Scott Bessent and Soros were whipped by China in 1997 Hong Kong attack

Earlier on, I talked about Scott Bessent's failed attempt in 1997/1998 to bring down Hong Kong's financial system, resulting in a massive loss for George Soros, said to be almost a billion US$. Trying to bring down Hong Kong, with China standing behind was a massive miscalculation by George Soros and his crony, Scott Bessent.

There is a video on the site 'Global Impulse', talking about that misadventure by Scott Bessent and George Sors titled 'Scott Bessent and George Soros: China humiliated them once, will it happen again? Scotts Bessent still harbors a deep hatred of China obviously, now touting that China cannot be allowed to export its way into prosperity. Who is he to say all that? He is just trying to bang his angry head against a wall and will achieve nothing.

Truth be said, China in 1997/1998 was just a pale shadow of its economic muscle compared to today, with just barely US$1 billion in its reserves then, but was still able to help Hong Kong to fight back the attack by George Soros with Scott Bessent leading the charge. China today has a massive reserve of US$3.2 trillion war chest. It is an economic superpower in its own right and Scott Bessent is trying to fight against it. We know he has an axe to grind with China over old wounds. He has already been humiliated by China in Switzerland and London.


Anonymous

Lying is a prerequisite to be enlisted by Trump

When Scott Bessent faced grilling by Democrat Senators, he avoided answering questions and goes about spinning grandmother's tales which riled many senators, knowing they can never get a straight answer from him. Either they listen to his lies, which has gone out of fashion or listen to his gibberish. Bessent is at the end of his wits, with no more rope to hold on.

This seems to be the standard practice of all of Trump's appointees. Pete Hegseth testifying before Democrat Senators was directly slammed by one Senator, who asked him whether he was being paid just sitting there to lie. When the White House spokesperson faces hostile questioning, she just walked off from the briefing.

Trump's administration is now no more than a circus made up of just clowns masquerading as sensible and capable politicians. The issue is that they are being forced to keep lying to cover a previous lie. What is happening in the Administration's response to problems is incapable now of being supported by truth. It would be safe to say that they cannot handle the truth and have to lie instead.

That brings me to the escalating war in the Middle East. Trump wants to force Iran to the negotiating table and is using Israel to attack Iran to give him the upper hand in any negotiation. Now, Iran is cancelling all nuclear deal negotiations going forward. Now, Trump the double headed snake, is saying that the conflict between Israel and Iran should end. I think this is another big foul up by Trump with Iran unleashing its fury on Israel. Each side is talking about raising hell on the other.

Those F35s that were used to attack Iran possibly did not take off from Israel, but from somewhere else in either a USA base in Iraq or some refueling base which the Iranians are now targeting. This is betting that Iran will not attack such a base knowing it is a USA base.


Anonymous

Pete Hegseth - War Is Peace. The stupid and naive deserved to be decimated

 War is Peace. This is America talking. And peace just landed in Iran. Not forgetting peace is still in full blown in Ukraine, in Africa and brewing in the South China Sea. And many silly Asian and Asean countries believe in this America War is Peace. They love this American version of peace in war. They trust the Americans. Many are still stupidly trusting the Americans and naively talking to the Americans, negotiating for peace with the Americans. The Iranians just found out what is the meaning of negotiation with the Americans, when the Americans were preparing to invade their countries pretending to be negotiating for peace. 

The naive and stupid were not born yesterday. They knew what happened to the Minsk Agreement and the several agreements for temporary ceasefire and knew why the Americans need ceasefire to buy time to restock their weapons for war. Only the stubbornly naive and stupid would not learn. This peace talk strategy has been perfected for centuries in North America in so called peace talks with the Red Indians. After every peace talk or better during a peace talk, the American cavalry would be massacring the Red Indians while their gullible leaders were engaged in peace talks with the white men, believing and trusting the white men.

This is very familiar to many countries like China and Russia. They always came out on the losing side, having dinner with Trump while Meng Wanzhou was being arrested. And they continued to trust the Americans and continue to have fine dining, and peace talks and negotiations with the Americans and still want to invite Trump the scoundrel to be feasted in Beijing. They really believe in Trump saying Xi is a good friend.

The naive and stupid would always end up being chopped to pieces and fed to the dogs. Unfortunately, the naive and stupid and would never learn, even been cheated and lied to over and over again. Can't blame them as they are really naive and stupid.

Is the world watching, listening to what has just happened in Iran? Never mind if the Iranians are naive and stupid. They will have to pay the price for it. But would the rest of the world learn from it and stop being naive and stupid? 

