4/09/2025

TikTok is Chinese property, NOT for sale. Bullying would not work

 Trump is backtracking over his plan to force TikTok to sell to a non-Chinese buyer. He is giving another 75-day grace, which is a joke just to mitigate his failure to resort to the use of bullying.


Byte-dance, the owner of Tik Tok is very clear over the issue. The future of Tik Tok rests in the hands of the Chinese Government, not Trump despite all his gloating as if he owns Tik Tok. And China is definitely going to block the sale with or without the tariff war going on. Byte-dance just have to follow China's policies and will just likely exit the USA completely with the ban.

Tik Tok has a user base of 1.6 billion worldwide, with 175 million in the USA. Loosing 11% of its user base in the USA is not going to collapse Tik Tok. Moreover, some USA users of Tik Tok will go over permanently to other Chinese apps like Rednote, which is facing banning as well.

China is really serious about de-coupling completely from the USA, being sick and tired of all the provocations, nefarious fabrications and lies thrown against China over the past decade. China is hedging its future on BRICS and the Global South, new growth areas for trade and investments. China is now even banning Chinese investments in the USA, which is a further nail in the coffin of the USA hegemony. This is a good move by China in the face of the asset seizure by the USA and EU from Russia. China is even selling off its treasury holdings and USA debts, knowing the dangers of holding on to them knowing their toxic nature.

Anonymous

Trump's trade war is out of control and will hurt the Americans more

 Trump's trade war has blown up out of proportion with China retaliating fast unlike in the past. Trump thinks no country dared to retaliate, still thinking that the USA is the only market left in this world for others to sell to. He is delusional. China does not make false threat of being ready to fight all wars against the USA, does it?


I was honestly thinking that China would have to retaliate but not retaliate that aggressively with a 34% tariff on all USA goods on top of further controls of more rare earth element export to the USA. The further rare earth element control is not just against the USA alone, but to all countries that may choose to re-export those rare earth elements to help the USA. China is closing all loopholes, the same way that the USA is doing in high-end chips against China.

With China now retaliating, that is almost an umbrella cover to tell others that they should retaliate and not be stepped upon by the USA at its whims and fancies. Rather a fast retaliation than suffer a slow strangulation by the USA.

Now, Trump is trying to walk back on the pretext of negotiating with India, Vietnam and Israel over the reciprocal tariffs he imposed, just a day after. What is he trying to do and who is he trying to fool? Trying to scare China? China does not care about negotiating now, and action speaks louder than words. According to analyst, Chinese manufacturers just shrugged off those tariffs, knowing they can compete against anyone in price in the USA market and outside the USA and EU as well.

India is not going to supply the USA with the same cheap consumer products on the scale that China is now doing. Ten or twenty years down the road is not even feasible for India, and USA consumers will have to take the shit in the face when it hits the fan. China took three decades to reach its manufacturing capabilities, and can India do that? India's exports to USA in 2024 was about US$80 billion, compared to the US$500 billion that China exported to the USA. India is not going to provide the alternatives for Walmart or Amazon to cater to USA consumers. Therefore, even cutting the tariffs to zero is not going to encourage more Indian exports to the USA.

Vietnam wants to cut tariffs to zero for the USA and wants reciprocal action by the USA. Now, this is a no brainer for the USA, as Vietnam is just an extension of the Chinese manufacturing base overseas. Trumps tariffs are all about crippling China and Chinese manufacturing investments overseas and giving Vietnam a backdoor for Chinese manufacturing to access the USA market without tariffs is unthinkable. You think this will work?

Anonymous

Trump is toxic, America is poison

 Trump is backtracking over his plan to force TikTok to sell to a non-Chinese buyer. He is giving another 75-day grace, which is a joke just to mitigate his failure to resort to the use of bullying.


Byte-dance, the owner of Tik Tok is very clear over the issue. The future of Tik Tok rests in the hands of the Chinese Government, not Trump despite all his gloating as if he owns Tik Tok. And China is definitely going to block the sale with or without the tariff war going on. Byte-dance just have to follow China's policies and will just likely exit the USA completely with the ban.

Tik Tok has a user base of 1.6 billion worldwide, with 175 million in the USA. Loosing 11% of its user base in the USA is not going to collapse Tik Tok. Moreover, some USA users of Tik Tok will go over permanently to other Chinese apps like Rednote, which is facing banning as well.

