The USA destroys everybody - cronies, allies and friends alike just to serve its own interest.

 The USA destroys everybody - cronies, allies and friends alike just to serve its own interest. Those countries that thinks any alliance with the USA to confront Russia or China is for their benefit, better clear their clouded minds, and remove those blinkers erected in front of their eyes. That does give credence to Henry Kissinger's warning true to form that being a friend of the USA always ends in fatality.

To prove it, the USA is destroying the EU, forcing Nato to confront Russia to serve the interest of the USA. Germany, France and others, most of which had for decades been enjoying cheap Russian energy to run their industries and grew their manufacturing base are now suffering in silence. Now, they are all going to the dogs, with Germany already in recession. With the biggest economy in Europe in such dire straits, no need to say in what state are the rest of the EU countries.

Now, the USA is not only making life miserable for countries to confront China, it is even making life intolerable for USA companies and those of its cronies doing business in China. The USA even had the cheek to warn China not to target USA companies doing business in China while it keeps erecting hurdles against Chinese companies in USA. Now the EU is jumping on the bandwagon and talking about investigating subsidies by China for its EV being sold in Europe. Who is behind all this? Why are they not talking about the US$52 billion subsidies extended to USA chip makers in Arizona? This was broached and protested against by the EU after the subsidies were announced by the USA, but seems to have died down without a whimper being heard from the Europeans.

The USA and the West had all along been thinking that China was too weak and highly dependent on Western chipmakers to retaliate against their high handed Mafia tactics of castigating Chinese companies like mobile phone and communication equipment maker Huawei, drone maker BJI and now going against EV maker BYD and also Tik Tok. These are companies that are competing so well against Western companies that they needed to be stopped. They assume that these are companies like Toshiba and Alstom that could be stepped upon without Japan or France raising a finger in protest.

Now China is not taking all this lying down, taking the initiative to retaliate, starting from Trump's trade war. Fancy telling the Chinese not to retaliate and just let them slap the right cheek and even wanting China to give them the left cheek to slap as well. China knows it is now time and is almost capable of overcoming dependence on the West in the last bastion of the Chips business and confident enough to take a stand.

China still holds the cards in the technology supply chain, with its control of the rare earth resources and refining expertise. And like Russia in Ukraine, China has still lots of cards to play with, if the USA and the West wants to escalate the tech war.

Anonymous