India Pakistan flashpoint after JD Vance meeting with Modi

 JD Vance is looking like the angel of death. After his visit to Greenland, which was a fiasco when no Greenlanders wanted to meet him, he created a lot of anger for claiming that Greenland was badly managed and best to become part of the USA. His next visit to Pope Francis was a bigger disaster. The Pope died two hours after meeting him. What else can be worse than this? He visited New Delhi and met up with Modi. Within a matter of days, there was a terrorist attack in Kashmir, 26 Indian tourists died.  Whose false flag?

What a coincidence! And the terrorist group is an unknown group, never heard off. But Modi immediately claimed that Pakistan was behind the attack and behaving aggressively against Pakistan, threatening war, threatening to cut off water supply to Pakistan. This is the only terrorist attack when a country could straight away point the finger at another state as being responsible for it, without any evidence. India is now fully geared up for war against Pakistan, accused of a crime it denied, and did not commit. But India's Modi said so and so be it. This is the true colour of this upstart pretentious super power to be, highly dangerous and very aggressive. India is a big bully in South Asia.

More coincidence. Within hours of Modi's hawkish accusation against Pakistan, military planes from the US and Israel landed in India with weapons and military supplies. Anyone in the know would understand that unless there was preplanning, it is not easy to move huge military supplies and weapons to another country unrelated to any state of war. It takes time to move military logistics, needs approval at the highest level of command. And these take even more time. But the Americans and Israels are already in India. What did all these means? Coincidence or already prepared in advance?

And India is not mincing its words and stand. Pakistan is the culprit, period. Why is Modi so cock sure that it was Pakistan without any evidence, and shooting from his mouth almost instantly, like he knew well in advanced or already been told what was going to happen?

Pakistan is trying desperately to explain to the Indians that it had nothing to do with them, but to no avail. It is like the Indians were preparing for a war with the Pakistan and would not listen to any explanation. The Indians have made up their mind to go to war with Pakistan. So are the Americans and Israelis.

The hostility and aggressive behaviour of the Indians, Americans and Israelis have forced the hands of Pakistan's friends. Turkey have responded by sending military aids to Pakistan. China, the strongest supporter of Pakistan, is also sending military aid to Pakistan.

This Indian war against Pakistan would put to test the highly hyped American and western weapons against Chinese weapons. For a start, the highly touted French Rafale, claimed to be as good as the best American warplanes like the F22 and F35, would come face to face with China's J10 C, and Sino Pak joint manufactured JF17. And China has for the first time has given Pakistan its not for sale PL15 AA missiles with longer range than any in the Indian armoury.

The truth on the superiority of American and western weapons vis a vis Chinese weapons would soon be out. The Houthis, a rag tag rebel forces wearing slippers are taking on the world's number one military power, the Americans that have all the world best weapons. And the Americans have been clobbered, losing their state of the art MQ9 Reaper drones, 23 so far downed by Houthis homemade missiles. And the Houthis are still controlling passage through the Red Sea with the American warships hiding far away, unable to stop the Houthis.

The Indo Pak war would see the real Chinese weapons in action against the best the Indians have bought from the West and the Americans. No more lies or hypes. The truth shall be there for the world to see.

Trump has declared he is the Emperor and would take over the world

 Trump's only way to make America great again, is to take over the world.  His economic war and tariffs cannot make America great again. And he knows and right from the start of his second term he has made his attention clear to the world by his announcement of wanting to take over Greenland, Canada, Mexico and the Panama Canal. What is Palestine and Gaza? No man's land. He wants Gaza for his son in law to develop into a real estate. He wants to take over Ukraine's rare earth resources. To achieve his expansionist scheme, he picked all the American war hawks to join his team.

Whatever Trump wants, he would simply take. This is the mindset of lunatic Trump. America is the world Empire, and he is the Emperor. Any silly American worshipper still believing in the mighty white Americans as peace loving people? Anyone dares to speak out or sanction America for wanting to take over other sovereign nation states in the name of principles, that this is a violation of international laws and against the interest of small states?

Not yet. Champion Singapore would be the first to speak out and sanction America, just like it did with Russia, once Trump takes over one of the countries he spoke off. Singapore has taken a principled stand and would not back down. Singapore is not speaking out now because Trump has not acted upon it. Singapore is waiting for the right moment to punch above its weight.

Trump dares to say and would dare to do as he says, because there is no one to stop him. Greenland, Canada, Mexico and little Panama are too small and weak to stand up to the American gangsters. When they have submitted to Emperor Trump, who is there to mind their own business? China and Russia would not be able to stop the aggressive and expansionist Trump and his evil American Empire. The American terrorists and gangsters shall rule the world, under America's gangster rules based order.

And this is only the beginning. Trump would put his stamp all over the world, that the American Empire owns the world. The rest of the world is for the Americans and Emperor Trump to take. Who is able to resist, to fight back? This is the reality. Trump is playing hard ball, and he knows, no one can stop him.

Trump will remake the American Empire and make America great again.

Liberation Day - American dock workers and farmers losing their jobs. Oops, liberated from their jobs

 There is a joke going around about Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs.

'Liberation Day' means dockworkers are now being 'liberated' from their jobs, with shippers cancelling their cargo unloading at USA ports. This is the first line of job losses already evident. It is now reported to be a 20% drop, but some say that is just wishful thinking, saying that a 50% drop is more likely. The effect on retailers, consumers, manufacturers, food and beverage outlets and small business has yet to take off. Which means more job losses are coming. Are tariffs creating jobs or the other way round?

Just how harmful the tariffs are is now unfolding, but we have not seen the worst yet. This is just the beginning and is only late April. Stock piling has managed to mitigate the situation to some extent, with price rises also evident, but come May, June and onwards, it will be fun to watch.

Anonymous

Trust Trump spoke to Xi. That is what a mad man would do, talking to no one but thinking he did spoke to someone

 It is so ironical that Trump is telling the world that he spoke to Xi many times over the tariffs, without telling us when. What he really tried to con us is that he did speak to Xi many times before the tariff war started, which is nothing extraordinary. And trying to connect that as talks relating to the tariff war is trying to pull a fast one.

