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After the US strikes on Iran, China said that the US remains the only country that can project power anywhere in the world. The Chinese sent two surveillance vessels to learn from the US, not to support Teheran. At no time did the Chinese claim military parity with the US. It's actually the...

You can say all you want... there's $20 trillion of USD circulating round the world in electronic form, but only $2.3 trillion in physical form. The US economy is just sustained on deficit spending and speculation in financial assets, not on real production of goods and services China buys...

Manufacturing is production of real goods. The real economy. Provides jobs, creates wealth, grows the economy. If coupled to adequate market signals overproduction can be largely avoided. The financialization of the US economy has resulted in increasing funds pouring into speculation in capital...

Patrick McGee: "Donald Trump is more of a threat to Apple's operations than Xi Jinping has ever been. Mr Xi and Mr Cook have the same interests. Apple gets abundant, cheap labour and world-class robotics. Xi gets the spillover effects that benefit Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and the broader electronics...

You give China too much credit. China is not interested in the toppling the US. It has enough problems domestically. In the medium term it has only 3 aims: 1. Generate jobs to eradicate poverty (countryside) and make the people happy. Tackle economic bubbles. Maintain access to resources like...

You may say China has a top-down industrial policy, partially convertible RMB, limited freedom of speech & expression, authoritarian rule, export driven economy, no free elections, neijuan resulting in property bubble, etc... all true. But it has lifted 800 mil people out of abject poverty...

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They are still #1 because once you have become #1 you have all the tools at your disposal to maintain your dominance and bully the rest of the world into submission. That's how the Brits ruled the world for 150 years - on the back of the slave trade, exploiting the colonies and the opium trade...

You're either smokin' too much weed, still wet behind the ears, or don't know your history... or maybe all three. 1. USD and US economy. Ever heard of how the USD ended the link to gold in 1971? The petrodollar in 1974 which gave the USD world's reserve currency status? The US economy is a...

The RTS will allow more Malaysians to commute here to work daily, and more Singaporeans to go to JB for makan, shopping, groceries and short vacations. It will not benefit our tourism. The only positive thing is it will probably ease the jams at the Causeway and Second Link checkpoints.

I believe it's Yunnan Hui, looking at the food.

All wayang la. Free market when it benefits them - exploiting 3rd World labour, forcing open 3rd World markets on pretext of investments, incurring huge 3rd World loans on pretext of developmental aid. Closed market when competitors outsell, out-manufacture them - resort to dirty tactics like...

Politics is dirty. And international geopolitics even dirtier. No country will surrender its #1 status without a fight to the death - no morals involved. Might is right. And the Trump admin is pushing it to the limit.

The best already left for Vancouver prior to 1997. The current hollowing out is because the mainland cities have caught up in terms of entertainment, infrastructure, food, cost differential, convenient rail network.

The difference is huge between Sg and M'sia if you go outside JB to Muar, Port Dickson, Mersing, Kuantan... but the perennial Causeway and 2nd Link jam is a bottleneck, and jiuhu don't have high-speed rail

192 member states vs the US. Who will eventually win? Even a rogue superpower cannot overcome the will of 7.7 billion people

Israel is now a pariah state. Singapore is seen as the Israel of South East Asia, for good reasons.

Actually, projections in the mid-80s had Japan's GDP overtaking the US by early '90s based on its manufacturing prowess (esp cars) and its status as the world's #1 exporter. Not too different from China today. As for China, foreign companies are still coming to China, starting joint ventures...

As for stirring shit, the US is the #1 shit-stirrer in the world - coups in S America, regime change in the Middle East, Pakistan and Iran, creating the Taliban in Afghanistan, supportiing Israel in its ongoing genocide and state terrorism, funding Xinjiang separatist-terrorists, engineering the...

That's how naive the ACS here are. Any rival or competitor that is about to match or overtake the US is viewed as 'belligerent' or 'hostile'. Remember the Plaza Accord in the '80s when Japan was about to become #1? That sent Japan into a tailspin for 30 years? The US only close one eye if the...