Pete Hegseth and his kinds are the classic American savages pretending to be civilised...like American classic comic books depicting Red Indians as savages and deserving of being killed and their lands robbed by the white men holding a Bible

 In the 'golden' or brutal days of European colonisation of America, the genocide of the native Americans was legitimised by calling them savages. The white men, with Bible in one hand, and guns in the other, went about systematically massacring every native American they found. Those that lived were treated as slaves or inhuman, tortured and brutally abused daily. The whites then were very proud of what they were doing, no sin, no crime, because they were dealing with savages that did not have rights as a human bean.

The real savages then were the white men. Period. But they wrote all the stories and fictions and used Hollywood to glorify their barbaric crimes against humanity, against the native Americans. Till today, many rednecks and hillbillies still did not see any wrong in what their ancestors had done. The whites were God's people, sent to America to civilise the native Americans, the savages. If they refused to be civilised, give up their lands, just slaughtered them like animals. This is the pride of the white Americans, their so called democracy and free world, freedom to kill the native Americans, freedom to take their lands, their women, their everything.

Many unthinking still believe the white men's fiction and myths and refused to want to know how they genocided the native Americans, more than 100 millions of them over two centuries of racist and hate crimes. The whites practised apartheid first in America. The unthinking, especially the Anglophiles, find it very difficult to admit that they were fooled by the American narratives and Hollywood, that they were too stupid to see through the white men lies.

Pete Hegseth and his rogues in Washington are trying to repeat the same story on the Iranians. To this beast, he cannot see anything wrong with what the white men had done to the native Indians. And that is a decent playbook to be used against the Iranians. He insanely stood up to call the Iranians as the baddest people, and he and his rogues are going to kill them all, with no quarters left untouched. And his idol, war criminal Trump, told the dull leaders in the UN, he was going to annihilate the Iranian people from the face of this earth. And they clapped or do nothing, afraid to condemn Trump.

The really bad people, the baddest people, the savages, the barbarians, are people like Trump and Pete Hegseth and gang. Not true? You got to put your head in the urinal and have a good flush, if that helps. The barbaric savages in America, not only in Washington, did not see anything wrong in invading Iran and wanting to kill Iranians. The Iranians are just human beans living their own lives thousands of miles from America. What the fark have the American savages the right to cross the ocean to kill them them?

Human decency and morality have gone down the sewers. The world is accepting this cruel and barbaric act of the American savages, to kill Iranians, mothers, school girls, babies and all. ...afraid to condemn the savages of their devilish crime against humanity. The American savages will pay Hollywood to glorify their killings of the Iranians, just like how they glorified their killings of the native Americans, 'How the West was won'. And the unthinking will pay to watch the American classic movies on how brave the American savages were in killing Iranians like how the cowboys massacred the native Americans.

Anyone still has any doubt who are the baddest in the world, the barbarians, the savages. Oh, it can't be them. They wore branded and expensive suits and ties, and with makeups, mascara, eyelashes, they looked so suave and good, like Hollywood actors and actresses.

Nothing better to do American political clowns want to ban everything Chinese

And what does the USA do as usual? Banning everything related to China. This is not going to work. The USA market is no longer a top priority for Chinese exports, just a fraction of China's global export of US$3.38 trillion, with a 'T'. China's export to the USA is a mere US$370 billion, about 11% of China's total global exports.

The glaring fact is that anything sold to the global south makes little difference to China compared to the USA. China sells them at the same price, incur the same costs, makes the same profit, keeps the manufacturer's facilities humming, keep expanding the market in the global south and does not have to worry about trade wars and tariffs increases by the USA.

Now, the Pentagon is going to ban the Chinese Confucius Institute for National Security Issues. Will the USA also ban migrating birds flying across China or the clouds that float across China for National Security reasons. It is becoming a situation where the USA will even be threatened by its own shadow and must ban the sun for shining and casting such shadows.

On the one hand the USA wants to cut off Chinese goods while on the other hand asking China to sell more rare earth magnets for its military industrial complex and manufacturing entities. Why should China do that, knowing that rare earth magnet export is also a threat to China's National Security, enabling the USA and its allies to build more weapons for targeting China. Who in the world is that stupid? They think the Chinese are the ones that are always stupid.


Anonymous

With wars and troubles everywhere, China's tourism will get a boost

And China's tourism industry is going to benefit from countries with tourists now shunning away like Thailand and Bali. This will be China's opportunity to further leverage on the chaos in Europe with protests breaking out and contagion rearing its head. Several European countries are facing protest, with even Israel having a taste. Some analysts expect the USA to be next on the line. Let us wait and see.

The more foreign tourists visit China, the better for the economy of China. China need not spend an arm and a leg to counter the USA propaganda machine. The foreign tourists will do the countering free of charge when they talk about the situation in China - the infrastructures, airport-like train stations, the high-speed transport system, the low cost of living, the cleanliness on the streets and the patriotism shown by the Chinese overall.

China is a very huge country, full of historical sites across the country. Visiting China is not a one day or one week discovery tour like Singapore. It takes months to cover the whole of China if one is adventurous enough with one visit. Most will visit China again and again to cover itineraries they could not do so during one visit. There are so much to see and experience. Such foreigners visiting China will fuel hotel occupancy rates and other services catering to the tourism industry. This is another sector that will grow to dominate global tourism eventually. Let not the West tell China to slow down this sector as well, in other words curb its overcapacity as well.


Anonymous

Manifestation of the failure of democracy,

 What is happening around the world today is the manifestation of the failure of democracy, igniting a realization that the system is rigged by the Government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.

When middle class citizens that once could live in relative ease and comfort are cannibalized by the superrich and being erased and falling into the same position as the underprivileged, we know the system has failed.

A democracy is supposed to give citizens a chance to choose a government that is going to work for them and look after everyone, rich or poor. But the actual outcome says otherwise. Take Trump as an example who cuts taxes for the super-rich and imposed an added tax masquerading as tariffs hoping to patch the hole resulting from the tax cuts for the already rich elites by punishing the poor.

A system cannot just continue to fool its citizens all the time. When stomachs are hungry and jobs are scarce, the result is going to be chaos and demonstrations. Sure, such protest can be put down with force, but the problem does not just go away. It festers and gets worse over time.

