Biden told reporters in Hiroshima, Japan, at the conclusion of a meeting of world leaders that F-16 warplanes could be used "wherever Russian troops are within Ukraine and the area". CNA
Chinatown hawker centre. Hawker Centres are a national heritage, selling a wide variety of food at very reasonable prices. They are spread across the whole island and is part of the Singapore way of life.
5/24/2023
Ukraine - Good news, the West are escalating the war with F16s
Biden told reporters in Hiroshima, Japan, at the conclusion of a meeting of world leaders that F-16 warplanes could be used "wherever Russian troops are within Ukraine and the area". CNA
Papua New Guinea becoming another American base?
China already said it does not matter to them, as long as such agreements are not forged for the purpose of targeting any particular country. Suffice to say, whether they stick to their words, spoken with 'fork tongues' is at best subjective. In any case, Papua New Guinea PM, James Marape said that relations with Beijing will still remain strong. Hope this is true, and let not PNG do another Philippines towards China when pressure is exerted on them.
On the other hand, you can be sure that slowly and discreetly, these small steps of allowing USA military to use the Papua New Guinea ports means letting the devil have one foot inside their home. And the devil is not going to move out once they establish a foothold, unless being chased out like in Afghanistan. How could the Pacific Islanders move them out when the time comes and force is needed and verbal eviction is an exercise in futility like in Iraq now?
These islanders do not have the numbers, the military capability, the kind of co-operation and do not possess the kind of fighting spirit we are seeing in African countries. While Africa has a total Black population as large as China and India, which the Anglo Saxon Whites cannot overwhelm, and have largely succeeded in their anti-colonialism moves, thanks to decade long help by Russia, China, Cuba and North Korea, the Pacific Islanders have been isolated from assistance and are now forced to do the opposite by hosting these
Colonisers in the region. That is why the West sees the opportunity to capitalise on their weakness to force their hand, and why they fear so much that China will sabotage their evil plan. Hence all the anti-China rhetorics and China threat being used to create anxiety among the Islanders when China seeks to establish relations with them.
East Asia and the Indo Pacific region will see much instablity and chaos in the days ahead. The Devil has come to roost in this region.
5/23/2023
Sunak - Silly man making silly comment
HIROSHIMA, Japan: China represents the world's greatest challenge to security and prosperity, but other leading economies should not seek to fully decouple from it, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday (May 21) after a summit of the Group of Seven (G7) nations.
"China poses the biggest challenge of our age to global security and prosperity. They are increasingly authoritarian at home and assertive abroad," Sunak told reporters after the G7 summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima....
"This is all about de-risking - not decoupling," he said. "With the G7, we are taking steps to prevent China from using economic coercion to interfere in the sovereign affairs of others," he added. CNA
TheDemokrat55
That being said, China has done excellent in the world and their partnership with Russia is something to be admired. China and Russia stand far above the word "Communism".
Warmongers & Media= Criminal Enterprise
the chinese didn't cause the 70yrs of devaluing the $usd, off the bretton woods funny money. china didn't steal 30,000s of western companies, the WEST went to china to exploit the cheap mass labors and the non regulation of pollutions from factories which means no money spent on pollution controls, which means less cost of operations. the WEST went to china to also gain access to chinese markets, with 1.4billion potential customers to buy their products at the expense 5x or 10x their wages. the chinese didn't tell americans to print funny money in order to live a luxury life at the expensive of the 3rd world countries who's labor, resources, and products are shipped to the west at barely any profit margin to their nations, while western corporations take in maximum profits $$$ and became from a $million dollar company to $billion dollar company, especially from china. when the chinese first opened up, the $millionaires in the west became $billionaires overnight when they did global trade with china. there is absolutely nothing you can blame the chinese for, except for YOUR OWN greed $, corruption, and exploitation. the chinese used whatever $money they earned from western companies to feed their education and their children to become smarter and seek to be on par with the S.T.E.M education of the west in order to get itself out of poverty and into self reliance.
Rush 5
The reason for all those idiots attacking China and Russia is the Pentagon propaganda. US and EU don't know what they are doing because they themselves are divided into different camps trying to suck up to different industries. The Industrial Military complex needs the military tension to justify military spending so all they do is hyping up the military threats but other industries have their own agenda so they are amplifying the economic threats and the third group like the media and tech are the people who are doing good business with China and are pro China and pro business in general. So its a clusterbuck of various groups pushing their own agenda pro and con to China and everybody else and the idiots in government can't figure out what the reality is.
Erc Erc
"Is China the only issue holding the US together?" unquote. No, its the US that has racialistic issue with Muslims, Chinese, Asians, Europeans, Africans, Latin Americans that would fracture itself over time.
Peace101
Like the U.S.'s Iraq War and it's war on Russia, the U.S.'s war on China is built on lies. When those lies are exposed and debunked the U.S. will be defeated. And, FINALLY, both Russia and China are starting to call out and debunk the lies. They just did it again today: The G7 accused China of using "economic coercion". So China pointed out that the only one using economic coercion is the U.S.
