Most businesses and govt departments are closed for the Chinese New Year holiday, today and tomorrow in Singapore. But all essential services are operating as usual, hospitality businesses are also operating as normal, unlike in the West when every service is down, can't even buy a sandwich during Christmas Day. Singapore has the advantage of different races covering for the other during their respective holidays. Those working will still be paid double wages for working on a holiday.
China will be having a major break, 10 days holiday for its people to go home to share time with their families and loved ones. Many Chinese are as good as working 'overseas', ie working in Chinese cities far away from their homes, the villages or small towns. Chinese New Year is time for reunion, with the biggest migration of people, hundreds of millions on the move to be home, to catch up for lost time, especially the one child family with children left in the care of parents and grandparents while the mothers and fathers work in the big cities.
However, Chinese productivity does not stop. Factories continue to operate, without light, without sound, without workers, like the major ports, fully automated or with robotic workers that do not need rest, break or holiday. This is the productive capacity of China in a new tech world, to earn more than one US$1 trillion in trade surplus operating 24/7. And there is no fear of ageing population when robots and machine are taking over from human beans..
What are the West doing in the same time? They are talking about national security, meaning their security versus the world's insecurity. They are still talking about building empires to rule the world. Their security is the world's insecurity. Their daily news coverage is about wars, threatening wars, about control and gangsterism, not about productivity, not about manufacturing goods and services for the good of mankind. And they are unhappy that China is making US$1.2 trillion trade surplus for year 2025 by working nonstop.
The American terrorists, with thousands of nuclear warheads, are demanding that Iran must not have nuclear bombs. If Iran refuses, they will bomb and kill Iranians. What kind of logic or morality is that? Anyone questioning why this is so, or accepting that this is the right of the Americans? Who do the Americans think they are? They have behaved like international terrorists for decades. The Europeans had been and still think they are the international gangsters, to bully and rule the world. They decide how the rest of the world should do and live by.
Why not the rest of the world be telling the Americans to disarm, dispose off all their nuclear weapons or the world shall kill the Americans? Of course the rest of the world did not have the military heft to do so. Only the big bully, the American terrorists, can terrorise the world, to dictate to the world in their own terms. They write the rules for the world.
This is changing. The rest of the world will not accept this anymore. Iran is the last frontier, the last wall to stop American bullying and aggression, to think they can go around the world to kill people as they like with impunity. The American terrorists are saying, We have the right to kill!
While China is all about manufacturing of goods and services, the Americans and the West are all about conquest, domination and killing. And they branded China as aggressive and expansionist, and called themselves peace keepers. What an irony!
Happy and peaceful Chinese New Year.
3 comments:
Happy Year of the horse Mr Redbean.
In paragraph 3, I think you mean 1 trillion instead of 1 billion.
You must have a nice drink during reunion dinner. Cheers.😄
Happy New Year wonkieman. Thanks and amended. Ya, had a bit of wine last night.
China has no fear of population aging or low birth rate. Robots are manning factories 24/7. AI is everywhere controlling port operations, high speed trains, drone deliveries and driverless taxis.
Yes, all that the USA is doing is not solving its own problems, just posturing, threatening, erecting trade barriers, sanctioning countries, forming alliances to counter China and trying to make sure China does not rise to overtake it. All the wrong priorities but taken from the same old playbook that is outdated and obsolete.
I think China decoupling from the USA is a good thing as far as China is concerned, not something that China should in reality fear about. The whole Global South market is all for China to exploit. Africa alone has more than 1.4 billion population, far larger than the USA and Europe combined. Which is why there is no more threat by the USA using the decoupling mantra against China, thinking that China will shiver in its pants. Now, even the de-risking narrative holds no water. The USA depends on China more than the other way round as in the past.
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