Trump lying or cannot count?

According to reports, about 150 countries are now just ignoring Trump's arse kissing exercise and moving away from trade with the USA. Even Singapore has just seen a huge influx of ships calling, resulting in delays of a day and a half for clearance. Why is there a sudden upsurge in vessels calling around countries in the region instead of going to dock at empty ports around the USA? Think about it!

Trump is mad about countries not going to Washington to kiss his dirty arse. Most are not a silly as some cronies and allies rushing to Washington and getting the wrong end of the stick. So desperate is Trump that he is issuing notice of tariff going to be shafted down the throats of those countries not paying obeyance to his edit to go to Washington to do his arse kissing demand.

That brings me to the earlier gloating that 200 countries are already queuing up to negotiate with Trump. How come there are yet another 150 countries not in the queue? How many countries are there in the whole world? Not more than 195 that are inhabited by humans, and if taking out those exempted like the Vatican, Russia, Belarus and Cuba, the queue is longer than the number of countries in existence. Unless Trump takes in all those islands inhabited by penguins, seals, crabs and monkeys. Sorry, I do not know how many there are. Now Trump is issuing notice to humans, penguins, seals and monkeys that he is shafting his tariffs down their throats. Wonder what the monkeys will say. Monkey see, monkey do, LOL.


Anonymous

Stupid Modi...should have used F16s to bomb Pakistan on ground of fighting terrorism

That was how the USA lost the war in Afghanistan. F16s to fight the Taliban bearing small arms also failed to overcome them. The USA were then flying F16s all over Afghanistan trying to frighten the Taliban farmers but failed to cripple them. How to use F16s against more sophisticated weapons in the hands of the Pakistanis? Therefore, they have to be grounded in order not to lose face like the French.
But then, India claims the attack in Pahalgam was a terrorist attack. Why not allow India to use the F16s to fight the terrorist, a task the F16s were touted to be for? Illogical argument isn't it, to keep the F16s grounded. How is the USA going to spin the story if India is going to ask the difficult questions? India is very unhappy with the USA now over Trump taking credit for the truce between India and Pakistan, releasing the official claim of the jets shot down by Pakistan and Trump telling Apple not to have further investments in India. I think it is time for India to say enough is enough.

What Jeffrey Sachs warned India against playing the USA game is becoming true and if India does not heed the advice, too bad. The F16 sales were probably arm twisted by Trump during Modi's arse kissing attempt in Washington ahead of everyone else. It was supposed to be a move to cut the trade imbalance between India and USA and what else is more radical and effective than the sale of expensive weapons to India.

Now the Rafales are grounded and the F16 rendered impotent. And there is still talk of another war breaking out between Pakistan and India.

I like the analogy of the Native American Indians that if you see two fish fighting in a pool of water, look around and you will see a White man standing nearby, waiting to reap the benefits. Probably a fish meal, LOL.


Anonymous

China will benefit from Trump's war on the academia

Trump is at war with the USA. Now Trump is weaponizing higher education against the world. Fancy that?

Trump is now at war with foreign students studying in the USA, with Harvard setting the tone. This is going to cripple the USA in need of foreign talents and Trump is trying to lure back manufacturing of higher tech industries. Let us be very clear. Many of the cutting-edge innovations in the past were initiated by and attributed to foreign talents who studied and stayed back to help the USA's development. Just search back and you will see what I mean. Rocketry, nuclear weapons, semiconductors among a few others are just examples.

Trump's war on foreign students studying in USA is going to benefit China, Canada, Australia and Europe. Even Hong Kong is already jumping on the move to attract students in the face of the clampdown by Trump on foreign students. And Chinese universities are not just watching by the wayside.

Chinese universities are rising up the global rankings, with academics culled from those that left the USA in the face of ostracization and demonization. They benefitted Chinese universities more than what Beijing is hoping for. Why not? All readily trained, highly experienced and paid for to acquire their knowledge that the Chinese do not have to burden themselves with. Who is smart and who is dumb is clear for all to see.

Now, the exodus of academics and R & D personnel from USA universities will take on a new impetus. As foreign students are prevented from studying in USA universities, departments will probably have to be trimmed, academics will also be laid off, with some moving to China for sure. So let us enjoy the show of another session of foot shooting.

Anonymous

Dictator Trump NOT a dictator?

Fox news host confused over Trump's plan to jail Americans abroad

Brit Hume (pictured), 81, the network's Chief Political Analyst, said: 'I don't know what the president is talking about' after Trump appeared shocked and angry to hear about the Russian leader's latest airstrikes in Ukraine....