By the way, there are plenty of naive and stupid in Asean countries. And some are celebrating the successful attack by Israel and the USA and wish that they could be part of the invading force, on the winning side. Just wait and see which Asean country would be the first to send their boys and girls and equipment to fight on the side of the American and Israeli terrorists. And they will do it voluntarily, in their national interests, not being coerced by the Americans, not because you are with us or against us.

And they will continue to buy more 'superior and advanced' American weapons, with kill switches, so that they cannot use against the Americans and their allies. Naive and stupid? Nay. They look at the mirror and say how clever they are. Incidentally, after the French lost at least 3 Rafales, the Americans have lost 3 F18s and now their self-claimed world best F35s, three have just been shot down. But these would not change the mind of the naive and stupid. They would empty their banks to buy these expensive toys from the Americans and the West. Because they believe and trust the Americans and the West that they are the best money can buy.

The world should never underestimate the stupidity of the naive and stupid. The Americans are celebrating the naive and stupid as they are the biggest beneficiary, pretending to be talking and negotiating with the gullible and never able to learn naive and stupid.

America, the world's number one terrorist state under threat...from students, immigrants. tourists?

 The world's number one terrorist state, the USA, has been spreading threats and fears all over the world, imaginary threats, fabricated threats as an excuse to justify control and wars and dominance, when the real threat to world peace, security and stability is from the American terrorists.

This narrative is losing its shine, except to the die hard pro American Anglophiles that just want to believe in white gods and white gods are good and peace loving creatures, even when they are at wars all over the world, all the time, committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, massacres, genocides, you name it, they have done it.  Oops, war is peace, according to Pete Hegseth.

No, the world is not going to be lied to, to be led by the nose by the American terrorists. The people of the world are not stupid and can see and hear and know what is going on. So, what is next?

Now the Americans are bringing threats and fears home. This is not new. After they invaded and colonised the world, they continue to spread the lie that the poor Chinese that they invaded, colonised and impoverished, are going to swim across the Pacific Ocean to invade and run over American mainland.

And to make the threat real, the Americans are banning students, immigrants, foreigners, tourists etc from entering America. To the fascist rogues in Washington, the world is against America, the people of the world are terrorists wanting to come to America to attack America. Can you believe that?

And the whole world is America's enemy. So, America must build a golden dome to protect America from being attacked from the sky above. And it is going to cost the poor Americans living on paycheck by paycheck, living on the streets without a home at least a few hundred billion dollars to be safe. 

The truth, the only country that is threatening the world with wars, with terrorist acts, with missiles coming from the sky, is the evil American Empire. Gangster Hegseth just came to SE Asia and told the natives there that American forces are in Asia and SE Asia, to stay, without sugar coating. The American terrorists just invited themselves into Asia and SE Asia without invitation and did not need to ask the natives of the region whether they want them here. This is the way of the American terrorists, to want to rule the world, to dominate the world, using the lies that they are here to protect the natives of Asia and SE Asia. Hopefully, the natives of Asia and SE Asia would not end up like the American natives, the Red Indians, and lose their lands to the American terrorists.

No one is threatening the evil American Empire! It is the evil American Empire that is threatening the whole world. All the terrorists and terrorist organisations are created, funded, trained and armed by the evil American Empire to terrorise and destabilise the world, so that the evil American Empire can come in and say we are here, uninvited, to protect you, for your security and safety...to protect you from the evil American Empire.

PS. The Washington rogues are turning against the American citizens with their weapons of war and with their uniform terrorists called National Guards, Marines and Police. Yes, invade California, arrest the Governor, to protect the Californians. Wow, wow, the Washington gangsters and terrorists are going to save California...from who?

Netanyahu and Trump just invaded Iran and telling the Iranians they attacked to save the Iranians from their leaders. And Netanyahu is calling countries of the world to join him in attacking Iran so as to protect them from Iran. Now, how many Asean countries are eagerly preparing to join the Americans and the Israelis to attack Iran? Remember, these Asean countries trust the Americans more than China because China is aggressively fighting a war against poverty and economic backwardness all over the world. The Americans are fighting for peace by starting more wars.

Scott Bessent is truly delusional... talking rubbish

Scott Bessent is truly delusional talking rubbish with his warp way of thinking. Why can't China do what it is doing to become prosperous? China does not steal or sanctioned others from doing what they are doing to be prosperous, unlike the USA. The USA prevented Japan and Germany from becoming too prosperous to overtake it.

Is it wrong to become prosperous through hard and honest work and producing better and cheaper stuff for export? If USA and other Western countries cannot compete against China, that is not China's problem. What are big businesses doing if not to become prosperous through further expansion? Will the USA tell those companies not to sell too much of their production to become prosperous. Are only USA companies allowed to do that. Is that what the USA mean by Rules Based Order?

