Join the Americans and fight China...and become beggars

The USA never appreciate nor be thankful for any help given by any country and assumed it is all warranted and demanded because it is the remaining superpower.

During the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008 and USA facing financial meltdown, China helped to stabilize the situation but was in return given the wrong end of the stick with the USA's repeated attempts to make China collapse, with sanctions, fabricated genocides in Xinjiang, regime changing attempts in Hong Kong, attacking Hong Kong's financial system after 1997, resorting to trade wars, tariff wars and technology strangulation.

There was also all the mantra about de-coupling that the USA thought was the straw that was going to break China's back, but it backfired and now no more talk about decoupling. Now, it is China wanting to decouple and we are seeing that happening, with Chinese exports diverted elsewhere and China putting every priority to be free of USA control in technology, the last bastion of USA's attempt to cripple China. Do not underestimate China's resolve when it decides to take things into its own hands. There is no such thing as truce, ceasefire, walking back and forth and dilly-dallying. China's policy is one straight-forward road when it formulates its mindset.

The Europeans, despite sacrificing its well-oiled economic standing, was forced to hollow out its manufacturing due to the cutting off of cheap Russian energy, a position in the shoes of China after the financial crisis of 2008. Now the Europeans are stuck with energy bills about four times more expensive than the cheap Russian energy before the Ukraine War. And to make sure the Europeans never get back to Russia for cheap energy, the USA destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines. The Europeans thought that helping the USA to kick out cheap Russian energy to be replaced by USA energy was going to be a godsend and a smart move. Now they are stuck. It was so stupid having to borrow a USA rope to hang themselves. Now, what is Trump doing, erecting tariffs against EU products, adding insult to injury, instead of being thankful and appreciative.


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Who is still paying $30,000 for a few pieces of leather stitched together and called it Birkin?

When China was still poor and could be kicked around, the West, particularly the USA took advantage of its low wages environment to outsource manufacturing to China. It was killing two birds with one stone. Firstly, the USA wanted to export its pollution and environmental issues to China and let China handle the global demonization, while it enjoys cheaper products just printing toilet papers in exchange. Secondly, the big USA manufacturers saw the huge potential of the Chinese consumer market that gave the USA companies opportunities to make tons of money manufacturing and paying low wages and selling their products worldwide. China was the goose that laid the golden eggs for the USA and the West, but greed made them killed it.

The USA only saw and hyped up the huge trade deficits that the country suffered against China, tallying what the USA bought from China and what China bought from the USA, ignoring the hundreds of billions their manufacturers made from their manufacturing base in China and selling their products worldwide and also in China. How much did the Chinese workers made for each iPhone manufactured in China and how much did Apple made selling that same iPhone worldwide? The Chinese workers made pittance while Apple reaped all the benefits. I am just talking about Apple in China alone.

We have now also seen the branded goods made cheaply in China, with the Chinese manufacturers unravelling the scam and all the money made by those top brands selling the Chinese made products at exorbitant profits, just by sticking a label on the product. Now the Chinese are no longer going to play the game, preferring to continue to make the same product to sell to the Global South countries. After all they are still making the same profit margin. The days of ripping off Chinese manufacturing are over and big brands are suffering. How bad it is, I am not sure. Of course, they can always find alternative sources to exploit, but quality and costs cannot be taken for granted.

How can the Chinese bear the insult by one drag queen's outburst that Chinese 'peasants' made cheap goods for the USA consumers to buy and then using the US$ that they are paid in to buy USA treasury bonds. That insult had repercussions, with China now selling less and less to the USA, while no longer having the excess US$ to buy USA treasury bonds. I think this is what the drag queen did not foresee nor wanted, but China is delivering its answer to her (him actually) on a platter.


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Xi Trump relationship - A master play of deception with eyes open wide

 What is the true relationship between Trump and Xi? Trump has been blaring to the world that Xi is his best friend, they have very good understanding of each other, they can work together. How real is this? Superficially, Trump has been very polite to Xi whenever they met, and claimed that they have been calling each other very often to talk about issues and differences. Trump gives the impression that Xi is the only leader he really respect, including Putin and his other good friend, Kim the Rocket Man. But once in a while he would make a slip and made unglamourous comments about Xi and Putin.

In reality, Trump and his regime have been attacking Xi and China everyday, everywhere, every hour. There has been no let up in containing China and bringing down China and also Russia and North Korea. China is about the only country that has been receiving sanctions, attacks and bans for its companies, entities and individuals. The Trump regime has a large propaganda machine and a big army of staff just to monitor every move of China, from political, military, finance, culture and everything under the sky.

Xi on the other hand has never called Trump his best friend or anything like that. Xi is just polite and doing everything according to political protocol and the dignity and decency of his office. Xi has never said a bad word about Trump despite all the attacks by Trump and his rogue regime. Xi took every attack by Trump no matter how despicable and shameful in his stride and just work around it, without directly confronting Trump with an eye for an eye approach.

Xi knows that Trump and his American terrorists are provoking and agitating him towards an open hot war. Xi took the provocations and blows quietly, refusing to engage Trump in a punch for a punch, giving Trump the impression that China can be whacked and attacked whenever he wants and would not hit back, a big sign of weakness. Xi just dodges, blocks, avoids, walk away, but responds through other means and ways. This is a strategy that Mao used in the past, you fight your war in your own way, I fight my war in my own way and my own choosing. No direct military confrontation so far as long as the provocations from the Trump regime did not hit China's core interests.

