China - super power shy of behaving as one, ended up being bullied by little pricks

 When Japan invaded China and captured most of the big cities, massacring Chinese to satisfy their savage nature, they arrogantly told the Chinese that this was the result of being weak. A weak China invited the strong to invade and to rule China. The fault was not the aggressive nature of the invaders, but the weak and hapless Chinese.

Did China learn from this painful experience, an ancient civilisation ten times bigger than Japan but being whipped like a stray dog with tails between its legs, with the heads of its people being chopped off for the amusement of the barbaric Japanese soldiers, and unable to fight back. China was a living hell for the Chinese during the Japanese Occupation. Robbed of everything of value, even the dignity and decency of being Chinese. They became the pariahs in their homeland, in the world.

The Chinese would not forget these dark days of their history and worked extremely hard, with many of their brightest, the best scientists and engineers, chosing to return to their motherland to rebuild their country sacrificing the lure of fortune and fame in foreign lands. When the tide changed, when opportunity opened its door, the Chinese were in a great hurry to catch up with the rest of the world. They are now at the top vying to be the number one super power, competing directly with the Americans. But one thing they still have not learnt. Or is it due to Confucius philosophy of being humble and respectful of the weak, that they refused to act like a super power? They allowed little silly countries to spit at them, to climb over their heads, to taunt them, to even seize Chinese lands and islands and still refraining from putting their feet down and tell the scoundrels to get lost.

When China was weak, it was bullied and unable to fight back. When China was working hard to find its way back, it has no choice but to keep its head low, just keep working, ignore the stares and the spits and the insults. Work hard to be rich and strong, to be able to defend themselves. During this period, Deng Xiaoping's famous advice, keep a low profile, do not get into trouble, avoid trouble, were the mantras of the time.

When China is finally rich and strong, many still refuse to accept their new status and wanted to continue to live the way Deng told them. They could not understand that time has changed, the situation has changed. They were angry when Xi Jinping came out with the bold policy of acting as a big and respectable nation state and reclaim whatever belongs to China, particularly the South China Sea. They lack the confidence to be big powers, still afraid and wanting to put their heads down and mine their own business. Still wanting to be Ah Qs.

It is this kind of thinking in the Chinese leadership that gives the world the impression that China may be big and strong, but can still be kicked around by little asses? Look at America, or even Israel, is there any silly country that dares to fool around or mess with them? They know that doing so would get them a black eye immediately. Even second rate third world power like India would carry a big clout to whack its neighbours if they mess around with India's interest. India even thinks it can mess around with China. Let alone little silly countries in Asean, taunting and throwing punches at China and thinking they can get away, all because China would not hit back, would not dare to hit back, or because of its antiquated beliefs that kindness would earn respect. 

China forgets that the devils and snakes would always be devils and snakes. Being kind to devils and snakes would only end up being attacked by the devils and bitten by the snakes. China is now a super power, as powerful as the USA. If it does not behave as one, act as one, it would be treated like a dumb overgrown village fool. No one is going to respect a village fool. 

China has to act and behave like a super power to be respected if not feared. To the devils and snakes, they would never like China or want to be friends with China. China must not harbour any illusion that the snakes and devils would love them one day. There is only one way to deal with devils and snakes. That is to kick their asses when they misbehaved. Only then would they behave and stay away from irritating and trying to be funny with China. Let them fear China and avoid China. Only then would China enjoy some peace and respectability in the world as a big power. If China insists to continue to tie its hands behind its back, then there will be endless troubles in the South China Sea, Taiwan, Tibet and the border with India.

There are times when might is right and China must use its might to protect its rights. Unless China enjoys or tolerates little pricks trying to seize its islands in the South China Sea, or traitors working with foreign powers to bring down China.

Weakness invites aggression and trouble. A super power that behaves as weak would also invites aggression and trouble even from little pricks. Wake up China and stop the aggression and mischievous behaviours of the aggressors, big and small. Failing to act against aggression and mischief is a sign of weakness. 

Would China want to be weak forever, to be seen as weak forever, and to forever invite aggression? When little silly states think it is ok to taunt and attack China, it is the fault of China as a failed super power, not the fault of little silly states. When Japan still thinks it can invade and attack China, it is the fault of China, not Japan...because China ask for it. This applies to what the Americans are doing in Taiwan. China's weakness is inviting trouble and the independence of Taiwan. It emboldens the trouble making Americans.

How strong or how weak is China depends on its willingness to act. If it is afraid to act, all the massive military weapons it possesses mean nothing. Afraid to act is weakness.

The real world respect only might. Believing and practicing virtues and righteousness in the real world are meant for the fools. Having said this, China should not behave like gangsters and terrorists in the world stage like the rogue Americans and the West that are hated everywhere in the world.

Why would Ukraine and Europe stupidly destroying themselves?

 Ukraine is already destroyed economically and structurally. Mines laid are now destroying Ukrainian tanks. A self destructive move.

Land mines in Vietnam were laid by the USA and Vietnam had no say in preventing that. Here in Ukraine, they have all the say about mines being laid, cluster bombs being used, and targeting nuclear power stations which are all suicidal acts of inflicting self damage. The USA will give anything to them to destroy themselves, while making a fortune for the Military Industrial Complex. It is reported that some of the damage to Ukraine are self inflicted due to lack of training and experience in handling Western armaments that they are unfamiliar with.

Not only is Ukraine destroying itself, the whole EU is doing that with de-industrialisation and without cheap Russian energy, the worst is yet to come. For the short term the EU can still depend on energy from elsewhere, but certainly far from cheap. Most people are saying that Germany and France were able to develop their industries to dominate and being competitive, were all due to cheap Russian energy. Now it is all gone for good, unlikely to return. 

Anonymous

The world fed up with American bullying and gangsterism

 The USA is overdoing its demonisation of China and countries in the Global South are getting really sick and tired of it. Everywhere they go, every alliance they form, every opportunity that presents itself, it is about countering threats from China. Why drag Tonga into their warmongering ideology and not let it enjoy its path to progress?

The USA seems unable to confront China by itself and needs rounding up all the allies and forming all the alliances just to compete with China economically, militarily and humanistically. This probably stems from the stark realisation that even dealing with Russia over the Ukraine War, complete with full support from Nato, is still not within its grasp and even failing, and is a confidence sapping realisation.

The USA is behaving today unbecoming of a unipolar superpower, just crying foul and waiting for sympathy and help from allies and friends alike. The irony is that they do not know how to garner support using diplomacy which, over the decades have been corrupted to such an extent that they have forgotten how it used to work, and instead using veiled threats and arm twisting to get what they wanted, like a big bully that everyone hates. That is not going to work in the long run.

Just as we have seen throughout the Ukraine War, support from allies is actually waning, while former friendly countries are not supportive and even turning away, just like the Africans. Even allies are doing that, all because coercion and using threats does not work like before. The Middle Eastern oil producers used to be in bed with the USA, but are now no longer towing the USA line. The USA still thinks that everyone has to follow its dictates, not realising that the backbone of the US$ hegemony lies with oil, and the Middle Eastern countries hold the key. Control of the key to the US$ hegemony is no longer in the hands of the USA.

Anonymous

US supplying arms to its allies, China and Russia should do likewise

 It is time for Russia or China to help North Korea, Venezuela or even Cuba manufacture guided missiles or set up facilities to give them the technology to do so, since the USA is upping the stakes to help Australia manufacture such weapons to counter China.

What is the reason for denying other countries from having such guided missile technology since the USA itself is proliferating it? Just like giving Australia nuclear powered submarines, it cannot deny Russia or China providing countries that are friendly to have access to such weapons. The USA's days of dictating to everyone is over, since it is behaving like a country running amok and behaving like a rabid dog.

Other countries have therefore to have deterrents as well, particularly Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Cambodia and Myanmar. Cambodia is now in the bad books of the USA for Hung Sun passing power to his son to deny the USA any opportunity to hijack any election to install a stooge. They did that to Thailand, which is facing chaos, now that the USA has failed to capitalise on the election result. If Thailand erupts into mass protest, it is liable to be under military control once again.

Imagine accusing Russia and China provocating for war by conducting combined military drills
just in front of their doorstep? What is the USA doing by conducting military exercises with South Korea and Japan when the USA itself has no justifiable reason to be in that area thousands of miles from its frontyard, flexing its military might. That is not provocating?

Watch Niger as well, with the USA now professing support for the ousted President, formerly under its control. The whole collective West is now taking action by withdrawing support for the leadership leading the coup. You can be sure that chaos and instability will ensue, with the USA using this as an excuse to step in directly eventually. Without chaos in the country the USA cannot just step in, as that will clearly show their bullying tactics against smaller countries, a stand they professed to uphold over Ukraine.

We also have to watch the USA eyeing military involvement in Haiti, which like Niger, they cannot just send troops in without the world accusing them of outright bullying. So they are waiting to create chaos and instability to justify their evil designs.

