Trump - American gangster new application on Rules of Law

The US president-elect has vowed to prevent the “US canal” from falling into “the wrong hands”

President Jose Raul Mulino has addressed the nation in response to US President-elect Donald Trump's threat to retake control of the Panama Canal, a vital waterway that contributes billions of dollars to the Panamanian economy annually and serves as a crucial artery for global trade. RT

The above is a typical example of the evil Empire acting as if they own the world and can do as they like. If this kind of lawlessness is condoned and not stopped, the Americans could use the same excuse to take over other countries' assets, including their independence. Would the American terrorists take over Taiwan, Singapore, the Straits of Malacca, the future Kra Canal, to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands? American Rules of Laws allowed them to set the rules and laws to their advantage, at their whims and fancy, against the interests of other nation states.

So, when is America going to take over the Panama Canal or the Suez Canal? Does the UN and nation states object to this lawless behaviour of the American terrorists? Would Singapore have anything to say about such behaviour as it would undermine Singapore as a small nation state in a strategic location that the Americans would take over under this gangster behaviour and reasoning?

D grader Trump is a very dangerous tyrant when in the White House with all the military power in his hands. He could even think of taking over all the oil fields in the Middle East using the same gangster logic. They have already taken over the oil fields of Iraq and Syria. And they have attempted to take over the oil fields of Venezuela. 

What about the islands of the South Pacific? When would the American terrorists decide to take them over for the same reason? The reason Trump is furious is the high rates for ships using the Panama Canal. Trump said it is too expensive, so might as well take over. This is an equally insane thinking, but clever thinking of a D grader. He can use it to take over any business for charging too high a price.

Trump is going to make America Great Again by taking over Canada and Queensland and whatever he fancies. Any dummy still supporting the American Rules of Law, more accurate, Rules of Lawlessness.

Food during the tour - A pictorial essay

 

 

Inside a tea merchant shop during a tea tasting session in my last trip. All the brown packages behind the lady are tea leaves. We were served more than 10 types of tea, including very old tea leaves and iced Pu erh, a more expensive type of Pu erh tea. Being not a tea drinker, taste adulterated by coffee, Tie Guan Yin, I found Pu erh rather bland. Not to my taste. Pu erh is meant to be very good for health, thus rather pricey. Click to enlarge pics.

 

Food is one of the main items in the whole tour. We ate and ate until cannot tahan. Too much food. Every meal, lunch or dinner, is 15 courses...ah. But this presentation was the last dinner we had. A rather simple meal and lesser in quantity, was a specialty of the Yi minority tribe. It originated from the dedication of a wife caring for her husband who isolated himself in an island to prepare for the Imperial Examination. In the cold winter, the food/chicken was accidentally kept warm by a thick layer of oil. And the husband finally passed the exam on his third attempt.

 

The hot pot was brewing a local delicacy, a poisonous mushroom that must be well cooked. Taking it under cooked is poisonous. We had to wait for it to be thoroughly cooked. Quite frightening experience, and hesitant to try.

 

Closer view of the mushroom, the darker ones in the pot. In the rest of the meals we had, the table would be full of dishes and needed to clear and clear to make way for 15 dishes, including fish, poultry and meat. And they all came continuously, one after another.


Eating China street food or in restaurants is always very kind to your pocket. You can eat all the street food that are interesting and of great value without having to worry about the cost. And you would not be fleeced by unscrupulous sellers. The prices are fixed in most cases while some bargaining may be possible in small shops or stalls. With so much food and varieties available, no need for MacDonald or Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Syria - Arab nations big move or more of another big joke?

 

3 minutes clip telling how Israel and the Americans are attacking Syria daily and scheming to break up all the Arab states into smaller states for eventual absorption into Greater Israel, and the fictitious actions of the Arab nations to save themselves.


When the Israeli and Americans make big moves, it would be immediate attacks with heavy bombing of cities and population with big bombs. When the Arab states talked about big moves, it would be nothing but noise and more noise and no action. The favourite is to cry in the UN or to beg the Americans.


And if they attack, it would be a few rockets thrown into no man's land in Israel, at most burning a car or killing a dog. In the case of American or Israeli or American attacks, it would be flattening cities and killing hundreds and thousands of the population, mostly civilians. Look at Gaza now, and the Arabs are so happy that there could be a negotiated peace, after the Israelis and the Americans have done their 'mowing' with the whole area flattened and destroyed and a few hundred thousand Palestinians dead or incapacitated. The Americans and Israelis have done their mowing and the Palestinians would be out of action for another ten years, before another mowing starts again.


Who is going to pay for the rebuilding of destroyed Gaza and the dead and maimed Palestinians? Hopefully they are not taken over as part of Greater Israel for good.


The only real fighters that are fighting the Israelis and the Americans are now left to the Hamas and the Houthis. Hezbollah is almost defanged. As for the rest of the Arab states, might as well forget about them. If they really want to put a serious fight against the Americans and the Israelis and to win, start acquiring anti aircraft carrier missiles to keep the American carriers out of the region, and the ability to destroy all the airfields in the region. It is so easy and efficient to destroy aircraft carriers and airfields than to defend against aircraft attacks. These are big and slow moving or stationary targets. A missile knocking down one aircraft, is just one aircraft. Destroying an aircraft carrier or keeping them out of the region, is keeping hundreds of aircraft from attacking them. Similarly, destroying airfields would cripple and keep all the aircraft unusable, cannot fly.

Houthis has just scored a major kill in knocking down an American F18 fighter jet. The Americans and the Israelis are furious and Nethanyahu has ordered the Israelis to wipe out the Houthis. What would the Arab states do to protect and aid the Houthis? Without the Houthis, the Palestinians would have been wiped out, and so would the other Arab states by the Americans and Israelis.

When would the Arab states be real and stop becoming forever jokers, unable to defend themselves and forever be bullied by the Americans, the West and Israel? When would they use their wealth to really acquire the hardware to defend and protect themselves? The Americans and the West would not sell them anything useful. But there is China and Russia with the hardware to give them a fighting chance. Stop talking and crying and start to do something real.

If the Arab states refuse to change their mindset, they can only wait for the Americans and the Israelis to execute their plans to attack them and annex them into Greater Israel, sooner or later. That is the fate of jokers.

