China to reunify Taiwan without firing a bullet

 Gangster and Fox News reader came to the Shangri La Dialogue and told everyone that America is the hegemonic power in Asia and South East Asia. This balance of power where the American forces rule the region must remain unchanged and unchallenged. China is a threat to this balance of power and wants to be the new hegemonic power to replace the Americans. The Americans will be here to stay whether the Asian or Asean countries like it or not. 

In addition, gangster Hegseth claimed that China is going to invade Taiwan by force without knowing that Taiwan is a part of China. And he ordered all the military and govt officials, many senior enough to be his father or grandfather, to buy more weapons from the Americans and join the American forces to go to war with China.

Singapore simply said it did not want to choose side in the US China rivalry and Singapore has many choices and pointed to Macron, saying Singapore would welcome France to the region. Malaysian PM, the current Chairman of Asean, said Asean would welcome all powers here and would not want not to get involved in any wars, and China is a good friend, investing heavily in Malaysia and building Malaysia's high speed train network. He also emphasised that Asean would remain neutral and free from superpower rivalry and coercion. Anwar added that Asean had invited China and the Gulf States to form a new economic block for trade and economic development. The US is not invited into this new trade and economic block.

China will reunite with Taiwan, a breakaway province during the civil war in the early 20th Century. And China's plan for reunification is in progress. China has more than a million soldiers and the three armed services on its side to take on any country that dares to interfere in China's reunification with Taiwan. Gangster Hegseth thought his 28,000 soldiers in South Korea and another 50,000 soldiers in Japan would be good enough to take on China's more than 1m soldiers. This is what a newbie news reader's great idea of fighting a war with China and winning.

China's reunification plan is simple. Chinese forces would be conducting live firing exercises around the island of Taiwan for a month. The air space and waterways would be out of bound to air and naval traffic. Any aircraft or naval ships entering the region would be shot and taken down. Chinese air and naval might would form a cordon around Taiwan to keep out intruders. China's aircraft carriers and warships would be fully deployed to stop hostile forces from approaching Taiwan island. The ADAA defence perimeters would be activated and guarded by Chinese hypersonic missile forces.

Taiwan would be told to keep its aircraft on the ground and warships in the harbours during the exercise period.  The army units would be told to stay in their camps. No one moves, no one gets hurt or die. Any aircraft or warship that violates this restriction would be fired and taken down. The Chinese forces are capable of taking down any aircraft or warship in the air or sea surrounding Taiwan.

This in effect is a lockdown of Taiwan completely. Would Taiwan forces dare to violate the no fly zone knowing that it would definitely be taken down? Would any foreign forces dare to do the same to risk being taken down? Would the American forces, its allied forces dare to test China's defence forces to break the lockdown?

After a month is over, if the Taiwanese still refuses to reunify with the mainland, the exercise period would be extended another month, and on and on until Taiwan reunite with the mainland. This could be achieved without firing a shot.

The Americans may try to start a war with China during the lockdown. Would the Americans and its allies have the will and means to take on China in China's front yard? The smart Taiwanese know that resistance is futile when China decides to reunify the island with the mainland. Would they choose to die fighting to the last Taiwanese like the Ukrainians?

China does not need to use force unless absolutely necessary when provoked or challenged. The reunification would be peaceful and swift without external interference. Any country other than the Americans thinks it is up to it to want to go to war with China because of Taiwan?

Why Taiwanese would not fight? Reunification is not subjugation. The Taiwanese would continue to rule themselves and life will be the same, even better.  Why fight in a losing war and gain nothing but to die?

Top 15 Chinese Drama Muslim actors and actresses

 

8 min clip showing the top Muslim actors and actresses in China. Some of them are Ugyhurs. The Muslims in China, including the Ugyhurs are living very well and some very successful. Many of these Muslim actors and actresses are multi millionaires and very well received by their Chinese fans.

China needs to stifle India's development? China needs to spy on India, to see how many toilets India is building?

