USAID is a criminal organisation - Musk

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has accused the US Agency for International Development (USAID) of financing bioweapon research, including projects that allegedly led to the emergence of Covid-19, branding the agency a “criminal organization.”

Musk’s comment came in response to a post from user @KanekoaTheGreat on Sunday, which claimed that USAID had funneled $53 million to EcoHealth Alliance. The post alleged that these funds were used to support gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, potentially leading to the creation of Covid-19.

“Did you know that USAID, using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people?” Musk wrote.

Musk did not elaborate on the allegations, but the post he was responding to further asserted that “the CIA’s deception regarding COVID-19 origins becomes much clearer when considering USAID’s long history of serving as a CIA front organization.”  RT

The evil Americans' crimes against humanity has reached a stage that it cannot be stomach anymore even by Musk and Trump. Trump has sacked a big bunch of the Americans in USAID to stop them from killing more people. And USAID will be dismantled and folded for good. At least Trump has some good sense to listen to Musk and is doing something good.

All American criminal organisations must be disbanded immediately and top on the list is the CIA followed by the FBI. They have been committing crimes against countries and humanity for decades and the western media have kept mum about this. This is a big swamp that Trump has to clear, to cleanse the sins of the evil American Empire to make America Great Again. America can never be called great as it continues to behave and act like the ruthless and evil terrorists terrorising the whole world. And all the operators in these criminal agencies must be arrested and charged for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

By not reporting about them, by keeping mum, do not mean that no one knows about their evil activities. They have been so blatant that they are even throwing out silly lies and expecting the world not to know and to believe in their lies. Covid19 was a bioweapon the evil Americans launched against the world, to kill and to profit from the sales of equally deadly vaccines. And more are coming as the evil formula proved very successful with many govts cooperating willingly or being coerced to do so. 

How many American bioweapon labs are operating in Asean countries, conducting experiments on Asean people, to be used against Asean people? 'In its latest reports, the Russian Defense Ministry has drawn attention to the transfer of unfinished Ukrainian projects to post-Soviet states and Southeast Asia, and said that Africa has now become a focal point of interest for the US government, which views the region as an unlimited natural reservoir of dangerous pathogens and a testing ground for experimental medical treatments....

During his tenure, Kirillov repeatedly highlighted alleged US biolabs operating globally, focusing on Ukraine, but also pointing to facilities in Southeast Asia, including the US Navy’s now-closed NAMRU-2 laboratory in Jakarta. In his report in 2022, he claimed the lab conducted unauthorized biological research until its closure in 2010 after Indonesia’s Ministry of Health designated it a “threat to national sovereignty.”' RT

The evil American criminal organisations compromised and coerced many govt leaders to become accomplices to their crimes against their citizens and humanity. 

India wants to exchange rupees for American dollars

 The Indian dilemma, rupee or American dollar. Modi has been fighting tooth and nail in BRICS to get the rupee accepted as a major currency of trade. Unfortunately, no one in his right mind would want to use the rupee. Only very sick and silly minded people would be asking for rupee. And India knows it. India is desperately wanting to use its rupee to exchange for goods and services around the world, like the Americans are using the dollar. No takers. Who would want to change their goods and services for rupees but cannot use rupees to exchange for Indian goods and services?

On the other hand, the Indians are demanding for American dollars for their goods and services instead. India needs the dollar very badly knowing very well the worth or worthlessness of the rupee. India's clamour for the dollar goes against the interests of BRICS and what BRICS is trying to do, to dedollarise. Thus, India's presence in BRICS is totally incongruent to the organisation, in fact a thorn in the system. Unless India is prepared to compromise its craving for the dollar, and go along with BRICS objective of dedollarisation, India is a misfit in BRICS.

How is India going to navigate through the workings of BRICS when its need for the dollar is crucial to its existence in international trade? When India wants to buy from the West or America, none of them is willing to accept the rupee. Even close friend like Russia cannot stomach it anymore with so much rupees that it could not chew, could not get rid of. So, India can only hope for willing suckers to exchange their currencies for rupees so that India can exchange them for the dollar to buy from the West. It is unimaginable that the Americans or Europeans would sell their weapon systems to India for the rupees.

For India, the rupee is as good as a domestic currency for internal consumption. And dollar is for international trade. The pushing for the rupee to be a major currency in BRICS is an oxymoron proposition. BRICS may be forced to include the rupee as one of its currencies but who is going to use it or accept the rupee for trade other than India. And in the case of India, it is a one way use of the rupee, to pay for what it buys but not to accept as payment for what it sells.

This is India's dilemma and also BRICS dilemma as India is using the rupee to hold back the progress of BRICS, holding BRICS in hostage...but not for long. Either India has to go, or the rupee has to go.

Xi's Made in China by 2025 is a big success!

 One of the lies that is still being touted my USA trolls had been that China is only capable of making junks sold to the USA. All the things sold at Walmart are junks, if that is indeed true. Why are USA citizens buying them? Are they not stupid to do that? So, USA consumers are really stupid if that is what they are trying to tell us.

The first and most obvious contradiction to those narratives that comes to my mind are iPhones made in China. Are they junks? In fact, the best iPhones are made in China, not India and not anywhere else. Why are Europeans not buying iPhones made in India and going for those made in China? Are they also stupid and buying junks?

Is a genuine imperial Ming Dynasty Vase a piece of junk made in ancient China? If so, why are people paying millions of dollars to own them? The most valuable cargo salvaged from sunken vessels of past centuries are always the porcelain pieces that were shipped from China to Europe. Are those considered junks as well? If so, why are people willing to pay millions to own a piece?

