Chinese technology surpasses American and European technologies

 China already 'electrocuted' vehicle manufacturers in the USA and EU in EVs, and many other areas of manufacturing. Even Tesla is finding the heat too much to bear. Chinese transfer of Chinese technology to the EU is of minor consequence, without the supply chains, the low-cost environment and most of all, cheap energy. Would the EU later also demand that Russia supply them with cheap energy as Russia did in the past? Putin would give them the 'middle finger' now. The USA would probably want to use the same demand that Chinese investments in USA must also come with transfer technology but is afraid of losing face by being accused of trying to steal China's technology. Why would such an advance country like USA want Chinese lagging technology?

But actually, the USA is already doing that in insidious ways. The USA attempted to steal DJI's drone technology with atrocious claims of DJI stealing its own technology. How is that possible when DJI cheaper drones are even better than the USA military grade Reaper drones, costing tens of millions each? This is not Chinese propaganda, but Ukrainian and Israel experiences made known to the world.

The same tactic is being used against Tik Tok, this time trying to link Tik Tok to the CCP. In the process it revealed how ignorant its own senators are about its Singapore CEO, trying to link him as a member of the CCP. Are such senators really fit to be classified as garbage?

This stance by the EU is just a desperate ploy to entice China to invest in the EU, which China is fast trying to extricate itself. It will amount to an exercise in futility. 

Anonymous

The chaotic world of the American terrorists

 The USA can sacrifice Japan, South Korea, Philippines and Taiwan too, the more allies the better. Hopefully other ASEAN leaders must not be that stupid to do the same for the USA in this region.

Let the USA sacrifice the Europeans in Europe for all we care. Those Anglo-Saxons are the only allies supporting the USA to preserve the US$ hegemony. Getting rid of them is doing humanity a big favor.

On a separate issue, Mickey Marcos is now embroiled in a serious spat with his Vice President Sara Duterte, the daughter of Rodrigo Duterte. I believe that in the face of threats to her life, she was accused of hiring assassins to take care of Mickey Marcos should she be killed, meaning Mickey Mouse has been singled out for mention and is obviously going to be behind it. It is always said that there is no smoke without fire. Now, Mickey Marcos would not do it openly for sure. That would be too obvious. Underwriting it is more likely. Sara Duterte's father already had, during his term, openly declared 'if I survive the CIA' in taking stock of his survival chances at times.

Another bombshell theory allegedly attributed to Mike Gaetz regarding the death of Jeffrey Epstein was featured on The Jimmy Dore Show, in which Gaetz was reported to have said that a foreign country was behind the death of Epstein. Wasn't his death claimed to be suicide? If what Gaetz claim is true, it must be someone was really desperate to shut Jeffrey Epstein's mouth when a trial was about to follow. But which foreign assassin had the capability to gain access into that supposedly well-guarded prison cell? Of course, that is assuming it was well-guarded, yet with the cell-surveillance cameras not working at the right place and the right time. Jimmy Dore suspected it could be the Israeli Mossad. Of course, there are many other high-profile super rich and powerful trying to distance themselves from the child-sex ring behind the Jeffrey Epstein's case, Mike Gaetz included. 

Anonymous

Manufacturing in USA and Europe is doomed

 Too much credit is given to the USA at this point of time. What does the USA produce today besides weapons of destruction? And not to forget garbage of course, which Trump is clearly advertising. And everything usable that the USA is trying to produce now is not going to be competitive. So, what strategy is going to work for the USA? Luring manufacturing back from the EU to the USA is a dumb move to say the least. EU manufacturers are just jumping out of the frying pan into the fire, because they are also producers of uncompetitive and expensive goods. When you cannot compete, you lose the market and who do you intend to sell your products to?

Luring European manufacturing to the USA is not going to solve USA's uncompetitive situation. Making products that are way more expensive than China is not going to be workable. Moreover, China has an overcapacity advantage, while the USA is just trying to build up its manufacturing capacity to provide retailers like Walmart with 'cheap' goods. How cheap can they be with energy cost, labor costs and raw materials way above what China is able to provide for its own manufacturers. Please do not try to pull wool over people's eyes by using the term unfair 'subsidies' that the USA itself is doing big time, using suspicious terms to hide the reality, like 'Inflation Reductions Act' or throwing billions to attract foreign chipmakers to set up plants in Arizona. Those are subsidies, clear and simple. Even that is not making those chipmakers conquer the world and instead losing the China market in the process.

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PS. Poor beggars with their industries and economies collapsing and still pretending to be strong, and wanting to start trade wars with China. One by one, the European economies are going into recession and the Euro is now the cheapest against the American dollar. This is the most prominent sign of Europe going into recession and bankruptcies. Thanks to Von De Leyen and the clowns in Washington.

USA and the West needs to produce weapons, having exhausted even their stockpiles

 The USA and the West needs to produce weapons, having exhausted even their stockpiles fueling the needs of Ukraine and Israel. There is also the impending conflict in East Asia that needs vast number of weapons. Talk about Russia exhausting its weapons manufacturing propaganda, when Russia has all the essential critical materials at its disposal.