Changing fortunes of EU and Myanmar

 One other aspect of what China is doing has more or less escaped the eyes of many watching the geopolitical and economic changes going on around the world. Most of the talk had been about China dominating more and more of the manufacturing sectors in almost every domain, except creating wars, printing money and instigating regime changes.

China is also diverting its agricultural imports and meat from the USA and Europe in a big way, but subtlety of course, migrating towards Brazil, Russia and other Global South countries. The beauty of such a move is tying this to the BRICS de-dollarization movement, dispensing with the need for the US$. This is depriving USA farmers from getting information about what to grow for next season.

Besides that, Chinese domestic agricultural and fishery growth have been ignored largely by the West. The old adage that food shortage and famine will befall countries like China and India have fallen out of fashion, and enough food is found to be available for Asia. Coupled with this scenario is the expectation that global population will stabilize at 9 billion. In fact, the rapid growth of agricultural sectors for the China market from less traditional sources, the reality is that its growth is even decimating the agricultural sectors of USA and Europe. The real food crisis might happen in the USA and EU, when farmers cannot sell their products, has to grow less and less and even go out of business, which may contribute even to food security issues that could develop in the biggest monolithic agricultural nation, the USA. This is not an exaggeration, but denial is always conveniently available. Of course, using subsidies to help them survive may work, but for how long? Indefinitely?

Decades ago, Myanmar (Burma) was dubbed the rice bowl of South-East Asia, producing much of the rice feeding today's ASEAN. Today Myanmar is not even able to export rice, being overtaken by Thailand and Vietnam. This is the kind of situation that is developing in the USA and EU. Never say never, or impossible.

Anonymous

EU countries' self sacrificing rites to protect the American Empire

 Countries that flirted with the USA are like following the 'praying mantis mating ritual', with the smaller male getting eaten alive after serving its purpose. But it seems like such natural phenomenon also extended to countries looking for trouble, like the Philippines. Nothing also more apparent than the Europeans serving as collateral damage over sanctions on Russia, backfiring on the EU alone. The EU could have enjoyed its continued prosperity with even cheaper Russian energy with the Nord Stream 2 in operation. But they choose to sacrifice themselves for the USA's interest.

Today, the USA and the West are not happy about Russia and North Korea having good relations, the latter two knowing they are now under threat. What is wrong with that? The USA, Europeans, Israel, Canada and Australia are doing the exact same thing, closing ranks using China as an imaginary threat. There are even innuendos on MSA and social media suggesting that Russia is angering China or vice versa. The West wants to throw spanners into the relationship between Russia and China, so that dividing them makes it easier for the USA to topple either one of them first.

China must never be lulled into a false sense of comfort because of Trump's false chummy behavior, by even inviting Xi to attend his inauguration. USA leaders are just clowns with painted faces. You never see their real faces until it is too late.

Anonymous

USA in Iraq and Syria not to fight but to breed terrorists

 Noticed that the USA and the West no longer call Al Qaeda a terrorist group. They are calling them 'Rebels', fighting for control of Syria. In one fell swoop Al Qaeda, a hated terrorist group for decades, funded by Osama bin Laden, became a respected and legitimate grouping fighting for democracy. No wonder people said that White men speak with forked tongues, changing black into white at their whims and fancies.

Now Al Qaeda is funded and armed by Washington. This group will be used by the USA for further regime changes in the Middle East. Serbia, Hungary and Turkey have to be very watchful for instigated chaos when the time comes.

Israel will be the biggest beneficiary with the fall of Basha al-Assad, now already intending to expand its territory by building Israeli settlements on the Golan Heights. They really moved in very fast. The intent was clear regarding Israels genocide in Gaza for its territorial expansion and such intent will be extended in countries around the Middle East. The Arabs and Muslims are still clueless and thinking they are safe and sound.

Serbia, Hungary and Turkey are not toeing the USA line in Euro/Asia, with the latter two being thorns in the side of NATO. Serbia and Hungary are close to China in economic co-operation and cannot be seen to be doing better than the other EU countries by leveraging on Chinese investments. They have to be brought down to let the other EU countries appear in better shape, under their democratic system, untouched by Socialism.

Only those that are fighting the USA and the West are now called 'Terrorists'. Keep this in mind when they talk about Terrorists' and 'Rebels' in riddles. They mean the same thing, like de-coupling and de-risking.

Anonymous

Trump thinks his inauguration is a big deal, Xi does not think so

 Trump is playing ball with Xi, probably giving Xi some tricky decisions to make with his invitation. According to some Chinese social media sites, Xi may just delegate some junior leaders to represent him, maybe even China's ambassador to the USA, complemented by other junior Government leaders.

This is one way for Xi to discreetly show how much significance the inauguration of Trump means to him. It may be a big occasion for the USA, but Xi will probably downplay its importance and demands no necessity for him to attend.

Xi does not travel that often, only on special trips of major significance, like the remembrance ceremony for the victims of the NATO strike on the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, a discreet message to tell NATO that such an act is never forgotten. That trip was also tied in with a state visit to France, Serbia and Hungary

Anonymous

American F18 down, Houthis the most formidable Arab fighting force claims credit

 One F18 fighter jet shot down in the Red Sea. The Americans immediately claimed that it was shot down by friendly fire, that the F18 was shot down by missiles from an escort ship, the USS. It was the most embarrassing thing to happen to the clever and most experienced American fighting force in the world. No one can take down a very advanced American fighter jet. Only the Americans with their equally advanced missiles can knock down an American fighter jet. This is an American myth being spun everyday.

But before the embarrassing news die down, the Houthis spokesman came on air and claimed that the F18 was shot down by Houthis missiles. This is now a bigger embarrassment for the Americans than the first announcement. A makeshift rebel group with limited weapons and command structure could take down the world's most formidable fighting machine, armed with the best electronics.

Who is telling the truth? Who is lying? The Americans and the Israelis would like the Arabs and the world to believe that the rebel forces were firing fire crackers, or that their weapons, ie drones and missiles, were inaccurate, ineffective and can do no harm to their world best machine and world best defence systems. 

They are still broadcasting their now inconvincing lies that no one wants to believe. The Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas have been poking holes in their fake world best defence system. This time the Houthis did it and the Americans cannot hide anymore and still spinning a lie that it was hit by friendly fire. This time the Houthis have proven that their missiles are killers and would knock down American fighter jets and American warships. It is also proof that American warplanes and warships are now going to be hit with the rebel forces firing at them with more and more sophisticated weapons.