Anonymous

Presidential Election - 3 good men

 Despite the lack lustre interest in this election for the head of state, 3 good men have stepped up to offer themselves to be the president of the island. These 3 good men are as flawless as you can get from among the rich and powerful Singaporeans. The pool of good men would be bigger if money and power were not criteria to determine what is good enough for a basically ceremonial position.

The president may received some reports to read daily, but most of the daily tasks of the president are quite mundane of sort though done at the ethereal level. It is quite different and extraordinary saying happy birthday to a king or president to that of saying happy birthday to ah pehs in the HDB estate. Same as sending obituaries to heads of state from that of heads of families in HDB. Similar tasks of different values but require about the same level of intelligence and effort other than good quality papers to go with it.

The president also has very important roles in opening the Istana to the people during public holidays and shaking hands with the people. Another important role is the President Charity Fund. Oh, has to read important messages during the opening of Parliament. But the mother of all important roles of the president is to hold the second key to the nation's reserves. Fortunately this role is rarely exercised as the nation's reserves is in the good hands of experts and professionals that money can buy from all over the world. Never mind if very few Singaporeans are good enough for these jobs in no talent Singapore. Our reserves in the hands of highly paid foreign experts are in safe hands. And to make things more comforting, losing a few billions is no cause for alarm to alarm the president. The president would not have sleepless nights because of losing a few billions. So very likely the role of the second key would not be played out, just academic. Not sure how much would be alarming. This is relative as losing $1000 is a big thing to the ah pehs. Here losing $30b would not even attract a whimper. Either it is too small to lose or no one cares.

Now you see why the 3 good men are in a way more than qualified to be the president of the state. In another way it is a waste of their talents to become the president when their expertise could be put to better use in many areas, to make more money. As president, they cannot do anything else with their spare time, if they have any, from their very heavy schedules to meet and visit dignitaries of the world and also the citizens from the HDB heartland.

Think of what Tharman could contribute with his expertise if he is not a president. Think of how bore he would be without pushing the limits of his grey matter. Think of how much money fund manager Ng Kok Song and businessman George Goh could make with their special skills. Poor guys would end up kissing babies and shaking hands with the hoi polloi as a major part of their work.

I have only one word to say, wasteful. They are men at the top of the heap in their professions but would be awfully underused as head of state. Another example of underemployment for Singaporeans. There is no need for such talented and gifted individuals to be the president. Anyone with a good heart, good character, honest, not of unsound mind, and respectable should suffice as the president of the island state.

What do you think?

Agent Orange - When would America use it in Ukraine?

 Agent Orange was first used by the British Armed Forces in Malaya during the Malayan emergency. From one evil breed to another seems to be the case. It may only be a matter of time that this chemical weapon will also be used in Ukraine, if they USA and allies knows they are unable to win the war and wants to use the 'scorched earth policy' to destroy fertile lands in Eastern Ukraine from falling into Russian hands. There is no evil that they will not do.

The signs are imminent. From using depleted uranium shells to cluster bombs, you can guess what they will resort to next when desperation sets in. Do not dismiss the possibility. But will that win the war? It did not in Vietnam! Last scenario is going nuclear to end it all.

More than 4 million Vietnamese were exposed to the chemical herbicide and more than 3 million suffered from the effects. The extent of the damage was also enormous - over 3.1 million hectares, equivalent to 11,969 square miles of forest in Vietnam were destroyed and rendered unsuitable for agriculture. Singapore is only 283.5 square miles or thereabouts in area, so just imagine the size of the land destroyed in Vietnam. Save the earth my foot! 

Anonymous

The evil American Empire getting sicker everyday

 The Evil Empire and its doggies are unhappy about anything that the Chinese are doing. They thought they could still dictate like the old days to tell China what to do. Those days are gone and it would be better for them to learn to adapt.

They are unhappy about Chinese helping Africans to progress by building infrastructures for them. They are unhappy that China is spearheading the BRI projects all around the world. They are unhappy that China is not condemning the Russians over Ukraine. They are unhappy that China has overtaken them in GDP (PPP) years ago and is on the way to overtaking them in nominal GDP. Must be that China did not ask the USA for permission to do all these things.

Why did not the USA or Europeans care to look after the Africans when they colonised the whole continent for decades on end, and when China did it, they are unhappy because they realised that they failed the Africans, clear and simple. Some Europeans are sensible enough to admit their failures to help Africa progress, but it is too little too late. Now they are crying over spilt milk.

There is now arising more demonisation of Chinese solar panels being a national security issue for the USA. This was already an issue when Trump was in power. They have gone through the same playbook over 5G infrastructures and mobile phones, electrical grid transformers, quayside cranes for container loading and unloading, weather balloons, consumer goods like toasters, washing machines, lawn movers and even toilet seats. How ridiculous it has become that a superpower could now be so paranoid and afraid of petty things, claimed to be spying on everyone in the USA. They think China has nothing else better to do than spying on the USA leadership and citizens alike.

Why can't China make use of a naval base in Cambodia instead of hyping that up as posing an issue to the USA. It can only happen to a sick mind, so sick that it is afraid of its own insecurity when it is situated thousands of miles away. The fact that it needs to call upon gangsters, being their gangleader, from its own gangland, and using them as proxies to fight wars on its behalf, is becoming more and more apparent that it is losing its sick mind. The ghost of Vietnam and Afghanistan must have risen to undermine its dwindling confidence to fight a war on its own.

Anonymous

Blinken Insults Tonga's Intelligence, Offers Very Little Help & Obstructs Other Countries' Helping Hands

Upon arrival at Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wasted no time throwing mud at China.

This time, he called Beijing's engagement in the region "problematic behavior" and Chinese investment "predatory" that would hurt the local economy.

Behind the China-bashing cliche, Blinken, the first U.S. state secretary to visit Tonga, was actually asking the island nation to take sides and making the region a new arena of rivalry, but he should understand that smearing others' normal cooperation is a real problematic behavior. His accusation is not only an attack on China, but also unwise questioning of Tonga's judgment on choosing partners as a sovereign country.

At a joint press conference after his meeting with Blinken on Wednesday, Tongan Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni told the U.S. guest that his country had no concerns about its relationship with China.

When Tonga was faced with multiple challenges, including volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and the COVID-19 pandemic, China often rushed to its assistance. As facts have proven, China's friendship has always been based on deeds rather than words, Tongan King Tupou VI has said.

In the broader Pacific islands, China has carried out a large number of assistance projects that meet the actual needs of the countries it tries to help. These projects have strongly promoted local economic development and improved people's livelihood. While offering help, China always fully respects the sovereignty and independence, as well as the will and the cultural traditions of the countries assisted.

Based on its own development experience, China has conducted mutually beneficial cooperation with other developing countries by upholding justice and pursuing shared interests, and provided assistance without attaching any political strings.

Such cooperation has greatly promoted economic and social development as well as people's livelihood in relevant countries. The Mombasa-Nairobi Railway financed and built by China has created nearly 50,000 jobs for Kenya. By the end of 2022, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has brought 25.4 billion U.S. dollars in direct investment to Pakistan and created 236,000 jobs. The list goes on.

If the U.S. really cares about the development of the Pacific islands, Washington should first apologize and fully compensate for the damage caused by its over 60 nuclear tests in the region, address the islands' pressing challenges of climate change with concrete actions, and focus on the real needs of local people, rather than sending senior officials to stage a runway-show-like diplomatic campaign.

And if the United States is truly committed to a better future and the well-being of the people in other parts of the world, it should stop slinging mud at China, and instead join hands with China to help countries in need.

A country that offers very little help, but tries very hard to obstruct other countries' helping hands, and even pursues its own interests at the expense of others', does not measure up to the image of a respectable major power.

Anonymous

Blinken - Agent of hate and spreader of lies

Visiting the Polynesian kingdom of Tonga on Wednesday, US Secretary Antony Blinken warned the South Pacific islands to be on guard in their relations with Beijing, while promising them a brighter future as friends of Washington.

“We’re a Pacific nation,” Blinken told reporters at a joint press conference in Nuku’alofa with the Tongan prime minister, Hu’akavemeiliku Siaosi Sovaleni. “We very much see the future in the Indo-Pacific region.” ...

Blinken’s visit to Tonga came just two weeks after the Solomon Islands signed nine bilateral agreements on economic, technical and policing cooperation with China. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare dismissed US and Australian objections to the deal as “nothing but interference by foreign states into the internal affairs” of his nation.

To counter China’s growing influence, the US reopened its embassy in the Solomons in January, after a 30-year absence. There are currently two temporary staff on duty in Honiara. The new embassy in Tonga, officially opened in May, also has two temporary staff.  RT

 

The Americans conveniently forgot about the existence of the Pacific Islanders for 30 long years. Did not know they were there, did not care about them, withdrew all embassy support, closed down their embassies, and happily went around the world to stir troubles and fight wars. 

