Scott Bessant was sacked by Soros after his failure to bring down Hong Kong Stock Exchange

I now probably know why Scott Bessant is so desperate in his agenda to punish China. He probably harbors a long-standing hatred of China in his mind for losing to China decades earlier as Hedge Fund manager for Soros.
We all remember the attack by Soros Fund Management on the monetary system of Hong Kong in 1998, months after the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. Bessant was hired by Soros after graduation in 1984, later helming the London office and was involved in betting against various currencies of countries around the world, including the UK and Japan. We knew the agenda of the UK was trying to bring Hong Kong to its knees after the separation. Suffice to say, the attack on Hong Kong's monetary system has Bessant's fingerprint on it for sure.

Now that attack on Hong Kong failed when China stepped in to prop up the Hong Kong dollar, which lead to heavy losses by Soros, which is why Soros harbors deep hatred for China. Bessant, probably being involved in those losses later resigned from SFM in 2000 but still harbors a deep wound and is now totally working to derail China in every way as USA Treasury Secretary.

Scott Bessant was a big donor to Trump's campaign in 2024, involved in fund raising, perhaps trying to use that as a stepping-stone to get into Trump's cabinet which he really succeeded in being appointed as Treasury Secretary, giving him the opportunity to carry out his anti-China campaign. Was George Soros behind the campaign? Think about it.


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Tariff war - China 'evaluating' US offer to talk

 American media and the White House have been spreading optimism that China is considering negotiating talks with the US. Trump and his gangsters have been lying that China is feeling the pressure, that China is about to capitulate and would want to beg the US for mercy. And, oh, US and China have been talking all the while. China's official reply is nothing is happening, no talks unless Trump withdraw all tariffs to square one.

The Washington regime had thrown several body punches at China and expecting and hoping that China would feel the pain and come crawling to Washington to beg for forgiveness. This is the kind of hooligan diplomacy coming out from the Washington regime. No self respecting leader or country would bow to such gangster tactics. Not China, an equally strong superpower. China would not blink. Xi would not blink or be seen as a weakling to the Chinese people and the world. How then would the American gangsters think such a tactic would work and would force China to crawl to Washington to talk?

Xi has already made his position clear. China would fight to the end. What is there to talk about. The bottom line of China is simple, tit for tat. China would match US for the same tariff imposed on Chinese products. It is so simple. There is no need to talk.

Trump is in panic mood. He is now praying for diven intervention, inviting religious leaders to the White House to pray for him. He forgot to ask the chief shaman of the Red Indians to help. The whole America is turning against him with protests everywhere. Trump needs to talk to China urgently and needs to find a solution to save his crumbling support base. Xi has no need to rush. Just let Trump do the dirty work for starting all the shit. Not only the Americans are rebelling, leaders of the world are also not talking to him except for a few weak crony leaders.

China should just wait. Time is on China's side. No need to do anything and let the US economy collapse right in front of Trump and his clowns.

Overhyping the superiority of the Israelis

 Over and over again, the western media have been hyping about how powerful Israel is, how brave and clever they are in warfare, how great is their arsenal of deadly weapons, including nuclear weapons. This kind of narrative is the same as praising the American military, that they are invincible, their weapons are the best. 

On the other hand, the Arab states are duds, cowards, poorly armed, even stupid, and did not know how to fight and win a war against the 6m superior Israelis. This lie or myth was intentionally created to psychologically disarm and intimate the Arabs and the Muslims, to the point that even the Arabs and Muslims think they are inferior to the few Israelis in their midst. Also, the Israelis also believe in this myth they created, and arrogantly talk about nuking Iran, conduct regime change in any Arab and Muslim country they so choose with impunity. Basically, they are saying they are the Imperial forces controlling all the Arab and Muslim countries in the Middle East. They are invincible and can do as they like, including genociding the Palestinians and taking over their land and planning to do the same to all the Arab and Muslim land.

What is the truth? America. The Israelis are like the proverbial mouse standing on top of the lion's head and roaring like a lion at all the animals in the jungle. Without the Americans, the Israelis would be what they really are, a mouse, a Mickey Mouse.

How did the Israelis appear to be so powerful and clever vis a vis the Arabs and Muslims, and have no respect to them, taking them for granted, as meat on the Israeli menu? Point one, the Americans made sure that the Arab and Muslim states are always weaker than the Israelis militarily. They did this by selling them weapons that are inferior to the Israelis, in lesser amount, and often adulterated or doctered weapons that are substandard so that they would never be able to defeat the Israelis in a war. The Israelis know this. And they regularly collaborate with the Israelis, to prune the Arab and Muslim states, conduct war of destruction, to destroy their economies and to reduce their numbers. They did that to Iraq, Libya, now in Gaza, Palestine. They are trying to do that to Iran.

