South Korea is already screwed economically

 South Korea is already screwed economically. The desperation of South Korea already became apparent when it tried to source rare earth ores from Mongolia for refining to support its semiconductor manufacturing, to no avail. China is not going to support the move by allowing Mongolia to ship rare earth ores to South Korea for refining, using its Tianjin port. This was an attempt by the USA and South Korea to exploit Mongolia's rare earth ores to counter China's rare earth control. It is plain logic that China will never allow such Mongolian ores to pass through its territory, when it is in the process of countering the chip war initiated by the USA and its Chip4 alliance countries, which South Korea is part of.

Samsung is now suffering big time, with profits plunging so rapidly that it has been touted as catastrophic losses quarter on quarter. Samsung and Hynix are both anticipating further losses without Chinese rare earth elements for their semiconductor manufacturing. They will be left in the lurch by the USA, by following the USA to sanction China in high end chips. They reap what they sow and deserves no sympathy.

South Korea's economy depends for a major part on the nations semiconductor sector, and any downturn is not going to be taken lightly. It is still early days since China's restrictions on rare earth came into effect on lst August. The sector probably can still fall back on stock piling earlier, but such stocks will not last forever.

As a self conforting narrative, the West is saying there is not much to worry abou, as it will take only a few years for the rest of the world to set up facilities to do it and not depend on China totally. Let us wait and see.

China as the dominant player can influence the market by flooding the market or restricting it. China will just let them set up expensive facilities and plants to refine rare earth, but China could easily kill them off by flooding the market when they come on line, with much cheaper rare earth elements. Therefore, let us see who wants to invest in such expensive facilities when the outlook appears so uncertain, with returns not guaranteed. Investors are not going to throw money into ventures with uncertain prospects. There have been facilities being mothballed due to losses from uncompetitive pricing resulting in their failures.

Anonymous

Compare and contrast the stand of the USA over Muslims in Palestine and the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang were not even suffering a fraction of what the Palestinians are and were suffering under Israeli high handed assaults. Chased out of their demolished homes and having their land taken over to be occupied by Israelis, they could do nothing but weep. Yet, the fabricated fate of the Uyghurs were hyped up to high heaven with claims that were never even proven. Sure, China did what it had to do, which was to put its foot down on radicalisation that was threatening the region. And that was construed as mass mistreatment of the Muslim Uyghurs.

And who were supporting the terrorism threat and intending to reap the benefits of a destablised Xinjiang, that was intended to eventually spread to the rest of China? Hong Kong was then also under instigated chaos, which we now know was orchestrated by the CIA. Thankfully, China killed them off with one masterstroke, which was to let the main instigators emerge from their rat holes, be identified and destroyed in one fell swoop. Wonder what happened to those radicals in Universities in Hong Kong who were reported to have said they will die fighting for their rights? Laughable indeed!

Now, lets talk about those rats that scuttled to the UK, who are now caught in a dilemma. Unable to find employment without preconditions, some are regretting their move, giving up good paying jobs in Hong Kong to face such difficulties in the UK. Moreover, they do not get the same favoured treatment as the 'blue eyed' Ukrainians by the UK Government. Subsidies were given by the UK Government to landlords to host those Ukrainians, which is now turning into a farce, with landlords unable to get rid of the Ukranian refugees upon expiry of the subsidies. As a hilarious distracting point, some landladies in the UK are complaining about Ukrainian women stealing their husbands while living in their homes. What a laugh!

Anonymous

When have the Whites ever honour their words?

 When have the Whites ever honour their words? There is no honour among thieves.

Nato was not supposed to expand an inch towards the Russian border, and look what happened with all the former Soviet Union satellite states. All have been absorbed into Nato. What happened to that inch that they agreed upon? Gorbachev had been conned and will go down in history with a bad name. You can never expect the Whites to walk the talk, not when there is no written agreement to fall back on. Even with agreements, it is of no consequence.

Ukraine was the only material buffer zone now seperating Russia from Nato, and is the 'Red Line' that Putin is protecting. The loss of Ukraine to Nato will be a catastrophe of bibical proportions for Russia. Putin will never ever let that happen. There is now talk of setting up a buffer zone within Ukraine itself, but I just wonder whether Putin will even agree to that. When that happens, part of Ukraine will probably end up in Nato, which is still an arrangment that affords the USA the chance to move its missiles closer to Moscow.

China's control export of Gallium and Germanium is putting a squeeze in weapons manufacturing in the USA and the West, and Ukraine is in for another winter of discontent and so does Europe. Another pipeline between Finland and Estonia was just blowned up, and immediately a day after, the blame is on Russia. No investigation needed, just automatically Russia comes to mind. Everything the the West seems to run on autopilot. 

Anonymous

India - the "Graveyard for Investments"

Many people's first reaction to this arrest news was that India is once again targeting foreign companies operating in the country, especially those from China. India has worn the label of the "graveyard for investments" many years, and it seems to have become accustomed to it and doesn't want to take it off. However, wearing this label is not really a good thing for India, but it's ugly.