Wait to hear more American aircraft and warships being blown up? Wait to hear that more Israeli targets are being destroyed by the rebel forces. Listen to Radio Houthis for the truth. The rebels are firing real killer weapons, not firecrackers.

Indonesia needs to modernise its military hardware

JAKARTA: Indonesia has gone on a spending spree to modernise its military as a self-imposed deadline for upgrading its defence forces looms large.

At the helm of this spree: The army general turned defence minister, and now new president, Prabowo Subianto, who has been inking deals to overhaul decades-old equipment. CNA

In a world that lives with the western colonial and imperialist doctrines of wars of occupation and domination, every nation state's top priority is about national security and spending big money to buy military hardware to prepare against real and red herring threats. And with the white men pushing for wars of occupation and exploitation, and wars as a business, the need for military hardware is real and cannot be lightly ignored.

The pathetic plight of the Middle Eastern states, the African states and Latin American states said it all. When you don't have the military capability to defend yourself, be prepared to be invaded by the Americans and the white men. Ironically, the Asian or SE Asian states are buying military hardware to prepare against a fictional enemy that have not invaded any of them since time immemorial, but buying hardware from the real enemy that have historical and recent records of invading countries with fake and fabricated excuses, and are conducting wars all over the world for domination and conquest. 

China has no colonial or imperialist ambition in their relations with other states. The Americans and the white men had colonised and ruled the world and are planning to re colonise and rule the world, with actions and plans, first in the expansion of NATO to the Russian border, and now the Ukraine War, and the proud proclamation that they would destroy and take over Russia and then China. And there is the other proud disclosure of a plan to invade and take over 7 states in the Middle East and Africa, and the regular intervention and regime change in Latin America. In Africa they have many forces, in uniforms or disguised as contractors or mercenaries to destabilise the countries and could anytime dethrone the elected leaders to capture the states as part of their empires.

But Asian and Asean states chose not to see, chose to ignore the expansionist and aggressive American and western powers for world conquest and domination, and chose to believe in the mischievous fiction spread by the Americans that China is harbouring hegemonic ambition and wanted to conquer and rule the world.

Under this context, Asian and Asean countries' first choice of arms and weapon suppliers are the Americans and the West, their real enemies, with publicised intent and historical records to prove. If Asian and Asean countries are wise, there is really no need to spend or waste their limited resources to buy weapons from the Americans. There are many ways to acquire expensive American weapons and 'protection' for free.

One way is to follow the European and the Japanese/South Korean ways. Volunteered to be semi colonies of the American Empire, invite the Americans to set up military bases and facilities in their own countries. And eureka, they will have the best American weapons and soldiers in their lands to protect and defend them without spending a cent. Caveat, the opportunity cost and hidden costs can be very high. The Europeans are paying for it now, with no brain Ukraine now being destroyed for good. Anyway, the Philippines have opted for this choice and are very happy inviting the Americans to set up military bases in their country, and even getting free weapons from American allies and colonies. Marcos and his gang are working very hard to become the 51st state of the USA. 

Another option is to be the lapdog of the Americans, play the role of Mickey Mouse to provoke Americans' enemies like Russia, China, North Korea or Iran. The Americans and the West would be very happy to send free weapons as aids, or be selling weapons at special rates to them. Caveat, do not be like Taiwan, when weapons sold were not only third rate, but also have to pay for it when they became too dependent on the Americans as their protector.  And often have to pay forward in the millions or billions, without knowing when the Americans would deliver their purchase.

The pro American Arab states are in between, with the Americans willing to sell them doctored weapons, all specially designed and rigged, and identified, not to be better than what the Americans provided to the Israelis, or to be a threat to the Israelis. But to be in the position of the Arabs, the pre condition is that the country must be rich and able to pay in cash, no discount.

Another way is the Singapore way, be friendly with the Americans, and the Americans would be most happy to sell good weapons, even F35s, to Singapore, albeit, to be parked in the USA.

With a little ingenuity, and a little thinking, the Indonesians would be able to find the best way to obtain good weapons from the Americans to defend itself against the fictional enemy, China, not against 'friendly' Australia or the American Empire. Many countries are doing the same, buying weapons from their real enemy, the Americans, that wanted to dominate and rule over them, to fight China which the Americans hyped as their enemy and the enemies of these countries. Caveat, they are not in the menu of the American Dream to conquer and rule the world. A word of caution. Just don't be like the Arab countries.

Hillbillies know nothing except Mexico

 The know Mexico because Trump was always talking about immigrants coming from there. Other than that USA citizens are practically clueless about what is happening around the world.

But strangely they know a lot about China without being there, just being fed fake information by its MSM hyping upon China's poverty and crumbling infrastructures, its EVs on fire all over the country, its mistreatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, its imaginary concentration camps built by their MSM.

For those who are unaware, China has more than 40,000 mosques throughout the vast country. How many mosques are in the USA and Europe? Admiral Zheng He was a Muslim, well respected by the Chinese court centuries ago. This show that Muslims were genuinely well treated in China, unlike the fake love expressed by the Anglo-Saxon Whites in Xinjiang, which had never been shown to be happening in the Middle East.

Anonymous

50 years ago, USA was rich, China was poverty stricken...

 50 years ago, USA was a great country then, while China was a poverty-stricken backwater, even touted as having people only fit to be chefs and laundrymen.

50 years later, the Wheel of Fortune has turned, and it is becoming the other way round with China eradicating poverty en masse, while homelessness and infrastructure decay is apparent in the USA from end to end.

The USA is trying to musk the differences by touting about its GDP growing so fast and furious over the last couple of years, putting China in the dust, which boggles the mind. How could a country growing at just around 2.5% be adding several trillion to its GDP figures over such a short period of time? The answer lies in its overcapacity in printing money propping up Wall Street companies and benefitting the super-rich.

Just imagine Nvidia, a USA tech company valued at US$3.3 trillion sometime in June, more valuable than the whole GDP of ASEAN countries combined, with hundreds of millions working their butts off. Or about the GDP of India, a country of 1.4 billion population. Or more valuable than many of the countries in the G7. Possible or fantasy?

