India scheming to dupe China again...and China looks like another willing sucker

 After cheating and robbing China for so many years, and openly treating China as an enemy like the Americans, India is planning to repeat the whole process once again. China's investment has fallen quite badly that it is now the 22nd ranked foreign investors in India. In fact, China's FDI in India is down to a trickle with India's unfriendly policies against China. Not only that the Indians were fabricating frivolous charges on tax evasion by Chinese companies and fining them in the hundreds of millions of US$, India also placed a lot of obstacles on Chinese technical staff applying for visas to work in India, refusing to approve Chinese projects in India. India was as good as erecting a high wall to block off China and at the same time robbing from the Chinese companies and forcing them to sell to Indian companies for a song.

On the other hand, China is India's number one exporter and having a trade surplus of more than a hundred billion US$ last year. China's trade surplus is derived from direct export to India instead of Make In India by Chinese companies. India is now feeling the pinch as no Chinese companies is going to be stupid enough to want to put money in India any more. Thousands of Chinese companies have closed down operations in India. Even Foxconn has made a rapid retreat from India after finding how treacherous it is to operate in India, other than the poor quality of factory workers.

India is now having second thought of wanting to invite Chinese companies to return to India, to sink their money in India so that India can have another round of cheating and robbing them when the time is ripe.

Would the Chinese be stupid enough to be duped again and stupidly pour in good money into India? The present formula of selling to India from China is about the best arrangement. No risk of being cheated, be charged by dubious crimes and losing all their investments in India, and even losing their pants. And not to mention being seen by the world as a stupid people that can never learn from their past mistakes and willingly offered their hands to be bitten by the snake, again and again.

How many stupid Chinese would be throwing their hard earned money into India again? One thing is very sure, what is put in India belongs to India. Never hope to take them back. Stop the pretense, money in India's pocket is as good as money down the drain.

Argentina and Italy - are they worthy of assistance by China?

 Italy and Argentina were pushed into a corner and now trying to reset their relations with China. That is the main reason for their about turn, real of false intent is left to be seen.

Now, China must be very cautious regarding these two snakes. Real or imaginary in their repentance moves, China cannot just forget about their acts of betrayal in the past and welcome them with open arms. That would be a big mistake, knowing that they could do another betrayal under further pressure by the USA.

What is most important is not investing too much in these two countries or having to face problems with seizure later on. Lessons must be learnt, not forgotten. Moreover, China is dumping assets in the EU already and cannot be reversing its stand just because of Italy. And what the USA is doing with pressure exerted on Mexico can very well be applied to Argentina as well.

There are safer avenues for investments by Chinese companies even in Europe, such as Hungary and Serbia. There is also a big enough world for China to invest in outside of the USA and EU. There are South American countries beckoning. There are African countries waiting to welcome more Chinese investments. There are many ASEAN countries giving China a big plus to replace the USA as the big power they want to welcome. The three exceptions of this new geopolitical shift are Singapore, Philippines and Vietnam.

Any surprise? Vietnam is the surprise, after all the help given by China during the Vietnam war. South Vietnamese population are anti-China to the core that is for sure. China was the reason for their defeat against the North during the Vietnam War. They still love the GIs giving them the infamous Vietnam Rose and fathering all the illegitimate children. They conveniently forgot the pain caused by the USA resulting from the use of Agent Orange and Napalm Bombs that destroyed their agricultural land and causing deformities in children born afterwards, the millions of mines the USA dropped and the decapacitation caused by them and the sufferings of the people. 

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PS. Argentina followed the rogue American terrorists to recognise opposition leader in Venezuela as the elected President instead of the majority elected President Maduro. How atrocious can this be?

2025 - What are the Americans going to infect or attack the world with?

 2025 is coming, and another pandemic, slated to erupt from Brazil, according to clairvoyant Bill Gates. How come he could not forecast the latest digital outage caused by CrowdStrike updating its system using Windows platform is funny indeed.

That digital outage might also be a 'misstep', or a trial run engineered to see how much damage can be caused particularly to Russia and China, LOL. It was a great disappointment that Russia suffered no ill effects, while China also got off lightly, with only those foreign entities using the Windows operating platform getting hit. The perpetrators must be wondering how they are going to target Russia and China and will have to work furiously to overcome the problem.