Apart from all these things, there is an ongoing disinformation about China's Tiangong Space Station being touted as another junk (more like sour grapes), bridges touted as 'toufu' bridges and also junks collapsing all over China, Chinese EVs are said to be junks catching fires all over China (not in Los Angeles I hope), China's 6th generation fighter jets are junks compared to USA's F22s and F35s, China's Fujian Aircraft Carrier is a piece of junk compared to USA aircraft carriers.

I think I am getting breathless and speechless listening to all the misinformation and disinformation that the US$300 million has been able to generate.

Anonymous

DeepSeek - Another big headache for the American gangsters

 The reason the USA is losing the tech war is because they are too arrogant and think too highly of themselves. Without the foreign element doing the research and innovation input, they are hapless trying to face competition.

As a good example, the USA had to use underhand tactics to suppress the Japanese innovation expertise, which they succeeded in doing so. Against France it was the same story with Alstom being targeted. Now the USA is doing the same to Germany, using a different tactic by getting rid of cheap energy that Germany needed to fuel its manufacturing.

When it comes to China, so many different tactics have been used to put China down. I am not going to talk about old history, but recent history with trade wars, technology squeeze and tariffs are all about strangling China. But China is not that easy meat for the USA to overcome. Five thousand years of history have taught the Chinese the experience to survive against all odds.

China has surpassed the USA in many things that are clearly visible. Even Huawei has the kind of Chinese spirit in fighting back and gaining ground instead. The saying that 'Necessity is the mother of Invention' has not been lost on them and Huawei is innovating quietly. New Chinese startups like DeepSeek are giving USA technology Giants a run for their money.

The bloodletting of the USA technology Giants in the face of DeepSeek surfacing may take a break, but in the longer term, being an open-source platform and free to use, that is going to cannibalize those pay for use USA AI Giant's bottom line for a long time to come. And if users are able to make use of DeepSeek's gift to innovate further, the future is not going to look good for them. That I think is the reason why the USA is starting to fabricate the narrative that DeepSeek is a dangerous competitor.

Anonymous

Red Dot is going the way of the USA

 Red Dot is going the way of the USA. I am surprised that everything in China is so cheap after listening to what is narrated on Youtube by Rednote users, while everything in Red Dot is honestly very expensive by comparison.

Forget about all the gloating about affordability which is a relative term. That is the same mantra that the USA Government and MSM had been feeding the USA citizens. How could China, with a population of 1.4 billion and with such a low per capita GDP be able to afford looking after its citizens so well? Sure, Chinese people cannot match the super high income of Singaporeans, but their living standards are not inferior to ours. They have cheap homes (which is theirs in perpetuity after paying up, with no property tax), cheap cars, cheap food, cheap transport cost, cheap healthcare, cheap university education which really shocked me. US$ 798 university fees per year is unbelievable.

I know, some will say, why don't I migrate to China if it is so good. What can I say?

Anonymous

The ordinary Americans have found their freedom from their evil politicians

 The sickest country on earth have been brainwashing their citizens for decades. And the rednecks and hillbillies swallow the propaganda hook, line and sinker. And ask for more. Most of them have not even travelled out of their state, not alone the country. They've been programmed to take everything from their politicians, who'll sell their mothers for a penny, if they can find a buyer. Even social media is rigorously controlled with these morons being allowed to operate on sanitised platforms. 

TikTok came and changed everything and the inbred yankee politicians thought they solved the problem by banning it and forcing it to be sold. Now they have a problem many orders of magnitude on their hands as Rednote virtually transports these brainwashed people out into the real world. And once exposed to reality, they'll do their jobs of taking their politicians to task. 

And there are tens of millions of new Rednote awakened yankees. Let's see the orange loser sign an executive order telling the awakened what to think. Brainwashing is a two way street.

Anonymous

China's gifts to the world

 DeepSeek is one of the greatest gifts China gave to the whole world. The American Empire wants to continue to be the sole hegemony of the world and wanted to control AI with all its sanctions on American chips and building a very high wall with billions of dollars to keep the whole world out of AI. They wanted not only to sell AI to the world at a very exorbitant price but also limit its use. Only America has the monopoly of using this all powerful artificial intelligence network.

Here comes China by offering DeepSeek to the world for free. Yes, for free, and teaching the world how to set it up, how to get it working, for free, and most important, can do it with cheaper equipment and resources. AI is now freely available to the whole world, for free! No one or country is held hostage by the Americans and has to pay a very high price to access AI. This gift of freedom to the world is taking down the wall and protection built by the American gangsters. China is telling the world, no need to be rich to be intelligent. No need to get into American debt trap to use AI.

Bet you, the Americans are going to stop the world from using this free AI app. Unfortunately this cannot be done. The genie is out of the bottle. The only thing the Americans can do is to stop Americans and its stupid allies and cronies from using this free AI app and forcing them to use overpriced and expensive American controlled apps. That is the best the American gangsters can do. And open source AI will be used around the world like 5G, not fake American 4.5G touted as 5G. Open source AI will continue to develop and outpace closed AI operated by the Americans. The resources and talents of the world would join forces to make open source AI even greater than anything the Americans have with the abundance of international talents that can avail themselves of DeepSeek affordably.

China has been gifting to the world many valuable projects and products to make the world freer, free from the oppressive American so called free world. The whole world is free to use highly efficient 5G, high quality mobile phones with satellite communication facilities at very affordable prices. Another big gift from China is cheap and excellent EVs, priced for a song, giving the average people in the world a chance to buy and use modern technology and gadgets. The world is free from being coerced to buy expensive American and western obsolete automobiles for an arm or a leg.