Anonymous

USA trying to lure manufacturing back to the USA is a pipe dream

 One social media vlogger even said that USA trying to lure manufacturing back to the USA is a pipe dream. How can it succeed with its much higher labor cost, high material cost without the necessary supply chains in place and a lack of skilled workers. The situation has been made worse by the anti-Chinese movement started by Trump, which resulted in thousands of scientists, engineers and academics returning to China to contribute their talents to the innovation and development. Now Trump is even threatening to deprive birthright citizenship for immigrants. This is going to affect many allies like South Korea and India (the largest targeted group).

Can such manufacturing setups survive just producing for the USA market, or even adding the EU into its calculations, as they will not be able to compete against Chinese products in the Global South countries. Moreover, the Chinese consumer market is not possible for them to break into, with Chinese citizens now becoming more patriotic in their mindsets.

Anonymous

USA GDP growth due to overcapacity in printing money

 50 years ago, USA was a great country then, while China was a poverty-stricken backwater, even touted as having people only fit to be chefs and laundrymen.

50 years later, the Wheel of Fortune has turned, and it is becoming the other way round with China eradicating poverty en masse, while homelessness and infrastructure decay is apparent in the USA from end to end.

The USA is trying to musk the differences by touting about its GDP growing so fast and furious over the last couple of years, putting China in the dust, which boggles the mind. How could a country growing at just around 2.5% be adding several trillion to its GDP figures over such a short period of time? The answer lies in its overcapacity in printing money propping up Wall Street companies and benefitting the super-rich.

Just imagine Nvidia, a USA tech company valued at US$3.3 trillion sometime in June, more valuable than the whole GDP of ASEAN countries combined, with hundreds of millions working their butts off. Or about the GDP of India, a country of 1.4 billion population. Or more valuable than many of the countries in the G7. Possible or fantasy?

Anonymous

Chinese ship hijacked by European navies, now free to continue its journey

STOCKHOM: A Chinese ship linked to the recent severing of two undersea cables and anchored off Denmark's coast since November 19, departed Saturday (Dec 21), Sweden's coast guard said.

Sections of two telecom cables were cut on November 17 and 18 in Swedish territorial waters of the Baltic Sea.

Suspicions have been directed at a Chinese ship - the Yi Peng 3 - which according to ship tracking sites had sailed over the cables around the time they were cut....

Swedish police on Thursday confirmed that they were going onboard the ship as observers.

"Representatives of the Chinese authorities are conducting investigations aboard the vessel and have invited the Swedish authorities to take part in an observer role," police said adding it would not be taking any "investigative measures". CNA

The whole incident smelt of European shit all over. The Chinese ship was not the only ship in the area. Many ships were doing the same activities but none was arrested. Why only the ship was singled out and arrested? Why naval ships from 4 countries, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Germany were involved to force the Chinese ship into their harbour for investigation?

The reasons given were general and applicable to all the ships in the area at the same time and place. This is an outright harassment against Chinese ship and an attempt to humiliate China. Is China going to let this provocation go unchallenged? The Mickey Mouse European states are likely under instruction from the American terrorists. They must be made to pay for their unfriendly and discriminatory acts against China. At least full compensation for time and cost for being held up for more than a month, and a formal apology for this rash act. 

China must act and be tough to these Mickey Mouse or else more such incidents would be repeated against China and Chinese ships. Either China makes a strong stand to end such nonsense or continue to be harassed by Mickey Mouse states. It is no difference from the arrest of Meng Wanzhou or the numerous Chinese nationals in the US and UK. It is all politically motivated. Period.

The most likely culprit, and everyone knows who, is smiling quietly on the side line. Think who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. Is this similar? Another false flag incident by you know who.

President Musk and President Trump running USA

 Trump is not that stupid after all. Knowing his own limited intellect, he has roped in one of the smartest kid in the world to share his workload and ideas to Make America Great Again. And this is not all. Musk is working for free, no official title but a lot of work to do, more work than running Tesla, Space X and Twitter X. And this is not all, Musk also has to pay Trump at least US$277 million, as reported, for this privilege to work for Trump. No corruption at all, American style!

And the daft hillbillies are accusing Musk of not being elected for the job. This is how daft the hillbillies are. Is there anyone in the White House that is elected by them to do the job other than Trump? Everyone is appointed by Trump, all the advisors, all the Secretaries and Deputy Secretaries, even head of FBI and CIA, are not elected but appointed.

This is the real American Democrazy. You only elect the President while the rest of his cabinet of shoes and swamp things would be picked up by him according to his fancy. And the shoes often did not fit, and the swamp things get very slimy.

For the people, by the people, of the people? Which part is true and which part is myth? It should be revised as For the elites, by the elites and of the elites. Or better still, For Trump, by Trump and of Trump.

America for once has two presidents at the same time, de facto and de jure. Between the two, which one is smarter? Which one is going to Make America Great Again? Now this situation makes this question quite difficult to answer. Trump is looking like the smarter of the two, having his cake and eat it, with Musk working his guts out and having to pay for it, for a big ransom.

No plausible reason for Xi to accept the invitation from insincere Trump.

 In fact, there is no plausible reason for Xi to accept the invitation from an insincere person like Trump. China really has no preference over who sits in the White House, and any indication that Xi is now going to attend the inauguration is tantamount to supporting Trump. Xi attending the inauguration might even be construed as having indicated a preference and may be accused of interfering in USA elections. It is best for Xi to avoid dealing with rascals, villains and charlatans.

Someone commented that Xi should decline the invitation diplomatically by telling Trump that he is too busy dealing with the 'Trade Wars' initiated by Trump since his first term as President, LOL. That will be a veiled insult for Trump to digest, without being brutal.

Xi honestly has no love lost for either Biden or Trump. Diplomatically he and his fellow leaders have to follow protocol by meeting them and their representatives when they visit China for talks. That is not a sign of weakness as some had been saying. Other than that, I do not think Xi even wants to see their hypocritical faces.

Anonymous

China does not even need tariffs to protect its domestic market

 China does not even need tariffs to protect its domestic market. Foreign manufacturers can do business in China if they can compete with home-grown Chinese manufacturers by offering cheaper goods than those made by Chinese owned factories.

The erection of tariffs is unnecessary for China, as China goes directly for the jugular when retaliating, by refusing to deal with those perpetrators of tariffs, by cutting off imports of products that they produced for the Chinese market. We can see China cutting off imports of most of its agricultural products like soya beans, corn and wheat from the USA. China is also cutting off pork from the EU, going after French cognac as well, putting farmers in the EU at sixes and sevens. Why resort to tariffs, when China can directly inflict immediate pain?