Palki Sharma is again complaining that China is trying to stifle India's development using unfair competition. What global brand has India been showcasing to support her claim that India is indeed competing with China and that China is using unfair tactics to sabotage India.
I think that is a big insult to China trying to put India on the same level playing field. Apple and Foxconn are not investing further in India because China is controlling its supply chain servicing Apple in India. Is that what she is nagging about? Is she talking about China clamping down on rare earth elements exported to India, now that China knows India is reselling them to USA defense contractors making weapons to target China? That incidentally is just collateral damage targeting India's own EV makers and manufacturing, sorry to say, for consorting with China's most bitter enemy.

In fact, China cares two hoots what India does, whether it is trying to become the next superpower, the factory of the world, dominate global EV making, sending rockets to Mars or exploring the sun at night. China does what it does best and does what it needs to protect its interest, nothing more.

Palki Sharma is also trying to demonize China by claiming that China is placing hidden ships spying on India. That must be a joke to say the least. What has India got that China does not already have and even more than what India can hope for? China has its own Beidou Navigation Satellites that can see India's sensitive infrastructures for target practice. India better wakes up and not try to toe the USA line by demonizing China too vigorously and shooting its own foot. During COVID19, India was conned into providing vaccines to counter China's vaccine diplomacy, under the dictate of the USA, that in the end deprived India of vaccines for its own use, resulting in the death of millions. I guess lessons are never learnt by India and consorting with the devil cannot be broken off.


Anonymous

China more dependent on America or the other way round?

 China arming Iran is indirectly also arming the Houthis in time to come, with Iran now the main supporter of the Houthis. The West can make a song and dance to demonize China about it but isn't that the same as the USA and EU arming Ukraine and Israel. What works for them cannot be denied for China, right?

Sure, the USA can start sanctioning more of China, since Iran is already deep in the USA's sanctions list. Better still, the USA can now completely decouple from China, a move which I believe China is taking in its stride. If China can announce that it is ready for any war with the USA, it shows it has no fear of decoupling from the USA - lock, stock and barrel. Who is in need of what from whom? Rare earth, consumer goods, raw resources are all in the hands and under control by China. China can wash its hands of doing business with USA. But can the USA afford that? Why is the USA not touting about de-coupling, only squeaking about 'de-risking'? People can deduce why the USA is backtracking on decoupling, whatever 'word salad' the USA choose to trot out.

Anonymous

China on the right track towards self sufficiency in advanced tech

Thankfully, China is not buying any weapons from the USA, otherwise it will be used to blackmail the Chinese. China is making its own weapons, fighter jets, aircraft carriers, missiles, satellite navigation system and does not have to depend on the USA or the West. In fact, China's domestic aviation is going to be self -reliant on just the Comac planes, with Boeing and Airbus losing market share in China going forward.

It was reported, just recently, that the USA and its allies, Japan and South Korea had agreed to deny selling high grade bearings for China's high-speed trains, hoping to derail China's runaway HSR construction that is outshining Japan. What they failed to find out was that China had already figured out how to make high grade steel bearings comparable with imported ones from Japan and South Korea for its high-speed trains.

The USA also tried to stop the sale of commercial jet engines to China recently, but we know that China is already well versed in making its own jet engines for its fighter jets. So, what is the problem if the USA stop selling engines for Chinese planes? It just makes China more determined to make everything itself.


Anonymous

Air India's 171 crashed...Fuel control switches were cut off

Fuel control switches were switched from "run" to "cutoff", before an Air India plane crashed last month, a preliminary investigation report by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Burea revealed early on Saturday.

Shortly after takeoff, and once the plane reached its top recorded speed of 180 knots, “the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another" within a second, which caused a loss of engine thrust moments after it left the runway, the report revealed.

Shortly after both switches had been turned off, they were flipped back into the run position. One of the pilots transmitted "MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY," however, the plane could not gain power quickly enough after it had begun to lose altitude.

The flight lasted around 30 seconds before it crashed.

The report also revealed that, prior to the crash, one pilot could be heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking why the other had cut off the fuel. The other pilot responded that he had not done so.  MSN

The most critical moments of an aircraft movement are taking off and landing. When taking off, full power and maintaining full power are crucial for a safe take off. Cutting off fuel by switching off the fuel switches is never done as it would crash the aircraft. Every pilot knows that and would not do that.

