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I am in the Hawaiian Airlines plane now. They are serving junk foods, therefore watching YouTube to find good place to eat while in HK and China following weeks. We have been staying here for more than 30 years each time we are in HK until recently. The food looks surprisingly good for our Christmas dinner this year for HK$500 each with all kinds of ALL YOU CAN EAT for 3 hours, fresh seafoods like lobster, crab, fish, abalone and much more..same Christmas Menu will cost at least 3x more + 30% tax and tips in San Francisco or Hawaii AND THE SEAFOODS NOT GOING TO BE AS GOOD OR AS FRESH 我現在正在夏威夷航空的飛機上。飛機上供應的是一些垃圾食品，所以我正在看YouTube，想找找接下來幾週在香港和中國大陸有哪些好吃的餐廳。直到最近，我們每次來香港都會住在這裡，已經住了三十多年了。今年我們預訂的聖誕晚餐看起來出乎意料地棒，每人只需500港幣，就可以享受3小時的自助餐，各種美食應有盡有，包括新鮮的海鮮，比如龍蝦、螃蟹、魚、鮑魚等等……同樣的聖誕菜單，在舊金山或夏威夷至少要貴三倍，還要加上30%的稅和小費，而且海鮮肯定沒有這裡的新鮮美味 https://youtu.be/FXDsoBTtz8E?si=huTOxX97D2zXwdYt 👍👏

SCMP: The Chinese humanoid robots will follow voice commands to perform any task – like fetching water or tidying a table – potentially as soon as next year. 《南華早報》報導：這些人形機器人將能夠聽從語音指令執行任何任務，例如取水或整理桌子，最快可能在明年就能實現.

US throwing money at AI and Robotics projects by the billions monthly with no practical application is part of the Ponzi Scheme doomed to fail! 美國每月投入數十億美元用於人工智慧和機器人項目，卻沒有任何實際應用，這不過是注定要失敗的龐氏騙局!

SCMP: The odds seemed impossible: a shoestring Chinese start-up founded in 2023 with just 1 million yuan (US$142,000) taking on Elon Musk – tech legend, disrupter in space and CEO of Tesla – who is valued at half a trillion dollars.

In less than two years, EngineAI Robotics, led by CEO Zhao Tongyang, created the T800 – a robot that delivers Bruce Lee-style roundhouse kicks with the force of a small car – and, under the instruction of smiling engineers and scientists, tried it first on the boss himself.

The scepticism deepened when, during a live demo, Elon Musk’s Optimus fell backwards while trying to hand over a water bottle.

《南華早報》報道：這看起來幾乎是不可能完成的任務：一家成立於2023年、資金僅有100萬元人民幣（14.2萬美元）的中國初創公司，竟然要挑戰埃隆·馬斯克——這位科技傳奇人物、太空領域的顛覆者以及特斯拉的首席執行官，其身家高達五千億美元。

不到兩年時間，由執行長趙同陽領導的EngineAI Robotics公司就研發出了T800機器人——這款機器人能夠踢出李小龍式的迴旋踢，力量堪比一輛小型汽車——在笑容滿面的工程師和科學家的指導下，他們首先在老闆身上進行了測試。

然而，在一次現場演示中，埃隆馬斯克的Optimus機器人在試圖遞水瓶時向後摔倒，這加深了人們的懷疑。

SCMP: China has launched a revolutionary facility in the eastern province of Shandong that produces fresh water from seawater for just two yuan (US$0.28) per cubic metre, generating green hydrogen as a by-product in a breakthrough that could redefine global water and energy systems. 《南華早報》報告稱，中國在東部山東省建成了一座具有革命性的海水淡化設施，每立方米海水淡化的成本僅為兩元人民幣（0.28美元），同時也能產生綠色氫氣作為副產品。這項突破性技術有望重塑全球水資源和能源系統.

Nury Vittachi: THE ARGUMENT THAT western warships must patrol the South China Seas “to keep the sea lanes” open from “the China threat” makes literally zero sense, says bestselling US author Charles Goyette in a new book, published this week. 美國暢銷書作家查爾斯·戈耶特在本週出版的新書中指出，西方戰艦必須在南海巡邏以「保持航道」開放、防範「中國威脅」的論調完全站不住腳。他強調，中國絕大部分進出口貿易都依賴其沿海航道，若關閉這些航線，經濟將陷入崩潰。中國領導層無疑是最不願在該區域發生衝突的一方.