The actions of China in restricting imports from USA and EU benefits BRICS countries like Brazil and Russia among others. What are allies for after all? The further benefit of all this is helping BRICS to de-dollarize by promoting trade among BRICS countries, all outside the purview of the USA and the West and marginalizing the US$ hegemony. Of course, all this can only come about after years of planning and finding alternative sources of supplies, not building toilets when the urge to poo is too strong. Crops need time to grow after all.

Anonymous

West has no moral authority to condemn North Korea over its troops in Russia

 Zelenskyy is barking up the wrong tree about North Korean troops in Kursk, which is a part of Russia. What is wrong with a country sending troops to help another ally in its National Security preservation? Kursk has been invaded by Ukraine, and North Korea is just helping Russia to control the region. What is wrong with that? It is not as if North Korean troops are directly fighting in Ukraine.

And toady Yoon Suk Yeol was very militant in his condemnation of North Korean troops in Russia. Russia is already pissed off with South Korea supplying weapons to Ukraine. Russia has retaliated by supplying North Korea with weapons and vice versa. What is wrong with that among allies?

The Europeans are doing exactly the same thing in Ukraine, supplying aid and weapons and even advisors on the ground. No one condemns it, not even the UN wants to talk about it.

The USA has troops stationed in more than 800 military bases all around the world and no one whispered a word of condemnation about its insidious agenda, masquerading as protecting those countries.

In fact, the West has no moral authority to condemn North Korea over its stance. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Russia and North Korea can do what is necessary to ensure their National Security and survival.

Anonymous

Trump chanting current favorite mantra - tariffs, tariffs and more tariffs.

 Trump is now chanting his current favorite mantra every day - tariffs, tariffs and more tariffs. The old mantra that he chanted during his first term - China, China and more China did not work, and a new mantra has to be invented to fool his supporters. Unfortunately, it worked as those foolish Trump supporters swallowed his lies - hook, line and sinker. Blame them not, as on hindsight, it was a Hobson's Choice, choosing between a rock and a hard place.

As with sanctions falling flat on its face, despite the Anglo-Saxons still flogging the dying sanction horse, trying to scrap the bottom of the barrel to dig for more sanctions against Russia, the new buzzword for Trump is tariffs, the word he already heaped praises to high heaven over its invention but do not understand how it is supposed to work.

Trump does not even know how tariffs work, thinking it is going to punish others, not USA consumers, unlike sanctions. Someone commented that USA citizens must pray harder to God for help since USA leaders are so ignorant of how polices are supposed to work. Trump is going to make China and others great again and, in the process gives de-dollarization a big help.

Meanwhile, Trump has a battle on his hands with his tariffs, when his voters are now realizing that they have been lied to about tariffs, which is now becoming a weapon for self-destruction. The voters were blindsided and took the wrong side of the bargain, the losing side.

But knowing Trump, he can get out of his lies by inventing another lie. Trump is a habitual liar, a compulsive liar as well under pressure. As an example, USA consumers were reported to have complained to Trump about his promise to lower egg prices, which instead of becoming cheaper is now more expensive. I almost fell off my chair laughing when I noted Trump's reply. Trump answered that anything that goes up in price is difficult to bring down. So simple an answer and are the voters convinced? Why did he made the promise earlier about cheaper egg prices when elected during his campaign, which he knows cannot come about just dependent on his whims and fancies to dictate. Already USA farmers livelihood is hanging by a thread, and cheaper eggs will be another rope down their necks.

Anonymous

Western Greed and Hegemonic motive is the Root Cause of all Wars and Turmoils in this world. PART ONE

  PART     ONE :  The Anglo-Saxons US / UK and the Zionist Jews plans to colonize Middle East and Africa.

 The white countries headed by the the Anglo-Saxon United States and the Zionist Jews have made it crystal clear that they are determined to bring the whole world under One World Government under the control of white countries led by the Anglo-Saxon United States and the Zionist Jews.

BRICS and all countries of the South must have no illusions that they can live in peace with the satanic bellicose West. The West headed by US and the Zionist Jews have no qualms by their warmongering hegemonic intent to bring the world to complete destruction of humanity in this nuclear age. They want to destroy all countries of the South. This is the life and death struggle impose by the West upon the Rest of the non-white countries of the South. In this final struggle for survival the fight between Good and Evil the countries of the South headed by the BRICS countries must triump over the demonic West, the embodiments of all evils.

There are ominous signs throughout the four corners of the earth. The Anglo-Saxon Americans and the Zionist Jews plan and endorse each others diabolical plans for World Conquest. The Zionist occupation of Palestine, the Ukraine War, the Korean and Taiwan issues, the American aggressions in Central America inclusive of the Caribbean islands and in South America are preludes to Anglo-Saxon United States and Zionist Jews actions to bring the whole world under their domination.

In my previous articles I have always  mentioned on  Anglo-Saxons UK and Zionist plans to bring the whole of Middle East Arab muslim countries inclusive of Turkey and the whole continent of Africa to be brought down under white men and Zionist rule. This diabolical plan was hatched as early as in the 1850s or 1860s. 

In the early 1980s, Cecil Rhodes a notorious British Zionist imperialist and a follower of the toxic Darwinism theory arrogantly stated that it was the destiny of the Anglo-Saxon races to civilise and rule the whole world. And he confided to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany that the whole of Middle East from Asia Minor ( Turkey ) to Mesopotamia ( Iraq ) as well as the whole of Africa were awaiting for White men's colonization.

The  Anglo-Saxons UK and US planting of the illegal and illicit Jewish state of Israel in 1948 in Arab Palestine land was planned as long ago as in the 1860s. The illegal Israel state was to be initial plan and preamble as a catalyst for eventual Anglo-Saxons US and UK conquest and colonization of the whole Middle East region and the whole of Africa. The Arab muslim population and the African black population post no problems as they clearly indicated these Arab and African populations would eventually be solved in the way they had solved the native American population problem by way of massacres and genocides. The white people especially the Anglo-Saxons are extremely callous and cruel in nature. There is never an iota of conscience in them. They have always treated God as pliable as something to be manipulated to suit their geopolitical agenda. And when they have achieved and taken what they want by deception and by subterfuge through manipulation they would cast God aside under the bus. 

