When the shit hits the fan, the USA needs China more than what China needs from the USA

USA tried to bully China in many areas, but what is the result?

Trump wanted to start a trade war with China, and he got it. China retaliated by ditching USA soya beans and corn and buying from other sources, giving countries like Brazil and Russia more business within BRICS and helping with de-dollarization, killing two birds with one stone. Now, Scott Bessant is almost in tears accusing China of using agriculture to hold USA farmers hostage. Is he really serious? What about the USA holding China hostage over high-end chips and technology? Who started the trade war and now who is suffering the consequences? Why is Scott Bessant whining about farmers being held hostage while the USA is doing exactly the same thing to China in chips.

Now, trade between China and the USA has dropped significantly due to the tariffs. China now has no qualms about decoupling from the USA, while the USA is now caught in its own trap. China already warned it is ready for any war with the USA. Is Scott Bessant going to blame China for the drop in trade between the two countries? Who started the tariff nonsense? Now, who is suffering the consequences?

USA consumers and retailers need Chinese products for the end of year festive season and has difficulty sourcing for similar products elsewhere. China has little problem with imports from the USA that it can't buy from elsewhere like energy from Russia and Iran and is thus not too worried about the declining two- way trade.

When the shit hits the fan, the USA needs China more than what China needs from the USA. This has been proclaimed loud and clear by the desperation shown by Scott Bessant regarding the plight of USA farmers. But, too bad, the Chinese market is gone for them forever.


Anonymous

Parallel system to bypass American sanctions

  BRICS and the SCO have been working feverishly to come up with alternative systems to run parallel to the existing American and western controlled world order. Dedollarisation, alternative financial systems, trading systems, Global position system, telecommunication system, even systems to replace Google, Facebook, Android, etc etc. The rest of the world needs to be free from the domination and oppression of the Americans and the West. As it is today, the Americans are holding the world in ransom with threats, sanctions, embargoes, military interventions and wars. Be American doggies or else....

The earlier BRICS and SCO can come up with these parallel systems, the earlier the rest of the world can be free from American bullying and oppression. Many systems are now in operation and working fine and would soon replace what the Americans and the West have put in place. It is not easy to walk away from the current world order as the Americans are going to play rough. Trump has renamed his Defence Ministry as a Department of War, sending a clear message that war is coming from the Americans. The first victim is likely to be Venezuela. Russia and China are watching closely to defend Venezuela and words and diplomacy would come up short if the Americans decided to invade Venezuela.

The military display by China in Victory Day would mean nothing if China is not ready to play its part, to face up to the Americans militarily.  Venezuela may be a bridge too far for China. The logistics and supply chains are strongly against China.

Other than a military confrontation with the Americans, with the Americans still having a lot of advantages, other means of breaking free from the American hegemony are safer alternatives. The Americans could bully and threaten the world by sanctions and the weaponisation of the dollar and the financial system. These are only effective if countries have to trade with the Americans and fear sanctions and being cut off from the dollar and financial system.

While parallel systems by BRICS and SCO could be options, countries can also create parallel systems or find ways to by pass the American threat. Stopping trade and not using the dollar are ways to go. Countries can also set up companies specifically to trade with each other, trade on goods and products banned by the Americans. Let the Americans ban these companies for all they want while others can keep safe by not giving the Americans a reason to ban or sanction them. Yes, parallel list of companies  to trade in a parallel system on prohibited or banned products and items can exist side by side with the rest. Caveat, silly governments must not yield to American pressure to arrest operators of these parallel companies. At worst, let them cease operation and operate under new companies with new names and on and on. Let the Americans go on a wild goose chase. Just close one eye like what the Americans are doing to their own banks involved in money laundering big time.

Learn from the treacherous and hypocritical Americans. The CIA is a good example of an organisation operating parallel from the legal system, untouchable by law, with the Americans not wanting to know what they are doing. Nothing seen, nothing heard, so never mind. Never exist, no crimes.

The good life turning Singaporeans soft...rugged society?

 Commentary: The race to stack internships is hurting young people

The push to take up internships at a young age pressures teens into working before they even know themselves, says CNA's Izza Haziqah.

SINGAPORE: “How many internships did you do?” That was one of the first questions a student from my alma mater asked me when we met at a recent book club.

When I replied, “Just one, in university,” his eyes widened.

He had already completed two internships even before starting his second year, and he still felt like he was falling behind.

This kind of pressure is increasingly common among young people in Singapore amid anxieties about employability. CNA

Our young are so poor things. They need more sayang sayang for being forced to work at such tender age. Why pushed them so hard? Why not let them enjoy their lives, enjoy K pops, J pops, more clubbings, more vapings?