Anonymous

Why should one be paid in the millions?

 Technology has taken leaps and bounds in the last few decades and made great strides for the good of mankind. The AI Industrial Revolution has changed the world beyond recognition especially in the demands for talents and jobs. Yes, jobs in the new world will not be the same again. The days of 'la kopi', making the best nasi lemak or the best chicken rice could still be around but a tiny shadow of itself. 

The new jobs are highly demanding of talents, real technical talents and expertise, playing with massive halls filled with computers stacked with million or billion dollar chips, not potato chips. The data centres are frightening in their complications, with wires worming everywhere, and lights flickering too, making no sense, without any indication of what they were doing. The factories that were operateing by hundreds and thousands of robots without the need for human presence are not masak, masak, not playing with toys. The people that created them, managed them, operated them, are not the simple talents coming out casually from the mouths. These are highly educated and trained experts and they are being paid in the millions or billions. Many of them are billionaires running these operations. What is running through their minds, getting the computers and machines to do the work is simply amazing. No one would dare to ask why they are being paid in the millions.

On the other hand, the old industries, the food and beverage industries, the transport industries, managing buses, trains and taxis, are still churning along, necessary, daily necessities of lives. The chicken rice operators will be here forever. The big question is, why are these people demanding to be paid in the millions? How much talent and complexities are needed to manage a supermarket, a shoe factory, a restaurant, a post office etc etc that they too should be paid in the millions? What have changed in their jobs demands, what special skills, technical skills, special training are needed to manage the industries of the past, the businesses of the past? 

Should operators of chicken rice stalls, nasi lemak and kopitiams be paid in the millions? How much have their job specifications changed? How more technical demands are needed, necesssary to do these jobs? It is easy to ask to be paid in the millions. But are they justified? Have the jobs changed or day in and day out doing the same repetitive stuff?

What do you think?

American versus Chinese thinking logic in AI and chip designs

 Jensen Huang said Nvidia did not only lose the Chinese market for his chips, all Nvidia chips now banned from China. He has to thank clown Trump for his fate and the future of Nvidia expansion. Trump has virtually strangled the neck of Nvidia for good. But Jensen is not only worrying about the lost of Nvidia's largest chip market and NEVER going to get it back. Trump has closed this door by telling the Chinese that they cannot depend or trust the Americans in the supply of chips. Jensen Huang is fearing the loss of AI and software developers to China when they migrated to work for Chinese chips and AI models. This is a double whammy to Nvidia and all American chip designers and makers as well as AI models. The best Chinese developers and designers are going to work for China, or a big part of these special talents, including those from the West and the world would be lost to China.

DeepSeek and fellowmen will be the greatest beneficiaries of Clown Trump's fiasco. Can't blame Trump for he still thinks he is the best strategists, the most clever man in America. DeepSeek and fellowmen are America's nemesis, released into the market to undercut the foundation and roots of all American AI models...for free, and offering 90% or more of the needs of users, more than enough to do the work they need. China is in fact capturing 90% of the world market in the application of AI models. There is no room for growth for the American high tech giants. Dead at birth, still birth. The reality will hit the Americans in no time. They are now in a stage of self denial. Who can afford American AI? How many needs American AI?

DeepSeek and friends are not only good enough and cheap. They are designed with an architecture and philosophy to operate cheaply, freely and efficiently. Unlike the American bulldozers that thrived on shock and awe logic, employs all the forces and resources available to do a simple job, any job, like using a sledgehammer to smash an ant, Chinese strategy and thinking logic is more precise and efficient, like using a scalper to deal with very specific problems. Chinese AI models only use a fraction of the full power of the apps and data centres, relevant information and specific facts to solve a specific problem. The American models uses everything, like carpet bombing to hit a school or a wedding party and everything around them.

Chinese AI models are very precise and targeted, using only resources and facts that are needed to solve specific issues and problems. They are thus very efficient in the use of expensive chips and energy. No unwanted and wasteful effort and power to do a minor job with the full power of the data centre running in full steam.

DeepSeek and Chinese AI models can operate cheaply and efficiently and cutting down the cost of the users and operators. No need to pay for Rolls Royce to move from point A to point B and burning tires and fuels unnecessary, cheap maintenance and running cost.

How are the massive blundering and overpowering American giants going to compete with cheap and efficient small operators that can do almost everything faster and cheaper? How are energy deficient countries going to operate American data centres that would consume all the electricity of a small city? Chinese thinking logic is always about cost and efficiency, no or little wastage on effort and resources, exactly what many countries, middle and small states and corporations and companies need.

All good things must come to an end

Protests are erupting everywhere all because of the problems created by Trump and his wars resulting in escalating energy costs. There were huge protests in France over rising living costs. The Indians are protesting over corrupt practices by Government officials, jobs availability and cost of living. The Indonesians are protesting against corruption within the government, rising cost of living due to the falling rupiah and the removal of Prabowo over his policies. Who is next?

Thailand is experiencing fallouts in tourism and those sectors involved in tourism are suffering falling visitors. Hotels are running empty, entertainment outlets are not attracting enough visitors and those that depend on foreign tourists are facing problems earning a living. Even Thailand's well renowned honey trapping of money loaded foreign retirees rushing to set up second homes in Thailand to be skinned have peltered out. Many are leaving rather than coming in. I think they have wised up learning from those who fled with just their pants on.

Sad to say, even Bali, the visitor's paradise before COVID, is now a pale shadow of its glory days, the must visit destination for the well-heeled rich spenders. Today, Bali attracts the wrong kind of visitors looking for a budget holiday without the usual spending ability.

As they always say, all good things must come to an end and what goes up will eventually come down.


Anonymous

Brainwashing was to keeping the dull USA citizens from knowing about the progress of the Chinese civilization.

The actual brainwashing was directed at keeping the dull of mind USA citizens from knowing about the progress of the Chinese civilization. Just keep them fixated on the American Dream. It succeeded beyond doubt, with the idea that China was still backward, stifling, producing cheap junks, poverty stricken and living in slums compared to the American Dream.