The Chinese are dependent on the country’s coastline for the bulk of their exports and imports—and if it closed the shipping lanes, the economy would collapse. China’s leaders would literally be the last people who would want conflict in that area, he points out.

Yet America’s nonsensical “we’re keeping the sea lanes open” operations have continued for years, despite being enormously wasteful for the United States in terms of spending and manpower, he argues in his book, Empire of Lies.

But that’s just one example of a huge list of unwise global interventions by the United States’ behind-the-scenes elite, sometimes called “the deep state”.

FAKE NEWS NARRATIVES
Empire of Lies is a 247-page romp through US meddling operations around the world – fake news narratives, “false flag” events, and Washington-arranged coups in multiple countries.

There are so many interventions that they sometimes bump up against each other, Goyette says. For example, the level of US interference in Syria, Israel’s neighbor, was so high that a battle broke out between CIA-supported jihadists and Pentagon-funded fundamentalist militias.

Just think of all the needless human suffering there – not to mention the pain caused to the hapless US taxpayer, paying (or much more likely, overpaying) for everything on both sides.

ENRICHING THE MILITARY COMPLEX

Goyette has written about some of these topics before in books and articles. “China’s interest is in keeping the sea lanes open, as it is utterly dependent on the importation of oil and its shipment through both the far away Strait of Hormuz and closer by, through the Malacca Strait,” he wrote in 2021.

“As China has grown economically over the last several decades, it is simply unavoidable that its presence in the region’s waterways would grow. It cannot be otherwise. And, in fact, some 75 percent of all commercial shipping through the South China Sea is coming from or going to China.”

Why does the US interfere so much? Because “the default position of the Deep State is always in favor of interventionism that piles up debt and death for the people, while enlarging the state and enriching the military-industrial complex,” Goyette argues.

BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR
Goyette’s latest book expands his insights into deep state activity with some eyebrow-raising fresh stories, including a report of how close the global US “military empire” has taken the world to the brink of nuclear war.

It also goes into depressing detail about how the self-righteous international press simply acts as a lapdog to serve the hidden drivers of western dominance.

But perhaps most worrying of all, it shows how the US has no consistency in its foreign policy, which is constantly changing. The only thing that tends to stay the same is its “military-options-first” playbook, Goyette says.

The author also highlights “Imperial Overstretch”, which he describes as the syndrome in which large empires tend to react to news that they are declining by reaching even faster for the military options. The choice to spend big on the armed forces then worsens the financial picture and the empire becomes “trapped in cycles of bankruptcy”.

CAN’T BE DISMISSED
Charles Goyette can’t be dismissed as some sort of opportunist anti-US or anti-military hack, nor can he be labelled “pro-China” or “pro-Russia”. In his younger days, he was a news anchor with the US Armed Forces Radio and Television Service and is a recipient of the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service.

And although he bravely spoke out against the disastrous Iraq War, Goyette served on the national speakers’ bureau of High Frontier, a public policy organization that promoted President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative.

The book is available from Amazon for US$20, or about US$10 for the Kindle edition.

美國暢銷書作家查爾斯·戈耶特在本週出版的新書中指出，西方戰艦必須在南海巡邏以「保持航道」開放、防範「中國威脅」的論調完全站不住腳。他強調，中國絕大部分進出口貿易都依賴其沿海航道，若關閉這些航線，經濟將陷入崩潰。中國領導層無疑是最不願在該區域發生衝突的一方。

然而在其著作《謊言帝國》中，戈耶特指出，美國「保持航線開放」的荒謬行動已持續多年，儘管這在經費與人力方面對美國造成巨大浪費。這僅僅是美國幕後精英集團（常被稱為「深層政府」）在全球進行不明智干預的眾多案例之一。

《謊言帝國》以247頁的篇幅梳理美國在全球的干預行動——從虛假新聞敘事、「偽旗行動」到華府在多國策劃的政變。戈耶特指出，美國的干預行動如此密集，以至時常相互衝突。例如美國對以色列鄰國敘利亞的介入程度極深，曾導致中情局支持的聖戰組織與五角大樓資助的宗教武裝爆發內鬥。

