Why is Putin in China? Relax man

 The standard narrative, Putin and China are consulting each other on what Trump said and how to deal with the American terrorists. This is a serious closed door meeting a four eyed meeting between the leaders of two superpowers.

Look at it from another angle, China and Russia are busy running their own countries and economies. No time for wars. And despite all the accusations and fabricated lies that China and Russia are having colossal domestic problems and struggling to deal with them, and evil America has no problems, winning wars and economy rock solid, everything is fine, Trump is so free to go attacking every country, messing around with the internal affairs of countries, telling countries what they can do and cannot do, and of course, having a great time killing Palestinians, Iranians, Latin Americans for fun.

The truth, Xi and Putin are very comfortable with the peace and economic progress in their countries. They are so free and relax that Putin just drop by for the weekend to have a chat with his good friend Xi and maybe play mahjong in Zhongnanhai, and have a good laugh at the circus that Trump brought to Beijing.

Putin and Xi are having a good time over tea and good food in the comfort of Beijing.  No sleepless night, no worries. What more can they ask for? Just let lunatic Trump to continue with his crazy and juvenile tantrums. Xi and Putin do not have to do anything when Trump is working so hard to destroy the evil American Empire.

China will not fight a losing war but Washington clowns will

 Do not expect Trump to admit a mistake. Trump only claims victory, success, winning and winning. That is Trump. Trump will fight any war and believe he is winning even if he is losing, just by shouting, we are winning, we are winning. This deranged mass murderer is very dangerous when let loose. No one is believing in this lunatic and what he said. We need to kill the Iranians because they are going to build nuclear bombs to kill Americans. Only the brain dead will believe in this silly and mischievous lie that is being repeated by the American terrorists, to kill and kill.

The Americans and the Israelis cannot win a war against Iran. The logistics and math are against them. No longer can American warplanes and warships fly and sail anywhere they want, not near to Iran. These are like clipping the wings and sails of the Americans. How to fight a war from a distance and win? How to support a war from 10,000 miles away? The Europeans have chickened out or kicked out from being Trump's ally, so no more support base in Europe. The Arabs and Muslims have turned against the Americans and Israelis for obvious reasons. No more Arab and Muslim base and Arabs and Muslims to fight and die for the Americans and Israelis.

And Iran is not alone. Iran has powerful allies as neighbours, with short logistic supply chains and strong military and weapons. America cannot win a war against Iran, China, Russia and allies. But Trump would not want to believe this is so. Trump in his delusion, believes he can win and will want to continue with this war. His generals know the truth. They cannot even win the war in Ukraine. Iran is a much bigger fish. Any military strategist will have told Trump to stop this war he cannot win. Xi will be backing Iran to the fullest, other than its strategic importance, Xi will fight because he knows he can win.

Now, another Mickey Mouse is appearing in the Middle East. Not Israel. Israel thinks it is not a Mickey Mouse because it has USA under its control and can win any war even against China and Russia. The new Mickey Mouse is UAE. There is nothing in this Mickey Mouse that can take on Iran. It is so vulnerable and can be wiped out very easily by Iran without Iran sending a single soldier into UAE. But Mickey Mouse are Mickey Mouse, little brain or no brain and think it can take on a much bigger enemy in Iran, like the Philippines wanting to take on China. Only Mickey Mouse would want to fight a war it cannot win. And there are plenty of them all over.

Mickey Mouse are Mickey Mouse. Not only they are small, they have even smaller brains or non existent brains.

Trump is killing Nvidia and AMD and stealing TSMC

 How Trump is trying to kill the American chip manufacturing companies is obvious to any observer of American political scene. Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, TSMC are all targeted to be killed or taken over by BlackRock and the likes, using the Indian playbook in India. Intel, Motorola are saved for obvious reasons.

When the biggest chip manufacturers are forbidden to sell their most expensive chips, their most profitable chips to their biggest customers, what did these say? The simplistic excuse, national security, cannot hold for long. The big chip manufacturers need to sell their products to generate revenue to feed their shareholders, investors and employees. Stopping them from selling their most expensive chips to their biggest customers is cutting off their revenue. If this did not end in losses, it will still end in loser profit or even having to downsize production. The growth of these companies is being strangled. They cannot find replacement for a big client like China, with deep pockets and high demands for their chips. Didn't clown Trump know that? Didn't clown Trump know that it will kill these companies?

