Africa, Pacific Islands, the Middle East, Latin America, kept as underdevelop states by the West

 The USA and the West could not stomach the fact that the BRI and AIIB are weakening the influence of the IMF and World Bank with regard to global infrastructure developments and marginalizing the control of the USA and the West on countries taking up loans from the IMF and World Bank, entities that are under their total control. That control by using the IMF and World Bank can be said to be a modern version of imperialism using financial strangulation.

Much has been said regarding the BRI debt trap narrative, generated to demonize China's efforts to help poor countries to progress. Africans have been telling the West that China's loans have infrastructures constructed to show off and economic benefits reaped.

That is counter to what the West had offered in loans just to keep them under debt traps and mired in poverty perpetually. Decades of Western Imperialism in Africa sees little progress except the installation of Dictators beholden to the West and helping the West to continue its plundering of Africa's resources.

Many African countries are still under Western Imperial rule but are now shaking off their shackles. And many Pacific Islands are doing the same, fighting to free themselves from the yolk of imperialism. They wanted progress, not military help when no threats are evident.

Anonymous

Under Marcos, Philippines is doomed

 Duterte told everyone during his Presidency that he feared the CIA's assassination squad coming for him if he continued his leaning towards China. That speaks volumes of the threat by the CIA.

How much of a threat the CIA is posing to Marcos Jr if he does not toe the line is anybody's guess. The USA knows that Marcos Jr is a weak leader, easy to manipulate and threatened. Moreover, they still have a hold on him, using the ill-gotten wealth that his father accumulated during his Presidency.

Marcos Snr was a pawn of the USA, used to weaken the Philippines, while siphoning off all the aid that the USA had piled on the Philippines, to pay for the use of the military base in Subic Bay. The USA professed to be against Dictators, but Marcos Snr was a dictator to the letter. The USA's hypocrisy is ludicrous to the extreme. 

Anonymous

Why is dementia Biden running for second term?

 Does anyone know why dementia stricken Biden who is incapable of standing for more than 10 minutes, incapable of staying awake for 10 minutes in a serious discussion on national issues, struggling to stay alert and follow a discussion of national importance, and still wanting to run a second term as President of the most powerful state, the USA? Oops, maybe I should pose the question to the Americans. Do they know that Biden's physical and medical condition have reached a point when he is unfit to walk on the streets alone, that he needs someone to take care of his normal daily activities?

Why is there no objection to spare this poor old man, to let him retire and rest peacefully in a nursing home, but to put him up as a scare crow President of the USA, when he is mentally unable to do the job that demands an acute and sharp mind and the mental energy to see them through?

Is this democracy or is it something else? The whole jin gang of democrat leaders are also behind this move to put Biden up as their best candidate for the Presidency. Is this a joke or what? The American public may have no choice as they are not in the thick of things, but the democrat team would be in the know and would not under any sensible circumstances to put up an old man that may not be around tomorrow. Why are they doing this?

The only reasonable guess is that they have all been bought by the Jewish lobby to have Biden for another term. But why Biden? In this current term, everyone can see that Biden was not calling the shot. He was just a zombie, and taking instructions from Blinken,  a Jew. Yes, Blinken is the de facto President of the USA and Biden is just doing his bidding, making decisions for the Jews and Israel. With half asleep Biden in the seat, the Jews are effectively in control of the the USA and running the USA in international affairs.

Thus, a second Biden term would mean the same, with the Jews be in firmer control of a by then 70% dead Biden and can do whatever they want. More blank cheques for Israel and the Jews. The Jews are gaining full control of the administration and govt of the USA to do their bidding.

Then why not the Republicans object to this pathetic development in American politics. No way. They are also bought by the Jewish lobby. And resistance is futile. Trump would not be able to run as the Republican candidate unless he is going to behave like Biden. Both the Republican and Democrat parties are now owned by the Jews.

This is American democracy at work. Oops, it should be Jewish democracy at work.

Cheap and good would win the economic war

 China is serious about decoupling, otherwise it will not be retaliating since the start of Trump's trade war. Another Presidential term for Trump could see the complete decoupling agenda being implemented.

China had been preparing for decoupling long before Biden escalated the trade and sanctions war after taking over from Trump. It is just Biden doing a follow up of what is in the USA playbook. The monopolization of essential raw materials, the prioritization of semiconductor research and innovation, the move towards a bigger domestic consumer market demand for Chinese goods, the setting up of manufacturing bases in Global South countries like Vietnam, Bangladesh and other ASEAN states are all China's preparation for decoupling.

The economic war is not just inside the USA and EU market alone. The bigger market is in the Global South - in Africa, South America, Asia and ASEAN. This is a war that China will win hands down. This is a market that wants cheaper products made by China, not expensive toys made in the West. This will be the defining tone for who wins or lose the economic war.

Anonymouus

Taiwan - The balance of power is now in China's favour. China now calls the shot

 A few Taiwanese interviewed by someone on Channel News America had this to say - an older Taiwanese gentleman surmised that if China wanted to take Taiwan, it would have done that long ago, 75 years ago in 1949, (that was when the Communists under Mao Tse Tung were chasing Chiang Kai Shek's army retreating towards Taiwan). Another younger lady put it succinctly that Taiwan is no match for mainland China if a war starts.

I would say that both are very clear in their insights. Just a naval blockade by China will put Taiwan in big trouble. And that is why the USA, and the West are nervous over the expansion of China's naval capacity. The currently concluded military drill by China around Taiwan is causing anxiety all round in Taiwan, the USA and the West. They are going to call it military over capacity soon and have started to demonize China's shipbuilding industry.

In the event of a blockade, the USA and the West will then have to airdrop supplies like in Gaza. To say that most Taiwanese want independence is just repeating the propaganda that is the norm for the MSM in the West when fighting a media war and does not reflect reality.

In any conflict over Taiwan, the Taiwan Straits is China's front yard or let us say it is China's home ground cum advantage. Military logistics are at the PLA's beck and call. Not for the USA and the West, which are thousands of miles away.

This is no longer the USA during the Vietnam War, when its financial muscle and military capabilities know no bounds. Then Vietnam was not on the level of China in military capabilities, not to belittle the tenacious patriotism of the North Vietnamese fighters. Professor John Mearsheimer said in no uncertain terms that the USA is not just facing a competitor but is facing a peer competitor in all areas, which includes the military.

This is a USA already fighting two wars and finding it difficult to keep up with aid and military supplies to Ukraine and Israel and facing flaks all round. There is no coalition of the willing to speak of, just an economically weakened NATO alone lending a helping hand. And yet still flogging the theory that Ukraine is winning the war despite the obvious. How much territory has Ukraine retaken from Russia, despite a few minor successes in the Black Sea region. That is not territory retaken, but empty seas. And they gloated and are making a song and dance about it.

Putin has already taken the whole Eastern flank of Ukraine and he said in no uncertain terms that Russia will only settle for peace based on the present border. Moreover, Putin has opened up another front, the North-Eastern front and is stretching the already over deployed Ukrainian army facing massive recruitment problems. 

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