A few decades ago there was a rugged society campaign. Now it is lost in the memories of the senior citizens. In the 1950s, things were quite different. Everyday, mothers, grandmothers and children as young as 6 or 7 years would go out in tow, like going for a picnic, but actually stomping into factories to sieve coffee beans. The whole family would sit around a mat and the mothers or grandmothers would cart a bag of coffee beans to be sorted out. Every member of the family would be busy picking out the spoilt beans, debris from the piles of coffee beans. When fully sorted out, the family would be paid a dollar or two for each bag of clean and good beans. That was life in the 1950s.

Children that did not do well in primary schools, or did not like studies were not a problem. The parents would send them to the kopitiams to serve kopis to feed themselves, a big relief to the family. And some would end up carrying a piece of bamboo and stick, walking around the kampong, hitting the bamboo, tok tik tok, tok tik tok, in search of customers to buy a bowl of noodles. They will carry the bowl of noodles to the customers in their homes, for 20c a bowl. The young boys, probably pre teens or in their early teens, would get a few dollars a month for their effort or jobs. No body complained about child labour and life being tough for the young boys.

For those that were more able, finishing Senior Cambridge was the final hurdle to start job hunting to supplement the family's income. At 16 or 17, many would take on the burden to upkeep the family and looking after their younger siblings. What internship? Getting a job was like striking lottery.

The plight of today's young, to be forced into internship, is a luxury that pioneering generation Singaporeans did not have and would not complain about. To the pioneering generations, getting a job, any job, after Senior Cambridge, ie O level, was a big achievement, a big step in life to shoulder more responsibilities.

The strawberry generation never had it so good. Are they complaining or are their parents complaining that life is too harsh for them?

Trump making deals with himself

When Trump talks about days from a deal, better write them off as hearsay he got from some imaginary character in his demented mind during his sleep the night before, nothing else.
When has Trump ever did things on schedule as gloated, always having extensions made over and over, corrections made later over and over, new terms added or removed over and over, sometimes one step forward and two steps back. USA citizens called him TACO for a good reason.

Trump is always just talking to himself, making deals with himself. All over social media, the talk is that Trump has been made a fool of by Putin and Xi, manhandled by Netanyahu, and yet he thinks he has the upper hand. Those on the upper hand do not show any desperation for a meeting with his opponents but just wait for opponents to reach out to him. Does Trump's behavior show he is on the upper hand?

Now, even South Korea is not bending over under Trump's threat of paying the US$350 billion investment upfront. South Korean workers who were arrested like criminals by ICE are not even interested in returning to work on the Hyundai plant.

Trump is so stupid that he is not even aware that he is the butt of insults delivered by Lee Jae-myung in the Oval Office earlier, who asked Trump if he is going to build a Trump Tower and casino in North Korea when the time comes to talk to Kim Jung Un. Everyone saw the insult, except Trump and his sycophants.

Byte Dance is not selling the whole global reach of Tik Tok, only the USA operation. This is just to disable Tik Tok dispensing information about the genocides in Gaza that USA citizens are being cut off. This is one area that Israel wants to censor, as it is instrumental to its continued support by the USA Congress.

Ironically, USA is giving US$20 billion aid to Argentina when it is facing shutdown right now. The question is how Argentina is going to repay that loan, knowing that it is even unable to service its IMF loan taken ages ago. It is no more than throwing borrowed money after equally bad money.


Anonymous

Trump claims China is selling Tik Tok to US for a song at just 14 Billion Dollars.

US claims China is selling TikTok to US for a song at just 14 Billion Dollars while Wall Street assess it as worth over $US400 Billion in market value

Why is China selling Tik Tok to United States for a song at iust 14 billion dollars as Trump claims while Wall Street assess it as worth more than 400 Billion Dollars in market value.

It's too good to be true, Only fools will believe that. Anyway. Tik Tok is not for Sale. China and all Chinese people will not allow that to happen. President Xi Jing Ping must be a moron to suddenly allow US to grab Tik Tok almost for free and thus be cursed by all chinese for generations to come. No, President Xi Jing Ping is smarter and wiser than the neurotic Trump and Americans think. Tik Tok is the pride, the darling and the spirit of the proud Chinese nation and all Chinese people. So China will definitely not sell Tik Tok to outsiders and less so to psychopath Anglo-Saxon United States.

If Tik Tok falls into US hands it will just use it as another weapon to control and enslave the whole world. The US government is a savage duopoly dictatorship controlled by the oligarchy Deep State of Wall Street business and commercial tycoons and their partners in the Pentagon Military Industrial Com[lex. So as can be seen US is not a free country.

The US government is barbaric, wild and bellicose. It is a buccanic piratical dictatorial state with extremely hawkish bellicose governance. It is the most untrustworthy and most unreliable authoritarian state and can never be trusted in any dealings or agreements both verbal or written.

Therefore it can be sure China will not be trapped to sell Tik Tok to the warmongering hawks of the United States.

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