Is it a ship? Is it turtle? Oh, it is Super tincan!

Philippines rejects China's demand to remove grounded navy ship



FILE PHOTO: The BRP Sierra Madre, a marooned transport ship which Philippine Marines live on as a military outpost, is pictured in the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, part of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, Mar 30, 2014. (Reuters/Erik De Castro)

MANILA: The Philippines will not remove a dilapidated navy ship grounded on an atoll in the South China Sea, its defence chief said on Thursday (Nov 25), rejecting a demand by China after it blocked a mission to resupply the vessel's crew.

Above is copied from CNA.

This is what you would get when dealing with small time gangsters. But China is very patient and closed an eye to let them amuse themselves thinking that they are heroes and warriors. China would restrain itself and not taking out the fly swap to swap the flies.

Actually China understood that the Pinoys have no means or ability to move that piece of scrap iron. This is in the middle of no where and China has all the time to wait. It does not cost China anything but plenty of money, food and agony for the poor soldiers living in the rusting tin can, risking their lives and away from their loved ones...and looking silly.

China could do them a favour by burying it with sand from its super sand dredger, the heavenly dragon. But that would give the penniless and homeless bums a chance to cry foul, that China is a bully. Or is it the beggars bullying China by saying die die, never mind, after all they have nothing to lose?

Instead of getting back to work, to be useful, they choose to rot in the sea and pretending that they were having a great time, a great holiday, or fighting a great war. What kind of mentality is that?

The whole episode exemplifies the South China Sea island claim dispute. Little countries making spurious claims on Chinese islands but without the means of making it theirs and at the mercy of China that could kick their asses anytime it likes. And the world's number one trouble maker egging them on.

Parking your scrap car inside your neighbour's court yard and refuse to move, to stake a claim on his land? China has been extremely kind not to drag the tincan into the sea and let the Pinoy soldiers float in their life buoys and hoping to be picked up be passing ships. The dull Pinoys could not appreciate how kind the Chinese are. If it were another big power or Asean power, they would have been kicked out of the sand bank long ago.

America's words on Taiwan can no longer be trusted

On November 25, for the second time in a month, some U.S. lawmakers landed in Taiwan. The five members from the U.S. House of Representatives arrived in the region with the focus on discussing security issues with the Taiwan authority, less than two weeks after U.S. President Joe Biden said that the U.S. remains committed to its one-China policy during a virtual meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The lawmakers' visit is a blatant violation of that commitment and a brazen facilitation of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials' separatist impulses.

The one-China principle is the cornerstone of the China-U.S. relationship. It is China's red line. But it has become clear that forces within the U.S. political circle are dead set on breaching it. With President Biden reiterating his government's commitment to the principle, lower members in the political echelon are taking advantage of the stabilizing effect Biden's reiterations have and pushing their own agenda on Taiwan that contradicts the White House's official position.

China does not tolerate two-faced actions. There will be a price to pay for these reckless gambits. Just recently, China downgraded diplomatic relations with Lithuania after the Baltic country approved the establishment of a "Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania." The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that Lithuania is creating the false impression of "one China, one Taiwan" in the world and that the Lithuanian government "has to be responsible for all the ensuing consequences."

The U.S. lawmakers' visit to Taiwan is nothing less than creating a "one China, one Taiwan" impression in the world. By dealing with the island in a de facto bilateral fashion, these politicians are projecting an image of DPP authorities' "independence" and thereby fanning separatist flames on the island. This kind of action, the constant pushing of the envelope while keeping tensions under the threshold of which China would take military actions, is the core of U.S. politicians' strategy to gradually elevate and strengthen Taiwan's international position. And they are destroying the little credibility that the U.S. has when it comes to the Taiwan issue.

This is not just playing with fire. It's flirting with military confrontation. The United States has to understand that while Taiwan might be a policy issue to them, it is a sovereignty issue for China. Policies might be compromised, sovereignty can't. China doesn't seek war, but wouldn't be afraid to launch one if it means guarding its national unification, territorial integrity and the very foundation of its government's legitimacy.