Why were the switches turned off? Who turned off the switches? Definitely not the pilot or co pilot unless they did it deliberately to crash the aircraft. In this case this would not happen. Recorded pilot conversation, one pilot asked the other why he switched off the fuel. The other replied he did not. And the switched was in the on position, suggesting the pilot turned it back to on, or was it in the on position all the time?

 

So, how could the fuel switches turned off on their own? Mechanical problems? Unlikely as no switches would flip on its own unless it is wired and controlled by some software. The switch may be switched off if the software is faulty or being hacked, or being programmed to do so, like a kill switch, or being switched off deliberately by someone other than the pilots.  A software or a kill switch that can turn off the fuel is deadly and cannot be allowed in the first place. This kill switch facility must be removed in all aircraft immediate. This function was introduced after the 911 incident to justify ground operators to take control of the aircraft in a hijack situation. Caveat, if there is indeed such a kill switch installed.

If the investigation team does a thorough job, more evidence would be uncovered. By the way, China's Southern Airline had sold all its 787-8 Dreamliners as a safety measure, in consideration of the safety of all its passengers and air crews.  Better to be safe than sorry.

Many operators of Boeing 787-8 are investigating the fuel cut off switch, physically and mechanically. The control and problem are the software that controls it.

Albanese should shut up about Taiwan when in China

 Aussie PM Albanese is in China supposedly for trade talks and improving relations. What the shit must he be talking about Taiwan and wanting to preserve the status quo, ie Taiwan remaining a separate part of China? Who does Albanese think he is? China is the one to decide what will happen with Taiwan, not little Australia. The issue of Taiwan has nothing to do with trade and improving relations with China. Raising Taiwan, Tibet or Xinjiang is the white men's way of provoking China, telling China they have a right to meddle with China's internal affairs. This applies to all the western rogues that went to China. They are guests and need to behave themselves and stop being rude to their hosts. China's domestic affairs are none of their business. You to trade with China, talk trade.

The Chinese do not meddle with the domestic affairs of other countries. When they visit or meet with foreign delegations, they talk about trade and matters of mutual cooperation. The Chinese never raise issues concerning the internal affairs of other countries. They never tell the Aussies to return their land to the aborigines. They never ask the Aussies to repent for their crimes against the aborigines. Why are these rude and cocky white men always want to meddle with China's domestic affairs? 

Australia is just another little Mickey Mouse but behaving like it is superpower. It is insignificant, irrelevant in international politics. Australia should not think too highly of itself. The days when it can bully the Pacific Island nations and Asean nations are over. China can write off Australia and cut off all trade and relations with Australia and trade with the rest of the world. Without China, Australia would go into recession immediately.

However, China is partially to be blamed for the rudeness of these white foreigners. China allows these white foreigners to be rude even in Beijing and just respond with a stupid smile when the foreigners are rude and insist on meddling with China's internal affairs. If China continues to allow foreigners to misbehave while being welcomed as guests in China, the foreigners will take it as a sign of weakness and that China is afraid to offend the foreigners.

Wondering why it is so difficult for China to learn to deal with rude foreigners. After being bullied for centuries by the white men, it becomes second nature, not knowing how to stop it or even telling the foreigners to stop being rude. When the foreigners are rude, it is them telling China that China can be kicked around.

So they will continue to slap China straight in their face, in China, until one day when China dares to stop them. When would China dare to stop being humiliated and put an end to this? Hopefully not too long. Rude visitors must be treated rudely and shown the door. That is the only way they know, as they asked for it. Why be gracious and invite rude visitors and be slapped in their own house?

All the white rogues know what they are doing. They want to sit on the Chinese, to tell the Chinese that the white men are superior to them. Albanese said it on purpose, to put the Chinese in their right place, the place that China sat during the hundred years of humiliation.

PS. Albanese also talked about Australia's policy of strategic ambiguity on Taiwan, which is the same as the Americans. Strategic ambiguity is the Americans' way of saying we speak in forked tongue, we say one thing, mean another.

