China will strive to be rich and powerful in every field but not in wars of destruction like the American terrorists

I want to take this opportunity to talk about the propaganda campaign to lure China into the same trap that the Soviet Union fell into, trying to compete head on against the USA in the military front when its economic potential lacks what the USA had then. The USA knew this for a fact and had succeeded to bankrupt and collapse the Soviet Union eventually.

China does have the economic power today to do the same, but it is soft power projection that China is migrating into, and hardly military power projection was and is the Chinese intention. China's pre-occupation is all about economic domination and building up alternative infrastructure to bypass the USA controlled system. China is moving away from playing by the USA and Western rules. In other words, total decoupling is its intention.

China must likewise move away from the idea of competing head on with the USA by throwing big money into the semiconductor and AI war by building massive data centers to take pole position. China should just continue with exercising patience, and strike when the iron is hot, just like its rise over the last three or four decades and just take its time to narrow the gap at its own pace.

The AI and data center madness is just going to collapse when usage under open systems goes dirt cheap, which will kill off the big players when their revenue stream fails to match up to cover the massive costs of building such infrastructures. Sure, just increasing the cost to users may work for a time for those large language models, but with open AI systems proliferating worldwide, only the hardcore users may continue to hang on and keep paying through their noses.

In the area of aircraft carriers, the mantra is that China is unable to make use of its fleet to project power around the world, so that is a joke to them. Did China ever say that building a few aircraft carriers was its intention to use them to go around acting as policeman to patrol the oceans? This is trying to put subtle pressure on China to fall into a sinister trap. China must not fall into such a trap engineered to put a negative spin on its aircraft carrier buildup. After all, what Iran did to aircraft carriers already tells the world that even with no aircraft carriers, it could still counter the power projection of the USA navy.


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Two dysfunctional systems still keeping India in the doldrums and preventing its rise

There are two dysfunctional systems still keeping India in the doldrums and preventing its rise. The first is the caste system which is still deeply embedded in Indian society. The second is the Hindu fanaticism, that is even more difficult to erase.

What is the use of a democracy, when everything cannot be improved to make lives better for the people. All that democracy did was to benefit the ruling elites and its cronies at the top of the food chain. In the process, it even killed off the middle class everywhere.

When China opted for progress, it got rid of dynasties. When China faced unsustainable pollution, it erased its negative image totally within 5 years, moving out factories from city centers, implementing electrification of its transport system and manufacturing entities. Those are just the tip of the iceberg. We have not even talked about lifting of more than half of its population out of poverty, its decision to dominate in many sectors of global manufacturing.

Any five-year plan in India's timeline can at best only result in filling up the paperwork to apply for such plans to be implemented, not even approved yet to be carried out.


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PS. Don't forget the deadly Democrazy!

Shangri La Dialogue - No one talking about the elephant in the room

 Is the Shangri La Dialogue meant to be a serious forum to discuss serious international or at least regional security and defence issues? For a start, having a TV host with practically no experience in defence and security matters with only being a drunkard to boot, to lecture senior govt and military leaders is quite inappropriate. What can this drunkard mad dog contribute or share with the govt and military leaders that have many years of experience in security and defence?  Maybe drunken brawls in bars....

It is quite an insult for senior govt and military leaders to have to listen to the swearing and chest thumping of a greenhorn. Luckily for China not to send its Defence Minister to sit there listening to this twit. The only worthy credential of this drunkard is his title as War Secretary of the number one terrorist state, not much different from lunatic Trump, a liar, felon, mass murderer, pedophile and a good client of Epstein and facing charges for offences against minor girls. And national leaders also have to bear with this lunatic because he carries the title of POTUS.

The other glaring misgiving about the Dialogue is to pretend not to see the elephant in the room. What national security and defence issue can be more important than the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon, the Killing of Iranians and the closing of the Strait of Hormuz? Apparently the American terrorists, the number one threat to peace and security, will not want to talk about their aggression, war crimes and genocide in the Middle East. And No one seems to dare to ask the American terrorists about their unprovoked wars and the killings of innocent civilians, including 168 school girls, and the irresponsible killing of boaters in the Caribbean. No one dares to ask the American terrorists to stop the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and daylight piracy in the Indian Ocean. No one dares to ask the American terrorists or the drunkard War Secretary for bombing and killing Iranian sailors returning from a multi nation exercise in India.

And the agenda of the Dialogue conveniently avoided discussing about the disgraceful behaviours of the American terrorists and crimes against humanity but instead raising China as the threat for building up its defences against the American terrorists. And allowing the American terrorists to preach about peace and security and the American terrorists are the peace keeper, the guardians of the world while China, a peaceful nation is the threat to the world. Listening to such lies is more ridiculous than for senior govt and military leaders to sit there like little boys and girls to listen to a drunkard TV host.

What a joke!

India will keep on cheating stupid people and companies that volunteered to invest in India

When India keeps fouling up business deals and confiscating profits made by companies in India in the form of fines and taxes, who is going to believe Modi. Modi can talk until the cows come home, but nobody in his right mind will take the bait. Modi may be able to fool the Hindu fanatics at home with his cult culture, but that will never work outside India. That stage is over and gone. There is too much bad publicity about Indian tactics, which is why thousands of foreign companies have fled India, taking out hundreds of billions in investments.

Apple is facing a potential fine of US$38 billion in India, probably all the profits it ever made in India, over allegations of abusing its market dominance in the iPhone apps market. Tim Cook is going to be really cooked now, after placing so much emphasis on India being gloated as a new base being built up in the hope of taking the bulk of iPhone production from China. Let us watch the show, but Cook may not be around to take the shame.

Oh, lest I forget, Elon Musk is also not investing in a Tesla factory in India after years of speculation. Elon has seen enough of Indian tactics to risk diving into India. No sane business leaders will now even consider setting foot in India, the graveyard of companies.

Now. let us see whether Canada can be any different. Even if Mark Carney gets the magic hug from Modi, businesspeople in Canada will not necessarily take the plunge, as their pants are on the line.


Anonymous

The more Trump reveals his lunacy and vicious agenda in the Middle East and the world, the more isolated America will become

With the antics Trump is pulling against Iran, setting ultimatums and now saying he is in no hurry to forge a deal with Iran, is, I believe all just a front to buy time for the USA and Israel to rearm and regroup, while conducting sporadic attacks to show they still have weapons to carry out such attacks and to show Iran they still hold the upper hand while still conducting the negotiations. Let us see whether Iran takes the bait.

The Gulf States are on the way with plans to form its own defense co-operation instead of relying on the USA, which did not do its work of protecting them from Iran. This war against Iran is not the only USA failure of sorts. When Saudi Arabia was at war with Yemen, its oil installations were hit by crude Houthi rockets despite relying on highly expensive USA interceptors. After that, there were reports that Saudi Arabia had bought some Russian air defense interceptors instead to boost its defense capabilities.

Trump is now threatening to blow up Oman; I suppose again to the stone age like every other country that Trump cannot agree with, if it carries out its plan to side with Iran and together going to control the Strait of Hormuz. This shows that the Gulf States are no longer united with the USA's agenda.

Elsewhere, the USA is losing allies, with Norway, the ninth country moving away from the USA nuclear umbrella and joining France's nuclear umbrella instead, closing ranks with NATO Europe. The big tree heading NATO is falling and the monkeys are scattering. This is a clear indication that the USA is being isolated. Putin and Xi must be laughing. After all, Russia was the butt of jokes over total isolation at the start of the Ukraine War, but the reality says otherwise. Oh yes, he who laughs last laughs best.


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