The Arabs, the muslims and the Africans must wake up to the danger of the white men and the Zionist Jews at their doorsteps. Wake up , unite and fight and resist the white men's callous aggressions. Unite behind BRICS leadership and prepare to fight bravely and gallantly against Western imperialism and colonialism in whatever forms they might appear.The white people, the Anglo-Saxons and the Zionist Jews are prepared to exterminate the Arabs and the Africans in its entirety and so must the Arabs and the Africans likewise do the same to them their special favour and exterminate them accordingly by their playbook.

Southernglory1

Saturday, 21st December, 2024

What would Deng Xiaoping say to the Chinese leaders today?

 During Deng's days of opening China and modernising China, China was still a poor and underdeveloped country when feeding the people was a primary concern, when rebuilding the country to be a strong economic and military power was still a very difficult task. When a country is poor and weak, it is best to keep a low profile, just work hard to be strong again. Deng was quoted to have told China, 'put your head down, stay away from trouble, and work hard.' That was a wise policy then, for a big stick would come hammering down China's head if China dared to raise its head. It was a self effacing policy but a necessary skill to survive in a world of gangsters and bullies that carried all the big sticks.

China survived those days by staying out of trouble and feverishly working to be rich and strong again. China has succeeded by remaining on the sideline of world politics and is today an equal to the world's number one superpower in everything, militarily, economically, financially, in technology and science.

What would Deng Xiaoping say to China today? Would he still tell China to put down its head and stay away from trouble when being bullied, and say sorry when being beaten? As a wise leader, Deng would no longer keep to the old policy of being a nobody, not to be seen, not to be heard. Deng was a strong nationalist, a patriotic Chinese and would want China not only be rich but also be strong, respectable and dignified, to stand as equals to everyone in the world.

Deng would not allow China to be bullied and kept quiet, bend its head, and hide under the table. Deng would likely be saying, 'Stand up and fight for your dignity.' There is no need for China to bend its head and be kicked around anymore, especially not by Mickey Mouse. Today's China is a superpower and many colonial powers of the past are just Micky Mouse, like UK, Germany, France, Japan etc etc. 

China has risen and in a different league from the Mickey Mouse. The Mickeys may still be deluded to live in the past, or to live in cartoons. The real world, the real China, is not to be kicked around even by the Americans. It would be a waste of effort for China to be what it is today, and to still be kicked around and bullied even by little Mickey Mouse. The only weapon the Americans and the West have to attack China is their media. Chinese leaders must not fear the western media and be told by western media how to behave to please them and continue to hide under the table when challenged by western media. They are just noises, to be ignored. Just do what is right and good in the interest of China.

It still brought me a lot of pain when I recalled a scroll written by Deng when he visited Singapore in 1978. 爱我中华，修我长城。That was past, a time when China was still very poor. Today, China is building ports, cities, highways, roads burrowing through the Himalayas, etc for countries all over the world. China have built more than 47,000 kilometres of high-speed rails, many modern cities. What is repairing the Great Wall to China today? The China today is rich, with more than US$3 trillion in reserves, the biggest reserves in the world. US$3 trillion is the GDP of the top 5th country in the world. How many countries have a GDP of even US$1 trillion? The GDP of many Mickey Mouse countries are in the low billions. 90% of the countries in the world have less than US$100 billion GDP. Even with a modest 3% interest rate, this US$3 trillion is growing at US$90 billion a year! 

The rejuvenated China demands a new policy befitting its new stature as a superpower.  There is no need to hide your strength, bend your head and run away from trouble. Deng would be turning in his grave if China is still behaving like the old, weak and poor China. There is a time to bend your head, there is a time to stand up and be recognised, as world leader. 

India has been screaming its voice hoarse that it is the leader of the Global South. Is China going to hide behind India and walk behind India in the world stage forever?

Japan is so deep in economic malaise...and desperate

 Japan is so deep in economic malaise, about three decades of stagnation that despite all the measures they adopted, nothing gets better. It is even getting worse with China overshadowing its attempt to regain its economic prowess. Japan has lost the edge in electronics, computers, smartphones, shipbuilding and about to lose its last legacy in motor vehicles, with Toyota clinging on desperately to survive.

Decades of stimulation, using Abenomics and arrows, Kishidanomics and dabbling in raising interest rates, now Ishibanomics dunno using what tricks, nothing seems to work. In a word, Japan is very desperate, and a desperate Japan is a dangerous Japan. Japan sensing it has nothing to lose might do another war stunt against China, knowing there is still a blood debt owed to China that has not been forgotten. Perhaps it is thinking it can reinvent itself just like after WW2 and soar again like a phoenix. With the USA behind it, Japan is actually playing the USA against China, waiting for one side to destroy the other. Too bad that the USA does not trust Japan enough to arm Japan to the teeth.

Anonymous

Anwar has a mountain to climb

 Anwar has a mountain to climb. The most important and most obvious task is getting rid of corruption, which is a deep-seated and deeply ingrained UMNO mindset, which unfortunately is the main coalition in Anwar's Government. Anwar cannot do without UMNO support in his government, and neither can he get rid of UMNO, which is leveraging on his coattails to wrestle back power eventually.

The other hindrance for progress in Malaysia is the racial political environment that is preventing the country from moving forward. Real talents are not returning to Malaysia under the stifling racial politics and its lop-sided favoritism format. In fact, talents are moving out instead of returning. Getting rid of the crutch mentality of the majority race is impossible now after decades of having the roots sunk into the mindsets of those benefiting from it. Who wants to give up rights that they can enjoy for generations?

These are just two of the problems that Anwar will not be able to overcome, Agong support or not.

Anonymous

November/December retail sales will hit all records with USA citizens flocking to buy...economy robust?

 This November/December retail sales will hit all records with USA citizens flocking to buy upfront before prices escalate in January. After all, Christmas spending is a must as well, and the economy will be reported to be robust and setting all records. Trump is going to harvest all the credit for sure.

There are reports that USA citizens are even maxing out their credit card spending, which means more debts are being accumulated. I read with amusement, understanding wrongly or not, that the USA can just cancel its debts to others, as someone really gloated. How is that possible? Are USA citizens also thinking that all their debts can be cancelled as well when the shit hits the fan - home mortgages, car loans, education loans, credit card debts. 'Exceptionalism' must have gone to their heads as well.

