Eureka! Trump is a 'genius'!

 Eureka! This 21st Century discovery is groundbreaking, bigger than Newton's discovery of gravity, bigger than Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It is the discovery of all time, that Donald Trump is really a 'genius' with inverted commas. He is the 'genius' that is reinterpreting all the conventional rules, wisdom and logic of human civilisation. Trump is now declaring what is right and what is wrong, what is good, and what is bad, what is profit and what is loss, in his own ways. And no scientists or academics could come out to prove him wrong, only the scientists and academics are wrong. 'Genius' Trump is always right, infallible in all his interpretation of science, mathematics and economic formulas and laws.

The most eminent economic theory expounded by Trump and one that every economic professor is shaking his head in disbelief, is that tariff is being paid by the seller of goods. And no economic professor could prove that 'genius' Trump is wrong, none would dare to challenge Trump in a debate on which is right and which is wrong. And all the Trump believers believe that Trump is right and the economic professors are wrong. And the hillbillies are all behind Trump, supporting his tariff theory that tariff is good for them.

Trump is also deporting all the illegal immigrants to create employment for the white Americans. To Trump, the white American immigrants that invaded the continent of America, committing genocides against the native Americans were legal immigrants. His memory did not go so far back in time to remember that the forefathers of the white immigrants were illegal immigrants then.

Trump's other great economic theory is to bring back manufacturing to America, to produce goods that are cheaper and better, to compete with the rest of the world. To Trump, this is a simple process and would surely work, like tariffs. The American workers would continue to enjoy high pay and high quality of life and producing cheap and competitive goods to sell to the world. His winning way is to coerce the world to buy American goods or he would slam more tariffs on their goods.

This D grader, I am being generous, is dumping all the economic professors as foolish academics, did not know their economic theories. And Trump is lecturing them on how it should be defined and interpreted correctly. How to determine which is the correct version? It is Trump's version, because Trump said so. So simple. Trump's new theories would be taught in Trump University.

The results are all there to prove that Trump is right. Trump has already announced several hundred billion of revenues he has made for America from tariffs. And he is forcasting more profits from tariffs by raising more tariffs on imported EVs, oil and gas, European wines and branded goods. Trump is claiming success in reducing the national debt by the billion that no president could ever dream off. Trump is the economic 'genius' that comes once in a millennium.

And Trump is starting a series of peace initiatives, for world peace, by trade wars and all kinds of wars, for peace. All the wars started by Trump are not wars, but peace initiatives. Trump proclaimed himself as a peace lover, no wars, he would not start wars. Trade wars are not wars in the definition of Trump the 'genius'.

Then his definition of peace and American national security...he is doing it differently. He is not starting any wars. He just simply announced to annex or acquire lands or assets belong to other countries as necessary for America's national security. And he forbids anyone or any country to stop him from doing it. Trump might extend his formula to the rest of the world and acquire or annex every country, every land, every sea or waterways, for peace. 

This is about the most brilliant of all his theories. Acquiring and annexing the whole world would definitely bring about world peace and American safety and security. Trump the 'genius' and his ingenius formulas work.

Trump will make America great again. The world would belong to the American Empire. Long live the Emperor, long live Emperor Trump the 'genius' and his infallible new theories and definition of what is good and wrong, what is profit and what is loss....  Soon he will be sacking all the professors in the universities or closing all the universities except for one, the Trump University teaching Trump economic theory on the virtues of tariffs and sanctions of course. 

Oops, don't forget the Art of the Steal!

As they said, the line separating a genius and a lunatic is very thin. Only the hopeless hillbillies would ever place their hopes on a lunatic to save America, and make America great...and voted him to be their president.

Do not underestimate the Blacks in Africa, helped by the Chinese

 The Blacks in USA are the minority, like the Native American Indians. They can do nothing. Do not talk about Black Lives Matter. That is just an eyewash to fool them and keep them under control.

But do not underestimate the Blacks in Africa, helped by the Chinese. The Anglo-Saxon Whites looked down on the Chinese in the past. Now they fear the rise of China. Africa will likewise rise. It is just a matter of time.

There is a narrative floating that according to Nostradamus, the Red Dragon will rise next and then fall. Of course, Empire rise and fall, and China cannot continue to be at the top forever. This is to be expected. Now the USA is reading too much into Nostradamus' prediction and is fearful of China's rise. It is using every mischief to make sure China is impeded - economically and if necessarily militarily as well. The latter is an option which the USA is not sure of winning, not with Russia closing ranks with China.

