Americans, bad losers trying to stop the Chinese growth engine

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will hold his first event with leaders from the Group of Seven nations in a virtual meeting on Friday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, the world economy and dealing with China as a group, the White House said on Sunday.

"This virtual engagement with leaders of the world’s leading democratic market economies will provide an opportunity for President Biden to discuss plans to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, and rebuild the global economy," the White House said in a statement.  Yahoo News

What about China? Why no mention of China? Oh, the agenda is how to confront China. The Americans should be focusing on how to fight the pandemic at home and how to revive their own economy. The economies of the world do not need the meddling of a destructive America.  China is doing very well to revive the economies around the world, in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.  The BRI projects would keep the world economy humming along for another 30 years if the rogue and troublemaking Americans  did not try to disrupt and throw obstacles into its path.

For the Americans as a destructive force is already bad enough. Now they are trying to rope in the Europeans to help them to destroy the world economies kick started by China.  China is the engine of growth.  Without China pushing the cart, without BRI, the world would have gone into a recession long before the pandemic. The no idea Americans could only think of wars to export more arms and weapons of destruction. Their economy is built on wars and war industries. They needed wars and have created enemies and bogeymen like Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and terrorism to feed the demands of wars.

China is not a pandemic or a disease but a successful competitor in trade and development and in many fields of human endeavours.  China is helping to rebuild the infrastructure of many countries and the world, to interconnect the world more efficiently for trade and development. The Americans are the losers. Instead of competing to be better, to be more efficient, to produce more and becoming more competitive, the Americans are trying to slow China down, throw in obstacles in China's path, trying to break the Chinese growth engine, wanting to curb and control China to what it expects of China, a poor, inefficient economy that cannot compete with them. This is the only solution that the destructive and warmongering Americans could think of, fighting China by cheating, bullying, threatening China with wars. If the warmongering Americans succeed, then the economies of the world would collapse with a world war of unmentionable destruction.

America is a bad loser and is behaving very badly, threatening world peace and stability. Why don't the bankrupt of ideas evil Americans do something positive, like making themselves better and more competitive instead of trying to drag down those that run faster than them?

The Europeans are trying to run as fast as China, competing with China under the same rules and environment, rules set by the Americans. But loser America is trying to change the rules, by not playing by the rules, by trying to break the legs of anyone that is running ahead of them. If the Europeans were to listen to the mischievous and cheating and lying Americans, they would be dragged into a world war that would destroy them first before it destroy the Americans.  Merkel and Macron and other European leaders would have better sense to go along with the evil Americans to destroy themselves. Let the bad and troublemaking Americans to go and fight their own dirty wars of destruction. 

The evil Americans can no longer save themselves and now wanting to dump the Europeans together into their own shit hole. The world would not be kind to losers and would be very unforgiving to bad losers. The Americans should best bury themselves in their own isolated world of wars and destruction and leave the world in peace. China and Europe would be there to pull the economies of the world along happily without the Americans.

When the evil Americans could not even save themselves, still thinking of trying to destroy the world on the pretext of saving the world. The EU leaders should set the agenda to discuss how the evil Americans could behave less evil and stop inciting and fighting wars, and stop killing people around the world. The devils must not be setting the agenda.

The EU leaders must tell Biden that the world is very concerned about the mismanagement of the pandemic in America and the spread of the virus all over America. The world is also very concerned about what happened at Fort Detrick and Biden should be transparent and provide all the data and information on the virus leak in the facility. Biden must also be made to produce information on the American soldiers that were in Wuhan. 

Now who are the sickos that spread the mischievous narrative that if the Chinese were rich they would consume too much resources and that would endanger the world? What this sick narrative is saying is that China and the Chinese people cannot be allowed to be rich and live well like the whites. And how many silly bananas also went around spreading this sick narrative as if it is reasonable, that China and Chinese are a threat because they are getting richer and consuming more?

More young Singaporeans are setting out to be hawkers

Singapore – Amidst the Covid-19 downturn, more young Singaporeans are setting out to be hawkers....

“The local or traditional, iconic dishes would be disappearing if young people do not take over the stall or learn these dishes,” said apprentice Lim Wei Keat.