China is gifting the world in many things, cheap solar panels, cheap consumer goods, clothings, ports, roads, railways, green lungs the size of countries with more free oxygen, BRIs and BRICS to be free of the oppressive Americans and the West, free from wars, free from oppression and interference by giving them an option that was non existence for several centuries.

And most important of all, freedom of choice, real freedom to raise themselves from poverty to live a better life through economic development, providing the world with technology and funding at very low costs with no string attached. China is assisting the world to break free from American and western bondage, to be truly independent and free nations, to choose their own ways of life, choose their own leaders and govts.

China is freedom from oppression and from wants.

When Americans invade countries, conduct terrorist acts, they did not think it is crazy or criminal

 'US President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to acquire Greenland from Denmark is not a “crazy idea,” former NATO supreme allied commander in Europe, James Stavridis, has said. He, however, dismissed the possibility of military intervention, instead advocating for economic engagement as a means to strengthen ties with the region....

“It sits at the very top of the North Atlantic. It protects approaches to our own country – the Atlantic Ocean – so it is geographically very important,” Stavridis said. He added that the region is rich in rare minerals and likely has vast oil and gas deposits.'  RT

The evil American Empire is on an aggressive and expansionist path to enlarge the Empire. Greenland is just too attractive and easy to grab. What can little Denmark do except to cry out loud. The Americans could simply take over Greenland by sending in its Imperial troops. Not a single country in the whole world would whisper a world about aggression, about not obeying international law, about violating the interests of little nation states. They would just accept the fait accompli like little Mickey Mouse.

What if China would to do the same? All the cronies and monkeys would be screaming their lungs out... Chinese aggression, China is expansionist, China is rogue, and they would all be ganging up against China, wanting to start a war with China. This is how sick and comical the so called fictitious free world of the West has become. They can commit murders in daylight and no one would dare to oppose or condemn such a criminal act. They may even justify for it, like Stavridis above. Whatever the evil American Empire does, it is ok.

China should make a counter bid to buy up Greenland for the same reasons uttered by lunatic Trump. Make it a commercial transaction and Greenland goes to the highest bidder. Would the same logic apply to the Panama Canal or to the Straits of Malacca? Would these countries accept this wild argument put up by the American gangsters? Anyway, they have no choice. Poor Greenland is now toying with the idea of negotiating with gangster Trump. Denmark is willing to let the American terrorists put all the troops they want in Greenland, just to prevent a seizure of the land by the evil American Empire. The American terrorists would apply the Rules Based Order and there is absolutely nothing Denmark and Greenland can do to prevent a takeover. Who still believes in Rules Based Order?

Marco Rubio is in Panama negotiating or telling Panama that the Americans are taking over the Canal. Panama cannot allow anyone else to administer or manage the Canal, not Hong Kong companies. In the fictitious and fake free world, no country has freedom of choice to act in their national interest. The American Empire would dictate what they can or cannot do. Can you imagine the American terrorists inviting themselves into Panama to tell the Panamanians that they want to take over the Panama Canal?

When this hostile act of the Americans is executed, countries of the world would be in danger of being seized by the evil American Empire. No country is safe. What would happen to Singapore? Become the 52nd state after Greenland? The American terrorists would make the same justification as above, that Singapore is very important to American and should be taken over like Greenland. Now what would Singapore do, cry, beg, or act like Demark, let the Americans do what they want? Can the most powerful military state in Asean with its F35s fight and win a war with the evil American Empire?

Being friends of the American terrorists, sleeping with the American terrorists, are as good as living dangerously. The Americans do not believe in principles, in rights or wrong, only in American Rules Based Order that Singapore subscribes to, meaning Americans write the rules and others have to follow the rules, not international rules as approved by the United Nations. Taking over or seizing another country or their assets is the new rule written by the Americans. Anyone protesting or saying that this violates international laws?

What do you think?

China and the Global South fully prepared to decouple with the USA

 China is more well prepared for a trade war escalation by Trump this time around. China is even more prepared to counter Trump's tariffs over Tik Tok sale.

At the start of Trump's trade war in 2016, China did not have the advantage of having built up full economic relations with countries inside BRICS and having the Global South's confidence in their relationship with China. Now it is a different picture altogether. The USA is more isolated, its influence substantially reduced in the Global South.

The Mafia behavior of the USA is putting off more countries and even the threat by Trump of sanctions against those trying to distance themselves from using more of the US$ is falling on deaf ears. Poorer countries that have little to export to the USA have little to fear in terms of tariffs. More industrialized countries have BRICS countries to absorb their produce as the USA is not the only market that they can trade with.

The USA is nearing the end of its tethers. Sanctions are not working; trade wars are not working as well and so will tariffs be falling into the same malaise.

Anonymous

The lies of blaming China for everything backfiring

 The reality of China is now an open book, whether USA citizens choose to go to China or not. Rednote provides a platform for USA citizens a window into the real China that the USA Government and MSM had kept them from knowing.

The comparisons really shocked USA citizens, some in tears and some traumatic after falling into unpayable education debts and cursing the USA Government and MSM for all the lies that they were fed with.

The reality is not about USA new Rednote users talking to Chinese people paid by the CCP, but normal Chinese of all shapes and sizes across the country, giving them a glimpse into their jobs, their living standards, their homes, their cars, their transport facilities, their education costs, and most of all their healthcare and hospitalization needs and how cheap and affordable they were.

On top of that was knowing how the CCP Government responded to catastrophic events like earthquakes, floods and fires. The Government responses were always fast, targeted, well prepared and well-coordinated. Nothing is left to chance or finding excuses to blame on anything and everything.