'... But I don't think Putin has changed, I don't know what the president is talking about. This is the way Putin has always been. He's always been a particularly brutal dictator, willing to take any measures he thought necessary to advance his interests. (Is Hume referring to Trump or Putin?)

Trump made a U-turn on his usual support for Putin when he appeared shocked and angry to hear that Russian airstrikes had killed at least a dozen people in Kyiv over the weekend. 'I don't know what the hell happened to Putin,' Trump told reporters on Sunday. 'I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don't like it at all.'  

Trump wrote. 'He has gone absolutely CRAZY! He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I'm not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into Palestinian refugee camps, for no reason whatsoever.'  MSN

The above is a typical piece of crap coming from Fox News, calling Putin a dictator when the dictator is Trump in the White House. Yes, Trump will take any measures he thought necessary to advance his interests, like taking over Harvard University and in the process of taking over Gaza, Greenland, Canada, Mexico and Panama. Putin did not do this kind of things.

And Trump is shock with the shelling in Ukraine, killing a handful of Ukrainians but not shock with Netanyahu, the war criminal, his best friend, massacring the Palestinians everyday, with a supposedly count of 50,000 but really could be in the 200,000. Not shocking? Netanyahu is hundreds of times more evil and dictatorial than Putin.

Would dictator Trump put a stop to the genocide in Gaza? Never, he is part of the gang killing the Palestinians and his reward, is a piece of Gaza for the Trump family to develop into a real estate for profit.

And many Anglophiles in ASEAN love and trust Trump and the Americans for massacring Muslims.

China's strategic partnership with the Muslim world

 The critical role of China in bringing about peace and cooperation among the Arab and Muslim states has an immense strategic impact on the rise of the Muslim world. After decades of being manipulated by the West in endless bickering and conflict between the Arab and Muslim states, today we are seeing peace and cooperation that was once thought impossible before. A stable and peaceful Arab and Muslim world would pave the way for more economic growth and development instead of wasteful fighting and loss of lives and turning many of them into dysfunctional states engineered by the Americans and the Israelis. For now, unless the Americans and Israelis manage to incite more enmity among the Arab and Muslim states, caveat, the Americans and Israelis did not go on a rampage to create a Greater Israel, there will be peace in the Middle East, except for Palestine. Palestine is as good as a lost cause.

Pakistan's fate is shining since the victory over India in the 4 day war. Not only that Pakistan came out on top, Pakistan's Air Force is given an added boost with the arrival of the 6th gen J35s, fast track to be in August 2025. The Pakistan Air Force would on paper be in possession of the most advanced stealth fighter jet with no competition in Asia. India would no longer be able to blow hot and cold at Pakistan, threatening to invade and wipe out Pakistan. Even if India were to acquire the dud F35s from the Americans, a big if, Pakistan has nothing to fear.  China is doing everything possible for Pakistan in a way similar to what the Americans are doing to Israel. Don't think the Americans would do the same for India.

As far as acquisition of advanced military weapons is concerned, many countries can only buy from the open shelves and getting the dated or leftovers that the Americans and the West were willing to spare, and mostly substandard with downgraded weapons that cannot harm the Americans or their allies. China is offering Pakistan the best available to defend itself against the best in the West. Pakistan is getting to deploy the J35s at the same time as China is deploying this aircraft to the PLA.

China is also taking a very active and positive role in supporting and protecting African countries under threats from the West, especially the Americans and the French. Traore and Burkina Faso would have been history if China, Russia, Turkey, Iran, North Korea and many others did not firmly back him up with financial, technology and military support. Supporting Traore and Burkina Faso is like supporting the flame of a new Africa, to be really free and independent from the colonial West. 

Burkina Faso's success and stability is a shining beacon of hope for the rest of Africa. One by one they are rallying behind Burkina Faso for an independent Africa. All the African puppets of Western powers would be taken down by the day. One by one would be overthrown by the Africans. The Africans are dead set on chasing out all the western military presence in Africa, to build an Africa for Africans.

Africa is rising as the next big centre of economic growth, caveat, they can survive the onslaught of the West to want to continue to rule over them. The American military Africa Command is not in Africa to make love with the Africans. It is there to rule over Africa. Africa cannot break free alone as militarily they are still no match for the combined forces of the West. This is not an easy war for Africa to win. 

The success of Africa and the Arab and Muslim world would add another two strong pillars in the new multipolar world. BRICS and the Global South need Africa and the Muslim Arab world as much as the latter two needed them to create a better and more equitable world for tomorrow.

China is now ready to stand up for Africa, for the Muslim world and the Global South against western Imperialism and colonialism.