While the Americans were away busily invading countries and massacring innocent citizens of countries calling them terrorists, and looting their countries, China was there in the Pacific Ocean, quietly helping the islanders to build their infrastructures, schools, hospitals, state buildings, roads and ports and trading with them. No trouble, no tension, no instability, no wars, because the warmongers and the world's number one terrorist state was not there.

Suddenly, because Solomon Islands are signing bilateral agreements on economic, technical and policing cooperation, the world's number one terrorist state panic. How could this happened without them knowing? So they are now rushing to the Pacific Islands to tell them they are friends and would help them and China is trouble. China has been there helping the Pacific Islanders for 30 long years without any trouble. The Americans did not know, did not care about the Pacific Islanders. Now, the first thing they do is to stir trouble, telling the Pacific Islanders that the country, China, that has been helping them, trading with them, is trouble. 

The Americans think the Pacific Islanders are daft, did not know what is happening, cannot see what China had done to their countries and what the world's number one terrorist state had been doing around the world and neglecting them.

The Americans can lie so some people some of the time. But they cannot lie to all the people all the time. Trouble makers are trouble makers. Liars are liars. Agent of hate and liars would not be trusted by anyone.  The Africans and Middle Eastern Arabs can smell them from a mile. The Latin Americans have been living under their oppression and curse as if the Americans own them, like slave states. All of them are not going to have anything to do with the white savages. Their days are numbered and soon would be passe.

Cambodian Ream Naval Base is nearing completion - Evil Empire unhappy

Imagine this analogy: A family plans to build a house on their own residential land. They invite their skilled and friendly neighbors, who are good at construction, to help them with the project. Suddenly, an outsider arrives and insists that they cannot build the house and should not seek help from their neighbors. Of course, the family would not listen to the outsider's demands. However, as the house is nearing completion, the outsider comes back and questions, "Why are you installing a trap at your doorstep?" Now, does the family need to explain their personal matters to an outsider?

Cambodia is not obligated to 'allay US suspicions', the US has no qualifications to meddle in this matter, let alone the right to oppose it.

The US has been trying to conduct searches at the Ream Naval Base, but Cambodia has rejected their request. Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed his anger, saying, "Ream Naval Base is not a place for thieves or robbers. I allowed you to visit, not to investigate or inspect." Moreover, the US does not have a search warrant, so in essence, they are bullying Cambodia. According to the Cambodian constitution, the country shall not permit any foreign military base on its territory, and this is entirely Cambodia's own affair.

The Ream Naval Base used to be a place for joint training between Cambodia and the US Navy. At that time, there was no objection from the US. But now, since Cambodia is cooperating with China, it suddenly becomes a big issue. In fact, the US is in no position to demand Cambodia to "be transparent," and Cambodia has no obligation to "allay US suspicions."

US officials always claim that the intentions, nature, and scope of this project are non-transparent, which is the main excuse the US uses to pressure Cambodia. However, this argument is unfounded. We would like to ask: What is the US military's intention in adding four military bases near the Taiwan Straits and South China Sea? What is the nature of the "THAAD" system deployed in South Korea? Who is the US going to target with the planned formation of a new Marine Littoral Regiment in Okinawa? Why is the US so uneasy about China's normal overseas cooperation? If we talk about transparency, shouldn't the US clarify these questions until the relevant countries are completely reassured?

It is necessary to emphasize that China has not established a navy base in the Ream Base and this has nothing to do with whether the US allows or is unhappy about it. It is a decision made independently by China and Cambodia. Sovereign nations have the right to establish overseas military bases on the basis of obtaining the consent of the host country. The US alone has about 800 overseas military bases, far more than the combined amount of other countries. China's navy advancing into deep blue waters is a natural outcome, whether it is to safeguard China's interests globally or better ensure regional and world peace. The Chinese navy needs more overseas support bases. Currently we only have one in Djibouti, and in the future, others should be established in suitable locations.

When that day comes, China won't need to seek approval from the US or anyone else, nor will it halt its progress due to the objections of the US or others. Just because you hear the chirping of crickets, does that mean you should stop farming? China will openly, confidently, and resolutely do the right thing. As for the US' malicious hype this time, we want to say that China's cooperation with Cambodia is open, honest, and can withstand the test of time. The friendship between the two countries will not be affected by the interference and pressure from the US. Such friendly relations will only contribute to regional peace and stability.

Anonymous

More than 20 million gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed in Vietnam by the US

 The USA's upper hand lies in their airpower coupled with their carpet bombing in wars they fought over the decades. After dropping all those bombs would they have the courage to set foot on the ground.

Today, air power is not the sole monopoly of the USA. Russia has similar or even better equiped fighter jets and so does China. Moreover, drones and hypersonic missiles are taking over the function of bombings, and even smaller countries have that capability by engaging in drone warfare. Iran, Brazil and Turkey for example are in that category of countries having highly credible and capable drone manufacturing expertise.

In Vietnam, millions of tons of bombs were dropped on the North Vietnamese fighters. So much so that the Vietcongs came up with the counter of digging tunnels underground to thwart all that bombing. The Vietcongs, farmers, laundrymen and cooks (LOL), were so industrious they dug those tunnels just wide enough to allow smaller Asian bodies to crawl through, but prevented the bigger bodied USA soldiers to enter. So much so that USA soldiers could do little. They often got stucked and became sitting ducks for the Vietcongs inside those tunnels. They had no answer, other than lobbing bombs into those openings which did little harm, as tunnel openings to the surface are numerous and well hidden.

Moreover, fighting a war in the jungles of Vietnam was not in the USA's favour. That was why they resorted to using Agent Orange to get rid of vegetation and food, in the hope of turning the tide of war in their favour. More than 20 million gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed in Vietnam, causing harm to millions of innocent Vietnamese. They later found out that USA veterans who fought in Vietnam were also affected, with birth defects in their offsprings being prevalent. That was Karma, clear and simple. Of course they denied the connection, as otherwise they will have to bear responsibility for what is happening in Vietnam and facing hefty compensations.

Patriotism, sacrifice and tenacity by facing up to initial setbacks against air superiority and military hardware, and later against biological warfare as well, finally paid off for the North Vietnamese. The USA could not secure the ground, regardless of all the advantage they hold, with even half a million troops in Vietnam at one stage.

This is a lesson for them in Ukraine if they should decide to entangle themselves directly in the war. Vietnam was not even close to Russia in military strength and weaponry, although it had all the military support from Russia and China. That was decades ago. Today, Russia is much more advanced in all areas of weaponry and is fighting a war itself. 

Anonymous

Seven in ten Chinese Australians believe Australia should remain neutral

 Seven in ten Chinese Australians believe Australia should remain neutral in the event of a military conflict between China and the United States — a view shared by only half of the Australian population. Yet there are differences within the Chinese Australian communities. Of those born in mainland China, 73 per cent say Australia should remain neutral compared to 65 per cent of those born in Australia and 61 per cent of those born in Hong Kong.

But the headlines and aggressive political rhetoric about China homogenises and reinforces public perceptions about China and inadvertently, Chinese Australians.

The political rhetoric about China has changed under the Labor government. But more work needs to be done to create a cohesive Australian society in the face of persistent discrimination and negative portrayals of China and ethnic Chinese in the media.

The evolution of the Australia–China debate and its impact on Chinese Australian communities show that foreign and defence policies and national security should not be treated as separable from domestic politics. Public discussions about such policies have a quantifiable impact on a large proportion of Australia’s population.

How Australia should navigate the intersection of national security and social cohesion with China is uncertain. Increasing cultural and linguistic diversity among Australia’s national security and intelligence community could help.

Australia’s Chinese diaspora and their bicultural skills should be channelled as an asset into helping navigate the Australia–China relationship.

Workforce diversification is not a new argument and some will contend that it will not change Australia’s basic orientation when it comes to national security. But from a technical expertise perspective, Australia’s intelligence community is lacking cultural and linguistic diversity. Government departments involved in managing Australia–China relations appear to be ill-equipped for the strategic moment when only 1.2 and 1.7 per cent of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade staff and the defence workforce respectively are proficient in Mandarin.

Diversity in key intelligence institutions creates ‘a synergy of different perspectives’ to address complex issues that can increase the array of policy options available to governments. Australia could start seeing Chinese politics in a more nuanced way rather than as a pyramid where President Xi Jinping sits atop. There is a lot of policy entrepreneurialism at the local level in Chinese politics and local officials often conduct government affairs that subvert the complete control of the Chinese Communist Party.

Perhaps those who make calculations about China’s role in Australia’s region will see that a myriad of interests shape China — and that a one-size-fits-all policy does not suffice when managing Australia–China relations — if they accept that China is more complex than Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party. Greater cultural and linguistic diversity in government will ultimately shape how Australia sees Chinese Australian communities too. They are pluralistic and diverse with skills that can benefit the nation.

