US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said even with the seven-day average of COVID-19 hospitalisations down 14 per cent to 4,500 per day, annual shots could save thousands of lives. CNA
9/08/2022
Covid19 - The American Vaccine Scam
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said even with the seven-day average of COVID-19 hospitalisations down 14 per cent to 4,500 per day, annual shots could save thousands of lives. CNA
Against All Odds, China Continues With Double Digits Growth In August, 2022
China's
export grew by double-digit in August, 2022. The official data shows a
11.8 percent growth, year-on-year, bucking the market trends of a
probable slowdown because of growing geopolitical uncertainty and high
inflation.
Data released by the General Administration of Customs
(GAC) on Wednesday, show that China's foreign trade totaled 3.71
trillion yuan ($531.64 billion) in August, an increase of 8.6 percent.
In
August, China's exports increased 11.8 percent to 2.12 trillion yuan,
while imports rose 4.6 percent to 1.59 trillion yuan. The country's
trade surplus expanded 40.4 percent, maintaining at a relatively high
level.
The first 8 months of 2022 showed China's foreign trade
grew 10.1 percent to 27.3 trillion yuan, while exports gained 14.2
percent to 15.48 trillion yuan.
ASEAN has become China's largest
trading partner, accounting for 15 percent of China's total foreign
trade between January and August. China's trade with its top three
trading partners - ASEAN, EU and USA - grew 14.2%, 9.5% and 10.1%
respectively.
The biggest jump is in the trade with Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partners. It jumped 20.2% over the same period.
In
August alone, China's import and exports with BRI countries and regions
increased 23.8 percent year-on-year, contributing to 6.9 percentage
points of the country's total foreign trade growth.
Last but not
least, over the same period, China's foreign trade with the 14 Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) economies increased by 7.5%.
The trade data, if it continues uptrend as it is, will see China attaining another double-digit growth at the end of 2022.
The Long March-5B
The Long March-5B Y4 carrier rocket that
is commissioned to ferry the China Space Station Mengtian laboratory
module into orbit, has safely arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Site
in South China's Hainan Province.
The Long March-5B Y4 rocket
will carry out general assembly work at the launch pad and other testing
work together with the Mengtian module that arrived earlier.
China
is gearing up to complete the building of the country's first space
station with the Mengtian - third and last part for the basic
three-module T structure and the second lab module following Wentian
module - to be launched and connected to the current space station
combination in October this year.
Compared with the Wentian
module that was launched in July and hosting experiments with focus on
the study of space life sciences, the Mengtian module will be oriented
to microgravity scientific research and is equipped with experimental
cabinets for fluid physics, materials science, combustion science, basic
physics and space technology experiments.
Mengtian also has a
payload airlock, allowing the station's small robotic arm to take
science payloads and install them on an experiment platform on the
module's exterior.
The Mengtian will also carry the world's first
Space-Based Cold Atomic Clock system consisting of a hydrogen clock, a
rubidium clock and an optical clock. If successful, this Clock will not
lose even a single second in space time travel.
9/07/2022
Indians failed to take over control of the United Kingdom
Photo credit to Global Times.
The bold and audacious attempt by an Indian immigrant to seize control of the diminished British Empire fizzled out as expected. Within a small circle environment, it would be quite easy for a few Indian MPs to win over a few in the group to come up as the top dog. But once the voting is thrown to a wider circle, the probability for success fell. It would even go lower if it is a general election. The British are still die hard white supremacists and would never tolerate an Indian PM strutting in and out of Buckingham Palace to have audience with the Queen and rubbing shoulders with the royal family.
The fantasy of an Indian PM for the UK turned out to just another wet dream. It was a great feeling to think that this was possible. It may be easier done in a small island like Singapore when the majority of the population is bananas, not Chinese. In the context of Singapore, with the non Chinese, especially the Indians having a natural tendency to want an Indian PM, and the colour blind bananas rooting for it in the name of meritocracy, the probability is very, very high when such a situation presents itself here.
Liz Truss is the new PM of the UK, a Margaret Thatcher wannabe, still thinking and believing she is the PM of the British Empire and spreading vitriol generously against big powers like Russia and China. In her state of delusion and grandeur, she is going to lead the Disunited Kingdom to a confrontation with Russia and China with embarrassing consequences. But that outcome is natural justice for the evil British Empire that wrote in their history books without shame or guilt that invading and colonising countries are their birth right and nothing to do with right or wrong, with human rights and democracy for the natives to choose to rule themselves. This white men's lie of white supremacy would be a score to be settled, and who would be better than Little Truss to offer UK to be on the chopping block?