After all the begging by Jensen Huang, Trump relented a little, can sell some high end chips to China, but he wants a cut, 15% of the sales revenue. Trump is as good as telling China, I am using Nvidia to rip China off, to pay more to fill Trump's pocket. Trump is betting on China being so desperate, and having to pay Trump obscenely for chips that should cost must less...using a Chinaman to fleece another Chinaman. Ya, when two fish are fighting, there is a white man standing around to profit from it.

Trump thinks the Chinese are stupid and will allow themselves to be robbed by him and unable to say no. Of course Trump has nothing to lose. Only Nvidia, and the likes of AMD and TSMC will stand to lose, China also will lose the opportunity to buy high end chips. Trump has everything to win, to benefit from all parties. If these companies eventually start to lose revenue, to make losses, their share value will fall, and Trump can send in his team to buy over for a song.

It is so elementary to make quick and easy profits from Chinaman, pitching one Chinaman against another Chinaman. So neat and so clever. So Trump and his clowns think so and waiting to get paid for nothing and at the same time destroying Nvidia, AMD and TSMC. White men's rule of law, white men write the rules for Chinaman and others to follow. NOT anymore!

Xi was just being diplomatic to host Trump

Xi was just being diplomatic, but realistically I believe he does not probably want to even host Trump's visit. But knowing that the man is dying to do so for years and making a fool of himself through constant self-invitation to make Xi unable to decline.

The visit was nothing more than a face-saving gesture accorded to Trump, nothing more. Nothing of significance had been achieved and analysts have said that the visit puts Xi in an even more prominent position of who is dictating the rules.

Trump has invited Xi to visit Washington in September. But there were no comments from the Chinese side. So, let us see.

Meanwhile Putin is visiting Xi these few days, probably sounding out Putin about what had been going on with the USA talks. On the card is putting certainty into a gas pipeline project for Russian gas into China. This is a sign of greater co-operation between Russia and China, giving Russia an even greater economic foundation in the years to come. What this means is that China will have alternatives to play with and be seeking less dependent on Qatar, Australia, USA among others for LNG that may be geopolitically inconvenient in times of conflict. China plans decades ahead, not building toilets when the urge to pee or poo is imminent.


Anonymous

From decoupling, Washington clowns now begging China to buy America, treasuries, soya beans, poultry, planes, chips and lies

Chinese Government subsidizing priority sectors had been demonized as unfair trade practices for decades. The USA Government itself subsidizing sectors for decades was never an issue. Hundreds of billions poured into subsidizing the building of chip manufacturing facilities by domestic and foreign companies was not unfair trade practices. The pot calling the kettle black has a new interpretation under USA's Rules based order. I think.

China is always the bad guy striving to make things cheaper for the rest of the world. Making cheaper things means the USA and the West can never compete against, so they keep demonizing China. Everything produced by Chinese manufacturers has been propagated as junk and inferior. If so, why are the rest of the world still buying them? China has never put a gun to the heads of those who refused to buy them, nor those who bought, so what is the hullabaloo all about?

In the past it was always about slave labor, so the rest of the world should not support buying goods from Chinese manufacturers paying slave wages. It was and is a human rights issue. If that was so, why was USA consumers buying iPhones made in China for decades without question about Apple then paying workers slave wages? Why was J. D. Vance caught buying eyeliners made in China with slave wages? Why was he supporting peasants making things cheaply that USA citizens could buy and then trying to raise the issue of China using those US$ earned by peasants to return to the USA by buying its treasuries. Now, China is not even in the mood to sell cheap things to the USA to earn US$ to buy USA treasuries. The USA is now begging China to buy its treasuries. Karma works in mysterious ways, and the mystery is not accrued to just God alone.


Anonymous

10% is coming back in full force

 Sometime not in the distance past, 10% is the most important catchphrase in the developing world. Everything, every project and development, is about 10%.  Even retard politicians were suddenly rushing to promote more economic projects everywhere not because they are really into economic development for their countries, but because of 10%. There was this story of UN officials visiting developing countries to check on their progress. The govt officials would point to the schools, bridges, roads, etc etc to impress the UN officials. When asked about the cost, the govt official will say 10%. Then he pointed to a vacant space and said sports stadium. The UN officials looked keenly at the open space but could not see anything, no building around. The govt official smiled and said, 100%.

Corruption in the developing countries was a disease and got very bad when the appetite of the corrupt officials became too big, instead of a few hundred thousand bucks, it became a few millions, a few billions. Then the roof came crashing down, only some, as many continue to collect their 10% or 100% as long as they are not caught.