China is really serious about de-coupling completely from the USA, being sick and tired of all the provocations, nefarious fabrications and lies thrown against China over the past decade. China is hedging its future on BRICS and the Global South, new growth areas for trade and investments. China is now even banning Chinese investments in the USA, which is a further nail in the coffin of the USA hegemony. This is a good move by China in the face of the asset seizure by the USA and EU from Russia. China is even selling off its treasury holdings and USA debts, knowing the dangers of holding on to them knowing their toxic nature.

Anonymous

4/08/2025

Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge - Pictorial essay


The world's longest glass bridge spanning 180 metres across a Zhangjiajie's Grand Cayon, more than 300 metres high. It was a very uncomfortable feeling when one looked down through the glass bottom. The mind said you should fall through, and made your knees wobbled. I could only manage to walk on it by not looking at the glass bottom, by looking ahead. It was good that there were solid opaque paths on both sides to allow those that had difficulties overcoming the optical illusion and felt uncomfortable to walk on it. Some visitors were not affected by it at all and felt very comfortable enjoying the thrill of it.
In the mid section there were two platforms for bungee jumping. Oh, the bridge felt solid like a rock, no movement at all.














China can wipe out all American navy ships, including aircraft carriers in the South China Sea and western Pacific Ocean

 The American terrorists still thinking of having a military war with China, thinking that they still have military advantage over China, with their fake self appraised superior weapons and weapons systems, and that they have to take down China now or never at all. They are now trying to wind down their military misadventure in Ukraine to redeploy all their military assets against China. They are calling and coercing their allies and colonies to join them in another coalition of the unwilling to start a war with China. And as usual, some silly Mickey Mouse are eager to go along, thinking that it will be another Vietnam War, the Americans have overall superiority, can hit and dictate the order of battle and how the war will be conducted.

China is not Vietnam. Even Vietnam, or Afghanistan, very poor and weak countries, could take on the Americans and their allies and chased the Americans out of their countries. China is many times bigger and more powerful than the Americans in everything, in number of soldiers, military hardware, sophisticated and advanced weapons and weapons systems, and a will to vanquish the Americans like they did in the Korean War. All the American hypes and fictitious assessments that they have better and superior weapons and weapons systems are nothing but hogwash. They have yet to pit their weapons and weapons systems against real weapons and weapons systems of China, and the dare devil willing to die for their motherland Chinese soldiers against an aggressor.

Other than a nuclear war, the mad and insane Americans have been trying to use nukes against China many times in the last few decades, and may be tempted to do so, the Chinese military is strong enough to take on the Americans and all its allies and crony states combined and win. China has produced and amassed all the weapons needed to face the savage Americans. The war against China is from the sea. China now has more warships than the Americans and can surround every American warship and sink them many times over. And this is only one aspect of Chinese warfare and defence against the Americans. China has full control over the airspace and seas in the western Pacific Ocean to as far as Hawaii with anti ship missiles, big destroyers, submarines, bombers, drones etc etc. Nothing can come nearer than 4,000 km from the Chinese coast without being destroyed. Chinese aircraft carriers would take the war to American homeland when called upon.

All the American bases and facilities in South Korea, the Philippines and Japan, including in Okinawa, would be toasted withing minutes of war. China has acquired all the anti land, anti sea and anti air missiles to deal with an all out war with the American terrorists. Only the sicko American terrorists, still thinking and behaving like hillbillies would think they can war with China and win. Actually, they are hoping and planning to fight China with their silly allies and crony states while they hide far far away from the frontline. Let their silly allies and crony states to die for them.

The Americans today know very well that every warship in the western Pacific Ocean and South China Sea would be surrounded and outnumbered by Chinese warships on the surface, and submarines below, and anti ship missiles and bombers from the air. They are outnumbered, and outgunned, with all the Chinese weapons trained at them and could sink them in double quick time when Beijing decides to push the button. It is a no brainer to think that any hostile warship or warplanes can fly near the Chinese coast in the air or in the sea.

The American wet dreams of defeating China in a real war with their backward and antique ships and warplanes can only be realised in Hollywood movies.  Just to add, rainbow warriors with their mascara and black stockings are not meant to fight wars. The days of oppressing China and keeping China weak and poor and out has long past. Wake up hillbillies. Stop grunting and scoffing, it would not work anymore.