Cancerous USA makes worst by the clowns in Washington

 The USA is now like a cancerous country, rotting from within, unaware of the cancer spreading internally from administration to administration. And this kind of cancer is even harder or impossible to cure, as it is the contagious type, spreading from one leader to another. Cancer is only known to spread inside a person itself, and not from one person to another.

The biggest hurdle preventing a person who has cancer getting cured early is denial, until the cancer gets to the terminal stage and then there is no cure. The USA is going fast and furious in that direction.

The policy failures of the USA policy makers are so apparent, with even ordinary people talking about it, but the leaders just seem to turn a deaf ear and continue to make the same mistake over and over. The USA and the West assumed that sanctions would work on countries of all shapes and sizes and they were wrong. Russia is a perfect example today. Decades of sanctions against North Korea, Cuba and Iran produced little effect as well. Now the biggest mistake is about to be realized and uncovered but already too late to remedy.

Chinese chipmakers have been pushed to the wall by Joe Biden with his Chip's Alliance and sanctions against China, by forcing global chipmakers to keep China away from high-end chips. This is backfiring on the USA and those that swallowed the poisonous potion administered by Biden, claiming that such a move would be better for their fortunes if they take down China in this sector. Now they are finding out the truth, but is it too late? Once China rises in the sector to compete, it is sounding the death knell for all other chipmakers.

China, vis a vis Huawei, SMIC and others are romping ahead in matured and high-end chips, both in research and innovation, at such speed, that it is even now exporting chips, 6 billion pieces to compete with the likes of Intel, Nvidia and others in the global market. This would not have happened if the USA had not tried to force China to be self-reliant and let the USA, Japanese and South Korean chipmakers to continue making those high-end chips and selling them to China and the rest of the world. Now China is evidently self-sufficient in many areas, to the extent that it is able to export chips to the rest of the world. Did the USA, Japanese and South Koreans chipmakers expect that? They must be shell-shocked.

Napolean, more than a century ago made this prediction - 'China is a sleeping giant, let him sleep, for if he awakes, he will shake the world'. The giant has been forced to wake up and is now shaking the world.

Anonymous

Evil intent of the warmongering American Empire - Zelensky was just a pawn and would be sacrificed

 The USA and the West tried to pull wool over people's eyes by generating the propaganda that the Ukraine War started with the Russian's liberation move in the Donbass Region in February 2022. This argument is to facilitate their propaganda that Russia started the war without provocations. Nothing is further from the truth.

The Ukrainians have been attacking the Donbass region, attempting genocide against Russian speaking citizens since 2014. Thousand have been killed. Attempts to stop the killings had been made, but ultimately sabotaged by the UK under orders of the USA. With NATO dangling a carrot in front of Zelensky promising Ukraine membership of NATO was the last straw that broke the camel's back. Putin had to invade to prevent Ukraine joining NATO. Was Russia's invasion 'unprovoked' You be the judge.

Now, let us talk about Palestine. Israel had been carrying out, for decades, its campaign of seizing lands from Palestinians to build settlements for Israeli citizens. The Palestinians could not fight back, until Hamas entered the picture. The harassments by the Israelis were intolerable to say the least for the Palestinians, and that was why Hamas launched its attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023. The USA and the West again trotted out the propaganda that Hamas attached Israel 'unprovoked'. Was that the truth. You be the judge.

Elsewhere, the USA, the West, the Philippines and Japan are provoking and stoking China to attack Taiwan. That is bound to elicit the 'unprovoked' template. 

Anonymous

When would American gangsters run out of excuses to threaten China?

 It looks more like anybody and everybody are going around forming gangs. creating alliances, conducting military drills, directing criticisms, all for the purpose of threatening China.

China has been threatened for competing too successfully economically, been threatened for producing goods that are too cheap, been demonized for attempting to help poor countries develop infrastructures for economic progress with the BRI, been warned for conducting trade with neighbors, not being allowed to have influence over neighbouring countries, and you name it, they will invent a narrative to threaten China.

China should not care one hoot about what the USA or the West thinks and advance on its own initiative. Even if China follows their script, they will still find fault with it. They will find fault even if China farts.

Anonymous 

PS. ISEAS-Yusof Ishak western educated elites, please take note. How come common folks are more knowledgeable than so called western educated elites?

India's role in the clash of Civilisations

 Decades ago, some people were already talking about WW3. This would be a war between Whites and Coloured People. Is this turning out to be true? Not so fast, however credible it may be, with India and Japan are already being bought over by the dark side.

The Whites are ganging up as can be seen in the G7. The Five Eyes - Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK and the USA is another clear-cut example. AUKUS is Australia, UK and USA is a further example.

And here in Asia, Japan and India are turning out to be White pretenders, pandering to the Whites and going against Coloured People. India is part of the QUAD and so is Japan. Soon Japan is getting whiter by joining NATO or Asia-Nato.

India, instead of helping Coloured People, is sabotaging their agenda in BRICS. India is in deep trouble if Modi gets a third term. But Indians are basically ignorant about their future problems. Their only believe is Modi's Hindu cult support, his empty slogans and dictatorial rule. But Modi has never been condemned as a dictator. Xi lifted more than 800 million Chinese out of poverty and is still called a dictator. They must have a new definition for dictators under their 'Rules Based Order' doctrine. They need Modi to remain in power to counter China.

Suffice to say, let the ordinary Indians continue to elect Modi with his cult status, empty slogan chanting and hope this alone can create all the jobs needed for the Indian population that is growing exponentially. 

Anonymous

Praying in Kai Yuan Temple，开元寺， in Quanzhou, China

 开元寺, Kai Yuan Temple is a 1,000 historical site in Quanzhou. Though many parts have been rebuilt, two tall stone pagodas still stand in its compound. The main hall houses many big buddha statues. It is also known as a temple of good fortunes.