On the other hand, can China also tell the USA to stop printing toilet papers and thus printing itself into prosperity by exporting its inflation to other countries. Can China complain about the USA weaponizing the US$ to make other countries poor and hapless? What is sauce for the goose must also be sauce for the gander. There cannot be rules for one party and not using the same rules for the other to follow.

The USA now wants all manufacturing to reshore to the USA. So, the USA is trying to become the only country to have prosperity while denying others from becoming prosperous. That is hypocrisy stinking to high heaven.


Anonymous

India's Boeing crash - would the investigators tell the truth?

The investigation will be carried out to protect the image of Boeing, nothing more. The kill switch theory seems unlikely, not for a passenger jet and for Boeings image, not that it is not possible. The cargo manifests may shed some light. Was the plane overloaded is another theory, but most unlikely unless there is corruption involved.

The plane took off, rose to 625 feet, lost power to rise further and crashed into a hostel. There was one survivor who jumped out as he was sitting near an emergency exit. He could provide useful information.

These was no indication of a bird strike either, with no fire or smoke emitting from the engine that was evident with the Jeju crash. That the landing gears were still visible probably indicates a massive electrical power failure. We just have to wait for the result to be culled from the black boxes.

This is a very sad accident. Sympathies to the families of those who lost their lives.

By the way, Singapore Airlines has a 25% investment in Air India, with Tata Group holding a 75% stake. How this will play out for SIA is still not clear. Air India had been suffering losses over the decades, and this crash is undoubtedly going to add to its financial trouble.


Anonymous

American Rules Based Order - Right to attack another country using self defence lie

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Israel acted unilaterally because it believes the operation was necessary for self-defence.

"Tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region," Rubio said in a statement.  CNA

This is American terrorists Rules Based Order. Just claimed another country is a threat and in the name of self defence, it is justifiable to attack another country. China is a threat, Russia is a threat, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba etc etc are a threat to America. In the name of self defence, America can attack them anytime they pleased.

This is not international law, not UN law, but law of the jungle, law of the American terrorists. Be warned, when the American terrorists called a country a threat, they are free to attack that country. Many African countries are a threat, Traore of Burkina Faso is a threat. And the Americans and the French are going to attack Burkina Faso to kill him.

What kind of law is this? How many silly Asians and Asean countries would agree with this American terrorist law?

What do you think?

When would Asean countries use this as an excuse to attack one another? When would China and Russia use this as an excuse to attack the USA? By the way, China and Russia or any country have never called another country a threat. China and Russia did not call the Americans a threat despite the provocation and daily calls for war by the Americans. Only the warmongering American gangsters and the West have been calling others a threat when they are the real threat to the world.

Iran was living in peace, minding its own business. The Americans and Israelis called it a threat, accusing it of wanting to build nuclear bombs. Now the massive bombing of Iran, killing at least 20 top Iranian generals and several nuclear scientists. This is aggression, an act of war. Trump is gloating about it. He knew about the attack, he approved it. He said that if Iran would kneel and agree to all the terms in the negotiation, he would not release the American war dogs to attack Iran. But Iran did not agree, so the war dogs were released to attack Iran's nuclear facilities and anything the Israelis chose to hit. Britain and France immediately came out in support of the attack, calling Iran the aggressor. What had Iran done to be the aggressor?

And on the Arab and Muslim front, not a word to be heard. Jordan was reported to be helping the Israelis to shoot down Iranian drones. Iraq was where the Israelis launched their air attacks. Not a single Arab and Muslim state dares to open its precious mouth to condemn the aggression. In the eastern front, Asean also very quiet. Not a word from Asean. All went hiding.

The same goes for the Global South, all in shock and awe, fearing that they will be the next target. Better run and hide. Just a month ago, China openly condemned and threatened Israel, sounding out to the Arab and Muslim states that China would stand up for them if they are ready to unite against the Americans and the Israelis. But totally no response from the Arab and Muslim world. So China quietly backed down. 

Would this be a wakeup call for the Arab and Muslim world to stand up and be united against the white savages and call in China and Russia to defend Iran? Would Asian and Asean still be screaming that they trust the Americans more than China? This is an act of war against the Global South in general and the Arab and Muslim world in particular. The Americans and Israelis are saying, 'We attack anyone we like'. Who dares to oppose the American and Israeli warmongers? Better to buy more American weapons and join the Americans to fight China?

The warning shot has been fired. The Americans and the white men are going to rule the world, forever. Just accept your fate. Ruled by white men is so fun, so peaceful. They are so kind, like white gods. Quick, jump in bed with them.

