Chip Ban versus Rare Earth Ban...Would China trade rare earth for crumbs?

 China always lose in negotiation with the Americans, at least till now. The Americans approach every negotiation from a position of strength, and the formula is very simple. For example, if the Americans want 10 items from China, they would slam China with 20 items before the negotiation, like bans or sanctions. The Chinese will come to the negotiation table to ask for 10 items in return for giving the Americans 10 items they demanded. The Americans give up 10 items for 10 items from the Chinese. Superficially it seems fair, 10 for 10. In reality the Chinese give up 10 items for nothing, and the Americans get 10 items plus another 10 items they put up before the negotiation, ie the Americans get 10 + 10 items.

This kind of negotiation has been going on for ages, with the Chinese looking silly and the Americans patting themselves on their backs and laughing at the stupidity of the Chinese, treating the Chinese as simpletons, country bumpkins. The Chinese have no choice as they were weak and depending a lot on the Americans. 

Today, China is no longer the weak and silly country bumpkins. Would China still accept such negotiating formula and walk out looking silly to the Americans after every negotiation? Were the Chinese really that stupid or just have to accept the short end of the stick in the past and would no longer want to continue with this one sided game?

The latest negotiation in Geneva ended with a temporary deal. Immediately after the deal, the Americans slammed China with new sanctions on chips and also imposed a world ban on the use of Huawei chips, dictating to all countries not to use Huawei chips or be charged for violating American laws. A few days later, Trump is accusing China of not following up with the agreements and not selling rare earth to America.

What is going on? What were really agreed upon in the Geneva deal? The Americans had slammed China with hundreds of bans and sanctions since the start of this trade and tariff war. And China only responded with the ban on rare earth sales. Did China agree to resume sale of rare earth and gets nothing from the Americans in return? What about the Americans lifting the ban on chips sale to China? Even this alone is not enough. China should demand the Americans to withdraw all sanctions and tariffs in return for the sales of rare earth. For this is the only item China threw at the Americans in response to the hundreds of items the Americans thrown at China, including banning Chinese students in American universities.

If China does not demand to return to square one, and accept a quid for quo, ie one item for one item, it is returning to the old formula used by the Americans mentioned in the introduction paragraph above.

China's one item, rare earth ban is against the hundreds of items the Americans slammed at China. For Americans not to withdraw the rest of the bans and sanctions, China is again the losing party, the fool that the Americans have made them out to be for centuries. This must change. China must not accept the old American formula and be cheated over and over again from a position of weakness and be laughed at by the Americans and the whole world as fools and simpletons.

Hope the Chinese would not fall into the same trap in the London Talk and negotiate only about what is in front of their nose and forget about how it all started and be happy with taking two back forgetting that the Americans have grabbed a hundred items from them. The negotiation must start from the Chip War and the Americans must roll back everything from square one. China should not go for a quick settlement.

China's newgen War God is a monster General 唐纳德·特朗普

 Modern China under the leadership of Mao Zedong had many brilliant generals that fought bravely against enemies with better and modern weapons and won. Since the end of the Korean War and the brief skirmishes with India and Vietnam, China has not been involved in any major wars and thus did not have the opportunity for great generals to rise to the occasion. Most of the Chinese generals have never been tested in modern wars and this has led the Americans to underestimate and under rate the ability of Chinese generals to wage wars in the same manner as how they under rate and underestimate the performance of Chinese weaponry, aircraft and warships.

Unknown to the rest of the world, China has a new War God, a general with the ability of a monster, unpredictable but very belligerent and often would act unconventionally, ruthlessly and recklessly to win wars by any means. This monster General never believes in defeat and always want to win, even by cheating and bragging. China has kept his existence as top secret until recently when he is quietly let lose to turn the world upside down. He is attacking the world in all fronts, he is attacking friends and enemies of the Americans with no restraint as he cannot be restrained. China knows he is dangerous, but in a tumultuous time like this, China has no choice but to unleash this monster General in the interest of China.

And this monster General does not fail the trust China has placed in him. He went on a full scale attack to bring down everyone, enemies and friends of America. One weakness of this monster General is that he is a no brainer, not very smart, but that does not stop him from attacking anyone or anything he deems fit. His cheating ways has no reasons and logic, but they worked very well like what the mafia used to do, lawless. He attacked America inside out and outside in and the Americans are clueless about what he is doing.

Europe is in deep trouble because of this monster General and is in crisis, both militarily and economically. Thanks to this monster General. He is even attacking America's colonies in East Asia, ie Japan and South Korea. In the western hemisphere, America's neighbours are in fear of him, not knowing what he would do next to attack them. This monster is turning the whole world against America, allies against America.

He is so unpredictable but cunning, that he is throwing America's domestic politics into chaos, turning Americans against Americans, destroying American industries, forcing them to close down and move overseas. He is destroying the livelihood of the average Americans and farmers and workers, creating unemployment and raising the cost of living.

