America and Canada are the open air museums for ICE automobiles

 The EVs are the future of automobiles. Practically every country is moving to EVs for all the right reasons, clean energy, cheaper to operate and better technology, many come with the IOT, like a futuristic space ship. And with improving manufacturing processes and mass production, the EVs are now costing much cheaper than ICE cars. China is going all out to phase out ICE cars by 2030. Europe is also going down the same path, with a slight delay because of certain peculiar concerns of individual countries.

The Americans are caught in a bind and have decided to stick to ICE or hybrid cars, mainly because they lack the technology to compete with Chinese EVs. Other than Tesla, all other brands of American EVs failed to become production cars or unable to sell due to many uncompetitive features.

The rest of the world are embracing EVs as the best mode of transportation. China is making them so affordable to the developing countries that they are so difficult to refuse. Europe, UK and Australia, New Zealand are seeing EVs selling like hotcakes. The only saleable cars in Africa, Latin and Central Americas are EVs. There is no turning back. Despite the high tariffs and trade barriers, Europe is still unable to resist importing EVs. The car distributors cannot resist making a fortune from selling popular and reasonably priced EVs. All the European govts too find it very difficult to deprive their people from using cheap and very well made EVs from China. Refusing Chinese EVs into Europe is a big injustice to their people.

Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Latin America are like bees diving into honey with EVs. They do not need to cough out an arm or a leg to buy obsolete, less efficient, lower performing ICE cars from Europe and America. In Africa, entry level EVs could cost less than US$6,000!

Only two countries in the world are still closing their doors to EVS by imposing more than 100% tariffs. The poor Americans and Canadians are salivating for the popular EVs from China where a good entry level EV can cost less than US$10,000. Where to find such bargains? For the Americans living across the border of Mexico, things are not that bad. They can hop over to Mexico to pick up a good quality EV and drive back to the USA, saving US$25,000 or US$35,000, and be happy like mad.

America and Canada are now virtually open air museums for ICE cars, plenty of them on the roads, not saleable anywhere in the world. No country not under the coercion of the Americans would want to waste their money on expensive but antique ICE cars from America or Europe. These ICE cars should be left in the junkyard or in the museum to be admired as ancient relics.

Americans are still deceiving themselves with their 4.5G masquerading as 5G and unable to adopt many new tech that needs the speed of real 5G, like self driving cars, long distance surgery that need for real time or satellite technology. And the Americans are coercing the dumb Europeans to tear down their Huawei 5G communication system, to lose billions just to dismantle them, and replacing them with 4.5G faking as 5G system, and spending more on obsolete equipment and installation. What a sick joke!

America and Europe are on a slow march to return to the Dark Ages of Medieval Europe.

The EVs are only going to get better and more sophisticated by the day with all the best tech gadgets added in, yes, like sitting in the comfort of a futuristic spaceships, with everything available at the touch of a button or by verbal commands. The EVs are the future. ICE cars are for hillbillies and rednecks that are stuck in the small towns of Wild Wild West, in the whole of America, not knowing that the world has moved on while they are still fidgeting with their handguns and revolvers.

Venezuela invasion - What's next? American imperial rule?

In the aftermath of the attack on Venezuela, Trump is already gloating about 'running' Venezuela. Running Venezuela from Washington without boots on the ground, which will make Venezuela into the first remote-controlled country ever in history. Oops, I forgot about Japan. Boasting about having the cart before the horse is easy. Making the cart move forward using that arrangement is not that easy. USA troops, if they do go inside Venezuela will relive the nightmare those who went to Vietnam earlier are now suffering. The pain for them will come after the present euphoria.

Venezuelan citizens should be well aware of what USA running the country after attacking it is going to mean. Just ask the Iraqi citizens and why the country is still in chaos and having to live with the consequences of what they wished for. It is too late to regret Just also ask the Afghanistan people what improvements in their lives came about under the USA for twenty long years.

All that happened was the USA taking control of the oil in Iraq, nothing else beneficial. And the irony of Iraq was that the oil money had to be stashed in the USA, not in Iraq. Can see cannot touch. This is going to happen to Venezuela with the USA just eyeing the oil. But they had to invent a reason which, can you believe it, accusing Maduro as an illegitimate leader who was legally elected by popular vote? Those Anglo-Saxon Whites supporting Trump's action must be living under a rock.

After all the gloating by the USA and all the Anglo-Saxon Whites about the success of its attack on Venezuela, is the USA going to put boots on the ground to run the country after all? Or maybe a coalition of the willing again as in Iraqi? And will the people in Venezuela just sit at home and allow the country to be exploited, its oil and minerals stolen?

Kidnapping Maduro and his wife are not going to make Venezuela 'great' again as boasted by Trump. It will create chaos and put the country further backward resulting from sanctions already imposed. Trump is now going to make every country 'great' again, except his own USA. Gloating about 'USA first' has lost its way. The stupid Hillbillies that supported Trump have lost the plot.

There is also a suspected hidden agenda to use the attack on Venezuela to divert attention away from what is about to happen to the USA itself. The falling dollar. the inability to sell its debts and the incoming banking meltdown over silver paper not covered by physical backing. Let us enjoy the clown show.


Anonymous

Arabs and Muslims fighting again. Who is the devil behind these fighting?

 Trump is now gloating about helping protestors to leave Iran if they are targeted by the Iranian Government. Are those protestors cultivated by the USA to destabilize Iran, to pull them out to safety before another strike by the USA and Israel, to require Trump to help them out of Iran? I am suspicious over the move to create chaos in Iran so timely and who is benefiting from the chaos. Actually, it is foolish to even needing a guess, when the perpetrators are right before our eyes, planning another attack soon.