Anonymous

Trump can outdo anyone in the world in anything

 Trump can outdo anyone in the world in anything. His six bankruptcies are already a good indication of his ability.

Trump can lie and get away with anything. Mexico will pay for the wall, he gloated. Did Mexico pay for the wall? He will drain the swamp, he promised. Was the swamp drained? Trade wars are easy to win he pointed out. So much winning and yet he needs another four more years to 'Make American Great Again' I cannot understand and at a loss for words.

Trump can tell the most audacious lies and get away with it. Drinking horse de-wormer will kill COVID virus he advised. Injecting insecticide into the body will also kill the COVID virus, talking like a three-year old kid.

At his age he just discovered that hurricanes are very wet. And to stop hurricanes he wanted to send a nuke into it. His latest discovery was that tariffs are the most wonderful invention of mankind. This is now his favorite buzzword - tariffs, tariffs and more tariffs. His first term buzzword was - China, China and more China.

Anonymous

US and UK attacking Russia, what is Putin waiting for?

Within weeks, Putin suffered two very serious set backs, the fall of Syria that he set out to protect, and the assassination of his top general right in Russia. Putin is reputed to be a tough man. Now, when is Putin going to live up to his reputation as a tough man?

The Americans, Brits and the French, all cruel and vicious colonial masters, are pushing for WW3, and Putin's red lines have been crossed many times. Perhaps Putin is working out his retaliation plan. The meek shalt not inherit the world.

It may be a bit too much for Putin to hit the major cities in US, UK or France. How about their foreign bases in the region? A nice and convenient target would be UK base in Cyprus. This 'has been' Mickey Mouse still behaving like it is the Empire and wanting to fight wars everywhere. Putin should put it in its place by flattening its Cyprus base. Putin has a lot of warships in the Mediterranean Sea. As for France, Putin has a number of military forces in North Africa to kick the asses of the French occupation forces in the Africa states. The African states would be grateful to him. America has many bases in the Middle East that are ripe to be hit.

What is Putin waiting for? The Americans, Brits and French are playing the chicken game with him and so far he is looking like a chicken. Russian targets had been hit several times, his general assassinated and no action from tough man Putin.

Is Putin getting old and lame? Oh, this is what he said:

“We will determine the targets during further tests of our newest missile systems based on the threats to the security of the Russian Federation,”

“We believe that we have the right to use our weapons against the military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities.”

Why are we waiting, why are we waiting?

Is the American cost of living bearable...under Trump's pea brain policies?

 No western media or Channel News America boys and girls would be asked to question such an issue. Either they all believes that the American economy is rock solid, has a lot of depth and its strength cannot be underestimated, or they were not told to write about it.

Paul Krugman has said inflation would kill off the American economy when Trump starts his anti immigrant policies to remove the illegal and legal immigrants. With the depreciating value of the dollar, the high inflation is, in a big way, alleviated by the immigrants doing the low level jobs to keep cost of living low. When American businesses cannot employ cheap migrant labour, the cost of labour for businesses must go up and directly affect the cost of living and inflation.

Can the average Americans survive a runaway inflation with so many policies and factors that are going to drive inflation sky high? All the sanctions against China would only push the prices of essential and 'good to have' consumer items up. The Americans have been quietly benefiting from all the cheap and good Chinese goods made easily available to stretch their diminishing income and value of the dollar.

The combination of high prices caused by sanctions and tariffs on Chinese goods, and the shortage of cheap immigrant labour would be a double whammy on the cost of living, with prices of goods and services going against the interests of the average American households.

How is D grader Trump going to navigate through these hurdles created by him in his trade wars with China? Trump is digging a big grave to bury all the average Americans in. Instead of thanking China, be grateful to China, and also the millions of cheap labour from the illegal and legal immigrants, Trump is going to choke these two major contributors that kept cost of living low or at least bearable.

Trump did not win his trade war with China in his first term, and not in his second term. What is sure to happen is high inflation and high cost of living for his loyal supporters. Hopefully they are able to live with it or can afford the high prices of everything that China produced or their substitutes if they could find any.

Trump is good riddance to bad rubbish.

The never ending wars of the American savages and the exploitation of their lackeys and doggies

 The democratic system now needs all the 'compulsive liars' to hype up its fake benefits. But the 'compulsive liars' can no longer hide the truth about China, cannot engage in open competition with China and needs all the help and assistance of the doggies to contain China.

The USA has to rope in the Anglo-Saxon Whites of Europe to support its agenda, using threats and fear mongering to force allies and cronies to support its interest in order to fight its battle against China and BRICS. In the light of all this, how great really is the USA despite all the gloating about its greatness.

The USA needs the full support of NATO to fight Russia, afraid to go at Russia alone and using Europeans as sacrificial lambs to carry out its agenda. Perhaps it has this latent fear of facing another Vietnam or Afghanistan and has to outsource its fear of another defeat to the Europeans.

Anonymous

Indian pawn to checkmate China? The Indian proxy is falling apart now

 

The USA Federal Court just issued arrest warrants for India's richest billionaire, Gautam Adani and his clique for fraud, over his bribing of the Indian State Governments under the BJP, regarding his securing of contracts to supply expensive energy to the states using bribes. How deep is Modi personally involved in those bribes under his close relationship with Adani, is not yet revealed, but Modi is keeping mum pending the outcome of the USA investigation. Throwing Adani under the bus is not good for India and neither will Modi going under the bus himself be satisfaction enough for Satan.

Why is the USA going after India now has to do with many things. It has much to do with India's refusal to break off with Russia over energy, which is impossible for India to do so, when it is so dependent on cheap energy from Russia which India is leveraging on to make tons of money reselling to the West. India's economy is slowing fast according to statistics and the USA is putting pressure on Modi and India. Another factor that pissed the USA off must be the border issue which has now been de-escalated by China and India, which tells the USA that cultivating India's counter to China is losing steam and pressure must be mounted to remind India of its mission.

Will we now see India being thrown under the bus? India is at the crossroads of needing a regime change in the mindset of the USA. The USA will engineer such a situation using the CIA and its funded NGOs to work the ground, leveraging on the deteriorating economic conditions to trigger unrest.

Anonymous

Trump just became Time Magazine's 'Man of the Year'. Next Nobel Peace Prize

 Trump just became Time Magazine's 'Man of the Year'. What an achievement! Based probably on his six bankruptcies, his discovery that tariffs are the most important invention of mankind and his defeat of Dracula's protege. I just could not help thinking Dracula's protege's defeat was a self-inflicted loss, nothing to do with Trump's real capabilities.

