Americans will continue to control Japan but not China

In any case, China did collapse many times before, during dynastic changes, foreign attacks, civil wars and Japanese occupation. Each time, China rose from the ashes like a phoenix. It did not, however, collapse under Gordon Chang's fairy tale. As I always say, a civilization does not collapse and disappear forever. It endures, find ways to overcome the odds, adapt and will not perish. China is fortunate not to be put under the thumb of anybody, unlike Japan, and is able to chart its own destiny.

If the USA collapses, I think that is terminal. The US$40 trillion will wipe out its own citizen's retirement savings in retirement funds, property prices, hedge funds, banks, and kill off foreign investments into its debts forever. Of course, there will still be those 'stupidity without cure', who will continue to worship them. No fallen empires have historically managed to rise again - not the British, not the Germans, not the Spanish, not the Portuguese and not the Japanese. The Japs are still trying I believe, but to no avail.

Talking about Japan, all that stimulation and propping up the yen are measures resembling someone getting ready for sex but will end with a whimper afterwards, totally spent. It looks like Plaza Accord 2 is on the cards, that will kill off Japan for good. Unable to have financial sovereignty of its own, dictated to by the USA, warned by Scott Bessent against selling its USA Treasuries and yet complaining about the falling yen. Japan has exhausted all its efforts to prop up the falling yen. The first Plaza Accord was the straw that broke Japan's back, forever. The same move a second time will make it even worse. I do not think Japan is going to make that same disastrous mistake a second time.


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Rising prices in Iran, NOT in the USA? Keep spinning

The USA is touting that its sanctions are already reaping rewards, with prices rising in Iran. Oh yes, I think prices are also rising in the USA as well, with gasoline at more than US$5 per liter. That is going to trickle down to other goods needing transportation cost that is also rising. Iran will be able to survive with all those sanctions, even after 45 years of sanctioning by the USA. This is a fact and cannot be destroyed by fiction.

Iranian oil exports are not done in US$ anymore and the USA cannot do anything to Iran's oil business other than gloating. The only avenue is using secondary sanctions against those doing business with Iran. That is already falling to pieces with China refusing to co-operate. China is never going to co-operate as Iran is important to China with its oil exports which China needs. China can always deal with Iran, even using barter importing oil to be paid with equipment and development. That has already been going on even before the USA war against Iran.

J. D. Vance is trying to tell the world that Iran no longer controls the Strait of Hormuz. In other words, the Strait is now open. Tell that to shipowners and insurers. How many ships pass through and how many have been attacked by Iran?

More than 6,000 seafarers are still stuck in the Gulf, unable to leave. Does that indicate anything? Try to run the Strait and they will be sunk by mines, touted to have been completely cleared by twits. Trump boasted about having completely destroyed the air force, navy and logistics of Iran. Why then is he afraid of more mines being laid by Iran if the naval force is completely destroyed? Does not add up, right?


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Thailand should do the world a big favour by unleashing all sexual transmitted diseases (STD) in Pattaya

Thailand should do the world a big favour by unleashing all their known carriers of sexual transmitted diseases (STD) to Pattaya, while reigning in all the healthy ones.US has unleashed biological weapons on others before so this is payback time. Let these few thousand weapons be set free on Yankee soil. The same tactic employed in their release of Covid19 to the world and blaming China.

This is karma with a dose of their own medicine.

Big pharma will be jubilant as it'll give them the opportunity to develop untested mRNA medication and vaccines for those infected and prevent those around them.


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Social media has acquired the same status as drugs, alcohol and pornography - banned for teenagers

 AI, Artificial Intelligence is the most important development in the new world of high tech and information. AI is going to be part and parcel of life of every human bean, to assist human beans as they advanced into the future world when learning ABC from schools would increasingly become irrelevant. Higher institution of learning too would become obsolete as all the information will be available at the finger tips. AI is offering the most advanced information and knowledge to everyone that needs it without the stress of struggling to find the material in books and libraries.

