Iran is the 'I" in BRICS. China needs Iran in BRICS

Now there is a propaganda campaign trying to sour relations between China and Iran, claiming that China is throwing Iran under the bus, as a bargaining chip that the USA might likely do the same over Taiwan. But Taiwan is already part of China and cannot be used as a bargaining chip by the USA. China will never agree. Anyway, that has still not been established, as Trump is still looking at the sale of weapons to Taiwan and the need to convince the war-hawks in Washington.

China is not going to betray Iran over Taiwan for sure. The Taiwan issue can fester for another 76 years, and China can sit around and wait. The Chinese are very patient people. After all, China already tolerated the Taiwan issue since 1949 without attempting to attack the island. All that threat from China against Taiwan is just a figment of the imagination of the war-hawks in Washington. In any case, Xi has warned Trump that the Taiwan red line must never be crossed. Few words, but clear and unambiguous. Trump, I think, got the message and has warned Taiwan not to think about independence. What will the next USA President do is beyond us to anticipate. The further sale of weapons to Taiwan is a sticky issue. Let us see what happens next.


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Lunatic Trump continues to push for more vanity projects under his name

SHANGHAI: Could a proposed US-China “Board of Trade” help stabilise ties ahead of this week’s summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping?...

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who first outlined the proposal in March, said the mechanism would create a channel to formalise the kinds of goods traded between the two rivals. CNA

Megalomaniac Trump knows that this is his last two years before he disappeared like the dinosaurs. He is hastily trying to create more projects and monuments embossed with his name or image on them. Trump Tower is not enough, Trump Opera House, Trump Stadium, a better and more appropriate building will be Trump Museum to store his unwanted red caps. 

Trump will seize on every moment, opportunity, to want people to remember him, like what every dictator will do, knowing that his popularity will not last, like all dictators, will be demolished once he has fallen from power.

The Board of Piss has come and gone with the blink of an eye, with Trump pocketing all the monies for his family business. No body cares what happens to this board or the money he took. It is not accountable to anyone except Trump.

Now in this meeting with Xi, Trump is coming out with two more Boards, Board of Trade or Board of Investment to claim credit for them. Don't they have enough silly boards and institutions for trade and anti trade that they need two more Board of Piss with Trump's name on it but would be forgotten in due time?

It would be better for China to sign a trade agreement with the Trump family for some real business, producing more hats and MAGA souvenirs for sale to his supporters, Trump shoes, Trump pens, Trump panties, Trump diapers etc etc. Maybe have a joint production to produce an AI movie on Trump and his great and infamous achievements. He got another grand idea after his summit with Xi. He was impressed by China's Great Hall of the People and wanted to build one for America, maybe called Trump's Great Hall of America.

Trump is just an aberration, and a really bad one that will be thrown into the dustbin for good in less than two years and be forgotten, or as American jokes.

Silly American propaganda would not now work anymore once the Arabs and Muslims are secretly talking together

 Saudi Arabia launched covert attacks on Iran as regional war widened: Sources

The United Arab Emirates also carried out military strikes on Iran early last month, the Wall Street Journal reported, revealing previously unknown participation in the war by the two countries.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicised strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said.

The Saudi attacks, not previously reported, mark the first time that the kingdom is known to have directly carried out military action on Iranian soil and show it is becoming much bolder in defending itself against its main regional rival.  CNA

The American terrorists are now so desperate that they have to resort to their stupid lies even knowing that they would not work anymore. First they tried to incite the Iranians to attack UAE by claiming UAE was hitting back at Iran. Now they are claiming that Saudi Arabia is also hitting back at Iran, to drag Saudi Arabia into their war with Iran. In the early days of this war, the Americans were spreading lies that MBS were telling the Americans to finish off the Iranians. Is this really believeable? The intent of releasing this lie was to pitch the Iranians against the Saudis. It did not need any second guess. Just look at the sources of these misinformation will tell where they are coming from. The Iranians are not hitting Saudi and Emirati strategic targets for obvious reasons. 

