May 05, 2020, 16:53
| Donald Trump is not only a quack (not even a charlatan, because he's not a medic) when it comes to dispensing advice about cures and vaccines, he is a dangerous and irresponsible futurist.
He couldn't name any scientific or medical authoritative sources to substantiate his claim that the U.S. will come up with a vaccine against COVID-19 by the end of 2020, but the real-estate man still finds it conscionable to announce that the U.S. would have a coronavirus vaccine by the end of this year. Here's what he said: _________________ WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States would have a coronavirus vaccine by the end of this year. "We are very confident that we're going to have a vaccine at the end of the year, by the end of the year," Trump said in a Fox News "town hall" show broadcast from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. He also said he would urge the reopening of schools and universities in September, saying "I want them to go back." _________________ Let me emphasize that so far none of the U.S. medical experts has seconded his statement because no one really knows how long it would take to truly develop such a vaccine given the novel nature of the virus. Just the part authenticating the efficacy of any new vaccine would take more than a year, and now it is less than eight months before the end of 2020. So what does he really mean? He's actually challenging Chinese medics to hasten their vaccine-making efforts so that he can reap the benefits of their efforts to salvage the U.S. economy. He's really not talking about the American researchers. If Chinese leaders fall into the trap that's being set for them, then when China succeeds in making such a vaccine for COVID-19 he would field another lie and claim with any evidence that the Chinese have stolen it from the U.S. He would then demand that China supplies the fifty states with all the vaccines they need without paying a cent for them. Will our side be foolhardy enough to fall into his preset trap and help him solve all his nagging problems -- first by restoring the U.S. economy and second by rebuilding its war machine which has been traumatized by COVID-19 -- by tripling our investments into finding such a cure and sharing it with the Americans? I am not worried about Chinese medics coming up with a vaccine, but I am worried that once we've successfully helped the U.S. to recover from the disease, it will benefit their armed forces enough for them to threaten us again. |
Everything that's been mentioned in this thread is true -- the U.S. is the terrorist nation that got us SARS in 2003 and COVID 19. Both are based on profit motives.
See the real story here.
Watch it from beginning to end without skipping or stopping. Hear it from the horse's mouth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_A7Aw5Dx74
The US is trying to play obscurantist mumbo-jumbo on the One-China Policy.
It has laid out three dirty tricks by trying to reinterpret the policy although lying that it is upholding it:
1. First, it alleges that Taiwan doesn't belong to China (although the principle says it is a part of China).
One US analyst has said as much as follows:
'For China it means Beijing is the sole government of China which includes Taiwan.
For the US, it means Beijing is the sole government of mainland China, while acknowledging, but not accepting, Beijing's view that Taiwan is part of its territory.'
But he denies all history totally. After the first Sino-Japan war, Japan had claimed Taiwan as war booty; therefore Taiwan must have belonged to China, else from whom did Tokyo get the island?
2. Second, it claims that after WWII and at the Treaty of San Francisco, Japan ceded Taiwan but without naming the recipient.
This must be a US-maneuvered omission since the ownership by virtue of (1) above is still establishedly intact.
3. Thirdly, the US now argues that by UN Charter, the people on the island have self-determination (read: independence).
But if (1) and (2) are taken into account, how can that be, especially when China's present government was not present during the formulation of the UN Charter?
And if it next says the KMT was present then, that implies it does not recognize the CCP today when the sovereignty of a country requires its territorial integrity is upheld in toto.
Furthermore, if it wants to go by just numbers, how can the wish of less than 23 million that happen to be on an island supercede the want of 1,400 million to see its return?
Conclusion:
All along, the US' version of the bilateral One-China principle is strategically clear, 'Taiwan is a part of China' where it implicitly defines 'China' as the 'ROC' .
But, that's also illogical - how can a whole thing be a part of itself?
How can Taiwan be a part of the ROC?
Which other provinces does the ROC have that makes Taiwan one of its parts?
In short, the US does not recognize the CCP with which it has a bilateral agreement for over four decades that is founded on the inviolability of Taiwan as part of the CCP's China, an agreement that it is using a salami approach to slice off piece-by-piece any which way it can so that it can use the island as a proxy platform to contain China militarily, stir animosity, sustain its alliance narrative that pits "'democracy' against 'autocracy'" and inflame China to reclaim the island whereupon it can then start a war with China until the last Taiwan islander, just as it is doing by subverting the security of Russia until the last Ukrainian.