Taiwan's ruling party is banging in the Parliament for more fun, oops I mean fund, to buy more expensive American weapons from America's junkyard. The opposition parties have succeeded partially to cut it down to size, but still very substantial, like US$800m. The ruling govt is not happy and continue to ask for more, another US$400m or US$500m. The Americans are asking for US$14b! When a govt is so desperate asking for more money, they are not too far from the 10% formula. When a govt is so happy to spend money, big money, in the millions and billions, beware!

This 10% disease is now spreading to America. The biggest practitioner of big spending is none other than Trump. When America is so broke, he got his way to knock down the ballroom in the White House to be replaced with a new ballroom, probably called Trump and Melania's ballroom. This is only the appetiser. It is costing the American taxpayers something like US$400m. How much is 10% of US$400m? But Trump's demand is 15% like for Nvidia chips. In the case of the Board of Piss, it is 100%. And the War Secretary wants US$200b for his operation to kill Iranians, and a US$1.5 trillion defence budget.  Who cares about the US$40 trillion debt?

The appetite is growing really big, and growing bigger. There is no limit to greed. Beware when someone is demanding more money for big projects or expenditure. 10% is only a starter, very cheap. By the way, after returning from Beijing, Trump is saying that he wanted to build a Great Hall for the American people, to be bigger and grander than China's Great Hall of the People. 15%?

Taiwan believes it is independent or going to be independent. What a joke!

 The DPP and its followers believe that Taiwan is going to be an independent country. They proudly called themselves the independent movement, to be independent from China, their Motherland. And many daft Taiwanese are being duped into this silly idea. Politically and historically, Taiwan is a part of China and will always be a part of China. The present status is an aberration that will not last. Taiwan will be reunited with the Motherland sooner or later. Period.

What the daft Taiwanese did not know, they would not know, is that the fish in a fishbowl will be fish in a fishbowl. That is their place, they will not be free swimming in the river or the sea, but they think they are free. The sad thing is that instead of becoming an independent state, Taiwan now has two foreign masters, the Americans and Japanese. Both are pulling the strings and Taiwan is nothing but just a puppet, Everything the Taiwanese want to do, they must ask permission from their puppet masters, America and Japan. And they think this is normal, this is freedom and independence.

The AIT is the official govt of Taiwan. The Taiwanese from the ruling party and the opposition parties must pay homage to the AIT, to inform them of their every action, to seek their approval for anything they want to do. And they must crawl to Washington and often to Japan to get their blessings and support. This is how silly and pathetic the Taiwanese have become. Instead of being first class Chinese, they now have two foreign masters to rule over them. The Americans even demand protection money from the Taiwanese, pay up, pay up, and also decide to remove TSMC from Taiwan. And the Taiwanese cannot say no. It is just the way it is, Taiwan is 'independent' as a colony of the USA and a semi colony of the Japanese.

The Taiwanese need to get out of the fishbowl to look from outside, to see that they are actually living inside a fishbowl own by the American and Japanese. All the silly calls about being independent is to be a colony of the Americans and the Japanese.

Would the Taiwanese wake up from their silly dream and free themselves from their American and Japanese masters? When are they going to make decisions for their own future without having to ask for approval from the Americans and the Japanese? Stop being the dogs of the Americans and the Japanese.

India betrays everyone and thinks there is no consequences

What is India doing in international affairs? On hindsight, very simple - India is waiting to see who wins and then pick the winning side. This is the Indian DNA.

India was supposed to be Russia's close friend for decades but pivoted to USA when the mask fell. India's testicles have been caught in the US$ hegemony, as the Indian rupee is avoided by Russia and other countries. It has no cards to play, when Russia insisted on being paid in Chinese Yuan for weapons and oil and the US$ was its only lifeline.

India in BRICS was never about providing inputs to improve BRICS. It was to erect hurdles for BRICS in de-dollarization to please the USA. India is the USA's Trojan Horse in BRICS, answering to the USA, the side that is now still on the winning side, but not for long.

India betrayed Iran by allowing the USA to sink its unarmed warship taking part in a competition in India to leave port and targeted by the USA, killing hundreds of innocent Iranians. India is secretly supporting the Arabs, particularly UAE, against Iran. The outcome is still undecided, but India is waiting to see how it turns out with its bets.

There have been calls for Iran to replace India as the 'I' in BRICS. This is not without reason, as India is perceived as the traitor in BRICS. How much harm has India done to BRICS is not marginal. India is also in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, doing it dirty work for the USA.


Anonymous

The Chinese Genie is out of the bottle....