Newcomers like him will help existing hawkers pass on their legacy. “I’m getting older, and my children don’t want to take over, so if I don’t teach apprentices then the flavour will disappear from Singapore,” said the owner Neo Cheng Leong.

 Hawker food critic K.F. Seetoh commented, “Back in the day, it (the hawker business) was really seen as a profession for those who have no route into life. So that has changed a lot today, but that perception hasn’t gone.”

He was referring to the perception that hawkers are in a low-paid profession, causing the young to choose to be baristas or bartenders instead.

“There’s still a school of people who would say ‘What, you want to be a hawker? What’s wrong with you?'” added Mr Seetoh. CNA

This is like a paradigm shift. Our young are gradually turning to the professions of their fathers and grand fathers, becoming part time drivers, security guards, now becoming hawkers.  Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Is this progress, to be encouraged or to be frown upon?

I would rather hear things like banking jobs or ITs would disappear if no Singaporeans would want to take on these jobs. This is a scary truth. No Singaporean interested in being CEOs of Singaporean banks. I would rather hear highly skilled jobs like professors, doctors, engineers etc would disappear if no Singaporeans would want to take these jobs. But of course these good jobs would not disappear as more foreigners would be brought in to fill them and let the clueless and unthinking Singaporeans continue their love to be part time cab drivers and hawkers. Do not blame the imbeciles. They tried but could not find enough good and skill Singaporeans suitable for these top jobs. It must be the fault of poorly qualified no talent Singaporeans.

Don't blame our world class education system and universities as well.  They are doing an excellent job for sure. Just can't figure out what the students were learning that made them graduated with skills that are not suitable for top jobs, but to be hawkers or part time workers. Should the third world half past six universities and degree mills learn from our world class universities or the other way round, our world class universities learning from them? Have they been recruiting the best academics from the third world universities to boost our university talent pool?

But Singaporeans still have a bright future. Nothing to worry about.  These new or old professions, not the oldest profession I hope, are respectable professions. Soon Singaporean maids would be in vogue and maybe diploma or degree courses would be offered to be professional maids. Only Singaporeans need apply. The bright future, to work for foreign talents and their families.

Covid19 - The real reason behind the shortfall

 The pharma manufacturers are finding excuses not to deliver their contractual obligation of Covid19 vaccines to the buyers that paid cash for it. Some gave the excuses that they are expanding their plants to increase production, some with weak excuses for non delivery. My first reaction was that they had found problems with their vaccines and are trying to rectify them with new vaccines still in the process of changes to make them safer, less adverse effects and more effective.

 I was wrong, this is the real reason why there is a huge shortage and even European allies were left out in the cold. Only two countries are hoarding the vaccines for themselves, the USA and UK. While China is distributing to more than 54 countries world wide, with big demands, each country could only receive a million or lesser as the first installment and more will follow when more are produced. Below is what is being reported by AFP.

'WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden announced plans to vaccinate most Americans by the end of July with the help of 200 million newly acquired doses, as the country's inoculation campaign kicked off a new phase in drugstores and supermarket pharmacies, some of which will offer shots as of Friday (Feb 12).'

The Americans have acquired hundreds of millions of doses for themselves, the 'generous angelic' Americans, wanting to share and help the world and this is what they had done behind the back of the world. My view, they armtwisted the pharma producers to deliver to them first, in big amounts and bypassed the rest. And their hardcore allies are sacrificed, including Bolsonaro of Brazil, Trump's good friend and the EU. Their orders delayed until they have fulfilled the demands of the Americans and Brits.

The Europeans are not stupid and are calling foul, wanting to sue the manufacturers and now forced to break their commitments not to use Chinese vaccines with the Americans/Brits. They are considering using Chinese vaccines. Some have already ordered from China. 

Merkel and Macron are furious, taken as suckers, fools by the Americans and Brits.  The Americans and Brits have sacrificed the European countries to protect and save themselves in this pandemic. The Europeans trusted the Americans and Brits and were cheated.  If they can cheat the Europeans, who else they would not cheat or sweep aside?

