The USA stance of not allowing any country to do better than them is already apparent in their treatment of Japan, Germany and France decades ago. These latter three are all spineless countries that have now even lost their will to fight back and just follow like obedient dogs.
Now, China is the current target. Biden already spelt out his agenda when he said that he will not allow China to overtake the USA during his watch. But China is not going to let them walk all over and strangle it's progress. China had long been expecting this to happen, and placed priority on upgrading it's military deterrence and forging closer relations with Russia years ago. For all this, the USA and the West is hysterical.
When the USA and the West tried to put China out of contention, the Chinese have become even more determined to overcome that and be self reliant. When the Anglo Saxon clique refused to allow China into their space station program, the Chinese went ahead to put up their own space station without their help. When they denied China access to space exploration expertise, China developed it's own space program which saw them going to the moon and landing a space probe on Mars. China now makes it's own jet engines, rockets, hypersonic missiles, super computers, a leader in AI and is able to construct it's own aircraft carriers.
In the field of communication technology, China is now well into using 5G and going into 6G, while the USA and the West are still struggling with setting up enough base stations for 5G. Now they think that they can strangle China in the Chip Making sector, indicating that they probably still underestimated China's capabilities.
The USA still depends on China in many areas, like cheap consumer goods, a skilled manufacturing base for many USA companies, supply chain cohesiveness and a big market for USA manufactured products in China itself. Sure there are other places to site those manufacturing activities, but can they find the skilled labour, scale of production capabilities that are able to support the same mass output in order to capitalise on 'economies of scale' and a ready market already inside China.
India better watch closely, as they should, in time, rise to compete globally, and if the USA is still able to retain it's US$ hegemony, which is most unlikely, it will be the next target for the USA. Already India is targeted for not condemning Russia in Ukraine and doing more trade with Russia in Rupees.
The USA stance of not allowing any country to do better than them is already apparent in their treatment of Japan, Germany and France decades ago. These latter three are all spineless countries that have now even lost their will to fight back and just follow like obedient dogs.
Now, China is the current target. Biden already spelt out his agenda when he said that he will not allow China to overtake the USA during his watch. But China is not going to let them walk all over and strangle it's progress. China had long been expecting this to happen, and placed priority on upgrading it's military deterrence and forging closer relations with Russia years ago. For all this, the USA and the West is hysterical.
When the USA and the West tried to put China out of contention, the Chinese have become even more determined to overcome that and be self reliant. When the Anglo Saxon clique refused to allow China into their space station program, the Chinese went ahead to put up their own space station without their help. When they denied China access to space exploration expertise, China developed it's own space program which saw them going to the moon and landing a space probe on Mars. China now makes it's own jet engines, rockets, hypersonic missiles, super computers, a leader in AI and is able to construct it's own aircraft carriers.
In the field of communication technology, China is now well into using 5G and going into 6G, while the USA and the West are still struggling with setting up enough base stations for 5G. Now they think that they can strangle China in the Chip Making sector, indicating that they probably still underestimated China's capabilities.
The USA still depends on China in many areas, like cheap consumer goods, a skilled manufacturing base for many USA companies, supply chain cohesiveness and a big market for USA manufactured products in China itself. Sure there are other places to site those manufacturing activities, but can they find the skilled labour, scale of production capabilities that are able to support the same mass output in order to capitalise on 'economies of scale' and a ready market already inside China.
India better watch closely, as they should, in time, rise to compete globally, and if the USA is still able to retain it's US$ hegemony, which is most unlikely, it will be the next target for the USA. Already India is targeted for not condemning Russia in Ukraine and doing more trade with Russia in Rupees.
This is about the most dangerous and irresponsible decision ever made by the govt. We have wildlife on two legs infesting HDB estates, the safe sanctuary of working class Singaporeans. Now we have 4 legs wildlife being allowed to join in the fray.
Wildlife are wildlife and their animal instinct cannot be eradicated completely no matter how well trained they are. You need only 1 percent of error and the victims of wildlife would suffer immeasurable pain and agony for their whole life. When the safety of our little children and old folks, even adults are concerned, there cannot be any compromise. Who is going to be responsible should a little child or an adult be killed by a wildlife, or be disfigured by the attack from a wildlife?
Can anyone recall the vicious attack of a peacock on a poor little girl and disfigured her for life? Can you imagine the pain the poor child had to go through, or that of the parents and grandparents, to see a beautiful little girl suffering that kind of agony when it needed not happen at all, but because of a wildlife?