Without the bans, tariffs and sanctions, China will eat up the breakfast, lunch and dinner of USA entities. Just look at the number of patents filed by China over the last few years, putting the USA and the rest of the world in the dust.

Yet, despite all the above desperate measures, China is still powering ahead. The main preoccupation of the USA and the West is keeping China away from dominating the high-end chips and the AI sector. But China is not just concentrating its priority in the chips and AI sector. China is undertaking research and development in so many other areas if you care to keep track of China's domination now in chemical research, research papers in energy, physics, science, computer, high speed rails, aviation, shipbuilding and now moving into AI.

The USA knows China is chipping away at its last bastion, the semiconductor sector, while the AI sector is still a close call, and is making every effort to deny China the means to move ahead. Trying to stymy China now is an exercise in futility, once the Chinese are determined to break the stranglehold. Where China cannot get the top end ASML chipmaking machine, China will even make their own. Necessity is the mother of invention.


Anonymous

Malaysia - Another case of stupidity has no cure, another joke

 From Anwar warning to US$250m claim - what’s behind Malaysia’s response to Norway’s scrapped missile deal?

The strength of Malaysia’s case will depend on whether export approval was explicitly tied to delivery of the missiles, and what remedies exist if a sovereign government blocks the transfer, says an analyst.

KUALA LUMPUR: Putrajaya’s RM1 billion (US$251.5 million) claim against a Norwegian defence company shows it is maintaining pressure on Oslo after the Scandinavian country unilaterally halted delivery of crucial naval missiles to Malaysia under a previously agreed contract, analysts say.

The notice of demand came after Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim last week slammed Norway’s move to cancel export of its naval strike missiles (NSM), which were intended to equip Malaysia’s upcoming littoral combat ships (LCS).  CNA

After so many centuries of being controlled and duped by the white men, believing in white men's rule of law that applies only to daft coloured people, and this is happening again. Malaysia, like many developing countries, stuck with the colonial mentality and white men is the best, honourable, will play by the rule, bought missiles from Norway believing every word the white men said, and every word in the contract. Now the white men tore away the contract, refused to deliver, what can Malaysia do? Hopefully the money is not all paid upfront. Normally this is how white men deal with hungry and begging to buy white men stuff, will do to coloured developing countries. They know that these developing countries are hardup for white men stuff, pay upfront or else no contract.

And Malaysia is now trying to go the legal way, thinking that white men's law will be objective and impartial and they can win a legal case against Norway, to get the missiles it bought, or at least money back. Who is putting a break on this deal? No need to guess. But Malaysia, like all developing countries, will not want to know, thinking it is a level playing field, transparency and all is fair and square under the law.

What is the best response for Malaysia? Stop being daft, stop believing in white men. Money paid is gone, the missiles will not be delivered. White men still rule over the coloured people, in their thinking, in their minds, that white men is sikit atas, actually semua atas in the eyes of colonised minds.

Operation Kill Iranians - The ceasefire will be a disaster for Iran and Iranians

 The temporary ceasefire is exactly what the American and Israeli terrorists wanted, to be able to fly and sail near to Iranian shore without being fired upon, and to rush in and finish off Iran at their own time. Trump has threatened to end everything in Iran almost everyday. Do not take this as a joke. The first few days of saturated attacks on Iran failed with Iranian assets and facilities deep down in the mountains. The American and Israeli terrorists need more than bunker busters to reach their targets and need more powerful and deadly weapons. And this ceasefire is allowing them just to do that, bring in the big ones to finish off Iran and the Iranians.

The reported nuclear explosion in Israel is a deadly warning to Iran of what is coming. Iran did not claim to have attacked the nuclear facility. Speculations were that it could be a sabotage or Israel testing a tactical nuclear bomb but got out of control, and the mushroom popped up in Israel, with populated cities nearby. A mushroom cloud means dangerous radioactivity around the site with several kilometre radius, like a overblown Chernobyl or Fukushima. So far no declaration of emergency and evacuation from Israel. Silence! This must be the safest radioactive free nuclear bomb for sure. A detonation in open space must have its casualties and consequences. A nuclear explosion must have radioactive fallouts.