Covid19 - Why USA refuses to accept findings of Wuhan Investigation by WHO

 The Americans would not accept the WHO findings that the virus did not originate from China and cannot accept this for good reasons. If the virus did not come from China, it must come from somewhere else. And if they could not put the blame on China to deflect attention to themselves, to the incident in Fort Detrick, the next move would be an investigation by WHO in Fort Detrick. Die, die, the Americans must put the blame on China to save their own skins and to cover their evil deed. The Americans are behaving like someone who had committed a crime but pointing the finger at the victim of a burglary the Americans committed against the victim. The Americans would not stop asking, for the moment they stop, the attention would turn to them. they would drag this lie on and on, relentlessly, to keep the world from coming after them.

The Americans are now demanding to study the data obtained by WHO in Wuhan. By the way, are they members of WHO? If not, no talk. If they have returned to the fold, pay up all their dues to WHO, or else no talk. China should insist that the Americans provide data on what happened in Fort Detrick and the activities of the American soldiers in Wuhan during the Military Games in exchange.   If not, no way.

WHO must insist that the USA agree to an investigation in Fort Detrick and the activities of the American soldiers that participated in the Wuhan Military Games in September 2019. These must be the terms and conditions for sharing the investigation data with the Americans. Though the lying and cheating and dishonourable Americans may say yes and later refuse to cooperate, it is still necessary to make these conditions and let the Americans prove once again that they are unreliable and dishonest scheming liars if they backed out on their commitments.

After the investigation in Wuhan, it is now for WHO to look at the other conspiracy theories and Fort Detrick is standing up like a sore prick, dripping with Covid19 virus everywhere and all over. WHO cannot stop investigating Fort Detrick and the American soldiers in Wuhan after China acceded to its request to investigate Wuhan based on sinister American allegations.

WHO has to show to China and the world that it handles all cases fairly without discrimination. The more the Americans refused to let WHO conducts its investigation, the more guilty they will look.  The Americans have to stand up and face the investigation squarely if they are innocent, innocent until proven guilty.

WHO's next stop must be Fort Detrick, USA.  All the evidence is pointing there as the origin of the Covid19 Pandemic.

Chinese New Year and the Symbolism Explaimed by Premier Chou En Lai. By Sun Lai Yung

 

Chinese New Year and the Symbolism Explained by Premier Chou En Lai

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Westerners see the dragon as a fire-breathing evil being. Greek mythology had a 100-headed dragon that was slain by Heracles. Similarly, Heracles slays another dragon called Lerneaen Hydra. In ancient China, the ‘Chinese Dragons’ are legendary creatures that are benevolent. Dragon for the Chinese is “strength and good fortune”.

The Chinese people believe that they are the descendants of the dragon. While ‘Western Dragons’ lived in castles and caves the Chinese dragon lived in the sea, rivers, and lakes. The Western Dragon breathed fire, the Chinese Dragon brings rain.

Over the centuries, the Chinese Dragon was associated with the Emperor of China. Only Emperors and high Mandarins were allowed to wear robes depicting Dragon motifs. For the Chinese, dragon festivals with dragon boat races, and dragon dances are part of their culture. Children are named dragon, actors such as Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee were given Chinese names as dragon. Incidentally, Chinese movies named Enter the Dragon, Way of the Dragon, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon were popular.

The West took awhile to understand the difference. The West and East saw the same dragon differently.

This Chinese New Year is “The Year of the Dog”. The Chinese greet each other by saying “Gong Xi Fa Cai” (pronounced goon si fa sai), which means “may you be blessed with prosperity”. In the Chinese zodiac calendar there are 12 animals for each year, in a cycle of 12 years. In the Western zodiac calendar each animal is for a month with 12 zodiac signs for a year.

The story of the Chinese zodiac animals

There are 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac calendar, starting with the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. Each animal has its own unique characteristics.

The fable goes that the Jade Emperor wanted to invite the animals for dinner and another story says that he wanted to select 12 animals to be his guards. He sent an immortal being into man’s world to spread the message that the first 12 animals that went passed the heavenly gate, would be selected.

Once the news spread across the animal kingdom, the rat got up very early. On his way to the gate, he encountered a river. He had to stop there, owing to the swift current. After waiting a long time, the rat noticed the ox about to cross the river and swiftly jumped onto the ox’s back. The amiable ox did not mind.