And Trump is spinning out of control by saying that Xi calling him is not showing the world that Xi has lost the plot and have to kiss his arse. Who is he trying to fool? Trying to play a psychological war against Xi hoping to lure Xi to call him? A draught player trying to pit his skills against a chess player is a joke.

I think the tariff war is at the point of no return now and Trump is really desperate in the face of warnings by retailers about empty shelves if this goes on. Even Scott Bessant now realizes it is not sustainable.

When Chinese exporters sealed their export market to the Global South to replace the USA market, that is the end of Chinese export to the USA. And like the case of USA agricultural products for the Chinese market, it will be gone forever and never to return.

Xi is not anxious about Trump not calling him. It is Trump that is clearly anxious, even inventing fake news to say that Xi called him many times. This is clearly desperation on another level.

This is perhaps the best time for China to teach the USA a good lesson for being so arrogant and must let the big bully suffer the consequences. What really makes this a great opportunity is the revelation by Rednote to USA voters that they had been missing the great lifestyle that the 'peasants' are enjoying and which had eluded them more and more.

Anonymous

Trump's regime filled with gays and losers

 Someone commented that Scott Bessant seems to be almost on the point of crying in front of the cameras. Not only that, but he also seems incoherent in his speeches, appearing to be nervous and occasionally stuttering.

Despite the high reputation in his investment acumen in hedge fund management from some sources during his term with Soros Fund Management, he is also not immune to failure as well. After leaving Soros Fund Management in 2000, he started his own hedge fund that was to close down in 2005. After dabbling around, he co-founded Key Square Group in 2015, managing assets of US$5.1 billion in 2017 that eventually collapsed to just US$577 million in 2023, with institutional investors shrinking from 180 to just 20 over the same period. Does following Trump's footprint with a string of failures lead to him being sought out by Trump for the job as Treasury Secretary? Birds of a feather flocking together I suppose.

Scott Bessant is also a known gay and together with other gays in Trump's administration, it is turning into a circus of gays.

Anonymous

Trump strangling and killing big tech companies

 Jensen Huang of Nvidia visited China in the midst of Trump's trade war against China and the world in general. This is a very sensitive time to make such a visit and its importance to the viability and well being of Nvidia cannot be underestimated. The visit would definitely be frown upon by Trump and his anti China hawks. 

Big tech companies are crumbling. Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Micron, Qualcomm and Dutch ASML and Taiwan's TSMC are also badly affected. The growth of these companies is choked by the American regime, stopped from selling to their biggest customers. All the expansion plans would have to be halted. All the innovation of new and advanced chips would have a shrunk market to sell to. The effort would be wasted for the stupidest reasons imposed by the Washington regime.

Nvidia is losing $5 billion revenue per quarter from China. Intel just lost $100 billion as all its chip contracts to China has been cancelled. China is also the biggest customer of AMD, Intel, Micron, Qualcomm and selling to China is as good as gone forever. The joke is that Nvidia cannot sell its most advanced chips to China and has to compromise with a substandard chip to sell to China. It is like selling a Ferrari with a Toyota engine and expecting China to buy it.

With all the controls and sanctions, China is not taking it lying down. China has doubled up on its innovation to replace what the big techs are forbidden to sell to them and coming up with new products on their own. ASML's EUV machine costing billions cannot be sold to China is only part of the story. The bigger story is that China no longer needs them and ASML has just lost the China market. TSMC would eventually only have the American market to sell to, without China. All the big expansion plans for more plants in the USA would become white elephants, overcapacity but no big customer like China to pick up the chips.

Most of the big tech companies would have to downsize and cut jobs when the projected sales have hit a false ceiling, unable to sell to their biggest customer that could absorb a third of their production. This is gone for good. Who else can replace the China market? The American and European markets just can take in so much and nothing more. And they are not expanding unlike the Chinese market that has much more room to grow. They would all be replaced by Chinese big tech companies selling better and cheaper chips to the world.

Hermes admitted their products are Made in China

 The Chinese OEM's exposure of luxury brand goods being Made in China has caused a storm in America and the West. Their lies and cheating the consumers by the thousands are making the consumers very angry and feeling very silly. The big brands are also very angry as exposing these lies would hurt their sales and profits and their brands. They are not going to make the same kind of obscene profits from unwary and innocent consumers any more. Sales have plunged, brand loyalty is gone. They must hit back.

Hermes is hitting back by suing the OEMs for violating the contracts, disclosing trade secrets. Hermes is not suing them for lying, for smearing the Hermes brand. Hermes still insists that all their products are not Made in China. Then what is this violation of contracts all about? What contracts did they signed with Chinese OEMs if their products were not made by them? There should not be any contract at all.

By admitting that there are contracts between Hermes and Chinese OEMs, Hermes is directly admitting that their products are Made in China by Chinese factories, and the OEMs are violating the contractual agreements to disclose that Hermes products were made by them.

So, even if Hermes were to win the legal case, they cannot hide the fact that their products were made by Chinese OEMs. And the OEMs would disclose everything in court, including all the correspondence and contractual agreements signed between them and Hermes. Case closed.

Hermes would gain another reputation, for lying that their products were not Made in China.

Liar Trump is the laughing stock of the world...but he has no sense of shame

 Trump lied about Mexico paying for the wall. In the end USA taxpayers paid the bill. He lied about his achievements at the UN during his first term and everyone laughs at him. He is immune to shame, talking about grabbing pussies.

Trump lied about bring down the price of groceries and promising to reduce the price of eggs during his campaigning. Now prices of eggs have not come down, and when asked, Trump shouted to them not to talk about eggs. This is his modus operandi.

Trump lied about settling the Ukraine War within 24 hours, which everyone with a sane mind knows it is impossible. He even blamed Zelenskyy for starting the war, which everyone in the Northern Hemisphere had been blaming Putin for years. Trump could be right on this, with Zelenskyy attempting to join NATO and provoking Putin in Eastern Ukraine by attacking Russian speaking citizens. Now Trump is even claiming that Russia is giving Ukraine a great concession by not taking over the whole of Ukraine, while Zelenskyy is trying to reclaim Crimea.