Both Saudi Arabia and UAE will be flattened if Iran believed in these American lies. Yes, Iran bombed some parts of Saudi Arabia and UAE. But these are American assets only. And the Iranians are closely in touch with the Saudis and Emirati on what they are going to hit, sparing the assets of Saudis and Emirati. New reports that UAE have started to attack Iran. How true is this? UAE inviting its own destruction? Another case of Mickey Mouse threatening a bigger power? Also reported that the drones that attacked UAE nuclear plant flew in from the West.

The clowns in Washington still think the Arabs and Muslims are stupid and can be manipulated by them to fight and kill each other. They cannot believe that the Arabs and Muslims are having their own communication networks to keep in touch and inform each other of the progress of this anti American and Israeli war.

The American and Israeli terrorists are running out of ideas and out of wits. Once the Arabs and Muslims are united, they cannot be divided and killed one by one by the American and Israeli terrorists anymore.  The Israelis cannot control America for long. Trump's term is coming up, and it might be shorter if his health does not allow him to stay on. The next American President is unlikely to be tainted by the Epstein episode and be controlled by the Israelis. Mickey Mouse Israel's days are numbered.

Xi Trump Summit - A lesson for juvenile delinquents

Sensible adults talking to kids and juvenile delinquents cannot produce workable solutions. While the Trump administration, with its juvenile leaders, continue to treat China like bitter enemies, USA business leaders going to China will not get what they want, despite the gloating about deals here and there.

China will give token deals in order not to cut off ties completely. That is not China capitulating as some people seem to think. China will still buy USA agricultural products to keep USA farmers dependency on China intact. China is throwing straws at drowning entities to keep them alive, not to allow them to disappear completely and lose the leverage totally.

Boeing knows the Chinese market for planes is huge and cannot be dispensed with. The Chinese domestic aviation sector can survive on COMAC planes coming on-line fast. Boeing wants a piece of the action. Nividia needs the China market for its chips, but whether China falls for the same ploy to buy more Nvidia chips is the question. China had already put top priority on Chinese semiconductor firms to entice them to power their foray into chips. Letting Chinese tech to go back to buying Nvidia chips is betraying its own semiconductor players. China is intent on cutting its dependence on foreign chip makers knowing that it is a National Security risk if conflicts arise. The current chip war already revealed the consequences of putting China's National Security under undue pressure.

On the other hand, USA can cut off deals with China firms, but they already have alternative markets to enter into. China has all the cards to play around with, both its huge consumer market and the equally huge market it can get into in the Global South and had already positioned itself for any decoupling.

The USA tried playing the decoupling card and found itself shooting its own foot. Years of sanctioning Chinese firms did not collapse those Chinese firms like Huawei, but is instead making them more resilient, while USA firms being targeted are finding the going unsustainable. Companies like Boeing, Nvidia and a host of USA technology firms still wants to go into China to make money. The visit of Trump to China clearly shows that the new mantra is co-operation and allowing both sides to grow instead of throwing brickbats and bombs at each other.

But the last word is still for China to beware of USA treachery. The USA can never ever be trusted to honor its obligations. That is clearly shown over the last couple of decades.


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Boeing deal subject to many conditions and also time factor

I do not think the Boeing deal is realistically possible. We must remember that Boeing is one of the USA's main weapon manufacturers and helping Boeing is not in the interest of China. China should even stop supplying rare earth elements and titanium, among other components to Boeing under a dual use prohibition. But Boeing and Airbus had been given the exemption earlier.

In any case, China is trying to compete in the aviation sector as well, with COMAC and the C919 plane already on the market. Why help Boeing when certification of its C919 had been stymied by the West? So, unless China can get certification for the C919 and other planes made by COMAC, China must pay back the USA in its own coin by not buying from Boeing.

Trump can gloat all he can about the deal, but are the deals already signed? China needs thousands of planes for its expanding domestic aviation sector alone, and Boeing knows the market in China is immense and cannot be ignored.


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