Essential materials for weapons like gallium, germanium and antimony, are dominated by China, which is the main source of supplies. The USA had tried to overcome the shortages by trying to extract rare earth elements in Outer Mongolia, which failed due to China's refusal to allow shipments using its Tianjin port. China is not that stupid to allow that to happen. China could have done even worse to Mongolia by allowing Tianjin Port to be used by Mongolia by first luring it to set up its extraction facilities and then sabotaging Mongolia later with disallowing Tianjin ports to be used. Now Outer Mongolia, knowing its frailty in playing geopolitics, is trying to be chummy once again towards China.

Vietnam is another rich source of rare earth elements which the USA tried to exploit. Which is why the USA is trying to be chummy with the Vietnamese, a country the USA tried to destroy earlier. Are the Vietnamese really that stupid like the Europeans?

Rare earth is abundant worldwide, but extracting and setting up refining outlets is a very costly affair and takes a long time. Australia, itself a rich source of rare earth, but is trying to export its toxic refining regime to other countries, like Malaysia, which created radioactive problems in the country.

The situation is so dire for the USA that it was reported earlier that the USA is setting up recycling facilities to extract those essential elements from washing machines, discarded electronic devices and solar panels. How that is progressing is unknown and at what cost. 

Anonymous

Lai Ching Te - Pa, Ma, see, I can go for a holiday... but only in the Pacific Ocean

Lai, on his first trip abroad since taking office in May, will stop over in Hawaii and the US territory of Guam as he visits Taiwan's allies Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Palau.

They are the only Pacific island nations among the 12 remaining allies that recognise Taiwan, after China poached others with promises of aid and investment.

In a speech shortly before take-off, Lai said the trip "ushered in a new era of values-based democracy" and he thanked the US government for "helping to make this trip a smooth one".  CNA

Lai Ching Te is happy like a child being locked in his house and now can be free to leave Taiwan, to visit a few islands in the South Pacific Ocean. To this poor child, it is like freedom to see the world. And all his friends, added together, will be less than half the population of Hong Kong. The population of the three islands he is visiting is about 70,000, about the size of a single ward constituency in Singapore. 

Very likely Lai would want to visit all the 12 allies. But the cost is too high. He said it, it is an era of values based democracy. The islanders are not stupid. They know their values and Taiwan would pay. Maybe they have worked out a formula for the visit. Every citizen cost US$1,000 to be paid to the govt of the respective islands. This visit to three islands would cost Taiwan US$7m just for red packets alone. To visit the rest of the islands would be too costly. So this time, just 3 islands.

Taiwan's friends are governed by the term, values based democracy. Even the visits of every American or European clown politicians must be paid handsomely. Taiwan must have a big budget to pay for visitors and to pay to visit its friends.

The delusion that Taiwan is a nation state continues to be touted by the Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan, a breakaway island province of China, that once claimed to be the govt of China, taking the seat of China in the UN. The Americans, their most important supporter, finally gave up on the island and recognised PRC as the legitimate govt of Greater China, inclusive of Taiwan, and accepted China's place in the UN, by kicking out Taiwan, ROC.

Since then, Taiwan has been trying to declare independence from China and calling itself an independent state but not recognised by the rest of the world, not recognised  by the UN, not recognised by the US, not recognised by Europe, except for a few island nations in the Pacific Ocean and Paraguay. And every time the Taiwanese President makes a trip to his little playground in the South Pacific, he claims like he is travelling all over the world. That is the make believe of the world of Taiwan's pro independent separatists. No country would allow him to land his plane except for the mischievous and forked tongue snake, the USA. But this support is weakening by the day.

The Americans, used to be the unchallenged number one military power in the world, was able to blockade China, to keep Chinese ships to stay within 2km of China's coast at the peak of the Korean War and in the early days when the KMT fled to Taiwan. China then was too weak militarily, without an Air Force or Navy to challenge the American military supremacy.

Time has changed and China over the years has been building up a military force that can now challenge the military might of the Americans. The last show of force by the Americans was in 1996 when the Americans sailed two aircraft carriers to the Straits of Taiwan to threaten China. Today, such a reckless show of force would only put the American aircraft carriers at risk of being sunk right where they are, if they dare to play with fire.

China has developed an Area Denial and Anti Access Strategy, ADAA, to keep the American war planes and warships out of the Chinese coasts, now as far as 5,000 km out, further than the island of Guam. China's specially developed anti aircraft carrier missiles are hypersonic, extremely accurate and indefensible, and have been called aircraft carrier killers. The Americans have taken note of this and only the most reckless and foolish American Navy Commanders would dare to put 5,000 to 7,000 airmen and sailors for target practice by the PLA and be buried in the Pacific Ocean.

China has successfully neutralised the American strategic plans of the first island chain and the second island chain. No American warship or war plane is safe within 5,000 km from the Chinese coast. The third island chain at Hawaii is also indefensible.

Taiwan is still living in fantasy that the Americans can protect them and even independence from China. The Americans are not even able to defend themselves against China. The American's plan for Taiwan is actually to bomb the daylight out of Taiwan should China start to unify Taiwan by military means. The Americans' plan is to protect their Empire and to prevent Taiwan returning to China, by destroying Taiwan.

The daft Taiwanese leaders know about this plan but pretending not to know, not to tell the Taiwanese populace, and the DPP continues the make belief and lie that the Americans are there to protect them. See how happy is Lai Ching Te that he can leave Taiwan to go for a holiday in the South Pacific and with the Americans allowing him only to fly by Guam and Hawaii, not the usual stop over in LA, USA. Other than the South Pacific Islands and perhaps Paraguay, he cannot visit any other country in his little bubble tea world of make belief.