And now with this regulation, wildlife are going to be everywhere in HDB estates and you would not know when their animal instinct would take over them and hell breaks loose. Wildlife have extrasensory abilities. They can sense thing that normal human beans cannot. They could attack when least expected. What do you think dogs howl in the middle of the night...for no reason?
Do not take safety from harm from wildlife for granted. When an innocent, normally well behaved wildlife turns wild and attacks a human bean, it has its reason that we cannot explain.
Please, for goodness sake, for the safety of our children, including adults, withdraw this dangerous regulation immediately. The safety of human beans, especially children, cannot be compromised just because a few would want to enjoy the company of wildlife.
Singapore is a very safe place and does not need to keep large wildlife for protection. Many years ago, a Brit told me he was retiring to Rhodesia. And the first thing he would do was to buy two large dobermans for protection against the African natives. In Singapore, it is the Singaporeans that need to be protect from the wildlife, two legs or four legs. Do not endanger the lives and safety of Singaporeans, young and old, for something so frivolous, good to have but not necessary, that may come with pain and suffering for others.
I want to put this on record that whoever approved this regulation has/have been warned of the consequences. No amount of apologies would be enough to allay the pain and suffering of the victims and their families.
Keep large wildlife out of HDB estates. Do not endanger the safety and lives of Singaporeans by your decision. It cannot be 'for the good of Singaporeans' to allow large wildlife in HDB estates. The selfish and frivolous interest of a minority is not good enough to endanger the safety of the majority of Singaporeans. In fact all big and ferocious dogs that were bred to attack must not be allowed in the island. When a supposingly harmless peacock can inflict so much damage and pain, the damage and suffering from a big wildlife is unimaginable.
Be responsible.
PS. I have just seen a video clip of a friendly domesticated dog devouring a child like a plaything.
Be warned.
I would like to put up the video but it was too painful and horrifying to watch.
China’s space station: From no flush toilets to building its own space station within 40 years.
AS an Egyptian, I have been studying China intensely for the past year — its government, society, history, and transformation.
I’ve spoken to hundreds of Chinese and China-haters and heard everything they had to say. By now I’ve learned roughly as much about China as anyone can learn without knowing the language or living in the country, and I’ve reached my conclusion. China attracts a lot of haters, know-nothings and armchair experts.
The truth is that China is the greatest country on the face of the earth. It makes all other countries look insignificant and contemptible. It is the most brilliant, most industrious, most ambitious, most educated, meritocratic and technocratic, most modern, sophisticated, and civilised, and best-governed by far.
It is the first nonwhite, non-Western country to reach this status since the 1600s. The determination of this country is indescribable. Supernatural. There is no force that can stop it from accomplishing anything it wants to do.
Forty years ago a flush toilet in China was a luxury. Today it has its own Space Station. This is a tiny example of China’s capabilities.
It doesn’t matter who we are. Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Indians, Africans, even Americans. Next to the Chinese, we are pathetic. We can’t do what they do. We would have a mountain, an Everest of changes to make, and we would whine and bicker and fail at every one of them. China’s story since the 1980s has been one of an almost divine metamorphosis.
Next to China the entire Western world from Alaska to New Zealand has stagnated. Next to China the entire developing world from Brazil to Madagascar has progressed only at a crawl.
China is the mother of all gargantuan bullet trains. Every day it manages to create something new and astonishing. And unlike the United States, unlike the British Empire, unlike the French, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese or any other Western nation that had its turn at being a superpower in the past four centuries, China doesn’t need to run anybody over or take something from somebody else, to rise majestically.
China is also standing up to the West all by herself. The West can’t believe their four-hundred-year-old global supremacy is being challenged. They hoped that the more China developed, the more it would submit to their influence, interests, and leadership. That didn’t happen. So now they will do anything possible, short of a nuclear war, to make China end.
Their goal is to destroy this country. That’s why, although the United States has killed several million people and turned several regions of the earth into hellscapes.
China is the worst fear of our planet’s Western masters. They want you to despise and dread a country that’s done nothing to you, that hasn’t invaded anyone, bombed or sanctioned anyone, that hasn’t overthrown any foreign government, or used its military on anything since 1979.
China is the only major country in the nonwhite developing world, to stand up to the West. To look it in the eye when challenged or threatened.
The Global South are simply Western puppets who submitted long ago. Even the most powerful ones. Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India.
The 1500s—1000s BC were Egypt’s time. Antiquity belonged to the Greeks and Romans. The 1700s belonged to France, and the 1800s to Britain. From 1945 to the present, the world has been under American overlordship. And they call it the Pax Americana but there isn’t much Pax in it.
