Americans kidnapped Duterte and taking over the Philippines

 First they blackmailed the Philippines President with the loot worth billions in the USA. Then they made him give up land for the Americans to set up military bases in the Philippines, turning the Philippines into a de facto colony of the American Empire. Then they turned the Philippines into an American pawn to provoke and start a war with superpower China. Trump had warned against little countries not to take on a bigger country in a war they cannot win. They thrusted the Ukraine recipe for destruction to Marcos to implement.

The latest, the kidnapping of the former President of the Philippines, Duterte, the most respected and loved President that has a 80% popular support from the people of the Philippines. Marcos had said that he had nothing to do with the kidnapping. Who else in the Philippines has the power to conduct such a crime against the people of the Philippines if Marcos had nothing to do with it? Is the Philippines Police that powerful to act against the President, against the people of the Philippines?

The main culprits behind this kidnapping, in the Philippines, using the Philippines Police personnel, is the new colonial master, the Americans. Only the Americans have the power and resources to provide the aircraft, pilot, finance and people to coordinate this kidnapping in front of the Philippines media, aloof, arrogant, above the law, to kidnap their well respected former President from them and smuggled him straight to the Hague, more than 15,000 miles away, to be charged by a gang of criminals in the International Criminal Court. The ICC is not called a Criminal Court for nothing. It is a court run by criminals. And the former President of the Philippines, an independent nation state, not a member of this criminal set up, is now in their custody, in their prison, to be charged by them in a kangaroo court.

The Americans are the mastermind behind this whole operation. And they can only do it because they have full control of the Philippines government, a colony of the evil American Empire. And the President of the Philippines cannot do anything about it, cannot stop the kidnapping of the man that generously helped him and his family when they were chased out of the Philippines, and generously helped him to get elected as the current President of the Philippines. Is he a wee bit grateful to the Dutertes for all their help, kindness and assistance? How despicable and ungrateful can Marcos Junior be to allow the Americans to kidnap Duterte and make him look like a criminal in the eyes of the world, to be humiliated and charged by a court called Criminal Court?

Would the Philippines people allow their frail and medically ill former President to be humiliated in front of the whole world and may even be killed by the criminals behind this kidnapping.

Xi meeting Jack Ma - Second chance for Ma to redeem himself

  After being left out in the cold for his rudeness and audacity to want to meddle with China's politics and economy, Jack Ma is given a second chance to redeem himself. He is invited by Xi for a meeting together with the top AI movers in China. Just like Trump, Xi is now personally involved in the AI war and gathering his best AI generals to chart the course for the next 5 or 10 years or more.

How would Jack Ma play his role this time? Jack has enough wealth to buy and enjoy everything in life. Money is no issue to him. He can retire happily to live a blissful life of plenty. Or he can continue to contribute to the Chinese economy and to China and the Chinese people, to bring glory to the Chinese Civilisation and leave a good name in the history of China's rejuvenation to become a great country in the 21st Century.

Many rich and successful Chinese could do the same, to use their wealth to the fullest to do something positive for posterity, hopefully not to act unthinkingly to harm their motherland, China, and the Chinese people. They are blessed with wealth that is beyond their needs. What are they going to do with all the wealth in their possession when throwing aside a few hundred million means nothing to them?

Elon Musk is about the most sensible billionaire around, a good role model to follow. He gave Trump a few hundred million to buy a place in the White House so that he could contribute positively to make America great again. Money and wealth not used wisely is simply a wasted opportunity presented to these rich individuals. Make your wealth counts in the best possible ways, not just blindly hoarding them, keep wanting to add more when every million is meaningless in terms of material comfort or ego.

Fortunately, many wise rich billionaires are doing their part to contribute positively to society and country, instead of wasting away their blessings in wine, women and song, and worst, like the kind like Jimmy Lai, or a few scums in Taiwan, wanting to harm the Chinese people and the rejuvenation of China and the Chinese Civilisation and ended to be called traitors in history.

Jack Ma's forced retreat in the last few years may make him a wiser man, with enough time to think through the bigger purpose of life. Hope he would use this second chance wisely and become a well respected and highly regarded Chinese citizen, playing a role not any ordinary Chinese has a chance to do.