If the United States truly wants to seek a peaceful and stable relationship with China, it must find its resolve to refrain from these kinds of provocations and boundary-pushing actions that only serve the opposite purpose. It should stop using countries like Lithuania as a proxy to do what itself secretly wants. Politicians in the U.S. who want a peaceful China-U.S. relationship must act on it, and the first steps to take would be to tamp down Taiwan-independence-seeking politicians in their midst.

They need to act promptly. Patience and trust go hand-in-hand. When trust is gone, patience won't stay for long. 

Anonymous

The Present Pathetic Economic Situation In Afghanistan Has Exposed The Evilness Of The Evil US Empire

The evilness of the evil US government and leaders know no bounds! To make the evils of 20-year long story short, for ease of understanding by the commoners, I have summerised it into six main points, thus:

1. Invaded Afghanistan and occupied it for 20 years, using a filmsy excuse of wanting to hunt down the 911 mastermind, who was actually hiding in Pakistan, thereby causing undue, unjustified and untold miseries and sufferings to its Muslim population without blinking an eyelid. Yet the International Court of Criminal Justice dared not even investigate it for war crimes against humanity but instead going after the defender of the very people whom the evil US military had killed, massacred and murdered.

2. In its 20 years of occupation of Afghanistan, the evil US forces had siphoned, stolen and robbed all the natural resources, especially opium, antiques, minerals and rare earths, of Afghanistan as much and as many as they could take away under the cover of deception, and cloaks and daggers operations by its equally, if not more evil, CIA organisations, agents and operatives.

3. By its military operations in Afghanistan over 20 long years, the evil US Empire has totally devastated and destroyed the country with airstrikes, missile strikes and dronestrikes and left the country in a devastated war-torn state without any border to help rebuild it.

4. Covertly and overtly, the evil US forces had Killed, massacred, miamed and murdered millions of the Afghanistan Muslims, three quarters of them are the innocent and defenceless children, women and aged.

5. The cunning, slimy, and scheming evil US political hacks have coerced and forced the Afghans, through its puppets in the US-installed Afghanistan government, to deposit Afghanistan's national trade surpluses and reserves in the US and now refused to return it, based on the inexcusable excuse of wanting to hold the billions of dollars as a bargaining chip with the Taliban Government. Wanting to use it to make the Taliban Government obey its orders and blackmailing demands.

6. Last but not least, The Evil US Empire has been talking about human rights and democracy but the evil US itself does not respect any human rights and has always been behaving and acting unilaterally like a worldwide dictator, always intimidating, coercing, blackmailing, threatening, sanctioning and invading smaller and weaker countries to subject their leaders to its unreasonable whims and fancies.

That sums up the gist of the evilness of the Evil US Empire that has led to the present pathetic economic situation in Afghanistan, as well as many other countries like North Korea, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Venezuela and others.

May the rest of the world wake up and seriously think about how evil the Evil US Empire is!


Queen of Hearts

Singapore saboed and humiliated by the Americans as not good enough democracy

Did you get invited to Joe Biden’s big democracy party?

Poland did. So did the Philippines. And Iraq.

Even our close neighbours Malaysia and Indonesia got invited.

But why not Singapore?


The republic is not on the list of 110 countries to participate in an upcoming US Summit for Democracy, slated for Dec 9 and 10.

On the guest list is Poland, which was recently accused of human rights violations over a military standoff with migrants at the border with Belarus. Belarus has not been invited.

Another invitee is the Philippines, which until recently was being probed for massive human rights abuses during current president, Rodrigo Duterte’s term in office. Thousands of drug peddlers there have been executed by law enforcement there, with the tacit approval of Mr Duterte.

Then there’s Iraq, where the UN refugee agency says more than 6.5 million people – some 18 per cent of the population – are “in need of humanitarian assistance and protection”.

The above is copied from theindependent.sg.

Biden's big democracy party, inviting 110 countries for being democratic to showcase Democracy, snubbed Singapore without an invitation. Singapore is the diehard American friend, offering its military bases for American warships and aircraft, the number best friend of the Americans but found itself left out in the cold.

How could the Americans do this to its bedfellow? What are the Americans telling the world or telling Hsien Loong about how they felt or thought about Singapore? Singapore was good enough for PM Hsien Loong to be invited to dine with the President in the White House but not good enough as a democracy?

What were the criteria for being invited to the White House?