Anonymous

DeepSeek - US$5.5m, less than two years and a few young nerds to bring down American AI industry

 The USA's agenda to dominate AI is being taken to the cleaners. DeepSeek has thrown a spanner into the works of all the USA AI investors such as OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and many others, whose investments were said to run into hundreds of billions. Nvidia will be hard hit, given the wake-up call that AI development does not need solely to depend on high-end GPU chips that it monopolizes.

The USA's restriction on Nvidia's sale of high-end chips to China is now becoming an exercise in futility. DeepSeek was able to come up, within such a short span of time, just leveraging on lesser high-end chips, to have a system that trounced these USA companies in terms of performance on most parameters, except the amount of money they poured in over many years.

DeepSeek was able to outperform the multi-billion conglomerates of the USA with a budget of just US$5.5 million funded by Chinese hedge fund HighFlyer. And the most nerve-wracking thought for its competitors was that DeepSeek was started just in 2023, by Liang Wenfeng, a former hedge fund manager. How did such a late starter in the AI business managed to rise so fast is really shocking.

The most surprising discovery was that most of DeepSeek's scientists were young graduates culled from Beijing, Tsinghua and Beihang Universities as disclosed by Nury Vittachi on his site 'Fridayeveryday'. Talk about new nerds, thinking out of the box, does really promote better thinking and innovation than relying on the same old nerds of old.

Now the USA is trying to promote the narrative that DeepSeek is a dangerous competitor, by giving free usage for the rest of the world and not capitalizing on its commercial gain. Just imagine that by saying giving others the free gift is a dangerous thing. We can expect more negative attack on DeepSeek as the days go by, even using the same template that anything from China is junk. Well, let the USA and the West still continue with their superiority complex thinking and suffer the indignity when the shit hits the fan. We have seen it in space stations, high-speed rails, EVs, batteries, jet engines, shipbuilding and now testing the boundaries of AI. Bet against China all they want, but China has nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Anonymous

American exceptionalism is based on the barrel of the gun, to steal and to kill

 With Putin being blamed for the Los Angeles fire by some little bimbo, claiming that California had sent surplus firefighting equipment to Ukraine thus causing the widespread fire in Los Angeles due to equipment shortage, therefore Putin must also pay for the rebuilding.

After all, the US$300 billion seized from Russia is very useful, and ways and means must be found to use the money robbed from Russia. What better than fabricating reasons to make hay while the sun shines.

When it comes to fabrication, trust the USA propaganda machine to do a good job. However, whether Putin or the rest of the world believes in the propaganda is another matter. The USA has its 'exceptionalism' status and can do what it likes, whether the world believes in or not. The only obstacle is that its exceptionalism cannot be applied is dealing with Nature and God's wrath like all other countries. Incidentally, what happened in Los Angeles has much to do with climate change, which Trump will undoubtedly brush aside as a 'hoax'.

When the fire cannot be extinguished, I am waiting for Trump's nuclear response.

Anonymous

Small yard and high fence - Strategy of American gangster Jake Sullivan

This is supposed to be a grand strategy of America's greatest mind in Jake Sullivan. To be appointed by the President as the National Security Advisor, he must be the best in America, at least in the mind of Biden and de facto President Blinken. Under the America finest democratic system, the best man, not in terms of intellect but popularity and wealth, would be elected to lead the country. And this man, often far from the philosopher king, often an idiot, would pick his team using his half past six brain, of men and women to his liking and presumably to be able and intelligent enough to chart the future of the nation. The result is obvious over the last few decades that Trump was clever enough to see that the Empire had declined, and he has to Make America Great Again.

This small yard high fence strategy was accepted in full by an equally foolish Congress and House of Representatives making up of charlatans and conmen and women acting as if they are godsend wise men and women, the best in America, under their great democratic system that was designed not to elect the most able but the best salesmen and saleswomen. They too believed in this small yard high fence strategy without question.

And when this strategy failed, they keep expanding yard wider, thinking that it would work. The reality is that the yard is actually shrinking by the day. All their effort to isolate China, initially to contain China, to deprive China of all advanced and new technology has failed miserably. China has not only broken down the fence to acquire the technology but also running ahead.

Space technology, drones, 6G communication, 6G aircraft, missiles, nuclear technology, quantum physics, high speed train, solar energy, EVs and batteries, and recently, AI and a great breakthrough in terms of performance and efficiency, whatever you name it China is dominating the industry. There is only one face left, and that is high end chips. Nvidia's high end chips is the last hurdle for China to leap over. And knowing China's track record and development speed, it is only a matter of a couple of years before this last fence falls.

When this happens, it would be America's turn to chase after the Chinese technology train. What the clowns in Washington have been doing for so long is building fences and forgot about developing their own capability to compete. This is left to the private sector to think about. There is no great strategy from the clowns to mobilise the country to innovate and invent and stay competitive. They think throwing obstacles in the path of China would keep them at the top. The private sector has their own momentum and initial and would move only at a pace and in a direction that would benefit them most, not America as a country.

What can Americans expect in a country led by clowns, charlatans and mediocre men and women? The days of 'greatness' by conquest, by wars and killings, looting and plunders, slavery and genocide are over. Ukraine is a war that they cannot win.

American regime wants to control and censor all media in the USA. No more freedom of speech

 The USA thinks it can just pull wool over people's eyes over ByteDance ownership. What the USA wants is the technology of Tik Tok that is eating the breakfast, lunch and dinner of USA's domestic apps like Meta, Twitter and Youtube, which does not provide a platform for truthful news and vloggers are censored talking about the genocide in Gaza.

If Tik Tok goes under the control of the USA, being sold to a USA company, it will have to follow the censorship regime like Meta, Twitter and Youtube. It will basically be a lame duck app. That is why, whether Tik Tok gets banned eventually or sold to a USA company, most Tik Tok refugees are saying they want to remain on Rednote.