The lack of diversity across key Australian public and international facing institutions presents huge obstacles when addressing the complex nature of Australia’s relationship with China, let alone with the world.

Anonymous

Who is writing and deciding on the narratives for Singaporeans?

China foreign policy not winning fans, but its Africa investment is - Nirmal Ghosh, US Bureau Chief

Tensions lowering European business confidence in China - Jonathan Eyal - Global Affairs Correspondence

Blinken visitss Tonga, warns of  'problematic' behaviour' by China - Reuter

The questions that remain over China's removal of Qin Gng - Tan Dawn Wei - China Bureau Chief

Above are 4 headlines in the Straits Times today and yesterday. Readers should be excused for thinking that they are reading American or western media that are anti China and attacking China daily with all the negative news about China. They have nothing good to say about China, only saying things that are unfavvourable to China. Using falsehood and duplicitous behaviours are standard practice for the American and western media. To them this is war. To the innocent and naive, they did not think much of it and blindly allowed themselves to fall victims to these malicious American and western media.

Channel News America, financed by the American $600m war chest to spread lies and hostilities against China, paying journalists, reporters and academics to demonise China with negative reports and articles, has been very active all over the world. Their attacks on China are relentless with blatant and outright lies, fabricated news and propaganda. This propaganda war using main media has been going on for ages and lately becoming more vicious and direct with white men's lies without any apologies.

Are Nirmal Ghosh and Jonathan Eyal Singaporeans? They seem to be writing most of the main news about international affairs that appeared in the ST. By their writings, they are big influencers on the readers of ST and their views would be unconsciously accepted as the main narratives. If they are not Singaporeans, would Singapore allow foreigners to influence the thinkings and views of Singaporeans instead of Singaporeans writing from the perspective of Singapore and the interest of Singaporeans? Or the views of these two journalists are the views of Singapore and therefore allowed to be perpetuated almost daily in our main media?

What do you think? Should important and major news that affect the interest of Singaporeans be written by Singaporeans?

Humans or animals - which is more cruel?

 Humans are also like wild animals with extreme cruelties in their DNAs and genes.

Some species are especially cruel if they were to be brought up worshipping even their deities of vengeance and warlike.

Even wild beasts are sometimes more civilised than the Human Species.

Many mentally deranged are especially cruel to their own as well as innocent tame animals.

Had seen recently videos of a documentary video of a mad bastard who kidnapped dogs and cats and wrapped with plastic that they cannot breathe and tied with ropes.

The poor animals were whining away breathless.

Took videos of them and challenged others to hunt for him.

They took great delights and pleasures to see all these sufferings.

Likewise Human species who also strangled and tied their own for them in aspira breathless like the Japs who then organism in pleasures.

Also the Japs had killed and chopped off many heads of the Chinese and baonyetted many Chinese pregnant women.

They are an extremely cruel race on their pretext of politeness.

That's in their DNAs and genes.

Their damn liars will always appeal on the grounds of insanity or been abused when they were young.

All these inhuman bitches ans bastards neeed to be served with the same cruel treatments that they dished out to the innocent sufferers

In the prison they should be also be given the bare necessity for them to suffer the same and wasted away like what they did to the poor girl.

Also that cruel guy who tortured the poor animals these ways should also be tied up and with plastic on his head to circumvent his breathing to die a slow death like what's he did to the dogs and cats.

That's should be able to determine any of their kind to do harms to others. 

Virgo

Ukraine - Mercenaries versus Mercenaries

 With Wagner, Chechen and now Gurkhas in or on the side of the Russians, ordinary loosely trained and ill equiped Ukrainian troops are no match for them. Even with Western supplied weapons, the training is equally inadequate. If they do not run, the reputation of their enemies will fuel fear in their faces. Of course, if fighting to the last man is in their minds, that is different. But that is just a mirage with deserters so rampant in the face of the Russian onslaught.

Some of Ukraine's recruits are mere civilians given hardly basic military training and are just cannon fodders to make up the numbers. The neo-Nazis may be good fighters, but their numbers are being decimated after more than 500 days of fighting and under heavy Russian bombing.

This war is not going to end tomorrow, looking at the escalation. It suits the Russian tactic of grinding down enemies, long known since the days of the Soviet Union, when Hitler and Napolean had the misfortune of having tasted the Soviet meat grinder.

The USA and the West are not conducive to fighting long wars, with Vietnam an example, against a poorly equiped, but relentless fearless enemy, the Vietcong, supported by Russia and China. Afghanistan may not have the same support as Vietnam, but still enough to get the USA mired in an unwinnable war in 'The Graveyard of Empires'. That poorly equiped farmers with small arms are able to chase out the highly touted and heavily equipped USA forces is testament to the calibre of the Taliban fighters. 

Anonymous

How the Americans admit their crimes and guilt? When they accused others of doing it

 When the USA and Nato said they are not sending troops into Ukraine, take that statement as an admission that they have already done that. That they lie, cheat and steal gives credence to the inability of the world to take their words as the truth. So much lies have they fabricated, that they are incapable of understanding the meaning of truth, which is now alien in their vocabulary.

When the USA accused others of war crimes, you can be sure that they had committed and are doing the exact same thing they are accusing others of doing. This is their way of saying we did it, but anyone who dares to accuse us will be bombed to the stone age. Just like threatening the ICC against issuing arrest warrants against USA military personnel found to have committed war crimes all over the world.

Now the only two countries that have the backbone to accuse the USA of their atrocities are Russia and China. Any other country will end up like Iraq and Libya.

There is now a coup in Niger and the USA is waiting for this opportunity to play angel and go in to save the country, which ahem, means inviting themselves to keep the peace that they always professed to do. They claimed to be supporting the incumbent President and will be the savior of the country. After that, it is theirs to install a military base and station troops in the country. This is according to their playbook over the last several decades. They were actually on the verge of doing the same to Haiti during the recent unrest. 

Anonymous

Ukraine, No American troops – Washington

American troops will not fight in Ukraine – Washington
Both the US and EU have ruled out the deployment of individual NATO members’ forces against Russia

US President Joe Biden has no intention of sending American troops to Ukraine, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters on Thursday. However, while its forces may not be openly fighting Russians, an unknown number of US military personnel are reported active in the zone of hostilities.

“The president has been very clear that US troops will not be on the ground in Ukraine,” Miller said at a press briefing in Washington.  RT

Telling lies is second nature to the Americans. Everyone knows American troops are already in Ukraine and fighting. The only thing unknown is how many. But the American regime continues with the lie that no American troops will be in Ukraine or fighting for Ukraine.

 

Below is a report from RT on foreigner fighting in Ukraine as mercenaries. A  big sum of the monetary aid to Ukraine goes to paying these mercenaries. And these are only disclosed numbers. What about undisclosed American 'contractors'?

 

 

'From the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, thousands of foreign mercenaries have joined Ukraine’s Armed Forces. They came to Ukraine from all over the world, but mostly from Poland, the US, and Canada. Recently, however, it seems that their interest in fighting for Kiev has significantly faded. This is evident both from estimates provided by the Russian Ministry of Defense and from foreign media reports. 

Since February 24, 2022, a projected 11,675 foreign mercenaries from 84 countries have joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was stated by the Russian Ministry of Defense on July 10.

The largest numbers of mercenaries apparently came from Poland (over 2,600), the US and Canada (over 900 from each), Georgia (over 800), Great Britain and Romania (over 700 each), Croatia (over 300), as well as from France and the part of Syria controlled by Türkiye (over 200 each)....

“Those people aren’t dead — they are runaways. Americans, Canadians, and other guys with experience in NATO armies, with excellent equipment – after seeing some Russian bombs, they just ran back home,” McIntyre said.'

Blinken - Ukraine retaken 50% of land?

 Antony Blinken claimed unabashedly that Ukriane had retaken 50% of the land under Russian control in Eastern Ukraine. Is Blinken blind from too much blinking, knowing that the reality does not support his lies? In other words, he is saying that Ukraine is winning the war, when it is obviously losing more ground to the Russians, now advancing Westward. The MSM saw that reality and are not gloating about a Ukrainian victory, and Blinken had to do the propagating without an iota of evidence to support.

For all we know, the Wagner group in Belarus may be ready to strike against Kyiv, opening up another front that Zelenskyy could hardly be able to contend with. Russia is planning something that resembles their bluff in the early stages of the war, by feigning that their target and intention was to take Kyiv, but in reality were just preventing troops from Kyiv from moving to reinforce their beleagued troops fighting in Eastern Ukraine, where Russia was then concentrating its attack. The Russians later moved their troops out from surrounding Kyiv and this was gloated by the Ukrainians as a retreat by the Russians. Their hallucinations proved otherwise after Russia exerted full control of Eastern Ukraine.