There’s plenty of Pax if you’re in Europe or Australia. But the Middle East? Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran and Yemen in the past 20 years. Latin America? They’ve destroyed that part of the world beyond any hope of recovery. Africa? It’s only been spared because of disinterest. The US sees Africa as nothing. The whole West does.
But in the twenty-first century, we are witnessing the rise of China. We are decades away from China becoming the greatest power on earth. This will be China’s time, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Attack China all you want, curse her and monger rumours and hysteria — but the truth is that none of your accusations are backed up by evidence. The Western press is under the thumb of Western governments that want to stay on top of the world for eternity. And the truth is that China is not affected by the noise and maneuvers of her enemies.
For her first thirty years, from 1949 to 1979, China was basically blockaded and isolated economically and politically by the West. It didn’t even have a seat in the UN General Assembly. And it was dirt-poor in those days, barely a speck of the global economy, a tiny fraction of Japan’s or Germany’s GDP — not even able to prevent famine. And it still didn’t submit to pressure or take any orders. Why on earth would it do that now?
China will be the next global power. There’s nothing that can be done about that. The first stage is that its economy only needs to grow at 4.7 percent per year to become the world’s largest by 2035. That means the usual, historical bare-minimum of 6 percent is already overkill. The US can build as many bases as it wants, slap as many sanctions as it wants, recognise whatever bogus genocides it wants. That’s what it’s been doing all along. Has any of it made a difference? China can adapt to any situation. It took China a mere ten years to go from being barred by the US Congress from participating in the “International” Space Station, to building its own Space Station from zero.
See, the US has an $800-billion war budget, 800 military bases, 13,000 aircraft, 500 warships, 6,000 nukes — but it doesn’t have what China has: invincible national resolve. It takes the US about 5 years to renovate a bridge, and it takes China 43 hours. There’s simply no competing with that.
China doesn’t need to be a military superpower or empire. That was never part of the plan. US troops, God bless their souls, will continue sitting in their bases, scratching their balls, costing their government $800 billion a year to do nothing. Meanwhile, China will continue to actually develop.
That’s the part of the equation that America totally missed, because it has barely developed since Reagan’s day. China is a better place to live today than at any time in its previous 5,000 years; Americans saw their highest standard of living in the 1960s and those days will never come back.
So yes, China will be the next global power, and the Chinese are vastly superior to us in every way. This is a fact that everyone can attack but that nobody can change, like the theory of evolution.
Look at you silly buggers, talking about China like it’s going to be the next Nazi Germany. Even many Middle Easterners I know fit in this foolish category. Did you notice when the US invaded or overthrew the governments of 20 countries in the past 32 years (my lifetime)? Did you even know? You think just because you’re ready to forget all that because of Beyoncé and Game of Thrones and Snapchat and other US cultural exports, it didn’t happen.
The US is feeding me terror-bytes about Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Tiananmen Square, Great Leap Forward! I don’t see any dead bodies, I can’t show you one invasion or one example of Chinese regime change, I can’t even find Hong Kong on a map or tell you one factual detail about Tiananmen Square, but the US State Department and all its media are telling me CHINA BAD!
Aren’t you at least curious to see what a world with a nonwhite, non-Western leader might look like, after 400 years? Because God knows that leader won’t be us. It won’t be Brazil or Africa, or the Middle East or India or Indonesia or Nigeria or Pakistan. We’re a mess.
China was a mess too. But we remain a mess many decades after we achieved independence, and the Chinese went their own way, disentangled their mess and created their destiny. We’re not made of what the Chinese are made of.
I see China as hope. Hope that a colonised, brutalised, primitive and humiliated country, can rise above its past — refuse to be weak any longer — rebuild itself from nothing, with iron resolve, and become too strong to be overrun by the West again!
Hope that a nonwhite, non-Western country can look deep within itself and find its own solutions to its problems — proving that (foolishly) trusting the West to guide us isn’t necessary! Proof that if we can do what the Chinese did, there will be no limits for us.
Imagine a world where the US, France, Britain, Australia, are no more important than Uzbekistan or Paraguay.
A world where the World Court might be headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, the World Bank in New Delhi, the United Nations in Jakarta, the IMF in Cairo.
A world liberated from the US banking system and the dollar as its reserve currency, so that Washington can no longer tell 200 other countries who they can and can’t trade with.
A world where an American can be tried for war crimes at the Hague, not just an Iraqi or Liberian or Serb.
