Trump TKO Musk...Wisdom is not directly proportionally to wealth

 In the ring, Trump the old man threw a punch at the bigger and younger Musk and gave him a black eye. This is like an American wrestling hustling show, where the younger and bigger man must not hit back and must lose to the old man.

How many people could actually see this coming? During the run up to the MAGA Presidential election, Musk was the enthusiastic cheerleader, happier than all the girls in the cheering team. Musk was euphoric, like consuming drug and getting high. He was so happy that Trump won. He was delirious.

For a brief moment no one had any doubt about the Trump and Musk bromance. Musk even moved into the White House to be the room mate of Trump. When the dust settled, people started to wander how long would it last. It was too good to be true that Trump could really love somebody more than himself. But Musk had different idea. He thought his bromance with Trump was real and they would live happily thereafter.

Musk was so intoxicated or drugged, that he could do anything he wanted, even over stepping the line, while Trump was the Emperor. Well, good things do not last long. Or happy stories made in Hollywood are just fiction and the script can always be rewritten, with a sad or pathetic ending. How could Musk be so dumb not to see it coming is quite strange. Everyone thought, with his success in business, in building a trillion dollar empire, Musk cannot be that stupid to think he could run all over Trump.

The plot has just changed. The bromance made in Hollywood is turning into a battle of the thugs. It is going to be ugly, very ugly. Two of the world's most powerful men are going into the ring to slug it out. This time it is not entertainment wrestling. This time is for real. The black eye is gone. Now who is going to get the next black eye or be pummeled in the ring?

Take out your pop corns and beer and watch the show. It is guaranteed to be a money spinner, better than Neza, better than Avatar, starring Trump and Musk, the two richest stars ever. This is a treat worth waiting for, with a lot of sleaze, sex and grime and violence. It is PG rated.

Dotard Trump respected and only feared the STRONG

Dotard Trump as many like Mr Hunzi used to comment respected and only feared the STRONG.
Used to criticise and shame India for example for saddling and kowtowing to the UAssA.

Also like many idiots who invited it seemed to welcome the So-called Superior Americunts to their countries and gave them a platform to condemn and criticise and demonise others and kept smiling as the bad guy into the bad books of the countries that the Americunts do so.

See how Russia and even North Korea dared to retailate against the UAssA and that Dotard too fearful to go after their arses so frequently.

Wow just heard that over that doggie Media Corpse Radio that Xi okay to that Dotard and sounded that Trump 's Triumph and Xi behaved sheepishly whether this is true or not.

This Dotard can blared what he wanted and the Rest of the Daft World took his nonsense and gaslighting as the Gospel Truths.

China must follow the antics and bravado of Russia and North Korea and retaliate strongly against the Americunts provocations.

When the Americunts jets were to infringe and fly into their air space just like Russia shoot warning real shots and also let go their jets fuel like letting go shits on their jets.

Even flew and swooped over them like in close combats.

A bully never once go punched and floored would never ever think that they are NOT invincible.

China's Spokesperson always just politely said it's NOT the truths what's the Americunts had said or demonised them.

Just bring up all their damn dirty laundry and washed them off to shame.

Also have the guts to send their Military to any weak country that the UAss wanted to intimate.

This action would instill and inspire confidence the smaller and weaker nations shall look to China in the case that they are been intimated and bullied.

Forget the LAME U.N. aka United Nonsense and Lame Duck, a lackey of the UAssA.


Virgo49

US still bans chips and many exports to China. Why should China relent on rare earth exports and others to the US?

Things are developing and Xi and Trump have spoken on the phone at long last, with Trump going to visit Xi in Beijing, although both sides have so far not confirmed it. Pending confirmation, we just take it for the time being.

One or two interesting questions will arise in the minds of those watching the developments. Who initiated the call - Trump or Xi? My guess is, it surely could not be Xi, as he holds all the cards. The fact that Trump has to go to Beijing tells us who really holds the upper hand. The second question is who is now kissing the arse of whom from the facts we are seeing, if true? Trump has no sense of shame, while Xi is too proud to bow. Think about that.

This visit by Trump to Beijing shows his desperation and the miscalculation about de-coupling and trying to punish China, orchestrated by the toddlers in his administration. Scott Bessant is at his wits end how to deal with China, trying to mask his desperation by still trying to put on a charade of being in a position of strength. We can see the man's fear on his face when talking about China.

How this meeting will turn out, even with Trump trying to soften Xi with his fake praising gesture, is not going to settle issues without serious concessions by the USA. There appears to be two very important things that Trump is trying to extract from China - supply of rare earth elements and resumption of shipments of Chinese products, which has practically stopped altogether in the face of the 30% tariffs. Some USA ports are at a standstill, with dock workers and truckers out of jobs. Then there is the looming shortage of goods on the shelves of retail outlets like Walmart and Target, not to talk about the effect on Amazon with the ending of the below US$800 tariff-free purchase and delivery.

China must not and never compromise its future with any relaxation of rare earth element export, thus opening a loophole and allowing the USA to stockpile and develop its military capabilities that will be detrimental to China in any event of conflict. This should be China's non-negotiable red line whatever happens during the meeting of the two leaders.

As for the resumption of shipments of Chinese products, that is also dependent on the reduction of the 30% tariffs, otherwise no point for Chinese manufacturers to talk of resuming the supply chain. If Chinese manufacturers have already found alternative markets over the last month or so, the problem is not going to be any easier to fix, knowing the habit of Trump being liable to change his mind. That unreliable behavior of Trump makes selling to the USA a difficult market for future development.

All in all, I would not expect much to be extracted from either side. Adults making deals with toddlers can never be a good thing that will last.


Anonymous

American politicians are gangster that are good at lying, spinning and bullying

Does Marco Rubio even know about the genocides against the Native American Indians, even if he is educated and comes from a university in the USA. Maybe he knows but choose to ignore the facts, hoping that others do not see through his hypocrisy. There are those educated in the USA elite universities not knowing that cotton comes from a plant, not a sheep.

These USA politicians have been asked by many, on many occasions, to go back to school to get an education before shooting from their mouths. Trump is one of the perfect examples.

Now even Scott Bessant is telling the world that China's new stiff export regime of rare earth elements are curtailing world trade and development on purpose. That must be the mother of all lies. How does that compare to Trump trying to curtail global trade with his tariffs? Are they not done on purpose against the whole world and not only against China? Does China not have any logical reason not to retaliate? In Trump's delusional mind, whatever the USA do, no one must do the same to the USA. When Trump slapped levies on Chinese goods during trade war against China in his first term, he even warned China not to retaliate. Does China have to turn the other cheek for him to slap as well? China is not Germany or Japan that have to bow down when threatened by the USA. China is China, always the Middle Kingdom.

As I always say, people in glass houses should not throw stones. The USA had been throwing stones at everyone, and those stones are bouncing back to hit the USA. Not that stones are like rubber balls, but others do not really have to throw them back. The USA is destroying itself with its stone throwing.

In parting, some USA people are saying that Chinese products not landing on USA soil is good news for them to avoid buying junks after buying them for years. Did China put a gun to their heads to do so? Let us see how patriotic they will be when the shit hits the fan this Christmas season when even the Christmas tree decorations run out on shelves at Walmar and Target, with Amazon even not able to do deliveries of less than US$800 items without the added tariffs. It is going to be a dark Christmas for USA consumers for sure.


Anonymous

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.