Trump knows that his lies can only conned the Hillbillies, and his six bankruptcies tells the story of his conman tactics. The USA will be his seventh bankruptcy as many have predicted.

Trump is now also caught lying through his teeth about Xi calling him. The USA has become the laughingstock of the world. No other country even comes close.

Anonymous

China going for complete break. No more talks

 The mind-blowing thinking is that the silly Hillbillies are still thinking that China is paying for the tariffs. Now ships carrying Chinese goods are not unloading at USA ports. Chinese manufacturers are diverting exports to the Global South instead. There is still a big market in the Global South that Chinese manufacturers can migrate to, almost immediately.

The irony is that the Hillbillies are going to die 'bird standing' if China just cut off the USA from its exporters and decouple completely. Some Hillbillies are still delusional, claiming that substitutes are readily available from other countries. They are going to wake up from a nightmare a few months down the road, waiting for products from other countries to fill the empty shelves. Remember that all countries have been targeted with tariffs like China. Who in his right mind is going to invest in manufacturing knowing they cannot compete with China globally and the only market left is the USA. China can put them out of business in a jiffy.

Of what use are tariffs, even if set at 500%, if Chinese goods are not going to the USA? What does Trump expect to collect in tariffs if Chinese exporters do not export any more to the USA? China is going to fight this war to the end and the USA better believe the reality, not just rhetoric.

China, like Russia can fight long wars and will dig in to carve out a final victory.

Anonymous

Western powers conducted 18 coups against Traore of Burkina Faso. Putin sent commandos to protect him

 

18 min clip on how Ibrahim Traore stopped a coup against him and arrested the foreign agents.

The western powers, America and Europeans, are all out to kill Traore, the young leader of Burkina Faso in Africa. The white terrorists cannot allow the Africans to be free and independent. They want their land and everything for themselves. They bribed, coerced, invaded and ruled African states directly or by proxies. Traore is not going to be ruled by the white men. He vowed to protect Burkina Faso and its people with his life.

Putin saw the danger and sent in his commandos to be his palace guards, to protect him. Putin is not going to let Burkina Faso fall. The bad experience of Syria, cheated by the West with fake agreements, has taught him a painful lesson. He has to go all out to protect Traore, like what he is doing in Ukraine. No more silly agreements with the Americans or Israelis or the Europeans, not to hit them and they would not hit Russian forces, but allowed them to hit Syrian forces at will. This was a bad mistake and Syria is lost.

Putin is also sending military aids and weapons to Iran to make sure Iran would not fall to the Americans and the West. But this is not enough. The Arab and African states are very weak militarily against the combined forces of the Americans, the Israelis and the West. Kim Jong Un has also stood up and announced that North Korean soldiers are supporting the Russians in Ukraine. They all know that they are next to be attacked and wiped out by the Americans and the West. They have to unite and fight together against the American and western terrorists. The Americans and the West have openly stated that they are going to destroy Russia, North Korea, Iran and many Arab and African states, and also China. China is still trying to be the good guy, 好好先生, watching from the sideline, not my business, just like the Arab states watching the genocide of the Palestinians by the Americans and the Israelis, not my business but knowing very well that their turn will come.

Is China waiting for the Americans and the West to destroy Russia, Iran, North Korea and take over the Middle East and Africa, and then fight the Americans and the West alone? The Americans, NATO and the Japanese have been conspiring to invade and bring down China. They said it openly and over and over again. The Americans are now deploying deadly weapons in the Philippines to attack China and Chinese warships. Thye continued to meddle with Taiwan and selling weapons to Taiwan to stop the reunification.

How long would it take for this 好好先生 to wake up from its stupidity? China can now fight on the side of Russia, Iran, North Korea and many Arab states against the Americans and the West and stand a chance to win or at least not be wiped out. Fighting alone after everyone has been destroyed by the Americans and the West is foolish, Ah Q mentality. Mao was decisive and strong enough to take on the Americans and the West in Korea when China was very weak and poor. China today is no longer weak and poor. Would China want to behave like a wimp forever, and think it would be safe, like the Arab and Muslim states?

This is the chance for China to save itself and to protect the Chinese Civilisation by taking firm and decisive actions against the Americans and the West, like Mao did in the Korean War. 好好先生 or 伪君子 did not have good endings. Xi has to stand up like Mao, no more pretences, no more 好好先生 or 伪君子 . Letting down Russia and Global South friends would be China's own undoing.

The Global South is waiting for China and Russia to lead to free them from American and western oppression and control.

Poland and India next target of American invasion

 CNN guest reveals Trump's 'next two targets for American invasion'.  Story by Samantha Rutt For Dailymail.Com

A Democratic politician warned that Donald Trump's quest for top-notch national security 'might not stop at Greenland,' suggesting that the president could be plotting to 'take over' Poland or India next.
Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton, 46, questioned whether Trump's fascination with acquiring territories could extend to other nations, calling the hypothetical move 'absurd' and 'a dumb way to conduct foreign policy.'  

'Does he want to take over India, because they border China? Does he want to take over Mongolia, kind of in between the two?' the congressman added.

'I mean, this is just absurd,' he said of the rhetorical proposition. 'That's not how the United States operates. It's a dumb way to conduct foreign policy.' MSNMS

This is as good as the signal leak, when top secret discussion is now being leaked to the world. The democrat politician did not speak this out of nothing. He must have access to inside information and saying it out loud. Trump is on a war path, an expansionary path, to make America great again, like their rogue murderer predecessors that landed in America and went on to massacre the natives to near extinction, in the most horrific Genocide of Humankind. More than 100 million native Americans were massacred in cold blood. And after every massacre of a village, the butchers went home to celebrate Thanksgiving Day, to celebrate the slaughter of the natives...getting rid of another batch of the original landowners.

