Taiwan's fate will be no different from Ukraine or Gaza

 Palestinians who returned briefly to the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to check on their homes run for cover after an Israeli strike on May 30, 2024 (Photo: AFP/Omar AL-QATTAA)

The above pic will be what Taiwan would become if they stupidly continue to be misled by Lai Ching Te and the DPP. Lai and the DPP will lead to the complete destruction of Taiwan and the Chinese people in Taiwan with his demonic and childish scheme of independence. Have no doubt that China will reunite Taiwan with the Motherland at all cost. Stop taking drugs and hallucinate that China would not be able to do anything to keep Taiwan as part of China. 

Lai and the DPP should stop lying to the Taiwanese. They did not have the ability to take Taiwan independence. Taiwan's military would be wiped out within hours. The Taiwanese should use their heads to think and face reality. The Americans and the Japanese would love to see the destruction of Taiwan and the Taiwanese people from afar. They would not be able to do anything about it and would not do anything when China decides to take back Taiwan.

Seeing the DPP behaviour in Parliament, they are no different from a bunch of lunatic gangsters. Can such reckless and gangster behaviour separate Taiwan away from the Motherland? The PLA only need to carry a cane to whip their asses and they will cry in pain.

回头是岸

Stupidity has no cure.

America's War is Business is turning against the American Empire

 The Americans have been conducting the Business of War for several decades, actually since they seized the land of the native Red Indians. It was and still is the most profitable business of the white Americans. How on earth could they end up owning the continent of North America without wars? How could the European savages conquer and colonise the world and looted the wealth of the whole world if not by wars?

The Business of War has been so profitable that the Americans completely abandoned the real businesses or manufacturing goods and services for the good of the people of the world. How much profit can a mobile phone make? How much can a hamburger make compares to the selling of a war machine like a warship or a warplane? A dud fighter aircraft could sell at $200m a piece! How much is a hamburger or a mobile phone? How many million pieces would they have to sell to get the same return for a dud aircraft that is falling off the sky almost daily?

Sure, the Business of War is great business to the Americans that they farmed out all other manufacturing to the rest of the world. These businesses are for stupid people to sweat and toil to earn a few dollars. The Americans are smiling quietly with the millions and billions they are making, for a long time, without competition. And the sellers, the Americans, set the price. Sometimes the buyers would buy willingly, sometime by coercion, sometimes by deception and lies, sometimes by no choice, as the Americans would start a war in their neighbourhood and inciting them to fight among themselves, selling threats, imaginary threats and fear.

All is good business for the Americans, and wars become perpetual wars, forever wars. And when one war ends, another would be started. Caveat, as long as the wars are controllable by the Americans and the Americans set the rules, war would always be very profitable to the Americans.

Then comes Ukraine that changes everything. The Americans thought they would continue to be in control of such wars, and would be the eventual winner, calling the shots, the tempo and limits of the war. Unfortunately this Ukraine War is not going the way the Americans want it. The Americans are still making a lot of money in this war, and best, no American boys and girls is dying for this sicko war. 

The American are still selling a lot of weapons to the Ukrainians and also to the Europeans to support this American unending war, through fake donations and aids. Every cent the Americans paid would be repaid by the Ukrainians and the Europeans. So the Americans hope.

The Americans did not hope or foresee that this Ukraine War is now under the control of the Russians, and the Russians are determining the pace and how the war is to be fought and for how long, where and when. The Russians are not only turning this war into a war of attrition, but an endless war to be determined by financial muscles, by who is able to last longer financially and emerged as the victor. 

The Ukraine War is a very expensive war to the Americans, so is the war in Gaza. It is all about weapons, like drones, missiles and heavy artillery. The Americans love expensive wars to make more money. The floating pier at Gaza, crumbled after a few weeks of operation and the Americans are claiming that it cost more than a billion dollar for that piece of Lego crap. And Ukraine and Gaza are just two black holes for all the weapons produced. The economy of Ukraine cannot sustain this war when it is not functioning, so is the economy of Israel, both frozen and shrinking. Money, manpower and resources have to be diverted for the war effort. As long as the war continues, it would continue to drain the resources not only of Ukraine and Israel, but also the US and Europe.

How long can the Americans, the sole supplier of all the weapons, last, or to produce the weapons for the wars, compromising the other sectors of the American economy? American manpower and resources, including the bankrupt Fed Reserves would have to feed this war. A lot of money must go to purchase the material for war machine, to pay the workers of war machine. The opportunity cost to other sectors of the American economy would rise and cripple the bigger and real American economy.

On the other hand. Russia has a lot of resources available in oil and gas and agricultural produces. Russia is self sufficient and its economy barely affected. And Russia has the whole Chinese economy on its back, plus the BRICS countries and all the enemies of America supporting it. Europe is going bankrupt by the day.

