7/24/2026

Foolish American terrorists can go on and on fighting wars

I believe that China and Russia are hoping that the Middle East war between USA and Iran just goes on. As more drones and missiles are expended, more warplanes shot down, more soldiers die, China and Russia will feel much safer and that goes for the rest of the world as well.

All that China need to do is control its rare earth magnets for making more weapons and the rest will take care of itself. The USA just added a few more Chinese companies to its list of entities for sanctioning, including Ali Baba. The Chinese side responded immediately by upping its own list, no talking, no shouting and no posturing now. More than that, China is telling the rest of the world that it is not going to tolerate any country trying to smuggle Chinese rare earth magnets to the USA by putting the same restrictions on them if they do so, using the dual use interpretation. We all have read about South Korea and India doing this already in the past. India should not complain about pressure from China over rare earths for doing what they did. China must stamp down hard to cut off every avenue that leaks.


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Anonymous said...

Trump is now demonizing Chinese AI innovators for stealing from the USA AI fraternity. The USA ought to look into the mirror and see what it did in the past before bringing up hubris. The USA, in its effort to progress, was using state sponsored theft by stealing British trade secrets since 1791. USA's first Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton advocated rewarding those who brought valuable trade secrets for the country. In other words, rewarding theft of trade secrets from others.

Now, what China may be doing is just taking a leaf from the USA, nothing out of the ordinary. China has not hit back yet using this argument. Do not again float the mantra that the USA has 'exceptionalism' status doing what it did and any other country cannot follow. Putin was right all along, saying that the USA will accuse any other country of doing unacceptable things itself and then accuse others of doing the same.

Trump is now again raising the issue of erecting tariffs against countries for, of all reasons - forced labor issues. What can be more hogwash than what the USA did in the past by kidnapping Black Africans to work as slaves in cotton fields, railroads and mines which is even worse than forced labor, without wages and some clad in chains for fear that those slaves may run away.

Having said that, I am surprised that Red Dot is also among 60 countries under forced labor practices identified by the USA. Did I miss something?