Ukraine War - Russian economy growing, European economies shrinking

 India is perceptively moving away from its coziness with the USA and UK. Modi is in Russia making an attempt to bring peace between Russia and Ukraine. The fall of Rishi Sunak in the UK is making Modi nervous about sleeping with the West.

Even hardcore anti-China Indian sites are more moderate in their criticism of China. But let us not read too much into that.

Modi knows India is running into big problems with jobs and an exploding population needing mass job creation. Perhaps India is planning another CECA with Russia, LOL.

Should the USA and the West begin expressing their love for Muslims and Sikhs in India, Modi is in trouble. He must look for alternatives knowing the USA and the West can start pushing India on issues to stop India from getting closer and helping Russia, since that is already being played out with China.

These are the USA and NATO's desperate moves, more so when seeing Russia still growing its economy despite two years into the war and is now being classified as a 'high income' country by the World Bank. With sanctions galore and funding a war, Russia still manages to chalk up growth better than the NATO countries, which is a slap on the face of the USA and the EU.

Thirty-two countries in NATO together still failed to bring Russia down with more than 16,000 sanctions. And NATO thinks it can do much by expanding into Asia to confront China?

Anonymous

Propaganda War - America's US$1.5b versus China inviting foreigners to see for themselves without paying a cent

 When China grows more than 5%, they will say it is all fake statistics. When foreign tourists visited China and made videos of all the progress which they saw with their own eyes, the pro-West shrills claimed those were all fake videos, just like Hollywood Movie Studios making fake sets for movies or moon walks, LOL. When social media made videos that showcased the right side of China, they said they were all paid by the CCP. Hmmm, to them I must also be paid by the CCP as well, LOL.

When China's industries are able to produce goods cheaper, they accused them of having state subsidies. When industries in USA are being given US$ billions in subsidies to attract and keep them afloat, they claim it is for 'inflation reduction' or attracting 'foreign investment' purposes and are not subsidies. They have different definitions for subsidies and different criteria for genocides under their 'Rules Based Order'.

China is not going to waste time countering such lies, but just giving free travel visas for foreigners to visit and see for themselves whether things in China are fakes. That was a very strategic move by letting foreigners counter the Western propaganda machine. Besides saving expenses to counter, this move also enabled China to gain much in terms of foreigners spending money inside China and helping the economy and countering Western lies.

China's move towards encouraging domestic demand is going to succeed, despite the West throwing cold water over the move, raising doubts and claiming domestic spending is in fact contracting. The USA and the West still do not understand Chinese mindsets and thinking and how Chinese patriotism works when it comes to the motherland.

Like all else that China does, do not bet against China. A good example is how China convinced the whole nation to accept a common language, that India is unable to do so. Same population, same language diversity within the country, and yet China pulled it off. What China has achieved in every endeavor is all there for all to see and cannot be denied.

When the USA tried to end Huawei's domination of its telecommunication domination and hoping to kill Huawei, it instead made Huawei even stronger. Huawei's profit growth for the first quarter of 2024 was a staggering 564% with sales growth at 37%.

This will be the trend of the USA's attempt to kill BYD, which will make BYD an even more formidable competitor for USA, EU, Japan and South Korea vehicle manufacturers. Chinese manufacturers have the resources to overcome the odds, with in house supply chains for every component needed to make their EVs. USA, EU, Japan and South Korea car manufacturers have to source components from all over the world to put together a fully assembled EV.

That is the real secret of why BYD can sell cars a quarter of the price of an identical EV from other manufacturers outside China. And the quality is not lacking. Experts in the West have bought a BYD EV and tore it apart reporting that BYD EVs are high quality products and yet at low prices.

Anonymous

Zelensky should ask for an aircraft carrier instead of a submarine

 Zelensky should also ask for an aircraft carrier, which will also need support ships to control the Black Sea. The UK could answer the call, since it is reportedly thinking of selling one of its two bathtubs that are needing costly repairs and giving operational problems. The Prince of Wales would be a good choice and a game changer for Ukraine. This could be the last game changer from the bottom of the USA, NATO and UK barrels.