How Putin, Lushashenko and Prigozhin orchestrated the movement of the Wagner group to Belarus without alarming the West must be a master stroke. Now the Wagner group is training the Belarus troops. For what purpose? Without the staged fake coup attempt, the West would be highly alarmed and suspicious regarding the Wagner group moving suddenly to Belarus without a reason. That would be the obvious reaction, if you just watch their reaction to China and Soloman island setting up a security network and likewise with Cuba.

Cluster bombs are now being used by the Ukrainians, and Russia would surely retaliate likewise. The Ukrainians will suffer, whether or not the war ends and in what direction. It will be the Ukrainians that will pay the ultimate price whatever the outcome.

Anonymous

Foreigners turned citizens gelling with locals?

 The migration of different races, different religious beliefs and cultures and expecting them to gel together is a Fool's Dream.

Does the Papies knew about this?

Their White Paper of 10 millions just to buy their hundred of thousands profits per unit of their BTO Pigeon holes?

Also thinking that good times are forever for the mullions just for churning out their stale and sunset Servile industries?

When there's an epidemic graduating into a Pandemic with no self sufficient home grown food and other resources, it would be a nightmare of Riots, killings and Chaos.

What's a beautiful sight it would be.

They kept humming their platitudes of getting the masses of the new beans to gel into our own.

Fat hopes! You can take Ahmad out of the Kampong buy the Kampong would not leave Ahmad

Just take care of own 2 to 3 millions don't want. ITCHY backsides.

In conclusion, these bloody Whites who created all these wars and Chaos are themselves to be blamed and suffered for their crimes with all these immigrant at their Countries.

That's why China is smart smart not to create all these Chaos and had all these problems on their shores.

They had enough headaches to take care of their 1.4 billion. 

Virgo

Extreme cruelty of medieval age in Singapore

SINGAPORE: A senior forensic pathologist on Monday (Jul 24) testified to the severely malnourished state of a Myanmar maid when she was abused to death in 2016, describing her muscles as having wasted away.

There was no fat at all surrounding the organs in Ms Piang Ngaih Don's stomach cavity and her bones were jutting out in a state of severe emaciation, said Dr George Paul, who has 42 years of experience in his field....

 Dr Paul had performed the autopsy of 24-year-old Piang Ngaih Don, who died at the hands of Chelvam's wife Gaiyathiri Murugayan and her mother Prema S Naraynasamy....

The victim had died of hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy, a type of brain damage, following severe blunt trauma to the neck, after being tied to a window grille and starved for weeks.

On top of regular assaults, she was also given very little food, at times surviving on single slices of bread soaked in water and left by the sink for her....

 "The deceased was very emaciated, with hardly any flesh on her cheek, on her face, and a scrawny neck, with her collarbones all sticking out," said Dr Paul.  CNA

 

Reading the evidence on how this poor little girl was ill treated as a maid in Singapore is extremely painful. This poor soul did not die instantly but suffered for months, beaten, starved, isolated, chained and deprived of all communication and access to help. It was a slow, painful, silent and horrifying ordeal that led to death, like an abandon little animal left to die in loneliness.

Could this tragedy be prevented in modern first world city state? Could some regulations or processes be adopted to prevent such cruelty from repeating again? How can help be so far away in densely populated Singapore without anyone noticing something evil was happening near them? How could 3 adults, could be more, went through such an inhuman process to ill treat and beaten up a hapless little girl that traveled thousands of miles here to be a lived in maid, to serve the family? Did any of them has any conscience, sense of guilt or pity for the pitiful girl that they were beating and starving and chained to the window grill, right before them, crying silently, alone, and dying?

Would MOM introduce some measures or procedures to keep track of maids working here, defenceless little girls, in a strange land, thousands or hundreds of kilometres away from their loved ones, at the mercy of employers that could be inhuman or animals in human forms, to protect their safety and well beings? 

It is better late than never, to save a few poor lives along the way.

PS. This case is back in the news for the trial of ex police officer, Chelvam, the husband of Gaiyathiri Murugaya.

China’s trade war on Australia was harmless so stop grovelling. Really?

Tuesday, 25 July 2023

As with most things Albo, he said one thing to get elected then did another in power.

During the Chinese economic coercion push against Australia before and after COVID, Albo consistently defended Beijing against Canberra.

However, a few months before the election he backflipped and said “China had changed”.

The moment he got elected he backflipped again and began Labor’s great grovel to Beijing to restore trade relations.

The kowtowing has been so daft and humiliating that it has been noticed as far away as Washington with some bewilderment.

Today we can add further texture to the great grovel with the release of a Productivity Commission report that shows how harmless the trade war was to the Australian economy:

Australian exports proved to be mostly resilient against these trade measures. For example, barley and coal exporters were successful in finding other markets. The value of beef and wheat exports to China did not experience significant falls – likely due to the partial nature of the measure, which was limited to certain abattoirs and shipments.

On the other hand, there were falls in exports of Australian lobsters and wine, affecting producers whose exports were concentrated on the Chinese market. That said, after initially increasing exports to their original markets, wine exporters developed new markets. In the case of products with limited perishability, like wine, the costs to exporters might be from deferred sales, rather than not being able to sell the good at all. And some exporters may have even enjoyed an increase in the value of stock that ages well. While these measures do not appear to have imposed substantial costs on the Australian economy as a whole, some businesses paid a heavy price.

…The effect of China’s trade measures on some Australian exporters could have had broader implications on the Australian and world economy after businesses, consumers, governments, workers and capital owners adjusted to changes in the trade environment. The Productivity Commission modelled the economy-wide effects of the trade measures. This section presents the results of this modelling.

The results indicate how trade adjusts to the disruptions and that although some industries might have incurred significant costs as they adjusted, economy-wide and global effects tend to be limited. Although the actual restrictions took many different forms (table C.1), they are modelled here as a tax imposed on Australian exports of the relevant goods to China; the tax is calibrated to increase the tax-inclusive export price to the point of making the export prohibitive. The model is designed to illustrate how Australian and global production and trade reorganised to adapt to the disruption.

The impact on growth was not a rounding error, as we said amid the wall-to-wall hysteria in the iMSM at the time.

Given China’s near-complete powerlessness, why is Albo face down licking Beijing’s boots instead of taking heed of the warning and building Australian economic resilience for the next round of Chinese warfare?

Anonymous

China punishing little assholes

China's retaliation will always be calculated to inflict maximum damage to any country that tries to sabotage its investments. It is not retaliation plucked out of thin air on the spur of the moment. It is pivotal, calibrated and closely discussed before being implemented. India's day of reckoning will come.

China's latest retaliation is against Lithuania. China is cutting off and removing its China Railway operations in Lithuania. This will hit Lithuania's economy very seriously. Lithuania had been antagonising China endlessly, with its stance on Taiwan, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.

The power that China holds comes from its ability to control its enormous production capacity, established production infrastructure, market size and control of essential commodities. It does not come about by chance. China had been working on accumulating resources, investing in essential infrastructures, building up relations with resource rich countries around the world, particularly in Africa.

Other countries may attempt to isolate China, de-risking if you want to call it, but the cost of doing so, like setting up similar infrastructures for production themselves, or under alliances is not going to work. The hold that China has on so many things is beyond the ability of any country to replicate. In terms of size in supply and demand, China holds the key.  

Anonymous

Ukraine grain deal - American lie exposed

 According to Dr. Oualaalou of Geopolitical Trends, a geopolitical analyst and researcher, there is more to it than Russia not renewing the grain deal. It was to mirror what happened under the Minsk Agreement, where the West completely obfuscate the interest of the other parties, namely Russia and Donbass, and only used the agreement to further its own interest like just buying time for Ukraine to upgrade its military capabilities and nothing about following the said Minsk Agreement to the letter.

Under the Grain Deal, according to Dr. Oualaalou, Ukraine and Russia were both allowed to ship grain and fertiliser through the Black Sea. But the West, upended the deal by refusing the Russians to ship their grain and fertiliser under the same deal, quoting the ongoing sanctions imposed on Russia as not allowing for that.

This is as good as telling the Russians that they follow only one side of the agreement, while denying the Russians what had been agreed upon all along. This was never revealed in the MSM and official Western circles when talking about why Russia refused to renew the grain deal. The same way they never talked about the terms in the Minsk Agreement that forbid Nato's expansion into Ukraine and atrocities committed against Russian speaking people in Eastern Ukraine. They just interpreted agreements in their own way, using their 'Rules Based Order' horseshit.

The Ukrainians are now trying to ship grains out through Odesa and Danube River ports, but Russia is now targeting them with hypersonic missiles. Moreover, Russia is aware that Western ships on the pretext of shipping grains, are suspected of carrying weapons to attack targets in Crimea, eg the Kerch Bridge. Putin is not unaware of that.

