Hegseth, another hillbilly thinking of starting a war with China

 A batch of silly clowns have come and gone from Washington and the White House. The new occupiers are not much different, another batch of hillbillies still thinking that gunslinging in the Wild West is the way of life. Trump did not choose these gunslingers from the past for no good reasons. As a gangster himself, his only way to deal with a problem is smashing or banging the table until the adversary cringed in fear. So, Trump thought he has the best gunslingers in his stable all yelling to go to war with anyone, with China.

Hegseth, Rubio and the likes are just the typical hillbillies, with the brains of hillbillies to talk about going to war over Taiwan with China, an adversary not smaller than the USA. Every day since these gunslinging clowns stepped into their offices, it was all about bar fights and gunfights on the streets, but without knowing who they are and who they are dealing with. The hillbillies still think their little six shooters would do the job for them without knowing what the Chinese have in their arsenal.

Would the rest of the American hillbillies think like Hegseth and Marco Rubio and want to go to war with China over Taiwan, want to die in the Pacific Ocean before they could reach the Chinese shore? Did they look at Ukraine and take stock of what they are capable off in the face of a more formidable adversary like China?

Don't forget, Trump is still waiting outside the door of Xi's office and Xi has no time for him. Trump is not important or menacing enough to frighten Xi to want to take time off talking to him. What is a Fox News clown like Hegseth thinking, that he is JohnWayne acting in a Hollywood movie of the 1960s?

Wake up hillbillies, the world has gone by while you are still downing your cowboy whiskey in the dust ridden street bars. This is the 21st Century when technology is beyond your understanding and comprehension. Your six shooters are obsolete. Would the modern day American youths want to die for you just because you call the shot in the safety of your office in Washington? Get real!

The only positive thing about sending American boys and girls to fight for Taiwan is the savings from buying plastic bags. They don't need bags to take them home as they would be scattered in the Pacific Ocean to feed the fishes.

India is just as untrustworthy as the USA...anyone believing in snakes deserves to be bitten by snakes

 It is impossible to change India, just like it is impossible to change the USA. All because of the depth of the swamp. As long as the same elements are lurking in the swamp waiting to sabotage any semblance of change, change is not forthcoming.

On the other hand, I think China needs to be aware of any thawing of relations with India. There may be something amiss that I still cannot fathom. There is perhaps a sinister invisible hand prodding Modi to close ranks with China for a purpose and agenda. India is just as untrustworthy as the USA, not to talk about a snake. I think Modi does not have the grade and mentality to think carefully about his policies, just tagging on the ego boosting cheerleading of the West about India that probably lifted his ego. That has all be busted like an overinflated balloon.

China has to guard its cutting-edge technology in EVs and batteries especially, with BYD now able to produce EV batteries that only needs five-minute charging. Just like TSMC guarding its lead in chip foundries, China has to think carefully about building more EV and battery factories outside of China relying on its cutting-edge innovation. Vietnam wants China to build high-speed rails but also demands China to pass on the technology to them. Thinking about it, what really matters is that passing current technology may not be that detrimental, not when China is able to develop further its high-speed rail technology with even more cutting-edge building technology that it does not need to pass on later.

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Xi not interested in dishonourable Trump

 It is a good sign that Xi is not saying anything about the visit and making Trump neurotic and showing that not everything that Trump says goes. China, like Canada and Mexico now, are not taking Trump's threats and actions lying down. They are retaliating, not just by the Government but the common people boycotting travel and not buying USA made goods, literally saying that enough is enough over bullying.

Modi, of course had to take all that Trump dished out to him lying down, not daring to retaliate. They can continue to hug as much as they like, but that does not change the situation. Perhaps Trumps knows that Modi has no cards left to play and no hands to deal, or play scissors, paper and stone like Zelenskyy.

Xi is not the least interest in talking to untrustworthy leaders that overturn whatever is agreed the moment they returned home after stepping down from the plane.

Who can forget Biden's Washington meeting with 50 African leaders, promising US$350 billion for Africa's digital transformation, which was overturned into US$350 million the moment he stepped out of the venue. US$350 million for 50 African countries for digital transformation means US$7 million for each country, which is not even enough to dig holes for erecting pylons. The Administration immediately tried to spin around this backtracking as a gaffe by Biden. Dementia seems like a very good excuse.

Anonymous

Anglo-Saxon United States is a rogue country, a terrorist state responsible for all terrorist attacks and wars against all non-white countries of the South

 The Anglo-Saxon United States is a rogue country, a terrorist state which has been responsible for all terrorist attacks and wars against all non-white countries of the South for over eighty years since the end of the Second World War. These wars were meant to force all countries of the world to submit to US aggression, control and global hegemony.

But now though all or most ex-colonies of the West are more or less independent they are more or less still under West hybrid colonialism in the form of financial, commercial and trade control under such toxic Western control bodies like the Petro Dollar, World Bank, IMF, World Trade Organisatiom and the toothless United Nations Organisation which is under strict US domination.

But now the BRICS countries and all countries of the South are trying to dismantle these Western control toxic organisations and take control of their own destiny with new more fair and justifiable bodies the US and the West are not happy and are resorting to create wars to destabilise the countries of the South to suit their evil and toxic geopolitical agenda of new form of hybrid colonialism.

The US is now desperate and is trying to dominate the entire world once again, but it is doomed to fail.

Thus the kidnapping of Duterte has everything to do with US desperation in trying to reassert US imperialism and colonialism and its geopolitical agenda vis-avis China.

Richard Packards
Ireland.

First man in space was a Russian, first man on the moon would be a Chinese

 The Soviet Union did not have the financial muscle to compete with the USA in space in the sixties and was to take a back seat in space exploration. That was a pity, because the Russians built the International Space Station in 1993, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, said to be in co-operation with the USA and many other countries. However, the Soviet Union was also the first to send a man into space in 1961, beating the USA. That was why the USA probably invented the moon landing in 1969, when John F. Kennedy threw down the gauntlet to NASA to do something to take back the USA's lost pride. Many we not convinced that the USA really went to the moon. It was more like the moon in a Hollywood Studio. Had the Russians not be constrained by financial reasons, it would never have lost the real space race to the moon.

China on the other hand is financially stronger to do better than the Soviet Union and is giving the USA a run for the money today. The rescue of the two stranded astronauts on the International Space Station has been made into a song and dance by the USA. Much ado about nothing really in the hands of the Russians or the Chinese. Hollywood will probably do a blockbuster over the fiasco.

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