The opening up of China did wonders to counter the perception. The experience of foreigners living, working and visiting China and the use of social media to say their piece was another plus point. Most were positive feedback but always being accused of being paid by the CPC to say the good things about China. Even if true, what about the USA Government spending US$300 million each year to manufacture fake news about China and spreading them to the MSM that they controlled? Double standard practices as always!

The visa-free extension to foreign visitors to visit and see the real China was another measure to counter the propaganda machine of the USA. Besides giving free counter measuring services against the USA propaganda machine, China also earned revenue from such foreign visitors spending in China. It was a win-win situation. There were actually calls initially by USA politicians to curb the flow of USA visitors to China. We know the USA is afraid to let the cat out of the bag over the fabricated brainwashing carried out over the decades that will be consequential. Talk about all the fake freedoms existing in the beacon of democracy.

Then there was the case of banning Tik Tok which gave rise to the massive migration of USA users of Tik Tok to Rednote that was to backfire badly on the USA Government, with USA citizens now finding out the real living conditions of Chinese in China using Rednote. Now, the genie is really out of the bottle and no way to put it in again.

Recently, China is raising another problem for the USA with Xi inviting a hundred thousand USA students to study in China. It may be an innocent call, but the USA and the West are already panicky and nervous about the move. The Western MSM is already taking pot shots at the idea, using the National Security Issue as always. Soon, there may be legislation to prevent such students from going to China to study. It is to be expected. Not necessary to keep fingers crossed that it will not happen.

Anonymous

China making AI cheap and widespread is a bane of USA

China is making AI cheap and widespread, which is the bane of USA AI companies whose aim is making AI into a money-spinning monopoly and ultimate mission, after having spent fortunes investing in AI models.

The USA Government can ban all Chinese AI apps, but the Global South is not going to follow suit. Maybe the Europeans will be forced to follow in the USA's footstep and cutting their noses to spite their faces. In the end the real losers are the USA and European AI consumers. They have to pay an arm and a leg to use USA mandated AI models, benefitting just the big tech giants inside the USA.

China is fortunate to have such a big market in the Global South that is still progressing and expanding with the BRI in place. These countries will benefit from infrastructures and investments by China. More than that is the de-dollarization agenda behind those projects. There is an alternative system that was never there before - trading without the US$ through the BRICS bloc.

Anonymous

India, the pretentious big power with a fake prophet in Jaishanker

 India is still swinging around like it is a big power and calling the shot, that it can manage the geopolitics and international affairs to its advantage, and set a trend or tone on its own. The reality is that India is just all talks and no substance. I have many issues to discuss about India but will just touch on the Sino Indian trade here. India's angst is that the trade imbalance is skewed too much to China's favour, just like Sino American trade. Both India and America are having huge trade deficits in their trades with China, and this is a bad thing. Is it so?

What is trade in a free wheeling international economy, it it supply and demand. Without the artificial interference of the govt and people, countries buy and sell according to their needs. India and America are simply buying more from China and selling less to China. Why? Did China point a gun at the Americans and Indians to buy more from China? No. The act of trade, of buying and selling, is all voluntary.

It is true that trade imbalance is not a good thing to those that are having a trade deficit. The logical thing to do is to buy less and sell more. But it is not that simple, and neither trade deficit is that simple. The overall trade of a country may see deficits against some countries and surplus against others. It is the overall picture that counts. In the case of India, India needs all the tools, parts and components, raw materials and intermediate ingredients from China to produce the goods and products to sell to the world to make profits. Without the inputs from China, India cannot produce the finished products to make profits from the world. Without China's cheap intermediate products, tools and parts, India cannot find alternative suppliers. Period.  India cannot look at the equation just on trade with China. Can India afford not to import from China? If so, India would have done that to cut down its trade deficit.

The alternative is to make the intermediate parts and material themselves. Another big option is to sell more goods and products to China. Caveat, India can produce them efficiently and cheaper than China to be attractive for China to want to buy them. India cannot even make its gods and idols for worships, and toys cheaper and better than China and has to import them from China. What did these meant?

India is a price taker in trade, like little Singapore. India needs cheap oil and gas from Russia. India needs all the machine parts, tools, raw materials, substrates, intermediates from China to feed its factories. India needs high tech, chips etc from America, advanced military equipment etc etc. India is heavily dependent on imports to sustain its economy. India cannot call the shot. India cannot stop importing from China or other countries. India will have trade deficits from some countries like China, but have trade surpluses from other countries.

Stop complaining and telling China to sell less to India. India can only do that on its own. Try to stop imports from China and it will cut down on India's trade imbalance with China. Just do it...if India can.

Shenzhen - Superpowers Summit between Xi, Putin and Trump

Leaders of the world are likely to gather in Shenzhen in November 2026, a meeting that no one would want to miss. The 3 leaders of the world's superpowers will be there, a rare opportunity long awaiting. Who would not want to be seen around with the 3 most powerful men today? Everyone would want a photo op moment with the three men. You can bet Modi will be there, Kim Jung Un will be there, and the mamasan will have a great time flirting with these men. Watching from the sidelines would also be a big reward to any leader seen with the 3 most powerful men on earth.

The summit between the 3 men could provide a great opportunity for them to sit down and talk about the issues and problems facing the world. Everything can be on the menu and something startling could come up from their meeting. Some are looking forward to a Yalta moment. Then, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met and came out with a Yalta Agreement after World War 2 to divide the world among them. Xi, Putin and Trump may do the same. Trump has all the reasons to do so, to have something big under his name in history.

A Shenzhen Agreement, a Shenzhen Protocol, Shenzhen Accord or whatever, could be a historical document for Trump to flag around during his November election. Oops, the election would be over then, The rest of the world will be waiting to see how these 3 men chart the future of the world for peace and prosperity of humankind. Would clown Trump be able to see how important this opportunity is for him to be serious, to make a name for himself in history. Or would it be the usual, sanctions, threats, wars, lies....

The wars in Ukraine and Iran are getting restless, meaningless, achieving nothing, a chore for Trump. Trump is not going to gain anything if the wars continue and may want to end them for his own good. Putin too did not want the war and to be taunted by the pest Zelensky. An end to both wars will be a bonanza to Xi. China can offer to reconstruct both countries, to rebuild the damages of wars.

