Penny Wong - Pacific region should not be dominated by one super power

 What a clever comment by Penny Wong, Australian Foreign Minister.  For decades after the defeat of Japan in WW2, the Pacific region was dominated by one super power, the American Empire. Penny Wong did not say anything about this American domination of the region. Perhaps she was too young to know about such a concept. Or perhaps she was not a politician then. Now that she is the Foreign Minister, it is good that she raised this issue to remind everyone that the Pacific Ocean must not be dominated by one super power. 

The Americans must take note. No one is going to accept one super power to dominate the region. The Americans must be told to withdraw all their military bases in the region and stop behaving like a big bully and lording over the countries in the region. The Pacific Islanders have a right to determine their own lives and foreign policies. The Japanese and South Koreans should be free from being the colonies of the American Empire.

With the rise of China, it is good that China is standing right in the face of the Americans and telling the Americans that no super power should be allowed to dominate the Pacific region. China would be here to challenge and balance the dominance of the American Empire. The Americans would now not be able to shaft it down the throats of all the small nations in the region, not even with AUKUS or with the QUAD. 

The rise of China would help the smaller nations to be free from American bullying and domination. China can also help the Philippines to be independent and not be bullied, not to have American soldiers in their soil, as semi colonies of the American Empire. But it would be different if the Philippines choose to be become a colony of the Americans. It is freedom of choice. The Pinoys are free to decide for themselves.

As for the Pacific Islands, Japan and South Korea, they should also be free to decide if they want to have American bases in their soil, to be ruled by the Americans and controlled by the Americans.

With China as another super power in the Pacific region, the smaller countries would breathe easier and need not be bullied and controlled by the American Empire. Definitely not to be bullied by little countries like Australia or New Zealand. The smaller countries can always turn to China when bullied by the Americans or white countries. The Americans can no longer take them for granted, just like the Pacific Islands, totally neglected and used to test American nuclear weapons and exposing the islanders to radioactive radiation injuries.

Thank you Penny Wong, for saying something right, for saying something that should be spoken many decades ago. Americans, did you get it? How many American bases are here and when are the Americans going to withdraw them from the region? Are you going to compensate the Pacific Islanders for contaminating their environment and destroying their lives and marine lives? Time to own up to your crimes against the islanders and pay up. You cannot dominate the region as the only super power anymore.

TikTok versus Guns - American stupidity has no cure

Yes, according to the gun lobby pushing behind the scene. They claimed that - 'Guns do not kill people, people kill people'. In other words it also is applicable to weapon sales. Weapons, like bombs, do not kill people, but selling them to other Governments means other Governments are using them to kill peope and is not their fault. It is just killing other country's people I should say. So weapons are safer than TikTok, very safe. So can sell weapons to everyone and every terrorist who wants to buy them, but cannot allow TikTok to exist. Otherwise banning guns must also mean banning weapon sales as well. Logical isn't it? Just wonder whether weapon sales is itself a crime against humanity?

You see, when guns are now used more and more in the USA to kill their own people, with almost four shootings a day resulting in 10 deaths a day from gun shootings in the USA, the gun lobby still treats the deaths as collateral damage. And the Government, after every new President, and after each and every shooting, talks about new legislation to manage gun control, undoubtedly achieving nothing but spouting just hot air. The Government cannot ban guns, but wants to ban TikTok which they see as more dangerous than guns. Stupidity has no cure has been taken to the extreme.

Now the USA is nitpicking on irrelevent issues just to antagonise China. After balloongate, now it is policegate, with the accusation that China is running a police network in the USA. I wonder when they will come out with a Chinese military base in the USA? Just a matter of time! China's policemen better stop visiting the USA, otherwise may be hauled up for having a policeman card on them and being accused of being involved in policegate.

Now also claiming that the power pack used by the Chinese weather balloon is capable of powering highly sophisticated listening equipment. What does that signify? Nothing more than telling us that the Chinese are capable of producing much more advance power systems to boost their communication with the ground. And that is the only national security risk that they managed to find after two months of combing through the balloon debris?

How about spending so many years and still unable to prove anything about Huawei being a national security threat to the USA after tearing apart its 5G equipment looking for bugs. Unable to come to a conclusion or find any evidence, the USA and its doggies are pulling down all the equipments to destroy the evidence to prove that no such security threats ever existed. And they are paying a heavy price to get competitors to install new equipment and having to pay Huawei for using its propriety rights, which Huawei holds. Stupidity has no cure and it is the taxpayers that are footing the bill and suffering the inconveniences and consequences.

Anonymous 

Is TikTok more dangerous than guns?

TikTok’s opponents often use its dance-centric reputation as ammunition. We wouldn’t lose much, the argument goes, by getting rid of a platform on which teens perform frivolous dance challenges.

