Who is the USA to tell China or India who to buy oil from?

Who is the USA to tell China or India from where they can buy oil that is cheaper and more beneficial? China is not the obedient attack dog of the USA like the UK, EU, Australia, Japan and South Korea.

China knows who it can be friendly with and trade with and who it has to avoid. Russia is not making trouble for China, so why must China rake up animosity towards Russia by avoiding its discounted cheap oil? Both are member of BRICS, whose formation is all for an alternative trading bloc to rival the US$ bloc.

Having said that, if China and Russia go against each other, it will only benefit the USA and the Anglo-Saxon war mongers. The USA will still go after China, to collapse China by all means possible after dividing it from Russia, which is the profoundly immoral and wicked agenda of the war mongers.

The most important criteria for Russia and China to be able to stand in the way of the USA and the Anglo-Saxon war mongers is to remain as close allies, an arrangement that the USA and the West is trying very hard to use all forms of propaganda to pry them apart.


Anonymous

China does not need snake oil salesmen to sell its technology

Like EVs, let us not talk about how great the plane is. I think the West would want to demonize it and call the jet a piece of junk. The taste of the pudding is always in the eating. The first taste of the Chinese military pudding that the world have tasted so far is in the India/Pakistan conflict. How could that be allowed to happen, they must be wondering, with the J10C putting the world renowned Rafale jet to shame.

Well, people must also wonder how did China progress so fast over the last three or four decades. Didn't the West also said that Chinese can never be better than chefs and laundrymen? Only White men have the ability to produce the best things - go to the moon, produce the best fighter jets, build space stations, produce the best cars, rockets and ships.

But it is good to just let the shock and awe do the talking. What is good does not need to be broadcasted worldwide. As the saying goes, never let your enemy know your strengths. Let them assume you are weak and find out the bitter truth when the time comes. China must never follow the footsteps of India by broadcasting its factory of the world ambitions and the next superpower of the world dream. It does not pay to do so.

Silence is golden and empty vessels make the most noise.


Anonymous

India's 50% tariff is another 911 moment

 Trump turning against India, the world's biggest democracy, the most useful pawn to throw at China, and also a member of QUAD, is a defining moment in Trump's policy against China. What is Trump telling India and the world? No monkeying around. Don't ever think of sitting on both sides of the fence and taking advantage of America. America will call the shot and do as I say. Trump must have told Modi in no uncertain terms, cut off buying Russian oil and get out of BRICS. Modi on the other hand, together with his glib tongue EAM Jaishanker, thought they could out talk the Americans and Trump and have the cake and eat it. Just a few wise cracks would win the Americans over and continue to sit in BRICS and QUAD. India is indispensable to both sides.

Trump just shattered India's wet dream. Stop your slippery talks and behave or else. And the 50% tariffs were slammed at India to the shock of Modi and Jaishanker. What happened, all the clever talks not working anymore?

Trump is telling the world, to all its allies and doggies, Americans mean business in wanting to put down China and Russia. This is an all out war. You are with us or against us. Act now.  All the American doggies must have got the message and shivering in their pants. Trump is telling them, coercing them to take sides. Period.

Would any American doggies still dare to allege that it was China that is forcing them to take sides, not the lovey dovey Americans? The Americans are not hiding anymore in coercing every country, friend or foe, to take sides. Signs of pressuring Singapore to take sides are everywhere. More serious actions will be taken, especially against Asean countries. No one can escape this, India is a big example, the punching bag of Trump. Staying neutral is as good as like India, sitting on the fence. No good. Unacceptable to Trump and the Americans.

As for now, India has hardened its stand, to be independent, not to be coerced by Trump. As an aspiring superpower, with all the Indians watching, with the whole world watching, India cannot yield to the threats of Trump. But for how long? 

Trump has escalated more hostile activities against China. More Chinese would be attacked and arrested in America and elsewhere around the world to force China to bend, to acquiesce. China would have to respond. Trump still thinks he has a lot of cards to play against China, when every card he used is failing.

China is the one with all the cards, not just rare earth. Trump's bank account in China is at risk of being exposed. Trump's business empire in China can also be targeted, banned or seized. Trump can play rough, China too can play rough. China does not have to follow the rules when dealing with a scoundrel, a rogue like Trump.

I am more concern about what would Trump do to Singapore. Singapore would not be spared for sure. Taking down an ex Singaporean CEO of Intel is the start. Fabricating lies about China attacking Singapore is another, and more to come. The Anglophiles must be rubbing their hands in glee. 10% tariff or more akan datang? What about our F35s?

The only Asean country that is very happy is the Philippines. Marcos is preparing to drag all the Pinoys to fight China on the side of the Americans...and declare martial law to rule for life.

Americans are forever wars. Only the brain dead Anglophiles cannot see this

The creation of would-be hotspots is all to provide the opportunity for the 'forever wars' doctrine of the USA. How else can there be 'forever wars' if such theaters were not created and put into place first and foremost?

In all honesty, how many wars have the USA created since its existence of just a couple of hundred years? Besides the Korean War, Vietnam War, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, Ukraine War and Middle East War, what common theme does these wars all have in reality? The USA involvement of course. There are a couple of others that the USA is looking at to start if the Ukraine War de-escalates.

China is of course the primary target with Iran just close behind. There are also attempts to instigate a war against Venezuela, all on the pretext of seizing its oil reserves. This agenda extended to Iraq years ago, with Iran's oil also targeted, with raising the nuke issue a very convenient excuse.

Russia and China closing ranks is probably not on the agenda of the USA. The USA was counting on the Russians not on the same wavelength as the Chinese in its divide and rule agenda. But Ukraine changed all that when the USA pushed Russia into the arms of China. Russia and China closing ranks is a formidable mountain for the USA to climb. Now the USA is pushing Iran into the orbit of Russia, with China providing the military impetus for Iran to counter Israel and the USA.

More fundamentally damaging is the USA pushing India towards Russia and discreetly towards cementing fractured ties between India and China as well. Karma works in mysterious ways, but unknowingly for the USA, it benefits world peace.


Anonymous

Ukraine War - Delay and distraction in Alaska to lull Putin to miscalculate

The meeting in Alaska will be just another charade. Nothing will come out of it. Just like the two meetings between Trump and Kim Jong Un. Absolutely wasted charade that costs much in monetary terms to Red Dot and Vietnam.

Putin will never cede territory he gained after sacrificing so much. And Putin is thinking of having a buffer zone set up inside Ukraine that is basically 'no man's land'. Zelenskyy on the other hand is demanding that Russia has to give up all territories, including Crimea. Now that is impossible, even in my simple thinking.

Then there are the Europeans adding fuel to the fire, talking about giving further aid to Zelenskyy and probably trying to sabotage any deal that they deemed not to their liking, just like Boris Johnson did earlier. Now, in the face of all these, what kind of a deal can Trump come up with?

The USA and the Europeans are just playing a game of 'Taichi' with the Europeans pushing and Trump pulling, pretending to give up messing in Ukraine. It is all a show, just a matter of delegating the continuation of the war from the USA to the Europeans to take care of, while Trump concentrates on the Middle East and China and taking credit where credit is not due like the war between India and Pakistan. Any other undue failure will be blamed on Joe Biden, who is probably wondering what Trump is blaming him for.

Let us just enjoy the clown show put up by the 'Circus Big Top'.


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