The side issues of climate change, trade, AI may also be on the table but of lesser attractiveness to grab the headlines to Trump. War and Peace are more challenging and significant to Trump to make a name for eternity. When the superpowers meet, big changes, big expectations are normal.

What do you think?

China does not need to take heed of the USA's claim that....

 China does not need to take heed of the USA's claim that it is trying to be a superpower. China never gloat about it becoming world's sole superpower. China just need to keep progressing, keep innovating and keep control of essential materials and continue to export what it can produce and earn all the trade surpluses that will come about.

No country outside the Anglo-Saxon clique and the Anglophiles are complaining about China's overcapacity. The Global South is happy with the cheap goods from China, while China is importing raw materials and agricultural products that it needs.

The same way that Iran does not need to defeat the USA. Iran just have to survive in the face of USA's attacks, keep the USA ensnarled in the Middle East and the fruits will naturally fall to the ground.

Whatever happened to all the threats by Trump about bombing Iran back to the stone age? As a matter of fact, it is the USA and its Middle East allies that are going to the stone age. Saudi Arabia is under pressure by the Houthis and begging for help. The Houthis have so many targets to hit in Saudi Arabia, while the Houthis have little to offer for targeting by the Arabs.

Now Egypt is being dragged in on the side of the Saudis. I wonder what Egypt stands to gain from its behavior. It is inviting hostility from the Houthis. Which is what the USA and the West wanted, and Egypt is falling into their trap of divide and rule. Egypt has forgotten the seven days war in Sinai against Israel helped by the USA and European allies.

Anonymous

USA laughs at everything from China

 USA laughs at everything from China. They called those things that China sold to them as junk. Wonder whether they ever called iPhones from China junks? What about those high-end handbags made in China. Junks do not turn into high-end stuff just by putting a label on it, right?

Elon Musk laughed at China when China first started making EVs. Now, he is not laughing. He does not honestly have the last laugh after launching his dismissal of Chinese EV comments earlier. The last laugh belongs to BYD. Xiaomi, Huawei and others. Yes, Xiaomi and Huawei, smartphone makers of repute, are making EVs, and is not a joke.

ASML even tried to demoralize and look down upon China with disdain, claiming that even if they gave China the blueprints, China will never be able to make DUV machines. ASML is going to eat humble pie over those words. It is just a question of time. China is going to make chips, not with DUV or EUV machines, but building chips using a different approach. And it has succeeded in making 5 nm chips so far. Progress may be slow and expensive, but the results are real. Still behind the top-end, but by not far.

So, let the West and its anti-China bots keep on masturbating about the impending collapse of China, its infrastructures, its economy including Huawei and BYD. Wishing for China's collapse does not hurt China. Failing to collapse China with their wishing brings frustration to themselves.

Anonymous 

Trump coming down hard on mass entry of Indian workers into the USA

BENGALURU: The Trump administration on Thursday (Oct 8) suspended eight major technology companies from a key United States programme that allows employers to sponsor foreign workers for permanent residency, citing alleged abuse of the immigration system.

The companies include four Indian IT giants - Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, Wipro and HCLTech - as well as Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant and Capgemini.

US Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said authorities would stop accepting new applications and processing pending ones under the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) programme.

Under PERM, employers must first demonstrate that qualified American workers are unavailable for the jobs, according to the US Department of Labor....

Ghosh said Singapore and the United Arab Emirates could attract some experienced Indian professionals, but their tech job markets were “considerably smaller” than India's.

Mallick said that Singapore could attract experienced Indian professionals in AI, fintech and tech leadership, while Malaysia could benefit from talent in cloud, cybersecurity and engineering. CNA

The woes of America will be the gains for Singapore and countries hungry for Indian talents. And all of them must be rubbing their palms in anticipation of a big wave of Indian talents flowing into their countries to help raise the number and quality of IT in their countries. Singapore has benefitted greatly from the large number of Indian IT talents in every corner of the island. This push by the Americans can only mean that Singapore will be the biggest beneficiary of the exodus. 

Singapore can now pose as the next IT and AI hub after China and the USA, with the best Indian talents flooding here to nest. This is the advantage of having far sighted leaders that planned ahead, and knowing how to benefit from Indian IT talents. More Indian IT companies are likely to pop up in the island to create more jobs for Singaporeans. It is a win win situation...and there will be another housing boom for sure. Quick, start to buy up units in the East Coast area, and also around Chennai Business Park, oops, Changi Business Park. The American terrorists cannot put up another report to allege civil servants taking advantage of privy information to buy into properties in Indian talents' favourite housing estates. Prices of properties in these areas are going up.

Singapore's future in AI and IT is very bright.

Thinking that Chinese are stupid is a real blessing in disguise for China

 The thinking that the Chinese are stupid must be a real blessing in disguise for the Chinese to progress on the quiet over the last four decades. It kept the Anglo-Saxon Whites away from interfering in China's industrial revolution, thinking the stupid Chinese can never do anything more than cooking and washing clothes.

This was the exact call made by Deng Xiaoping to the Chinese to 'keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big'. China did exactly that and caught the West by surprise after four decades of relative obscurity away from prying eyes. The USA was not even in the mood to spy on Chinese leaders like what they did to the German and French leaders. Why need to spy on unprogressive Chinese leaders like Mao Tse Tung creating failing policies to decimate China with his Great Leap Forward policies? The USA and the West thought that all Chinese leaders are the same, only going to bring disaster to China internally. Well, they never saw what was going on under the radar.

Now, the stupid Chinese are dominating in areas that were previously the domain of the Anglo-Saxon Whites and the Japanese. As I always say, who laughs last laughs best. Keep that in mind of more to come from China.

Anonymous 

The more foreigners visit China, the less likely for American propaganda to work

 With people like Redbean visiting China regularly and updating us about China's progress, that is one way that China is leveraging on to counter the USA/s propaganda machine for free. I do not think Redbean is being paid by the CPC to generate propaganda for the Chinese Government, lol.

The more foreign visitors go to China to see the real China, the less the USA propaganda machine is going to reap its intended reward by brainwashing its citizens and others about China. Would you believe that foreign visitors are being paid by the CPC just to say the good things about China? This kind of warp mentality only exists in the USA and the West, and they think that the same modus operandi must also be applied to China.

