The Americans killing free trade

 China can retaliate by raising tariffs on more products from USA, EU and Japan. Plastic materials, chemicals and machine tools are examples. And it honestly will retaliate. The game is just starting to get interesting. The Chinese market is large and important for most large companies in countries in the West. Tariffs will render their products too expensive in China. And what does that mean?

To continue to be able to sell competitively and do business in the Chinese market, those companies producing for the Chinese market will probably have to invest their manufacturing in China itself, to escape the tariffs. Good for China, but bad for USA and EU. This will be counter to what the USA and EU are trying to do to support their manufacturing base by raising those tariffs against Chinese imports and forcing China to hit back.

China is waiting for the USA and EU to come up with more measures to elicit a response. There are a couple of items in the USA list where tariffs are being increased substantially. China will be looking into them and calibrating its response in days to come. 

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The days when hunting Red Indians were fair game

 The USA and the West are trying to protect the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, while killing Muslims in the Middle East. Never have so many countries done so much evil throughout history, and still pretend to be humanistic.

How many innocent Japanese women and children, who were not involved in the war, did the USA killed using the two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? How many more millions of innocent women and children did the USA and allies killed in Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and now Palestine?

And they expect the world to just pretend that all these did not happen just by preventing them from talking about it? And that only they are exempted from war crime accusations, just because they can use force to threaten those who wants to take action against them?

Never must the world believe in the war mongering intentions of the USA and its allies. NATO's intended expansion into Asia is a harbinger of evil doers coming here to spread destruction in Asia. Even before the start of its expansion plans, its intention has already been spelt out clear and loud, which is to counter China.

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Taiwan - Deluded Taiwanese still thinking of breaking away from the Motherland

 There is a creeping narrative that more and more Taiwanese would want to break away from mainland China, to be independent. Some Taiwan analysts think this is a natural way to go and eventually China would relent and give up the idea of reunification with the Motherland. This kind of thinking is simply naive, foolish and a failure to understand the meaning of unification and the pride of a Civilisation. Here are some reasons why reunification with the Motherland is top priority to all Chinese and their leaders, with no compromises.

1. No Chinese leader can leave behind a legacy of letting Taiwan go independence and break away from the Motherland.

2. After being conquered and nearly colonised by the western savages, China and Chinese people would not tolerate an inch of its land to be colonised by foreign powers. A fake independent Taiwan would end up as a colony of the American or Japanese. This is a humiliation that would not be acceptable to China.

3. A separate Taiwan would mean a dangerous enemy at its door step and would be an existential threat to China forever.

4. China as a big power, having revitalised itself, would not allow its territorial integrity to be violated. China is not the meek Qing Dynasty.

5. Do not underestimate the resolve and determination of the Chinese people to protect their own territories. The Chinese leaders are not Mickey Mouse that would succumb to external threats. And not when it is now a super power and going to be the next super power politically, militarily and economically. What is tiny Taiwan?

6. How could a few silly traitors in Taiwan be allowed to tear Taiwan away from the Motherland and posed a perpetual threat by becoming pawns of foreign powers?

When would China reunite Taiwan by force, assuming peaceful reunification fails?

1. When Taiwanese leaders declare independence.

2. When Taiwan allow foreign forces to set up military bases in Taiwan.

3. When China is ready to reunite Taiwan on its own terms. This would depend on China's military power to ward of all foreign forces, when China is ready to decouple with the West economically, and when dedollarisation is successful.

To date, the PLA has already won the advantage of controlling the air and sea over the East and South China Sea. When a blockade is enforced, no foreign aircraft and warship can enter the region to supply or defend Taiwan without being shot down. Stop the delusion that Japan or America could resupply Taiwan like Ukraine. China has achieved military superiority over the region around Taiwan vis a vis the Americans. Japan and the rest are just Mickey Mouse that are non consequential and could be taken out any time China decides to do it.

The timing would not be de dollarisation that is in progress, and the decoupling with the West economically. Economic decoupling can take effect any time as both sides would suffer the same consequences. It is only how much China would want to take, but would take when it is forced to.

China is now waiting for a more advantageous moment, and this is getting better and nearer by the day. The delusional Taiwanese, with the mindset of Mickey Mouse, may be getting a rude shock nearer than they expected. Reunification is inevitable and a matter of time. No matter how delusional or naive the Taiwanese are, none would want to perish is a reunification by force as they know they would all be cooked, worse than Ukraine and the Ukrainians. 

Reunification is the only option for the Taiwanese. Delaying this is only hallucinating like a drug addict.  China is real. The military and economic might of China are real. The Americans know and would not dare to fight China in a hot war. Only Mickey Mouse think they could get away with their pranks without being hurt badly. The Taiwanese people are smarter than Mickey Mouse to want to be like Ukraine or the Philippines.

Reunification and returning to the Motherland would mean a better life for the Taiwanese, as proud Chinese, and citizens of the most powerful nation, no longer have to beg for alms and be controlled and told to behave by the Americans or the Japanese.

PS. A Hokien phrase to describe the pro Independent Taiwanese...'khong come'.

When sanctions by American gangsters no longer work

 American sanctions can only work if the Americans carry the big stick and can whack anyone that refused to take their orders. American sanctions only work when countries still need to buy and sell to the Americans. Sanctions only work when countries need to use the American dollars and American controlled banking system to trade. And to some, sanctions would work when they have money left in America or American banks that can be seized by the Americans, or already seized by the Americans, like Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, and several Arab states, or like the Marcos money in the US.

With the rise of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as military powers, the ruthless American terrorists can no longer wield their big stick so freely. Syria and Ukraine are good examples. Americans can still abuse their control of the dollar and banking system to threaten states in the free world, free only when the Americans said so under Americans' so called 'Rules Based Order' or American mafia rules and order. Americans made the rules for others to obey.

The rise of China as the factory of the world, manufacturing and making everything the world needs, better and cheaper, is the biggest challenge to the American hegenony and sanction threat on countries of the world. This is the real reason why the Americans are trying to stop China from producing goods for the rest of the world, accusing China of overcapacity in production.  China's overcapacity is a blessing and will free the rest of the world from the need to buy American.

Increasingly, countries do not need to trade with the Americans when they can buy everything they need from China and sell to China, in RMB or in BRICS currency. When this happens, there is no need for the dollar, no need to use the American SWIFT system, and no need to fear sanctions. The Americans can sanction all its wants to whoever they want, but who cares. Sanctions would become meaningless and futile when there is no need to trade with America.

This day is coming very soon. And whenever Americans impose a sanction, it would only be sanctioning themselves. Who cares about American sanctions anymore? Today, China is the top trading partners of more than 125 countries. These countries can easily severe trade with the USA and just trade with China.

De dollarisation on course and gaining momentum

 I think those running the USA are not just clowns. They are psychopaths, intending to destroy what they could not overcome. And the USA is too sick and rotten at home, and lagging in substance abroad to overcome what it is facing today.

Trump or Biden, the USA is in self-destruct mode today. Better this way than for it to take others outside its borders down with it.

The de-dollarization move is really picking up traction, with China realizing that the USA is moving into targeting its banking system. China is fast tracking the rolling out of its digital yuan, with 139 million people already using it. Slow and steady wins the race and China has done it in so many sectors.

Like what already happened convincingly in other developments, China's de-dollarization move is subtle on the surface, to prevent chaos, but decisive in direction and building up its following among the Global South countries. BRICS countries are already committed, and BRICS is expanding. The de-dollarization momentum will spread. Let the USA and the West continue to bask in their arrogance that BRICS is to be brushed aside in its endeavor. They will regret for having such a mindset. 

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