Happy Year of the Snake

Happy Year of the Snake, wishing everyone and their loved ones enjoy good health and prosperity.

I have a strange feeling change is in the air, and hopefully for the best.

Ever since Trump was elected president again, China has been rocking the American boat. They opened Chancay, a modern deepwater port in Peru. Meanwhile, America's ports are the oldest and slowest in the world because of labour opposition to modernization and automation.

China showed off their sixth-generation fighters to the world. Meanwhile, America's fifth-generation fighter is still plagued with faulty parts and accidents.

China launched new warships with the speed of making dumplings. Almost out of the blue, China has overtaken Japan and South Korea and has become the world's biggest shipbuilding nation, only 232 times the capacity of America. I'm sure America needs to start a war with China now or it'll be too late.

China's attack on the US dollar is relentless as BRICS+ officially accepted nine countries as partner states. BRICS+ nations want to trade without using the USD.

Despite sanctions, tariffs and trade wars, China's trade surplus reached a record high of almost one trillion USD. However, numerous Western media pundits keep reporting China's economy is collapsing. As Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof would say, "May God smite me and I collapse this very minute, and may I never recover."

In space, after years of American sanctions and keeping China out of the "International" Space Station, China built its own and has accomplished another breakthrough, creating oxygen and fuel in space by artificial photosynthesis. Meanwhile, the ISS is breaking apart with no fix in sight. In fact, the end is nigh.

On earth, China's Tokamak nuclear fusion reactor shatters its own record. Looking forward to clean and practically unlimited energy for BRICS+ and BRI countries. 

And when the entire Washington swamp got together and made TikTok an offer it couldn't refuse, TikTokers flocked to a Chinese social app The Little Red Book seeking refuge, discovering the real China and mooting the Congressional-approved anti-China funds of $1.6 Billion. China didn't even do anything. It's another American self-goal.

It's getting tiresome but we have to mention DeepSeek, which caused the vanishing of a trillion imaginary dollars from the House of Cards. How does Trump impose tariffs on free and open software? A million percent imposed on free is still free. Those dastardly communists! Why don't they charge an arm and a leg like all good American companies? But this is not the only nightmare for Trump's America. Alibaba has come out with another better and free AI, Qwen 2.5 Max. People say China is competing against the US. This is Chinese companies competing against each other. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Meanwhile, as predicted, Trump attacks his closest lapdogs (because he can) and wreaks havoc with America (because he is a lawless moron and a convicted felon). "Trump is as predictable as gravity," I quote myself. For those leaders of nations who may even have previous experience dealing with Trump and appear to be surprised, they're imbeciles and deserve to be humiliated.

The good news about the Trump presidency is Trump will accelerate the demise of American hegemony, which cannot be so bad.

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Have another great year,

Peter Man