Xi's move to invite more USA students to study in China is a further step to educate the brainwashed USA citizen's warp thinking regarding China after decades of propagandizing assault. The older USA citizens are difficult to be weaned away from their mistaken mindsets, with most probably lowly educated. Younger USA citizens, being better educated and less indoctrinated are more likely to accept reality rather than swallowing propaganda lock, stock and barrel.

This invitation by Xi has touched a raw nerve in the USA Government and Western MSM. It is to be expected. I fear that citing National Security Issues will put paid to USA students going to China in waves. In fact, there were earlier calls to prevent USA citizens from visiting China. What are they afraid of? Getting brainwashed just travelling around China for a couple of weeks?

Anonymous 

Mogao Caves, the standing monuments of ancient Chinese culture and artwork, in Dunhuang

Several foreign explorers and archaeologists removed massive hoards of ancient manuscripts and sacred art from the Mogao Caves (specifically the hidden "Library Cave," or Cave 17) in Dunhuang, China, during the early 20th century. 

While the chamber was originally discovered by a local Daoist monk named Wang Yuanlu in 1900, the key figure widely accused by China of "raiding" or looting the site is Sir Marc Aurel Stein. He was quickly followed by a succession of other international figures.  Wikipedia

One of the main items in this visit to China was to visit the Mogao Caves to see the extraordinary and splendid works of Buddhist arts created thousands of years, hidden in the more than 700 caves of Mogao in Dunhuang. The European explorers or thieves, led by Marc Stein, systematically looted the caves, cut and carted thousands of paintings, books and sculptures to Europe, now exhibited proudly in the museums of thieves. They will have to return them to China one day. But the damages had been done and many exquisite art works were damaged, some broken and destroyed, some lost. 

Below are some pics of a live show in Dunhuang, narrating the pains of the Chinese people during a time of weakness and could not stop the European thieves from stealing their national treasures from their land. The artworks were a sign of the advancement in Chinese culture, science and technology thousands of years ago, when the Chinese were using colours, textiles, embroidery, musical instruments, paper etc etc in a time when life was rich and vibrant, peaceful, trade prospered, while the European savages were still killing each other in their savage wars.

Mogao Caves. Behind every door is a cave housing exquisite ancient artworks over thousands of years old. Many looted, destroyed. Still many are still there, the caves can be 20m x 20m x 30m big. More than 700 of them, mainly in the eastern site called Caves of thousand Buddhas. On the western site, 22 caves were untouched and survived the looting. There  were many sculptures of Buddha, Mateiya, Guanyin, Ananda and Boddhistvas.

Wall paintings in the Mogao Caves

More paintings. Unfortunately no photography allowed inside the caves. There were from pictures available.

Dancers of a live show in Dunhuang portraying the beautiful sculptures of female sculptures that were stolen from the caves.

Every dancer represented a beautiful sculpture stolen from the caves and carted to Europe.

More dancers/sculptures

More.... All the stolen items are now claimed as the worthy possession of the Europeans, kept proudly in their museums of thieves. China will demand for their return one day when it is strong enough to do so. The European savages were just low down thieves. They looted, plundered and stole everything in their days of colonisation and imperialism.

America failed in 5G wants to leapfrog to 6G

 They could not even do a good job with 5G and wants to leapfrog to 6G? Dismantling those Huawei relaying stations and installing new relay stations already costs so much money and disruptions, that they are almost giving up on 5G and going to 6G.

Huawei holds the bulk of the patents for 5G, and I believe it is still collecting some form of licensing fees from other 5G operators. Huawei may not be allowed to operate in the USA and some other countries like the UK, but Huawei is still collecting patent rights from those operators using Huawei's 5G patents.

China already has a headstart in 6G and probably has registered the bulk of 6G patents.

The real reason the USA keeps Huawei's 5G system out is nothing more than its inability to control Huawei's technology for spying, both on Allies and China in particular. China is not going to use Hauwei's 5G to conduct espionage against China and other countries. 4G is totally redundant in China, so the inability to conduct espionage against China is a National Security Issue for the USA.

Anything that the USA cannot control is a National Security Issue. As I said earlier, the USA is now attempting to remove DeepSeek adoption and usage by civilians, a preview to a total ban later. This is expected, as USA AI giants are unable to compete with DeepSeek in low usage costs after investing an arm and a leg in AI and needs protection. Is this the way to nurture a competitive sector going forward? It is going to produce an uncompetitive environment going forward - a self-destruct move.

Anonymous 

India is learning the modus operandi of the USA but lacks the substance.

India is learning the modus operandi of the USA but lacks the substance. Its military is weak but overhyped. In fact, India did not rank among the top three military powers and is ranked below Russia's third placing. The Indians are now raving mad, claiming that in terms of GDP, Russia is nowhere near to India, lol.


But India's GDP is suspect which even the IMF does not concur and has raised questions with. More than that, even Indian academics themselves are not convinced that India's GDP growth is real. The poverty, the lack of amenities, the poor infrastructures like roads and rails, and corruption have often been cited to counter the balloon blowing. The Indian Government is great for spending on glamor projects, like bidding for the Olympics, but not much to improve the ground. Moreover, India's GDP growth is all a matter of moving goalposts like comparing with the lowest starting base, which had been caught red-handed. Some analysts have been saying that India's 7% GDP growth is a mirage and more likely just half of that in reality.

But the Indian people are too dull of mind to notice it, only believing in what Modi's Government is trotting out. That is the behavior of a cult following the positioning of Hindu fanaticism at its core. The same as the MAGA base cult in the USA.


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Wars heating up

 While I was away, it seems that wars are everywhere and heating up. At home, our relationship with Indonesia is souring with verbal cannons firing by the brave from both sides. This is very different from dealing with citizens that can't retort or hit back. Indonesia will not only talk back, but will hit back.

More interesting is the war in the Middle East when the American terrorists cannot hide in the safety of Saudi Arabia. Now I understand why Saudis are involved. The American terrorists think Iran will not hit Saudi Arabia and park their hardware and soldiers there. No way. 