AI is the future, AI will transform the world and life, and living will not be the same again. AI is supposed to be the most wonderful thing to happen to human beans. Or is it? While on one hand, the AI industries and leaders are waving AI everywhere, there is now an alternative narrative, that AI is a monster to be feared. Thanks to the American lies and screwed thinking to control AI and technology that they are coming out with all the fabricated threats and cons about AI...the same as how they demonise CCTV, 5G, EVs, things they cannot exploit to do evils in the world. With AI and the proliferation of information, the American terrorists will lose control of information and knowledge flowing around the world. Their answer, keep the young dumb and stupid.

AI, through social media and the internet must be controlled and kept away from children, including teenagers up to 18 years old or 16 years old, depending on who is acting or pretending to be God. Horror, how can the young be exposed to AI and social media? They will be smarter than God. Think of all the information in their hands if they can use social media freely? Think of all the disinformation, misinformation, fabricated lies that the young would be subjected to in social media by you know who? Oops, the all goodness main media are so innocent from spreading lies, manufactured and fabricated disinformation, if you were to believe in the main media. WSJ, NYT, Washington Post, BBC, Reuters and many others are guilty of spreading disinformation and fabricated lies.

Social media has now been elevated to the same level as drugs, alcohol and pornography and children must be protected from it. What are these 'God' afraid of? Are schools and educational institutions out there to teach and help people to acquire as much knowledge as they needed? And AI, social media are there to provide all they needed to know, all they want to know. No, cannot? Why not hide the books from the young? Close the schools?

Who are the real sources of lies, disinformation and misinformation, spreading fabricated information to mislead everyone? Why are so many people and organisations, with full support and financial backing of terrorist and rogue regimes be allowed to spread their lies, their manufactured truth freely in social and main media? Would it be easier to go after these people and organisations with bad intent and cut them off from social media instead of banning children from gaining access to social media?

The biggest culprit in spreading lies and misinformation is the rogue Washington regime, western media and all the western so called intelligence agencies. They are spreading lies and misinformation not only in social media but in the main media to deceive the innocent and unwary adults. Social media and AI are just tools, it is the manipulators, the people misusing them that are the danger. Don't blame the tools! It is barking up the wrong tree.

AI and social media are the best thing to happen to modern civilisations. Do not be misled by the evil Americans with their lies and distorted narratives, just like banning CCTVs, banning mobile phones, banning 5G, banning EVs for security reasons. It is the evil people that fear technology and AI and social media that will exposed their crimes and evil behaviour when technology can be used against them.

Stop insulting the young, stop demonising the young, stop controlling and depriving the young of knowledge and information. Go after the culprits behind all the corrupt information to control and mislead the young. Or stop sending the young to schools, to get an education, if knowledge is evil and harmful to the young.

The rogue American regime has an official budget of US$1.5b just to spread lies and misinformation in the main media and social media. Why not stop these evil criminals from their crimes?

India trying to blame China for the Nepal landslide, by hook or by crook.

Honestly, the Indians are trying to build a case to tell the world that China is solely responsible for the Nepal landslide, by hook or by crook. This is the agenda and the opportunity to give a dog a bad name and then skin it. Remember that hundreds of Chinese are either missing or killed, so what does China hope to gain by withholding information?

Why wasn't anybody talking about the USA being responsible by cutting off funding for a long running natural hazards program that aimed to identify and monitor landslide hotspots in Nepal in January 2025? Trump had claimed that climate change was a hoax and cut off all such fundings. The USA is perceptively quiet about what happened now in Nepal, letting India take the credit for demonizing China.

Under the thumb of the USA, India's relations with China can never improve. They can talk and negotiate until their faces turned blue, but any agreement will be sabotaged eventually, just like in Ukraine. Moreover, calling Israel the fatherland of the Indians tells us the direction of the Modi Government, not just bending over backwards to Trump, but even to Trump's handler, Netanyahu as well. That is total collapse of sovereignty.


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