Trump is going on a bloodbath, to take over the world by force. He could simply call a land or a piece of water as a security concern for the American Empire and just move in to take it. He could claim a piece of land or water as vital to the defence of the American Empire from fictitious threat like China and Russia and take it over. The Panama Canal was never under the control of China. Two of its several terminals were owned by Li Kashing, a Canadian citizen. His company Cheung Kong Hutchinson is a public listed company in Hong Kong. How could he control the Panama Canal? And by extrapolating, China ended up controlling the Panama Canal? It is all another vicious American convenient lie.

The fact, the Panama Govt is in full control of the Canal and calls the shot. No private individual or company can control the Canal except the Panama Govt. Now the American terrorists are spreading lies and fake disinformation to want to seize and take control of the Canal, to stop freedom of navigation in the Canal. When is Trump going to do the same to the Malacca Strait or the island of Singapore?

The American terrorist Empire is a clear and presence danger, the most immediate threat to the whole world. No more lies! India would not be spared. Poland would not be spared. The Straits of Malacca would not be spared! Singapore would also not be spared to this lunatic Trump. This mad man knows no bound.

Tariff war hits...Trumps going bonkers, talking to himself

 Yes, a once in 100-year event is happening. Jobs are not being created in the USA as Trump gloated, but the opposite is happening. Lots of jobs are being created in Brazil, Argentina and Russia in agriculture, with China buying more and more agricultural products from these three countries. Another significant agricultural supply source would be Indonesia, which will be added to China's supply chain.

Meanwhile, manufacturing is not returning to the USA, unless backward factories are going to the USA to create sweat shop jobs as we have seen on Tik Tok to give an idea of what Trump is expecting. Modern factories are mostly automated with robotics and AI running them. That is why China is able to produce goods so cheaply. It has nothing to do with subsidies or cheap slave labor. Apple CEO, Tim Cook, disclosed this in no uncertain terms.

More unemployed in USA are joining the queue with all the job cuts in Federal Agencies and still claiming that job creation is strong is unbelievable. We have already seen walk backs on job figures in the past, hundreds of thousands in fact, all of which have been the result of inflated job figures in past months. But USA voters are content with such manipulation, so what can we say. Suffice to say, never try to correct your enemy when he is making mistakes.

If the tariff war does not end, more misery is going to befall the USA voters, as retail outlets are going to be without replenishments after the stock piling during the past couple of months runs out. Which is why Trump is desperate and panicking, even claiming Xi called him to calm the ground. How long can he kick the can further down the road? Even Scott Bessent is telling the Trump administration that the continuation of the trade war by USA is unsustainable.

Chinese exporters are not unduly worried. Most of the wholesale businesses at the World's Biggest Wholesale Centre, the Yiwu International Trade Centre, dealing only with exports, said that they are shipping more to the Global South since the cut off from the USA market. China has all the time in the world to wait and just play the long game to see who blinks first.

Anonymous

Americans desperate to mine rare earth

 The USA tried mining rare earth in Mongolia and could not bypass the Chinese and Russian hurdle of how to get those raw materials out of land-locked Mongolia. China refused to allow its ports to be used for the ores to be shipped to Japan for refining. That killed the project altogether.

The USA tried to engage Vietnam to allow it to exploit the rare earth material in Vietnam and is still trying very hard to sway the Vietnamese to their side. Too bad, they showed the Vietnamese their negative side with Kamala Harris laying a wreath at John McCain's memorial site in Hanoi. This is an act adding insult to injury for Kamala Harris to pay respect to a war criminal in the eyes of the Vietnamese. The insensitivity was uncalled for and was a big mistake.

Now it looks like Trump's attempt to have access to Ukraine's mineral resources, including rare earth, is falling apart, with the Ukraine peace deal hanging in the balance.

With no other choice, Trump is betting on mining rare earth from the deep ocean that I believe no one else has done yet. When that fails, maybe Trump will gloat about mining on the moon, or even Mars, LOL. Talk about building castle's in the air!

Anonymous

Trump forcing countries to sacrifice for the USA

 Trump is now forcing other countries to sacrifice themselves for the USA. Not only countries, but world bodies like the IMF, World Bank, WHO, UN and ICJ are being forced to do the USA's bidding to cripple China. I think countries are beginning to wake up to the realization that they are merely proxies being used to further the interest of the USA. They could see that happening with Ukraine now. Trump's peace plan is all preoccupied with gaining access to Ukraine's mineral resources, nothing more.

Ukraine had been used by the USA, with 'iron clad' promises and abandoned when the going gets tough. Ukraine is being abandoned in favor of Israel in the Middle East. As John Mearsheimer said earlier, Ukraine is not a country of strategic importance to the USA, unlike Germany or Israel. That should be a lesson for Taiwan and the Philippines not to take too seriously the 'iron clad' promises of the USA.

Japan, surprisingly, is now seemingly not following the USA line of going against China. However, that may change when pressure is applied by the USA and we have seen that happening elsewhere, like the Saudis. Japan had been used for decades by the USA against China and is needlessly suffering economic consequences. Even before Trump's second term, Japan had been selling its treasuries to prop up the falling Yen, a move that elicit a stern warning from Janet Yellen, the previous Treasury Secretary of the USA. You can be sure that Scott Bessent is also not relenting in his application of pressure points against Japan.

Anonymous

EVs - Tesla, the last defence line falling

  Tesla reported its first fall in yearly deliveries on Thursday (Dec 2) as lucrative year-end incentives for the Elon Musk-led electric vehicle maker's aging lineup and the new Cybertruck pickup failed to lure customers wary of high borrowing costs.

Musk had earlier predicted "slight growth" in 2024 deliveries and offered a range of promotions including interest-free financing and free fast-charging to boost sales....

The two companies are currently competing at different price ranges. The starting price of Tesla’s cheapest model at around US$31,900 in China is more than triple the sticker price of BYD’s lowest-priced model. That is the Seagull, an all-electric hatchback starting at US$9,900, which surpassed 280,000 units in sales last year, accounting for nearly a fifth of all BYD battery EVs sold last year. CNA

American and western tech superiority crumbling and failing one by one. Boeing, the iconic American company is about to hit the dust. In automobiles, America legends like Ford, GM, Buick, Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, are still stuck in the legacy car shit hole and unable to make any headway in EVs. All their EVs can be described as expensive, inefficient and backward.