What the USA will do is also to ban Rednote down the road using the same narrative that it is a National Security Issue, being a truly China-centric app, more so than Tik Tok. What does that tell us about a country that touted itself to have freedom in this and that but does not walk the talk. Chinese citizens describe such freedom as without choice.

Anonymous

China's massive investment in renewable energy to save the energy is demonised as a threat by American terrorists

 In the face of China building more dams for energy generation, the USA and the West are demonizing China using all kinds of arguments from environmental issues, countries water rights issue, protection of endangered species of animals and fish issues. Trump vis a vis the USA itself wants to sell more of his oil and obviously wants China to be its main customer, rather than allowing China to be more dependent on renewables like water, solar and wind energy. Trump has already blackmailed the EU, forcing the EU to buy more oil from the USA or he will raise tariffs against them.

Much controversy has been raised against China's dams upstream of the Mekong River, provoking anxieties in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia. There is a political agenda involved to provoke bad blood between China and the other South-East Asian countries. The source of the Mekong is in Tibet, and it is reported that only 17% of the Mekong water originates from China, with the rest of the water originating from other sources like rainfall, lakes and reservoirs further downstream. What then is the issue with China building numerous dams in Yunnan Province to harness renewable energy? The USA and the West are stirring up a hornet's nest to create fear among the ASEAN countries to fulfil their agenda, the same as creating false threats so that the USA can station troops in countries to 'protect' them against fabricated threats.

There is now another demonization move being stirred up that involves India. China is building several more dams along the Yarlung Tsangpo River, which is the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River that runs through India and Bangladesh. The narrative to arouse India to go against China in the building of those dams is a works-in-progress.

Anonymous

Trump thinks the whole world owes America a living

 Trump is the most prolific liar of a President in USA history. The fact that he is a convicted felon makes a mockery of the position of the President of the United States. It lowers the Position of President whose job is running a circus, not leading the world as a superpower. Of course, he can pardon himself now, but I think all USA citizens ought to be ashamed. In time to come USA citizens going abroad will be loathe at and looked down upon.

Trump wants to be the President that signs the most executive orders, makes the most ridiculous and atrocious decisions, wants the most attention with his antics, thinks the whole world owes the USA a living, having to provide the USA with most things for them to enjoy, and being paid for with their toilet papers, on top of him being the most bankrupted President in the history of the USA. When they say the whole world laughs at Trump, that is an understatement. The whole world laughs at the USA and its citizens. The whole world hates and condemns Trump for all the trouble he is causing, all to cater to his narcissistic character.

The USA is being isolated more and more with Trump in power. That is the reality. What does changing the name of 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' do to the USA? It is all nonsense. Not many countries around the world wants anything to do with the USA's 'Rules Based Order' nonsense as well, except the Anglo-Saxon White clique and a few that grovels at the feet of the USA. The 'Rules Base Order' was to enable the USA to sidestep the UN International Law to do its dirty deeds.

Anonymous

American slave owners did not pay slave wages to their African slaves...slaves not entitled to any pay

 The USA was the country that kidnapped Black Africans to works as slaves and probably did not even pay them slave wages. As Putin always say, whatever the USA accused others of doing, it has done it itself. Is the USA not ashamed talking about slave wages? Obviously not!

Now, we have come to the stage of a nuclear war. Which country had ever been known to nuke another country in the history of mankind? Not once, but twice. And yet accusing North Korea of being a threat to the world with its possession of nukes. Will the world wake up and be sensible as to who is a greater nuclear threat to the rest of the world.

Now psychotic Trump is again talking about trying to have another meeting to persuade Kim Jong Un to de-nuclearize. De-nuclearize and let the USA flatten it? Who is realistically going to trust the USA leaders like Trump. Kim is not as foolish as Trump may think, although he is trying to flatter Kim by saying he is a smart guy. When his back is turn, Trump is a different kind of person, and as someone commented, Trump will even sell out his own grandmother.

Anonymous

The day when Singapore implodes

 Who would ever think that Singapore would implode when it is now touted as one of the most successful and richest country in the world? Everywhere you turn is success in Singapore. The pay of all the elites is in the millions, multi millions just like model USA. Singapore is like a miniature copy of America in everything, following America, imitating America in practically all its policies for economic development.

When the Americans switched from a manufacturing nation to focus on the service and finance industries, Singapore followed suit. When the Americans started to sell junk bonds, introduced computer assisted trading in the stock market, derivative trading, Singapore did the same. When the Americans started to pay their CEOs in the millions, Singapore could not resist and did the same, now even chicken rice businesses also pay their CEOs in the millions. Everything the Americans did must be good and just follow blindly. When the Americans started to bring in foreign talents in droves, Singapore did the same and forgetting that the USA is a continent size country with more than 330m in population while Singapore is but a little piece of rock with barely 5m population. This did not stop Singapore from wanting to import more foreigners to make it 6.9m or 10m or 15m, as if it is of continental size like the USA, unlimited land.

America is now imploding. The facade of growth is hidden by its ability to print free money that Singapore could not. The unrestrained rise of cost of living, high property prices, high medical cost, high insurance, high legal fees, high education fees leading to students ended up in debt just in paying tuition fees, high taxi fares etc etc are now the norms in Singapore. Trump is now kicking out as many immigrants as he could for robbing the jobs of the Americans. Singapore is still sleeping and did not see that this is the same problem that would be politically very costly to Singapore. Instead of following Trump to kick out excessive foreigners, Singapore is asking for more.