That is why Trump is trying desperately to pry apart Russia and China, even to the extent of giving in to the demands of Putin regarding Ukraine. China has indicated it will never ditch Russia just to pander to the Europeans. Sergei Lavrov on the other side has said that Russia will always honor its commitment towards China. That says it all.

Anonymous

Reasons why you need to kill the Anglo-Saxon Amreican or British first

 Reasons why you need to kill the Anglo-Saxon Amreican or British first: rather than the snake or if it is a tiger, lion, hyena, bear or crocodile. Compare their evilness, wickedness, poison and destructive power in proportions:'

One evil Anglo-Saxon American = 20 cobras
= 10 tigers
= 12 lions
= 15 hyenas
= 20 bears
= 30 crocodiles

Chavez Gonzales
Venezuela

Making China collapse is different from collapsing Japan and Germany

 Making China collapse is different from collapsing Japan and Germany. Even Russia is not that easy to take down as can be seen happening before our eyes. The collapse of China had been gloated more than twenty years ago and is now being renewed on a year-to-year basis. China will still be standing and be around while Gordon Chang may never live to see its collapse.

China has been blessed with two advantages, a big domestic market that others covet and a manufacturing hub that others cannot replicate. Japan and Germany may be manufacturing hubs in their respective high point, but do not have domestic market to leverage on, relying on the USA to their detriment. Therefore, taking down China is no piece of cake, not when the USA depends on 80% of its consumer products from China. Without Chinese manufacturing, Apple, Walmart and Amazon among others would not be what they are today. Even big names in high end goods have to be sourced from China.

Going back to basics of attracting manufacturing back to the USA with coercion, subsidies and threat is not going to work and easier said than done. Costs alone is not going to make such manufacturing successful and the lack of a big market like China is detrimental. Who wants to set up factories to suffer losses just selling in the USA alone. Investors go for the money making, not the hype. Subsidies can only go so far, and when you move into building factories in the USA, those subsidies are not going to be forever. Once the fish bites the bait, it is caught with no way out.

Anonymous

Xi is not going to Washington

 Xi is not going to Washington. Trump is just farting from his vagina mouth to give the impression that Xi is desperate to want to talk to him in the face of his tariffs. Xi does not even want to attend his inauguration despite being specially invited earlier. Does that not tell us anything? Trump is desperately seeking an audience with Xi. But it will not happen in Washington for sure.

China already knew long ago, during Trump's first term, what to expect from Trump this time around, and If I may say so, China is more in favor of decoupling from the USA than the other way round. Not going to Washington will justify my view of the situation.

What has China been doing just this past decade? China has been expanding its market for its exports in Africa, Asia and South America, knowing that this is the future for its manufacturing and could see that the USA is no longer the priority for its exports. Even ASEAN, that used to be pro-USA in the past has chosen to go along with China. While the West completely ignored ASEAN, China was the first country to sign a free trade agreement with ASEAN in 2000 according to Yansi Varoufakis.

What has China been doing since Trump's first term and starting his trade war? China realized it has to source for food supplies from many countries to be secure, instead of relying on the USA and be held hostage in times of crisis. Now, China is moving away from the USA in food supplies and giving Brazil, Argentina, Russia and soon Indonesia much needed boost for their agricultural sectors. The USA farmers can just look on, bang their heads and salivating.

China's Belt and Road is another important milestone for securing trade with other countries in Central Asia and another access route to Europe bypassing the choke points of Straits of Malacca and Suez Canal, killing two birds with one stone. Moreover, it is another avenue for China to invests its trade surpluses which would otherwise have mainly to be diverted towards USA Treasuries and assets that are now deemed to be extremely risky. Financing and building those infrastructures for other countries is safe, beneficial without the risks of seizure by the Mafia.

And of course, BRICS is also very important for China and its fellow members. Make no mistake, economic relationships are a very important weapon when it comes to de-dollarization. Yanis Varoufakis in a lecture said that the USA's confrontation against China is all about stopping BRICS from coming up with an alternative system to bypass the US$ hegemony. The USA is paranoid and nervous about the agenda of BRICS, and we can expect more threats from Trump going forward. His 150% tariff threat failed to move the needle as far as BRICS members are concern.

Anonymous

How stupid are the people of ASEAN?

 SINGAPORE: More than half of 2,023 respondents polled across 11 Southeast Asian countries would side with the United States over China “if the region were forced to align itself with one of the two strategic rivals”, according to findings published in an annual think tank survey.

