President Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden's meeting in San Francisco has somewhat eased the tensions between the US and China. However don't expect there will be much substantial improvement soon. Still it is a good thing that the US - China relations are not getting worse. For the time being, we can breathe a sigh of relief.
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Is the United States of America (USA) declining? Yes, just look at these slogans used by Donald Trump and Joe Biden: Make America Great Again (MAGA), Build Back Better (BBB), Save America!
The world is changing and changing fast. Uncle Sam can no longer be the hegemon of the world.
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I wrote about Ukraine back on March 4, 2014. Looks like what I said back then has become tragically real.
West Ukraine is pro-USA, NATO and the West. East Ukraine is pro-Russia. NATO broke its promise not to expand Eastwards, causing threat to Russia's security. Current president of Ukraine Zelenskyy insisted on joining NATO while Joe Biden failed to guarantee to Putin to never accept Ukraine NATO membership.
Uncle Sam is never a peace maker. The warmongering American politicians want to " divide and conquer " and would play many tricks to prevent Russia, China, even the European Union (EU) from becoming too strong thus losing the US' dominant position in the world. Anyway, let's pray for peace. Any way you look at the current war in Ukraine, the Ukrainians are the greatest losers and sufferers.
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The so-called diplomatic boycott led by Joe Biden of USA against China's upcoming Winter Olympics has become a joke, to say the least. No U.S. Government officials were supposed to go to China, yet 18 of them, and later increased to 46, have applied for a Chinese visa to participate in the upcoming event.
To repeat what I wrote on December 8, 2021, only 20 countries at the UN followed the US' political stand against China. 173 countries supported China and the upcoming Winter Olympic Games.US Democracy has become a Plutocracy and oligarchy of the rich and powerful. It is a Democracy for the top 1%. It is no longer the United States. It is the Divisive States of the Republicans and the Democrats. It has become the Corporate States of America.
Free at last ! Meng Wanzhou had been released and went home to China.
I know the Meng Wanzhou case quite well, following it from day one to the present. I wrote about it in my blog Fast Edi Thoughts and Comments on Nov.20, 2020.
The appearance is a legal case but the truth is a political game involving the US, China and unfortunately Canada. I was most impressed by Richard Kurland, a high-profile lawyer in Vancouver who analyzed and explained the whole case so well in detail. He predicted that Meng would be released and allowed to return to China.