Singapore is not the USA and is foolish to follow everything the Americans are doing without thinking and not looking into the mirror. The problems and crisis the Americans are facing would be repeated in Singapore. Singapore does not distill or filter out American policies that may not be beneficial to the island, and some are obviously harmful and damaging. 

China learnt from Singapore. China also learnt from the Americans and the rest of the world but very discriminating in picking only those that are useful and applicable and discarded those that are harmful. China is very conscious of keeping the cost of living low for its people, keeping the salaries of political leaders and CEOs of private companies within reasonable limits, keep transportation cost low, medical fee, tuition fee, housing low to be competitive in the world market. There is a lot of wisdom in how China embraces, follows, learns and adopt American and Singapore's ways of doing things. China is moving very fast in its competition with the Americans but would not suffer the same kind of problems the Americans are facing. The experience of Americans in their exchange with the Chinese in the RedNote app is very telling.

China is keeping the pay of CEOs and political leaders very lean vis a vis the Americans. This in a way allows the Chinese to price their products and services very competitively in the world, and keeping the cost of living low and bearable to its people.

America is imploding though they keep telling the world that all is fine, their economy is rock solid. If that is so, there would be no need to make America great again. If that is so, there would be no need to lie to the American people about how good their life is and China is collapsing, the Chinese people are suffering and having a hard life, under an oppressive regime.

When would Singapore implode under the weight of high cost of living and high cost of everything, and the load of providing good jobs and everything to foreigners and new citizens, like the USA?

ByteDance 60% owned by international corporations and American corporations are major shareholders

 Trump is talking about selling Tik Tok to many people - Elon Musk, Oracle and others. He does not even know if ByteDance will even want to sell Tik Tok to any USA entities and he is acting as if he alone can make the decision.

China has not said much about the ban so far, leaving ByteDance to decide whether to take Tik Tok out of the USA completely arising from the ban. Trump is basically talking to himself about the intended sale as if it is a foregone conclusion.

China already reaped all the benefits of the Tik Tok fiasco, having used Rednote to educate USA Tik Tok refugees about the real China. This is already a big bonus for China and is exposing the lies of the USA and the West, a very big counter to the Propaganda Machine of the USA.

ByteDance, a Chinese company, has to consider the stance of China regarding its sale of Tik Tok to a USA entity. China is no longer fooling around with the USA and has to guard Chinese technology closely from falling into the hands of the USA.

China is quietly advancing in AI, with Deepseek R-1 tested and proving its competitiveness against Open AI, the owners of ChatGPT and Google AI that are also involved in similar research. The cost of pushing out Deepseek R-1 was also said to be just a fraction of what it took the others to get their system functioning after years of investments. Deepseek R-1 is also reported to be open source, which means free to use by others. This is a game changer.

Anonymous

Trump could be the black swan event for the USA

 USA needs a revolution. Trump will bring it on. Trump is going to isolate the USA from the rest of the world. Trump is making enemies everywhere and everyday turning against allies and friends. With Trump in office, the USA does not need enemies. Trump is the enemy.

In the midst of all the madness of Trump against even allies like the EU countries, the South American countries and even neighbors Canada, how does the USA hope to sell its bludgeoning debts and to whom and how does it hope to be able to print more money? The USA can continue printing, but those will become banana notes in the hands of USA citizens. Would they need a revolution to be honest?

What we are witnessing is a self-destruction of the USA. USA Presidents past and present knew that the USA has problems that they cannot solve and are just kicking the can further and further down the road for their successor. Trump could be the final scapegoat inheriting the 'can' that had been kicked down the road for decades. What now is practically unsolvable in the USA? The USA debt is unsolvable and unpayable. The homelessness situation is unsolvable, not to talk about it escalating. Now there is the cost-of-living issue being brought up by Tik Tok refugees accessing Rednote and getting the shock of their lives. Will USA citizens continue to live the lie that they had been fed with for decades?

Anonymous

Can public transport system deal with 10m population?

 USA's economy is all about money printing and weapons sale. Red Dot's economy seems to be all about bricks and mortar, and therefore suitable for Indians. I agree that Trump's H-1B policy is some cause for salivating for Red Dot.

Having said that, our MRT trains are already becoming like in Japan, which may need employing pushers to push people into trains like sardines during peak hours if this goes on. People living in Sengkang and Hougang have been complaining about not being able to board trains during morning peak hours due to overcrowding. But i guess this is the situation all over the island.

Ten million population must be a sick joke by sick politicians. Of course, they have comfortable cars to travel in, so they do not have any problem at all. Sometimes people living in glass houses pretend to be blind, when they were supposed to be able to see everything around them. But they only see what they want to see, not what they do not want to see.

That brings me to talk about living in Hougang during the 70s, 80s and 90s, with traffic jams the norm every morning. It was traumatic going to work and getting caught in perennial traffic jams, day in and day out. Complaints were never addressed, with Politicians not believing in the situation for decades on end. It was only when a transport minister facing repeated complaints (if I remember correctly, it was Mah Bow Tan) who took the trouble to board a bus during peak hours from Upper Serangoon towards the city that he saw the situation clearly. The decision then was that they need a MRT line in the Northeast to mitigate and solve the long-standing congestion and hence the North-East MRT line was constructed and opened in 2003, on top of numerous other roads widening and viaduct construction. Of course, with development slated in Punggol, the traffic problem had to be addressed.

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First they grab your money, now they grab your land. No, it is not China, it is the USA!

 USA will make all the cars for their home market as they could not ever compete with Chinese EVs sold outside the USA in price and innovation. USA citizens will have all the freedom but do not have a choice even in buying a car.