Trump gives up on MAGA

Believe me, destroying USA is not so easy, but Trump is doing a great job with all the right moves to turn the USA into a third world country. With his team of super clowns urging him on and not to pull him back from the precipice, Trump must be thinking he is doing very well indeed.

I seem to see that Trump is no longer wearing his MAGA hat (Make American Great Again) that was the object burned by protestors. He migrated to make the Gulf of America great instead. Make America Great Again has been burnt I would think.

If I am not mistaken, those hats were reported to be made in China earlier on. I may be wrong, as I saw some videos of Trump and his sidekicks making hats themselves, LOL. Oh sure, all made in USA and proudly advertised.


Anonymous

The new war game...China and Russia can hit back, real hard

Ironically, not many reports cover the hypersonic missile issue and its effect on the USA and how it is doing to counter this new game changer in the hands of Russia, China and Iran. Not talking about it does not mean the problem for the USA will just go away. Only a war against Russia, China or Iran will wake up the clowns in Washington, thinking it is still way ahead in military technology. Just listen to Trump's grandstanding comments about how great the USA weapons are. And he even boasted about wanting to bomb Moscow and Beijing. We knew very well that the USA had broached the idea of nuking China many times before.

As Bruce Lee used to point out to those martial artists from Japan and South Korea hitting boards into fragments with bare hands trying to scare him. Bruce pointed out sarcastically that boards do not hit back, but he does. Same as USA hitting Moscow and China and getting retaliated against.

Russia and China will hit back at Washington, perhaps with weapons that Trump has never seen or thought of before. What Iran did to Israel is already enough for Trump to think about clearly what he could expect bombing Moscow or Beijing. With two on one, Trump has nowhere to hide. Trump is a coward only brave enough to bully the weak, if you remember him rushing to hide in a bunker after a skirmish at the White House related to the death of George Floyd in 2020 before Joe Biden took over.

If an attack on Moscow or Beijing really takes place and retaliation resulting in Gaza like destruction in Washington, Trump will yet again blame Joe Biden. The flood and death toll in Texas is now sure enough being blamed on Joe Biden. Thankfully, Joe Biden does not remember a thing. Dementia is bliss.


Anonymous

China ripping off America or America ripping off China?

Trump probably does not know how much USA drugmakers are depending on China for the raw materials. There are reports that some drugs made China and using USA drugmakers label are sold at exorbitant prices in the USA that costs just a fraction of the price in China. Which is why healthcare cost in China is so cheap. Cheap but not necessarily inferior.

According to Kevin Wamsley, some drugs made in USA cannot work without input of some ingredients from China. China should stop exporting those ingredients right away, not to help some big name drugmakers make tons of money ripping off sick USA citizens.

Trump is fond of telling everyone that China is ripping off the USA. It is in fact the other way round, with USA ripping off Chinese manufacturers making luxury brands for them at cheap prices, for those items to be sold at exorbitant profits. Examples are iPhones, luxury handbags and Rolex watches.

Using fiat money printed out of thin air in exchange for products made with sweat and hard labor is a much more real semblance of ripping off everybody else.


Anonymous

American shameful and disgusting behaviour

  was under the impression a month ago that Trump was going to visit Xi in China soon, after the meeting in London between USA Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent and China's Vice-Premier, He Lifeng. The news looks to have now been thrown out the window with Marco Rubio now saying that there is a 'high probability Trump will meet Xi sometime this year'. Is this again a one -sided comment designed to entice Xi to send an invitation? We have been taught many times before how well versed the USA leaders are in using propaganda to further their agenda.

Xi is probably placing more priority in visiting the Chinese countryside looking for ways to improve the livelihood of his countrymen than talking to a bunch of unreliable juveniles without any sense of direction and lack of any diplomatic protocol behavior. Imagine calling people wanting to negotiate over the tariffs as going to 'kiss his arse'. That is not a person with good upbringing for sure, but rather a crude, uncouth low life.

Anonymous

Homeless in USA. CCP built homes for its citizens...for free

 

10 min clip on a lost tribe of a few hundred people living in the wild, in the border between China and Nepal. The Daman people had no country, no nationality, nobody wanted them. They had been living in the fringes of civilisation for two centuries until China welcomed them as a tribe of people of the PRC in 2003.