Whenever there is a war between the Israelis and the Arab and Muslim states, it is always the American forces plus the Israelis against the Arabs and Muslims. Israel alone did not have the military might and manpower to win any war against the Arab and Muslim states.  The present genocide against the Palestinians has the full blessing and support of the Americans, with American and even Brits and French soldiers involved in the killing and the bombing.

Remove the American forces from the region, cut off the American military supply chain to the Israelis, the Arabs and Muslims would have all the time in the world to skin the Israelis alive, one by one. The good news now is that the Arab and Muslim states are quietly building their military hardware, other than Iraq and Syria that had been pruned, and getting stronger by the day. Also, there are China and Russia, two superpowers that have been forced to become close allies and also to defend the Arab and Muslim states for their own national interests. Both Russia and China would be in the way of the Americans and the Europeans in an open war. Both cannot afford to let the Americans, Europeans and the Israelis to take over the Middle East and destroy all the Arab and Muslim states.

At this point in time, the balance of power is starting to tilt to favour a coalition of the Arab and Muslim states with China and Russia. When both Russia and China are ready to take on the white savages, the Americans and the Europeans would have to think very hard to support an Israeli attack on Iran and the rest of the Arab and Muslim states. Iraq, Libya and Syria are painful reminders to the Russians and Chinese, and also to the Arabs and Muslims, that they need to stand together. Divided, they would be taken out one by one by the combined forces of the Americans, Europeans and the Israelis.

China and Russia must be more forceful and open to support the Arab and Muslim states, and act as a direct check on the American and European military powers. To chicken out, to be meek, to appease the Americans and the Europeans is sure a recipe for their own destructions.

The Arab and Muslim states must lean heavily on China and Russia, to form a formal military pact to defend and protect themselves. The aggressive and destructive plans of the Americans and the Israelis are written all over, that they are going to take over all the Arab and Muslim states, if not now, would be tomorrow. In between they would repeatedly conduct pruning wars to weaken the Arab and Muslim states.

Don't be shy, don't be meek, don't live on false hope that they would be spared if they kiss the ass of the Americans. And don't believe in the lie and myth that the Israelis are invincible, the Americans are invincible. The war in Ukraine, in Afghanistan, and now the Houthis against the Americans are saying that if they are united and prepared to fight, they can win.  Israel is a Mickey Mouse without the Americans and the hype.

Tariff war disrupts all supply chains and has to be reset again

 Even if the tariffs are dismantled today by the USA and China, cancelled contracts have to be renegotiated and forged with Chinese manufacturers by Amazon, Walmart, Target among others. That takes time - time for getting the components to make the products ready for shipment, time for the ships to set sail, time to get back laid off workers at ports to work the cranes if they are still around and have not found alternative jobs. Who is more desperate in the meanwhile? USA consumers waiting for retailers to restock empty shelves or Chinese manufacturers waiting for orders to continue production?

That is provided also that Chinese manufacturers have not committed themselves to Global South customers that is giving them a more stable business deal rather than an uncomfortable feeling dealing with the USA that can turn around any time. I think Chinese manufacturers are now going to look at trade with the USA using a different pair of lenses.

Businesses can be destroyed permanently when customers found new sources which they would not have tried to make use of before and finding them more beneficial to continue to do so. The lesson from the COVID era is one good example of how online shopping takes off during the lockdown and cannibalized the traditional shopping for products at malls. Everything can be had with the press of a button.

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American working class liberated...no more working class, all not working, all jobless

 Some USA farmers were liberated earlier during Trump's first term. Some USA truckers are now getting liberated. Some USA dock workers are now also getting liberated. 20,000 UPS parcel deliverers are getting liberated, with UPS setting the tone. They are all celebrating 'Liberations Day' in the USA.

Not to forget about some USA Federal workers also getting liberated by Musk earlier, who himself volunteered liberation from DOGE. Soon, Walmart, Amazon and Target will be liberating more people as the supply chain breaks down. Their chance to celebrate will some soon.

Trump has been winning in so many ways: he has lost count of the number of countries he is negotiating with and rounded it to 200. Trump will probably gloat that those who negotiated with him will go away very happy and contented, after a wonderful and eventful experience kissing his arse. Never would they be able to have another chance to savor the wonderful, beautiful and great experience kissing his beautiful arse, LOL.

I think all fairy tales have to have an ending sooner or later.

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