The Business of War is turning against the Americans. Once they cannot print more dollars, or when the dollar is no longer wanted by the rest of the world, this great American Business based on war and destruction would collapse. The rest of the American and European economies would come down like a house of cards.

Live by the sword, die by the sword. Live by wars, die by wars. The American war economy cannot continue to run in this very expensive war of machine and weapons. The war is currently fighting on existing weapons, but are running out in a matter of time. Americans' enemies only need to keep throwing cheap drones and rockets or missiles at the Americans and it would be enough to bankrupt the American war industry and its real economy.

Japan no longer proud and sovereign state but subservient to the USA

 The Japanese is waiting for the USA and China to destroy each other. The USA is waiting for Japan and China to destroy each other. The USA knows the historical baggage carried by both China and Japan and is capitalizing on it.

Japanese are no longer proud like its Samurai days. Japan is as subservient and obedient as a dog under the control of its master, the USA. It is no longer a Sovereign State, but a vassal state of the USA, like South Korea and the Philippines. The USA tells them to sit in the corner and they have to obey. The USA tells them 'Let us go out for some exercise or drills in the South China Sea' and they have to obey.

That such a proud country like Japan during its heyday and falling from such heights is appalling. It is indeed shameful, and the younger Japanese have to suffer the shame of being trampled upon.

The arrogance of the Japanese then was legendary. They treated other Asians like slaves, slap them like slaves, tortured them and massacred them like flies. They acted like what the USA is behaving today. No consequence, answering to no one, unrestrained by global bodies like the UN and using threats and its military capabilities to silence any dissent.

The world wants all that to change and hopes for someone bold enough to step forward to make a change. It may be late in coming, but thoroughly welcomed.

Anonymous

China's overseas investment would only go to friendly states

 The Indians must understand why China is having a trade surplus with them. China is exporting more to India while India has nothing to offer other than raw materials which the Indians are trying to curtail ironically. It is the same with the USA vs China trade issues.

The USA lost its industrial base and have nothing to offer to the Chinese, while importing billions from China to stock up the shelves of Walmart and others, even high-end products made in China. The USA even have to pay China to refine products for them to be usable. And the USA is blaming China for running up trade surpluses year after year.

When China started recycling those surpluses into investments and loans to countries around the world jumping on the BRI wagon, it was not to the USA's liking. Those surpluses could have been invested by China by buying more treasuries and bonds which the USA would relish, and China is not doing it. So, they have to find a way to stop China by demonizing the BRI with the 'debt trap' narrative. It failed to work. Not when there are infrastructures to show in return for those loans.

China is in the process of de-coupling from the USA and perhaps from the EU as well. Further investments in USA treasuries and building factories in USA and Europe is not on China's agenda today. China is investing in the Global South countries instead, like Brazil, Mexico, some friendly European countries like Serbia and Hungary, Russia of course and countries in Africa and ASEAN as well.

The AIIB and the BRI hit the underbelly of the USA and the West and yet they are erecting hurdles to keep Chinese investments out. It will be a blessing in disguise for the Global South countries.

With regard to Chinese investments in India, I think the Chinese are taking the same stand as not investing in USA and Europe, due to geopolitical reasons. They are countries deemed not investible.

Anonymous

Mahathir's legacy would be judged by history

 We may dislike Mahathir for his quarrelsome attitude towards Singapore, but we should give him credit for his guts in going against the flow, by refusing IMF aid during the 2008 Financial Crisis. Indonesia on the other hand accepted aid from the IMF and although the consequences were seldom discussed, they were pointed out by not a few analysts. Sectors and banks faced forced closures and massive job losses were reported. Those are conditions for taking IMF loans.

Whether that IMF aid would have helped Malaysia or not is subject to argument. It certainly is not the root cause of what ails Malaysia today. Something more structural is the cause of what Malaysia is suffering today.

The New Economic Policy introduced by Mahathir was the straw that broke the camel's back. It was the policy that crippled Malaysia and Mahathir stands as the architect of the decline of Malaysia with his racially biased policies and corruption within the ruling echelon. Every politician in power had their hands in the till.

The clutch mentality of the common Malays under that NEP has now become so deeply ingrained inside their mindset, that no one can ever change that policy without committing political suicide. It has become the epitome of all the ills befalling the country today. The NEP destroyed the education system, it also destroyed the meritocracy system of allowing the best to do the job of running the country, it was a system that was to create the brain drain that ultimately only the mediocre are left behind to run the country, and in a sense, it destroyed a whole generation.

And Singapore was the country that largely benefitted from Malaysia's brain drain, to the chagrin of Mahathir. Can we blame him for his attitude towards us?

Can Anwar Ibrahim change all that decades long destruction by Mahathir. He has a big problem by having UMNO as his coalition partner, which makes his job of fighting corruption that much harder for fairness. His arms are tied in domestic affairs, especially draining the swamp in his backyard without maligning UMNO.

Anonymous