India wants to exchange rupees for American dollars

 The Indian dilemma, rupee or American dollar. Modi has been fighting tooth and nail in BRICS to get the rupee accepted as a major currency of trade. Unfortunately, no one in his right mind would want to use the rupee. Only very sick and silly minded people would be asking for rupee. And India knows it. India is desperately wanting to use its rupee to exchange for goods and services around the world, like the Americans are using the dollar. No takers. Who would want to change their goods and services for rupees but cannot use rupees to exchange for Indian goods and services?

On the other hand, the Indians are demanding for American dollars for their goods and services instead. India needs the dollar very badly knowing very well the worth or worthlessness of the rupee. India's clamour for the dollar goes against the interests of BRICS and what BRICS is trying to do, to dedollarise. Thus, India's presence in BRICS is totally incongruent to the organisation, in fact a thorn in the system. Unless India is prepared to compromise its craving for the dollar, and go along with BRICS objective of dedollarisation, India is a misfit in BRICS.

How is India going to navigate through the workings of BRICS when its need for the dollar is crucial to its existence in international trade? When India wants to buy from the West or America, none of them is willing to accept the rupee. Even close friend like Russia cannot stomach it anymore with so much rupees that it could not chew, could not get rid of. So, India can only hope for willing suckers to exchange their currencies for rupees so that India can exchange them for the dollar to buy from the West. It is unimaginable that the Americans or Europeans would sell their weapon systems to India for the rupees.

For India, the rupee is as good as a domestic currency for internal consumption. And dollar is for international trade. The pushing for the rupee to be a major currency in BRICS is an oxymoron proposition. BRICS may be forced to include the rupee as one of its currencies but who is going to use it or accept the rupee for trade other than India. And in the case of India, it is a one way use of the rupee, to pay for what it buys but not to accept as payment for what it sells.

This is India's dilemma and also BRICS dilemma as India is using the rupee to hold back the progress of BRICS, holding BRICS in hostage...but not for long. Either India has to go, or the rupee has to go.

Xi's Made in China by 2025 is a big success!

 One of the lies that is still being touted my USA trolls had been that China is only capable of making junks sold to the USA. All the things sold at Walmart are junks, if that is indeed true. Why are USA citizens buying them? Are they not stupid to do that? So, USA consumers are really stupid if that is what they are trying to tell us.

The first and most obvious contradiction to those narratives that comes to my mind are iPhones made in China. Are they junks? In fact, the best iPhones are made in China, not India and not anywhere else. Why are Europeans not buying iPhones made in India and going for those made in China? Are they also stupid and buying junks?

Is a genuine imperial Ming Dynasty Vase a piece of junk made in ancient China? If so, why are people paying millions of dollars to own them? The most valuable cargo salvaged from sunken vessels of past centuries are always the porcelain pieces that were shipped from China to Europe. Are those considered junks as well? If so, why are people willing to pay millions to own a piece?

Apart from all these things, there is an ongoing disinformation about China's Tiangong Space Station being touted as another junk (more like sour grapes), bridges touted as 'toufu' bridges and also junks collapsing all over China, Chinese EVs are said to be junks catching fires all over China (not in Los Angeles I hope), China's 6th generation fighter jets are junks compared to USA's F22s and F35s, China's Fujian Aircraft Carrier is a piece of junk compared to USA aircraft carriers.

I think I am getting breathless and speechless listening to all the misinformation and disinformation that the US$300 million has been able to generate.

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DeepSeek - Another big headache for the American gangsters

 The reason the USA is losing the tech war is because they are too arrogant and think too highly of themselves. Without the foreign element doing the research and innovation input, they are hapless trying to face competition.

As a good example, the USA had to use underhand tactics to suppress the Japanese innovation expertise, which they succeeded in doing so. Against France it was the same story with Alstom being targeted. Now the USA is doing the same to Germany, using a different tactic by getting rid of cheap energy that Germany needed to fuel its manufacturing.

When it comes to China, so many different tactics have been used to put China down. I am not going to talk about old history, but recent history with trade wars, technology squeeze and tariffs are all about strangling China. But China is not that easy meat for the USA to overcome. Five thousand years of history have taught the Chinese the experience to survive against all odds.

China has surpassed the USA in many things that are clearly visible. Even Huawei has the kind of Chinese spirit in fighting back and gaining ground instead. The saying that 'Necessity is the mother of Invention' has not been lost on them and Huawei is innovating quietly. New Chinese startups like DeepSeek are giving USA technology Giants a run for their money.

The bloodletting of the USA technology Giants in the face of DeepSeek surfacing may take a break, but in the longer term, being an open-source platform and free to use, that is going to cannibalize those pay for use USA AI Giant's bottom line for a long time to come. And if users are able to make use of DeepSeek's gift to innovate further, the future is not going to look good for them. That I think is the reason why the USA is starting to fabricate the narrative that DeepSeek is a dangerous competitor.

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Red Dot is going the way of the USA

 Red Dot is going the way of the USA. I am surprised that everything in China is so cheap after listening to what is narrated on Youtube by Rednote users, while everything in Red Dot is honestly very expensive by comparison.

Forget about all the gloating about affordability which is a relative term. That is the same mantra that the USA Government and MSM had been feeding the USA citizens. How could China, with a population of 1.4 billion and with such a low per capita GDP be able to afford looking after its citizens so well? Sure, Chinese people cannot match the super high income of Singaporeans, but their living standards are not inferior to ours. They have cheap homes (which is theirs in perpetuity after paying up, with no property tax), cheap cars, cheap food, cheap transport cost, cheap healthcare, cheap university education which really shocked me. US$ 798 university fees per year is unbelievable.

I know, some will say, why don't I migrate to China if it is so good. What can I say?

Anonymous

The ordinary Americans have found their freedom from their evil politicians

 The sickest country on earth have been brainwashing their citizens for decades. And the rednecks and hillbillies swallow the propaganda hook, line and sinker. And ask for more. Most of them have not even travelled out of their state, not alone the country. They've been programmed to take everything from their politicians, who'll sell their mothers for a penny, if they can find a buyer. Even social media is rigorously controlled with these morons being allowed to operate on sanitised platforms. 

TikTok came and changed everything and the inbred yankee politicians thought they solved the problem by banning it and forcing it to be sold. Now they have a problem many orders of magnitude on their hands as Rednote virtually transports these brainwashed people out into the real world. And once exposed to reality, they'll do their jobs of taking their politicians to task. 

And there are tens of millions of new Rednote awakened yankees. Let's see the orange loser sign an executive order telling the awakened what to think. Brainwashing is a two way street.

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