The only American EV that is still kicking is Tesla. Musk thought that his involvement in politics, to be Trump's right hand man would propel Tesla to new heights. Never has he ever thought of how the Americans would see him, how his actions have caused so much pain and misery to the American working class and now boomeranged to his Tesla cars. The anger and hate against Musk have been translated to anti Tesla EVs. Tesla cars are not only scratched, spray painted, but smashed and burnt on the roads. Car buyers are afraid to own a Tesla for fear of arson attacks. 

Tesla sales have plummeted, and all the good works of the past are now history.  Tesla is also going to bite the dust. On the other hand, Tesla's Chinese competitors are rolling out more and better models that made Tesla cars looking dated. Sales of Chinese EVs, despite the tariffs, are soaring and overtaking Tesla.

Tesla is the last line of defence in American tech industries. China is overtaking everyone of them, including the tough chip industry. China has caught up and running ahead with new technologies to surpass the Americans in chip making. With Tesla going down, there is now nothing in the American industrial arsenal to stay and compete with China. Trump has in his direct foolish ways destroy the whole American industrial competitiveness vis a vis China and the rest of the world.

It is now China running ahead with the Americans fading in the rear mirror. Nothing is going to stop China anymore. Even in the exclusive world of fashion, Made in China is the real stuff, the brand for quality and superior craftsmanship and reasonable prices.

GE2025 - Anything interesting to watch?

 We are in the middle of the GE campaigning and nothing unusual or exciting has cropped up other than the usual stuff. Overall, this GE is going to look like the past GEs and at best hoping for some surprises or upsets. The eastern part of the island is looking like a contest between the PAP and WP, but the results are likely to be the same as the last GE. WP is likely to hold on to their gains but not looking to make more headways. If there is any, it is likely to be from the SMCs.

What is interesting to watch is on the western front. Paul Tambyah of SDP is looking like the most electable opposition candidate and is facing Liang Eng Hwa of PAP, not exactly a heavy weight in Bukit Panjang SMC. The best of the opposition facing an average PAP candidate.  There is really nothing much to fault this professor and not much mud can be thrown at him. PAP would have a hard time trying to present Liang Eng Hwa as a better choice than Tambyah.

The biggest contest is likely to be in West Coast Jurong GRC. Desmond Lee is the anchor man of the PAP team, a measured politician that does not court controversy or involved in grandstanding. Would he be enough to carry a team that is not looking that spectacular against Tan Cheng Bock of PSP and his team? Cheng Bock is an old hand with many supporters built over decades in politics. He is supported by an increasingly popular Leong Mun Wai and Hazel Poa. The two minority candidates also have solid credentials, making the team fairly formidable.

Cheng Bock and Mun Wai combination is about the strongest available from the opposition camp. This is going to be a tough battle for Desmond Lee and his team. Tharman is no longer there to helm the team and nothing needs to be said about Iswaran's legacy. If there is any major upset in GE2025, this is where it gonna happens.

PSP is optimistic, throwing all their big names into West Coast Jurong GRC. PAP's big guns are somewhere else. This is a big test of Desmond Lee's weight as an anchor minister. He is carrying all the weight himself against PSP's big guns. It is going to be very close.

The more Trump lies, the more he discredits himself

 Trump now claims that Xi called him regarding the tariff war. Beijing categorically denied everything that is trotted out by the USA, claiming no such event is happening and are just fake news. Now, who do we believe?

Trump already caved to China earlier as most people are saying, by talking about bringing down the tariffs against China in the face of demands by Beijing that any talk can only proceed with Trump's tariffs out of the way. That stand is as clear as daylight, with claims that Xi called Trump just an illusion. Words must be matched by action, not just releasing hot air. China is waiting for Trump to get the tariffs out of the way first before talks can proceed.

Is this a move meant for the stock market to shoot up again for his cronies to make more money? I would not discount the motive.

Anonymous

Silly Asians courting dangers for their Women folks

 Silly Asians that allowed the Americunts Barbarians and Savages Military to have their Bases in their Countries are courting dangers for their Women folks.

The Americunts soldiers sre deemed to be immune to their Civil Laws as they are protected by their own Miltary Rules and Laws.

They could caused havocs and only their own Provost or Military Police could handle them.

As usual in their damn BS justice where their own could simply closed their eyes and pardoned all their own kakis and lackeys and cronies no actions would be taken against them.

For a Facade, they might said that they are been punished but what's the Hell you know behind their enclosed Miltary Bases and Camps.

They might be even be feasbted as Heros! For their BRAVO!

See when their Naval Forces are in any Country's ports of calls, their own SP, Sea or Special Police are always be seen on the shores as a
deterrent to warn them of causing troubles.

To them the Civil Laws or that country Police are NOT allow to touch them.

Our time in 60s, i.e in 67 and around 69 when we first started our own of building up our SAF where at that time Singapore still followed the International Rules of Miltary Ordinance, our own Provost which we were known at that time were tasked with the duties of enforcing the discipline and arrests of any Foreign Military Forces in our country at that time with the co-operations of also their own MPs or SPs.

Also our own soldiers are also subjected under the SAF Act Miltary Rules and Laws to be under the supervision and lawful arrests only by the Provost or Miltary Police.

One time Matland had their one KD Singapura in the North of our Island.
Their Personnel also subjected to Miltary Rules and Laws and our own MPs used to handle their boisterous behaviours as most if not Miltary Servicemen are usually the Gangsters and Unruly Ones in our time of the 60s to 70s.

Now different scholarly Ones.

Now Singapore SPF are empowered to arrest the SAF soldiers and also any Foreign Military Personnel if they were to commit any offences.

But frankly, only our own, the UAss Miltary Personnel or other Allied Forces, still pang chance lah.

Refer to their own justice with exception those really seizable and penal offences.

So the South Koreans, the Japanese are foolish to have these White Barbarians in their Countries.

Ask For the Pinoys, aiya welcomed for their monies and sins.