The world knows all that, therefore the US has no right to interfere in the internal affairs of China on the matter of Taiwan if it is sincere about wanting to see peace for both inasmuch for the rest of Asia.
But sincerity is however not the US' middle name.
Now that Pelosi has crossed China's redline on Taiwan, the US can't blame China for crossing the median line laid by the renegades in Taipei.
Her drills should continue as a loose noose of battleships moving along the median line in island-circling circuit.
Her aircraft carriers should be parked at both ends of the Straits to project presence and thwart the US fleet.
In tandem with intel on of US/allies arms supplies to the Tsaists in the next months, especially at unloading points seaports and airports and by cargoes military or commercial, both carriers and ships must be maintained in that configuration around the island to deter the buildup of US naval presence now that it thinks China is receding her drills and can say it is back in strength to show 'responsible support', and thumb and taunt at China again so as to rally Taipei, and Tokyo.
Undoubtedly, the US would have been collecting intel on the PLA's strategies, drills and weaponry in case, come one stage, a takeover has to be mounted when the US and(/or) the Tsaists cross next the redline in tandem.
This richly video-recorded event will only take place after the US helps Taipei break the next fuller blockade. The amphibious force will be met with mines, ninja drones, Himar artillery, aerial bombings, missile attacks, machine-gun suppresive fires, smokescreens and dummies plus decoys to divert the landing force's covering missile attacks.
Unless the amphibious vehicles are each protected by an 'iron dome' above and below the waterline and the entire campaign has anti-electronic counter-measures, risks of casualty rates will be high.
As the amphibious force lands with much difficulty, it will be met by a full barrage from US battleships in the sea on the other side of the island where the battle order would be based on using the taiwan relations act to lend-lease instantly the US battleships through the singular act of lowering the US flag and raising the Taipei flag, by which the US hopes to absolve its 'direct participation'.
If those US battleships are hit, the US will declare war on China and draw in its Five-Eyed allies plus Japan in a repeat of the Korean War.
Meanwhile the US will seize China's foreign assets and China will seize US assets in China, causing the world economy to novedive as prelude to another one-hundred-year war.
To avoid such a predicament for all, China's move to temporarily blockade the island and decouple from the US on military and climate change talks are wise, proportionate and focus-sharpening guardrails and circuit breakers.
The peoples on the island must also take cognizance of that, especially when coaxed by the island's industrialists and businessmen who make and trade with China whose peoples on both sides are one and the same by original roots, common heritage and historical linkage, features which have sustained peaceful cooperation and business relations so far.
Why throw it all away just because of foreign interference by US ideological snakeoil peddlers and arms dealers?
That interference they have seen in HK not too long ago which is now having to pick up its pieces when it was an international hub before with implicit support and prosperity channelling from its Mainland.
This is one of umpteenth times one has tried to open the CD forum. Maybe it's a connectivity issue. Now that it is working, one can only savour the ...miracle.
A US-China heads summit seems on the cards.
What will Biden be concretely bringing to the table when he had fluffed off after the last one?
Will it be removal of all tariffs?
Will it be removal of all tech sanctions?
Will it be the stoppage of all the smearings and wild accusations and bloc encampment?
Will it be reinforcement of the real One-China policy, to wit 'China' is represented by the Peoples' Republic of China of which Taiwan is one of its Special Administrative Regions subscribing to the One-Country Two-Systems mode of governance where one-country is unified sovereignty and security?
Alas, one has done spectroscopic analysis of the US chromosomes. They remain aberrant.
China may hope for the best but must always prepare for the worst.
ren
There is no reason why efforts in other countries won't also advance technology. Such advances are made by incremental solutions to improve performance through engineering redesign either by changing the process or changing the material.
In the case of the Boeing 787 for instance, the cost-saving solution against lightning strikes on fuel tanks in the wings was to replace the copper linings as conductors by the simple expedient of adding inert gas buffers as fire retardants. For lift starts, the recycling of air bleeds was replaced with more use of electric motors. And for the engine, titanized polycarbonate fiber was used for the blades, the blades were cut from a single block using 3D printing, the engine nozzle was made bigger so that air bypass ratio was increased which reduces fuel consumption in tandem with more and smaller air compressors, a special fuel injector was designed which insitu varied the fuel mix to minimize nitrogen oxide buildup, and the outlet vents were jagged to reduce noise.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf6H8kSunRA)
Each engineering solution was to a performance-cost-failure problem at a specific site which could be described in physics terms applied to accumulated experimental data on how the behaviors of materials change under different limitations.