Their citizenship brought along state support, subsidies and assistance for housing, education, medical care and dignity, with the full rights and privileges of being a citizen of a state. The Chinese govt provided them all the aid and infrastructure they needed, building homes for them, including furniture and the utensils for daily needs, piped in water, electricity and modern sanitation facilities. The children go to schools, the sick treated in hospitals. And the adults got vocational training and jobs. The Chinese govt took care of everything, and their every needs to live a decent and dignified life.

The Daman people are now fully free and happy citizens of China, free to support and look after themselves. They now have their own homes and a country to call their own, their homeland.

The Chinese govt's support did not stop and is a work in progress. The Daman tribe gets their share of govt subsidies to develop their village. They even got their houses renovated and upgraded every few years, for free by the govt.

This is how well the CCP takes care of their citizens, unlike the rogue regime in Washington and many so called developed western countries. The CCP, being condemned and demonised by the West, are many times better than the fake democratic govts of the West, that only think of wars but not about taking care of their own people, neglecting them, becoming homeless, no medical care, hungry and jobless.

Senile white lynching judges ordering silly Asian and Asean leaders to arrest their citizens

 

A 19 min clip on senile white Wild Wild West judges lynching Huawei for false fabricated crimes of racketeering and other charges. This is part of the nefarious scheme of the Washington rogues to criminalise Huawei and to ban Huawei from selling its products not just to the USA but to the whole world. And the white racist supremacist regime in Washington is going to arrest citizens of other countries that buy or use Huawei products in their respective countries. The American gangsters, calling themselves international policemen, are going out to the whole world to arrest citizens of other nation states for buying and using Huawei products and fabricated charges by the lynching white judges of the Wild Wild West.

The world, like the producer of the above clip, may be flabbergasted by this wild ruling of the racist judges. But this is no small matter that can be simply brushed aside or laughed away. The white supremacist regime is serious and will carry out the arrest of citizens of other nations in violation of this silly and bizarre ruling while in their respective countries, thousands of miles from the American Wild Wild West. The rogue regime in Washington would simply send out messages to silly countries controlled by the American Empire and order these govts to arrest their citizens on behalf of the evil American Empire.

And some of these silly countries would just do that, arresting their citizens for buying and using Huawei products in their own countries that have nothing to do with the evil American Empire. And they will deport their citizens to the US to be charged and jailed by the rogue Washington regime. They will not protect their own citizens but collaborate with the Washington regime against their own citizens.

What would the rest of the world do? What would China do? This is a violation of the rights of Chinese companies and a violation of the rights of citizens of the world. They are not American citizens, and the American courts have no jurisdiction over them. Only silly govts would arrest their citizens for the evil Empire and let them be jailed by the evil Americans.

China cannot take this lightly. China cannot stop this stupidity and nonsense coming from the white lynching judges. China should simply issue a warrant to arrest these criminal judges on sight, ban them from travelling to Greater China just like what they did to rogue American politicians. By not acting, China will embolden more senile white judges to do the same. China may also propose to the BRICS nations to arrest these rogue judges should they visit their countries. No point bringing this up to the ICC run by criminals paid by the Americans.

This is lawlessness of the evil American Empire, thinking that they can treat the people of the world like they treated the native Indians and niggers, passed any laws as they like and lynched them as they like. This is the 21st Century and there are international laws to abide by, not the lawless white rules and orders of the Wild Wild West. The Americans do not rule the world!

The bottom line, don't blame the senile white racist judges. Blame the idiotic govts of countries for stupidly arresting their citizens for the American rogue regimes. Without silly govts doing the job for the Washington regime, this demented law cannot be implemented outside America. No African and Latin American countries would do so for sure, maybe Argentina.

PS. Would China still act like a dumb ass and invite Trump to Beijing because of all these bullying and oppression?

Dictatorship of evil.

 RE "All USA leaders are plain 'bald face liars' that I think the whole world has now come to accept."