Iran has adapted after the attack earlier and knows how to retaliate. What is the motive or narrative now, since Iran's nuclear sites are reported to have been destroyed? Maybe to support those protestors to bring democracy to Iran? The USA and Israel must come up with an invented motive to strike Iran.

Now, the Saudis are attacking Yemen over arms shipment to separatists from UAE. Why not attack UAE in the first place, like Trump attacking Venezuela by accusing Venezuelans of smuggling drugs to the USA. My take is that it is all going to be blamed on Iran for still providing arms to the Houthis. As I said earlier, peace between Iran and Saudi Arabia is not going to hold, more so brokered by China, as someone's chaos creating agenda is on the line. The Middle East can never have peace one way or another.

Anonymous

2025, BYD sold 2.66 million cars, Tesla sold 1.64 million

 How does SWIFT realistically know how widely used is the Yuan when the Yuan's usage is not captured by going through the SWIFT system? Not counted does not mean not existing. That is already an open indication of how propaganda works.

The whole idea behind the de-dollarization motive of BRICS was and is to not let SWIFT capture and control the trade deals done outside the US$. It is true that China is now demanding that Chinese exports to the USA be settled in gold, silver or Yuan, the USA can keep pretending that de-dollarization is just an irritant, that is until the shit hits the fan.

How realistic are USA and Western intelligence when China blindsided them in the EV sector as an example? These Western and Japanese carmakers have presence in China yet were basically sleepwalking while Chinese EV makers were eating their breakfast, lunch and dinner.

It is the arrogant mindset of the West that China cannot overtake them in any sector which is going to be the downfall of the West. Even Elon Musk, a decade earlier had laughed at the mention of Chinese EVs, brushing them aside as minor irritants at best. Today, Elon is not laughing anymore and is instead worrying about Tesla losing market share to BYD. Tesla sales had been propped up by subsidies inside the USA market, but after the split with Trump, those subsidies are now gone, together with the sales advantage.

And the irony of the arrogance mindset is extended to behavior of ASML, boasting that the Chinese will not be able to make a lithography machine even if ASML gives them the blueprints. How arrogant was that? I think ASML is regretting its arrogance already and eating its words with the progress that Huawei and SIMC are making in the chip-making hardware business. Remember that ASML still depends largely on Chinese rare earth elements and should not be boasting too arrogantly when its existence is at stake. Again, people in glass houses should not throw stones thinking they are immune. Their glass house will crash down when others retaliate.

Anonymous

PS. BYD cannot sell in US and Canada because of high tariffs.

Attack on Venezuela is Trump declaring war on Xi and Putin and the world

 The White apologists are calmly discussing about how clever Trump and his Delta Force are. No condemnation, just about the pros and cons of the invasion of a sovereign state, just another day. Remember the condemnations and sanctions by the the Whites when Putin sent his forces into Ukraine? And all the vicious attacks and vitriol against Xi and China for not invading any country?

They are spending their time enjoying the theatre, trying to explain the invasion, drugs, not drugs but oil or whatever else. The American terrorists can invade and take over any country by force or farce, it is just their normal, American gangster Rules Based Order.

This attack against Venezuela is a precursor to more attacks. Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Iran and African states are all in the American list. Trump is imposing the Monroe or Moron Doctrine on the Americas. The fall of Venezuela will lead to the fall of the Latin and Central American countries, if no one can stop this and reverse the fate of Venezuela. China and Russia have hundreds of billions of investments in Central and Latin America and must be protected or be seized by the American terrorists. Port Chancay and Panama Canal will fall into American control.

For China and Russia to fight asymmetric wars in other parts of the world is one thing, they cannot watch hopelessly when their assets and investments are taken by the Americans. Not only that they lose all these but also their credibility as the leaders of BRICS and the Global South, unable even to protect themselves, unable to protect their allies and friends. BRICS will risk becoming an irrelevant organisation. All its programmes, dedollarisation, alternative trading systems etc will go up in smokes. Which Global South country would believe in China and Russia and think they can depend on them for security and protection?

Trump has thrown the gauntlet into the ring. China and Russia have to pick it up or the whole world will fall under the American Empire. Trump will go on attacking one country after another, and many countries will just give up. The first shot for WW3 has been fired. The ball is now in the courts of China and Russia. They may not live to see the effect of their asymmetric war against the American Empire, the dedollarisation strategy will be killed prematurely and all the efforts will be wasted.

Both China and Russia have been put into a corner by Trump. Can Xi and Putin still be thinking they can talk and negotiate with Trump, the unprincipled and lawless gangster? Will Xi still think it is wise to invite Trump to China in April when Trump is shitting in his face and calling him out for a fight? Inviting a thug, a felon and a disgraceful son of a gun like Trump to Beijing is not only insulting Xi but the whole Chinese people. If Xi and Putin have any commonsense and self respect, and want to be seen as credible leaders of the Global South, they would have to break every deal with Trump and stand up to face this lunatic menace. There is no other way out other than surrender to Trump. Trump has nothing to worry for, he cannot think further than the next day and will not be worried about tomorrow. Trump fights only for today, all in, win or lose, like a Poker game. Trump is betting that no one would dare to stop him.

Leaders of the Global South are all staring at Xi and Putin for direction, to fight, flight or bow to Emperor Trump and be the sheep being led to the slaughter.