The real engineering advances would be making materials which can behave like metals, more homogeneous, less brittle and capable of self-reforming under stress.
Or, writing the computer programme which can integrate and synchronize the sensing-firing-defense response systems of different devices in a combat zone, such as landbased artillery, jetplane, warship, submarine and satellite, combined as one unified multimodal weapon.
In short, why should the US with only 4% of the world's population dominate all of advanced technologies that mankind can develop under a more cooperative setting?
The US has already shown it is selfish and domineering even in outer space with its planned Artemis Nasa program to carve occupied territory on the moon exclusively for its lunar astronauts which is against UN agreement...
... what more, controlling the security of sovereign states which may innocently happen to have bought its F35 fifth generation jetplanes - it controls everything with switch-off capability even after delivery - including spare parts, pilots profile, avionics surveillance and firing systems.
ren
US is by far technologically the most advanced nation on Earth.
India is in deep trouble. No statistical data is reported on time. Today, little is disclosed. Cremation is almost anywhere. Some are within hospital compounds, while India Prime Minister Modi is too over occupied with conquering small plots of land from neighboring nations. A hydroelectric project gave way claiming many lives but was not completely accounted.
India is a great nation with leadership that Indians forgive and forget.
The fact that the Federal Reserve of USA prints out an estimated half a Trillion ($500 Billions) Dollars worth of U.S. Dollar Bills and circulates them into global currency markets & banks worldwide annually. That's a heck of a hell lot of 'Free Money', isn't it? Well, I guess the USA got advantage on the U.S Dollar being a major global currency, so they can print out as much as they could, since it only costs 15 cents to print a $100 bill! Half a trillion dollars could help pay for the annual budget of the mighty U.S military, which by the way is the backbone of Capitalist Imperialist West.
If I'm correct, USA printed out around $ 6.5 TRILLIONS out of thin air in the past two years as an emergency measure during Covid-19 era. That's right about $6.5 Trillions!
U.S national debt is all time high at over 28 Trillion Dollars. What can they do, other than keep creating crisis, conflicts and making war?
The Biden administration has some immediate challenges:
(a) Going into virus-thriving winter, Omicron is gaining momentum - from 12% of new cases the week before to 73% last week.
If Omicron is a more agile mutation of Delta, it is possible mRNA booster shots meant for Delta won't blunt the effects of the next mutation after Omicron.
The outcome will fall somewhere in the triangulation between between vaccine efficacy, variant evolution rate and healthcare triaging.
(b) The rise of inflation owing to logistics logjams and labor shortage causing inventory not meeting increased consumer credit-spending demand will stress trade.
(c) The Manchin wedge against Biden's infrastructure plan because of inflation fears will also jeopardize Biden's climate change proposals.
(d) The US Central Bank's rattling to increase US interest rates next year will jitter its equity markets, dollar exchange rate, debt servicing ratio and the performance of the global bond market which has been contrarian so far.
So that in view of these challenges:
(e) The US political arena will sharpen in divisiveness with the Republicans waiting for a game-changer in next year's election given that Biden's deputy Harris holding the deciding vote in an evenly matched US Senate is deemed a lame duck.
(f) Countries in the emerging markets are well aware that Biden's pro-West re-engagement with the East after his Afghanistan debacle is floundering but for US-funded agitprops by the usual western media and their troupe of sinophobic trolls.
(g) Blinken's visit to SEAsia has come to grief whose countries are instead asking what benefit does the US bring to them that China hasn't already and continues to do so.
(h) They have also warned against the US starting a conflict in Asia to test China's red line on Taiwan that would result in a skirmish affecting the recovery of their economies as well as global trade, both under the specter of Omicron.
And they have also noted two recent conclusions:
(i) the US military drone attacks have killed more civilians than their intended targets; moreover, those attacks have been excused as unintended collateral damage in order to escape recompensing the victims' families, as if foreign innocent lives mattered less than US funds for future murders.
In fact, one report noted the personnel who fired those drone missiles wore shorts and shades to their outskirts command rooms. They must have thought they were just laconically playing video games instead of what they were actually doing - killing innocents and then excusing the carnage as due to poor ground intel.
This clearly shows the US as a ruthless hegemon whose seemingly diplomatic facade hides a scurrilous scam for its own personal interests and vengeful kill-ratios.
