Africa and Arab/Muslim states growing world stature through BRICS

 No one in the western world listen to the Africans or the Arabs and Muslims. Africa is still in many ways colonised and dysfunctional states controlled by the Americans and their ex colonial powers. Whatever China or Russia are trying to do to lift the Africans up from poverty, to develop their infrastructure, to strengthen their military and control of their own destiny, some African leaders are still singing the American chorus, that the Chinese and Russians are like the Americans and their colonial masters, out to exploit and colonise them. This is the narrative the Americans and the West have implanted into the heads of Africans, until they cannot tell the difference between the colonial masters and plunderers of their countries, from what China and Russia are doing for them. They could not see that China and Russia did not bring a gun to point at their heads. China and Russia treat every African state as equal and work with them on mutually negotiated and agreed upon projects.

There is no free lunch, nothing is for free. Only under colonialism that everything for the colonial masters were free to take, to plunder and to exploit, even to take lives. China and Russia came for trade and to assist if invited by the African states, not with gunboats and guns to rob and steal. Many African states have benefited from the assistance of China and Russia and are making progress to rebuild their countries to become modern industrialised state in the making. Still, they are taken for granted by the Americans and the west as shithole states, not to be taken seriously, not to be heard or noticed.

In many ways the Arab and Muslim states are not faring any better. Some have been invaded and the countries and economies in ruins, people killed or wounded, driven into becoming refugees, but no compensation from the invaders. And the invaders are still in their countries, occupying their land and conquerors, refusing to live, the new colonial masters, under the pretext of fighting terrorists, of which were created by the invaders. They demonised Arab and Muslim freedom fighters as terrorists when the white men are the real terrorists, terrorising the Arab and Muslim countries.

Many Arab and Muslim states are de facto colonies of the Americans, with American military bases in their land, to control them and to conduct regime change if they did not behave.  In other words, the African and Arab and Muslim states are anything but independent states under the control of the Americans and the West. They exist without existing, independent but not independence. They talk, shout and scream, but no one is listening or taking them seriously.

In BRICS, the African and Arab and Muslim states could find a place in the new organisation, to be noticed, to be recognised, to be heard, and to be taken seriously. They have a voice and a place in BRICS, not to be taken for granted, like furnitures. BRICS would give the African and Arab and Muslim states the recognition they deserved as independent nation states, to share their concerns and to fight for their own national interests on a platform that every nation state, big or small, is equal in the organisation. BRICS is their own private club. They need not wait outside the door of G7 or G20, waiting to be invited as a guest but with no speaking rights or any rights at all.

BRICS will elevate the stature and importance of every African and Arab and Muslim state to be the equals in the family of nation states. They would not be seen as shitholes and dysfunctional states to be forgotten on the side line of the community of nation states. The voices of African and Arab and Muslim states would be heard in BRICS, loud and clear.

American companies moving out to Mexico. Muppet Trump furious

 John Deere, an agricultural machinery manufacturer is moving the bulk of its manufacturing to Mexico, after more than a century and a half, 187 years to be exact, of production in the USA. Lack of demand and escalating cost were the reasons for the move. This indicates that the USA is no longer the food basket of the world and other countries like Brazil and Russia are muscling in on its turf.

As more of such USA companies moves out to Mexico to take advantage of cheaper wages and better demand, with Mexico becoming the upcoming destination for investors, moving to China is no longer necessary. In fact, Chinese companies have invested substantially in Mexico instead over the years. And Mexicans do not have to suffer trying to enter the USA as more jobs are created in the process, resulting in more misery for USA farmers having to pay higher wages to local helpers. But as time passes, and as Mexico's competition against the USA hots up, USA is going to accuse Mexico of stealing USA jobs and paying slave wages. This is a time-tested temp-plate that the USA used against China and Mexico will not be spared.

For a long-established icon moving out of the USA, the move runs counter to the in- shoring agenda of the USA and indicates the folly of the USA trying to restart manufacturing amidst escalating costs and diminishing demands within the USA.