The State of Southeast Asia 2025 report, based on polls conducted by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS) between Jan 3 and Feb 15 and released on Thursday (Apr 4), examined regional perceptions on strategic issues and the influence of major powers.

When asked to pick between the US and China, 52.3 per cent of respondents favoured the US while 47.7 per cent supported China....

Respondents included researchers, media representatives, non-government organisations (NGOs), regional government officials, private sector representatives and members of civil society.  CNA

The above survey on 2,023 people claimed to represent the views of 680 million people in ASEAN. This itself speaks on the credibility and seriousness of this so called survey, if it is even qualified as a survey, and speaks a lot about the credibility of the organisation conducting the survey.

Are the 680 million ASEAN population so dull, so ignorant, did not know that the Americans are the world's number terrorist state, inciting wars, conducting wars, committing genocides and crimes against humanity, when China has not done a single of these crimes? And the Rump administration is conducting all kinds of silly wars, tariffs, sanctions against friends and foes, even arrogantly talking about invading and annexing nation states. 

The 680 million ASEAN population cannot be so stupid. It is the 1,023 that picked the American terrorists that are stupid. But then look at who they are, researchers, media clowns, NGOs mostly funded by CIAs, etc etc. With such a small sample size, it is so easy to fix the result of the survey by adding a few more respondents from pro American crony states and a few lesser from the Muslim states or anti American camp.

It is surprising that ISEAS would dare to put up this little straw poll and called it a survey to represent the views of 680 million ASEAN population. What is the agenda of this so called survey? What is ISEAS up to?

JD Vance - Greenland is not safe

 Greenland is not safe, from who? Are the Chinese or Russians going to invade and take over Greenland? Absolutely not. The Chinese and Russians do not harbour such aggressive and expansionist ambition to be the Empire to rule the world. JD Vance warned the Greenlanders that Greenland is not safe because Trump and his gang of thieves are all ready to invade and take over Greenland by any means. It is only a matter of when.

America is the most hostile and expansionist terrorist state in the world. Only the totally deluded and brainless would still cling on to their silly belief that America is for peace, to protect other countries from being invaded by fictitious enemies like China and Russia. The real threat, the real enemy of the whole world is the USA.

And why is Trump hell bent on taking over Greenland? Simple. Just spread the red herring that China and Russia are going to invade and take over Greenland. So America is going to take over Greenland first to protect and save Greenland. Isn't this familiar? In the name of an external threat, using China and Russia and the scapegoat, the Americans would commit murders, conduct wars, invade countries to 'protect and save them' and the only way is to make them another colony of the American Empire.

JD Vance went and left Greenland without any Greenlander wanting to see him. There was no reception party. He only landed in an American base received by American terrorists called soldiers, under the guise of protecting Greenland but ever ready to take over Greenland by force. And Vance got the cheek to dismiss Greenland as underdeveloped and America would be there to develop the land. And it is unacceptable to have Chinese and Russian commercial ships in the ports of Greenland doing trading. Only American warships are allowed to be in Greenland, to control Greenland.

Can Greenland stay independent in the days to come without being invaded by the rogue evil American Empire? The Americans need Greenland for its national security? What kind of cock reasoning is that? Who is next? Canada, Mexico or Panama? The 'peace loving' evil Empire has spoken. It is on an expansionary path. No more lying and deceit. It is going to invade and take over any country in the world in the name of its own national security. American national security is your insecurity!

Are the blind believers still believing in the American gangster Rules Based Order, when might is right?

Li Ka Shing working with Trump against China?

 The stake comprises not just the two ports at either end of the Panama Canal, but also all 43 global ports belonging to C. K. Hutchison. Some say that this is in line with Trump's gloating about imposing a US$1 million levy on ships built in China calling at any USA controlled ports.

Anyway, there are about 835 ports around the world and the USA does not control every one of them. Moreover, ports in China, Hong Kong and in those countries friendly with China and depending on China trade are not going to cut their noses to spite their faces by following the USA's bidding.

Trump may use the Panama Canal to control or deny Chinese ships moving between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, but he is going to give the impetus for Nicaragua and Mexico to revisit projects to rival the Panama Canal to serve Chinese ships and owners of ships built in China transversing the two Oceans.

The Nicaragua Canal Project had been put on hold for decades and may be refloated if the benefits are seen to outweigh the environmental costs. This has been the sticking point, not that funding is not available. The Chinese were already willing to undertake the project, but due to environmental issues had to put that on hold. Building another canal with China's experience and with machineries at its disposal is going to be a piece of cake, not necessary taking decades. Suffice to say, even the Panama Canal is now seen as an environmental disaster due to climate change and freshwater insufficiency competing with civilian needs.