No eyes see

Virgo49

China retaliates with rare earth and food ban, waiting for farmers to cry to Trump

 China does not need huge responses to counter the USA. Just a tiny retaliation using rare earth causes massive pain. Such a calibrated retaliation costs China relatively little damage to its citizens but reaps massive benefits for China. China's retaliation is calibrated to induce massive harm to the USA.

China retaliated against the USA's agricultural sector during Trump's first term trade war, creating chaos for USA farmers and in this second Trump's term is going in for the kill by wiping out most USA farmers and their livelihood. These are also the MAGA base of Trump voters, besides manufacturing, and are turning them against the Trump administration.

Farmers in USA are unlikely to find ways to go back to business as usual with China ever again. Farmers in Brazil, Argentina and Russia are taking over their businesses with China forever. The Chinese market is gone for them, with no credible substitute for volume and size to match. This is what 'Make USA Great Again' is turning into and is making China even greater.

China does not ever been known to shout about 'Making China Great Again' and let the reality shout for itself. The USA can shout itself coarse but reaps little benefit. Empty vessels make the most noise.

Anonymous

So many new faces in 2025 joining the fray for political leadership but can they measure up to the task.

 All political parties must ensure new aspirants for political leadership measure up to the high demanding criteria require of politicians.

All new aspirants taking up politics must be asked to list out their criteria for wanting to join. Their lists of criteria must then be published for the public to scrutinize and if possible to comment.

First and foremost politicians must be sincere in really wanting to seriously serve their fellow countrymen and country with all their hearts and with all their minds and soul. They must not be hypocritical in promising to serve the people before election but after being elected demand that the populace serve them. Will they devote all their time and energy to serve sincerely as ministers or MPs and resign from their existing jobs. Or will they take their political office as part time job while devoting their usual selves to indulge in their own business.

They must not think of enriching themselves by way of Parliament. They must know the Parliament is a sacred public institution to serve the country and the people. If they want to grow rich they should go into the business world and not enter into politics.

Whatever it is they must help the government to form good governance for the good of the people and country. 

It is important for politicians to take note of some importants aspects that a discerning government must keep in mind .

A good careful government must avoid sliding into the fake system of  American democracy the governance of which advocates extreme capitalism that follows the Darwinism principle and theory of survival of the fittest which caters only to the benefit of the one to ten percent elitist society at the detrimental expense of the by and large ninety percent ordinary populace. This type of Darwinism governance will lead to disaster, chaos and turmoil and eventual demise of the  country. The fake American democracy is in actual truth a fascist regime of the elitist oligarchy.

It is good for Singapore to follow a socialist democracy in which the people equate the country as a big family consisting of an aggregate of thousands or millions of diverse families that look upon the government with responsibility to take care of the interests, well being and welfare of the people.

A good socialist government should not straddle between the  self interest  of the dangerous fake American democracy and the hypocritical concepts and malpractice of the fake socialism of George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'.

Southernglory1

Saturday, 26th April, 2025

Xi has said, the once in a 100 year event is about to happen - A Great Reset

 When Xi Jinping talked about a once in a 100 year event in the making, no one really understood or believed in what he was saying. Some thought he was just talking about the rise of China. Some may think it is Trump making America great again. The hillbillies wanted to believe in the latter, to live the glorious lives like their predecessors during the heydays of the American Empire when there was only one country, the USA, ruling the world, dictating to the world, bullying the world, and did whatever it liked like invading and destroying countries with fabricated lies and no one can do anything about it. Or like bringing down Russia with the mother of all sanctions, or like wanting to take over nation states as and when Emperor Trump wishes to.

What is the real Great Reset? The picture is getting clearer by the day. Can anyone miss this event? To the enlightened, the writing is on the wall. All the lies, propaganda, fabrications, cannot wish this to go away. Trump has pushed the button for the Great Reset. To this D grader 'genius', it is so easy and everything would turn out to be what he wished. The whole world would come crawling to him to kiss his ass. And America would be great again.

To his surprise, China totally ignored him despite his cries and whines, and pretending that Xi is crumbling and would be coming to him to beg for mercy. Trump keeps telling the world that Xi will call him, or Xi had spoken to him, China has contacted America and negotiating to America, China wants a deal, China is panicking, China needs America! China not only ignored him totally, China came out with an official reply to say Trump is a liar.

What is real? Xi panicking or Trump panicking?

What has Trump done to the American people and corporations are all there for the Americans to see. The American economy is crumbling and heading to a standstill. The stock market is collapsing. The world is dumping American bonds. The dollar is collapsing. The Americans are feeling the pinch with high inflation and job losses. The shelves in the supermarkets and stores are emptying. The corporations are closing down, retrenchment and moving overseas instead of companies moving to America.

The farmers are going broke. The Americans living from paycheck to paycheck are crying, unable to put food on the table, or have to cut corners, to eat less. Yes, the poor Americans are eating less. The only thing they can do is to pray and hope that idiot Trump is doing the right thing and things would turn out better tomorrow.

The Americans are still in delusion, refusing to see what is happening, what is real, that their lives are going from good to bad, from bad to worse. Soon the dollar will become banana currency that nobody wants. Soon they will have plenty of dollar but nothing to buy. Soon they will be hungry and rioting in the streets of America. American farmers are suffering from overcapacity. Surpluses of soya beans, corns, meat, pork etc etc with no buyers.

The Great Reset is happening everyday to the Americans. They just did not want to see, did not want to believe in what they are seeing and experiencing. They are still putting all their hopes on clown Trump the 'genius' with inverted commas. By the time the lightning strikes, it would be all over, too late to unwind. The rest of the world would leave the Americans alone to wallow in self pity.

Anyone still cannot see or did not know what the Great Reset is all about? Trump has turned the whole world against the American Empire.

Idiot Trump fantasying mining rare earth from deep seas

 Trump is now trying to scare China, passing an order to mine rare earth in deep sea. That must be the mother of all rhetorics, without thinking about the cost of doing it. Rare earths raw materials can be found in abundance on the earth's surface - with substantial reserves in Vietnam, Brazil, Russia and India, besides China. China dominates in reserves and processing which no other country can touch.