Even some of the TikTok creators in Washington distanced themselves from the app’s dance culture, emphasising instead its usefulness as a tool for education and political engagement. “TikTok is not a children’s dancing app,” activist and content creator Aidan Kohn-Murphy told The Wall Street Journal during the trip....

The threat of a TikTok ban looms large for dance creators in the United States, especially those who have built their careers around the app. But a ban probably wouldn’t snuff out TikTok dance; its signature qualities have already seeped into popular culture....

Montana lawmakers on Friday passed a bill to ban popular short-form video app TikTok from operating in the state, the latest threat to the Chinese-owned app's existence in the U.S.

 

The above is quoted from CNA.  The sicko Americans chose to ban TikTok, an app instead of banning guns. To the sickos, children are miss using the app, and a few had used the app in dangerous challenges leading to a few deaths. So TikTok must be dangerous and must be banned. 

 What about guns? Guns are not dangerous? How many deaths had been been caused by the use of guns by children? How many little children, even pre teens, had used guns to gun down parents, teachers and other children? The data of gun deaths simply drown the few isolated incidents of death caused by pranks and dangerous challenges.

So, why not ban the guns but TikTok? Are the sicko Americans crazy? TikTok is a tool for many useful uses. Just like a car for example. If a car is badly driven and kills someone, should cars be banned? What is happening to the sick American society when adults think like silly kids, reason like silly kids and abused their position of power to do silly things like banning a tool, in this case an app, when the killer is not the app but the person using it. And just because they love guns, a weapon to kill, they choose not to ban the gun, a clearly far more dangerous weapons than the app.

How silly and how sick are the Americans today? And you have elected men and women, to be national leaders, thinking and acting like silly brats, talking rubbish about an app like TikTok, to the extent of using the law to ban it!

American political leaders are being a bunch of silly jokers. And many people's livelihood is going to be adversely affected by the ban. Many people are depending on TikTok app in their businesses and educators are using the app as a teaching tool.

When would the Americans stop killing African and Arab/Muslim leaders

2 minutes of condensed narrative on how many African and Arab/Muslim leaders were murdered or assassinated by the Americans and white men. The victim countries would never forget these crimes against their leaders. But the Americans and white men think the victim countries are gullible and could easily be duped by a few sweet words and lies and a few dollars thrown at time.

When would the Americans and white men stop killing black men, Arab and Muslims, Latin Americans and Asians? How could they strut around smiling and acting as if nothing had happened, that they are the angels, the good guys, and the bad guys are China and Russia, that had not killed any Africa, Arab Muslim, Asian or Latin American leaders?  How could they go on lying that they are for peace and the aggressors and warmongers are the Chinese and Russians?

How many silly coloured people are still blind to the crimes against humanity of the Americans and the white men and still believing in their lies and refuse to think, refuse to see the facts laid bare in front of them? How can they believe in the devils and blame the innocent just because of the lies in the main media?

PS. Other than killing the Blacks in Africa and the Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East, how many trillions of resources have the white men robbed from these countries, not counting countries in Asia, SE Asia and Latin America. Not forgetting the robbing of the continent of North America ie USA and Canada and the continent of Australia, New Zealand and many Pacific islands, including Hawaii.

Macron's 8,000 Airbus deal literally kills Boeing for good

Macron has more than ruffled the feathers of the Neocons in the USA, with his calling for Europe not to act like vassal states and follow the USA into a conflict with China over Taiwan, saying Europe should not engage in a crisis that is not of their own making.

Not only has that stance caused hysteria in the USA, it also clearly antagonised the USA's stooges in Europe as well, particulaly the Germans. China already noticed the apparent split in Europe's top echelons of power. When Macron wanted to follow Olaf Scholz to China months ago, he was flatly brushed aside and denied by Olaf Scholz. That was a big slap on Macron's ego and he is clearly paying Olaf Scholz back in his own coin, which the Chinese are helping him by giving him an emperors welcome which Scholz earlier visit could not match. The unity and solidarity propaganda touted in the EU is a mirage that Russia and China could clearly see by putting two and two together.

Now, as I said earlier, Macron did more than ruffled the feathers of the Neocons in the USA. Macron, in the eyes of analyst and onlookers, is actually joining the de-dollarisation movement by closing many deals in Yuan with China and bypassing the US$. Among the big deals made was China buying more Airbus helicopters and planes and the expansion of Airbus plant in China with more investments. That is a significant development, indicating that even the Europeans are not happy with the US$ hegemony.

Of course the Industrial Giants of EU, ie Germany and France, would not be happy with the USA cannibalising Europe's industrial base by offering subsidies to European manufacturers to shift to the USA. Moreover, selling expensive energy to Europe caused much of the problems now besetting Europe, when Europe could instead still be enjoying cheap Russian energy if not for towing the USA line. Blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines was the added pain inflicted on the Europeans.

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