China will be making all the cars for its domestic market, BRICS countries and the Global South. There is no need for China to quarrel with the USA about tariffs even if it rises to 1,000%. It is a non-issue if Chinese EVs do not have to sell in the USA. That would make everybody happy. Chinese EV makers happy, USA consumers happy, China happy, BRICS happy, Trump happy and the Global South also happy.

So, what is the problem? Uh Oh, lest I forgot, Trump is going to make many countries part of the USA - Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Panama for a start of his global ambition. Japan, South Korea, Philippines and Singapore may follow soon. Even the Gulf of Mexico is not safe from the USA imperialist ambition. Then China may have a problem selling to those countries.

When the USA starts seizing territories and countries, everyone would be asking 'Who is next', just like the seizure of Russia assets. Not all countries are as dumb as what the USA thinks, only some. Same as the saying - You can fool most people most of the time, some people all the time, but not all people all the time.

Anonymous

American authoritative regime is so amazing and so are the American hillbillies

 The Empire of Lies have been spreading the lie that Russia and China have been locking up their citizens, restricting their freedom and controlling them with strict and authoritative rules and laws and keeping them undernourished and deprived within their poor countries. Life in China and Russia are tough and fearful and with little freedom.

The truth that is now revealed and discovered by the Americans through the Xiaohongshu or RedNote app is that the Americans are the real victims, kept poor and deprived and with little freedom by the authoritative American regime, controlling their lives with lies and deceit. The amazing thing is that the Americans that were lied to, and kept in the dark of what is happening in China were not illiterate peasants but well educated Americans, supposedly well informed and intelligent individuals. The other amazing thing is that they have been kept in the dark, in a prison without walls by the Empire of Lies for so many decades, from young to mature adults, without the ability and curiousity to want to find out the truth themselves, willingly believing in the American lies as the truth without question. The other amazing thing is that the internet was invented by the Americans, and they have full access to information around the world. Oops, only fake information provided by their main media.

Why are these amazing things happening to the Americans for so long? The Americans are like the elephant that has been brainwashed to believe the thin piece of rope around their legs is as strong as the previous chain that they were tied to. The Americans have been so conditioned to believe all the lies that the American regime have been telling them, believing in all the fictions and distorted truth fed to them in their main media. And they only found out that they have been lied to for their whole life by accident, by peeping into a Chinese app only to be shocked out of their life. They could not believe that what they saw and heard about life in China were true initially. When the truth was showered on them like cold water, they were literally in shock. How could the American authoritative regime, which they believed were all goodness and champion of truth, democracy and freedom be lying to them with outright lies? And another amazing thing that they found out is that the Chinese govt that was so demonised by the American regime did not lie to the Chinese people.

How are the well educated and naive Americans, supposedly intelligent people, going to take this revelation that the American regime is the real nasty liars that deceived them and cheated them for so long and that the Chinese people are actually living a better life than them and the Chinese govt is working very hard to better the life of the Chinese people? On the other hand, the American regime is robbing them of their hard earned money and making life very expensive, very hard and tough for them to get by?

Even I am amazed by this discovery, that the American people have been lied to by the American regime with fake news and disinformation for several lifetimes. In a way I too cannot believe that the American govt, every day gloating about human rights, about freedom, about freedom of choice, free speech, could go so far to lie to the American people and wrapped them up in a wall of lies and disinformation so effectively and so easily.

Now, after discovering the truth, what are the American people going to do about it? Everything is so amazing when the good guy that the Americans believed wholeheartedly is the real devil in disguise. And some Americans are still in denial, refusing to believe what they see and hear in the RedNote app.

Trump's Stargate returns to Hollywood

 During Trump's inauguration, he lined the first row with the tech billionaires and announced a US$500b AI infrastructure project called Stargate. This project lasted one day when China released the DeepSeek app that cost US$5.5m, yes millions not billions, to develop. This new app makes a mockery of all the billion dollar American AI apps and the multi million dollar salaries of the CEOs of these companies.

China is telling Trump and the Americans that AI apps could be developed very cheaply and Trump needs not waste US$500b to build the infrastructure. At most 10% or less would do the job. Trump should therefore return the script to Hollywood, oops to the tech billionaire with vested interest in spending big money.

For the last few years. the tech CEOs have been playing a game of building a very expensive wall using the most expensive Nvidia chips around the AI industry. They have created a myth that only with plenty of expensive and advanced chips could one succeed in developing high performance AI apps like OpenAI, ChatGPT and so on. It was a lie that they created to con and deter other companies and developers from entering the industry. The multi billion dollar wall is their barrier to entry into the game, keeping small and financially weak participants out of the game. This is how they want to dominate and monopolize the industry for themselves. The hype was to throw in billions after billions to frighten off aspiring developers and companies. Another way of looking at it is that they did not have a clue of what AI is all about, thinking that it is so complex and only billions of dollars can make it work.

DeepSeek called their bluff. It required only a fraction of the billions to develop a comparable app that is just as good and better for the mass market. And DeepSeek even make its app available for free, open source, to undercut what the tech giants were trying to do to monopolise the industry. All the aspiring developers and companies are rushing in to develop their own apps with cheaper and less advanced chips like DeepSeek. The game is now open to all and sundry, and DeepSeek is showing them how to do it. 

With one stroke, the lies of the big tech CEOs were exposed. They might be able to con Trump but not the tech geeks. Now they have nowhere to hide and looking not only stupid but have to answer for the billions they have spent on something that could be so cheap. Trump would have to revise his US$500b budget or he would look foolish. No one would give him that kind of money when the truth is out. Trump must be furious. How dare the tech CEOs lied to him and made a fool of him. US$500b is now looking so ridiculous to talk about. His Stargate should be called Stardust.

