Americans have the Saudis by the balls, too many assets in the hands of the Americans

 The USA would very much like to create animosity between Iran and Saudi Arabia. There are obvious reasons.

Any animosity between Iran and Saudi Arabia will allow the USA to control the Saudis with more weapons support to fight the Houthis, which is supported by Iran. Any co-operation between Iran and Saudi Arabia will stop the Houthis fighting the Saudis, which is bad for weapon sales to the Kingdom.

By the way, the USA professes to be against supporting Dictatorships, but Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship true and true. Yet the USA deals with Saudi Arabia like any other democracy. Hypocrisy?

Any differences existing between Iran and Saudi Arabia will also mean these two Middle East powers have different approaches to Israel, which will otherwise largely be left alone with the Iranian and Israelis immersed in their geopolitical differences. As the saying goes, any enemy of my enemy is my friend.

I do not expect the Saudis to completely change its loyalty towards the USA and migrate towards BRICS. The chips are too high. As I said before, the USA has an 'iron clad' hold on the Kingdom, with the Saudi Royals having substantial assets in the USA and Europe. That hold is the same as what Mickey Marcos is dealing with. You are either with the US or against the US. For MBS, the stakes are even higher.

Anonymous

Americans spend first pay later mentality coming back to haunt them...when they cannot afford to pay back

 There is no way that the USA can ever repay its debts. And with that realization, are countries going to continue buying USA debts? The USA may think so, but China and Japan are wising up. Only the Anglo-Saxons, like the UK, are plunging in to help.

The UK has to do it, like it or not. The USA is just an extension of the former British Empire trying to control the whole world. The failure of the USA will be the failure of the Brit's attempt to upkeep the Anglo-Saxon hegemony, the supremacy of the Whites over the non-Whites.

As the USA finds difficulty in selling its unpayable debts, this is just like the 'Sword of Damocles' hanging over the heads of those who bought USA debts knowing that a USA default is going to make those countries lose their underpants. The only way to attract investors is by raising interest rates, which runs counter to what it is doing to revive the economy, which is clearly in ICU.

Not only is a default by the USA catastrophic for countries holding it debts, but those debts held by USA entities like banks, hedge funds, retirement funds and citizens will suffer equally catastrophic outcome, and they will also lose their underpants as well. They will be wiped out and flattened.

The USA cannot keep increasing its debts as the element of interest is already unsustainable. About US$1 trillion in interest payments is already a difficult burden to bear. Accumulating more debts, which it is trying to do, will add more interest payments to its burden.

Japan is trying to raise interest rates too but has also stumbled on to the same problem of servicing its huge debt, the biggest of any country in the world. Therefore, Japan is caught in a death spiral that it created by keeping rock bottom interest rates for decades which is now coming back to haunt it. How Japan is going to handle its economy with a new Government is unsure. Untying the Gordian Knot is not that simple as just changing the Government.

Anonymous

The Fate and Destiny of China and the Chinese people should always be in Chinese hands. PART TWO

In the formative years of the Chinese Communist Party the Chinese trusted the Russian Comintern too much and that nearly caused China dearly.

From 1830s to 1910 China was still under the rule of the decadent Ching Dynasty especially when absolute government authority was usurped by the dotard  Empress Dowager Tzu- Hsi. Many reformers saw the danger for China unless the state and its governance was totally reformed. One of the notable reformers was Kang Yu-wei. But his proposals for reforms which might have saved China were destroyed by Empress Dowager Tzu-Hsi and her inner court of ministers who were mainly Manchus. Kang Yu-Wei and his fellow reformers were all of Han ethnic race. So it was the non-Chinese Manchus who destroyed the prospect of saving China from Western aggression and from going down the drain into destruction.

In 1911 the Ching Dynasty was overthrown and the Republic of China was established by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen under his nationlist Kuomintang Party. Under his leadership he had allowed both the nationalists and the Chinese communists to be members of his KMT party. When Dr.Sun suddenly died of heart attack in 1925 the leadership of the KMT was usurped by his army general Chiang Kai-Shek, a useless brainless nut who was not only selfish with self interests but also power crazy and under the strong influence of the United States which was very anti Chinese communists. At the influence and behest of the United States Chiang persecuted the Chinese communists and adopted a systematic plan to kill all members of the Chinese Communist Party. Chiang had betrayed Dr.Sun who had all the time encouraged the cooperation between the CCP and the KMT for the unity of China and the Chinese people. In listening and obeying American instructions to persecute the Chinese communist members he had not only betrayed Dr. Sun but also the whole Chinese people and nation.

In the earlier years between 1919 and 1946  when China was struggling to form a a strong united China she was unfortunately subjected to bad sinister foreign influence both by so-called Democratic United States and also by so-called Communist Russia.

It must be noted that both US and the West and Soviet Russia under Joseph Stalin had no desire to see a strong united China. They seemed to have a silent agreement to keep China permanently divided and if possible to make China break up into several separate states under their imperial control.