Yes, the Brits are glad that UK has not be taken over by the Indians. But in Truss they trust and thinking she would lead them to better days ahead, like Trump or Biden leading America to be great again. The realities of world politics would not be so kind to little Britain in the years to come when all wrongs would have to be righted and all debt would have to be paid in kind, with interest.
Little Truss would have to pay the debt of Britain just like Elizabeth II returning all the lands stolen by Elizabeth I. The final curtain of the British Empire would end the same way as all Empires. Britain would be returned to its normal self, a piece of rock in the Atlantic Ocean, nothing more, nothing less.
The Indians would be in a better position for another attempt to retake the UK after Little Truss has done her damage, and UK would likely be just left with Little Britain or England. As they said, half a loaf is better than none.
PS. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has claimed that the incoming UK Prime Minister Liz Truss could turn out to be “a disaster not only for Scotland but for all of the UK....Sturgeon said talk about blocking a referendum or “gerrymandering the rules” was a sign of “fundamental weakness.”” RT.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization
After 20 years, though it began as an attempt at cooperation between five-Russian led post-Soviet states and an emerging China, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has become a major global institution, representing close to half of the world’s population.
This September 15-16, the annual submit will be held at Samarkand, one of the ancient centers of human civilization. Its priorities include
1) Strengthening the SCO’s capabilities in assuring regional security and stability;
2) Promoting friendship and good-neighborliness;
3) Raising its global profile;
4) Countering threats in the information and ideological spheres;
5) Expanding parliamentary links;
6) Energizing economic interaction;
7) Enhancing connectivity;
8) Intensifying cultural and humanitarian contacts; and
9) Raising the general effectiveness of the organisation and its mechanisms.
NATO’s new strategic concept adopted last June in Madrid describes Russia as the most significant and direct threat, and China – for the first time – as an enemy to Western security, interests and values. As a result, the international community has moved visibly closer to a Cold War division between the two camps in an intensifying rivalry over the World Order.
Moreever, China and India, as well as India and Pakistan, all view one another as major security threats.
Despite such diversity and complexity, the SCO, at the start of its third decade, is not only still in business, but is steadily getting more active and becoming more attractive to others.
In 2001, it started at six; after 2017, the membership expanded to eight, with another 20 countries or so listed as observers, dialogue partners, or in the process of joining. Iran’s inclusion this year is spurring the interest of Turkey and a number of Arab countries, notably the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Qatar.
The SCO community could potentially include much of the Eurasian continent between Belarus and Cambodia.
In fact, the SCO’s lack of a single leader; its consensus-based decision-making procedures; its emphasis on national sovereignty and non-interference is a welcome contrast to the US-dominated NATO or like-minded groups such as the G7.
What can the SCO actually give its members, observers, and partners? The general answer is:
Security in their mutual relations and stability across the continent.
In details, what does membership entails?
1) Membership provides for a means to prevent or manage conflicts. It provides a unique platform for regular high-level contacts between one party and another.
2) Anti-terrorist cooperation is another obvious aspect.
3) Economic development has been a feature of the key areas of SCO cooperation. China’s Belt and Road Initiative has been followed by the North-South corridor linking Russia, Iran, the Arab countries, and India.
4) Peace could be cemented by restoring connectivity within the region and its links to the north and the south. The unraveling of ‘Chimerica’ and the EU-Russia decoupling in the wake of the Ukraine war signal the replacement of globalization with regionalization.
6) A new impetus for Eurasian interaction has been created in the post-Ukraine environment by the seizure by Evil USA of half of Russia’s currency reserves. The central issue here is that of the reliability of the US dollar-based global financial system. Increasingly, national currencies of the SCO member states and observers, such as the Chinese yuan, the Indian rupee, the Turkish lira, the Iranian riel, as well as the Russian ruble are being used in trade between these countries. In parallel, national payment systems of these and other countries are becoming connected, allowing them to conduct transactions directly, rather than through the Evil USA and its Allies. Therein lies the beginning of a new international financial system which is free from diktat by a monstrous hegemonic Evil.
7) The sanctions imposed on Iran, and now on Russia, could in the future be slapped on other nations that find themselves in conflict with the Evil USA.
8) The international system is going through a deep crisis which will take a long time to resolve. While the future of the world order is being decided in the ongoing major power competition, a practical way of altering the situation to better serve the interests of the growing number of autonomous players is through developing organizations such as the SCO – independent, non-hegemonic, and inclusive.
In time to come, the SCO could become a model for the 21st century World Order in the World’s most important freedom of choice!
A-non-y-mouse.