Indian predatory strategy - The Chinese are learning. Has Singapore learn anything?

 BYD now intends to build a billion-dollar factory in Pakistan instead. Never say that Chinese companies are stupid and still wants to invest in India. Never try to tarnish all investors with the same tainted brush.

The Indian predatory strategy works only for a limited time. Once investors know that they are going in and getting clobbered, they will wise up. Those that are already there, they have little choice but to make the best of a bad situation until conditions become intolerable before calling it quits.

Having said that, some Western companies like Apple, thinking it will get preferential treatment, needed to test the waters first. And the result was not ideal, and Apple had to move some production back to China.

Modi has now been summoned to Washington to submit his report to the emperor about the happenings in BRICS. He must go to Washington once in a while to update the emperor, and this time is about what to expect in the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia. Of course, other reasons will be fabricated to cover the mission.

Wonder if other BRICS members trust the Indians and avoid giving too much sensitive information about BRICS to be leaked. BRICS must beware of the Trojan Turkey intending to join the bloc. It must follow the saying - Once bitten twice shy.

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The USA is now terrified of de-dollarization

 The USA is now, under the surface, terrified of de-dollarization. That is why Trump is admitting that the inevitable is going to happen, whether he likes it or not by threatening countries joining in the de-dollarization wagon.

Actually, the USA had been playing down de-dollarization threat, snug in the believe that it would not succeed with the US$ and SWIFT entrenched in the global financial system, but the reality is not in its favor. That is why it is nervous and paranoid. Biden would not want and avoided talking about the effect of de-dollarization, preferring to kick the can further down the road for the next leader to handle. Trump will have to handle it if he wins in November, which is why he is raising the issue and using threats to cow countries joining the de-dollarization move.

And to put it bluntly, the USA is quietly watching to see if the BRICS global currency and settlement system is going to work. The reality is that Russia, China and the rest of BRICS are going all out to make it work, and this is sending the USA into a furious attempt to counter it by using threats. It will not work.

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US playbook of outsourcing to China backfired

 Follow the playbook is what they are told to do. Just like de-industrializing and outsourcing production to China thirty years ago and all they have to do was just print toilet papers to enjoy the finished products. What a grand idea then and a fairy tale that no other country ever thought of! But then, as with everything else, it backfired.

Today, the USA is frantically trying to' 'insource' production by going through the basics of setting up factories and attracting foreign manufacturers to help. Alas, it is too little too late. China controls most of the raw materials, the refining logistics, the cheap energy from Russia, the skilled workers, and has the competitive edge in every sector. Sure, the USA can become a hub for manufacturing, but who do they hope to sell to? They cannot produce products that are competitive enough to corner the Global South market. And China itself is a big market, but definitely beyond the USA to muscle in.

That means end of cheap products for USA citizens. The USA thinks that erecting tariffs will help, but it is making the situation even more dire. China will retaliate and if a push comes to a shove, China will ban essential raw materials required for the USA to industrialize. What then will the USA use to produce products without the raw materials. It is not as simple as printing toilet papers, where only ink and paper are required and just running the printing machines overtime.

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George Galloway - Get rid of all your western origin electronic devices...including iPhones

 The world has just changed for the worse. The war in the Middle East is going to escalate to a regional war. The Americans, Brits and Nato would all be drawn into the war. And so would all the Arab and Muslim states.

Israel has just launched a mass terrorist war against Lebanon, and very likely against all the Arab and Muslim states in the region. All western origin devices, especially Apple iPhones, can be compromised and will be compromised. For the safety of everyone, get rid of all iPhones, all western made electronic devices at once. All the Arab and Muslim countries must be in a hurry to get rid of all such devices.  

Every piece is like carrying a time bomb!

Galloway said, it is so stupid for anyone to be carrying a western origin electronic device when they have declared that you are their enemy. iPhone is not just monitoring and spying on you. It can also explode in your face. and kill you. Apple is going to be finished in China. China would be forced to issue a complete ban on Apple iPhones and related electronic devices to protect the lives of its citizens. Apple can close down all its factories in China. This is not just a security threat but an existential threat beyond imagination. No Chinese leader would be caught with their pants down for not taking action on this threat.

Similarly, all the Arab and Muslim leaders are cornered to make the same decision to protect their people and themselves. American and western electronic devices are finished in the Middle East. No one would be stupid enough to want to risk their lives or risk having the device blowing up in their faces or in their pockets.

Israel has done it. It is now the Americans and the West on the side of Israel against the Arabs and Muslims and the rest of the world. 

Incidentally, the warmongering American terrorists have confirmed their mid range nuclear missiles would stay in the Philippines. So, what is China going to do?  Protest and protest and protest, or send their missiles to the Caribbeans or Latin America? The nuclear missiles in the Philippines is an existential threat to China. This is no joke. This is damn serious and cannot be ignored unlike the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.

Mearsheimer and Sachs - American security is your insecurity

 

 

This is a good 54 minute conversation between two of the top American scholars on American policies towards China and world hegemony. John Mearsheimer's position of American security is to be the most power country in the world, with no one allowed to come near to be an equal. It is like occupying every square in a chess board, not allowing the opponent to have any square if possible. This arises from the savage instinct that if they did not kill and control others, others would do the same to them. The uncivilised white savages refused to be civilised and think others are uncivilised like them.

Jeffrey's Sachs' position is that this would lead to inevitable nuclear war. Mearsheimer agreed but being a realist, a savage in suit, this is what he stood for, absolute dominance and security. Sachs' position is that it should not be a zero sum game and America must allow other powers space like it wanted space for itself to have peace on earth. No one is a threat to the Americans, China is not a threat to the Americans.

Nuclear War is inevitable if the Americans were to push for absolute security by being the unchallenged hegemon as recommended by Mearsheimer, like what the Israelis are doing in the Middle East. The security of the Israelis is to wipe out the Palestinians and later all the Arabs in the region. The savage Americans applied this belief on the native Americans and wiped them out for their security in owning the American continent unchallenged.

The Americans are pushing ahead like Mearsheimer wanted them to, as the world's number dictator or terrorist state, to quash all potential challengers. The world is only safe for the Americans under the American Empire. Watch out Russia, China and Iran. The American terrorists are coming.

Oh, watch out for the little idiot in the clip, acting like he was a priest and everyone was evil except the Americans. He did not know the evil crimes the Americans committed and are committing around the world. And he craved for attention, demanding to be given time to speak when he was just a callefare, irrelevant. Sachs was quite pissed off with his ignorant and naive comments about China collapsing under Xi. 

In the end they all ignored him.