Is this ‘soft confrontation’?
On Tuesday evening, China Daily, the ruling Chinese Communist party’s (CCP) English-language mouthpiece, published an editorial saying Donald Trump’s frequent claims of the US being “ripped off” were “hoodwinking the US public”.
“The US is not getting ripped off by anybody,” it said. “The problem is the US has been living beyond its means for decades. It consumes more than it produces. It has outsourced its manufacturing and borrowed money in order to have a higher standard of living than it’s entitled to based on its productivity. Rather than being ‘cheated’, the US has been taking a free ride on the globalisation train.”
It added: “The US should stop whining about itself being a victim in global trade and put an end to its capricious and destructive behaviour.”
What are things coming to when we find ourselves nodding furiously in agreement with that first sentence of the second para in China Daily?
Or how about this?
The Chinese Consulate in Osaka is openly providing anti-Japanese propaganda films to Chinese students in Japan, with a note encouraging students to watch them at home. China is brazenly fanning anti-Japanese sentiment *in Japan*.
Bit of an uphill struggle, perhaps. Chinese students who go to Japan must find the place attractive, even if only because of sushi, manga or space-age toilets, and they surely can’t help noticing over time that their host country has a high quality of life as well as being free and democratic.
Via Forbes on YouTube, a former Meta employee tells a US Senate committee that China-adoring Mark Zuckerburg’s company passed details of Hong Kong and Taiwan users to Beijing authorities. ‘Virality counters’ triggered reviews of any posts getting more than 10,000 views.
(I feel sorry for anyone forced to read posts that go viral on Facebook).
If you’re a foreigner in Osaka or the Greater Kansai Region, the LAST thing you should be doing is listening to what your local consulate has to say. Regardless of country! The region just has too much to see, do, eat, drink, LIVE LIFE!
However, I found this quite funny from the Youtube China Fact Chasers. Watch the video from 3:58 in.
https://youtu.be/52ApJ3uBFh8?si=9XPJbBjBvuqn3J8Z
Funny that China Daily was very critical on the trade side of things but wasn’t nearly so loud on how the US of A is losing the rule of law and is disappearing people in their country without due process.
Not surprised about Zuckerberg trying to cozy up to the PRC. What he doesn’t realize is that 1) he’d only get facebook with Chinese government supervision 2) he wouldn’t be operating in a vacuum in the internet space with many local competitors – the ship has sailed
@justsayin: And Zuck, like Murdoch before him, even went to the length of actually thinking the CCP would accept him and find him more credible with an ethnically Chinese wife to be seen in public with.
Oh dear me, US company UPS is going to have to pay an additional $64 per day to operate a courier service from the prime urban metered real estate it occupies week days, from around 10.30am to early evening with the assistance of ‘parking valet’,
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/26/budget-2025-fines-for-traffic-offences-parking-meter-fees-to-rise/
Some compensation for the damagee US tariffs are inflicting on our economy?
This while HK folk nipping across the street, even if there is nary a vehicle in sight, will have to fork out an additional $100 on a fine already double that for illegal parking.
Go figure where the priorities lie.
“And Zuck, like Murdoch before him, even went to the length of actually thinking the CCP would accept him and find him more credible with an ethnically Chinese wife to be seen in public with.”
@Chinese Netizen just goes to show you that even billionaires can suffer from delusions that negatively affect their decision making ability.