What is sure, and happening quietly and consistently and persistently, is China's decoupling from America in every field. Xi also works with a slew of organisations to compete and challenge Trump's aggressive moves, in other fields other than military means. Trump is all about showmanship, trumpet blowing, chest thumping, fist waving. Xi is all about control and quiet long term planning and execution, to win the contest with America without having to go to war.

There is no love lost between them. Trump is all about facade, wearing a smiling mask. Now Trump is starting to increase his attacks on China and Chinese companies, banning all chips export to China...without knowing that China does not need any American chip but exporting its own chips, cheap and good, for the rest of the world. And Trump sent a drunkard clown to Singapore to tell the military and diplomatic leaders to arm against China.

The Israeli myth that they are invincible

 The West, the Americans, even the American cronies, will swear that Israeli forces, Mossad etc are the best fighting and intelligent forces in the world, to be feared by their enemies. This is the same myth that the Americans have been spreading about their military and weapons superiority, technological superiority. It is all bull. It is as true as claiming that the F35s are the best fighter aircraft, the Rafales or the Typhoons are the best European aircraft, the monsters that will beat the light out of anyone.

The truth, if one has the gun and the enemy only has a knife or bow and arrow, the one with the gun looks very superior. The white men, a few of them, ran through North America and wiped out more than 100 million native Americans over a period of 100 years. When the Brits and the European colonial powers ransacked the whole world, they were like very brave warriors, great fighters. Actually they were only as good as their guns and cannons against enemies that don't have them. With a few thousands of foot soldiers armed with guns and cannons, they conquered a world that was still using bows and arrows, spears and swords. The little Japanese dwarfs made the Brits looked like boy scouts, routed, sank their invincible warships and the Brits surrendered without a fight.

Israel looked very good against the Arabs and the Muslims in the Middle East and Africa because they have the best weapons, the airpower and the Americans and the Europeans behind them. On the other hand, the Arabs and Muslims and the Africans have very low grade weapons, handovers, antiques or supposedly new weapons but compromised to underperform. The Israelis or anyone else in the same situation, with the same weapon superiority and the numerical superiority of the Americans and Europe behind them will look just as good as the Israelis.

The Americans, the world's number one superpower, is hapless against Iran when Iran has the same backing as Israel has, and the weapons that are as good as the Americans. The Israelis are still looking very good against the militia forces of Hamas and Hezbollah. Take away the American and European supports, the Arab and Muslim forces will eat up the Israelis for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Without the American terrorists' full and unconditional support, Israel will be history tomorrow. Israel is a myth. Iran alone would be good enough to take down Israel. The combined forces of Hams, Hezbollah and Houthis would be enough to take on the Israelis when the military support from the Americans stop, no more weapons, no more aircraft and bombs, no more American boys and girls to die for the Israelis.

Fight on an even terms, level playing field, any of the big Arab and Muslim country can take down little Israel. The Arabs and Muslims have always been fighting the American and the European forces, not Israel alone. Israel is just a facade. Israeli invincibility is a lie, a myth. Remove the real devils, the Americans from the equation, Israel will become a joke!

The Operation to kill Iranians is exposing the truth behind all the American lies and Israeli myths. With China and Russia stepping in to put a hold on the Americans, the invincibility myth of the Israeli forces has crumbled. The math is simple and clear. No more American and western lies, no more Israeli lies, Iron Dome, Arrows, Sling, Thaad, Patriot, all just falls flat when put to the real test.

Israel cannot last for another 6 months without imploding. The Israeli economy has collapsed, life in Israel has collapsed. Israeli boys and girls cannot fight without the airpower behind them. Wait for Israel to breakup internally. Israeli boys and girls are scared to death fighting the Hezbollah and with Iranian missiles and drones dropping all over them. The Houthis must continue with their bombing of Israel, sporadic, unpredictable, just to disrupt life in Israel, with Israelis scattering every time the siren is on. Make life in Israel a living hell. Stop being deceived by the fake ceasefire. The Israeli terrorists do not believe in it. Why should the Houthis believe in it? Why should the Hamas and Hezbollah believe in it?

American AI data centre hoax losing steam. No one is buying into it once China offers a cheaper alternative

 The fairy tale about big USA tech giant's foray into AI and data centers is falling apart and about to collapse. The round tripping investments, or circle investing, of tech giant's investments in each other's turf is at its tail-end. The rope is at the end of its tethers. Now, the USA is about to use a new scam to screw would be small investors to bail out the billionaires controlling SpaceX, Open AI and Anthropic, using IPOs of trillions to lure the public into a black hole.

The USA is changing the rules of how 'too large to fail' companies can get into NASDAG just because of their size, by removing the qualifying criteria of corresponding background sustainability and profitability to boot. In the process, IPOs enabled them to soak up public money to bail out the big owners and insiders. I think the writing is on the wall that AI and data center frenzy is a dying horse. But they are using a new whip to flog a dying horse. USA AI and data centers cannot compete profitably against Chinese Ai companies, more so against open-source ones given the monstrous investments of hundreds of billions already sunk into the Ponzi scheme. Now the only way for bailing them out is through big IPOs of trillions that some in the public will rush in to make a fast buck.

SpaceX profitability relies on Starlink, the satellite business of Elon Musk, while SpaceX itself cannot be said to be sniffing profitability. OpenAI and Anthropic had never tasted profitability in their history yet allowed to raise trillions of dollars from the public, just hyping on the AI and data center potential. Any other company outside the USA doing that would be taken to task as fraudulent and sued until they have no pants to wear.

China has seen the unravelling faster than most and is forbidding Chinese investors from throwing money into the USA's IPO black hole. If China does that, other countries must take careful note. China was the first country to ground and refusing to fly the Boeing 737Max when two new planes just dropped from the sky.

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