And the most treacherous AngloSaxon, the Brits, the root cause of all the disputes in the world, think they are up to it to fight the Houthis by sending their air force to Saudi Arabia. Nice. Time to kill the Brits too. The Houthis can hit back. Present low thinking Brit leaders are not like the past. And their opponents are not armed with bows and arrows.

Iran just threatened to blow up the S$2 trillion American data centres and cables in the Middle East. The unthinking American terrorists not only have military bases there, their high tech companies have their data centres there too. All high value targets to be destroyed by cheap Iranian drones while the Americans are throwing their million dollar bombs at schools and the mountains in Iran. 

This asymmetrical warfare is looking hilarious and stupid on the part of the low thinking Clowns in Washington.

As the war drags on, America will be bankrupt in no time, throwing taxpayers' money away while making the warmongers very rich.

Which country is going to collapse soon, not in 20 years?

The more white savages badmouth China the more they remind others of white atrocities and aggression

 Because China does not participate in killing using wars over the last several decades, so they keep bringing up the Tiananmen Square incident, Mao's Great Leap Forward casualties and persecution of anti-Government dissidents. They may even bring up the COVID story in Wuhan.

Those dissidents from Hong Kong, fearing persecution, thought that the West loved them so much, throwing a carrot for them to flee to avoid persecution and enjoy a life of luxury. Now, those dissidents from Hong Kong are regretting their asylum seeking antic in the UK. Without decent jobs, without homes, high living costs and being threatened to be exiled to Rwanda, life is not what they had hoped for. Some had been talking about returning to Hong Kong, but those who still live comfortably in Hong Kong are telling them to stay away.

Why would those in Hong Kong want them back to create trouble when the time comes? Hong Kong is peacefully prospering now, leveraging on the Chinese mainland progress, with just another twenty years left to go before the Chinese Government takes over control of Hong Kong fully. Whether Hong Kong gets to retain its 'one country two systems' is left to be seen. But what the mainland Chinese are enjoying is not anything inferior to what Hong Kong people are enjoying, except being able to vote. The voting is after all still vetted by the Chinese Government to prevent subterfuge.

But closer to the end of the 50-year timeline for Hong Kong's capitalist Government to return fully under China's control, expect plenty of attempts to instigate and create uncertainties, chaos and fear in Hong Kong. I can bet this is going to happen. It is in the playbook of the USA and the West. They will never miss the opportunity to extract their pound of flesh from China.

Anonymous 

Democracy good, socialism bad?

 The USA and the West, over the last several decades, before the rise of China were harping on their democratic ideology having overwhelmed communism. Communism was equated with everything backward, stifling, unprogressive, poverty stricken and the people can never rise above countries practicing democracy. A great deal of propaganda had to be manufactured to make communist ideology look extremely bad and unpalatable.

China's rise, even as a communist state, put paid to all the propaganda and silence the criticism regarding communist ideology. That war regarding democracy versus communism ideology was put to rest by China's rise. It clearly shows more about what good Government can do rather than harping on the system of Government.

If democracy is so progressive, just look at India, the biggest democracy in the world, where everything does not move forward by sticking to obsolete administrative malaise, inherited from the British. India still does not want to throw out the window the British system of Government bestowed upon India during its colonization, created to stifle India's progress and keeping it poor. It can be said that democracy is a hindrance as far as India is concern.

Anonymous 

White men still think the Chinese are stupid

 European officials offer to lift restrictions on Chinese companies if China allows critical raw materials to enter Europe. This is the same childish trick the Americans have been using against China in the past when China was weak. They are as good getting everything they want from China by giving up nothing. Just ban some companies first to trade off with China.

China can also ban American and European officials and companies and offers them in exchange for what they want from the Americans and Europeans.

The Europeans still think they are empires when they are all bankrupt and have no bargaining chips against China. Europeans are still delusional of their past glory. China will skin them alive one by one. China will not forget about the humiliation when invaded by the white savages and Japan in the late 1800s.

Payback time is near. More Paris will erupt across Europe and Amy using their own playbook. What a beautiful sight.

Who is brainwashing who?

 I believe the whole world has been brainwashed to believe the propaganda that people living in poor countries cannot be happy. What actually matters is that those surveys are fixated on looking at possessions, earning capacity, able to enjoy exotic food at posh restaurants and having accumulated massive assets to take along when they kick the bucket. Nothing is measured in terms of peace of mind, freedom from peer influence, a lifestyle where everyone is almost equal in possession, little to compare that elicit unhappiness and the mantra of keeping up with the Joneses. That in the Buddhist thinking are all the ills causing unhappiness in life.

It is perhaps quite alarming when reading about young rich, successful and looked upon by others committing suicide at a young age after reaching their peak. I do not subscribe to the believe that most die due to drug overdose and not due to suicide. Isn't a drug overdose not a suicidal act as well? What is the difference? Accidental my foot.

Anonymous 

Happiest past time of hillbillies, China falling

 Now there seems to be a fabrication of a narrative demonizing Chinese buildings, especially the concrete, pronouncing they will not last for 30 years. In other words, Chinese buildings, built before the year 2,000 are falling down everywhere. That timeline is almost tied in with Gordon Chang's collapse of China since 2001. Wonder which will collapse first, the country of China or Chnese buildings.

The Great Wall of China, portions built since the 7th Century BC, or about three thousand years ago, is still visibly standing quite steadily for the most part. That Wall was built of quarried stones put together without cement. Yet it managed to stand for so long under rain, sun and earthquakes. Never underestimate the ingenuity of the Chinese.

Most old buildings in China, built during the dynasties were wooden in nature, that still stands for centuries without falling down. There was no usage of steel or iron nails putting them together, just relying on interlocking joints. No rusting, weather resistant, earthquake tested - all testament to ancient Chinese mastering of carpentry. Nothing to accuse China of copying from the West I believe.

Modern buildings of steel and concrete mostly do not last for thousands of years. The steel frame of the twin towers in USA could not even withstand heat from fires, even though other buildings on fire have the steel structure skeletons left to be seen and still standing. Think about it.