It now looks like the USA is pushing Nato into direct conflict with Russia, with Poland now creating mischief in the North West. Was Putin's intention to relocate Wagner to Belarus anything to do with countering that? By having Romanian ships trying to load grains at Danube River ports, and with Russia targeting the infrastructures, it looks like the USA is pushing Nato in desperation to escalate the war and getting Nato directly involved now. 

Anonymous

From Africanisation of America to Islamisation of Europe - Bizarre works of the white men 's self destruction

FILE PHOTO: Migrants seek shelter outside an overcrowded asylum seekers center in Ter Apel, northern Netherlands, August 25, 2022 ©  AP / Peter Dejong

 

 The Netherlands received 46,000 asylum applications in 2022, with the government projecting it might see as many as 70,000 this year, more than the previous high recorded in 2015. The country has also taken in about 95,000 Ukrainians under “temporary protection” until March 2025.   RT

Goodlucktoyou

migration is out of control in Canada…Canada is letting in 500,000 migrants a year…l wouldn’t even categorize it as immigration its more like an invasion….it’s not a good thing…to the citizens of the Netherlands save your country from being overrun.

 

 Bee SomsakWith recessions gaining momendum; refugees on the march the EU will get a lot more coming into their countries & thats payback for the colonial era & wars they created. When they stop fuelling the Ukraine war then theyll all wake up but then its gonna be too late.

 

The above are quoted from RT.

 

Who made the greatest contribution in the Africanisation of America? No prizes for the right answer. The Africans are the biggest minority in the USA and Canada. The point is that the poor tribal Africans in the 17th and 18th centuries did not have the means to travel to North America. They were caught like beasts of burden and transported in shiploads to the Americas as slaves. The Europeans did not envisage that one day they would have to treat them like humans and legally given the rights of human beans, to share the pie their forefathers helped to create with their free slave labour. 

 

Present day European Americans have totally forgotten the benefits they got from free slave labour and how the African slaves offered themselves, or coerced to entertain and amuse their forefathers. Today, many are cursing themselves silly for having so many blacks in their stolen land. How they wished the blacks would disappear and not be their burden or to trouble them. How they wished their evil forefathers did not bring them to America by the shiploads. They did not know that every act has its consequences and karma is a bitch.

 

But history is repeating itself right before their wide open eyes. They are now importing or allowing migrants from Africa and the Middle East to transfer themselves by shiploads and planeloads to populate Europe, and in a smaller way America and Canada. The Africanisation of North America is just bearing fruits, from birth pain to more pains in maturity. The Americans and Canadians are paying the price for the atrocities and wickedness of their forefathers. In those early centuries, it was cheap labour, actually free labour, that intoxicated them to bring the African masses to the Americas. They did not think or care about the consequences today. Shallow and unthinking mass migration is like lighting the long fuse of a time bomb.

 

The events happening today, the mass migration of Africans and Middle Eastern people into Europe, and a smaller extent to America and Canada, is also of their own doing, their selfish interest in creating wars in North Africa and the Middle East. While one evil hand is doing the killings and destruction, the burning and pillage, forcing the people of war torn countries to become homeless, jobless and refugees, the other hand of conscience could not bear with the carnage and cruelties of hopeless and homeless people. They were struck by their own conscience to open the doors wide to let in the African and Middle Eastern refugees into their homelands, to share a bit of their good fortune, their blessings with the desperate and destitute.

 

Incidentally and coincidentally, the refugees were mostly from the Islamic faith. And their birth rates are many times higher than the Europeans that are enjoying their decadent lifestyle, enjoying the moment, enjoying themselves and amusing and abusing themselves instead of making babies. Statistically, it has been projected that within a generation or two, the Muslims would be the majority in all the European states, leading to the Islamisation of Europe. Don't blame the Muslim refugees. They are in Europe because of the war crimes and wickedness of the Europeans for destroying their countries, their homes, their lives just to prolong their control and domination of these people.

The anger against the refugees is rising and tension is in every European city. The Europeans contempt of the Muslims has very deep roots and would not go away. And the increasing presence of the Muslim refugees would only ignite the deep hatred of Muslims and Islam. The burning of the Koran is totally uncalled for, unacceptable, but a manifestation of the mutual exclusivity of the two opposing religious civilisations. This is an intentional, provocative and discriminative act against another religion, breeds of intolerance and a farce on democracy, religious freedom and an abuse of freedom of expression and human rights. They are crying about discrimination of Muslims in Xinjiang? Anyway, the seeds of Islamisation of Europe have been planted and cannot be uprooted or eradicated so easily. 

The migration of different races, different religious beliefs and cultures and expecting them to gel together is a fool's dream. Playing with race and religion are asking for trouble, incessant and unending trouble that only the blind and utterly stupid would ignore. Europe is set to become an Islamic majority region in the not too distant future, like it or not. The more the white Europeans expressed their hatred and intolerance for the Muslim minorities, the higher the price they would have to pay tomorrow.

Is this the way the European is taking to terminate themselves from Europe and the world, inviting their own destruction? The Africans and Muslims need not be grateful for the white men when they subsequently inherited America and Europe. This was never the intention of the white men. It was just an unintended consequence of their selfish destructive nature that they did not plan for.

No where better to invest or plain stupidity to invest in India? Or a deliberate scam to rob their employers in collaboration with the cheats?

 India thinks that China has no where else to invest its surpluses. The BRI alone is bigger than what India can offer in areas of investment by China, but of course that is a State sponsored investment, with private participation. And by a stroke of good luck, India is not in the BRI. Nor the RCEP, that would afford India another organisation to sabotage.

India's membership in BRICS and SCO has to be scrutinised in the face of its apparent intent to sabotage its agenda. It did not escape notice that some are already pointing out that Modi's action in SCO had a lot to do with his visit to Washington recently. That could be food for thought, as to the sudden change in his drastic move to cripple the SCO.

Xiaomi's predicament in India had been criticised in China as well by some, who probably knew this was going to happen long ago. The Taiwanese, Wistron and Foxconn, are probably more astute and pulling out when they saw what is happening with their investments. Foxconn was expecting subsidies that never materilised. They were actually lured to India by following Apple as supporting players, but it did not turn out well. If Xiaomi still insists on remaining in India, it really deserves to be screwed.

Apple will have to remain in India as it has to tow the USA line by 'de-risking' its operations in China, and cannot extricate itself from India. Actually it was reported that India only accounts for 10% of Apple's production, while 90% still remains in China. India's long term share was supposed to rise to 25% of Apple's production target, with China the other 75%. By and large, Apple still has to rely on China's downstream supply chains, with integral parts still needed to be shipped to India for its assembly line. That will add in cost, which negates the savings in lower wages paid to Indian workers. Moreover, the level of skill of Indian workers is still not on par with Chinese workers.

India's wet dream of overtaking China to be the 'factory of the world' is, I think, completely in tatters by its actions against Xiaomi, Wistron and Foxconn and its stance of stifling progress envisaged by members of BRICS and SCO. Members of those two alliances will think twice about bringing India into their progressive outlook going forward, not to talk about investing in India to benefit the country. 

Anonymous

American cheats outsmarted in their own cheating game

 China is also restricting exports of industrial silicon, another important ingredient for chip manufacturing, computers, automobiles among others. China controls 81% of global supply of silicon.

What China does by restricting is more destructive than a complete ban, a move often followed by the USA and the West. China does not want the West to build facilities and supply chains to provide long term alternatives to China. Building those facilities in the West cost huge investments and will not kill China's silicon industry, because it is still a major global supplier and in total control. China on the other hand can kill off those facilities by manipulating supply and demand. The West is thus in a dilemma. Invest and build and risk not being able to compete with China, or continue to face acute shortages in the short and midium term.

The USA and the West are now hysterical and crying foul and shouting that this is unfair trade practices, after being grabbed by the testicles. What hyprocrites are they themselves? When the USA targeted Huawei, the West and other poodles followed. When the USA banned exports of high end chips and chip making equipment to China, the West and other poodles followed as well.

China is doing exactly the same, paying them back in the same coin, nothing more, nothing less. However, China does not need to coerce or force other countries to follow them, thus dragging them into trouble. China alone can strike back like Russia. Gangsters need backups to appear great in facing opponents.

Two commodities that Russia targeted so far are only energy and food. Even fertiliser for crops is in the hands of the Russians. We are now seeing a battle between air backed toilet papers against commodities, ie oil and food, real stuff that is needed by every human being on this planet. Who is holding the upper hand going forward is a no brainer.

Russia's refusal to renew the grain deal is causing panic among the EU countries. Inflation is expected to escalate in the coming months, with grain prices rising. Meanwhile, Russia has promised to ship grains to poor African countries 'free of charge' after not renewing the Black Sea grain deal. This point about 'free' Russian grain for Africa has never been mentioned on MSM, and we know what is the reason. It negates the accusation that Russia is causing hunger in Africa, a point they leveraged on all the time. Russia knows that most of the grains exported from the Black Sea deal went to the EU and China, not to the countries that needed them most, which is Africa. Moreover, why should Russia feed the EU that is out to destroy it?