In the meanwhile the KMT under Chiang's control seemed to listen and obey US instructions which were undesirabe and disastrous to China's well being.

Amidst all the choas and turmoils caused in China by Western and Japanese aggressions there arose some Chinese patriots who came forward to try and help China from total destruction by international hoodlums of Western powers and Russia as well as Japan. In around 1919 to 1920 many intellectuals in Peking University saw the selfish selfserving West refusal to help China with their fake democracy. Notably among these intellectuals were Professor Lee Da Zhoa a senior lecturer in literature and political studies and Professor Chen Du Hsiu a senior lecturer in physical sciences and technology.  Both of them delved into the phylosophy of communism hoping it might be the last help China needed to adopt to save the country from falling over. They had the quiet tacit support of Professor Chai Yan Pei the chancellor of Peking University. Working under Professor Lee Da Zhao was Mao Tse-Tung who later was to head the Chinese Communist Party as its secretary general and chairman. Other well known intellectuals who espoused the cause of the Chinese communists were Chou En Lai, Chu De, Chen Yi, Peng De Huai, Deng Xiao Ping, Ye Chien Ying and many more others.

On 23td July 1921 the Communist Party of China was officially founded in Shanghai. At first it was a purely Chinese internal affair matter. But soon it was infiltrated by Soviet Russia when Stalin sent some Russian communist advisors under the communist international organization the Comintern which was under Soviet communist control to purportedly help the Chinese communist. The Comintern sent one advisor Otto Braun nicknamed by the Chinese as Li Te. Li Te and many Russian communist advisors were more of a hindrance and liability to Chinese communist struggle and fight against the Japanese and the Kuomintang armies. The Comintern had divided the Chinese communist into two factions. One faction the Bolsheviks tend to give blind obedience to Russian advisors which turned out to be disastrous for China. The other faction the original first Chinese communists cooperated with Mao Tse-Tung's leadership and guidance that eventually led China to success and victory over the Japanese and Kuomintang forces. Stalin had all the time told the Chinese communists to work with Chiang Kai Shek and subordinate all activities and actions to Chiang's command. Otto Braun or Li Te was very arrogant and domineering. Under his stern instructions the Chinese communist armies kept on being routed by the Japanese and Kuomintang armies. When Mao and his comrades protested against his wrong methods and wrong decisions he threatened to sack them from the Chinese Communist Party. However, later most of the Chinese communist leaders saw the wisdom of  Mao Tse-Tung's leadership and voted strongly in support of Mao to lead the Party and the communist armies. Had the Chinese communist continued to listen and obey Stalin's orders and instructions through the Comintern, China would have been done for and destroyed. Fortunately Mao Tse-Tung was just as determined to wrest control of the party and the command of the armies with his worthy supporters and patriotic comrades in arms. This saved the day and thus China was able to march forward in grandios victories after victories and eventually to establish the People's Republic of China on 1st October, 1949  in Tiananmen.

In the interim years 1926 to 1946 when China was still in choas under the control of many warlords in many provinces and Chiang Kai Sheks Kuomintang's Republic of China supposely was to be China's central government but with weak or no command in the provinces. This was the time that Russian treachery under Stalin struck against the Chinese province of Outer Mongolia. Stalin sent Russian armed forces and advisors to occupy Outer Mongolia without China's permission. When Chiang Kai Shek protested against the sinister act of Russia in Outer Mongolia Stalin claimed it was war booty from the defeated Japanese. When Mao Tse-Tung protested against the Russian occupation Stalin lied that Russia was occupying Outer Mongolia temporarily to prevent the province from falling under the control of Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang government. But in 1946, without China's permission or agreement Stalin secretly and arbitralily conducted a plebiscite to let Chinese Mongolians decide whether they wanted to continue to be part of China as a Chinese province or to be independent. Stalin then arrogantly and arbitrarily declared later that Outer Mongolia had decided to leave China and become an independent state. However, earlier before the plebiscite Stalin had hived off a big chunk of Outer Mongolia of about five hundred thousand square kilometers and annexed to Russia bordering Lake Baikal as its Tannu Tuva province. It is said that Tannu Tuva has vast reserve of gold, diamonds, oil and other mineral resources. Both China's People's Republic of China and Taiwan's Republic of China had never recognized Russia's arbitrary claim to Outer Mongolia's independence.

But it seems in the 1970s under the extreme threat of United States China was obliged to cooperate with the Russians and therefore  unwillingly forced by circumstance to  concede to Outer Mongolia's fake independence.