What were the criteria for being invited to this Democracy bash?

Is this another way of the Americans putting pressure on Singapore? Singapore should use FICA to shame the Americans for belittling Singapore.

Never give face to Singapore huh? Poland, Iraq, the Philippines also better than Singapore democratically?

What do you think?

PS.  Maybe latter after some behind the door negotiation the Americans would send an invite and claimed they used the wrong map, thinking Singapore is in China.

 

Another very important outcome of this mischievous anti China, anti Russia summit is the killing of whatever were agreed in the virtual summit between Xi and Biden. That summit is now a total waste of time and exposed the hypocrisy and duplicity of the Americans. It is as good as no summit has taken place and China would not waste more time talking to these silly asses again.

 

This is how stupid Biden and his stooges are. And the evil trouble making Americans are starting more fire everywhere, in Myanmar, in Europe against Russia that could precipitated into an open war anytime. And the latest, more US politicians visiting Taiwan, The forced unification of Taiwan would come sooner than later.

Covid-19: Omicron - The New Variant Of Concern Is Highly Contagious!

The World Health Organization has named the latest variant of Covid-19 identified by South Africa as Omicron! This Variant was first sequenced in Botswana, and then in neighbouring South Africa's capital, Pretoria. Typo error for the word "last". It should be "latest"

A group of students returning to Africa took the PCR tests which all contained an anomaly. This had prompted Africa's virus experts to send their samples to Prof de Oliviera's laboratory in Dubai for genome sequencing.

"His team then found all these mutations. So we've only know about it for a few days, and because it's a new variant we have no idea how it will actually behave," said Prof Salim Karim, former Chair of the South African government's Covid Advisory Committee.

"All we can do is extrapolate some of the likely behaviour based on previous similar mutations. But we do know that it spreads fast - we've seen how rapidly it spread in Pretoria. It sky-rocketed!"

From a relatively low base, the numbers of confirmed cases in South Africa have shot up this week - from less than 700 on Sunday to almost 2,500 on Thursday. It is believed the increase is largely due to the new variant, Omicron.

South Africa's vaccination programme has slowed in recent months - not because of a lack of vaccines supplies, but due to public's fear of the mRNA experimental 'vaccines' that have caused unnecessary deaths being coverd up by the health authorities in order to prevent panicking.

An estimated about 20% of the South Africa population has been fully vaccinated and 42% are partially vaccinated.

Will the existence of the new variant enciurage more people to get jabbed with questionable experimental mRNA vaccines that is now known to be ineffective to prevent infection and transmission? Some people are hoping against hope that it will but doubtful.

The government has urged people to come forward, saying: "Let us crush the power of the new variant by vaccinating to limit the number of mutations."

The problems are not with the virus. The problems are with the mRNA experimental vaccines that have shown worldwide their efficacy is not 95 or 98% as claimed. It is at the most 18% to 44%. That means the Pharmas have been lying.

"It's going to be a shock to the system. I think it can have a positive effect [on vaccination rates]," happily crowed Stavros Nicolaou, a senior executive at Aspen Pharmacare Group.

"We know this variant is more contagious. My sense is that the current vaccines are likely to reduce morbidity. They might not be as effective in terms of preventing people getting infected. All the more reason, if you've got a more contagious variant, that you should go out and get vaccinated." The same snake oil selling tactic is immediately being used again.

And many silly government leaders are going to imitate the crows of these snake oil sellers very soon.

The bigger concern is the potential impact of the Omicron variant as it has already spread to other parts of the African Continent and some countries as far as UK and Hongkong, and most probably also to Australia and Singapore. All these destinations are favorites of White South Africans and their White relatives and friends.

More and more European countries are following UK's footsteps to ban travellers to and from South Africa and five other neighbouring countries.

Warning:

Don't throw caution to the wind again. If leaders truly care for their people, saving lives is naturally, morally and conscientiously more important than making more money and the increase of the GDP, probably because Ministers annual bonuses are pecked to the GDP.

It is time to stop this unholy pecking of Ministers' bonuses and pay increase to the GDP, so that Ministers can solely and soul-searchingly focus their full attention and maximise their energy to serving the people instead of serving the GDP or themselves!


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