Yes, rare earth is not rare at all, and some Western sources are trying to spin the narrative that it is unfortunate for China that there are alternatives for countries to mine them. The problem runs further than mining them, with logistics processing them to make it into useful metals is all controlled by China. Further, there are environmental, and radiation factors involved, which some countries are least able to set up mines without running into opposition.

So, what if the USA can mine them in the deep sea. Are there processing logistics set up in the USA already to process them, or are those ideas just plucked from thin air. When will such mining work start when the USA military industrial complex, semiconductor makers, EV makers are waiting anxiously for their supplies in the face of China's ban? As a non-technical person, can I assume that processing such raw rare earth mined from the bottom of the sea probably needs a different processing method, just like crude oil. It is not a case of one size fits all.

I believe this is another hot air being blown by Trump to fool the world and to distract attention to his other failures, but certainly not China. China has plenty of time to watch the clowning, while the USA continues to shoot its own foot.

Anonymous

Trump's mafia tactics cannot win trade wars

 Trump cannot win with just a plan without any backup strategy; just plucking half-baked ideas from thin air like printing free money. The way that Trump is doing, taking two steps forward and two steps back again shows how flimsy his plans were. They were all just hot air with no specific direction and confidence in moving forward, backtracking on the spur of the moment.

Why the USA failed is because it had no backup plan for its agricultural products and farmers were left at a loss as to how to sell the products that China needed but which China are finding substitutes from elsewhere as a result of the first trade war. China backed up its needs by diversifying its sources, already in anticipation of the USA holding it hostage in food security. China thinks far ahead, while the USA only thinks about how to cripple China today, without considering the consequences tomorrow. The tariffs now show how delusional Trump is thinking about de-coupling from China completely.

The second step China took was building the BRI to create a network of transportation links for trade with other countries without having to use the traditional sea routes in times of conflict. It was also a plan by China to recycle its trade surpluses by diversifying its surpluses into building the BRI with long term benefits. Otherwise, such trade surpluses would largely still be channeled to buying USA Treasuries and other assets and risk losing them like Russia.

The third step that China took in co-operation with Russia was the setting up of BRICS to move away from using solely the US$ for global trade. To do that it was also necessary to move away from using SWIFT for trade settlement, which BRICS is well on its way to roll out. It would not be easy for a start, but China plays the long game.

Other than the above, China also planned long ago to build up its control of raw materials, dominating in logistics, refining its education system to prioritize engineering and science training, subsidizing companies investing in growth sector technology like EVs, semiconductors and automation of factories. The benefits are now apparent and enabled China to stand on its feet independently.

Anonymous

Japanese comfort women in Okinawa?

Okinawa governor Denny Tamaki called the latest cases "deplorable" and said authorities would urge the US military to prevent similar incidents, Japanese media reported.

Japan's top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi declined to comment on the cases at a regular briefing Thursday, but said crimes by US troops were "unacceptable". CNA

Rape crimes against Japanese women in American occupied Okinawa Island have been in the news for a long time and will never end as long as there are young American soldiers, lonely and hot, in an island full of beautiful Okinawan women. These young studs need to be comforted when they are lonely and far away from home. It is not that the young American soldiers did not know that they are not supposed to rape the Okinawan women. Or maybe they think they are protected by the American Empire and will not be brought to Japanese courts to face Japanese justice. Under their own American occupation law, they are likely to be let off with a slap on the wrist. Colonial powers are above the laws.

The Okinawans can continue to protest, be frustrated by the presence of American occupation forces and the unwillingness of the Japanese to protect their islands and their women. But what can they do? They are not Japanese and have been colonised by the Japanese for a long time, as second class citizens. They know very well that Okinawa and the Okinawans are sacrificial lambs of the Japanese Empire.  

With the presence of American bases, and likely nuclear weapons in the islands, Okinawa is top number one priority target to be nuked by China, Russia or North Korea in the event of a war. Finito is what would happen to Okinawa and the Okinawans. They have been set up and sold by the Japanese.

And the Japanese and Americans put up a farcical show to appease the Okinawans by staging a once off one night joint patrol on the streets of Okinawa, and life goes on as normal. The American soldiers will continue to treat the Okinawan women as their comfort women, and if they resist, they would resort to rape. Perhaps the Okinawans should open more comfort facilities to entertain the young American soldiers to burn up their hot desires of being young. The Japanese would not do anything to protect them.

GE2025 - Bizarre 4 corner fight in Tampines and missing act in Marine Parade

Many are lamenting at the 4 corner fight in Tampines GRC and the missed opportunity to take on the PAP in a one on one fight in Marine Parade Braddell Height GRC. I wrote a piece earlier about 3 corner fights and multiple corner fights that would make winning a big task for an opposition candidate or team. Fighting the PAP one on one is already a big hurdle to cross. 3 corner fight is as good as accepting defeat from the start. The ground has not shifted or tilted so badly against the ruling party that anything will do, throw in a dud wearing an opposition label will win. 

The PAP is putting up their very best men or women in every contest, SMC, or GRC and will make the opposition fight for every vote. Splitting the votes in 3 corner fight is like helping the PAP to fight the other opposition candidate/team.  And a 4 corner fight...this is bonkers. Any opposition party thinks they can win in a 4 corner fight should have their heads checked. Why go ahead with a 4 corner fight, for fun, for attention, for publicity?

There is no need to imagine how Goh Meng Seng banged balls for the missed opportunity in Marine ParadeBH. For him, to contest in a 3 corner fight is already a losing proposition. He and the other opposition party must be having a heavy heart going into a 3 corner fight that turned into a 4 corner fight. What would the voters be thinking of this? Silly? What is going on with the opposition camp? 

Goh Meng Seng would gladly jump for joy and rush to Marine ParadeBH if only he knew there was no contest. So would NSP. Both have no reason to think they can win in a 4 corner fight. Actually, there was ample time for someone to whisper to them that no opposition party was contesting in Marine ParadeBH while they were waiting at the nomination centre to file their application. It would also be to WP's advantage to divert at least one of the teams to Marine Parade BH to improve the odds.