It is of utmost importance that every Chinese must know that it is imperative that China must continue to build up as a strong and powerful nation both militarily and economically so as to prevent China and the Chinese people from being bullied again and having to listen and obey the undesirable sinister dictates of foreign countries of the so-called democratic United States or the so-called communist Soviet Russia. History has shown that no foreign powers have ever shown to be good and fair to China but on the contrary every one of them has always tried to exact the most out of China and the Chinese people. From 1800s to 1948 China had lost over three million square miles of Chinese lands mainly to Russia, England, France and Japan as a price to pay for being abjectly weak and poor. Will China and the Chinese people be able to retrieve all her lost territories that were taken from the Chinese people through force, deception or subterfuge. It is hoped that China's rights and grievances will be rectified and restored naturally and correctly  in the course of history.

Southernglory1

Saturday, 2nd November, 2024.

tung

Brain dead western scholars, elites, analysts, journalists, reporters etc etc, believe in these...

 These are not your illiterate ignoramus. They are highly educated, well informed, and some with great reputation as thinkers and even sought after speakers to educate and influence their audience. And a big group of these people believe that the American Empire is peaceful, peace loving, compassionate, generous, protector of democracy and human rights, the best to govern and rule the world...that they do no evil.

On the other hand, they believe that China is an aggressive and expansionist power, that China would start to invade countries to be another hegemon, not now, but in the FUTURE. China has committed or would be committing very aggressive and dangerous crimes and behaviour in the FUTURE, guilty based on presumption, and must be condemned, and it is good and rightful for the Americans to condemn China, isolate China, demonise China, start all kinds of wars with China, to prevent China's rise. To prevent a country and its people from working hard to want to live better is a decent and right thing to do according to these dimwits?

Any thinking person sees any contradiction in the above statements? Did not these western elites and scholars see what the American terrorists are doing all these years and now right before their eyes in Ukraine, Gaza, the Middle East, in the western Pacific Oceans, starting wars, fighting wars, provoking wars, and the worst crimes against humanity, the genocide of the Palestinian people through bombing, starvation and deprivation of food, water and medicine, no liberty, no human rights? These are crimes committed in broad daylight, not based on presumption or imagination!

And the Americans are involved in all the meddling of countries internal affairs, even conducted hundreds of political assassinations of national leaders, invading countries under fake excuses like WMD, fighting terrorism, fighting drug cartels and whatever lies they could concoct, like over capacity in production of good and useful consumer goods, providing the best and cheapest 5G networks, apps, good and cheap EVs, connecting the world by high speed trains, roads, ports etc for freer flow of goods and people to facilitate trade and economic development. All these are labelled as bad and a threat to the evil American Empire by the Americans, and these dimwits believe in them without question!

The Americans are spreading hate, lies and fear to control the world. The Cubans have been oppressed and suppressed by the evil Americans for 70 years through illegal sanctions to live in poverty and misery. The UN has been voting against this sanction year after year to get it removed. The latest, 187 nations voted to lift this cruel sanction, but only the USA and Israel opposed it. What democracy and human rights when two rogue states can dictate over the UN and the rest of  the world and the sanction cannot be removed?

On the contrary, China is not involved in any of these wars, China shunned wars, and actually contributed to a peaceful conciliation between two sworn enemies for centuries, Saudi Arabia and Iran resulting in peace between these neighbours. But despite spending all its resources and time in economic development in China and all over the world, China is condemned by these dimwits as dangerous, as a threat!!!

Can these people think, see or hear and reason? Are their brains really dead? If so, it would be good, and a great blessing if they are really dead and stop spreading lies and ill wills to misinform the people of the world through their words, spoken or written, that evil is good and good is evil. Can you believe in these brain dead people that they can think logically?

When would the brain dead ask the Americans and the Israelis about their objectives and intention in the Ukraine War and the Genocide in Gaza? No need to ask, do not want to know?

Capitalism and free trade are against American and European incompetent, inefficient and ineffective democracy

 The USA thinks that just by talking up their economy will change its fortune. It is not going to happen and an illusion. And by talking down on China's economy, it will benefit them. It will not happen too.

A country's rise is dependent on its ability to make things that the world needs - cheaply, efficiently and catering to the evolving trend of global demand. The USA lost all of its manufacturing over the decades. It is trying to recover with its re-industrialization by attracting manufacturing back to the USA. That is easier said than done.

There are massive hurdles to overcome. The need for control of raw materials, the need to train the necessary skilled workers, the need to throw billions of dollars as subsidies to attract back domestic and foreign entities to build factories in the USA. Investors flock to places they can make the most profits, and this mindset has never change

These are factors that can be foreseen with attracting manufacturing back to the USA. The real obstacle to overcome is what is unforeseen after all the investments are made. Can they compete globally knowing that this is a problem they have to overcome in order to be feasible? What elephants are just going to remain white elephants.

China's ability to leverage on its control of raw materials, cheap energy and skilled workers and its overcapacity is causing all the undue difficulties that foreign investors will have to think carefully about. As TSMC now discovered, there are so many problems associated with investments in USA - the different working attitudes, the wage differentials and the shortage of skilled workers. And TSMC has not even started on its mission in USA to compete on the world stage.

Anonymous