The cat too lazily walked up to the ox and jumped. Once upon a time the cat and rat were good friends; so all three of them were on the way to the heavenly gate. In the middle of the river, the cunning rat kicked the sleeping cat off the ox’s back. The cat fell into the river and since cats are poor swimmers never made it to the heavenly gate.

Ever since, the cat has never forgiven the rat. After crossing the river, the rat swiftly jumped off the ox’s back and dashed to the feet of the emperor. The rat won first place and the ox was second.

The tiger and rabbit came third and fourth because both are fast and competitive, but the Tiger was faster. (The rabbit got across the river by hopping on stepping stones and a floating log also with the help of the dragon.)

After the ox, came the tiger, panting away while explaining to the emperor just how difficult it was to cross the river with the heavy currents pushing it downstream all the time. But with powerful strength, it made it to shore and was named the third animal in the cycle.

From a distance came a thumping sound and out hopped the rabbit. It explained how it crossed the river: by jumping from one stone to another in nimble fashion. Halfway through, it almost lost the race but the rabbit was lucky enough to grab hold of a floating log that later washed him to shore. For that, it became the fourth animal in the zodiac cycle.

Coming in fifth place was the gallant dragon. Of course the Emperor was deeply curious as to why a strong flying creature such as the dragon should fail to reach first. The mighty dragon explained that he had to stop and make rain to help all the people and creatures of the earth; therefore he was held back a little. Then on his way to the finish line, he saw a little helpless rabbit clinging on to a log so he did a good deed and gave a puff of breath to the poor creature so that it could land on the shore.

The emperor was very pleased with the actions of the dragon and he was added into the zodiac cycle. As soon as he had done so, a galloping sound was heard and the horse appeared. Hidden on the horse’s hoof was the slimy sneaky snake whose sudden appearance gave the horse a fright thus making it fall back and gave the snake sixth spot whilst the horse took seventh.

Not long after that, a little distance away, the sheep, monkey, and rooster came to the shore. These three creatures helped each other to get to where they are. The rooster spotted a raft, and took the other two animals with it. Together, the sheep and the monkey cleared the weeds, tugged and pulled and finally got the raft to the shore. Because of their combined efforts, the Emperor was very pleased and promptly named the sheep as the eighth creature, the monkey as the ninth, and the rooster the tenth.

The 11th animal is the dog. His explanation for being late although he was supposed to be the best swimmer amongst the rest was that he needed a good bath after a long spell, and the fresh water from the river was too big a temptation. For that, he almost didn’t make it to the finish line.

Just as the emperor was about to call it a day, an oink and squeal was heard from a little pig. The term “lazy pig” is due here as the pig got hungry during the race, promptly stopped for a feast, then fell asleep. After the nap, the pig continued the race and was named the twelfth and last animal of the zodiac cycle.

These 12 animals became guards of the heavenly gate and entered the Chinese zodiac signs.

The Chinese zodiac sign based on the year one is born signifies your character. This is the Chinese belief. 

Chinese zodiac signs – meaning and significance

For the western mind, it is unthinkable that a person is associated with an animal. In Chinese culture, by birth one could be a dog, a pig, a monkey, or a snake. These are derogatory terms to be associated with a human being. In the Chinese way of life and thinking, these very animals symbolise salient characteristics. These animal characteristics are part of human nature too. In Chinese martial arts, there are many forms of fighting; fighting like a tiger, a dog on river barges, a snake. The Chinese, in their ancient wisdom, understood the importance of the behaviour and characteristics of animals and used it to benefit them in their daily lives.

It was said that Premier Chou En-lai was once having a meal with his European friends. A person in this group passed an impolite comment when he was drunk. “You Chinese carry the signs of pigs, dogs, and mice at birth. I can’t understand what’s going on in the mind of your ancestors?”

At that point, the distinguished group of friends started to laugh. They started to toast each other boisterously.

The cultured and serene atmosphere was broken.

Some people believe that when someone insults your ancestors, even if you don’t have a response to it, the least you could do is to retort calmly. For a while, not a single word was uttered. It was probably because they have not come across this situation before, especially in the presence of such a distinguished host. Then, Premier Chou En-lai stood up and spoke to everybody in a calm and peaceful way.