China manages property markets to stop speculation

Scott Bessent is still flogging a dead horse, proclaiming that China cannot survive without the USA and China could collapse without going to kiss Trump's arse. Did China collapsed after the fall of Evergrande and the Chinese property market as a whole, mirroring the collapse of the USA housing market in 2008 that needed a massive bailout by the USA Government?

I want to talk further about China's property market collapse because I did read a report about foreign investors waiting on the sidelines for a bailout by the Chinese Government after their buying in right after the property market collapsed, hoping to cash in. It was not to happen, and they were burnt badly by the Chinese Government's refusal to bail out property developers. Instead, the Chinese Government was prepared to let property developers bite the dust. Nothing is too big to fail in the eyes of the Chinese Government. The Chinese Government was then navigating into supporting the other growth sectors like EVs, chips, aviation and shipbuilding sectors, on top of encouraging domestic spending with all the subsidies and funding trotted out.

Help was never going into the property sector, and any bailout for that sector would encourage more speculation. As Xi told the people, homes are for living in, not for speculative purposes. The Chinese have learnt valuable lessons from Japan and the USA. Investors from USA and the West were burnt so badly, they are livid and hated the CCP.

There has been so much talk about funds moving out of China, together with Western companies moving investments out of China after the collapse of the property sector in China. That has now basically been reversed by Trump with his tariff war. Foreign investors know they cannot do without the Chinese market, even with the property market now a hot potato for them to hold on to.


Anonymous

China just let Trump, and his sycophants make all the noises and hypes of success

As they say silence is golden. China knows that frivolous claims on the media is not going to do much good, going up against the biggest propaganda machine in the world. China just let Trump, and his sycophants make all the noises and hype up all the claims of success. The whole world knows that they can only believe the final word from Xi, not the propaganda espoused by the MSM and the Trump administration.

Chinese leaders do not basically like to shout their mouths off and be seen as just megaphones blasting loudly inside an echo chamber. Chinese leaders and their spokespersons have always been seen to be truthful, calm, careful with their words and avoiding boastful chest beating. They always try to avoid having to walk back on what they said, a shame they do not take lightly.

Asians generally wants to avoid shame: a trait not lost on those who takes the trouble to study Asian characteristics throughout history. The Japanese, in the past, even equate shame as something worse than dying, and some have chosen 'hara kiri' or self-immolation, as a way out of their shame. Compare that with USA leaders shaming themselves every day with atrocious and frivolous outburst, thinking that as a way to boost their ego. How sad.


Anonymous

American terrorists and bullies reliable partners?

Unreliable China? So, in Scott Bessent's sick and delusional mind the USA is reliable? How reliable is the USA today, now shafting tariffs down the throats of every country in the world, including the penguins, seals and polar bears. What trade deficits have these animals created for the USA that needed to have reciprocal tariffs erected against them is truly mind-boggling.

Again, the USA is blaming China for its trade policy and overcapacity for its economic rise. Why is it wrong for China to tailor its policies to grow and improve the lives of its citizens? Is progress a prerogative for and just reserved for the Anglo-Saxon White countries like the USA. The USA and the West can no longer compete economically against China and is resorting to hogwash arguments like overcapacity to destroy China. Did China blamed the USA for its trade and economic policies in the past, pretending that the Chinese would only be suitable and be content only to be just doing cooking and washing clothes, while they enjoyed the prestige of being the land of dreams, overwhelming every country to grow and become the biggest economy of the world? Did not the USA destroyed Japan's economy in the process, and coerced Germany to comply, so that it can remain the virtual economic superpower? Now, they are afraid of China doing the same to them. If only the doggies and sycophants, like Japan and Germany just wake up.

I think it is right to say that the trade deficit of the USA is purely self-inflicted. Banning sales of high-end chips to China, as a perfect example, does not help to reduce the USA's deficit. I do not believe that China is stopping USA exports into China. The real reason is that they are not competitive enough. Other than goods that the Chinese can buy much cheaper from China's own manufacturers, there is no limit to USA companies doing business in China, like Apple, Tesla, Micron, Qualcomm and Intel, besides food and beverage giants like McDonalds, Starbucks and others with thousands of outlets throughout China. These companies are making billions inside China, outside of the calculation of the USA deficit. If they cannot compete, just too bad and the USA cannot force Chinese competitors to increase prices to allow them to compete successfully in the Chinese market. Globalization is about making things cheaper based on comparative advantage and not on artificial policies to allow the rich cronies, campaign donors and sycophants to make obscene profits at the expense of consumers as in the USA itself.