Importance of GDP versus potential of natural resources
If GDP defines overall global power and control, then
Russia should have been destroyed long ago by the combined GDP of the
USA and EU. What is equally important is the possession of resources and
how important they are, that also measures a country's ability to stand
up against any threats. Russia's energy resources alone, gives it more
than what its meagre GDP could ever do, to counter the USA and Nato.
Food and energy are essential needs of humans since time immemorial. The
USA and Nato thinks that based on their combined GDP they could step on
Russia like an ant.
Deng Xiaoping said, as early as 1987, that
'the Middle East has oil and China has rare earths'. What importance is
attached to that statement is clear to all today. Then the Middle East
oil producers were all close allies of the USA, but Deng realised early
the importance of oil and rare earths in the future of things. Now the
Middle East is potentially, in the Global South camp, and this is
important. Who controls the oil also has leverage, not just the bragging
rights of the high GDP countries.
The Global South controls the
bulk of rare earth reserves, with China alone controlling 38%, with
Brazil and Vietnam among the top three, making up about more than two
thirds of global reserves. Rare earth is a very essential element for
the military, semiconductor and EV sectors, among others. Moreover,
China also controls 85% of rare earth refining globally, which speaks
for itself. Even the USA needs China to refine their rare earth, said to
be the best refiner in purity. China has yet to play its card with its
rare earth controlling hand.
As for the Global South being not
coherent and in transition, that is very true. But just look at Africa,
which is slowly coming together and being brought together under the
guidance of many well educated and dynamic leaders. There is so much
potential for investments in Africa, resources to be exploited and the
USA and the West failed to capitalise on the potential earlier, and are
now scrambling to return (probably the objective is to exploit the
essential resources). They let Russia and China cement their relations
with African leaders for decades, while they concentrated on fighting
wars in the Middle East and chasing terrorists. Now they USA and the
West are not even welcomed by Africans.
The same scenario is
being played out in Latin and Central America. Why are countries lining
up to join BRICS, even Mexico? And these are countries rich in food
production as well as mineral resources yet to be exploited. The future
of their power lies underground, though they may lag in GDP growth at
present. But their potential for growth is huge.
And Central Asia
may be dirt poor today, looking at their GDP, but do not forget they
hold massive resources underground. The old adage repeated by many
historians - 'Central Asia holds the key to Global Supremacy' cannot be
taken just as a passing footnote. What is so important in that dry, poor
region that is so important in Geopolitics? I suspect China knows the
answer and is now engaging with them in a big way. China will invest in
the long term, not hit and run, building relations and forging
co-operation, not war or countering countries.
Sure, for Western
investors they can dilly dally, but China is not waiting and will
undoubtedly be pouring more into Africa, Latin and Central America and
Central Asia, with huge potentials already surfacing in Africa
especially in housing, water resources, ports, railways, airports and
other infrastructures. The fact that Western investors are sitting tight
with investments shows they are just short term investors with 'grab
and run' mentality, compared to long term investors like China, whose
timeline is 20 to 30 years, as what former Greek Foreign Minister,
economist and academic, Yanis Varoufakis said.
Anonymous
G7 - White men and a black man talking cock
Biden is still claiming that the USA and the West do not want to decouple from China. Watch his tongue, as there may be a sign of a fork coming out. The USA and the West are famous for inventing 'word salads' to confuse and conceal their real agenda. They now call 'decoupling' as 'de-risk', just 'assassination' as 'target killing', 'bailing out failing banks' becomes 'merger'. These snakes or rats are very good in coining words and phrases to hide their real intentions.
China is retaliating and about time, using the National Security concerns that it has largely avoided thus far. China has taken out Windows based and foreign made computers from its Government servies for security reasons. China is banning the use of Micron chips in 'critical' systems also over security risk. This is a warning of more to come. The USA calls it a retaliation. So what if it is? The USA cannot now dictate that China cannot retaliate or cannot ban its companies. China must do even more to retaliate against Chip companies such as TSMC, Samsung, SK Hynix, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments etc in time to come. They want a chip war, they will get it. China will do it where it is going to hurt most, at the right time, when it finds weaknesses in the enemy's armour, and not on the spur of the moment like the West.
South Korea and Japan's trade with China are shrinking fast, especially in the semiconductor sectors, but they want to do more trade with the Pacific Islanders and others to cover up. Demand comes from a large population of 1.4 billion in China. How big a population are the Pacific Islands combined? How long it is going to take to develop the economy of the Pacific Islanders is the pertinent question to fuel the demand, and who is willing or capable of developing the island's infrastructure? Right now, Japan and South Korea could probably do trade with the Pacific Islands in coconuts, pineapples and bananas. They think trade with China can be compensated by increasing trade with other countries, good luck to them.
China had been depending largely on USA, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan in its Chip requirements for its manufacturing sector. However, as China is pouring huge resources and subsidies into chip development, do not underestimate that China cannot do away with dependence on them eventually. China can also do a 'de-risk' in due time, and is in fact working in that direction.
China is looking more favourably at Africa, Latin and Central America and now also Central Asia, which are and will be developing much faster with China's support. This is where the potential is that China is looking at, with all the resources to be jointly developed, not just South Korea and Japan where nothing in terms of resources is worth looking at, with both being vassal states of the USA and will be used by the USA as proxies to target China.