''As Russia said, Germany is not a sovereign nation,'' What new madness is this? Why bother reading any of the rest of this color coded article if this is its premise?

''They shouldn't be too anxious, it takes time to sharpen the knife.'' Undoubtedly a sharpened chopper would always be at hand in your own kitchen.

Mainstream news has taken to calling Myanmar a “forgotten country,” but a documentary from The Independent last December reveals a country not so much forgotten as deliberately ignored. Some lament the fall of “the one democratic hope that Burma had,” her betrayal by those who unreasonably expected a saint and then abandoned her when sullied by realpolitik.
- Aung San Suu Kyi isn’t the villain of Myanmar’s tragedy

In other words, the Anglo/Jew gangsters wanted yet another puppet of the Great Satan, awarding her a Nobbled Peace Prize in violation of Alfred Nobel's will, a prize which she has alongside war criminals such as Henry Kissinger, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin. They pretended they could give a Victoria Nuland about the people of Myanmar, a former colony plundered by the poodle empire pf plunder.

But when they didn't get what they wanted, they discarded her. They don't even try to make their lies plausible.

re: "The Philippines is also wary of being stabbed in the back: "Philippines anxiously waits for Trump to show his China hand".
      They shouldn't be too anxious, it takes time to sharpen the knife.

However, there is some hope that the Philippines are the first and only nation nit getting  stabbed in the back.

Once them 300000 plus domestic helpers getting one way tickets after that fool will feel twice as itchy...
 

As Russia said, Germany is not a sovereign nation, whilst France is yet again whining about another "exorbitant privilege", paying three times the price for Lucifer Natural Gas.

The Great Satan has denied that it wants to hold China back, despite it being as obvious as the "palpably absurd" lies of WMD in Iraq, that their own propaganda rags openly state it. Marshall Auerbach called Raimondo's campaign of dirty tricks  "capitulation", i.e. an admission they can't compete. Max. Kiester called it the "Tonya Harding approach".

Now even she admits the obvious:
Outgoing US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo called attempts to hold back China a “fool’s errand” in an interview with the Wall Street Journal late last month.
- US-China race for AI’s next frontier is already on

However, before DeepSeek's revelation, she was still touting gangster tactics:
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said the new rules were “designed to safeguard the most advanced AI technology and ensure that it stays out of the hands of our foreign adversaries, but also enabling the broad diffusion and sharing of the benefits with partner countries.”
- Biden unveils last round of AI chip curbs aimed at China, Russia

But more sad, little bastardry comes in the form of taking credit for TSMC's time, cash, effort and ingenuity:
On January 10, TSMC began fabricating integrated circuits for Apple at its new factory in Arizona, with AMD and Nvidia likely to be its next customers. Outgoing commerce chief Gina Raimondo told the press, “For the first time ever in our country’s history, we are making leading edge four-nanometer chips on American soil, American workers – on par in yield and quality with Taiwan.”
- Move over CHIPS Act, Stargate is the future

Except those "American workers" were probably just laying the concrete or just the janitors:
Yes, the United States shortly will produce more computer chips onshore, thanks to Taiwan’s TSMC, which built a plant in Arizona – staffed mainly by workers and technicians imported from Taiwan, because TSMC couldn’t find enough skilled labor in the United States. That’s the kind of success that makes failure seem attractive by comparison.
- If reshoring’s happening, where does the US get the capital goods?

Despite being able to print jew-confetti out of "thin-air" to fund the IRA and CHIPS act illegal state-aid and now the "Stargate", the Great Satan still demands others fund its theft of market share too:
The United States has seen more investment in electronics manufacturing over the last four years than in the previous three decades combined. Planned investments are now nearly $450 billion, marking the largest wave of semiconductor manufacturing expansion in US history. This includes the two largest domestic investments in semiconductor manufacturing by US companies in history (Intel and Micron), as well as the two largest foreign direct investments in new projects by any company in history (TSMC and Samsung)…Perhaps most significantly, for the first time, all five of the world’s leading-edge logic and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) manufacturers (Intel, Micron, Samsung, SK hynix, and TSMC) are building and expanding in the United States. By contrast, no other economy in the world has more than two of these companies manufacturing on its shores…
- Yes, reshoring US industry is possible and happening

And here's TSMC's reward for being a vassal of the Great Satan:
Trump said he wants foreign chip makers to build their factories in the US. He pledged to accomplish this through tariffs, which he said might be “25, 50, or 100%.” As a basis for comparison, in recent years the average US tariff rate has been around 2%.

This is a demoralizing development for Taiwan, which has already suffered the indignity of Trump unfairly and inaccurately saying on other occasions that Taiwan “stole” America’s semiconductor manufacturing business.
- Harassment of Taiwan an ominous clue to Trump 2.0 foreign policy

The Philippines is also wary of being stabbed in the back: "Philippines anxiously waits for Trump to show his China hand"