Anonymous

Trump wants to control global trade using his tariffs

 Now Trump is threatening a 25% tariff on countries buying Venezuelan oil. In other words, Trump wants to control global trade using his tariffs to threaten those who go against him. Suffice to say, this is targeted against China and India, the two top buyers of discounted oil from Venezuela.

Why isn't Trump already doing the same thing with Russian oil by imposing a 25% tariff against China, India and of all countries, Saudi Arabia, knowing full well that the latter three countries are buying Russian oil like no tomorrow?

Let us be honest. In time to come, countries will know how to navigate those tariffs, just like those sanctions that have failed to take down any country, including Venezuela, for tens of decades. Trump can play around with his tariff threat, like playing around with his pussy grabbing hands, which will not be effective if all BRICS and Global South countries curb exports to the USA and just do more trade among BRICS countries using their own currencies. Such moves by Trump will hurt USA consumers the most.

Countries must always remember now that the USA is not the only market for their products unlike in the past. USA citizens are no more the rich guys with high spending power. That has already been overtaken by the East, like the Japanese and Chinese. Some USA citizens even need two jobs to put food on the table and pay the rent, so how much spending power is left which can allow them to go for extras. The rich got richer with tax cuts and help to grow richer from their donations to power grabbers, the middle class have been destroyed, while the peasant class are struggling just to survive. What else is left to provide a big enough market for imported goods? Ironically, this is the USA, the richest country in the world, not communist China.

Moreover, the USA is not in a position to provide cheaper substitutes for its own consumers without most cheap imports from China, with 80% of products in Walmar and Amazon all sourced from China. Chinese exporters just have to migrate more exports to countries outside the USA, which China is still building up like in Africa, while the USA is doing the opposite to shut itself off. The talk of 'Made in USA' is still a far-off dream and will take years to come to fruition, even after Trump leaves office. The USA has not even started on its journey of sourcing for raw materials and setting up refining logistics to enable such manufacturing to take shape. And the USA will be making products so uncompetitive outside the USA but just ripping off its own consumers. Some consumers may try to be patriotic, talking about sacrifices for the country's good and willing to suffer the pain and supporting made in USA, but when the shit hits the fan, they will be crying foul. As if the revelation by Rednote is not enough to wake them up.

Anonymous

How the USA can lie and how people still continue to believe in its lying is beyond belief...willing fools!

 Remember the attempts by the Ukrainians to rescue its forces hiding under bunkers at a steel plant in Eastern Ukraine that fell to the Russians? Among those hiding underground were obviously USA and other NATO military leaders, which was why such dangerous and disastrous attempts were made to carry out a rescue at all costs, that failed miserably, leading to the loss of several Ukrainian helicopters, pilots and crew. I guess that has been swept under the carpet, since the no boots on the ground mantra must be justified.

How the USA can lie and how people still continue to believe in its lying is beyond belief, which goes to show how successful the brainwashing had been over the decades. Now, the lying about China has been laid to rest with Rednote destroying all the money spent on decades of propaganda about China. Trump now knows the cat is now out of the bag and is cutting off all funding for propaganda exemplified by USAID and Voice of America, leading to massive loss of jobs for the latter in many countries around the world.

Lest people are not aware, Trump is killing two birds with one stone. Trump is saving costs here and there to fund his tax cuts for the super-rich, like himself and Elon Musk. US$4.5 trillion tax cut is the figure trotted out by analysts that has to come from somewhere. It is just robbing Peter to pay Paul and pulling wool over citizen's eyes. When Trump steps down and another Democrat takes over, everything goes back to the status quo of more propaganda to start more wars. It is all in the playbook, and Trump is not going to kill it for good. Trump is just an opportunist, making hay while the sun shines.

Anonymous

The Hague Trial Goes Viral Overnight!

On March 19, Rodrigo Duterte appeared in a wheelchair at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his hearing. As soon as the ICC judge read out the charges of “crimes against humanity,” the 79-year-old former Philippine President immediately dropped three “data bombs”:

1. “The US military killed 350,000 civilians in Afghanistan, the ICC has been playing blind for 20 years!”

2. “Israel has killed 50,000 children in Gaza, where are your arrest warrants?”

