America is an authoritative regime disguised as a democracy by lying to its people

 That is also what I want to say. The two parties, Democrats and Republicans are just the right and left hands of the Deep State, ruling USA with policies culled from the same playbook.

The USA voters undoubtedly do not know that they are voting for the same Evil hiding behind the throne, controlling the two parties and having them to carry out policies that favor the super-rich and making them richer. The super rich are among those behind the scenes, making up the Deep State and it is just a matter of you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours, taking turns to cannibalize the ordinary USA voters who are none the wiser. It was only after migrating to Rednote from Tik Tok that they realized what they had been missing after all the decades of sacrifices.

How is the USA Government going to explain the differences between the Chinese living standards in China and their own citizen's alarming discomfort upon realizing that they had been lied to all those years? It must come as a great shock for the USA voters to know that they are not really any better than the Chinese in China by a long shot in almost everything, except having the right to vote.

Anonymous

No equipment to fight LA fire but lots of weapons for Israel and Ukraine

 The USA has no firefighting equipment left to fight fires, but lots of weapons for Israel and Ukraine. Are those people in Los Angeles, whose homes have been destroyed, beginning to have an interest in listening to the truth or still content to swallow all the lies?

USA citizens now have to be aware that their interest is inconsequential compared to Israel and Ukraine and all the pampering directed at the top 1%.
What is the use of their vote if they cannot elect a government that have their interest to take care of, instead of caring for more support for Israel and Ukraine and taking care of the top 1%?

What is the use of touting about having 'freedom' when they are not even have any choice to choose what they want to spend their money on, like buying cheap EVs made in China?

What is the use of touting about being able to criticize their own government, when all they get in return is a government turning a deaf ear to their cries, despite being given all the avenues to criticize. There is now a narrative being push out that the Chinese have no avenues to criticize the government. One commentator asked the question of why the Chinese people even need to criticize their government when that government is working all the while to improve their lives - providing great infrastructures like high-speed rails, bridges over difficult terrains, excellent roads for them to have an easier life, providing affordable healthcare and hospitalization, providing cheap education for its citizens, providing cheap groceries and keeping cost of living very low.

Anonymous

Ukraine War - Conman Trump running out of ideas to coerce Putin

 Now we are seeing Trump being cornered with his boasting about settling the Ukraine War within 24 hours of him taking office. Today is his fourth day in office and Trump is having to crack his head to wriggle his way out. We know, and Trump knows that a 24-hour peace settlement is an impossibility and just a fantasy that only Trump can think of. But perhaps with his bullshitting and conman experience, having conned others to believe in his integrity after six bankruptcies, Trump still believes he has what it takes to carry out another massive con job.

Trump is not even aware what Putin wants in Ukraine and goes on to promote himself as if he is Almighty God and able to do a miracle, bringing an end to the three-year war.

Looking at Trump sitting at his table on Channel News American, with dozens of 'Executive Orders' covering his table, waiting for his signature, I would think he might be having a whale of a time signing them and gloating - 'Sign baby sign'. It is just ink and paper only, LOL.

Now it looks like Trump is cooking up another distraction to cover his earlier boast, which is trying to coerce Putin into allowing NATO troops to move closer to Moscow in Ukraine. That is precisely what Putin is against. By threatening more sanctions hoping to make Putin agree, the Russians are practically telling Trump to bring it on. What can the USA do about tariffs when Russia is not selling to the USA? Russia is already decoupled from the USA!

What other more harmful sanctions can Trump think of that have not already been used against Russia? What the USA and the West wanted to seize from Russia have already been seized. And the rest of the world have been given a valuable stark lesson in trusting the USA and the Europeans and the consequence thereof.

The USA and EU are practically scraping the bottom of the barrel to find any more meaningful sanctions left to use against Russia. They probably have now to resort to fabricating measure just like in Iraq to turn global opinion against Russia, which is no longer going to work. The rest of the world have learnt a bitter lesson - Once bitten, twice shy.

Anonymous

Who are the happiest people, European or Chinese?