Anonymous

Israel's attack on Iran was made in Heaven

 I cannot believe my eyes seeing all the information of the Israeli attacks on Iran. 200 Israeli aircraft were involved and flew 5 waves of attack all over Iran and returned home safely. Apparently all the Iranian military forces were either sleeping or have switched off all their early warning systems, their radars, and no one was monitoring the air space despite all the signs of an attack by the Israelis all over the news.

Can this be real? The two countries were at the verge of a war and Iran did not seem to be on any state of alert or defensive postures. Or they were under a divine spell, and all were in a daze and unable to react or retaliate. The Israeli aircraft flew all over Iran unchallenged, untouched, not intercepted, no ground fire or missiles firing at them. Not a single Israeli aircraft was shot down, not a single air defence unit was alerted and active to try to engage the attacking waves of Israeli aircraft dropping more than 300 bombs and successfully killing the head of IRGC, nuclear scientists and generals. Can this be real? Yes, it is all real. Iran already confirmed the casualties.

And Iran is still talking about going to war with Israel. Iran still has not declared war on Israel after such a massive attack and with its nuclear facilities destroyed! What were the Iranian military strategists and planners been doing all this while? They never expect Israel to attack, never expect that Israel will dare to attack, so no need to do any planning, no defensive plans, no counter attack plans, no contingency plans. Now only they are starting to think of how and when to hit back at Israel?

Any military organisation would have all the defensive and offensive plans all worked out and once Israel attacks, all departments must swing into actions, executing all the plans to defend and to counter attack. There is no time to plan when war has started.

Cannot imagine that this could happen to China. Can anyone imagine what would happen to China when the American terrorists and its cronies mount a sneak attack on China's nuclear sites and military installations, and China did not react, did not know how to react, did not know what to do, and only starts to plan for a counter attack? The American terrorists and its cronies would not give China a second chance, China would be wiped out completely. 

It is only reasonable to expect China to be on high alert 24/7 with all the war plans ready, which units to do the defending and which units to do the attacking and all the targets assigned and waiting for the operators to push the buttons. Not a second can be wasted. It is to attack immediately and survive, failing so means the nation will perish.

Luckily Iran still has a second chance to hit back, and still has all the time in the world to start planning for a war with Israel but still did not know when to declare war on Israel.

China does not have this privilege and cannot afford to fall asleep or stand down its early warning forces, and hope to survive an attack by the American terrorists and its cronies. What had happened to Iran last night is a good lesson for those that are still sleeping and still thinking war is far away.

The divine force has given the Israeli a good start. Would the divine force give Iran a chance to fight back to be fair to Iran?

Air India's Boeing 787 crashed on take off, killing more than 240 people

 Another Boeing air disaster. Another unnamed, unidentified murderer, another massacre of the innocents. 

Crashing of Boeing aircraft is now a new normal. Boeing would deny anything wrong with their aircraft that have the habit of falling from the sky. If they can hide the cause or blame the birds, they will do that, just like the Korean aircraft in Jeju. It is not Boeing's fault! Really?

The video clip of the Air India aircraft took off and apparently everything looked fine except that the aircraft was losing height, unable to climb. At this stage, the aircraft is on full power, even with landing gears down, the aircraft was supposed to be able to fly normally. The pilots could not do much as the accident happened in a few seconds. No time to react, or the pilots did react but could not control the aircraft. If the engines were on full power, at the very least, the aircraft could keep on climbing.

Is this another case of the 'kill switch' being activated? The kill switch is likely to be embedded in the software and any glitch or hacking could activate the kill switch and the pilot would lose control of the aircraft. Several such incidents had occurred, killing everyone on board when the Boeing aircraft just fall off from the sky.

All Boeing aircraft should be grounded immediately, and the kill switch facility be deleted and removed completely from all Boeing aircraft for safety reasons. Any software is just software and can be corrupted, intentionally or unintentionally, by bugs, hacking or virus attack.

The Boeing company would not admit this. Just think about it. Who would want to admit guilt when so many lives have been lost?

Remember Murphy's Law.

Rogue Bessent very angry after the London Talks and revealed the truth

Rogue America still thinks it can lie and bully the rest of the world for its own interests and benefits at the expense of others. Its narrative of trade deficit against many countries is a big lie. The American trade deficit is a self inflicted injury, intentional and unintentional. The basic nature of a trade balance is due to buying and selling by a nation.  In America's case, it is because the Americans want to buy and buy and buy but not wanting to sell what others want, or want to sell expensive overpriced goods that nobody wants. Its trade deficit against China is simply because it refused to sell expensive high end chips that China wants and many other high tech products, but only want to sell cheap low value agricultural products that China can get elsewhere at cheaper prices. How could the cunning and deceiving and lying Americans then put the blame on China for their own trade deficits caused by their own gangster policies of wanting to deprive China of high tech products, to keep China from developing into an advanced high tech country?