“The Chinese ancestors were very wise. They arranged the twelve zodiac signs in pairs; six pairs in a cycle. In this way, they expressed their hopes and wishes for the generation that came after them.” The room became silent. There were some sceptical looks among the audience.

Premier Chou En-lai continued: “The first pair of animals is the rat and ox.

“The rat represents wisdom and the ox represents diligence. Wisdom and diligence must operate in harmony. If there is wisdom but no diligence in applying it, it’s foolishness. On the other hand, if there is diligence but no wisdom, it’s an act of folly.

“That’s why wisdom and diligence must go hand in hand. This is our ancestor’s first wish for us. The first pair of animal also represents the most important hope.

“The second pair is the tiger and rabbit.

“The tiger represents courage and the rabbit represents carefulness. These two qualities must work closely together. In that way, it can have a better chance to achieve success. Without carefulness, courage becomes recklessness. Similarly, without courage, carefulness becomes cowardice. This pair of qualities is very important. That’s why it is the second pair.”

Premier Zhou En-lai looked at the audience and then he added: “Therefore, when we demonstrate our carefulness, please do not think that we do not have the courage to fight for social justice.

“In truth, what our ancestors are pursuing is wisdom through integrity, harmony, and balance. It’s never about a single hope or task.”

When he saw that the audience was deep in thought, Premier Chou En-lai continued: “The third pair is the dragon and snake.

“They represent strength and flexibility. Strength without flexibility becomes brittle. Without strength, flexibility becomes meaningless. That’s why strength with flexibility is an important lesson from our ancestors that has lasted through time.

“The next pair is the horse and goat.

“The horse represents the ability to gallop to success. The goat represents the ability to be considerate and have compassion. If a person only looks after himself as he pursues his goal and with no consideration for others, he will face obstacles from the people around him. Finally, he may not even be successful. However, if a person only looks after others and seek only to be amiable, he will not have a sense of direction. His goal will eventually be lost.

“That’s why the spirit of the horse and virtues of the goat must be applied in harmony with each other. This is our ancestors’ fourth wish for us.

“The next pair is the monkey and the chicken.

“The monkey represents agility. As for chicken, as there were no clocks in the days of old, it is needed to wake humans to start a new day. The chicken represents stability. The qualities of agility and stability must be tightly coupled together.

“If you have agility but no stability, your best plan will not come to pass. However, if you focused on having stability and refuse to change, you will not have a better future. When the two qualities are in harmony, on one side, there will be stability in terms of having, for example, effective system and collaboration.

“On the other side, there will be a release of unrelenting creativity and innovation to achieve progress. When these two qualities operate in synergy, it is one of the basic imperatives to achieve success.

“Lastly, we have the dog and pig.

“The dog represents loyalty while the pig represents good nature. If a person is loyal but does not have a good nature, he will be blindly following others. On the other hand, if he has a good nature but does not have loyalty, he will have no people and principles to guide him.

“That’s why whether its loyalty to a country, loyalty to a team, or loyalty to an ideal, you need to ensure that good nature is tightly coupled with and working alongside with it. In that way, you can have a deep-seated sense of loyalty that comes from the heart.

“This is why the Chinese believe that the outer core must be in alignment with the inner core. At the inner core, we must have a pure heart that subscribes to high moral values. We must seek to live with ethos and positive principles. We must live up to our words and not do anything that will harm others.

“At the external core, we must be knowledgeable about the ways of the world. We must be wise in managing affairs around us. We need to focus on what matters in life and not be influenced by evil.

“We need to live with integrity and in harmony with others and the environment. We must not have any form of prejudice or seek to discriminate against anyone.”

At the end of his speech, there was complete silence.

This is ancient wisdom passed down from Laotze and Confucius and dozens of great thinkers from China. To understand the Chinese, even something as simple as a zodiac sign, one must understand the Chinese way of thinking.

(Sun Lai Yung has worked in the USA, Singapore, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Bahrain. He is currently employed as a consultant at a global consultancy company. He has a Masters Degree in Economics from Northeastern University Boston. He can be contacted at laisun.consultancy@gmail.com)

 

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