 Currently, under the Global Happiness Index, the Europeans are the happiest people on the planet, with their higher per capita income and per capita GDP. That was supposed to be the way that the world was supposed to work and behave. And that was the ranking order for many years.

But, just last year we had a ranking survey that puts Chinese as the happiest people in the world, based on several parameters in a happiness survey. How could the Chinese, with their meagre income be happier than the Anglo-Saxon Whites in Europe? That was not supposed to happen, and that survey disappeared right away and have not seen the light of day ever since. The Europeans again took most of the top spots in the happiness index and everyone in the West are now very happy with the sleight of hand adjustment.

The reality has now hit them hard in the groin. USA citizens have discovered that the Chinese are indeed very happy people in their interaction with them on Rednote. This is not a lie after all. What does this lesson teach us? That you cannot live a lie long enough for it to be permanently kept secret.

So, are the Chinese not really the happiest people on the planet and deserve to be listed as the top country in the happiness index? Oh, I know they are going to say that a socialist country under a dictator cannot qualify to be the happiest country in the world. I rest my case.

Anonymous

PS. Allow me to add this clip to this post by Anonymous.

Watch this 45 minute clip of the Chinese celebrating the Chinese New Year. The full show was 4 hours as China has to many singers and performers that a one or two hour show would not do justice to the artistes, singers and dancers. 

The ask yourself, are they not the happiest people on earth? See their rich costumes, the stage, the number of performers, the AI generated visuals etc etc. It cost a lot of money to put up such a show. And the western media are saying the Chinese economy is collapsing and the people are having a hard time living.

When all the dollars return to America to roost

 The dedollarisation high speed train is running at full speed. Are the Americans afraid? Nay, Trump is challenging the BRICS' countries and threatening to impose more tariffs against them if they dare to try to dedollarise. Trump is playing brinkmanship or telling the BRICS countries not to go against the American Empire or else....

The possibility of BRICS countries and the rest of the world to stop dedollarisation is nil. More and more countries are reducing trade with the Americans out of necessity and self preservation. There is practically nothing to buy from the Americans that needs the American dollars. And more and more countries have nothing to sell to the Americans. Tariffs or no tariffs does not mean anything to them. The decoupling from the American economy is becoming a natural phenomenon. When trade with the Americans drops to an insignificant level, there will be less demand for the dollar, and less need to hold them. Who is still thinking of buying American legacy cars or Boeing aircraft or iPhones?

The second point is the vicious cycle of banks, institutions and nation states finding it riskier to hold the dollar as a reserve. They will start to downsize their dollar holdings, and a little drizzle could end up turning into a storm.

International trade would go on but without the need for the dollar. All trades would be using their own currencies or BRICS' currency, or new currency being developed. China, the biggest exporters would not be accepting the dollar for their goods and services. So would be the rest of the world.

What would happen to those holding the dollars? The only place they can spend it is to buy whatever they could from the Americans. They need to dispose of their dollars before they become worthless. Another way to dispose the dollars is to buy other currencies if they could in the exchange market. This would prove difficult by the day when no one is accepting the dollar. Maybe they could change into some European currencies as an intermediary.  The USA would be the dumping ground for the dollar with Europe as a secondary market.

What would happen when all the dollars printed return to the USA? Every country, every institution would be dumping the dollar into the American market, buy whatever they could lay their hands on, maybe properties and land. The years of reckless printing of the dollar will pay proportionally with the dollar coming home to roost. The Americans would be very rich with plenty of dollars flooding the streets of America, or maybe Europe.

Trump can raise all the tariffs by 100s or 1,000 times, who cares? No one is going to sell to the Americans. It would be a one way traffic, to dump the dollar quickly before it is too late. There will be no place for the dollar outside America and Europe. The two can trade among themselves.

This could be the scenario going forward when dedollarisation hits full steam. Would the Americans be pointing a gun at everyone to use or accept the dollar? It would be futile when there is nothing to buy from the Americans...while the dollar is not accepted by countries around the world.