It is evident that since the border conflict between China and India in June 2020, Indian authorities have significantly increased their hostility against Chinese companies, with Chinese smartphone companies bearing the brunt. From making accusations and threats, conducting sudden office searches, freezing funds, to the recent arrests, India's crackdown actions against Chinese companies have been escalating step by step. The behavior is becoming increasingly unsightly.

People with some knowledge of India are well aware that India's legal and regulatory framework is as intricate as a labyrinth. Any slight oversight can lead to inadvertent violations, often resulting in widespread non-compliance and selective enforcement. This complexity provides a convenient tool for Indian authorities to extort foreign companies. However, it must be pointed out that in recent years, India has leveled numerous allegations against Chinese companies, yet ultimately found no evidence. It is possible that India aims to use such disturbances to force Chinese companies into unnecessary concessions and compromises.

People have summarized India's tactics, which involve initially offering some benefits or promising prospects to foreign capital in order to lure foreign companies to invest in India. Once these foreign companies have established a foundation and achieved certain benefits in India, especially when India has learned a little from imitating them, the Indian authorities use various means to effectively extort them, leaving foreign companies in a dilemma. If it weren't for being unable to bear it anymore, how could those multinational companies endure the pain of giving up such a large market like India? This may make India arrogant, giving it some short-term benefits.

After the Modi government came to power, it ambitiously launched the "Make in India" campaign, aspiring to make India a global manufacturing hub. In the past two years, the US' suppression and containment of Chinese companies, coupled with the Western media's hype about "shifting manufacturing from China to India," have made some Indians a bit arrogant. In reality, India is far from achieving this ambition. It is certain that India cannot support its domestic mobile phone industry by targeting Chinese smartphone enterprises. In the era of economic globalization, companies can only truly grow and strengthen through full competition. Driving away Chinese smartphones would bring more harm than benefits to India. In fact, without the support of the Chinese industrial chain, it would be difficult for India's smartphone industry to grow.

In the face of unreasonable demands, malicious harassment, and repeated extortion, Chinese companies will never be soft targets that can be manipulated. They should stand firm without fear and defend their legitimate rights and interests. India's bullying of Chinese companies not only fails to prove its strength and power but also reveals its inner fragility and lack of confidence, once again demonstrating that India is far from being a mature and investment-friendly market.

- Beijing

Anonymous 

PS. When suckers refused to learn and think they are smarter than the Indians, they deserved to be fleeced. No sympathy for born suckers.

Gaza - Israel calling for ethnic cleansing ...pathetic response from the Arab and Muslim world

 The genocide of the Palestinians about to go full steam. Israel is in full control of the situation and the Palestinians are just waiting to be wiped off from the Gaza. The systematic killing and removing of Palestinians in their homeland have been going on for decades with villages being destroyed one after another by the Israelis forces with Israelis heroes like Begin, Sharon and many others that became Prime Ministers of Israel. There were little reports about the genocides and apartheid going on in Palestine and no one really knows what is happening. This is the beauty of free press, free to report only what they wanted to report, not free to report the truth.

If anyone is interested to know how 100 million indigenous Americans, the original native of North America were wiped out to near extinction and their land taken by the white settlers, just look at what is happening in Palestine and now in Gaza. In those days, news was scarce and the white European settlers would not be reporting about how they systematically massacred the native Red Indians. Thus the whole world did not know what had happened, not a clue about the genocide in North America. It just happened and only heaven knew, and of course the white settlers and the Red Indians. But dead Red Indians could not tell tales.

Today, there are television, mobile phones, satellite communications, thousands of media agencies, and they are reporting about the massacres going to happen in the following days. So what? What can stop this massacre? The killing will go on as planned and no one, absolutely no one, not the Arab Muslim states, not the fake UN, can stop it. 6m Jews are going to commit genocide on 2.3m Palestinians, Arab Muslims, just like that. The whole world is hapless and letting it happen.

When 2.3m Palestinians can face extinction right before the eyes of the whole world today, the native Red Indians of yesteryears did not have a chance. No one even know they were genocided until many years later when some books were written about them. In the case of the Palestinians, everyone is writing about it before it happens, and will write about it when it is happening, watching it happens. No need to wait for many years later to discover this tragedy.

How could this be allowed to happen, 6m Jews telling the world they are going to massacre 2.3m Palestinians and no one can stop it. This must be a Jewish miracle coming true...because no one, no country is brave enough to step in to say no and to prevent it. What human rights, what crimes against humanity, what war crimes, what democracy?

Let's cry over the killing of animals so that the animals would be protected and save from extinction. Palestinians? Who cares. They are not animals and did not need to be protected. Oops, did someone said Palestinians are animals? If so, then they should be saved. Human lives are not important. Animal lives are important. Save the animals called Palestinians. No?