This points to a bigger reality than the simplistic 'the corrupt leaders are the problem' a fake narrative nearly everyone loves to propagate ...

The fact that evil lying people rule is only ONE part of the equation. The pack of leading criminals do not operate in a vacuum, and never have. There are 2 destructive human pink elephants in the room and they are MARRIED --- study the free essay “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room”... https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html

The criminals in power are in those positions and do what they do ONLY because of the mostly willful activities, or inactivities, of the majority of self-entitled "decent" or "good" or "awake" or "religious" people --- the 90-95% of the herd --- and because they do NOT really want the truth but comforting fantasies.

“Our current ‘state’ is the dictatorship of evil. We know that already, I hear you object, and we don’t need you to reproach us for it yet again. But, I ask you, if you know that, then why don’t you act? Why do you tolerate these rulers gradually robbing you, in public and in private, of one right after another, until one day nothing, absolutely nothing, remains but the machinery of the state, under the command of criminals and drunkards?” --- from a White Rose Pamphlet, the 'White Rose' was a German resistance group fighting Hitler's Nazi regime

Isn't it about time for anyone to wake up to the ULTIMATE DEPTH of the human rabbit hole --- rather than remain blissfully willfully ignorant in a narcissistic fantasy land and play victim like a little child?

Of course it is but...

"The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduces them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim." --- Gustave Le Bon, in 1895

Without a proper understanding, and full acknowledgment, of the true WHOLE problem and reality, no real constructive LASTING change is possible for humanity.

And if anyone does NOT acknowledge, recognize, and face (either wittingly or unwittingly) the WHOLE truth THEY are helping to prevent this from happening. And so they are "part of the problem" and not part of the solution.

If you have been injected with Covid jabs/bioweapons and are concerned, then verify what batch number you were injected with at https://howbadismybatch.com

"There are large numbers of scientists, doctors, and presstitutes who will sell out truth for money, such as those who describe people dropping dead on a daily basis as “rare” when it it happening all over the vaccinated world." --- Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D., American economist & former US regime official, in 2024

"Scientists at the end of the war (WWII) were hanged for what scientists today are doing and getting away with." --- Dr. Barrie Trower, in 2012

Mallo

US and EU have many ways to skin India, but not on China

The Indians have been playing around with USA and China, and Modi thinks he is very smart. Now Trump is screwing Modi back by stuffing his tariffs down Modi's throat. India has little room to wriggle out, being not in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), nor is it inside the BRI which is promoting trade among the participating countries. India's neck is stuck in the USA and EU noose, and it is up to them to tighten it at will. India cannot do anything.

When the Ukraine war started and sanctions against Russia hit Russia's energy exports to the EU, India together with China and even Saudi Arabia, all bought discounted Russian oil and resold them to the EU, making huge profits. India, a friendly ally of the USA and EU had been screwing the EU countries for more than three long years, and the USA and EU thought India was on their side.

When China exerted control over rare earth exports to the USA, India bought rare earth from China for its EV and other manufacturing needs. If you have been watching, you will know that India was quietly reselling rare earth bought from China to the USA and EU. Now China has clamped down on rare earth exports to Sout Korea and India, after discovering that South Korea had been doing the same thing, by reselling Chinese rare earth to USA defense contractors. China's action against India has hit the Indian EV manufacturers hard and factories are said to be unable to move production, expected to be for months. It is going to kill off India's EV dream.

In all honesty, India's EV manufacturing still depends largely on China's supply chain. India is basically just doing the assembly of EVs, just like iPhones that still depends on Chinese supply chains. We do not have to look far to understand why Foxconn is moving back to China together with Apple and not investing further in India.

China screwed them both by providing the components for making iPhones at marked up prices, doing much more profitably than assembling those components into iPhones in China itself and making a meagre couple of dollars for all the hard work. Which is why China did not raise a ruckus seeing Apple and Foxconn shifting to India earlier. Why point out the mistake of your competitor when he is trying to screw you?

Oh, by the way Ursula von der Leyen is 'demanding' now that China must continue to supply the EU with rare earth elements, really big quantities. Can we see the desperation now? First Trump demanded, now the EU is demanding. Why should China sell more to the EU to be redirected to the USA for making more weapons for a war that is touted to be starting soon against China. Kids are fond of kidding.


