6/03/2023
Who are the Taiwanese? Chinese or Japanese?
6/02/2023
Kissinger - A war criminal living to 100 years, still alive and not arrested
7 minutes of revelation of Kissinger's war crimes by Mehdi Hasan, and he even received a Nobel Peace Prize. Can you believe that? He is the worst war criminals alive, killing more than any of the US Presidents. Listen and be appalled by the hypocrisy and western double standards, that they can kill and kill and kill and no war crimes against them. Where is the stooge ICC to arrest these criminals? Oh, they are busy trying to arrest Putin.
The 'cooks' and 'laundry men' condemned by the white men are now taking over the world in high tech
France shipping giant, CMA CGM, has just given Chinese shipyards the contract to build 16 container vessels worth a total of US$3.2 billion. This is the biggest order yet that Chinese shipyards have ever been given in building ships for foreign customers. This is a testimony of how far the Chinese shipbuilding sector has grown over the years, being able to even build aircraft carriers themselves. The ability to compete on price and quality must have swayed the French to give the business to China rather than Japan or South Korea.
What sectors have China taken over from Japan within three decades? High Speed Railways, Electric Vehicles, Mobile Phones and Communication Equipment, all of which Japan were the kingpin in days gone by. The Japs must be having sleepless nights and angry that China is taking over what the Japs used to excel in decades gone by. But winning or losing the competition is the normal progression of things. Japan also lost much of its consumer goods market to the South Koreans, particularly in consumer electronics like TVs.
When countries cannot compete, they eventually lose out. Unless Japan can never follow the USA's modus operandi by creating hurdles, false accusations and sabotage, when they fail to compete with any country, industry or company. The USA foiled Toshiba of Japan and Alstom of France, ostensibly to stifle their business that the USA could not compete with, just like taking action against Huawei and now TikTok. There is nothing the Japanese can do like the USA, using arm twisting and playing hardball with the competition when it fails to overtake or falls behind the competition.
Few decades ago, Japan tried to dump obsolete washing machines on to the Chinese market, thinking it is a rubbish dump for their unwanted and unsaleable products at home. Today, China is the largest manufacturer, exporter of, and consumer market of washing machines. The China market is no longer the turf of Japanese manufacturers. And now Japan is competing with the South Koreans as well in the global market for consumer products.
6/01/2023
High speed railway projects - A question of who can be trusted to deliver
Japan was the best with its Shinkansen high speed trains in the past. Because of the head start, every country thinks very highly of Japanese trains. Everyone wants the Japanese to build their train networks, the best in the world, so they thought. Japan hurriedly signed up India, Vietnam, Thailand and England. Some countries dumped China in favour of Japan. Japan had a track record that dates back to the 1970s. Everything Japanese is of good quality and the best.
China was not the first choice for many countries despite being good and cheap. China actually was in the run for the Indian, Thai and Vietnamese high speed train projects but lost out to the Japanese. China managed only to cling deals with Laos, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and of course the BRI network across Asia to Europe and Africa.
China and Japan signed the projects about the same time. Today, the trains in Saudi Arabia, in Africa and in Laos are running happily. The trains in Indonesia will begin operation in June, now doing final testing. What about the trains built by the Japanese in India, Vietnam, Thailand and England? The Japanese built trains in England are hanging on the hangers for drying due to flooding. Heard they have been sent to the cleaners for good.
The trains in India, Thailand and Vietnam are still waiting to be seen. The tracks are still partially laid or unlaid. The delivery dates have been postponed and postponed, maybe they are thinking of 2040 to take delivery. Or have the projects been scrapped?
Where are the world famous Shinkansen trains in Asia or Southeast Asia? Or they can only be seen in Japan? The countries that chose Japan over China for quality and reliability are still waiting and hoping for the trains to arrive.
The moral of the story, Japan cannot deliver. China will deliver. Any country still trust Japanese quality and reliability? Britain begging China to build its 200b pound train. China rejected. China also rejected India and Vietnam to takeover from the failed projects that Japan cannot deliver.
PS. China was to build the biggest port for Tanzania. The project was cancelled and offered to UK and Japan that promised the Tanzanians the sky. After a few years lapsed, the Tanzanians found out that they were fooled by the Brits and the Japs, both just wanted to disrupt the Chinese project but had no intention to build the port for Tanzania. Tanzania ended waiting for a port that would not come. How silly for trusting the Brits and the Japs.
Latest, China has forgiven the Tanzanians and reviving the port which is meant to be the gateway to Central Africa, the biggest port in Africa, bigger than Rotterdam. The Tanzanians wasted 10 good years for nothing, for falling to the lies and mischievous plot of the Brits and the Japanese.
Battle line drawn between the West versus the rest of the world
Even Russians themselves have taken over the fast food businesses left by MacDonalds and others, and are enjoying a ready market of hungry Russians going for fast food unabated.
I am apt to agree that China benefits quite substantially with the onset of the Ukraine War and the sanctions imposed by the USA and its allies. The departure of those businesses from Russia did not collapse the Russian economy, as others are perfectly capable of taking over. What these businesses have done by moving out of Russia is cutting their noses to spite their faces. Returning to Russia and trying to rebuild a market lost to China and others is out of the question going forward.
China, India and Saudi Arabia are already benefiting from the energy business, buying highly discounted oil from Russia and reselling them at huge profits to the EU. Who are the fall guys today, blindly following Satan in Ukraine and suffering at the expense of helping Satan confront Russia? Stupidity honestly has no cure.