The test may be out of control, to be released into the atmosphere around populated areas. But it is still successfully detonated. Iran beware! This is coming for Natanz or Isfahan, maybe even Tehran or other Iranian cities. This is what Trump is warning about. Trump knows what the Israelis are planning. And with the ceasefire in force, this is unstoppable. The aircraft can fly close to Iranian borders and send the nuclear bombs into Iran, giving Iran no time to react. Once the bombs are released, it will be too late to take them down. And the Israeli terrorists will release them at Iran, believing that the Americans would have to come to their aid at all cost. This is the dangerous assumption that makes the Israeli terrorists behaving wildly, like savages. The only way to stop this is for the Americans to tell the Israelis that America will not back them if the Israelis use nuclear bombs. Israel has no capacity to take over the Middle East without the American terrorists. Would the Americans allow Israel to drag them into a nuclear war with Russia and China?

Iranians are living precariously and their lives hanging on a thread, at the mercy of the American and Israeli terrorists. This is very serious, a clear and present danger for Iran. A situation that the American and Israeli duped the Iranians into, with their defences down. With the ceasefire in force, there is nothing the Iranians can do about stopping it. Without the ceasefire, American and Israeli warplanes and warships cannot get close to Iran. Now the Iranian hands are tied, cannot fire when the warplanes and warships, with nuclear weapons, come close to Iranian borders to deliver their nuclear bombs, giving the Iranians no time to react.

The ceasefire is a deadly trap, an existential trap for the Iranians. Poor gullible Iranians being prepared for the slaughter by the American and Israeli terrorists. The American and Israeli terrorists can nuke Iran anytime, on a moment's notice!!!!

PS.  TEHRAN: Iran's army warned on Tuesday (May 19) it would "open new fronts" against the United States if it resumes attacks, after President Donald Trump said he had held off launching a new offensive in hopes of striking a deal.

The warning came amid a shaky ceasefire in place since Apr 8, with Washington and Tehran exchanging proposals in an effort to end the Middle East war, which began on Feb 28. CNA

The Iranians are crazy, as good as being stupid. If the American and Israeli terrorists nuke Iran, there is no chance, no second chance to hit back. Everything will be gone. Natanz, Isfahan and many underground facilities will be gone!

Lansi Technology founder Zhou Qunfei...honoured to sit between Musk and Cook in Xi Trump state banquet

At this U.S. visit to China dinner banquet, the most eye-catching figure in the prime center seat between Musk and Cook was Lansi Technology founder Zhou Qunfei—from a rural factory girl to China's richest woman, with absolutely no background to rely on, building everything from scratch through her own grit. She was born in a small village in Hunan Province. At age 5, her mother passed away, and her father became disabled and blind from a work injury, leaving the family in dire poverty with nothing to their name. At 16, unable to afford school fees, she was forced to drop out and head to Guangdong to work in a factory, grinding glass on the assembly line—working days away during the day and furiously self-studying at night, earning certifications in accounting, computer operations, and other skills. That's how she spent a few years, until she scraped together 20,000 yuan from her wages, rallied eight relatives including her brother, sister, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law, and started a small workshop in Shenzhen doing watch glass processing. She handled machine repairs and sales runs single-handedly, grinding away like that for another four years.

By the 2000s, the mobile phone industry began booming on a massive scale. By a stroke of luck, her watch glass factory landed an order for TCL phone screens. She spotted the huge potential in the phone glass market and quickly founded Lansi Technology, specializing in the production, R&D, and sales of phone glass. At first, they only handled domestic phones and knockoffs, but everything changed when she went after a Motorola order—foreign companies had insanely strict quality standards. She bet nearly all her resources to meet Motorola's demands and snagged the V3 order, which sold over 100 million units worldwide, catapulting Lansi Technology straight to industry leadership. From there, she smoothly secured deals with Nokia, Samsung, and other foreign giants.

The pivotal turning point hit again in 2007, when Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, revolutionizing phones toward full-glass touchscreens. Jobs' obsessive craftsmanship demands left the whole world scrambling for a supplier that could meet them. Zhou Qunfei keenly sensed this was another massive opportunity, so she led her team in a three-month joint push with Apple engineers, breaking through key processes to mass-produce the first-generation iPhone glass panels. That locked in a long-term Apple contract, and soon after, nearly all Apple gear—from iPads to MacBooks—went to Lansi Technology for production. It also propelled Lansi to become the world's top player in touch glass panels.

That's why she got to sit next to Cook. But why was Musk right there beside her too?

After dominating global glass panels, Lansi Technology branched into more diverse smart devices, including car cockpits and robots. In autos, they've already locked in deals with 30 carmakers like Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, and Li Auto for windows, center consoles, and more. In robotics, they handle joints, sensors, and other components—areas with deep overlap in Musk's businesses.

