Americans selling fairy tales to gullible Pinoys

 According to Kevin Walmsley of the site 'Inside China Business' the USA is encouraging the Philippines to set up a nickel supply chain to cut off China's dominance in nickel. The USA will provide financial help while the Philippines will have to set up the refining facilities. How feasible is that project going to be? Burnt to a crust will be the result.

Setting up the refining logistics is not a cheap proposition and takes time and expertise. Even if the Philippines managed to do so, can it compete with China? Already some nickel processing facilities around the world are closing shop due to inability to compete with Chinese manufacturers. And the Philippines is going into this sector or just building castles in the air and feeling good about it.

Like India celebrating the India/Middle East/Europe Corridor with a song and dance upon being announced by Biden. Biden probably already forgotten the whole thing, while the Indians are still hanging on to the fairy tale ending.

Biden had promised many great sounding propositions - US$350 million digital transformation of Africa, US$600 billion global infrastructure projects, India/Middle East/Europe corridor, railroad across the Pacific (how to build a railroad over the ocean I just wonder), US$150 million for ASEAN countries to buy sampans for patrolling the seas around ASEAN countries (more a bribe). All 'Chau Tar' propositions.

If you believe and love fairy tales, Biden is the right person to go to. 

Anonymous

Let the American clowns continue to believe they are ahead of China

 China already left the USA behind in various fields. China has built its own space station and is now operational. The USA still needs Russian rockets to send their astronauts to the ISS. Who is ahead? How did their rockets reached the moon I wonder?

In the clean energy sector, China is already far ahead of the USA, in EVs, solar panels and wind turbine manufacturing. The USA wants China to cut its domination for the USA to catch up.

China is already far ahead of the USA in shipbuilding. This is a fact that not many had noticed or are aware of, and still thinking that the Japanese and South Koreans are still dominating the sector.

Apart from the above, what else had China overtaken the USA? In the field of patents, China trumps the USA. Huawei holds patents in telecommunication that other telecommunication giants have to pay patent rights to use. China is on par with the USA in super computers. China's infrastructures put the USA in shame. China high speed rail construction is so far ahead of the USA, it puts the USA in the shade.

Chinese universities are rising up the ranks in the world and attracting students from all over, with tuition fees and accommodation on campus so cheap that it is putting some USA universities out of business or facing financial problems. Moreover, the influx of English-speaking professors from USA universities are allowing Chinese universities to conduct courses in English, a blessing in disguise again for China arising from the USA crackdown on Chinese academics and researchers.

China is thankful that the USA cannot find good people, with good thinking skills and strategic mindset to pull the USA out of its quagmire. China is just content to let the USA continue using their outdated playbook of pulling others down while putting itself in stagnation.

Yes, China should be thankful to the USA for all the help.

Anonymous

Iranian attack on Israel ...overcapacity. Israel's brutal and savage bombing and killing of Palestinians not over capacity?

 The recent retaliation by Iran against Israel's unprovoked attack on the Iranian Embassy in Syria did a very important eye-opening realization for countries in the Middle East. That it led to the killing of the myth about Israel's age old 'Iron Dome' invincibility is not lost on Iran and Hezbollah, least of all Hamas.

In the past, no one thought that using overwhelming number of drones and missiles will be able to cripple the Iron Dome's defense capabilities. Iran probably learnt the tactic much earlier, a year a two earlier, when Lebanese and Hezbollah were firing cheap rockets into Israel to elicit Israel to fire their very expensive defense missiles in response. How many of such defense missiles does Israel have actually? And how costly and affordable will such an attack be for Israel, if it happens periodically?

The fact that David Cameron was hyping up the issue of Iran firing too many drones and missiles against Israel, was indeed telling. It may be an over-reaction by Iran, a moot point, as that was just what Israel had done in Gaza in response to the October 7th Hamas attack. Did the UK or the West say anything about Israel's over-reaction in Gaza?

David Cameron had probably realized that Iran had punctured Israel's 'Iron Dome' myth for good with its more than 300 drones and missiles to prove an important point.

Anonymous

American chip makers planning to relocate to China...following German companies

 Reports manufactured in a USA propaganda factory about China collapsing must have given the USA leaders 'fake orgasm'. Too bad their leaders are too old to even attempt an erection, not to talk about orgasm. People like Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi are way past their useful lives to attempt that. They could not even walk a straight line. Nancy's husband was even suspected of being 'gay' and engaging in an orgy with a male visitor, later spun into an attempted break-in, in a recent incident at her home.