A world where we don’t hear about a non-Western-made vaccine and grunt to ourselves, Oh, it must be poison. A world where we don’t have to immigrate to the same countries that turned ours into hellholes, to work as sales clerks or taxi drivers, or even if we’re brilliantly employed — to drain our brains from our homelands in the best of cases, and use them to reinforce Western riches and supremacy in exchange for a fat paycheck, instead of using them to make our own countries semi-habitable.
When I hear that China has built its own Space Station, landed a rover on Mars, ended extreme poverty, built the Earth’s biggest city, dam, telescope, 5G network, highway, air purifier, or whatever the heck it is that will come tomorrow — I feel the same pride as if I were Chinese.
It’s not happening for all of us, but it’s happening for one of us and that’s a start. There’s got to be such a thing as developing-country nationalism — a common nationalism for all the countries that were colonised and plundered, and remain economically and politically captured by their ex-rulers.
A nationalism for the Global South. We are too divided, too brainwashed, too fooled and weak — most of us still worship the countries that destroyed us, are non-Western on the outside and Western on the inside, are hating and fearing and buying all the lies about the only one of us that’s made it, and are leaving our countries in droves to let them burn while we “make a better life for ourselves” in the West.
Do you want to live on a Western-dominated Earth for another 400 years? If you do, keep doing what you’re doing. But I don’t!
You know what’ll happen for all of us if America’s sick wishes come true and its global thuggery does make China collapse? Nothing. Eternal repetition of the status quo. More enslavement, hijacking of our resources and weak corrupt governments, neo-colonialism, invasion, regime change, sanctions, MISERY.
Haven’t we already seen this? Libya, Cuba, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, the Soviet Union. Rest in peace. Even FRANCE and JAPAN for God’s sake. What does the United States do when any other country says NO, or simply becomes too powerful, too good at honest competition?
Japan was a Western-style democracy crawling with US troops, with a US-authored pacifist constitution and almost no military and an extremely pro-US government and populace, and it STILL got crushed when it looked like it would become the #1 economy in the 80s.
I remember 10–15 years ago when China was still relatively poor and impotent, and Bush and Obama would talk about China as sweetly as swans. Obama happily had dinner with Xi Jinping in late 2015, called China a crucial partner of the United States, and said the US welcomed China’s rise; it was all horseshit. Today Biden, who was there with Obama in late 2015 as Vice-President, angrily rebukes a reporter who merely said that Biden and Xi were old friends.
America has taken off its mask.
China made it, it wasn’t supposed to make it, so now it must die. What a difference 5 years can make. China went from “crucial partner” to “number one threat.”
We should be helping and supporting China to keep climbing to the top, and giving her some serious solidarity as she withstands the new Cold War of Western imperialism. It’s been a long 400 years. China is the first non-Western country to even come close to reaching a status of ultimate global importance. She is akin to the the first member of an impoverished family to go to university. That is our family of nations.
And when China gets to the top, believe me, it won’t be a repeat of the French, British, or American Empire. Not a single developing country on earth will be worse-off because of China becoming #1. There will be something good in this for all of us, so let’s wake up.
I could not subdue my laughter at the extent of how dishonest those
people in Washington and Brussels are, and inventing lies far from
reality. Perhaps they are hoping nobody is aware of their lies and
paying much attention.
Ursula von der Leyen could not be lying
more openly through her teeth by declaring that Ukraine joining the EU
is a dream for them to enjoy. What planet is she living on? Even Hedge
Funds are now betting heavily against the EU countries' economy
improving going forward. A bad dream or a nightmare would be more
appropriate for Ukraine. Right now the EU countries are facing a
nightmare themselves this coming winter.
Germany and some other
EU countries were thinking of building up their stockpiles of gas and
oil from Russia for the winter, before they completely ban imports of
Russian oil and gas, and then with those reserves they can claim how
successful they have been getting rid of Russian oil and gas. Man can
propose, but it is God that disposes.
Now Russia has reduced the
flow of gas to Europe, in particular Germany and they are panicking and
this is undoubtedly putting a brake on their stockpiling. Significantly
there was really a disruption in the Nord Steam 1 pipeline due to a
faulty component made by Siemens, that had to be sent to Canada for
repairs. Now, it looks like Canada is holding Russia hostage, on the
surface at least, by refusing to return the component based on the
argument that the sanctions forbid them from doing so. That posture is
unwittingly doing more damage to Germany and the EU than Russia. Putin
will just sit out and wait and just putting the ball in Canada's court.