Anonymous 

India wants to hold the Olympics

 If the Old Limp Pig thinks India can host the Olympics, it would not be pestering China to submit bids to host the 2036 event. China said no, thank you, to the offer. Now Qatar, India and Saudi Arabia are the main countries bidding for it. Let us see what happens. India submitted bids to host the Olympics three times, including that of 2036.

India thinks it could do better than Japan, with the Indian media criticizing Japan for failures hosting the Asian Games 2026. During the 2026 BWF world championship held in India, bird droppings were landing on the courts. Outside the venue, piles of rubbish could be seen. India is not in any position to hold any sports event. Infrastructure is lacking, transport system sucks, rivers for holding events are polluted, organization effort is lacking.

What is India trying to show off by bidding to stage the Olympics. Oh, India wants to be one up against China for having held the Olympics twice, the 2008 summer Olympics and the 2022 winter Olympics. Both with resounding success and no brickbats like against Japan.

But China does not need to promote itself anymore. The whole world has seen China in the flesh - its infrastructures, its organization skills, its people's living condition and its millions of people coming together to volunteer at those events. It shows the extent of patriotism that the Chinese people are showing towards the CPC Government. The West must be joking thinking of a initiating a regime change in China.

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Stupid countries feel safer with the world's number one terrorist state...but for how long?

  Many dull leaders of the Global South are still living with the American myths, that the Americans are the angels, the peace loving and kind human beans that ruled the world and protect them from harm, give them freedom and a good life. When asked, they would always want to be protected by the Americans, wanting the Americans to be their policemen. 

These dull leaders always believe in American and Hollywood fictions of what is good and evil, who are the good guys, who are the bad guys. We want to trade and get rich with China, but China is dangerous, aggressive, wanting to take over the world. We fear China. China is the enemy, the rogue country, even if China has not fire a bullet or kill a single enemy soldier in wars of aggression for several decades.

On the other hand, they did not see or cannot see, did not want to see the wars of aggression, regime change, genocides, destabilising countries and regions committed by the Americans. After two centuries believing in the white gods and their fictions and fairy tales, it is very difficult to come to terms with the fact that their beliefs of the good and kind white men are all false. They die die must stick to their silly beliefs that the white men and Americans are the good guys.

Who are the real terrorists terrorising the whole world, committing wars of aggression, genocides and freely killing innocent people by fabricating lies about bad people when they are the real bad people, the mass murderers, the real terrorists.

Many silly leaders and daft people still choose to want to be with the real terrorists, feel safe with the real terrorists that are killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people right before their eyes, lying and cheating and with bloods in their hands.

This world is truly sick, led by sick leaders leading sick people that cannot see what is good and what is evil. They chose to be ignorant and chose to trust the real terrorists for their safety and their protection. Can you believe that?

White House Press Secretary, Katie Zakaria, being fired after just five days

 I could not hold back laughter reading about the White House Press Secretary, Katie Zakaria, being fired after just five days. Must be a record of sorts. The revolving door antic of the Trump administration is really going from bad to worse. How many people appointed by Trump have been dismissed so far during his second term? Probably more than a dozen and counting and will undoubtedly be more than in his first term.

Trump picks his people undoubtedly using childish games like paper, scissors and stone method. I am not surprised if it also has something to do with his sleepwalking and wild dreams. The man looks terrible, dozing off during events, earning the title 'Dozer in Chief'.

It seems not only countries are asking about 'who is next' to be sanctioned but the MAGA base is probably asking the same question of who is next to be the White House press secretary. Now, who is the next joker will be fun to watch. Any clues?

Anonymous 

The West still wants to put China in the laundry man box

 The saying that necessity is the mother of invention as applied to China cannot be overlooked when judging the progress that China has made. All the while, such progress has been propagandized as just copying the West, no credit given to China's innovation and doggedness to overcome its weaknesses. The USA conveniently has forgotten that it was paying citizens to steal technology from the Europeans themselves in the past.

In this era of China holding the most patents for inventions is testimony to China's massive step forward to becoming a very strong country. But the mantra is still promoted that China is copying or stealing Western technology. China's Tiangong Space Station is an example of why the mantra promoted by the West holds no water. Nothing was ever stolen from the USA or the West in building the Tiangong Space Station. It was perhaps a blessing in disguise that China was never allowed to set foot on the International Space Station, so stealing technology was impossible and propaganda promotion ended against a wall. In fact, on many fronts, the USA and the West are copying China. The only fact is that they will never admit the reality.

Anonymous 

Chinese trial and error methods to sucy

 Deng Xiao Ping said to go ahead in progress to success the Chinese people must assume they have to cross the stream or river by testing or feeling every stone or pebble in the stream before being able to cross the stream or river successsively. Thus Deng Xiao Ping's thought really reflects Mao Tse-Tung's Great Leap Forward strategy of achieving economic and industrial success by trial and error and refused to bow to Russia and USA and the West of wanting to hamstrung China's progress and development.

In fact Deng Xiao Ping had learnt a useful lesson from the 'Great Leap Forward' to avoid pitfalls that might disrupt China's progress and development.

Yang Feng Long : Taiwan , Taipeh

A picture of Dunhuang desert on 20 Oct 26

 Crescent lake oasis in Dunhuang. Clear blue sky. Camel riding in the desert.

Huawei's 5G penetration taking over from American 4G

 More than 90 countries use Huawei's 5G equipment or have active commercial contracts globally. 

Deployment and Market Reach

Global Footprint: While early figures from 2019 cited roughly 30 countries, independent tracking and industry estimates place the total number of nations utilizing or contracted with Huawei for 5G well above 90.

 
European Presence: Despite U.S. pressure and targeted bans by countries like the UK, Sweden, and parts of the EU, data shows Chinese vendors still account for nearly a third of 5G sites across major European economies, with countries like Spain, Greece, and others continuing deployments. 