The damage caused by this monster General is colossal. The Americans did not know how to fight him as his cheating and bullying ways always win. China is so happy with the destruction in the path of this monster General and is waiting to receive him back in Beijing and to award him with the highest honour of the country. Everything this monster did in the name of attacking China or against China is actually attacking and destroying America. This is how well trained this monster is, to mislead the daft hillbillies and the dumb supporters of Trump.

The monster's name is General 唐纳德·特朗普 aka Donald Trump, a mole trained and paid by the CCP to destroy America. He has succeeded beyond expectation in every level of American politics, society, industries, institutions and international relations.

Oops, oops, have I divulged a Top Secret?

USA and the West keep spinning lies of technological superiority. Oops, NASA is going to be sold to the junk yard

 The USA and the West can keep on pretending that China's weapons are no match for theirs. Foreigners can never understand Chinese mindsets, using theirs as the barometer. They are going to regret sooner or later, just like regretting taking their eyes off China for about 30 to 40 years and waking up to face a massive dilemma.

When China made fighter jets with wings, it was accused of copying the West. When China made vehicles with wheels, it was accused of copying the West. Whatever China made, it was always copying the West. Did the West copied anything from the Chinese I wonder?

China invented gunpowder that changed the landscape of war when the West used that to make guns and bombs. That was not copying? The Chinese invented paper, that was to revolutionize the landscape of education and books were written and printed en masse. The Chinese invented the compass that was to make navigation on the high seas a breeze and promote exploration.

China was never allowed access to the International Space Station but made its own Tiangong Space Station. Was that copying? China was never allowed to participate in research programs by the West and Japan on high tech and sensitive Western industrial monopolies, but China made its own rockets, jet engines, fighter jets, solar panels, wind turbines and EVs. If China is copying, how is it possible for China to be so advanced in telecommunication sector like 5G and leading in 6G? Oh, sorry the USA is now going into 7G to skip a generation and a half if they are on 5.5G now. The gap was so wide for them to catch up that they had to ban Huawei and forcing its doggies to do likewise.

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USA ambition to rule the world is over

USA ambition to rule the world is over, with even the US$ losing global support. Countries sitting on the fence better calibrate their loyalties and figure out who is buttering their bread, are more reliable and benevolent to their needs.

As I always been thinking, this coming conflict or world war will be about the Anglo-Saxon Whites against the colored people of the world - the Asians, Africans, South Americans and Middle Easterners.

There is going to be an escalation of the war in Ukraine, with Zelenskyy making the biggest mistake of his life by targeting Russian planes inside Russia with drones. And yet Zelenskyy is talking about a truce which will now never happen. Putin will take revenge, and it will be ugly, and Trump could not talk Putin out of it or do anything. Which country or countries in NATO wanted that to happen is still unclear. It was reported that the attack was carried out with the drones sent stealthily into Russia and launched from close to the airfield, rather than being flown from Ukraine to deep inside Russia which would have been shot down. True or not is left to be revealed officially. The real scenario is left to be discovered after investigation and whether traitors are involved.


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Clown Trump demands BRICS to cancel its non dollar trades

USA demands BRICS cancel its non-dollar trade. The word is 'demand' mind you. What a sick joke when BRICS was created solely for the purpose of de-dollarization. The USA can demand Japan, Germany or the G7 to follow its dictate, but BRICS is a different kettle of fish, being created by China and Russia, not the G7.

I still remember that the USA and some of its sycophants were touting loudly that BRICS de-dollarization move is a non-event, just a little irritant against the mighty US$, and that its de-dollarization agenda is stalling. Why is the USA now demanding that BRICS cancel its non-dollar trade? Is it really hurting the USA with its de-dollarization move, since it is not so successful and falling apart?

'I love it when the plan comes together' to quote John Hannibal Smith (played earlier by George Peppard) of the A team. So, BRICS's plan is really coming together, and it makes the USA nervous and desperate. Why not just rally the Anglo-Saxon White clique together to fight BRICS, which is the normal solution as happened with Huawei. But, alas, the USA is shooting its own foot by alienating even its Anglo-Saxon base, particularly the EU and expecting them to close ranks?

China does not make plans to fail. China makes long term plans that will evidently succeed, and de-dollarization using BRICS is one such plan. China makes plans with lots of background support, study and calibration, unlike the USA using tariffs to reshore manufacturing without any hint of preparedness and having no alternatives ready to put in place by shutting out Chinese products.

As I understand, the only big, beautiful and wonderful negotiation completed and reported so far is with the UK, that suffered the wrong end of the stick anyway. Who else is now negotiating? The penguins and seals that cannot deny being in the queue maybe, but certainly not China that has no qualms about putting the USA to shame by declaring about not being in negotiation with the USA despite all the gloating.

Now the USA is again waiting for the call from Xi, which is not coming after what the USA is doing to Chinese students studying in the USA, the further curbs by the USA on semiconductor software and the denial of further loans by USA entities to Chinese companies. Xi has all the time in the world to hold, while Trump has still a little more than three years to wait out his term for Xi's phone call.


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