It therefore puts to shame the US campaign to sell its brand of democracy and human rights which certainly hasn't included the right of other peoples to progress, for that matter to live unless approved by the US.
The recent US democracy summit is thus exposed as shambolic of real ideals and aspirations and is only packaged to keep its alliances under the US' political and economic thumbs.
(j) The US sanctions and decoupling escapades have only harmed itself and others.
Sanctioned entities and countries can re-intermediate and re-configure their networks with extra costs recycled into price increases, thereby fuelling more inflation.
The global private sector realizes the US trade sanctions are only politically motivated by a few zealots without a clear understanding that trade deficits are due to current account imbalances and developing countries cannot just subscribe to all the rules designed only by and for the West's advanced economies to remain predominant despite their declining productivities and debt-ridden economies.
(k) Nevertheless, the US Commerce and Justice departments continue to sanction China tech companies and Chinese academia willy-nilly and without court-acceptable proof in what amounts to brazen witch-hunting redolent of the McCarthy era and based only of self-invented doubts couched as presumption of guilt.
This will however only increase indigenization of tech in China which means US tech companies are already losing the lucrative China tech market as well as critical tech talent who have been conducting collaborative research with US tertiaries under internationally-accepted academic auspices.
As China reforms her industrial policies, improves her state enterprises, and opens her financial sector, she will be the first nation to lay the foundation of a full-blown IoT that will modernize both instant demand and automated supply chains, sharpen her manufacturing prowess and fuel her socio-economic engineering. Those who already know this should join in.
For these reasons, the US has been relentless in throwing everything it could cook up on China in the past few weeks as if it is running out of time to fulfill some hidden agenda. This reeks of desperation and spells only a political tactic to deflect attention from its own unsolved domestic problems. Yet, let the records show: from a position of strength, China expressed only no-conflict, no-confrontation; from a regressing position, the US expressed only competition, rivalry. Therein, the obvious difference between a mature state and an immature potemkin.
Meanwhile, China has moved on. She realizes if she follows only the western capitalist model of every man for himself, then the many who are poor will still see their future generations remaining poor.
In fact, one study has shown the US is in fact not a land of opportunity for the very reason the lower half of its entire population will not be able to rise given its strictured economic structure.
This would explain their loss of patience with all the US administrations so far, made worse by the US democracy system which prioritizes short-term political funding over long-term wellbeing, furthermore fueled only by polemical exaggeration and distortion.
It is with this conclusion that China practices her own form of grassroots democracy where politicians are tied to their performances down to the wellbeing of each household in their constituency so that, step-by-step, progress in one generation can bolster progress in the next generation, especially important in an aging society now re-balanced with the mandate of common prosperity on the platform of pro-communal time productivity.
At the same time, China is springing ahead in her tech capabilities - from land to sea to air to space. The US crimping of her tech trade will only strengthen her resolve to be self-sufficient since what the US has been doing to make sure she doesn't progress is existentially unacceptable to any nation, including and hypocritically, itself.
Thus, the present situation. A growing dichotomy foisted by the US but akin to a no-man's land laden with tricky mines.
Given the predilection of both US political parties to make China the convenient fall guy for their own problems, they have however only made fools of themselves with every charge they try to lay on China. Xinjiang? Stabillized and progressing. Hong Kong? Stabilized and recovered.
Hence, the last frontier. Taiwan. Its separatists must be naive and too nipponized to forget they are but byproducts of colonization working against the umbilical cord of common heritage and history. They should ask themselves the only vital question: which form of democracy are they practicing? The US'?
ren
Slavery, Colonialism and Colonization are evil things done and benefited by evildoers.
Isn't that a jaw dropping mega genocide of indigenous Native Americans, and their population in Continents of America 500 yrs ago was around 15 millions, while European population in Europe was around 25 millions.
Today, Native Americans population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering 'TWO BILLIONS'! A sad truth.
It's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return to rightful owners indigenous Native American people.
Notorious global cardinal crimes Anglo West has committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why is notorious Colonization still lingering on, may I ask?
Let Native Americans have Europe, since Europeans have had both North & South America Continents already. A fair deal?
Remember the saying, "You can't have your cake and eat it too".., and "A Man's Gotta Do, What A Man's Gotta Do".
For hard truths, pls read informative multi-pages 'Ole Fella' comment (on YouTube) at, "China-US tensions: A closer look at the 'Five-Eyes' intelligence partnership / CGTN": https://youtu.be/H6nkAVegk0g
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