3. He then played footage of an anti-drug operation in Davao City, showing that after the crackdown on drugs, the crime rate in the region dropped by 73%.
The judge panicked and tried to stop him by banging his gavel, but Duterte instead pulled out a stack of photos—pictures of dead children who were victims of drug cartels, juxtaposed with photos of the destruction caused by US military drone strikes. In a loud voice, he asked: "Which is more like a crime against humanity?"

The courtroom erupted in an uproar! The Filipinos in attendance cheered and shouted "Long live the President!" until the security forces had difficulty controlling the situation.

The Marcos government was now in a difficult position. They initially wanted to use the ICC to get rid of Duterte, but Vice President Sara Duterte's popularity surged to 39%

In front of the court, Duterte vowed: "If I am found guilty, then arrest Biden and Netanyahu and put them on trial

This statement immediately exposed the hypocrisy of the ICC, which only dares to take action against small countries, but never touches the leaders of superpowers.

Now, the ICC faces a major dilemma:

If Duterte is found guilty, countries in the Global South may flock to withdraw from the ICC.

If he is acquitted, Western countries could stop funding the ICC worth hundreds of millions of euros.

In the end, the "trial of the century" turned into a big mirror—revealing the corruption of the international legal system and marking the rise of a new world order...

Hopefully in the future, this world will be free from violence and there will be no more bloodshed between people. Let us pray together that the world will become a more peaceful and prosperous place.

Virgo49

Terrorist state, the USA, threatens to bomb Iran...USA is the biggest threat to the world

 Iran has lodged a formal complaint with the United Nations Security Council over US President Donald Trump’s threats of military action, branding his remarks “reckless and belligerent.”

Trump recently threatened Iran with bombing strikes “the likes of which it has never seen” if it does not accept a nuclear deal. The Iranian leadership condemned the statement and vowed retaliation if attacked. RT

No civilised nation states would simply go about threatening another state with wars and invasion. Only white savage countries, especially the AngloSaxon tribe countries like the USA and UK, are acting this way, like they did centuries ago, unable to evolve and be civilised despite the wealth and advancement in human development. Basically they are still the savages but in suits and ties, pretending to be civilised, but anything, not much different from their primitive ancestors, always resorting to violence, killings, wars and genocides. 

Of course there is another one that is more vicious and deadly, the Jews. Everyday they are talking about wars and annihilation, about bombing and destroying other countries in the name of their own securities. For so many years, and in so many occasions, the Americans, the Brits and the Jews have been contemplating to attack and destroy Iran, China, Russia, North Korea and many other nation states. On the other hand, they are demonising and spreading lies that China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are the aggressive countries that want to invade them which is a nonsensical lie they are spreading everyday.

Iran and the Iranian people are now living dangerously, can be wiped out by the white savages and the Jews at any moment. The evil Americans are deploying their most advanced warplanes into the Middle East to prepare to attack Iran. Crying to the UN is a lame act that would not save Iran in any way. The white savages and the Jews have no respect or regard for the UN, no regard to international law and would kill and destroy at will, because they have the means to do so, behaving just like the wild beasts in the jungle.

The only way for Iran to survive this threat is to be able to hit back. The silly policy of not acquiring nuclear weapons to defend themselves will ensure that Iran will be wiped out by the Jews and the white savages. Iran needs to nuclearise immediately to save its ass and the lives of Iranians. The Americans would not dare to talk about bombing North Korea as they know North Korea is capable of nuking them in their homeland. Period.

A saving grace for Iran is to call on the support of China and Russia to back them up in case of an attack by the Jews and the white savages. Only China and Russia can deter the Jews and the white savages from nuking and destroying Iran.

For the immediate, Iran must be able and have all the missiles, to wipe out Israel and all American and British bases in the region, especially in the Middle East and Diego Garcia. These are the bases where the Americans would launch their air strikes other than the submarines and warships. It would call for a massive deployment of medium range missiles to hit these targets. Iran would also need long range missiles to be able to hit UK and USA for long term security. 

The American terrorist state would hit Iran now, believing that Iran could not hit back. Unfortunately, Iran may not be able to hit UK and USA now, but it is fully capable of wiping out Israel and Diego Garcia with its missiles. Iran must be on high alert and ready to push all the buttons once the Jews and the white savages activate their attacks. There is no second chance to defend themselves once the attack begins. It is live or die. It is better to send everything they have to Israel, Diego Garcia and all the American bases in the Middle East. It is a do or die moment. The risk of the American savages pushing the button is very real as their losses are limited to their assets in the Middle East and Diego Garcia.