Funny that Zelenskyy failed to gloss the cover of Time Magazine as the 'Man of the Year'' instead of Trump. Going forward, I am starting to have faith and confidence that Trump may even be in line for the Nobel Peace Prize if he de-escalates the conflict in Ukraine, though not as easy in settling the war in the Middle East, dealing with the self-declared, smug looking, Almighty God himself, Netanyahu.

Anonymous

American terrorists threatening to topple Myanmar regime

 ASEAN better hope that Myanmar does not fall to the dark side, which will allow the USA to site weapons across the border with China to threaten the Chinese. That will drag ASEAN into really having to decide to be either 'with the USA or against the USA'. This has been their agenda all along to divide and rule, together with their sight on Myanmar's untapped resources. It has nothing to do with making lives better for the Myanmar people. They should learn to understand the big picture.

I believe the Myanmar people should opt for the better by just looking at the lifting of hundreds of millions out of poverty under socialism in China, while also comparing that with the growing homelessness in the USA, the richest country in the world. Democracy does not do or bring what it preaches, which is clear for all to see.

If Myanmar falls to the USA terrorist state, live for people in ASEAN will not be that comfortable, with a conflict brewing between USA and China at their doorstep. If that is what leaders in ASEAN wants, too bad. We the peasants have little say, like the ordinary Ukrainians and the Europeans, who are the beans suffering the collateral damage just to uphold the USA's interest in Europe.

Anonymous

Sanction versus sanction...Who is the winner?

 The sanctions war by the USA and EU killed the European economy. This was the unintended (or should I say intended) consequence of using the modus operandi of the one-trick pony trying to control the world with sanctions that they had been using for more than half a century, since the rise of the US$ hegemony after WW2. That trick no longer works and is backfiring on Europe. Countries have learnt how to navigate around those sanctions and even profited from it.

Now, it is all about threatening to impose tariffs on the rest of the world, not just against China. The USA does not seem to realize that there is now another trading bloc rising within BRICS and already functioning under the radar, which members and partners can rely on. Tariffs will fail faster than sanctions and become toothless in no time.

In spite of the technology war, China is not collapsing. In fact, China is de-risking itself from Western technology control by going for self-dependency. China has vast control and leverage over raw materials, cheap energy and a skilled undiluted Chinese workforce. China is pouring huge resources into research and development within the chip industry and has found much success. This is not the only sector that China is fighting against for domination. China is fighting its battle on may sectors like EV, solar panels, wind turbines and soon the aviation industry.

The USA and the West can continue to gloat about China still about three to five years behind their top-end chip mastery, but soon they will be crying foul about China's overcapacity in high-end chip manufacturing. What humans can achieve, other humans can also achieve in time.

China is now going after Nvidia, probing its monopolistic position. What this is indicating is that China is confident enough to take this step knowing its domestic players are beginning to show their clout.

Let the USA and the West continue to rest on their laurels about being still in front and China still chasing for glory. When the shit hits the fan, we shall see the fun.

Anonymous

Hong Kong's stupid crimes against nation and people

 For more than two decades, Hong Kong, though returned to China in 1997, continued to employ foreigners, mostly from UK and Australia, two states that are hostile to China, as their high court judges. And these judges, viewed from the mentality of colonial subjects, were like gods, infallible, impartial, would be fair and judge according to the law and not according to political interests. The fallacy fell flat during the foreign engineered island wide rioting when rioters were conveniently released by these foreign judges, to go out and continue to riot and disrupt peace and stability in Hong Kong.

It was excusable in the 19th and 20th Centuries when the white men were ruling the world, and Asians were deemed to be stupid or less able to rule themselves, to manage their countries, and definitely inferior to white men as judges. In this Century, when many Asians have received enough education, training and experience, to be the equals of the white men, and many even better than the white men, except they don't look white like white gods, and found wanting or less able by their own people in govt. And by hook or by crook, white men are needed, even to be judges against their own people, can be compromised and complicit in making rulings against their national interests.

Such were the crimes of Anglophiles in Hong Kong, still dreaming about serving the Queen or King of England, with blind loyalties to the British monarchy and Empire. For the laymen and unthinking populace, suffering from the Stolkholm Syndrome, or praying and worshipping their former colonial masters could be excusable. But for national leaders to be still trapped in the past, to still think that being subjects of the British Empire, to deface their own abilities in deference to white men, is pathetic.

It was lucky that Hong Kong did not continue to hire Brits or Aussies into their police force. Hong Kong was run by the Brits for 150 years, and the policemen, oops, the police officers, were white men. Hongkongers could only be good enough to be NCOs, to rob the people to feed the corrupt white officers. If Hong Kong were to continue with the practice of hiring white policemen, then these white men, very likely foreigners as they would not trade their white citizenship for non white citizenship, would be guarding over the Hongkongers, guarding which Hongkonger can return or leave Hong Kong, and arresting Hongkongers for crimes, and if they are still as corrupt as during colonial Hong Kong, abuse their police and custodial powers against the Hongkongers. 

It is foolhardy for an independent state to hire foreigners as their policemen to guard their immigration points, to guard over their own citizens when the citizens would be the people called upon to fight, protect and die for their country, while the foreigners are foreigners with loyalties to their respective countries.

Thank God, Hong Kong has finally removed all the white foreigners from their police force, and also finally got rid of all the white judges, the white gods that ruled over them for more than a century. Caveat, not sure if there are still foreign or white judges in Hong Kong's judiciary system. Don't be surprised that there could still be some around. 

Ang moh tua kee sickness can be very enduring in Hong Kong and despising the talents of their own citizens is second nature. Ang moh the best!

Ang moh tua kee is/was the only weakness of Hong Kong. Other than this, the Hongkongers are confident of their own abilities and would not see the need to import foreigners to replace themselves. All the top positions in Hong Kong are filled by Hongkongers, not by foreigners. And now, with the High Courts being cleansed, the top judges are also Hongkongers, the top police officers are also Hongkongers. Hong Kong is changing colour fast and furious and would be fully integrated as an intrinsic part of China. The colonial hangovers would soon be forgotten. Never will Hong Kong be stupid enough to rehire white judges into their High Courts to judge over Hongkongers again.