A girl who dropped out at 15 with just a junior high diploma, emerging from rural Hunan to build an empire from nothing and become China's richest woman—forty years later, stepping into U.S.-China talks, seated between Musk and Cook. That's Zhou Qunfei's story.

This shown that it's not necessary to have degrees and all.sorts of papers qualifications to be smart and.innovative!

Be SMART in your common sense and able to seize opportunities when arises with foresight and 🧠 brains


Virgo49


PS. A repost by Virgo

China in the process of making better chips than H200

The Huawei story did not register in the brains of the hillbillies. Sanctions against Huawei did not work, despite even rallying the doggies to do the same to Huawei. Huawei was to show the middle finger to the USA and its doggies by becoming even more self-sufficient and prospering. Huawei is now even making its own chips and EVs.

Trying to strangle China using Nvidia chips is exactly the same mistake being made by the USA against Huawei. When Trump refused to sell top end Nvidia chips to China, it just made China more determined to overcome the problem by attempting to make its own, now even intent on cutting off China's tech firms from using Nvidia chips. The message from the Chinese Government was clear enough, that if Chinese tech firms can find alternative domestically made chips, import of foreign chips will be curtailed. That message probably gave Jensen Huang sleepless nights.

Trump thought he was playing the winning card, trying to project a semblance of having the upper hand by giving permission to Nvidia to go ahead to sell H20 and H200 chips to China. China did not even take up the offer, excusing itself by citing its fear of backdoors in those chips, apart from other reasons. But the harm had already been done, and China has put in place restrictions to prevent Nvidia H20 and now H200 chips to be sold on the Chinese market. Nvidia can sell those chips to McDonalds, while Trump can add them to his bumper burger orders like potato chips.

Jensen Huang made a wasted trip to China. The market for Nvidia chips in China is gone for good. It is not temporary. It is permanent.


Anonymous

Iran is the 'I" in BRICS. China needs Iran in BRICS

Now there is a propaganda campaign trying to sour relations between China and Iran, claiming that China is throwing Iran under the bus, as a bargaining chip that the USA might likely do the same over Taiwan. But Taiwan is already part of China and cannot be used as a bargaining chip by the USA. China will never agree. Anyway, that has still not been established, as Trump is still looking at the sale of weapons to Taiwan and the need to convince the war-hawks in Washington.

China is not going to betray Iran over Taiwan for sure. The Taiwan issue can fester for another 76 years, and China can sit around and wait. The Chinese are very patient people. After all, China already tolerated the Taiwan issue since 1949 without attempting to attack the island. All that threat from China against Taiwan is just a figment of the imagination of the war-hawks in Washington. In any case, Xi has warned Trump that the Taiwan red line must never be crossed. Few words, but clear and unambiguous. Trump, I think, got the message and has warned Taiwan not to think about independence. What will the next USA President do is beyond us to anticipate. The further sale of weapons to Taiwan is a sticky issue. Let us see what happens next.


Anonymous

Lunatic Trump continues to push for more vanity projects under his name

SHANGHAI: Could a proposed US-China “Board of Trade” help stabilise ties ahead of this week’s summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping?...

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who first outlined the proposal in March, said the mechanism would create a channel to formalise the kinds of goods traded between the two rivals. CNA

Megalomaniac Trump knows that this is his last two years before he disappeared like the dinosaurs. He is hastily trying to create more projects and monuments embossed with his name or image on them. Trump Tower is not enough, Trump Opera House, Trump Stadium, a better and more appropriate building will be Trump Museum to store his unwanted red caps. 

Trump will seize on every moment, opportunity, to want people to remember him, like what every dictator will do, knowing that his popularity will not last, like all dictators, will be demolished once he has fallen from power.

The Board of Piss has come and gone with the blink of an eye, with Trump pocketing all the monies for his family business. No body cares what happens to this board or the money he took. It is not accountable to anyone except Trump.

Now in this meeting with Xi, Trump is coming out with two more Boards, Board of Trade or Board of Investment to claim credit for them. Don't they have enough silly boards and institutions for trade and anti trade that they need two more Board of Piss with Trump's name on it but would be forgotten in due time?

It would be better for China to sign a trade agreement with the Trump family for some real business, producing more hats and MAGA souvenirs for sale to his supporters, Trump shoes, Trump pens, Trump panties, Trump diapers etc etc. Maybe have a joint production to produce an AI movie on Trump and his great and infamous achievements. He got another grand idea after his summit with Xi. He was impressed by China's Great Hall of the People and wanted to build one for America, maybe called Trump's Great Hall of America.