Regional Adoption: High adoption rates persist across parts of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, alongside ongoing industrial 5G enterprise partnerships globally.  Google 

The Americans may have ruled the world with 4G communications. China came from behind and overtook the Americans with 5G. The Americans desperately tried to stop Huawei from deploying 5G across the world but failed miserably. Until today, the Americans and the West are still unable to come up with a 5G that can match Huawei's 5G. They tried to force their allies and cronies to adopt the half baked 4G pretending to be 5G. Some of their allies and silly cronies have been coerced to use this and being left behind in their pursuit of AI and more advanced technology and systems that needed 5G to function, Some like the UK and several EU nations openly continue to use Huawei's 5G while others like the UK deceptively continue to use Huawei's 5G but pretending to follow the American's demand. Several ASEAN states are running ahead in deploying Huawei's 5G, leaving silly American cronies behind.

The Americans have completely given up competing with China in 5G and quietly trying to leapfrog into 6G. Unfortunately Huawei has already put 6G into trial operations in China and would soon be rolling out to the world. The American losers can only look with their mouths wide open and may now have to skip 6G and hoping to come up with an imaginary 7G in the future, like 50 years from now.

The world would not be tied down by the American losers and will run ahead into the future of 6G, but first with 5G in full implementation. The Americans are incapable of even copying what Huawei is doing. 5G will take over from 4G to rule the world.

One by one the strategy to demonize China are falling apart.

 One by one the strategy to demonize China are falling apart. The opening up of China, the visa free invitation for foreigners to see the real China, the crushing realization by visitors that they have been lied to for decades about China are demolishing all the lies and propaganda over the decades.

Xi's invitation to USA students to study in China is another nail in the coffin of the USA propaganda machine. These young people will have a good chance to see what the real China is and the USA leaders are nervous about it.

Anonymous 

Lee Kuan Yew had known long ago about foreign interference in....

 Lee Kuan Yew had known long ago about foreign interference in Singapore's internal affairs, even when he was in power, and there was a law enacted to forbid political parties from accepting donations from foreign sources. There is no such thing as someone giving free lunches for nothing in return.

But of course, foreign funding can also be diverted indirectly through other sources and therefore any funding of political parties has to be clearly declared and scrutinized. This is to prevent backdoor subterfuge.

Then there are the problematic NGOs working the ground in Singapore, embedded in charity organizations, help groups and religious entities that must be carefully scrutinized financially. That backdoor must also be watched very carefully.

Over the decades there have been criticisms about lack of freedoms in Singapore by groups like human rights, freedom house and Western Governments, meaning that Singapore has not given these foreign funds the opportunity to destabilize the country. Good or bad is up to us to decide for ourselves, not for others to decide for us.

Anonymous 

China is bad, making Americans looking so bad

 This is the impression of China that the Americans and the West is making out of China...trouble. China just do all the bad things and making the Americans and the West looking so bad. China refuses to be like the Americans and the West, China is not looking like us, not behaving like us. 

Now lets look what China is doing or not doing that is so bad, or make the Americans and the West said China is so bad.

Non interference, no political terms and conditions for trade and infrastructure devt, no regime change, not threatening anyone, overcapacity, selling things too cheap, no kidnapping or threatening any country, not bullying anyone, not engaging in war, not wanting to be policeman therefore, not responsible? Real free trade, import and export expos, Canton Shanghai. No democracy, CCP versus fake democracy for who? No freedom to own guns to kill. trade surplus is bad, unfair really? Why Trump punishes with sanctions to have trade surplus? Crazy price wars inside China. China destroying their own industries? America and West weaponise everything, China did not. China's trade surplus is bad, unfair?

Who is really practising freedom, free trade, meritocracy, productivity? Or who is threatening and bullying everyone? 

Who are the real bad guys, kill, kill, kill? China not killing anyone making the Americans and whites looking real bad and making the Anglophiles looking silly.

Stupidity in USA is contagious, especially among its leaders

 Stupidity in USA is contagious, especially among its leaders. And it is getting worse. Business leaders are pitching in to help build Trump's ballroom project. Wonder whether Mexico is also paying for it, lol.

A total of US$333 million have been pledged. How much is going into someone's pocket is unknown, but it shows that stupidity has gone out of control. Of course, some business leaders have to bend over backwards to curry favor with Trump, while others feared repercussions for not jumping on Trump's gravy train.

Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War, wanted to livestream the execution of a criminal. He thinks this will be a blockbuster Hollywood project he is going to direct that no one had ever thought of. In like fashion, ISIS may get the idea and follow suit with livestreaming of executions that will indeed be blockbuster stuff. Now Trump, under pressure, is calling it off. I believe Trump is involved with the idea to make a name for himself as the first President doing that and no other President dared to do it. Oh, yes, the man wants attention very badly. I think November mid-term is going to be a bloodbath for the Republicans. But I do not understand the minds of a cult, so it may turn out differently.

Anonymous 

Even the Japanese are now finding it difficult dealing with the Indian

 Even the Japanese, the most careful and astute businessmen, are now finding it difficult dealing with the Indian Government over the construction of the Indian high-speed-railway. Whatever right contact in India still has to be those close to the Modi Government. So, it inevitably means only those close to Modi, like Adani, TATA and corrupted politicians are the right contacts.

Japan is now snarled in an Indian trap constructing the high-speed-railway for India. Japan wanted to make sure of being the only country to monopolize high-speed-railway construction in India going forward, thus giving India all the incentives like low interest rate for loans of up to 80% that others like China would never want to touch.

Japan got the contract of building India's high-speed-railway, and is now suffering the consequences, not knowing whether that 80% loan is ever going to be repaid. One thing is for sure, with all the bitching going on about delays and added costs, such will definitely be a huge factor when repayment comes around. To add insult to injury, India ditched Japan for European tech in rail-switching equipment. That is going to be a disaster for India, the same as buying fighter jets from many sources and then trying to get them to work together.

Issues will be raised that will give India a reason to hold the Japanese hostage now over the loans. In any case that is what the Japanese were hoping for - to be building railways for India till eternity. But the Japanese did not get what they wished for.

China must be counting its blessing that it did not get to build India's high-speed rail. Otherwise, what happened to Japan is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to ripping China off. Japan is a close ally of India, and both are members of QUAD, a bloc countering China. China is more of an enemy than just a neighbor in the eyes of and the agenda of India.

What are friends of India like Japan for, other than for skinning and being used as proxies when the time comes. It is just a leaf taken from the USA playbook. India, the self-declared rising superpower, is learning early the modus operandi of the USA.

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