The Philippines deserve to be destroyed by the 2 Marcos. They asked for it

 The older generation will probably remember that the Philippines was the economic giant among the ASEAN countries in the 1960s, even overwhelming the likes of Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam.

Today, the Philippines is a pale shadow of its former glory, overtaken by Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and just or about on par with Vietnam and Malaysia. Years of economic mismanagement and corruption has taken its toll on the second biggest country in ASEAN in terms of population.

Like India, population growth in the Philippines is not translating into what they hyped up as 'demographic dividends' to be reaped. To do that job creation must grow in tandem, which both countries are short of. In fact, the Philippines is losing out in attracting and even being hollowed out with big investments by foreign capital leaving the country, and this is a longer-term problem with an expanding population.

The fact that the Marcos family's past unsavory history still enabled Marcos Jr to return and become the President tells us that Filipinos are still asleep under a rock and not waking up. Corazon Aquino's rise under a People's Revolt have turned into wasted effort and dust and allowing the Marcos family's return is causing Benigno Aquino, her husband, to turn in his grave.

What Marcos Jr is doing is turning back the clock in the Philippines and destroying the country in the footprint of his father, instead of seeking repentance for the misdeeds of father during his years of pillaging the country and bringing sufferings to the people.

Anonymous

Breaking News! - NATO declares war on China

 In the meeting in Washington with NATO leaders, the white savages led by the Americans, have announced that China is a party to the war in Ukraine, an enabler to Russia. They alleged that without China, Russia would have been defeated. China is now an enemy to NATO and the Americans. This is worst than just calling China a threat. This is also the last hope for senile Biden to continue as the President of the USA. Actually, very likely, it was decided by Blinken and Sullivan. Biden would not have thought of it.

To the white savages, 'you are with me or against me'. No country is safe. No country can stay neutral or trade with Russia. India would now come under great pressure to stop trading with Russia or be labelled like China. BRICS countries would not be spared either.

American colonies, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand have been summoned to Washington to take orders to prepare for war against China.

America and NATO have just declared World War 3. China must not be deluded that it can live in peace by not being involved. So would North Korea, Iran and all the countries in the Global South. The white savages are going to fight the rest of the world, to dominate and control the world by defeating Russia and China.

All NATO states are ramping up their war industries!

Ukraine War - No one can stop this war, only the American Devil can

SEOUL: “Russia is so dependent on China right now that one phone call from President Xi Jinping would solve this crisis,” stated Finnish President Alexander Stubb when discussing the Ukraine war last week.

"If he (Xi) were to say ‘time to start negotiating peace’, Russia would be forced to do that," Stubb said in an interview with Bloomberg. "They would have no other choice."

The statement assumes two things here. First, China can push Russia to abandon its invasion of Ukraine. Second, it may want to do so. Both assumptions are wrong. Dylan Motin CNA

Actually the third assumption by the author is also wrong. Dylan Motin thinks that if it is in China's interest to stop the war, China would be able to stop it. Every western journalists, analysts are saying about the same thing, some even alleged that China is responsible for this war but refusing to look at the real Devil that started this war and wanted this war to go on forever.

The Ukraine War is not a Russian Ukrainian War. It is an American War against Russia. Ukraine is just a proxy and Zelensky is just a Mickey Mouse. No one can talk about ending this war without the consent and approval of the Americans. All the peace initiatives are foolish and a waste of time as the real Devil, the Americans, are calling the shot. American spokesman, John Kirby,  just rubbished Orban's trip to Beijing on negotiating a peace deal. He was as good as telling Orban and the world, don't be foolish, America calls the shot. If the Americans did not give the consent to end the war, no one can end the war. The fictitious call for China to restrain Russia to end the war was just to demonise China, pass the buck to China, that China is responsible for the Ukraine War.

Sure the western media would play along, America is not involved in the war. America is for peace and wants to end the war. It is Russia or China that wants this war. Stop pulling wool over the eyes of the world. Everyone knows the real Devil behind this war, the Americans, but not saying it.

The latest development, NATO states are sending F16s to Ukraine. This is a major escalation to the war. The Americans have been losing wars after wars and cannot afford to lose this war to Russia. The NATO states have just been ordered by the Americans to ramp up their war industries, to produce more weapons for this war. This is WW3 in the making.

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