China and Russia must offer the umbrella to defend Iran and let the Americans know with no uncertain terms, that hitting Iran would be a war against China and Russia. It is WW3. China and Russia cannot let the Americans and the Jews to take out Iran as their turn would be next, one at a time. They must have no false sense of security that the white savages would stop at Iran.

Li Ka Shing - only the motherland can protect him and his assets 只有祖国能保护你的家产

 Li Ka Shing made his fortune under the British colonial rule and continued to prosper under Communist China. It is natural and prudent for him or anyone to want to divest his assets all over the world to protect them from any negative developments in China. He even took on Canadian citizenship for added measures. A large portion of his assets are now outside Hong Kong and China, with a big chunk in UK and likely in Canada as well.

The short history of modern China following a revolution and civil war was masked with big upheavals and major social and economic changes and reforms. The redistribution of wealth and land from the rich and landlords to the peasants and poorer citizens did not go down well with the rich landlords then and now. Memories of wealth and land changing hands are still vivid in the minds of the nouveau riche in Hong Kong and China.

The China then and now are totally different. There was nothing much left in the country to be shared or distributed to the people in the early days of the revolution. China today is a country of aplenty. The state and the people are very rich relatively and in real terms. There is no reason for the state to want to confiscate the wealth of individuals that have made good. What the individuals have, the billionaires and trillionaires are insignificant to the national wealth of China as a nation. The fear of the state stretching its arms to dip into the wealth of individuals are minimal today. Only badly run states and poor states, dysfunctional states, corrupt leaders, would turn to steal from its citizens like in the USA and western bankrupt states.

Li Ka Shing's wealth and the wealth of the many newly rich Chinese citizens are relatively safe in China unless crime and corruption are involved. At least they are many times safer than in the USA or western countries when rogue govts calling themselves democracy would have no qualms to rob individuals and nation states of their wealth parked in these rogue states run by scoundrels and unscrupulous cheats. The risk of Li Ka Shing's Cheung Kong Hutchinson being 'cheong kong' ie confiscated or robbed in Hokien, by the angmohs are many times higher than in China or Hong Kong. After all Li Ka Shing from any angle is anything but a Chinaman that have no real rights in angmoh countries when the situation changes.

In a crisis, the angmoh govts would not be there to protect the assets of Li Ka Shing. They would be salivating on the first opportunity to seize it when it comes. Only China has the interest and obligation to want to protect Li Ka Shing and his wealth. Li Ka Shing must always remember, only the motherland would be there to protect and save him in a crisis. 只有祖国能保护你.

USA economy is just a blown-up balloon waiting to explode or implode

 With the amount of money printing going on over the last couple of years, the USA economy is just a blown-up balloon waiting to explode or implode if it rises higher. The deficit over the last couple of years is mind boggling, with spend, spend, spend afforded by the print, print, print doctrine. This cannot last forever, though the USA thinks the party will never end. So many empires have risen and fallen over the centuries, and the USA is likewise going to fall, if not by external causes, it may be due to internal self-inflicted decline due to over-estimating its infallibility.

Countries around the world have seen the injustice of the US$ hegemonic system, which is why Russia, China and BRICS countries are looking for a fairer system for the Global South countries. It cannot be that Global South countries and China are producing all the goods for the USA to enjoy, while the USA needed only to keep printing its toilet papers at will, exporting its inflation globally.

What really broke the camel's back was the weaponization of the US$ being used for sanctions against other countries despite the already perverted advantage that the USA is already enjoying. This was one big misstep of the USA, which is the cause of the unravelling of the US$. De-dollarization is doing the job of marginalizing the use of the US$, to prevent further use of it for sanctioning, not destroying it completely, just like the British Pound's decline over the decades.

Anonymous

USA is anxious to exit the war in Ukraine to pivot to the South China Sea

 The USA is anxious to exit the war in Ukraine to pivot to the South China Sea. But it is just giving the task of carrying on the war in Ukraine to the Europeans. The UK, France and Germany are already strutting their feathers against Russia, gloating about military buildups. However, Putin has seen through the ploy and is not falling into the trap set by the USA. No such thing as temporary truce to allow for Ukraine to regroup and rearm. The war in Ukraine will just probably enter the second stage without the USA involvement. Discreetly, I am not too sure that the USA will wash its hands completely off Ukraine.

The Middle East war on the other hand is not going to end anytime soon. On the contrary that war is expanding into Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and soon Iran will get involve as well. The USA is trying desperately to drag Iran into the conflict, giving it and Israel justification to attack Iran directly.

Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis must be prepared for an expansion of the bombings by Israel and the USA. The genocides will not just end in Gaza. It will be extended into Syria and Lebanon. We have already witnessed the genocides committed in Yemen when they were at war with Saudi Arabia, supported by non-other than the USA.

When genocides committed by the USA in Yemen earlier and with Israel in Gaza presently are being denied as genocides, while non-existent genocides in Xinjiang are gloated as genocides, we know that something is seriously wrong with the interpretation of the word 'genocide' in the minds of warmongers.

I could be wrong, but the current spate of activities by India, Japan and South Korea talking to China is a good sign that Asian leaders are beginning to see 'the forest from the trees' and not focusing on minor issues to go against each other's throat. This will not be good for the USA's agenda, and we can expect retaliations and sabotage to be conducted against those who do not toe the USA line. Perhaps touting the reminder that 'You are either with US or against US' will still make a difference. We have already seen Saudi Arabia crumbling like quicksand really fast.

Anonymous

USA upset for wasted funding and cultivation of Muslim terrorists

 So that was why the USA is very upset about the Thai Government deporting those Uyghur Muslim terrorists to China. It means all the funding and cultivation by the USA Government to support a terrorist buildup in Thailand had been wasted and in vain. The death of Alexai Navalny in 2024 in Russia was also a setback for the USA's anti-Russian movement after years of funding and cultivation of Navalny, which is why much effort was made to pin his death on Putin.

That the USA is afraid of those deported Uyghur Muslim terrorist by Thailand being ill-treated by the Chinese is all a smokescreen. The USA does not really love the Uyghur Muslims. The USA love for Uyghur Muslim terrorists is more likely to carry out its agenda. What is more worrying is the threat by the Uyghur Muslim terrorists that overthrew the Assad regime in Syria gloating about doing the same to China. This is going to anger China for sure.

Thailand is under pressure by the USA. The USA had already had issues with Thailand trying to pass a law to require foreign NGOs to disclose their source of funding, which all are going to point to the USA, particularly its National Endowment for Democracy or NED. Moreover, the Thai Military had all along been a thorn in the side of the USA, stepping in with its military coup whenever a regime change is about to erupt. That, together with the influence of the Thai Monarch has managed to overcome various attempts to change the regime in Thailand many times before. Which is why the last election saw a party winning an election harping on changing the power of influence of the Thai monarchy. That has not succeeded, but the USA will continue to chip away at the Thai Monarch and Thai Military power, in order for its agenda to succeed.

Anonymous

Hegseth, another hillbilly thinking of starting a war with China

 A batch of silly clowns have come and gone from Washington and the White House. The new occupiers are not much different, another batch of hillbillies still thinking that gunslinging in the Wild West is the way of life. Trump did not choose these gunslingers from the past for no good reasons. As a gangster himself, his only way to deal with a problem is smashing or banging the table until the adversary cringed in fear. So, Trump thought he has the best gunslingers in his stable all yelling to go to war with anyone, with China.

Hegseth, Rubio and the likes are just the typical hillbillies, with the brains of hillbillies to talk about going to war over Taiwan with China, an adversary not smaller than the USA. Every day since these gunslinging clowns stepped into their offices, it was all about bar fights and gunfights on the streets, but without knowing who they are and who they are dealing with. The hillbillies still think their little six shooters would do the job for them without knowing what the Chinese have in their arsenal.

Would the rest of the American hillbillies think like Hegseth and Marco Rubio and want to go to war with China over Taiwan, want to die in the Pacific Ocean before they could reach the Chinese shore? Did they look at Ukraine and take stock of what they are capable off in the face of a more formidable adversary like China?

Don't forget, Trump is still waiting outside the door of Xi's office and Xi has no time for him. Trump is not important or menacing enough to frighten Xi to want to take time off talking to him. What is a Fox News clown like Hegseth thinking, that he is JohnWayne acting in a Hollywood movie of the 1960s?

Wake up hillbillies, the world has gone by while you are still downing your cowboy whiskey in the dust ridden street bars. This is the 21st Century when technology is beyond your understanding and comprehension. Your six shooters are obsolete. Would the modern day American youths want to die for you just because you call the shot in the safety of your office in Washington? Get real!

The only positive thing about sending American boys and girls to fight for Taiwan is the savings from buying plastic bags. They don't need bags to take them home as they would be scattered in the Pacific Ocean to feed the fishes.

