America's last Bang

 The Industrial Revolution brought about the rise of the European Empires. With new found knowledge and technologies, they brought about many new inventions and products to the world, but also to conquer and rule the world by force, massacres and creating colonies of people from the free people of the world.

The Americans rode on the advancements of the Industrial Revolution, made many improvements, innovations, made the world better by more inventions and products for a better world. Silicon Valley was borne, and the world benefited from the internet, mobile phones, Google, Facebook, Twitter, GPS, Apple, mass produced computers etc etc. Unfortunately this era is coming to an end.

Silicon Valley is fading away into the twilight. Nothing new is coming out from the USA. Nothing new is also coming out from Europe for the betterment of the world. The last big bang left for Europe is ICE vehicles. ICE vehicles would continue to exist in less developed countries but would soon be phased out in UK in 2030, China in 2035. The last big Bang for the USA is the internet and related products. 

A new era is emerging from the East. China has taken over as the most creative and innovative country in the coming age of AI of all things. The Americans skirted around these new concepts but unable to make much progress, or too slow to capitalise on them. China latched on to them and pour in everything to pursue the dreams of a new futuristic world of AI and AI related products and eco systems.

China is now leading the world in 5/6G, EVs, EV batteries, AIs, drone technology, flying cars, TikTok, WeChat, AliPay, satellite connected mobile phones, artificial sun, renewable energy, etc etc. Chip technology would soon be over taken by China's photonic and quantum chips, space exploration, moon stations and mining, alternative energy and technology, building of new infrastructures and new cities etc etc for a futuristic new world. These are the daily activities being pursued by a new China supported by millions of STEM engineers and scientists.

And this is only the beginning of Made In China products and services. Going forward, China will be producing more new and innovative products to benefit humankind. The Made In China 2025 dream is starting to materialise.

On the other side of the equation, the Americans are still pursuing primitive activities of wars and killings to remain relevant, but becoming irrelevant. The path that the Americans are taking, instead of competing to build a better world with AI and new technology, is war and destruction, wasting their resources and human talents on absolutely wasteful unproductive activities, bankrupting its talent pool of STEM scientists and engineers. Whatever there is left in America in these fields, are mainly foreigners, mainly Chinese. When the foreign expertise pulled out, America would only be left with lame lawyers, daft politicians, Wall Street brokers playing with monopoly money, and bloodthirsty soldiers with mindset of primitive savages, not suitable for a new world of science and technology and peaceful pursuit of humanity.

The last bang from Silicon Valley is now just an echo of the past. NASA, the pride of American technological strength in the past, is just an empty shell, an ageing monument with nothing to show. One may wonder if they really landed rovers on Mars when all you see were pictures of Mars that can easily be fabricated. Who is there to prove otherwise. Nothing new is coming out from the Silicon Valley or America. The Americans have missed the train, intentionally, by not wanting to compete, or unable to compete, unable to innovate, and chose to become destructive, to set up road blocks and obstacles to progress, to want to stop the progress of China and the rest of the world. America and Americans have chosen the path of the dinosaurs and dodo bird, to withdraw into its world of past glories and clinging on to the ways of their European savage ancestors, to want to rule the world by force and violence.

Anyone heard of any new products from USA after Tesla and iPhones? Watch out for the best and most deadly virus and fake vaccines coming out from the USA. These are what the Americans are spending their time and resources on with their bioweapon labs all over the world.

Grandmother's story...Grandma did not know China and BRICS are working to decouple with the US

 The USA, via Grandma Yellen, is now telling China it cannot trade with Russia. That is just arrogance out of this world. Both China and Russia are Sovereign States and it is in their own right to trade with one another and the USA has no authority, moral or otherwise, to change that position. The USA still thinks it is in a position to dictate policies that China must follow. Those days of dictating are over. Yellen is warning China of serious consequences if it continues to do so. The USA has still not yet learnt its lesson by sanctioning Russia.

The biggest mistake that the USA made over the years must be pushing Russia closer to China, which otherwise could now be a different geopolitical world had Russia been on the side of the USA. Thanks to Russia-gate, China and Russia are moving ever closer to each other, to the chagrin of the USA and the West.

The desperation of the USA's impotence in its dealings with China is clearly exposed. What sanctions can the USA imposed on China, China has the means to retaliate and banning companies from doing business in the USA is not going to work. China already has the Global South in its circle of countries it can trade with. Moreover, Africa alone has a population that is almost three times that of the USA and EU combined, a potential market that cannot be ignored.

In South America, Argentina is said to be backpaddling in its dollarisation move and clown Javier Milei is said to be softening his tough stand against China. The country is facing a dengue epidemic with shortage of insect repellents. Inflation is exploding as well. This Joker really is another Juvenile politician, a President from Hell, that is bringing the country to its knees with his move towards the USA. Even crawling to the USA is not going to help, with the USA having its fingers in so many conflicts that it is trying to cope.