China's import of grains from Russia, by the way, may be huge, but it makes up only a tiny percentage of its needs, about 1% (?) and is thus not in any way detrimental for China. And now the West is pushing China to influence Russia to go back to the grain deal. The same argument here is why should China help the EU when it is in league with the USA to destroy China. In any case, Russian grain, I believe, can always go by land to China and need not go through the Black Sea route. What are the rail links being built between China and Russia for? China's BRI is a long term alternative against the blockade of the Straits of Malacca and Suez Canal. In fact China is exploring leasing Gwadar Port (if I am not mistaken), Pakistan to bring Middle Eastern oil via pipelines across Pakistan and/or Afghanistan to Western China.

August is coming and soon the EU countries will be facing another winter once again. The last winter was mild, and enough time was given to stockpile oil and gas when they knew Russia was going to cut supplies by end of 2022. This time around, Russia may stop gas supply completely long before winter sets in. Russia knows how to play the game, preventing stock piling being a lesson it has learnt the year before. 

Anonymous

West preparing to start war with China to rule the world

West not prepared for conflict with China – FT

 
The US has only a week’s worth of anti-ship missiles, one think tank has estimated

Ammunition shortages laid bare by the Ukraine conflict have prompted some US think-tanks to check on stockpiles in the West and find them wanting, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The military industry of NATO allies is not able to help, either.

A Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) wargame of a conflict with China over Taiwan showed that the US had only about 450 long-range anti-ship missiles, enough for about a week.

Another think tank, the Center for New American Security (CNAS), said the existing missile inventory is “too small to blunt an initial invasion, let alone prevail in a protracted conflict against China.” To deter and defeat Beijing, the Pentagon “needs large stockpiles of stand-off missiles, maritime strike weapons, and layered air and missile defenses,” CNAS concluded.

According to the FT, the US Department of Defense has asked for $1.1 billion in the 2024 fiscal year to buy 118 long-range anti-ship missiles (LRASM), compared to half that amount for 83 missiles the year before. The Pentagon also wants $30 billion for ammunition, a 23% increase over 2023 levels, and $315 billion for new weapons....

Alcomendras
As Corrupt usa's list of high-profile people that they are aiming at China in a waterfall of visits is seemingly endless and their desperation grows, we can expect even more empty promises and threats. All this while they are trying to encircle China in attempts to suffocate China economically and militarily. With "old friends" like usa, who needs enemies?? hahahaha

KYM

The DAMAGE the USA has CAUSED CHINA is and WAS DELIBERATE ... NO GOOD MARINATING on the PAST CHINA ... CHINA needs to STAY FOCUSSED on ... THE NOW ...

Above is from RT.

The article said the West is not ready for war with China and went on to say how the Americans are increasing their war budget and acquisition of more offensive weapons in preparation of a war with China. These white savages everyday thinks of going for war, agitating and provoking for war. And they are daily accusing China of being aggressive, expansionist and wanting war when China is not involved in any war but the white savages are fighting wars everywhere everyday.

How many silly people are still believing in this white lie that they are for peace? Their definition for peace is to conquer and rule the whole world under their terms. All the coloured people must be their slaves, to work for them. They will dictate the roles of the coloured nation states, to do only menial stuff, to serve the white savages and their good life.

They have already started this WW3 in Ukraine and will expand it to Asia using NATO, a warmongering organisation, to start wars in Asia and later in Africa and the Middle East. Latin America is already in their control, without the weapons to withstand an attack from the white savages, too weak to fight back. They have kept a lid to stop the Latin American states to buy better weapons to defend themselves. Argentina was prevented from acquiring any weapons to defend itself and the Falkland Islands against the British. American and European countries were banned from selling weapons to Argentina to fight the Brit colonialists. This is how the Americans control and suppress the Latin American countries, to be contained and kept forever as third world underdeveloped countries.

Yes, they are not ready, but getting ready to attack China with the help of some silly coloured states in East Asia, South Asia and SE Asia. All these coloured states do not mind being subservient to the white men, to be ruled by the white men, to call them masters. They are useful now when the white savages need them to die first, fighting for the white savages. But once they defeated China and Russia, there will be no more use for these silly coloured people except to be slaves Class One to the white savages. 

And there will be peace in the world, under the rule of the white savages. The slaves would be treated well, playing the role of slaves. China men will continue with their roles as cooks and laundrymen. Africans can go back to the cotton fields etc etc. It would be a beautiful and peaceful world for the white rulers again.

 

India has a big role to play in USA's agenda vis a vis China.

The USA knows how to leverage its bets knowing that India and China are not on good terms. Same with Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Same with Vietnam and China. Same with Japan and China and same with Taiwan and China. How else can the prospect be so good for the Military Industrial Complex without stirring shit. With Nato giving it unlimited businesses resulting from replenishment of obsolete weapons sent to Ukraine for target practice by the Russians, and with the China issue, things are really looking good for the MIC.

Now trying very hard to pry India away from Russia with their undying love for the Hindus. It is very difficult for the USA to profess the same love for the Muslims in India, as they did in Xinjiang, while at the same time professing their love for the Hindus, so brushing that aside as 'internal problems' for India, everything is settled as far as it is concerned.

In Manipur, it is the ruling Meitei Hindus against the Christian Kukis, with the Hindus in power and giving little benefit to the Kukis, which gives rise to the present situation. All it needed was a spark to ignite the ethnic violence. Now, the USA also cannot profess their loving DNA for the Kukis and at the same time giving so much love to the Hindus. So, like the Muslim issue, just brush it away as an 'internal problem' for India.

India has lots of problems with its many ethnic groups. There is the Muslim problem, the Sikh problem, now the Kukis problem. But never mind, just let India solve it the Indian way, and everything will be fine.

Anonymous

US using India to attack BRICS/SCO and China

 It is already seen by many that India is being used more and more by the USA to be another pawn cultivated to contain China. China knows it, the world knows it, but only the Indians have yet to know it or pretending not to know it. India may be good in playing both sides, but eventually will regret just like those countries that had been used by the USA, and than discarded or destroyed when their usefulness is over.

Whatever alliances or treaties that the USA signs with any country is all for the interest of the USA, nothing more nothing less. Enemies just have to strengthen themselves militarily for whatever the USA is planning, while friends may yet end in more fatal ways, by letting their guards down and being blindly lead to the abatoir for slaughter later on.

Yes, the USA is not going to condemn the Modi Government's treatment of the Muslims in India the same way they accused China's treatment of the Uyghurs. Neither will it now condemn the ethnic/religious conflict now erupting in Manipur, between majority Meitei Hindus and the largely Christian Kukis, a group which had been suppressed and mistreated by the Hindu Government. In return the Modi Government had to tow the USA line, just like the Philippines and PNG, and the USA Government is now demanding a base in India for logistics to support their confrontation with China.

BRICS has to take a stand now with India in the process of hosting USA naval and logistical facilities. Most people commenting on this issue are of the opinion that India cannot be allowed to remain inside BRICS and a way must be found to remove the Trojan Horse that is already doing the damage.

Anonymous

EU taking up case of anti Christian, anti women, anti minorities against India

 It is left to the EU Parliament to take up the issue of what Hindus in India are doing to women and Christianity. And it is good that the issue has been highlighted to the world what the Indian Government stands for. And the Indian Government and Indian MSM are not happy that the EU is debating the issue. The hypocrisy is that the Indians, like Junkie Joe, are now arguing that this is an internal matter and has nothing to do with the EU. Really?

In other words, just because even the USA said it is India's internal problem, it is therefore true and the EU cannot talk about it and anyone countering the USA stand is therefore wrong. But women around the world are not buying this nonsensical argument spouted by forked tongue Journalists. It is of international concern that women are being treated in the most degrading manner and gangraped in India, the biggest democracy in the world. It is also an affront to Christians and Christianity, the other issue now being targeted in India by the Hindus. The Muslims may be toothless in fighting back with divided and fragmented support, but not White Christians with enough global backing.

When they accused China of mistreating the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the USA hype up the narrative that it was an 'international' issue, and rabid dogs started barking day and night. Isn't the Uyghur problem in Xinjiang an internal problem for China as well? Now that the USA is trying to use India against China, Trump claimed unashamedly that Muslim issues in India is an internal matter for India. Now the treatment of women and Christianity in Manipur is also India's internal matter. How convenient! Being a friend of the USA is not fatal for the Indian Government, but fatal for minorities in India.

The world must not let this matter be swept under the carpet. It is good that the EU Parliament sees it fit to take up the matter and human rights are in it too. Where does that leave the USA stance as the beacon of democracy? This shows the EU is no longer following the horseshit trotted out by the USA and are taking a different stance.