India is just as untrustworthy as the USA...anyone believing in snakes deserves to be bitten by snakes

 It is impossible to change India, just like it is impossible to change the USA. All because of the depth of the swamp. As long as the same elements are lurking in the swamp waiting to sabotage any semblance of change, change is not forthcoming.

On the other hand, I think China needs to be aware of any thawing of relations with India. There may be something amiss that I still cannot fathom. There is perhaps a sinister invisible hand prodding Modi to close ranks with China for a purpose and agenda. India is just as untrustworthy as the USA, not to talk about a snake. I think Modi does not have the grade and mentality to think carefully about his policies, just tagging on the ego boosting cheerleading of the West about India that probably lifted his ego. That has all be busted like an overinflated balloon.

China has to guard its cutting-edge technology in EVs and batteries especially, with BYD now able to produce EV batteries that only needs five-minute charging. Just like TSMC guarding its lead in chip foundries, China has to think carefully about building more EV and battery factories outside of China relying on its cutting-edge innovation. Vietnam wants China to build high-speed rails but also demands China to pass on the technology to them. Thinking about it, what really matters is that passing current technology may not be that detrimental, not when China is able to develop further its high-speed rail technology with even more cutting-edge building technology that it does not need to pass on later.

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Xi not interested in dishonourable Trump

 It is a good sign that Xi is not saying anything about the visit and making Trump neurotic and showing that not everything that Trump says goes. China, like Canada and Mexico now, are not taking Trump's threats and actions lying down. They are retaliating, not just by the Government but the common people boycotting travel and not buying USA made goods, literally saying that enough is enough over bullying.

Modi, of course had to take all that Trump dished out to him lying down, not daring to retaliate. They can continue to hug as much as they like, but that does not change the situation. Perhaps Trumps knows that Modi has no cards left to play and no hands to deal, or play scissors, paper and stone like Zelenskyy.

Xi is not the least interest in talking to untrustworthy leaders that overturn whatever is agreed the moment they returned home after stepping down from the plane.

Who can forget Biden's Washington meeting with 50 African leaders, promising US$350 billion for Africa's digital transformation, which was overturned into US$350 million the moment he stepped out of the venue. US$350 million for 50 African countries for digital transformation means US$7 million for each country, which is not even enough to dig holes for erecting pylons. The Administration immediately tried to spin around this backtracking as a gaffe by Biden. Dementia seems like a very good excuse.

Anonymous

Anglo-Saxon United States is a rogue country, a terrorist state responsible for all terrorist attacks and wars against all non-white countries of the South

 The Anglo-Saxon United States is a rogue country, a terrorist state which has been responsible for all terrorist attacks and wars against all non-white countries of the South for over eighty years since the end of the Second World War. These wars were meant to force all countries of the world to submit to US aggression, control and global hegemony.

But now though all or most ex-colonies of the West are more or less independent they are more or less still under West hybrid colonialism in the form of financial, commercial and trade control under such toxic Western control bodies like the Petro Dollar, World Bank, IMF, World Trade Organisatiom and the toothless United Nations Organisation which is under strict US domination.

But now the BRICS countries and all countries of the South are trying to dismantle these Western control toxic organisations and take control of their own destiny with new more fair and justifiable bodies the US and the West are not happy and are resorting to create wars to destabilise the countries of the South to suit their evil and toxic geopolitical agenda of new form of hybrid colonialism.

The US is now desperate and is trying to dominate the entire world once again, but it is doomed to fail.

Thus the kidnapping of Duterte has everything to do with US desperation in trying to reassert US imperialism and colonialism and its geopolitical agenda vis-avis China.

Richard Packards
Ireland.

First man in space was a Russian, first man on the moon would be a Chinese

 The Soviet Union did not have the financial muscle to compete with the USA in space in the sixties and was to take a back seat in space exploration. That was a pity, because the Russians built the International Space Station in 1993, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, said to be in co-operation with the USA and many other countries. However, the Soviet Union was also the first to send a man into space in 1961, beating the USA. That was why the USA probably invented the moon landing in 1969, when John F. Kennedy threw down the gauntlet to NASA to do something to take back the USA's lost pride. Many we not convinced that the USA really went to the moon. It was more like the moon in a Hollywood Studio. Had the Russians not be constrained by financial reasons, it would never have lost the real space race to the moon.

China on the other hand is financially stronger to do better than the Soviet Union and is giving the USA a run for the money today. The rescue of the two stranded astronauts on the International Space Station has been made into a song and dance by the USA. Much ado about nothing really in the hands of the Russians or the Chinese. Hollywood will probably do a blockbuster over the fiasco.

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