Trump is again rehearsing his rhetoric of threatening to slap tariffs of 200% on John Deere's machinery if he is elected, which amounts to slapping his own face by targeting his own USA company. Xi must be laughing behind his desk and Putin grinning from ear to ear. This is sending a signal to those unable to survive in the USA today from moving out and forcing them to close shop for good. But either way, it means lots of jobs will disappear for good. Self-foot-shooting is becoming the norm for the USA Muppets.

Anonymous

Aussie dingo thinking too highly of itself

 That Dingo Dog down South is trying to play the appointed policeman of the USA in East Asia. It is asking China for an explanation over China's successful test firing of an ICBM that is capable of reaching the USA. China should just tell the dingo to stop barking at the wrong tree and not just comply with the dictates of the USA.

An explanation is easy to comply. Just tell the dingo dog that China moved out the missile to the launch pad and press a button to fire it. What is there to explain? It is just asking the obvious to create mischief and provocation to elicit a response. What is wrong with China testing a ICBM? The Anglo-Saxon White countries have been testing nuclear weapons in the Pacific Islands for decades. Why didn't Australia ask for an explanation over testing on such sites like Marshall Island and Bikini Atoll, all close to its own shores?

On the other hand, China should have asked Australia to explain why it needed to form AUKUS in order to have nuclear capable submarines. According to Paul Keating, ex Australian PM, who asked the question 'who is a threat to Australia'? It was all due to fabricated threat against Australia to enable the USA and UK to rip Australia off with the purchase of nuclear submarines that cost Australia a bomb. 

PS. China should simply ignore this colonial outpost. It is just another Mickey Mouse thinking too highly of itself. Hope China would not respond. China must set the agenda and narrative, not the Mickey Mouse of the Americans. 

Anonymous

USA is economic terrorism, oppression, threats and sanctions put together

 I believe it is more than oppression, threats, sanctions and bullying. It is USA economic terrorism, carried out through the use of oppression, threats and sanctions put together. If the world still thinks the USA's system is the best for the world, they are mistaken. The system was set up mainly to control the world through the US$ hegemony, backed up by the USA's massive spending on its military in order carry this out.

Thirty years ago, the USA faced no peer competition in terms of military power and economic might. With the rise of China, everything changes. The spending by China on military expansion relative to its size had been demonized often and hyped up to raise suspicion because of the challenge it posed to the USA.

Russia may not be an economic power but is still a strong military competitor and together with China, the USA is going all out to put down the threat posed by both countries. The USA's preoccupation to remain the sole superpower is an agenda that is cast in stone, even roping in its Anglo-Saxon allies to help in its preservation.

The formation of BRICS was the straw that broke the camel's back, aside from the rise of China's manufacturing juggernaut. The USA lost the competition on the economic front even with all the trade wars and sanctions ongoing. The USA is no longer the supreme military superpower that it once was despite its spending on the military that is more than the total combined spending of the next ten countries. 

Anonymous

USA produces nothing for the world, only weapons of destruction

 The USA economy strives on wars. The USA produces nothing for the world or that the world wants and needed, only weapons of destruction and toxic US$ that it now uses as a weapon as well.

The USA had the intention to outsource production of consumer products together with pollution to other countries, especially China to take advantage of the cheap labor, and only needs to print toilet papers to enjoy such consumer products cheaply and easily. But it backfired, because the jobs either went with the off shoring or just disappeared for good. In time the USA blamed China for stealing its jobs and using slave labor to make such products.

Weapon production was the monopoly of the USA after WW2. Not today. Russia and China and a host of other countries are encroaching on the USA weapons production turf, even North Korea and Iran are weapon producers of repute. That eats into the USA war economy, and with a shrinking pie to be shared, the USA is now thinking of insourcing the very consumer-based industries that it destroyed or got rid of earlier. The infrastructures are not there anymore and need to be rebuilt. The raw materials are now under control by others and subject to their dictates. The skilled labor is not there in numbers to support the manufacturing with shoring. The education system has to be relooked in order to produce engineers and STEM graduates instead of just lawyers, doctors and academics. It will take time.

Anonymous