Who has more problems? Xi or Biden?

The unravelling Ohio train disaster is starting to be a topic that the USA Government originally had been trying very hard to suppress, with balloongate taking top attention by the USA Government to divert attention over the environmental disaster unfolding, Biden's hidden documents, Hunter's laptop, Biden's involvement in blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, and the perceived failure of all the sanctions against Russia. What is less prominentaly discussed is the effect of those sanctions hitting the EU more than Russia. It backfired badly.

Toxic chemicals are now said to be leaking into groundwater and acid rain is forming over a wide area. Social media is now covering the disaster widely, with mainstream journalists arrested earlier on the pretext of interfering with Government people fighting the chemical leak. The long term disastrous effect is unknown, but will certainly not be admitted.

By the way, another train derailement occurred in Texas, also carrying toxic chemicals. This is the result of infrastructures not being propertly maintained, which is going to haunt the USA going forward. They have an unending flow of money for the Ukraine War, US$350 million (originally it was US$350 billion) for Digital Transformation of Africa, US$150 million for buying patrol boats for ASEAN, US$600 billion (US$200 billion from USA) for global infrastructure developments to compete with the BRI, but unable to have money to refurbish their falling infrastructures. Besides the real money flowing into Ukraine, the rest of the planned aid are probably just basically hot air that never got off the ground.

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PS. Biden alleged that Xi has more problems. 

Yeah, Xi is trying to find time to meet foreign heads of state visiting China. Big problem. 

Xi also trying to find time visiting the villages to greet the Chinese people Happy Chinese New Year.  Big problem to meet 1.4b people across the China.

Lawrence Wong's 'bee tang' Budget for everyone

 

Singaporeans would be receiving a whole year of cash, vouchers and rebates from the govt. Please say thank you. I got a feeling the GE is around the corner. A few billion from the reserves would be shared with adult Singaporeans.  Not sure how much is this compares to the numerous of tax increases collected.  Also not sure if these are enough to offset the inflating of prices of everything, especially the hawker food in food courts and hawker centres. 

What do you think?

The good news is that the largese would be for Singaporeans only, not PRs or locals that are not Singaporeans. The bad news, many PRs or locals would want to become Singaporeans to dilute the population with more foreigners. Not sure if foreigners given citizenship effective today would also be entitled to the handouts that came from our reserves or from taxpayers' money.

Vote for more good years!

When Taiwan returns to China

Taiwan is now touted as the next Ukraine. Do the Taiwanese want to be the next Ukraine? A small section of the Taiwanese is still high on western drugs, hallucinating about a separate Taiwan and can live happily ever after. They did not know that their good life today is dependent on China. China has been very kind and very generous towards the Chinese people in Taiwan, just like it has been very kind and generous towards Hong Kong. Both Taiwan and Hong Kong would be economically crippled should China decide to turn off the tap.  Their geography did not give them a chance to survive on their own when China imposes a sea and air blockade. Not a mosquito could break through such a dragnet.

An independent Taiwan is only good for a few individuals in power, for their egos and self interests. An independent Taiwan is not necessarily good for the majority of the people in Taiwan. The drug called Democracy is not a panacea for a good life. Many ex colonial states are struggling to be democratic and prosperous but find it very difficult to do so. The Democracy Trap is actually a colonial misrepresentation, a drug, a make belief that all would be well if a state has a democratic govt. The reality is not so. Even western states are struggling with democracy and may be brought down by democracy. Democracy as a stable political system only came about when the western states were fairly well developed and rich, from the spoils of colonialism and exploitation. Without the largese of colonialism, democracy is at best a three legged chair, unstable and unable to support the economic growth of a state. 

The western powers are trolling with the concept of democracy as the means to a good life, freedom, human rights etc etc. The truth is that democracy is their tool to destabilise and control the developing states. Such states would always be unstable, to be exploited and controlled by the West. They would keep such so called democratic states in a state of limbo and political vex, and be dependent on the goodwill and generosity of the West to prop them up as a forever three legged chair. They would in a way be another form of a colonial state serving another form of colonial master, still the West.

China's experiment, through a lot of trials and tribulation, has slowly seen the emergence of a mixed political and economic system that has proven to be effective in bettering the life of its people. It may not be the perfect formula, but it works. If not, China would not be what it is today and running stronger everyday while the western states are crumbling and turning to dust. 

The Democracy that the Americans are propagating is a lie. Look at what is happening to their domestic condition, look at what is happening to Europe! The whole of Europe is under the dictatorship of the American Empire. Do as you are told and obey. When the Americans said, fight and die, they would fight and die. The Americans even cut off their vital oil and gas from Russia and they dare not even confront the Americans about it, dare not talk about it. And have to buy American gas and oil at 4 times the price and be completely dependent on the Americans and at the coercion of the Americans. 

