The blind and the shallow thinking cannot see the collapsing American AI and data centres

Pokey Sharma is more interested in poking China's collapse than India's own affairs. She has been shouting on her dung heap that China's AI is collapsing, paying little attention to what is happening in the USA and what the USA is doing to India.

Data centers and AI investments are in trouble in USA, mainly due to competition from Chinese AI and its own power shortages. Massive investments do not equate to massive earnings going forward, because using them is expensive and restrictive. Which is why laws are now being enacted to keep out Chinese AI. It is not going to kill off Chinese AI competition for sure, as elsewhere in the Global South usage of Chinese AI is rising. Even USA entities are using Chinese AI for its affordability without being much inferior to those created by investing hundreds of billions. Who will survive is clear to see.

The chips war is beginning to result in backfiring for the USA, Japan and South Korea. China is pushing resources into development of chips, mainly memory chips that Samsung and Hynix dominate today. That is going the way of Internal Combustion Engine cars, shipbuilding and electric and electronic equipment. China's rise in those sectors is not by chance or luck but by intention, and when China resorts to intention, others had better be prepared. But it is their own making trying to strangle China. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention, and no one does it better than China.


Anonymous

China reinvesting surpluses into assets cannot be seized by American terrorists

Whereas Treasuries, yachts, factories, mansions and money in the bank can be seized at the USA's whims and fancies like what happened to Russia and Iran.

China now has two options with all the monster surpluses - firstly investing in more gold and silver that can be kept at home and secondly continue extending loans to countries to build infrastructures. What can go wrong?

Why is the West troubled by all the trade surpluses that China earned, saying that China must produce less and export less? This would probably not have arisen if China just continue to invest in Treasuries and other assets in the USA. The USA would then be laughing all the way to the bank. But that is no more and that is why they are sore.


Anonymous

The three most shameful countries in the world

 In the early days of the abduction or forceful dragging out of President Maduro and his First Lady from their bedroom in his palace in Venezuela, everyone, including the Venezuelans, were confused. How could this happen to their President inside their country, guarded by presidential guards and security forces? Was it like what the American terrorists said, so easy a job, just a few minutes and they captured the president of a country without firing a shot, no resistance, no one was there to defend and protect him? And Trump gloated about how clever the Delta Forces were, so meticulous in planning and execution, a piece of art of war.

Now with all the hindsight and information available, and all the things happening in Venezuela, the story becomes clearer even without any inside information. It was a sell out by the Venezuelan military, more or less in cahoot with the American terrorists and opened the door to let them in while they walked away. How would Maduro feel knowing how his men and the military betrayed him? And how would he feel when no one cares about what is happening to him in a prison cell inside America, being abused, insulted and humiliated by the American terrorists, when he was the President of a nation state. His people have totally abandoned him and his wife.

And we also know that all the fake thumping of chests and declaration of independence, to fight and save their President and Venezuela's independence were nothing but hogwash. It was all theatre. Venezuela is now as good as in the hands of pro American politicians, or Venezuela is as good as a colony of the Americans. You will notice that no Venezuelan leader or people is talking about Maduro and wanting to bring him back to Venezuela.

This could be the main reason why China chose to abandon all its investments in Venezuela or try to fend for Venezuela when the Venezuelans do not care about their own country and leader.

Former President Duterte of the Philippines were more or less abducted from the Philippines with some Pinoys assisting the foreign kidnappers to take him out of the country. As such, no one was able to stop the abduction. The Duterte camp is trying to fight for his return but too weak to do anything when political power is in the hands of his enemies. If the Duterte family is unable to bring him back, the ordinary Pinoys would be quite hapless. They might be like the Venezuelans, just don't care. After all they are happy to invite the Americans back as their colonial masters.

The most shameful country of all is not just about betraying their leader. It is selling out their country to a foreign power.  And to make it more shameful, it is the number one super power that has been sold out to tiny Israel, a pseudo state of about 10m illegal occupiers of Palestinian land. And as everyone knows, President Trump is as good as a puppet of Netanyahu. And the Israelis need not capture and bring him out of America. He is a captive of Israel inside his own country, inside the White House doing the bidding of the Israelis. This is really unbelieveable. Netanyahu can walk into the White House and tell Trump what to do, like a handler talking to his keep. 

And the Americans know about it but just like the Venezuelans and Pinoys, cannot do anything about it, or unable to do anything about it. CIA could execute a job to take back whatever Netanyahu or Mossad had of Trump, even assasinate Netanyahu. But they are not doing so, probably also bought by the Israelis as well. And the senators and house representatives are all in the same boat, all bought and sold to Israel. Can you believe that?

Corruption in the USA is so serious, across the board, that selling out the nation's interests and being traitor to the Americans are no longer a criminal act, tolerated by all the agencies to protect and defend America. America is a state inside the pocket of Israel and did not know how to get out of it.

Iran and the Houthis have proven the Americans are unable to control chokepoints, not even the Straits of Malacca

The more they try using blockades, the more they are going to shoot their own feet. China is weaning itself away from depending too entirely on the Straits of Malacca chokepoint for decades now.

The Suez Canal is no longer as beneficial being used as a chokepoint with the Houthis controlling the Bab Al-Mandab. Even without controlling the passage directly, the Houthis can just sit around lobbing drones and missiles from Yemen and entry to the Suez becomes a gamble to take and shipowners and insurers will know what to do.

Now, the Panama Canal is dying as well, with climate change depriving it of fresh water for raising ships transversing. In fact, traffic has already dropped massively over the last two years. I believe other South American countries are exploring building alternatives to the Panama with Chinese backing.

So, the USA is now using allies to blockade China's trade routes. But China is now building new trade routes, not through USA allies, but through neutral countries and countries having bones to pick with the USA. The fact that these countries are benefiting from such route diversion is a bonus for them. Why should they not welcome new trade opportunities offered by such infrastructures?


Anonymous

How long will Starbucks survive in China?

In China, Starbucks had a rule that outside food is not allowed, even if one had ordered a cup of coffee. A controversy has erupted over a Chinese customer eating food bought from outside and being told to eat outside the outlet. The irony was it was another Chinese Starbuck employee admonishing the Chinese customer in front of everyone.

This has created an uproar among Chinese netizens on social media, with one netizen accusing Starbucks of double standards. He said that he had seen White customers munching on Macdonald burgers without being told to eat outside at other outlets. And there were others who also witnessed the same thing in other Starbuck outlets. What is worse was that Chinese Starbuck employees just turned a blind eye as far as White customers breaking the rules are concerned, but unforgiving toward their own kind. This is sick.

Starbuck now has a new rule that says - Order your food before sitting down. Ever wonder why Starbuck is losing customers in China to Luckin Coffee and other Chinese brands? There is a saying that you do not mess with customers in China and India if you want to do business in their country.


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