For over twenty years after Gordon Chang's prediction of 'The Coming Collapse of China', the USA media had been preoccupied and happily lapping up that narrative but were deeply disappointed in having to wait year after year. 'Coming' is the word in question. When? Not only is China not collapsing since then, as all metrics indicate otherwise, but China has instead grown to be so much stronger, that the USA is put in a desperate situation of trying to contain China's growth. Trade Wars, Chip Alliances, chip sanctions, decoupling, derisking have all been trotted out, but of what use? Even the threat of increasing tariffs on Chinese EVs multiple times is going to fail. USA consumers will pay for those tariff increases. It is an additional tax burden for them. The coming collapse of Gordon Chang himself will definitely happen earlier than China.

Yet the USA thinks that by decoupling with China it will progress faster. Fat hope and wishful thinking! When competition is absent, innovation goes out the window and the USA will lag further behind China. They say that' necessity is the mother of invention' and that is China's priority today. That is a certainty for China to progress further. Already in the field of innovation, China is far ahead of the USA. All the hurdles that the USA wants to erect, even financial sanctions, to prevent China from rising further is not going to work. It will push BRICS even faster in pushing forward its de-dollarization calendar.

Xi is going to visit France, Serbia and Hungary to promote better ties. China could see the fragmentation of the EU, despite the fake proclamation of solidarity that the EU is trying to project on the surface. Germany has taken the lead to invest more in China. German companies know they cannot afford to decouple from China, knowing that the market in China for German products is of paramount importance. To overcome the energy crunch, German firms are relocating to China in droves and forming joint ventures with Chinese companies. Now, this is not a one-way traffic of China wanting to learn from German innovation as in the past. It is a two-way traffic today of co-operation that benefits both sides, which the USA leaders fail to see or understand.

And the irony is that the USA leaders are believing in their own lies and propaganda. That is the beauty of creating too many lies and buying into their own propaganda and lies blindfolded.

Anonymous

Israel has lost the war of drones and rockets, running out of missiles...given up fighting

 How the West was won 2.01 was played out in Palestine. The Israelis told the Jews, go out and take any land for yourself for free, like the Europeans expanding from the east coast of America to the west of the continent, taking lands for free from the native Americans. In Palestine, they chased out the Palestinians and stole their land and homes, for free, killing them if the Palestinians would not move. 

The Jewish settlers spread across the whole of Palestine as new settlers, building new homes for themselves if they could not find existing homes of the Palestinians worth living in. This has been going on for decades using the American master plan, How the West was won 2.01, fully endorsed and supported by the Americans, while the Arabs were duped to fight among themselves, killing their own brothers and sisters, too busy to know what was happening in Palestine.

A rude shock happened recently. The Hezbollah pounded the northern parts of Palestine, forcing Israel to pull back a few hundred Jewish settlers that had taken over the land in the area, for safety. And the pounding by the Hezbollah continue, making the land there inhospitable for the robbers of Palestine land.

Another distinct development happening across Palestine is that the Israelis have given up defending against incoming rockets and drones. On one hand they are running out of defensive missiles to take down the thousands of drones and rockets raining down daily. It takes several missiles to take down a tiny drone or rocket. On another hand, it is just too costly to fly million or multi million dollar missiles against cheap drones and rockets. Economically it does not make sense, and financially the Israelis and the Americans cannot afford such a war, not enough money to keep producing million dollar missiles and wasting away on cheap drones and rockets. 

Israel cannot afford such a war!

And the Israelis have many more value assets, military bases and big cities to defend. They need to conserve the missiles to defend these high value targets. Their solution, stop defending, and let the drones and missiles fly freely into Palestine, into Israeli occupied new settlements. Just return the land to the Palestinians, or at least leave them vacant.

The Hezbollah and Hamas would keep on pounding Israel and wear out the Israelis defence system. Deplete all their missiles on a daily basis until they empty all their stores and warehouses. The Americans just cannot cope with the supply, neither could the Israelis defence industry. 

The war has reached a new phase, a new kind of war of attrition, a war of economic and financial resources and manufacturing capability. No way can 6m Jews produce enough weapons to fight against 1b Arabs and Muslims. Not even with the help of bankrupt USA and a Europe in recession.

The Hrzbollah and Hamas would wear out the Israelis by just sending their unending supply of drones and rockets into Israel occupied Palestine. Israel is like a gazelle in the jaws of a lion, and stop kicking. Resistance is futile.