In fact, the UK could sell the other problematic one too to Marcos Jr if he asked for it. The Queen Elizabeth would be fine, to be marooned on a sandbank around one of the disputed South China Sea Islands to scare the Chinese navy away.

The Philippines can Forget about getting nuclear submarines from the USA or UK. They are reserved only for White countries like Australia. Zelensky may stand a chance as a White and a Jew, but Russia will destroy it the moment is gets into the Black Sea vis the Straits of Istanbul revealing its position, unless Turkey is keeping that from the Russians.

Again, let us not forget the saying - Be careful of what you wish for. 

Anonymous

American exceptionalism - Do not do what I do

 Russia is reported to be providing or have provided the Houthis with even more lethal weapons. What the USA and NATO can do in Ukraine, Russia can do the same in the Middle East, South America and the Carribean Islands. The sword cuts both ways. All is fair in love and war, right?

South Korea provided weapons to Ukraine to fight the Russians and simultaneously the USA and South Korea are complaining about Russia providing North Korea with more arms. South Korea wants to play with fire, Russia will provide them with fuel to burn themselves.

In Iran, the Iranian Military is warning its recently elected reformist pro-Western Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian, against succumbing to Western influence and control. Being not a cleric, this makes him not eligible to use the honorific title of 'Ayatollah' in the Iranian system.

What is reported in the MSM of the West does not tally with the reports on social media about conditions prevailing in Iran, similar with what is happening with China. There are two obvious points of view, the propaganda and the real.

Sure, there are also lots of differences between what people see in the USA and what the USA Government is trying to suppress. Homelessness, drug infestation, decrepit infrastructures are just things one sees on the surface. Beneath that are the more important hidden issues of deep political polarization, racial discrimination and crime rates spiraling through the roof. Examples are open looting of supermarkets forcing their total closures en masse due to inability to continue to operate with all the thefts and the Government doing nothing about it.

Anonymous

亚 Q China forgets Renai Jiao 人爱礁 is Chinese territory

 After more than 20 years of illegal occupation of the Renai Jiao, Second Thomas Reef, China has forgotten that this island belongs to China. As such, China has forgotten its right as the owner of the island and has the authority to remove or arrest anyone that trespasses the island without the permission of China.

If a country does not know its right of ownership, and allowed foreigners to occupying its land, and afraid to take back the land, with the passage of time, the illegal occupier would become the de facto owner of the land, like the land in the Sino Indian border, and the Renai Jiao.

Today, China does not know how to take ownership of the island, does not know how to remove the piece of shipwreck on the island. Now it is behaving like Ah Q, trying to reason with the illegal occupier of the island. The latest is a list of findings that the shipwreck and the illegal occupants are contaminating the waters and harming the environment around the island. Is this the best Ah Q can come up with? Must Ah Q come up with excuses to plead with the illegal occupants to move the shipwreck? Would Ah Q China be thinking of kneeling in front of the Pinoys to beg them to move the shipwreck?

When is China going to remember that the Renai Jiao belongs to China and China has all the rights to arrest and evict illegal occupiers? Why is there a need to make silly excuses, work so hard to compile documents, to conduct research, to prove that the Pinoys are harming the environment as an excuse to ask the Pinoys to move the rusting and rotting wreck? Just get rid of the shipwreck. Period.

By not doing so, is China telling the whole world that the Renai Jiao does not belong to China and thus it has no right to evict or get rid of the intruders? So it has to appeal to the world that the Pinoys are harming the environment, and asking the world to tell the Pinoys to remove the wreck? And Ah Q China thinks this is very clever.

When is China going to wake up and stop behaving like 亚 Q？China should just tell the Pinoys to remove it immediately or China would remove the wreck from its island. There is no need to reason with an illegal occupier. a trespasser.

China's 亚 Q behaviour only strengthens the Pinoy's claim for the island. From the position that the island belong to China, it is now a disputed island. China has no authority to remove the wreck. This is so silly.

PS. Would anyone think he should reason to an illegal person entering this house and refuses to move out?

贼已经在家园还不敢动手. 还跟流氓谈请说爱。