You see, this is the consequence of not thinking through the
consequences and creating more problems for themselves by their own
arrogance. Inevitably it is also creating friction between Canada and
Germany indirectly. They have no plausible reasons to blame Russia for
the gas cut. It is hilarious claiming that the West is united when it is
already showing signs of cracking and falling apart.
Another
really hilarious drama unfolding must be Biden's upcoming trip to Saudi
Arabia. There are factions in Washington creating hysteria against the
visit on the grounds that Biden is bowing to a Dictator by begging him
to produce more oil. Anybody could see that this was the real reason for
the trip. Now Biden is trying to wriggle his way out by saying that
meeting the Saudi Prince is not the important thing, but what he is
going to talk to him about is more important. Can you understand the
fallacy of that argument?
Not meeting the Saudi Prince face to
face, can Biden talk to him, after the Prince refused to answer his
phone calls twice? So, is meeting him not more important than what they
want to talk to him about? Sure there are important issues to be trashed
out, like asking for more oil and coercing the Prince from selling oil
to China in Yuan. Biden is now caught between a rock and a hard place
and is trying to wriggle his way out. They are now trying desperately to
avoid shooting their own foot for what whey did earlier, and even
lifting some sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, which is not going to
help. Iran and Venezuela know this is only temporary relief by the West
and sanctions will be re-imposed once the energy situation stabilised
with their help. They are not that foolish. After all now large and
small oil producers are reaping in the harvest and laughing their way to
the bank, so why would the Middle Eastern producers want to kill the
goose that lay the golden eggs.
The UN, WHO, IMF, World Bank, WTO etc etc were all designed for the white men to rule the world in their interests and under their dictate. The G7, used to be G8, is a white men's club. The non whites would not be admitted no matter how rich or successful they are. Japan is classified as whites by the white men, all ex colonial powers. The US has made it clear, this world belongs to the white men. They are the masters of the world. No country is allowed to be better than them, to supercede them and be more successful than them. Any country attempting to do so would be put down by all means, unethical, slimy, cheating, lying, covert and overt subversions including wars of aggression. That is the white men's world order and white men's rule of law.
Many non white countries are now stronger, richer and more successful than white countries but still being kept outside of the white men's door. On the other hand, many bankrupt white men countries are still members of their exclusive white men's club, pretending to be rich and powerful. The number of rich and successful non white countries now outnumbered the white men's club and would not accept the white men's rule of law and white men's World Order.
The Ukraine crisis, the reckless weaponisation of the US dollar, the weaponisation of the international banking system, SWIFT, criminal acts of robbing nations' savings in bank deposits, daylight robbery of funds and assets of individuals, unjustified unilateral sanctions etc etc have reached a breaking point. A New World Order is taking shape to detach and replace the white men's World Order.
A new G8 has been formed with members like Russia, China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Iran, Mexico and Turkey to show the way as the new rich non white countries taking centrestage in world affairs. The process of dedollarisation is moving quickly to sweep aside the American dollar hegemony. An alternative international banking system, CIPS, is already in place to replace the SWIFT system.
The AIIB, New Development Bank or BRICS Bank would increasingly replace the World Bank and IMF.
The American controlled UN would soon have a parallel world body for countries that are tired of living under the oppression and coercion of the Americans and the West. It would be a world body where every country is equal and no one country would dominate, bully and dictate to other members. The world would be divided between the white men countries and the non white countries. The white men can no longer deceive the world by using international world bodies to oppress countries they victimised and demonised as enemies in the name of the international community.
The world will have two parallel systems and organisations, the white men's World Order and the New World Order of the non white countries. Small countries would have better choices to be free to decide what is best for their people when no big powers can dominate and control the world for its own interests and agenda. Non white countries need not have to wait outside the doors of white men's organisations, waiting dismissively to be invited in for good behaviour, ie, to be willing lapdogs and lackeys of white men countries. They would take the place of the white men in new international organisations to decide and do what is necessary for their own good, to be equals among equals, not subordinated to white men.
It is happening. A more just and equitable World Order. The non white countries must set the agenda and narrative for the world, not the few white countries. A New World Order would mean the non white countries can breathe easier, live with more respect and dignity, and have a real chance of living better.
Thanks for the reset. Thanks to Covid19. Thanks to Ukraine. Thanks to Putin and Xi for standing up to the world's number one menace, the USA and the West. The non white countries must not miss this opportunity to work for the New World Order. This is the second chance given to them to make it happen.