Trump is just an aberration, and a really bad one that will be thrown into the dustbin for good in less than two years and be forgotten, or as American jokes.

Silly American propaganda would not now work anymore once the Arabs and Muslims are secretly talking together

 Saudi Arabia launched covert attacks on Iran as regional war widened: Sources

The United Arab Emirates also carried out military strikes on Iran early last month, the Wall Street Journal reported, revealing previously unknown participation in the war by the two countries.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicised strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said.

The Saudi attacks, not previously reported, mark the first time that the kingdom is known to have directly carried out military action on Iranian soil and show it is becoming much bolder in defending itself against its main regional rival.  CNA

The American terrorists are now so desperate that they have to resort to their stupid lies even knowing that they would not work anymore. First they tried to incite the Iranians to attack UAE by claiming UAE was hitting back at Iran. Now they are claiming that Saudi Arabia is also hitting back at Iran, to drag Saudi Arabia into their war with Iran. In the early days of this war, the Americans were spreading lies that MBS were telling the Americans to finish off the Iranians. Is this really believeable? The intent of releasing this lie was to pitch the Iranians against the Saudis. It did not need any second guess. Just look at the sources of these misinformation will tell where they are coming from. The Iranians are not hitting Saudi and Emirati strategic targets for obvious reasons. 

Both Saudi Arabia and UAE will be flattened if Iran believed in these American lies. Yes, Iran bombed some parts of Saudi Arabia and UAE. But these are American assets only. And the Iranians are closely in touch with the Saudis and Emirati on what they are going to hit, sparing the assets of Saudis and Emirati. New reports that UAE have started to attack Iran. How true is this? UAE inviting its own destruction? Another case of Mickey Mouse threatening a bigger power? Also reported that the drones that attacked UAE nuclear plant flew in from the West.

The clowns in Washington still think the Arabs and Muslims are stupid and can be manipulated by them to fight and kill each other. They cannot believe that the Arabs and Muslims are having their own communication networks to keep in touch and inform each other of the progress of this anti American and Israeli war.

The American and Israeli terrorists are running out of ideas and out of wits. Once the Arabs and Muslims are united, they cannot be divided and killed one by one by the American and Israeli terrorists anymore.  The Israelis cannot control America for long. Trump's term is coming up, and it might be shorter if his health does not allow him to stay on. The next American President is unlikely to be tainted by the Epstein episode and be controlled by the Israelis. Mickey Mouse Israel's days are numbered.

Xi Trump Summit - A lesson for juvenile delinquents

Sensible adults talking to kids and juvenile delinquents cannot produce workable solutions. While the Trump administration, with its juvenile leaders, continue to treat China like bitter enemies, USA business leaders going to China will not get what they want, despite the gloating about deals here and there.

China will give token deals in order not to cut off ties completely. That is not China capitulating as some people seem to think. China will still buy USA agricultural products to keep USA farmers dependency on China intact. China is throwing straws at drowning entities to keep them alive, not to allow them to disappear completely and lose the leverage totally.

Boeing knows the Chinese market for planes is huge and cannot be dispensed with. The Chinese domestic aviation sector can survive on COMAC planes coming on-line fast. Boeing wants a piece of the action. Nividia needs the China market for its chips, but whether China falls for the same ploy to buy more Nvidia chips is the question. China had already put top priority on Chinese semiconductor firms to entice them to power their foray into chips. Letting Chinese tech to go back to buying Nvidia chips is betraying its own semiconductor players. China is intent on cutting its dependence on foreign chip makers knowing that it is a National Security risk if conflicts arise. The current chip war already revealed the consequences of putting China's National Security under undue pressure.

On the other hand, USA can cut off deals with China firms, but they already have alternative markets to enter into. China has all the cards to play around with, both its huge consumer market and the equally huge market it can get into in the Global South and had already positioned itself for any decoupling.

The USA tried playing the decoupling card and found itself shooting its own foot. Years of sanctioning Chinese firms did not collapse those Chinese firms like Huawei, but is instead making them more resilient, while USA firms being targeted are finding the going unsustainable. Companies like Boeing, Nvidia and a host of USA technology firms still wants to go into China to make money. The visit of Trump to China clearly shows that the new mantra is co-operation and allowing both sides to grow instead of throwing brickbats and bombs at each other.

But the last word is still for China to beware of USA treachery. The USA can never ever be trusted to honor its obligations. That is clearly shown over the last couple of decades.