Is this what the Chinese people in Taiwan want? Ignore the few insane Taiwanese joining forces with the Japanese and half Japanese wanting to turn Taiwan into another Ukraine. The Japanese and half Japanese have nothing to lose even if Taiwan becomes another Ukraine. They can run to Japan or the USA. The majority of the Taiwanese have no where to run to.

When Taiwan returns to China, it would be prosperity all around for the Chinese people in the island. Their children can dream of becoming rich and successful in China and can even aspire to be the President of China, the richest and safetest country in the world.

Ukraine - Treacherous Americans running out of options

The USA and the West are now claiming Russia does not want peace in Ukraine. When peace was within reach, they scuttled it time and again. What are they talking about?

Now that the war is dragging on in Ukraine, with Russia getting ready for the big assault, they are talking about wanting peace, even using the UN for leverage. They had only planned for the war to last for a short spell, with sanctions expected to cripple Russia and causing its quick collapse, and ripe for a regime change. Now, they realised they had it all wrong and could not untangle themselves.

The fact is, they are unable to keep aiding Ukraine without knowing when the war will end, and are generating all kinds of excuses like telling Ukraine they needed months to manufacture tanks for them, fooling Germany to commit tanks to Ukraine like a fool. Now Olaf Schulz is having his testicles caught in seaweed as what the Chinese like to say.

Undoubtedly, Germany is burning its bridges with Russia for eternity. Putin has long memories and he planned his move after bidding his time. Eight years of letting the West play around with the Minsk Agreement, is time enough for him to get ready his stockpile of weapons, and his weapons manufacturing industries are now churning out missiles and weapons that the West found unsettling.

The USA is caught in a bind, tangled up in Europe and unable to pivot towards China. There is only a short time frame for them to capitalise on their slight edge over China overall, but that gap is closing fast. They knew it, but they have to deal with Russia seperately first, and they are finding out the difficulty of doing so the hard way.

With Russia and China sticking together, they USA is unable to have any edge taking both of them together. But destroying Russia is now not a fait accompli and confronting China now is not to its advantage. The USA is roping in Japan, allowing Japan to expand its military to take on China. Japan should remember North Korea is now watching. Neither is Russia unaware.

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Xi Jinping invited President of Iran to visit China

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will make an official visit to China next week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said.

Raisi’s planned visit will take place between February 14 and 16 and is at the invitation of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the ministry announced in a statement on Sunday.

The three-day trip will include talks between Raisi and Xi, a joint meeting of the leaders with Iranian and Chinese businessmen, and the signing of cooperation documents between the delegations of the two countries, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency.  RT

This is how an official visit by a foreign leader would be announced. The Chinese Foreign Ministry would announce the dates and the agenda of the visit and at the invitation of the Chinese President Xi.

Compare this to the so called Blinken visit to China. That was announced by the Americans but the Chinese did not say anything. Blinken's visit was initiated by the Americans without consulting and getting consent from China.  It was not by the invitation of China. 

When China invites a friend, there would be pre visit consultation and discussion on the agenda, which is usually on cooperation to the benefits of both countries. When someone wants to pay a visit to China without being invited, there would also be consultation and discussion by both parties. In the Blinken case, China would want to know what he wants to discuss and whether China would want to discuss with him. China would also set the time and place for the visit which may or may not be in Beijing, depending on the value of the visit. Xi would not want to meet him for sure.

In the visit of Iran's President, China would play the hospitable host, laying out red carpet and all the niceties to make the visiting President feel welcome. China would play the warm and gracious host. In a non invite visit, especially one like the Blinken visit that is unfriendly and wanting to talk about conflicts and meddling with China's internal affair, China would act very official and business like, minus all the pleasantries. It would very likely be like a war talk.

Blinken's cancelling of his visit to China could likely be due to China's disagreement on his agenda as China would no longer waste time talking to unfriendly and rude visitors wanting to mess around with China. Blinken probably got the message when his agenda was thrown out of the window and ended up with nothing to talk about. He had no choice but to call off the visit. The hot air balloon as an excuse to call off the visit was exactly what it was all about, hot air. 

China did not invite him to visit Beijing as the US has been misbehaving with so much hostility and creating so much trouble for China. China did not care whether he comes a calling, and can spend time doing more important things. Though Blinken is still saying he would like to visit China, it is unlikely that he would be warmly received. He might be the first Secretary of State that have not been invited to China, have not set foot in China. He might even be sanctioned like Pompeo once he left office.

There is no reason for China to want to invite him. Period.