The trade deficit can easily be corrected by stopping the Americans from buying more Chinese products or by selling more American products that China wants. China did not point a gun at the Americans to buy Chinese products. The Americans like Chinese products because they are good value for money. Actually China is helping the average Americans to improve their quality of life and lower their cost of living. America should be grateful and say thank you to China.

And Bessent and the Washington clowns are still lying that it is bad and wrong for China to produce goods that are of better quality and at cheaper prices to sell to the world that needs them, and wanting China to cut production so that the rest of the world has to buy expensive and overpriced poor quality goods from America. This is what the arrogant American gangsters claimed should be the order of trades. What China is doing is really benefiting the rest of the world, producing and selling essential and desirable goods that the rest of the world are happy to buy at the cheapest cost. Only the mischievous and unreasonable American thugs can argue that this is bad. The rest of the world choose to disagree and are not complaining and keep on buying and buying from China to keep their cost of living down and to raise the quality of life of their people. No need to waste money buying overpriced and undesirable and poorer quality products from the Americans.

The country that is destroying world trade and hurting all countries is rogue America with its reckless and unreasonable tariffs against all countries and banning of foreign students in America. Only the cruel and inhuman American gangsters can do such wicked acts. But no western country or American cronies would dare to condemn such irresponsible behaviours of the American terrorists.

Below is an extract of what Scott Bessent reported back to Washington after the London Talks and clearly revealed how bad the Talks went. He could not get what he wanted and slammed China with derogatory terms like unreliable partner and that China should not be allowed to export to the rest of the world. That is the right of the American gangsters, to force the rest of the world to buy expensive and overpriced things from America whether they like it or not. That is the right thing for the American gangsters, the evil American Empire.

What Trump said about a deal being done, and excellent relations are all bullshit. The Chinese did not give an inch to the bullying American gangsters. If things have gone the American way, he would not be that angry.  And he is still lying about China stealing jobs from lazy and unproductive Americans when they were the ones that sent all their factories to China happily and making a lot of money at the expense of cheap Chinese labour.  Read for yourself the text below by MSN.

US Treasury chief slams ‘unreliable’ China at House hearing on Trump trade policy
Story by Mark Magnier

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent slammed Beijing on Wednesday for its aggressive export policies, urged it to be a more dependable partner and depicted China’s disjointed economic structure as hurting not only the US but the entire globe.

“China currently has the most unbalanced economy in the history of the world,” Bessent, a former hedge fund manager, told the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.

“They cannot be allowed to export their way back to prosperity, not only for working Americans but for working citizens around the world.”

Trump and the USA media spinning about an agreement in London

Trump and the USA media are spinning about an agreement being reached when the reality says otherwise. An agreement to have further talks is more likely, not a big, beautiful agreement that Trump is boasting about.

Do not be taken aback by Trump's boast about China facing a 55% tariff, while only erecting a 10% tariff against USA imports into China. That sounds like China is caving in. The reality is that whether it is a 30% tariff now, or a 55% tariff going forward, Chinese manufacturers have already been actively found new markets for their products - a 20% increase to ASEAN, with Indonesia taking the cake with a 36% surge. Just a matter of weeks is truly encouraging for Chinese manufacturers. They are brushing aside the USA market for sure.

What is more realistic going forward is whether the 55% tariffs will encourage more Chinese manufacturers to sell once again to retailers in USA or is going to make the position even worse. I would bet on the latter. Which means that there will be more empty shelves in the coming months, with new orders by retailers like Walmart and Target still falling. What is in it for the Trump touting about his win in a 55% tariff against China's 10%? It means little and China is just allowing him to let off hot air to his MAGA base claiming that he is winning.

In the face of Trump spinning as reported on Channel News America, China has not spoken a word about any deal being made, only indicating that there is now a channel for further co-operation with the USA. Nothing about releasing rare earth in abundance or caring to comment about the 55% tariffs. What is there to talk about when China is ready for real decoupling with the USA. Even if the tariffs were to be raised to 1,000%, China cares two hoots.


Anonymous

Let not us be fooled that the world cannot survive without the USA

 According to a report by Kevin Walmsley on his site 'Inside China Business' citing reports on the rankings of top universities around the world, USA universities are falling fast in the rankings of the hard sciences - physics, chemistry and engineering, the building blocks of future development. Chinese universities are fast replacing them among the top tier universities.

There is also a report that top scientists, engineers and researchers have been deserting the USA for more lucrative and safer job opportunities in Chinese universities. These Chinese scientist, engineers and researchers have faced problems working in the USA and have decided to migrate to China for a safer and more secure working environment. It is a massive gain for China and a crippling blow for the USA.