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Boeing deal subject to many conditions and also time factor

I do not think the Boeing deal is realistically possible. We must remember that Boeing is one of the USA's main weapon manufacturers and helping Boeing is not in the interest of China. China should even stop supplying rare earth elements and titanium, among other components to Boeing under a dual use prohibition. But Boeing and Airbus had been given the exemption earlier.

In any case, China is trying to compete in the aviation sector as well, with COMAC and the C919 plane already on the market. Why help Boeing when certification of its C919 had been stymied by the West? So, unless China can get certification for the C919 and other planes made by COMAC, China must pay back the USA in its own coin by not buying from Boeing.

Trump can gloat all he can about the deal, but are the deals already signed? China needs thousands of planes for its expanding domestic aviation sector alone, and Boeing knows the market in China is immense and cannot be ignored.


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India itchy for a role in international affairs

 The American and Israeli Operation Kill Iranians is still in full steam, but failing. In a sense, this is the first time that the Arab and Muslim states have taken a cooperative stand for their own interests despite tremendous pressure and coercion from the American and Israeli terrorists to drag them to fight Iran and get themselves destroyed, and they are doing extremely well.  The American and Israeli terrorists are spreading vicious lies that Saudi Arabia and UAE have started to attack Iran with the Saudis being thrown under the bus, claiming that the Saudis have asked the American terrorists to kill all the Iranians. This lie is very deadly and the Iranians could easily be provoked to bomb the hell out of Saudi Arabia. But it didn't work. The Iranians, Arabs and Muslims knew this dirty trick of the Americans well enough not to be duped. 

The latest is that UAE is trying to form a coalition with Saudi Arabia and Qatar to join the killing of Iranians. How much truth is there? The Saudis and Qataris are smart enough not to be dragged in, when fight a losing war and fall into the trap of the provocateurs and be destroyed? I may be wrong in this as UAE's nuclear plant has just been hit by Iranian drones, probably a warning that it can be worse.

What has India got to do with this? India has been in the cold wilderness of international affairs after being bashed by Trump. It ended up as a nobody, not trusted by Trump, Putin or Xi. The Operation Kill Iranians gives India an opportunity to put its little itchy fingers into the pudding. And as Chairman of the BRICS Meeting, this topic became the main agenda. And as usual, whenever India is around, BRICS would not be able to get a consensus on any issue, and ended up with no joint statement to condemn the American and Israeli terrorists. This is India's message to the Americans and Israelis that India is on their sides.

Not only that, in a critical time like this, India signed a joint defence pact with UAE, for what, against who? What can India do with a pact with the UAE? If the UAE really intends to attack Iran, and Iran hits back, UAE will be flattened in hours. Will India come in to help UAE to fight Iran? This will be the greatest joke of the century, more laughable than Operation Sindoor. Iran is many times more powerful than Pakistan and is capable of taking on the American and Israeli terrorists at the same time. What is India to Iran? India wants to tempt a war with Iran to protect UAE? But all noise and no substance is what India is. India just want to be noticed that it is a 'super' power and wants to be involved in everything in the world like it really matters. This is the moment for India to be noticed. But this involvement is not for free. There is a price India will have to pay. 

The US will not appreciate India's move to be cosy.  China and Russia too would not be happy with this. This is at most a tiny pyrrhic victory for India. Iran will remember this, and so will be the Arab and Muslim states.

China is about keeping the cost of everything down. The West is about selling more and more expensive goods

China is not like Japan or Germany, easily taken to the cleaners for trying to be better than the USA. That is the price to be paid if you depend too much on the market in the USA.

China has been able to learn some useful lessons from the humbling experience of the Japanese and Germans. Diverting and spreading out its eggs by not relying too heavily on the USA has been beneficial for China. China did not have to wait for the USA to give permission for it to progress, but just did it, not yesterday, but more than thirty years earlier, building bridges and increasing trade with countries all around the world, helping poor countries to rise to benefit China with a bigger market, securing raw materials it needs, building up its manufacturing base which have resulted in being able to produce goods cheaper than others to dominate markets it goes into.

China has now built up its fortress of independence in many sectors and powering ahead in its export sector and reaping record trade surpluses that unnerves the USA and the Europeans. In the process they are trying to curb the Chinese export juggernaut, even shamelessly asking China not to produce too much and allow them to keep up. Did the world ask the USA not to produce too many weapons for use against other countries or printing too much toilet papers? The USA just ignored what the rest of the world wanted and treating them as mere noises without caring two hoots. It is after all the sole superpower and can do what it wants and brushing aside what the rest of the world thinks. But others have to follow rules they set. That is the hypocrisy.


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