Anonymous

Too many marbles in American pocket

 Furiously trying to build a toilet when the urge to poo is so intense cannot be the right way to do things. Now the USA and the West are trying to set up refining facilities for rare earth, lithium and bauxite that are needed to support their EV, semiconductor and weapons manufacturing, which China is already moving far ahead and taking control of all the raw materials decades earlier.

In the end, those facilities will probably end up as white elephants if China, with its 'industrial overcapacity' choose to flood the market with identical products at much cheaper prices. That word 'overcapacity' hangs like the 'Sword of Damocles' over the heads of investors. That is why Janet Yellen is making such a big deal about China's 'industrial overcapacity'. Therefore, to build those refining facilities or not really takes time to decide.

How much work does it take to build up the logistics and supply chains to back up the plan to be self-sufficient in rare earth elements alone is mind boggling. There is also the time factor of maybe, optimistically speaking of 5 to 10 years to consider. Can the building of military equipment be put off in order to align with that kind of timeline? There is an ongoing war in Ukraine. There is a big war coming in the Middle East. Can Zelensky and Netanyahu wait for the weapons to be manufactured in the meantime? Iran and Russia are non-negotiable in terms of having a ceasefire of 5 years. That is nonsensical and preposterous.

Overlooking Iran and underestimating its rise is just like the USA and the West taking its eyes away from China to concentrate on terrorism, trade wars and instigating and creating real wars. All the time harping on Iran's nuclear ambitions, while ignoring the other areas that Iran is innovating fast, like drones and missiles.

Iran, or Persia is as much an old civilization like China and India, and certainly has the wisdom to rise as a world power. The USA knows this and had been trying for decades to suppress Iran from rising using sanctions. Indonesia is another country that will rise to be a global power, and Indonesia will figure prominently in the depression agenda of the USA going forward.

In fact, the moves in Papua New Guinea of military co-operation does not augur well for Indonesia. Claiming that this kind of military alliance is part and parcel of the defence structure to counter the influence of China is an insult to the intelligence of Widodo and Prabowo. They fail to see China making moves against any country around the region, not to say in PNG. Moving towards China is a very wise decision for Indonesia.

Anonymous

Americans and the West want Chinese to be cooks and laundrymen

 So, they are now admitting that they do not have the ability to survive in competition with a very 'effective economic system'. That means China's communist system is now too competitive for their liking. Is this a wake-up call by Katherine Tai, or just gathering more ammunition to justify further confrontation with China?

For decades, have the USA and the West have not been spinning the mantra that the capitalist system under their democracy is triumphing on every front, and that the Chinese communist system is not up to their level as to be able to compete with them? All the propaganda financed by the West are backfiring.

In the past several decades, the USA and the West were so arrogant and boasting about their democratic system that is touted to be all conquering and annihilating the communist system. How arrogant they had become can be gauged just recently when ASML was reported to have said that even giving the Chinese the blueprints for the lithography machine, the Chinese would never be able to build it. Why is it different today? They were so arrogant that they refused to see what the Chinese were up to, and when China overtook them in various sectors, they became desperate coupled with neurotic behavior trying to pull China down. The USA is not really trying to compete against China but is trying to pull China down so that they can appear to be still on top.

All that spinning about the impending collapse of China can continue, but the reality is it is not China that will collapse first. China is refocusing its economy, moving away faster from e.g. property-centered investments into technology like semiconductors, which China is intent to dominate. China's shipbuilding has also grown exponentially and extensively over the years, from a shipbuilder of low repute into a shipbuilding giant eclipsing even the likes of South Korean shipbuilders in the process.

Do not bet against China in any sector that it wants to prioritize and dominate. Take that as a friendly advice.

Anonymous 

The majority of top chip designers and engineers in American chip making companies are Chinese. Without these Chinese scientists and engineers, or when they decided to return to China, all the American chip making companies would have to close down.

China cannot give subsidies, only USA can ... twisted logic of American gangsters

 Now Janet Yellen is accusing China of giving 'subsidies' to its industries to compete unfairly with the USA. The USA is in fact doing exactly the same thing for decades, if not more drastically and longer than what she is accusing China of doing.

Calling subsidies by another name, like the 'Inflation Reductions Act' is not going to make it more palatable to the ears of those who can see the hocus pocus adopted by the USA. The same as calling 'decoupling' as 'derisking' to fool the walking dead. Kamala Harris probably can do it better with her reputation as someone who became increasingly famous in popularizing the phrase 'Word Salad', on top of her 'Dracula' laughter.

China may be doing its part in high end chips to catch up with the USA, Japan and South Korea. But China's industrial base termed 'factory of the world' does not as yet need such high-end chips, except AI and expensive top-end mobile phones. Other than that, dependence on matured chips, those 14 to 28 nanometer chips for her production of EVs, washing machines, TVs, solar panels, cranes, wind turbines and other consumer products can more or less be sourced from its domestic manufacturers.

The USA and the West may be thinking they have the upper hand in sanctioning China from acquiring high-end chips, but on the flipside, they have to understand that such endeavors still require rare earth elements that China is still the dominant player in the world.

So, who is killing who? And who is winning the Chips War is still not certain.

Anonymous