Anonymous

European Girls Mathematical Olympiad 2023 winners

 

The girls from the top 4 countries. 15 sec.

If you cannot afford to buy, then rent

 The high cost of living and runaway property prices in Singapore have started to affect Singaporeans in their choices in life. The early mantra of the PAP govt was to give every Singaporean a roof over his head, ie a house or flat. Home ownership was the way to win the hearts of Singaporean voters. Vote the PAP for a flat to call your own. Give every citizens a stake in the island.

This policy has done well for the PAP and also for Singaporeans. Singapore is proud to boast to the world that it has the highest percentage of home ownership in the world. Never mind if it is only for 99 years, or 99 year leasehold. It is long enough for one or two generations to live in.

Govt flats then were really cheap when it started. Yes, it is no shame to call the flats built in the 60s and 70s cheap. Less than $7,000 for a 3 room flat in Queenstown, less than $30,000 for a 5 room flat in Holland Village. The numbers are like fiction, unbelievable when the prices today for a 3 room flat could be $400k an a 5 room flat costing more than a million dollar.

For some Singaporeans, or more and more Singaporeans, it is no joke trying to service a $500k housing mortgage over 30 years with 2 incomes, ie two employees' pay. They pray that they would not lose their jobs in the 30 years or paying the instalments would not be easy. But with the changing economic landscape and the easy influx of foreigners, losing their jobs to foreigners is the norm. Many Singaporeans are getting sacked or retrenched prematurely or being employed on short term contracts. This is highly undesirable when there is a huge mortgage hanging on their necks.

Then there were the more adventurous that took profits took early, selling their two choices of the apple, ie two HDB flats and not allow to buy a third flat from the govt and unable to pay for a resale flat costing hundreds of thousands or more than a million. 

Therefore, many Singaporeans would end up unable to buy a flat and have to rent. Yes, no fish, prawns also ok. Can't buy a flat, go rent one. This problem is going to escalate and accumulate over the years. Some rich people also cannot afford to buy private properties, and not qualified for HDB flats also started to rent landed properties as their residents. This is looking like a new trend. Even ministers are doing so. Perhaps they should raise the salary of ministers so that they can afford to buy homes instead of renting. Homeownership is for Singapoeans to have a stake in the island so that they have a stake to defend and protect.  Maybe Singapore can depend on foreigners to defend the island now that many also have a stake in the island. Poor thing if Singaporean cannot afford to buy homes and have nothing to defend in the island.

Killing of minorities in Manipur is internal problem. The Americans would not care.

 What happened in Manipur is exactly the same modus operandi used against the Muslims in India by the Hindu Government. More than 125 people have since died when the ethnic violence erupted in May. Police reports were made over the parading of the two naked women and the gang rape that followed more than two months ago, but the police turned a blind eye.

The BJP Government in Manipur did not do anything about it, until the video of the parading and gang rape started circulating on Youtube, by which time it was not possible to hide the truth after violence erupted. Troops were sent in, but failed to quell the anger. As one person commented, after all the violence in Manipur for over two months, Modi just came out days ago to talk about it, when he realised the truth could not be covered. What was the PM doing all this time? Enjoying his adulation by Indians in the USA! Obviously he thinks it will work using the same way he dealt with the Muslim issue, so long as the Hindus are in charge and overseeing the mistreatment. No complaints by the USA right? It is what really matters.

The way Indians do things, slow and lazily, seems to be the normal way of taking care of things. But slow and steady is not going to work in a volatile situation like this, and will not just go away. Slow and steady may work with high speed rail building, where they can take half a century to complete and nobody gets killed. Or building reasonable toilets after five thousand years.

Oh, by the way, just listen to what Junkie Joe had to say about the situation in Manipur - 'That is an internal problem for India'. Really? Wasn't Xinjiang an internal problem for China as well? If more than 125 people had died in Xinjiang due to the action of the Chinese Government to stop radicalisation, what do you think the USA and its poodles will say. The sky would have fallen and rabid dogs would be barking day and night.

The hypocrisy is really absolute and stinks to high heaven. 

Anonymous

India has a big role to play in USA's agenda vis a vis China.

The USA knows how to leverage its bets knowing that India and China are not on good terms. Same with Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Same with Vietnam and China. Same with Japan and China and same with Taiwan and China. How else can the prospect be so good for the Military Industrial Complex without stirring shit. With Nato giving it unlimited businesses resulting from replenishment of obsolete weapons sent to Ukraine for target practice by the Russians, and with the China issue, things are really looking good for the MIC.

Now trying very hard to pry India away from Russia with their undying love for the Hindus. It is very difficult for the USA to profess the same love for the Muslims in India, as they did in Xinjiang, while at the same time professing their love for the Hindus, so brushing that aside as 'internal problems' for India, everything is settled as far as it is concerned.

In Manipur, it is the ruling Meitei Hindus against the Christian Kukis, with the Hindus in power and giving little benefit to the Kukis, which gives rise to the present situation. All it needed was a spark to ignite the ethnic violence. Now, the USA also cannot profess their loving DNA for the Kukis and at the same time giving so much love to the Hindus. So, like the Muslim issue, just brush it away as an 'internal problem' for India.

India has lots of problems with its many ethnic groups. There is the Muslim problem, the Sikh problem, now the Kukis problem. But never mind, just let India solve it the Indian way, and everything will be fine.

Anonymous

Solomon Islands - Australia is so scared! Really?

 HUGE THREAT! U.S. Warns China Against Building Military Bases in the Solomon Islands

This is just another of the hysterical headlines of American and Australian propaganda machine against the China Solomon Security Cooperation Pact. And the Australians are acting and saying they are scared of this Pact, that China is putting a hundred policemen in the Solomon Islands to maintain order and security but would threaten the security of Australia. The next thing they might do is to make all scared Australians to seek psychiatric treatment before they go insane. Australia, claiming to be the most powerful military state in the region, is afraid of 100 Chinese policemen, they are having sleepless night, nightmares, and wetting their pants. Poor things! The pretension is hardly comical? Who are they conning?

And the Americans have signed a military pact with Papua New Guinea to station American soldiers and nuclear weapons in PNG. Are the Australians scared? Or are the Indonesians scared? The lying and mischievous white Australians may have something to be really scared about. Their forceful and unlawful occupation of Australia, stolen from the hapless and defenceless aborigines, will get more notice by the world. 

The whole world is asking, on what legal basis are the white Europeans occupying the island continent of Australia? When are they going to return the island to its rightful owners? When and how are they going to pay for their crimes and massacres of the aborigines, abusing their human rights and the right to their homeland?

And their bullying and oppression of the Pacific Islanders, controlling them and preventing them from economic development and living a better life, not allowing the Islanders their freedom to choose their friends and to develop their economies of their own choice. The Australians and the Americans are still trying very hard to control and subvert these islands as their colonies.

The leaders of these islanders have been left on their own, to be poor islanders depending on the charity of the Australians when the Australians chose to be generous as and when they like it. Now China is coming in to show the islanders that they can work to improve their economic well being and attain a better standard of living, without having to live on the charity of others. And the Australians would not allow it, the Americans would not allow it as a richer island populations would be more difficult to control and suppress. They just want to put the islanders in their pockets like they have done for centuries and forget about them, with time stood still, no progress, no development, for the safety of Australians.

Oh, they recognise China and not Taiwan but want the islanders to recognise Taiwan and not China.

Below are some comments in Youtube on what is happening in the Pacific Islands.

@bluefood9720 2 months ago Why is the West condemning countries who switched from TW to CCP when they themselves made the switch decades ago? Maybe condemning is too strong a word. But you know what I mean don't you?

@b.nichols3255 2 months ago

It's OK for America and NATO to build bases wherever they like, but not China. Hypocrisy and insecurity abounds.

@michaelleong100 2 months ago (edited)

The whole world is starting to get fed up of USA's hegemony and bullying tactics as if the whole world belongs to them. 

@dayylogg9716 2 months ago

China build economic infrastructures, America build military bases.

@sepam82 2 months ago

Even if China use the port for their naval service the USA has no right to interfere since Solomon islands is a sovereign state 

@Alex-Rainmaker 2 months ago

US alone has more than 800 military bases worldwide. And they are warning China not to do it? 

@larrysherk 2 months ago

If the United States would like to make suggestions about where China can have military bases, it would be a good start if the United States closed its 870 (more or less) bases and brought out troops and equipment home. The concept of "empire" has been dead for a very long time.

@osiris2u 2 months ago

If the US proceeds to build the 4 military bases in the Philippines and continues to supply weapons to Taiwan, China should add a naval base to the port in Solomon Island. 

@victorteo4783 2 months ago (edited)

US warning China in building military base in the Solomon Island?  What a joke! How many military bases US have? 800+ for what? Think you controlled the world?