Trump point a gun at countries to invest in America

If I were China, helping the USA would be the last country that should be helped. Other than that, I would also mention Mexico, Italy and Argentina. These are snakes in the eagle's shadow that are turning around to bite China.
If I were China, helping countries in BRICS should be the absolute priority. And with that Vietnam, Myanmar and other friendly South-East Asian countries comes to mind for Chinese investments. I mentioned 'friendly' to distinguish some that are less than friendly and could be traitorous.

Further than those, there are countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other countries like Nepal and Bhutan eager to progress with more foreign investments. Not to forget those friendly countries in Africa as well.

The world is so big, and the Global South so full of opportunities that China can do business with. If the West wants to close their borders to Chinese investments, other doors will willingly open up.

Trump is using high handed tactics against Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to invest more in the USA to help with Trump's manufacturing push. Those touted investments were all part of the deal over tariffs with arm twisting so blatant that TSMC is nervous about shifting 50% of its chip production to the USA, which means even the high-end stuff that the USA is looking at with green eyes. If TSMC goes to the USA, Taiwan is no longer of strategic importance to the USA. Keep that in mind.

Amidst all the rosy picture painted by the USA about chip manufacturing in Arizona, China can easily take care of them by cutting off rare earth minerals essential for chip production. Right now, Arizona does not even have the supply chains necessary for making chips and TSMC is reported to be shipping chemicals and even super pure water from Taiwan to Arizona to keep its chip production moving. Just imagine the costs involved and what those chips are going to cost. What markets are they looking at? Enough said.


Anonymous

Musing of an average Singaporean

Just think of the hassles now of having children.

From childcare to the kindergarten and then to primary schools where the parents had to do their unpleasant things just for the sake of getting their children to choices of their own and get penalised and even jailed for them.

Then the exams wow PSLE. Our time already chiak lat.

Have to lie up for passes for the children to listen to some lecturers or tutors on how to do well in the Imperial Exams.

Went to several big Bookshops and other stationery shops to get Ten Years Series for them to mark and study.

Okay managed to advance to Secondary Schools so what's!

NOT really the Elites ones where the Creams of our Connected Elites are all in league to take care of their own.

What's nonsense Alumni and preferences for their own!

Just like the Castes System of India.

They Brahmins the rest Dailits.

Then okay if children capable enough to further to Polys and Unis so what!

What's meritocratic based on the capables! BS it's Connections!

Many capable ones still doing menial jobs due to their Dailts class.

Those lower incomes ones the school transport fares already can kill you.

Have to eat a packet of $3.00 nasi lemak with a piece of ikan kuning for the sake of their children.

For drink just tap water.

When you lived up to the Seventies now you see the whole wide world of BS equality and fairness.

That's why so many Smart ones now preferred to be singles than look for unnecessary troubles and problems.

Nowadays young grandparents don't want to take care of their own grandchildren unlike our forefathers and mothers time.

Now too much electrocuted, oops Educated and had lives to enjoy on their own. Many had not enough monies as bled by the young generation and helped by the Government in having their meagre dirt cheap properties been sold by the millions and brought by the NEW POOR generation

Also if married if you are lucky have Good and understanding in laws.

If have those like Dotard Trump and their alike you are dead meats

Endless quarrels and tortures.

That's why my two children are SINGLE to my relief.


Virgo49

China is coming, to conquer America?

 This is the American lie that is being spread to create fear among the Americans, like a similar lie that the Russians are going to run across Europe, to conquer Europe. The hillbillies may believe in this lie. The Anglophiles across the world also believe in this lie and build up a fear and hatred for China and Chinese. Historically, the Chinese had never cause harm to any western nation states. The American elites, the Empire believers, may think or believe that the Chinese are like them, always thinking of building empires, to conquer, control and rule the world, by suppressing other races or civilisations. This may be the thinking of the white men, the former colonialists and empire builders. But the Chinese did not have such a DNA. Conquering and dominating over other countries were never in the history of the Chinese Civilisation.

If China is a conquering race, China could have built a bigger and more expansive empire than the West when they were the richest and strongest country in the world. China did not but instead choose to be an agrarian society. Military traits were never revel by the Chinese people which resulted in China becoming a weak state militarily and easily conquered by smaller neighbouring martial tribes like the Mongols and the Qing and almost conquered by Japan. The hundred years of humiliation and two hundred years of oppression and suffering under foreign invasion and occupation have taught the Chinese that being civilised and cultured, in arts and literature, is a very dangerous state of existence without military power to protect themselves. China is rebuilding itself today, militarily and economically, not for conquest and empire building like the West, but for rejuvenation and prosperity for its own people, to live a better life in peace, security and harmony with the world. No more barbarians to invade China freely.