Now it is all water under the bridge. Another horror, another lesson to learn for the next GE. Opposition parties should at least tip each other off on such a situation for the good of opposition teams. Seah Kian Peng and his team are beaming brightly and can now chip in to assist other PAP candidates in the rally.

One last point, would the 3 opposition parties in Tampines GRC get together, work out a formula to leave one party fighting the PAP, with the other two withdraw from the race but joint effort to support one party to take on the PAP? If can't come to an agreed formula, just draw lots. After all, a 4 corner fight is a no brainer and losing is guaranteed. Why waste so much time and effort and money to fight a losing battle?

Anything the USA touches is bound to be disastrous

 J. D. Vance already made the Vatican 'dark' with the death of the pope. Anything the USA touches is bound to be disastrous, and India is no exception. Two minus does not make a plus.

Trump's 24-hour settlement of the Ukraine War is going nowhere, with Zelensky wanting Crimea back, which Russia will never agree. That is another failure, even though Donald Duck is still saying agreement is close. He had been saying that even before getting elected. He does not know what he is talking about.

As I had been saying, Trump's gathering of clowns is breaking apart, with Musk now the first victim leaving his doggy activities that cost him a fortune. The damage has been done to Tesla, and it might be difficult to come back. Trump has done a big favor for Chinese EV makers, or should I say. 'Make China Greater Again'.

Trump is still touting his support for Pete Hegseth, but we know this is just posturing and is not going to last, with all the leaks happening. When the administration picks are all about cronyism, putting loyalty above merit, it is a disaster in the making. A Defense Secretary that takes National Security as a joke. Then there is the Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, destroying the education system, a portfolio that she is clearly unsuitable for. Really a square peg in a round hole as with all the others. She cannot even tell the difference between AI and A1, a brand of sauce.

Anonymous

Sources prove India 'supports terrorism' in Pakistan's Balochistan to kill Chinese nationals

 Evidences, sources prove India 'supports terrorism' in Pakistan's Balochistan to kill Chinese nationals - Global Times

In December 2023, a commander of the Baloch National Army (BNA) separatist militant group, who had surrendered himself to the Pakistani government, disclosed that India has been secretly supporting terrorist activities in Balochistan and financing separatist forces in the region.

According to Pakistani media sources, commander Sarfraz Ahmed Bungulzai made the announcement at a press conference in Quetta, the capital city of Balochistan. Bungulzai said that he thought his armed struggle was for Baloch rights, but later he realized that "India is involved in all these conspiracies."

Bungulzai mentioned a helicopter crash in 2022, in which six Pakistani army officials, including a general, were martyred. He said at the press conference that the secessionist group Baloch Raj Aajoi Sangar (BRAS) had taken responsibility for the incident at India's command.

The clues of India's connection with terrorist forces in Pakistan could also be found in a few Indian media reports.

The Hindu, for instance, published an article in July 2019, stating "It is established that BLA (Baloch Liberation Army) commanders, in the past, had sought medical treatment in India's hospitals, often under disguise or with fake identities."

Anonymous

Rogue American economy and regime are in trouble, need help and need change, NOT China...Trump is wetting in his pants

 The Trump regime and clowns continued to spread lies that they are talking with China and a deal is being rich. The American stock market rallied on these lies. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman had come out to deny any talks with the Americans and no deal has been made.  All this is American lies. China would fight the American rogue regime to the end. The American stock market is going to tailspin again.

Scott Bessent even lied that the Chinese export economy is unsustainable, and the Americans are trying to help the Chinese economy by the tariff wars. How idiotic this man has become, cooking lies that kids would not even believe. It is the American economy that is in trouble. It is the American gangster behaviour and bullying that needs to change. On the other hand, Trump though appeared to be softening and no longer pretending to be aggressive, still continued with his lies that China is still cheating the Americans with trade surpluses. He refused to admit that the trade deficit of America vis a vis China was because the Americans were happily buying cheap and good essential goods from China but refused to sell expensive chips to China to earn more revenues from China. If the Americans are not willing to sell what China wants to buy, China cannot give you any money. The high end chips cost hundreds of thousands per piece and billions in revenues compared to the shoes, handbags, apparels and consumer items China is selling to America. Who is lying and who is cheating?

China must not be duped by the softening of stance by Trump and his clowns. Their rhetoric is still blaming China for everything and wanting to bring down China. The erratic and unpredictable Trump is just playing by the day, changing his position by the hours and minutes. He may agree on one thing but changes his mind the next day. Or he may slash tariffs today but imposes new tariffs tomorrow, new sanctions. This man cannot be trusted. He is not only a liar, a cheat, a conman, but also neurotic.

Trump has bitten the biggest bait with the biggest hook. He is as good as cooked. Xi must not loosen the tension. Let this Trump dance with the hook in his big mouth until he wears out. Then Xi can haul him out and slice it into sashimi for dinner. Trump must be made to pay, to feel the pain that he inflicted on everyone in the world, including his poor American MAGA supporters and the poor farmers.

Trump must not be allowed to wriggle out from the hook. The world must see this clown swallowing his words, his lies and the hook in his mouth. The arrogant and bullying American gangsters and terrorists in Washington must be taught a lesson they would not forget. But be very sure, whatever the outcome, they would continue to demonise and badmouth China and would want to destroy China. Their mischievous activities in the Middle East, in NATO, in Japan and South Korea, in the Philippines are still ongoing and increasing in numbers, to take down China. 

China must take down the evil American Empire and this is the best opportune time to do it. Everything in America is collapsing. The shelves are emptying and would be empty in a couple of weeks. All the goods are stuck in the harbours in China and in the seas outside American ports and would not reach the American consumers by December. December 2025 is not going to be a bright and merry Christmas. It is going to be a very depressive Christmas for the Americans, many with no Christmas presents and no food on the table. Oh, there will be no fireworks on 4th of July.

Trump and his clowns can keep on lying to the Americans. The truth when it hits them would be very painful and unbearable.