Xi is using the same tactics as that Dotard by announcing Some adverse news before their meeting.
For more than 40 years, China's economic growth is now reluctantly being acknowledged by the West as an economic miracle. China was reporting an average GDP growth rate of 10%, with several years above 10%. Not only that the numbers were telling, the general wellbeing of the Chinese people, but the infrastructure development of the country were also there for all to see. Still, the West is still spreading the lie that Chinese numbers cannot be trusted, the Chinese cannot be trusted. Only the fake numbers from the US and the West can be trusted. And the US economy is still rock solid, at 0.5% growth while China's economy is collapsing, at 5% growth rate.
The western media are still spreading all the lies that the Chinese economy is in big trouble while the American economy is all sound and well, despite trade numbers falling to negative, factories closing down, job losses, retail and service sectors collapsing, farmers and ranchers going bankrupt, sales of high end products falling by not wanting to sell to China.
On the other side of the fence, China is still the top trading partners of more than 150 countries around the world, Chinese EVs, mobile phones, solar panels, and consumer goods are selling like hotcakes. And Chinese trade surpluses have gone up from US$40b a month to US$100b a month. The numbers are closely monitored by the WTO and IMF and cannot be fake. China's own target for economic growth is 5% while the WTO, with its anti China biases, including all the western economic agencies are saying the number is 4.8%, with their obvious intent to write down Chinese growth. Still, the numbers are not very different.
And at the same time, India is providing figures of 7-8% growth, with all the concurrence of the western media. How real are the Indian numbers? How many countries are India's top trading partners? What are the great products that India is selling to the world other than cheap pharmaceuticals that the Americans are putting a high tariff on them? Oh, India is selling a lot of agricultural products, to who? The only item of some significance is call centres and IT services... and remittances from the Indian diaspora. Would these be big enough to justify the 7-8% growth that India is gloating? Where are the big items to contribute to the big growth numbers? Even FDI is far from what China is getting. What are the monthly trade surpluses of India compared to China's US$100b? Is India getting US$10b trade surplus per month?
How real are Chinese growth numbers versus India's growth numbers?
IMF just confirmed China's growth is robust.
Xi is using the same tactics as that Dotard by announcing Some adverse news before their meeting.
Russia or China not now in co-operation would be much easier for the USA to handle. Russia and China together are no pushover.
Since the days the marauding white men invaded the world in the name of conquest, colonialism, imperialism and saving the subhumans, controlling maritime choke points have been their main strategic priority. Gibraltar, Suez, Hormuz, Singapore, Cape of Good Hope, the Panama Canal, the two straits of Turkey were fully in their control. Controlling Singapore is controlling the Strait of Malacca.
The contest for waterways and choke points is gaining intensity today with Russia and a rising China. America is still the dominant hegemon with its fleets of aircraft carriers, the game changer against any challenger. But things are changing. China is building its own fleet of aircraft carriers and at the same time making the American aircraft carrier obsolete with their aircraft carrier killer missiles. The Americans are finding their holds on the international choke points and waterways slipping away. It is now not necessary to have aircraft carriers to control choke points. Oops, Chinese aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Thailand can control the Strait of Malacca.
Drone technology and precision missiles are now proving as effective as aircraft carriers to control choke points. Iran is effectively in control of the Strait of Hormuz. And the rag tag militia of Yemen, the Houthis, are in effective control of the Strait of Bab Al Mandab, which also means they are in control of the ships transiting the Suez and the Red Sea. The Chinese have a base in Djibouti overlooking the Strait.
Russia indirectly controls the Dardanelles and Bosphorus Straits through its friendly relations with Turkey. Cape of Good Hope is in South Africa, a founding member of BRICS. The Americans may be in control of the Strait of Malacca through Singapore, but Russia and China are also moving in. And China has invested in 129 ports around the world with majority interest in 17 of them and growing.
China and Russia are now in the race for maritime security to protect their supply chains. Controlling Bab - Al Mandab is an equivalent to controlling the Malacca Strait. The maps of maritime trade and trade routes are changing, no longer a western or American monopoly. And China has regained full control of the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea.