Remember that these are top scientists, engineers and researchers educated, trained and highly experienced that have contributed to the USA's technological edge over the decades in computer science, aerospace and nuclear science, and the loss would be more detrimental. They will bring with them a wealth of knowledge and expertise, with China not needing to pay a single cent to nurture them. It is a blessing in disguise for China.

Now, prospective Chinese students, wishing to study in the USA, are weighing whether to take the risk of facing further future visa banning, knowing that Trump's behavior is erratic and unfathomable. Moreover, the cost of an education in the USA is not cheap and the studying environment is not conducive in the face of worries about safety and possible disruption.

The world is larger than the USA and there are alternatives everywhere. Let not us be fooled that the world cannot survive without the USA. That is ending and even decoupling is no longer a threat that the Chinese feared. Now, it is the USA that feared decoupling and migrating the narrative to 'de-risking'. I am not fooled by the 'word salad' expertise of the USA politicians.

Anonymous

Hong Kong Protest returning to its roots in America

After liberating the world with his 'Liberation Day' tariffs, Trump is now gloating about liberating Los Angeles as well. It looks like the pigeons have come home to roost.

Trump has been touting about the arrest of Los Angeles Governor, Gavin Newsome and Mayor Karen Bass for impeding law enforcement. Karen Bass had been involved in the fire setting during the protests in Hong Kong in 2019/2020 and is now fighting fires herself instead in Los Angeles. Karma is working. Justice for the Hong Kong Government is really sweet.

Had the Hong Kong protests, which was more violent, been met with the deployment of troops by China, it would have been compared to the fake Tiananmen Massacre fiasco, where millions were reported to have been killed. Unearthed documents revealed that no such massacre happened at Tiananmen Square. Some deaths were reported in and around Tiananmen Square, not in the Square itself, probably instigated by the NED and the CIA.

Trump is now claiming that 'Aliens' are causing the riots in Los Angeles. Funny that the MSM did not point to Aliens funding and inciting the Hong Kong protests, using the fight for democracy as an excuse to pull wool over unsuspecting eyes. Now we know better that the CIA and NED were involved deeply and had been involved for years working the ground.


Anonymous

It is ok for America and Israel to bomb Iran's nuclear sites

Washington reportedly believes Israel could strike Iran’s nuclear sites without its approval.

The US has begun evacuating non-essential personnel and family members from its embassies and military bases in the Middle East in light of escalating tensions with Iran.  RT

The Plan has been approved, and the Israelis are going to strike Iran's nuclear sites with full support, approval and involvement of the Americans. The Americans would provide all the logistics, weapons, satellite information, and even fire power from American bases and aircraft carriers.  Zelensky has angrily complained that the Americans have diverted 20,000 missiles to the American forces in the Middle East. The sin of Iran is that it does not want to give up enriching uranium that can be made into nuclear bombs. On the other hand, it is Americans and Israelis right to have thousands of nuclear bombs to threaten and blackmail Iran and the rest of the world whenever they like.

Any condemnation from the UN or from any principled countries in NATO or the Global South?  Silence! What if Iran is planning to strike Israeli nuclear sites? There will be an immediate uproar. Iran is aggressive and wanting to start a war with Israeli. All the western media, including media of American crony states would be publishing such news in their front pages.

Now when the Americans and Israelis are going to strike Iran, not a word of protest or condemnation is heard. It is the right of the evil American Empire and rogue state Israel to attack anyone, any country they like. Who is there to stop them? Who dares to stop them?

Would Russia and China be in the way to stop this attack? Would China and Russia be condemned as the aggressors for wanting defending Iran from the rogues and terrorists from Israel and America? By the way, the Asean countries trusted the Americans more than China as peace loving country and some even openly called for the American terrorists to be the policemen of SE Asia...so that the Americans can then set up more bases and deployed more terrorists in uniform, to attack countries in the region that refused to toe the American line, like Iran. Asean countries would support the American and Israelis attack on Iran. You can bet none of them would protest, just keep quiet.

Who are the real terrorists and who are the real aggressors? Which country has been calling war, war, war? Which country has been talking about attacking this country and that country? Which country has been invading countries in Asia, Middle East and Africa? Dunno?  Oh, must be aggressive China?

Who would be supporting the American hegemon to rule over Asia and SE Asia? American cronies, don't be shy, please raise your hands and start to smear and criticise China and Russia as the aggressive countries when they stand up to defend Iran.

White savages have no regards to the destruction of humanity caused by WW3

 Just listen to the rhetoric and actions of the white savages, the Americans and the Europeans, they are totally insane. They are pushing for wars and behaving recklessly to escalate the war in Ukraine and to want to continue to attack Russia at all costs. They are not letting up. 