For all we know, Russia and China may already have beaten the USA in their cyberwarfare mission, another sector that is exposing the USA's friability, though they still maintain in their superiority in that sector. In the war in Ukraine, the Russians were reported to have jammed the GPS signals of their drones and missiles, rendering them ineffective. And if the Ukrainians were using DJI drones as reported, it will be a walk in the park for the Russians to jam them as well, having Chinese expertise to help them.

Now the USA is realizing that leaving tons of military equipment for the Taliban in Afghanistan is coming back to haunt them. All the secrets built into those weapons and operation strategies have been exposed. Likewise, all the weapons that the USA and the West sent into Ukraine and captured by the Russians are revealing their secrets which the Russians are capitalizing on in building countering measures. Russia is waiting to capture a F35. That will be a game changer indeed.

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Israel provoking Iran to strike back to attack Iran... Who is escalating the war?

 The assassination of a top Hamas leader on Iranian soil is going to escalate the conflict in the Middle East for sure. Iran will retaliate. Iran's top leader already gave the go ahead for that.

Killing a top Hamas leader in Iran is provocation of the highest order. The retaliation by Iran will undoubtedly be massive and Israel is in deep trouble. That retaliation by Iran recently over the assassination of its military leaders in Syria will be just a slap on the wrist by comparison. This retaliation is going to be really detrimental for Israel. Can the Israeli population stomach the pains of an all-out war and missiles raining all across the country?

The USA is denying its involvement in the assassination. The Iranians are not going to buy that. Iran's recent statement that it is reviewing its non-nuclear weapons stand because of religious constraints is making the USA and Israel nervous and paranoid. Analyst even suggest that Iran can have the nuke within weeks, which is even more telling and a good reason for the USA and Israel to light the fuse of war breaking out between Iran and Israel. Starting a war with Iran is the only way to put a stop to Irans's new nuclear ambition, if they can succeed. Is it a bet worth taking?

What is going to happen? Iran will retaliate and that is for sure. Hezbollah will step up its bombardment of the Golan Heights. The Houthis will not just be targeting Eilat with missiles. And in Gaza we can expect heavy fighting to resume with more civilian casualties, now standing at 40,000.

And one unknown factor is whether Russia will step in now and whether Iran already have nukes now or will be given help by Russia. 

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American lies against Huawei and coercing cronies to use Nokia and Ericsson's substandard 4.5G as 5G

 Attempts to kill Huawei failed. It was even a global effort with cronies all taking part in trying to get rid of Huawei. They were all fooled and taken to the cleaners, as it has now been revealed that the USA's own military is still relying on Huawei for equipment to function. The stupid Europeans and cronies are left carrying the baby of migrating their systems to fit Nokia or Ericson's 5G network. Who are the fall guys?

Now Huawei is doing even better than before, going into manufacturing sectors that it did not even consider in the past, like EVs. Huawei just would have concentrated on expanding its telecommunication equipment and smartphones sector before those sanctions. But today Huawei is going big into competing domestically and globally with smartphone makers like Apple, not just content to just dominating in the mainstream telecommunication equipment sector. Huawei is gaining on all fronts and the advice is never bet against Huawei vis a vis the Chinese.

The same is being repeated in every other sector, like shipbuilding for example. China's shipbuilding industry was practically and totally unknown, when the Japanese and South Koreans were the kingpins, after they took over from the USA. Did the USA accuse them of stealing USA jobs by the way? And the USA cannot now claim that China stole their shipbuilding jobs, which they would have done, right?

The USA and the West better live with the rise of China, rather than making fruitless efforts to contain China by going back to basics from scratch, like setting up supply chains, factories, looking for raw materials and trying to lure companies back to the USA. The Chinese already had a monopoly on most essential raw materials and the processing logistics as well. It is too little too late.

There was an analogy by Kevin Walmsley, I think, that the way things are done by the West is attempting to corner the market by getting the customers first and then trying to find the raw materials to set up the supply chains to get the stuff out. The Chinese did it the other way, which is finding the raw materials and setting up the supply chains and then they believe the customers and the market will come to them.

China's over-capacity can put the 'going back to basic attempt' by the USA out of business in no time. Knowing this, who is going to invest in such basic infrastructures that could turn into white elephants. Cheap Alliances will never see the light of day. TSMC and Samsung better say goodbye to their billions invested in their semiconductor factories in Arizona. 

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