Anonymous

BRICS falling apart? Fat hope

 The Anglo-Saxon Whites seems very preoccupied with what is happening within BRICS at the meeting in Brazil, or should I say very worried with speculations abound about Putin and Xi not attending. No, BRICS is not breaking apart if that is what they are thinking. They can keep watching and hoping.

Suffice to say, with a highly respected Russian giant of a Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, standing in for Putin and China's Premier Li Qiang for Xi, I think other BRICS members knows these two can carry the weight on their shoulders on behalf of Putin and Xi. As adults among other adults at the meeting, nothing is true about the bloc falling apart as what the West wants to see. Unlike some juveniles going at each other's throat at meetings, BRICS will not break apart without Putin or Xi attending. And BRICS countries have never even broached the idea of officially wanting to remove India from the bloc, despite India not toeing the line. No offense intended though, with only outsiders like us having been urging BRICS to do so.

On the other hand, BRICS members seem to have little interest in what transpired within meetings at the G7 or NATO itself. NATO is very united on the surface, but we know all is not as serene as it may appear. Read between the lines and you can see that Turkey is not on the same wavelength as the others among the NATO members. There was even suggestion of removing Turkey from NATO. That may yet suggest that NATO is breaking up, LOL.

Anonymous

Iran dumped GPS for Beidou

 Why would countries use GPS when their enemy is the USA? Iran finally dropped GPS for Beidou.

China found out the hard way decades ago when the Americans switched off GPS when China was launching missiles over Taiwan and the missiles fell down aimlessly. This was how the Americans weaponised the GPS against its enemies. China eventually developed the Beidou Global Navigation System to free itself from the clutches of the Americans. It is surprising that the Iranians and many Arab and Muslim countries and Global South countries that are enemies of the Americans are still using the GPS that can be switched off whenever the Americans want to.  This is like buying American warplanes and weapons that could also be switched off, especially those that needed to operate using the GPS.

The Americans have been weaponsing everything under their control against countries they called enemies. These include Google, Meta, Twitter, What'sApp, Apple phones, Android, Microsoft, all versions of laptops and iPads, and Huawei's 5G, etc etc. The mobile phones are the most dangerous as they can pinpoint the location of the user which the Israelis used frequently to kill them.  A lot of Arab and Muslim leaders, especially the Iranians, have been killed in this way. And the best part, they are still using these gadgets and continuing to use them. Stupidity has no cure.

In the past, when there was alternative, Global South countries have no choice but to bear with it. China has developed alternative systems, from Beidou, Harmony OS, Chinese mobile operating systems, chips etc etc and the Americans no longer able to track them, eavesdrop on them, no longer able to switch off Beidou like the GPS.

The success of Iranian attacks on Israeli and American positions, and the shooting down of Rafales by Pakistan, all relying on Beidou, speak for themselves. Many African states are now using Chinese operating systems that are cheaper, more efficient and secure from American mischiefs. When cheaper and safer options are available, why would countries that are enemies of the Americans chose to continue using American and western systems and gadgets and be controlled by the Americans. This is bonkers.

How many Asean countries are still being forced by the Americans to stick to American and western systems that are more expensive, backward, and insecure, allowing the Americans to tap and monitor them and their conversations? Malaysia wanted to use Huawei 5G network to push out their EV plans for the whole country but has been threatened by the Americans to stop using it. Without Huawei's 5G, driverless cars, autonomous cars could not function safely and efficiently. 

The Americans never threaten, never coerce and never force any country to take sides? Really, which clowns are saying these?

Cost of Living subsidies and cash the biggest vote winners

 Rising cost of living in this most expensive little island is no joke. Just to be alive with very basic necessities, walking or cycling in the parks, drinking kopi in kopitiams, would need at least $1,000 a month to get by. And this sum is not stagnant but increasing everyday. $1,000 pm or $1,500 pm is the poverty line in Singapore but could be a lot of money in many developing countries.

