China and the Global South fully prepared to decouple with the USA

 China is more well prepared for a trade war escalation by Trump this time around. China is even more prepared to counter Trump's tariffs over Tik Tok sale.

At the start of Trump's trade war in 2016, China did not have the advantage of having built up full economic relations with countries inside BRICS and having the Global South's confidence in their relationship with China. Now it is a different picture altogether. The USA is more isolated, its influence substantially reduced in the Global South.

The Mafia behavior of the USA is putting off more countries and even the threat by Trump of sanctions against those trying to distance themselves from using more of the US$ is falling on deaf ears. Poorer countries that have little to export to the USA have little to fear in terms of tariffs. More industrialized countries have BRICS countries to absorb their produce as the USA is not the only market that they can trade with.

The USA is nearing the end of its tethers. Sanctions are not working; trade wars are not working as well and so will tariffs be falling into the same malaise.

Anonymous

The lies of blaming China for everything backfiring

 The reality of China is now an open book, whether USA citizens choose to go to China or not. Rednote provides a platform for USA citizens a window into the real China that the USA Government and MSM had kept them from knowing.

The comparisons really shocked USA citizens, some in tears and some traumatic after falling into unpayable education debts and cursing the USA Government and MSM for all the lies that they were fed with.

The reality is not about USA new Rednote users talking to Chinese people paid by the CCP, but normal Chinese of all shapes and sizes across the country, giving them a glimpse into their jobs, their living standards, their homes, their cars, their transport facilities, their education costs, and most of all their healthcare and hospitalization needs and how cheap and affordable they were.

On top of that was knowing how the CCP Government responded to catastrophic events like earthquakes, floods and fires. The Government responses were always fast, targeted, well prepared and well-coordinated. Nothing is left to chance or finding excuses to blame on anything and everything.

Anonymous

DeepSeek - US$5.5m, less than two years and a few young nerds to bring down American AI industry

 The USA's agenda to dominate AI is being taken to the cleaners. DeepSeek has thrown a spanner into the works of all the USA AI investors such as OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and many others, whose investments were said to run into hundreds of billions. Nvidia will be hard hit, given the wake-up call that AI development does not need solely to depend on high-end GPU chips that it monopolizes.

The USA's restriction on Nvidia's sale of high-end chips to China is now becoming an exercise in futility. DeepSeek was able to come up, within such a short span of time, just leveraging on lesser high-end chips, to have a system that trounced these USA companies in terms of performance on most parameters, except the amount of money they poured in over many years.

DeepSeek was able to outperform the multi-billion conglomerates of the USA with a budget of just US$5.5 million funded by Chinese hedge fund HighFlyer. And the most nerve-wracking thought for its competitors was that DeepSeek was started just in 2023, by Liang Wenfeng, a former hedge fund manager. How did such a late starter in the AI business managed to rise so fast is really shocking.

The most surprising discovery was that most of DeepSeek's scientists were young graduates culled from Beijing, Tsinghua and Beihang Universities as disclosed by Nury Vittachi on his site 'Fridayeveryday'. Talk about new nerds, thinking out of the box, does really promote better thinking and innovation than relying on the same old nerds of old.

Now the USA is trying to promote the narrative that DeepSeek is a dangerous competitor, by giving free usage for the rest of the world and not capitalizing on its commercial gain. Just imagine that by saying giving others the free gift is a dangerous thing. We can expect more negative attack on DeepSeek as the days go by, even using the same template that anything from China is junk. Well, let the USA and the West still continue with their superiority complex thinking and suffer the indignity when the shit hits the fan. We have seen it in space stations, high-speed rails, EVs, batteries, jet engines, shipbuilding and now testing the boundaries of AI. Bet against China all they want, but China has nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Anonymous

American exceptionalism is based on the barrel of the gun, to steal and to kill

 With Putin being blamed for the Los Angeles fire by some little bimbo, claiming that California had sent surplus firefighting equipment to Ukraine thus causing the widespread fire in Los Angeles due to equipment shortage, therefore Putin must also pay for the rebuilding.

After all, the US$300 billion seized from Russia is very useful, and ways and means must be found to use the money robbed from Russia. What better than fabricating reasons to make hay while the sun shines.

When it comes to fabrication, trust the USA propaganda machine to do a good job. However, whether Putin or the rest of the world believes in the propaganda is another matter. The USA has its 'exceptionalism' status and can do what it likes, whether the world believes in or not. The only obstacle is that its exceptionalism cannot be applied is dealing with Nature and God's wrath like all other countries. Incidentally, what happened in Los Angeles has much to do with climate change, which Trump will undoubtedly brush aside as a 'hoax'.

When the fire cannot be extinguished, I am waiting for Trump's nuclear response.

Anonymous

Small yard and high fence - Strategy of American gangster Jake Sullivan

This is supposed to be a grand strategy of America's greatest mind in Jake Sullivan. To be appointed by the President as the National Security Advisor, he must be the best in America, at least in the mind of Biden and de facto President Blinken. Under the America finest democratic system, the best man, not in terms of intellect but popularity and wealth, would be elected to lead the country. And this man, often far from the philosopher king, often an idiot, would pick his team using his half past six brain, of men and women to his liking and presumably to be able and intelligent enough to chart the future of the nation. The result is obvious over the last few decades that Trump was clever enough to see that the Empire had declined, and he has to Make America Great Again.

This small yard high fence strategy was accepted in full by an equally foolish Congress and House of Representatives making up of charlatans and conmen and women acting as if they are godsend wise men and women, the best in America, under their great democratic system that was designed not to elect the most able but the best salesmen and saleswomen. They too believed in this small yard high fence strategy without question.

And when this strategy failed, they keep expanding yard wider, thinking that it would work. The reality is that the yard is actually shrinking by the day. All their effort to isolate China, initially to contain China, to deprive China of all advanced and new technology has failed miserably. China has not only broken down the fence to acquire the technology but also running ahead.

Space technology, drones, 6G communication, 6G aircraft, missiles, nuclear technology, quantum physics, high speed train, solar energy, EVs and batteries, and recently, AI and a great breakthrough in terms of performance and efficiency, whatever you name it China is dominating the industry. There is only one face left, and that is high end chips. Nvidia's high end chips is the last hurdle for China to leap over. And knowing China's track record and development speed, it is only a matter of a couple of years before this last fence falls.

When this happens, it would be America's turn to chase after the Chinese technology train. What the clowns in Washington have been doing for so long is building fences and forgot about developing their own capability to compete. This is left to the private sector to think about. There is no great strategy from the clowns to mobilise the country to innovate and invent and stay competitive. They think throwing obstacles in the path of China would keep them at the top. The private sector has their own momentum and initial and would move only at a pace and in a direction that would benefit them most, not America as a country.

What can Americans expect in a country led by clowns, charlatans and mediocre men and women? The days of 'greatness' by conquest, by wars and killings, looting and plunders, slavery and genocide are over. Ukraine is a war that they cannot win.