If China harbours the ambition of empires and dominating over the world, the countries that would fall victims to China would be its immediate neighbours like those in Central Asia and Southeast Asia. None of these countries have been attacked and colonised by China and are happily coexisting and trading with China. Why would China think of sailing across the Pacific Ocean or across central Asia to conquer America and Europe? Even Russia does not have to and does not need to with its overwhelming land mass that it cannot even make full use of its potential.

Only the western European tribes have this mindset of conquering countries and lands and controlling and ruling over other civilisations. The white men should not fool their people and the people of the world that China or Russia are about to conquer America or Europe. It is the white men that are still harbouring this savage ambition to want to conquer and rule the world.

Today's world is totally different from the primitive, disunited and underdeveloped world of the colonial days. No country can conquer any country and rule over them anymore. They could do it for a while, temporarily but not for long. The indigenous population would not allow it, would rise to fight for their freedom and independence. And there will be foreign powers that would come to their aid to fight the invaders and oppressors.

The Chinese are too smart for that, after learning and studying the empires for years. Only the daft in the capitals of America and the West are still thinking they could relive their empire and colonial days, by exploiting the world for their own benefits and high living at the expenses of others.

China is not coming to conquer America. This is a sick lie good enough to fool the braindead hillbillies and rednecks and the silly Anglophiles that think they are whites, and the world should be ruled by white men. The Russians too do not need to conquer Europe to live well. Conquering Europe or America is inviting self destructions or unending warfare for decades and would end in defeat.

The world needs peace and economic prosperity through cooperation and peaceful coexistence, not more lies and more wars, more terrorism, more invasion and coercion by big evil terrorist states like the America and the West. The devils must not spread lies to demonise the innocent and use them to justify their evil ways, to dominate and control the world to do their bidding.

Trump and his gangsters are amassing big military forces to invade and conquer Venezuela while helping the Israelis to conquer the Middle East. Temporarily they are holding back and having second thoughts on conquering Russia, knowing that their plans have failed. Russia is too strong to be taken over. The Americans and the Europeans want to conquer and take over Russia, not Russia wanting to conquer Europe. They also want to take over China, not China wants to conquer America or Europe.

Why Xi wants to help Trump who is out to kill China?

About the aid to Argentina, it is all part of Trump's 'Art of the Deal', that only Trump knows how it operates. Besides bankrupting USA, Trump is about to bankrupt Argentina - his seventh and eighth bankruptcy to be added to his feathered cap.

Yet, the other clowns in his administration are urging him on, cheering him to push the USA over edge of the cliff. Instead of advising him and correcting him to take the correct path, they are just fawning and massaging his ego right in front of him to garner loyalty points.

Manufacturing is not moving into the USA when tariffs are making raw materials like steel and aluminum too expensive for making things inside the USA to be meaningfully competitive. Job creation is not what is as reported but just a mirage that is soon to disappear months down the road. We now know job creation is a gas balloon being blown up into grotesque proportions for boasting purposes. Other countries are not paying the tariffs and internally USA consumers are footing the bill. Tens of billions are being collected from USA consumers, not from exporters in other countries. More fun is on the cards as the USA moves nearer to the end of the year.

Trump is in desperate straits as farmers are clueless how to deal with agricultural produce like soya beans and corn that have just been harvested but lying in warehouses and silos waiting to rot instead of having been shipped out. Trump is now pressuring China to buy more, but why would China oblige when Trump is out to destroy China. Buying from Russia and Brazil is now more meaningful and caring for countries inside BRICS supporting de-dollarization. China will never let such an opportunity be hijacked by helping Trump out of his trouble. Why help a country that is not grateful for the help as during the 2008 financial crisis, and who has turned around to do China in. Only stupid countries will do that.


Anonymous

India will never reconcile with China

 India's relation with China is unlikely to be reconciled for a long time to come. The problem is on the side of India rather than from China. China has been throwing the olive branch to India many times but was rudely snubbed by India. India's border problems with China cannot be resolved as the premises for India's claim, based on lines drawn by the British during the height of British colonialism cannot and will not be acceptable to China. When China did not agree to British annexation by force, there is no reason for China to allow India to claim Chinese lands that were taken by the British. Period. But India is intransigent, thinking and behaving as if India is the inheritance of the British Empire and what the British seized now belongs to India. India is another big empire, the Bharat Empire. And India will take what it wants or what it claims according to India's interpretation of things. In other words, India's rules of law.