The cleaners in hawker centres are now paid more than $1,500 pm or else no takers. The tissue sellers would have to walk a lot to collect this sum of money to survive. There are many overheads, yes, overheads that every Singaporean, working or not working, would have to pay without having to leave their homes. And these overheads are also increasing and adding to their cost of living, to the cost of living of the retirees and the not working seniors who have graduated from the working class to join the retiree class.

The govt has come up with many schemes and subsidies to alleviate the financial burden and fears of not working and retiree class. Though the sum cannot come near to the million dollar salary they are getting, to those without an income, the few thousands a year, from CDC vouchers and sometimes cash, subsidies, rebates and once in 60 years SG60 cash, mean a lot to them. To those thinking of selling tissues or becoming cleaners, these handouts could come in handy and keep them away from taking these desperate steps to stay alive and be fed, and still a roof over their heads.

When a needy person is asking for $2 for his paltry meal, $450 cash or $850 cash, to those that qualified, is like striking 4D. It would mean having full stomach for a month or more and can drink kopi in the kopitiams. These windfalls are vote winners in the not working class when money is hard to come by but a necessity that they cannot do without, would be felt everyday.

As the govt introduces more of such subsidies and handouts to extend the net, to many of the recipients, it is hard not to give their votes to their benefactors, the govt. Never mind where the money is coming from. They would not and many could not think much about anything else. A little money in hard times, in extreme conditions, can bring tears to those that desperately need them.

The ruling party has struck on a winning formula, by designed or otherwise. How could the opposition parties beat this. Subsidies and hard cash are real, very real and life savers to the needy, even temporary and may not last. Where got govt give you money? And a few thousands in a year. This cannot happen anywhere in the world, only in the richest country in the world.

Thank Allah, Saudis and Houthis are not killing each other

If Iran has hypersonic missiles, I will not rule out the Houthis having them as well, sooner or later. And that is going the change the destiny of USA aircraft carriers lurking around the Gulf region.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the USA, had tried to intervene and control the Yemen leadership which led to the conflict erupting in 2015 between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, lasting more than ten years, with Iran backing the Houthis in Yemen. After the peace deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, brokered by Wang Yi, the situation de-escalated somewhat, but with the Gaza issue and the intervention of the USA in the Middle East, it flared up again with the Houthis resuming hostilities around the Gulf region.

Two cargo vessels have been struck and sunk by the Houthis in recent days, and shipping around the Gulf is facing real issues. One vessel was carrying cargoes destined for Israel. Would the USA now be about to send more aircraft carriers to the region in a show of strength as in the past? I think they have much to think about, after looking at what happened to Israeli cities hit by suspected hypersonic missiles fired by Iran. Is history in the making of the sinking of a USA aircraft carrier sooner or later?


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China is going to eat the lunch of Western weapon makers

China is going to eat the lunch of Western weapon makers. When China targets a sector, you can expect its domination sooner or later. We have seen it in EVs, shipbuilding, renewable energy, high-speed rails and infrastructure building under the BRI.

Two other sectors that China is aiming for a bigger stake are aviation and semiconductors. The USA and the West can bet against it and erect barriers against it at their own peril. But do not push China into prioritizing it. The result would not be what they wished for.

China is no longer playing the nice guy. Weapons export is picking up speed after the India/Pakistan conflict. It is now being enhanced by Iran going full throttle buying up Chinese weapons - the whole Chinese 'air force' deal as they called it, with jets, missiles and defense system, the whole works. They are moving to Iran almost readily available by the trainloads - unknowingly, unseen and no loud noises.

Is Israel about to go for another pre-emptive strike against Iran? Maybe, if the earlier lesson has not been learnt. If Iran, with its self-developed missiles can already do so much damage to Israel, the Iranians must have seen something more useful with Chinese J10s, PL15 and China's Advance Warning Air Control System (AWACS).

Oh, by the way, Iran already found out how beneficial it was during the 12-day war using the Chinese Beidou Navigation Satellite system to target Israel cities and important infrastructures. Were Iran still using GPS, they would be targeting blind with the system jammed by the Israelis with help from the USA. Think about it.


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