinese missiles and bombers, India would find it best not to be the staging ground for the Americans to conduct a land assault on China. An open war between China and the US is inconceiveable, a no brainer. For angry young American boys to prove their manhood with poor and small countries is ok. To draft them to fight against China? Many would go AWOL, skip the draft. Only mad men and women would think that it is a feasible option to go to war with China today.
The boys and girls that are now in charge of European states better wake up their ideas. They are no more playing childish games in schools. See the real world as it is. Europe is no longer a power to be reckoned with, let alone individual state of Europe to contest against China. Europe as a group is just a pawn to the Americans and has to take orders from the Americans, afraid to say no to the Americans. Americans can kick European countries like a discarded can.
PS. European navies should “patrol” the Taiwan Strait, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said, arguing that the move would help to maintain the “status quo” in the region. The diplomat floated the idea in an opinion piece published by the Journal Du Dimanche on Saturday. RT
They could not even maintain peace in Europe and still want to mess around in Chinese waters. What stupid arrogance! The white men are no longer the masters of the world. Their time has passed. Europe would be taken over by the people from the rest of the world, starting with Britain.
If Indians dare fight China, Beijing would stop the flow of water from the Chinese Tibetan plateau to the Indian rivers of Brahmaputra, Indus and dry up North India.
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If China is as Evil as the Americunts, most of their Rivers flowed from their sources to the Rest of the countries below, can just simply dam up and have all of them in droughts.
Russia supplied their oil and gas to the Euro Nuts for peaceful trade and the damn Americunts can said Putin is weaponising their Oil and Gas on them.
The damn Euro Nuts believed and obeyed damn with their combined countries how many times bigger than the UAssA.
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China is undertaking a huge project to construct five dams in Shannan Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The precise locations of the project are reportedly in Gyatsa, Jieuxu, Langzhen, Zangmu, and Zhongda in the TAR. The dams are slated to divert the waters of the Brahmaputra River (Yarlung-Tsangpo in Tibet) to China’s water-scare northwestern and northern provinces.
ReplyDeleteThe plan to divert the waters of Brahmaputra would affect over 140 million people who are dependent on the river. India would have to bear the brunt of the planned damming and diversion. There is great apprehension that the diversion of the waters would affect the downstream flow in Northeast India and beyond. The issue of the dam remains a cause of great concern for India and was taken up in the 2010 India-China strategic dialogue.
Don't think this is an accurate description of the flow of rivers from the Himalayas. The rivers on the northern side of the mountain range would flow north towards China. Rivers on the southern side of the range would flow south towards India. Not possible to turn the south flowing rivers to flow north into China or vice versa.
ReplyDeleteThe Chip Alliance set up is now backfiring on the USA and the West. They are now at sixes and sevens with the Chinese market getting smaller as China ramped up production of matured chips. Samsung just reported a 96% drop in profit in lst quarter, amid shutting down capacity. They blamed it on COVID and the lockdowns resulting in demand for consumer products, but still will not admit the loss of business in the Chinese market as a contributing factor. Let them fool themselves silly.
ReplyDeleteChina is clamping down its export of refined rare earth materials, essential for chip manufacturing and weapons manufacturing. The USA and the West are now forming another alliance to refine rare earth. Would rare earth refiners outside China, or what is left of them, be coaxed to set up factories in USA like the Chip Manufacturers, with promises of subsidies. Ask TSMC what happened to those subsidies and how TSMC had been taken to the cleaners trying to build a chip manufacturing plant in Arizona. A supposedly US$10 billion plant is now turning into a US$40 billion black hole, just to take advantage of the reported US$15 billion subsidy that is still not forthcoming. And that is not factoring in the problems trying to integrate USA workers with hardworking Taiwanese workers with different work ethics.
Actually, rare earth is not rare, and is available in large quantities in many countries and Australia in particular is one big source, and they are just looking at availability of the raw ores thinking the alliance will again solve the issue. But it is the expertise in refining the raw ores that is the big problem for them. Depending on China with such environmental unfriendly facilities to let China pick up the pollution demonisation is just like forcing China into the opium trade to destroy the country, and trying to save their own backyard, which is now backfiring on them as well. Decoupling from China is not as simple as 'trade wars are easy to win'.
Setting up such new refining facilities from scratch is going to take years and environment issues will definitely surface. Australia tried to shift some of its rare earth refining facilities to Malaysia and faced plenty of flak from the Malaysian public. The refining facilities pollute rivers and contaminate fertile land, and is a health hazard for those living close to those facilities.
Setting up refining facilities is estimated to take as long as 10 to 15 years. Of course it can be ramped up faster, but the most important question of all is where are they going to get the expertise to run the refining facilities for the ores from scratch. 85% of all global rare earth processing are now done in China, and China is said to produce the best rare earth elements in terms of purity. Just like the shortage of chip innovation talents in the USA after formation of the Chip Alliance, they had to resort to force to bring back talents from foreign chip makers to the USA, with loss of USA citizenship if they refuse. Would the USA do the same for rare earth?
Right now, even the USA has to send its rare earth ores to be refined in China. Think about that!
CHINESE YUAN can readily be exchanged for GOLD!
ReplyDeleteSaudi Arabia is selling oil for yuan, which it converts into gold on the Shanghai International Gold Exchange (SGEI), according to media reports.
Not using the dollar could be done by using the yuan as a trade currency and converting yuan revenue into gold on the SGEI. Through the SGEI China can increase the role of the renminbi in the global economy. There are no restrictions to converting yuan into gold on the SGEI.
The plan by the Chinese to build dams across the Brahmaputra is already causing hysteria in India. China does not have to divert the river, as it has enough monster rivers to take care of.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, never underestimate the Chinese when it comes to diverting water resources. The Grand Canal, all 1,104 miles long, is dubbed the longest artificial river in the world. And it was conceived and built from the 6th century, improved and extended on later to provide further linkage to important cities. And it was recently reported that China diverted water resources across long distances to provide water resources for its people and for agricultural needs, also by building artificial rivers and canals to reclaim desert lands.
Lithuania, that little Chiwawa in the EU and Nato, is the noisiest little dog, barking the loudest and posing for a fight with Russia and China to no end. It should be put to sleep to have peace for everyone.
ReplyDeleteSilly small states thinking that with the Americans behind them they can bark at anyone, including China and Russia. They did not know that their days are numbered and they will be whacked hard like a naughty school boy when the day comes.
ReplyDeleteThe Americunts would deserted them the first sign of troubles as they are just cannon folders and leached dogs to them.
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Under the caption “Population: India overtakes China”, Germany’s Der Spiegel published a cartoon showing Indians cheering and waving a flag aboard an antiquated train packed with people, as it overtook a Chinese bullet train with just two people inside. The drawing was widely denounced as racist and offensive in India, including by IT minister of state Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who reminded the magazine that “in a few years India’s economy will be bigger than Germany’s”.
ReplyDeleteIn a few years India's economy will be bigger than Germany's. Could be true, but not what we think. Because Germany's economy will now be shrinking after de-industrialisation by the USA, and India's economy need not have to rise to overtake Germany. Thus it will still be bigger than Germany's and is no idle boast. When one keeps going down, the other looks to be going up, even without improvement. No proof is needed here. It will be self proven.
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