The big strike by Ukraine on Russian air bases is not the work of Ukraine alone but the Brits and Nato and likely the Americans as well. Putin has responded to show these savages that Russia is not a pushover and a nuclear power with thousands of warheads to nuke them. But these did not deter the white savages from wanting to go on with the war. Trump had hinted that the white savages are planning more attacks and bigger attacks against Russia. Clown Zelensky is still dancing around wanting to continue to fight.

Do these savages really believe Putin would not nuke them, that they could survive a nuclear war? For the moment they are not holding back, acting as if they are going to destroy Russia without themselves being destroyed. This is how dangerous and how ignorant the white savages are.

With the European savages thinking that they can fool around with war against Russia, a nuclear superpower, it is easy to understand why Mickey Mouse too are not afraid of being wiped out by a war with superpowers.

The world cannot avoid a nuclear war with the American and European lunatics savage instinct for wars and more wars. They did not believe in peace. According to gangster Hegseth, war is peace. The white savages are such peaceful people. The Asean people also believe so and love to party with them, to sleep with them.

It is war, war and war. Increase defence budgets, buy more weapons, incite and provoke for war and war will be here. Just keep bombing Russia and Europe would be blessed with an all our nuclear war. Just join the American terrorists and warmongers and Asia and SE Asia will have a big war in the region. Just do nothing, say nothing, and the Americans and Israelis will attack Iran.

China US London Talk - Rare earths deal done!

The two day talks in London ended without any joint statement, no photo ops of a happy ending.  Both sides said the talk was productive and an agreement “in principle to a framework” was reached and both sides would bring it home for review and approval by their top leaders. What the statement said is quite clear, just a framework to work with, maybe like both sides were to treat each other on an equal basis, or maybe meeting once a quarter, maybe each will pay their own lunch, what level of representation, nothing else has been agreed on.

From the Chinese side, their term of reference is very simple. No need to agree on anything, no hurry, take all the time needed, hear them out and then come back home. On the American side, try to force the Chinese to close a deal quickly, the sooner the better. The situation in the US is getting bad and getting worse every day. There is an urgency to close the deal for Trump to show off. So, you have a very relax Chinese delegation with no pressure of time for an agreement, very polite and smiling and listening, against the American delegation with orders from Trump to close the deal. And Trump is waiting eagerly in the White House for good news from London, checking his phone repeatedly.

Now it is all over the American media that a deal is done. And Trump is saying that China will be releasing all the rare earths for American industries and for American Military Industrial Complex to make more weapons to start a war with China. And Trump is so happy that he agreed to let Chinese students to continue their studies in the US. In addition, American tariff against China would be raised to 55% against China's 10%. 

The Chinese side did not say anything other than the framework. What Trump is saying is that China sent a high level delegation to London to offer sale of rare earths on a silver platter and were grateful that the Americans would let Chinese students to study in America. Trump is so happy with the negotiation and calling it an excellent relationship and thanking the Chinese profusely for the rare earths. Trump is as good as saying the Chinese delegation went home carrying a white flag.

What more is Trump going to spin? Oh, Xi is so happy with Trump's generosity and is inviting him to visit Beijing? The Chinese have forgotten what the negotiation was all about, nothing about chips and all the bans and sanctions imposed by Trump. They are very happy just with the students able to study in the USA.

What do you think?

Clown Zelensky begging American devils to help

Clown Zelenskyy is asking the USA to take action over the current drone attacks by Russia. Zelenskyy wants to play with fire and is now getting his just desserts. What about his own drone attack on the Russian airfield, destroying several aircrafts? Of course, we have to believe and assume that the USA was not involved in that attack on Russia, right? Asking a thief for help may be asking to lose everything in the process.

Zelenskyy reported himself that the USA just moved 20,000 of its missiles for the defense of Ukraine to the Middle East. He does not seem to know that the USA giving him hints that he has thrown him under the bus. The USA knows that Ukraine is a lost cause for the USA to pursue, now that the rare earth resources that the USA had been eyeing was just fake news to keep the USA involved.

Actually, that news of a rare earth deposit in Ukraine is just an attempt to make a mountain out of a mole hill, to fool Trump obviously. Whatever rare earth minerals that the USA can get its hands on still needs China's refining logistics to make them into useful magnets. Nothing more! Of course, the USA and its allies can set up the refining logistics themselves, up and running probably a decade from now, in the face of pollution and environmental issues to be settled first. Those are expensive investments and who wants to set them up to compete with China? It is a no brainer, throwing good money after bad.


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