The benefits of BRI and BRICS versus useless world organisations created by the AngloSaxons

 Now we should know that the BRI is not a creation of the Whites. BRICS is also not a creation of the Whites. And the Whites have been demonizing these two bodies with fabrication and disinformation, because they are outside their control.

The Anglo-Saxon Whites have been fabricating the narrative that the aid provided by China via the BRI for infrastructure development is a debt trap. However, most recipients of the aid have expressed a totally different perspective, welcoming such aid as a great help for them to progress with infrastructures to show. Who is telling the truth and who is just promoting disinformation? Do we believe the jealous saboteurs', having nothing to do with those aid, but just throwing spanners into the works or the beneficiaries of those infrastructures tied to the aid? Is the USA and the West really that caring and concern, worrying about other country's debt?

BRICS is facing the same Anglo-Saxon demonization. China is the biggest economy in BRICS and the USA, and the West are alleging that all BRICS does is giving China added avenues to influence and benefiting from the bloc. They are not happy with China diverting more trade within and among more BRICS countries at the expense of the USA and EU. The fact that trade within BRICS countries is done outside the US$ is even more profound for the Anglo-Saxon White countries. It is a de-dollarization move pure and simple.

Talking about all the World Bodies, the UN is practically a lame duck in dealing with the Gaza situation, totally brushed aside by Netanyahu. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency or UNRWA have just been given the ultimatum to leave Jerusalem by 30th January, which means it cannot work to bring relief to Palestinian without co-ordination with Israel. They could suffer Israeli attacks at will.

The ICJ and ICC are practically useless entities in the eyes of the world, not daring to do anything about the war crimes committed by USA and UK leaders in Iraq. That it was an illegal war based on fabricated evidence and lies at the UN, dragging the rest of the world into the conflict, is an even bigger crime against humanity.

Anonymous

America is an authoritative regime disguised as a democracy by lying to its people

 That is also what I want to say. The two parties, Democrats and Republicans are just the right and left hands of the Deep State, ruling USA with policies culled from the same playbook.

The USA voters undoubtedly do not know that they are voting for the same Evil hiding behind the throne, controlling the two parties and having them to carry out policies that favor the super-rich and making them richer. The super rich are among those behind the scenes, making up the Deep State and it is just a matter of you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours, taking turns to cannibalize the ordinary USA voters who are none the wiser. It was only after migrating to Rednote from Tik Tok that they realized what they had been missing after all the decades of sacrifices.

How is the USA Government going to explain the differences between the Chinese living standards in China and their own citizen's alarming discomfort upon realizing that they had been lied to all those years? It must come as a great shock for the USA voters to know that they are not really any better than the Chinese in China by a long shot in almost everything, except having the right to vote.

Anonymous

No equipment to fight LA fire but lots of weapons for Israel and Ukraine

 The USA has no firefighting equipment left to fight fires, but lots of weapons for Israel and Ukraine. Are those people in Los Angeles, whose homes have been destroyed, beginning to have an interest in listening to the truth or still content to swallow all the lies?

USA citizens now have to be aware that their interest is inconsequential compared to Israel and Ukraine and all the pampering directed at the top 1%.
What is the use of their vote if they cannot elect a government that have their interest to take care of, instead of caring for more support for Israel and Ukraine and taking care of the top 1%?

What is the use of touting about having 'freedom' when they are not even have any choice to choose what they want to spend their money on, like buying cheap EVs made in China?

What is the use of touting about being able to criticize their own government, when all they get in return is a government turning a deaf ear to their cries, despite being given all the avenues to criticize. There is now a narrative being push out that the Chinese have no avenues to criticize the government. One commentator asked the question of why the Chinese people even need to criticize their government when that government is working all the while to improve their lives - providing great infrastructures like high-speed rails, bridges over difficult terrains, excellent roads for them to have an easier life, providing affordable healthcare and hospitalization, providing cheap education for its citizens, providing cheap groceries and keeping cost of living very low.

Anonymous

Ukraine War - Conman Trump running out of ideas to coerce Putin

 Now we are seeing Trump being cornered with his boasting about settling the Ukraine War within 24 hours of him taking office. Today is his fourth day in office and Trump is having to crack his head to wriggle his way out. We know, and Trump knows that a 24-hour peace settlement is an impossibility and just a fantasy that only Trump can think of. But perhaps with his bullshitting and conman experience, having conned others to believe in his integrity after six bankruptcies, Trump still believes he has what it takes to carry out another massive con job.

Trump is not even aware what Putin wants in Ukraine and goes on to promote himself as if he is Almighty God and able to do a miracle, bringing an end to the three-year war.

Looking at Trump sitting at his table on Channel News American, with dozens of 'Executive Orders' covering his table, waiting for his signature, I would think he might be having a whale of a time signing them and gloating - 'Sign baby sign'. It is just ink and paper only, LOL.

Now it looks like Trump is cooking up another distraction to cover his earlier boast, which is trying to coerce Putin into allowing NATO troops to move closer to Moscow in Ukraine. That is precisely what Putin is against. By threatening more sanctions hoping to make Putin agree, the Russians are practically telling Trump to bring it on. What can the USA do about tariffs when Russia is not selling to the USA? Russia is already decoupled from the USA!

What other more harmful sanctions can Trump think of that have not already been used against Russia? What the USA and the West wanted to seize from Russia have already been seized. And the rest of the world have been given a valuable stark lesson in trusting the USA and the Europeans and the consequence thereof.

The USA and EU are practically scraping the bottom of the barrel to find any more meaningful sanctions left to use against Russia. They probably have now to resort to fabricating measure just like in Iraq to turn global opinion against Russia, which is no longer going to work. The rest of the world have learnt a bitter lesson - Once bitten, twice shy.

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