Trump's tariffs and subsidies would not work

 Trump never did change his gangster behavior. During his first term, he started the trade war, by increasing tariffs on Chinese goods and warned China not to retaliate. Who in his right mind would tolerate being slapped and then turning the other cheek to be slapped again? China retaliated and the USA's agricultural sector bore the brunt of the retaliation. The USA government was forced to subsidize farmers to keep them alive. I do not know how long they did the subsidizing, but it surely is not a one-off action.

Now, to attract investments into the USA, Biden and now Trump had to give massive subsidies to lure those semiconductor manufacturers to build factories in the USA. What other subsidies to lure other manufacturers of consumer products to the USA is to be expected. This is obviously needed and will these businesses be lured to set up factories in USA just looking at the short-term subsidies and betting against the long-term losses. They obviously can never compete outside the USA and what are they going to do?

I would dare say that investors of manufacturing being forced to build factories in USA are between the devil and the deep blue sea. For USA companies like John Deere, not moving back to the USA is choosing punishment by Trump, while moving back to the USA is equally fatal by being uncompetitive. Being uncompetitive means facing bankruptcy like many of the ICE Vehicles manufacturers making EVs that cannot compete with BYD and other Chinese automakers.

Suffice to say, Trump is isolating the USA even in relationships with close allies and he will get what he wants, but at unimaginable cost.

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Trump is a headless cockroach Making America Grief Again

 The way Trump is doing, walking back and forth with his tariffs is doing more harm than good to the USA economy. USA investors are at a loss as to know what to expect and are holding back, especially in the manufacturing and agricultural sector. In honesty, Trump is just like a headless cockroach, not knowing which way to move and could land up in the sewers. This is certainly not what he expects, thinking that it is easy to con people using his six-time bankruptcy experience. If he is not careful, he may chalk up another monstrous bankruptcy - that of the USA itself.

Since Trump took office, the Dow has lost more than three thousand points, and a recession fear is surfacing. Trump has no clue whether to go ahead with his tariffs or backtrack on his actions. In trying to collapse the Global economy and that of China and allies, he is in fact doing more harm to the USA.

Suffice to say, Trump is making BRICS even more relevant and China even greater today. Of course, he does not know that he is falling deep into the trap set by China, punishing even allies and trade partners that have huge Chinese investments in their country. What he does not understand is that the USA too have investments in those countries, such as vehicle manufacturers like Tesla and Ford, and they are being punished as well by Trump himself, shooting his own foot.

Instead of shouting 'Make American Great Again', the reality is that Trump is doing everything to 'Make China even Greater again'. I do believe in Karma.

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Europe's $600 billion boost would only be useful in 10 years from now, if it is still relevant then

 All that the Europeans are doing is just grandstanding regarding supporting Zelenskyy. They have already exhausted their own weapons stockpile and with China clamping down on export of essential minerals like antimony, being able to make more weapons to replenish those sent to Ukraine is just daydreaming, not to talk about rearming Ukraine.

Even the USA is in trouble, unable to replenish their exhausted weapons stockpile fast enough to regain its National Security without the essential minerals controlled by China. How is the USA going to fight a war against China in the face of all these problems? Trump is washing his hands off Ukraine to conserve his resources towards China. This is the reality. After all, Trump, despite his D-grade mentality, knows the Ukraine War is already lost, having touted that Russia is a war machine that cannot be taken down so easily. History is on the side of Russia, whose predecessor, the former Soviet Union, put paid to the ambitions of Hitler and Napolean, two all-conquering war machines themselves.

Zelenskyy is now talking about agreeing to a one-month ceasefire. Putin is not sold on the idea without any real settlement. Why need a one-month ceasefire for Ukraine to regroup and rearm by the USA and the Europeans, when Putin is on the upper hand. Russia is able to produce all the weapons it needs, far outproducing the USA and Europeans combined. Russia has all the essential minerals itself to undertake the task, while the USA and Europeans have to rely on China for essential minerals, which is going to be stopped. What is touted about the rich minerals in Ukraine soil has not been taken out of the ground yet and they are only eyeing it with greedy eyes.

China is not going to provide the essential minerals for the USA to make weapons that will in future be used to target China. That will be plain stupidity. Protecting its National Security is now paramount for China. I think National Security is becoming a very useful word in the English Language invented by the USA for most purposes. China is just taking a leaf from the USA for its own use. No one can ever argue about that, LOL.

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