India also suffered from this inferior or superior complex over China. While China is clinging to its developing status, while the Americans wanted China to rescind this as an unfair advantage, that China must revert itself to the status of a developed state, India cannot stomach China as a developed nation while India is struggling in the third world. India is still sneering and wanting to believe that China is a developing nation, worse off than India. Indian cities are much better than China in everything, even in high speed trains and aircraft carriers and 5th gen fighters. India's 5th gen fighter is still on the drawing board. China is flying 6th gen fighters and bombers every day, but India's 5th gen fighter will destroy China's 6th fighters.

To India, China is a developing state just like India, and ranking about 50 in per capita count, speaking and sneering China for that, ignoring its own ranking in per capita count, probably right at the bottom of the ladder., poorer than many African states, definitely lower than Bangladesh. To India, it is all about national pride, that India cannot be a loser to China. India is better than China, must be better than China.  India is the empire to rule Asia, not China.

India arrogantly dismissed China as a country without friends, as if India has a lot of friends. How many of India's neighbours can be called India's friends? How many of China's neighbours can be called China's friends? In many instances, India rudely told China that it is not a friend of China. This is how arrogant and unfriendly are the Indians to China. And silly Chinese leaders still trying their best to appease India, wanting to curry favour of Indian leaders. Why would a world superpower want to tolerate the arrogance of a toddy intoxicated Mickey Mouse?

China should stop trying to appease India, thinking that India can become China's friend. Even after being slapped and kicked around by Trump, India is hoping against all hopes to be on good terms again with the Americans so that it can turn hostile to China again. China should give up all delusions that India can be a friend. The earlier the better.

It would be better for China to ignore India completely, even stop trading with India. China does not need India's trade and can trade with the rest of world. Just keep India at a distance. India wants to buy Chinese products, sell them, COD. Nothing less. There is absolutely no reason for China to want to invest in India and be robbed bankrupt. Period. India without China trade would fall deeper into the abyss. Can't imagine what kind of trade India will have without China supplying all the raw material and components and all the cheap consumer goods. Can't imagine what kind of mobile phones would the Indians be using if Chinese companies stop selling mobile phones to India, no Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo etc etc. What would happen if China stopped selling EV cars and buses to India?

Would the Indians be queuing up to buy Apple phones, buy Mercedes and BMWs? They cannot even afford Toyotas or Hondas. How are India's manufacturing and assembly plants going to run without inputs from China? Despite the overdependence and reliance on China, India expects China to continue to sell to India while India takes the stand that China is enemy and would not want to reconcile with China and would not give up its claims on Chinese lands stolen by the Brits which India thinks it has automatic rights to inheritance of British stolen assets.

Some countries can be won over as friends of China. Even America can be won over despite the huge number of hillbillies and white supremacists and racists. There are enough reasonable and clear thinking Americans that would come around to accept that a compromise for peaceful coexistence with China is the lesser evil. As far as India is concerned, the stubbornness, arrogance and deeply rooted hatred for China, especially after the 1962 War cannot be erased from the Indian memory. After failing to steal Chinese land by invasion, the official India narrative was rewritten to blame China for the invasion, just like Operation Sindoor.

India's pompousness in challenging China, parroting the American vicious lie, can China be trusted? China should simply ask India the same question, can India be trusted? More than 150 nations are China's top trading partners. What does it say about trust? How many nations are India's top trading partners? Even Trump, supposedly India's good friend, did not trust India. How many countries are investing billions and billions in China instead of India? If these countries or companies did not trust China, they would not throw good money into China. How many companies are pulling out of India after investing in India? Don't they trust their monies in India anymore?

Operation Sindoor is India's way of telling the world that it cannot be trusted. It was caught red handed, as good as with its pants down, when so many aircraft were shot down by Pakistan, but India audaciously said no, that it was the one that shot down several Pakistan aircraft to the bewilderment of the world. How to trust India when they lied in front of the world when the evidence is all there for the whole world to see, when the Americans, French and the West all called India's bluff?

It is like two persons inside a lift, an Indian and another. Then one farted. The other person knew very well that he didn't. But the Indian swears that he did not, not me, not me.