Impression of Lijiang - Life of the minority tribes - A pictorial essay

 

An open air show choreographed by famous director Zhang Yimou. Zhang also choreographed the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in China. A rousing entry of the first group of performers. It was slightly raining and the spectators were wearing their raincoats provided by the theatre. The raincoats were to be left on the seat after the show. Click to enlarge pics.

Closer view of the performers.

 

The dancers.

 

Another scene of the show. The performers were part timers.

 

The show was about the life of the minority tribes.

 

About 400 performers were

 

The tribesmen returning from the field with the day's harvest.

 

Scene of a bride leaving the village with the groom.

 

Celebration

 

The grand finale.

Is the American cost of living bearable...under Trump's pea brain policies?

 No western media or Channel News America boys and girls would be asked to question such an issue. Either they all believes that the American economy is rock solid, has a lot of depth and its strength cannot be underestimated, or they were not told to write about it.

Paul Krugman has said inflation would kill off the American economy when Trump starts his anti immigrant policies to remove the illegal and legal immigrants. With the depreciating value of the dollar, the high inflation was, in a big way, alleviated by the immigrants doing the low level jobs to keep cost of living low. When American businesses cannot employ cheap migrant labour, the cost of labour for businesses must go up and directly affect the cost of living and inflation.

Can the average Americans survive a runaway inflation with so many policies and factors that are going to drive inflation sky high? All the sanctions against China would only push the prices of essential and 'good to have' consumer items up. The Americans have been quietly benefiting from all the cheap and good Chinese goods made easily available to stretch their diminishing income and value of the dollar.

The combination of high prices caused by sanctions and tariffs on Chinese goods, and the shortage of cheap immigrant labour would be a double whammy on the cost of living, with prices of goods and services going against the interests of the average American households.

How is D grader Trump going to navigate through these hurdles created by him in his trade wars with China? Trump is digging a big grave to bury all the average Americans in. Instead of thanking China, be grateful to China, and also the millions of cheap labour from the illegal and legal immigrants, Trump is going to choke these two major contributors that kept cost of living low or at least bearable.

Trump did not win his trade war with China in his first term, and not in his second term. What is sure to happen is high inflation and high cost of living for his loyal supporters. Hopefully they are able to live with it or can afford the high prices of everything that China produces or their substitutes if they could find any.

Trump is good riddance to bad rubbish.

PS. Posted this in the morning but it did not appear at the top.

Chinese advanced and superior technology bankrupting American and western manufacturers

 The West keeps flogging the dead horse that China makes things that cannot be compared to what they made in the West. From consumer products to weapons, China is always singled out as producing junks and garbage and stealing technology from the West or copying from them.

Now, if that is so, how was China able to build its own space station just as an example? China did not even have the opportunity to steal the space station technology, because China was banned from setting foot on the International Space Station, right.

China now also dominates EV production and if China is copying from the West, how could the West now be lagging behind China and cannot keep up with all the innovations. A country in front cannot be said to be copying from one lagging behind, right. That is just logic and cannot be that difficult to understand.

A further eye-opening situation that the USA and its stooges must be made aware of is in high-speed rail construction technology, which China is now the de-facto leader. What did China steal in terms of this sector, when the USA is nothing close to a high-speed rail country to speak of, with technology worth stealing.

Moreover, if China is that backward technologically speaking, compared to the USA and the West, how is it possible that China is filing more patents in technology and engineering than the USA and the West. Who is kidding who? Huawei alone has more patents to its name than any of the other telecommunication giants of the West. China is now moving into 6G adoption, while the USA and the West are stuck with half past 4G problems and still dismantling Huawei 5G relay stations.

Anonymous

Brits are the dirtiest bastards on earth

 Never also discount the British involvement in that decision to allow Ukraine to use longer range missiles against Russia. The Brits are the dirtiest bastards on earth, the early descendants of the morons in the USA. And remember that the Brits are also a two-party state, just playing musical chairs, following the same foreign policy culled from the same playbook. Together with the USA they are dictating the direction of Ukraine. The others in the EU are just collateral damage to be sacrificed when needed.

Boris Johnson even carried out the sabotaging of the peace deal in the early stage of the Ukraine war. The Anglo-Saxon Whites wanted Ukraine to join NATO resulting in a war with Russia. Ukraine's entry in NATO was the 'Red Line' that Putin would not tolerate being crossed.

With Ukraine in NATO any attack by Russia on Ukraine would mean dragging the whole of NATO into direct conflict with Russia. The USA wanted the expansion of NATO into Ukraine to give them an opportunity to site nukes nearer to Moscow and strategically to force the EU to ditch Russian energy for the USA to sell more expensive gas to the EU. The USA now got what they wanted in energy sales to the EU, indirectly also forcing EU countries to de-industrialize to benefit the USA. How stupid were the Europeans to fall for the stunt.

Anonymous

Western terrorists are hiding under USA sponsored NGOs

 The irony is that the terrorists of the West are hiding under USA sponsored NGOs, doing their dirty work of instigating riots under the pretext of carrying out holistic programs.

We saw that in Hong Kong, with even the CIA involved and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) on behalf of the USA Government, funding the chaos. We now know how they are also using radicalized Muslims to carry out their nefarious activities and why China is stamping them out. Of course, this is only possible with the co-operation of traitors inside the country. What China did was luring the rats to surface altogether, before culling them in one fell swoop. It took out the roots once and for all. As the Chinese saying goes - To get rid of grass, it is necessary to remove the roots. If not, when the spring wind blows, it will grow again. How true!

Unsurprisingly, now the demonization is again starting from outside, branding Hong Kong as a financial crime hub. Hong Kong will integrate with China with about another 25 years remaining. They are giving a dog a bad name now before skinning it, giving China a bad apple. 

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