試想這造成多少無謂的人類苦難——更不用說美國納稅人被迫為衝突雙方承擔（往往超額支付）所有開銷。戈耶特曾在過往著作中提及相關議題，他在2021年寫道：「中國的切身利益在於保持航線暢通，因其完全依賴石油進口，這些油輪需經過遙遠的荷姆茲海峽與臨近的麻六甲海峽。」

「隨著中國數十年來的經濟發展，其在地區水道的存在感增強實屬必然。事實上，南海約75%的商業航運皆往來中國。」美國為何頻繁介入？戈耶特認為：「深層政府的慣性立場始終傾向干涉主義，這既為人民堆積債務與死亡，同時擴張國家機器並使軍事工業複合體牟利。」

戈耶特的新書以令人瞠目的新案例拓展對深層政府活動的剖析，包括揭露美國「軍事帝國」曾數次將世界推向核戰邊緣。書中亦詳述自以為是的國際媒體如何淪為服務西方霸權隱形推手的附庸。

但最令人憂慮的是，美國外交政策始終缺乏連貫性。戈耶特指出，唯一不變的是其「軍事優先」的行動模式。作者特別強調「帝國過度擴張」現象——當大帝國察覺衰退徵兆時，往往更急促地採取軍事手段，而龐大軍費開支反加速財政惡化，使帝國陷入「破產循環」。

查爾斯·戈耶特不能被簡單歸類為投機的反美主義者或反軍事煽動家，亦非「親中親俄」人士。青年時期他曾擔任美軍廣播電視網新聞主播，並因功績獲得陸軍嘉獎勳章。儘管曾勇敢抨擊災難性的伊拉克戰爭，他亦曾任里根總統「戰略防禦計劃」推廣機構「高邊疆」的全國演講局成員。該書亞馬遜售價20美元，電子書版約10美元。

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs video: China sends more than 100 warships around Taiwan: Tokyo begs for peace, Beijing coldly refused! 傑弗裡·薩克斯教授的影片：中國派遣一百多艘軍艦圍繞台灣，東京懇求和平，北京冷漠拒絕!
https://rumble.com/v72zghg-china-sends-more-than-100-warships-around-taiwan-tokyo-begs-for-peace-beiji.html
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A Daunting Outlook for Asian Americans. By Johnson Choi, Dec 13 2025

亞裔美國人的艱難前景. 作者：蔡永強2025年12月13日

For Asian Americans, particularly Chinese Americans, the coming months and years present a period of profound challenge and heightened anxiety.

Many of us who built lives in the United States have long navigated a persistent undercurrent of concerns: racism, discrimination, the professional “glass ceiling,” and societal ills like rampant drug addiction and gun violence. We’ve contended with property crime met with an under-resourced police response, and public safety eroded by a homelessness crisis deeply intertwined with addiction and mental health issues.

Today, the climate has intensified. Under the guise of stringent anti-immigration policies, law enforcement increasingly profiles individuals based on race. Non-white faces are routinely suspected of being “illegal,” leading to arrests and detention alongside hardened criminals—a “guilty until proven innocent” approach where due process can take days or months. Families are often left in agonizing silence, with authorities providing no information about their loved ones.

Making this worse is the mainstreaming of once-fringe extremism. Former members of groups like the KKK have now found a voice and platform within movements like MAGA. Under banners such as “America First,” a dangerous sentiment has been unleashed—an open season where non-whites are increasingly viewed as targets.

Within our own communities, some advise resignation: “You chose to live here, so just endure it. Don’t leave, and don’t complain.”

Do you agree?

This stance of silent assimilation asks us to accept a deteriorating reality. It confuses resilience with passivity. The choice isn’t merely between suffering in silence or leaving; it is about the right to openly advocate for the safety, dignity, and equality we were promised.

對於亞裔美國人，尤其是華裔美國人來說，未來的數月乃至數年，將是一段充滿嚴峻挑戰與高度焦慮的時期。

我們許多在美國建立起生活的人，長期以來一直在一系列持續的隱憂中艱難前行：種族主義、歧視、職業「玻璃天花板」，以及如氾濫的毒品問題和槍支暴力等社會弊病。我們還需應對財產犯罪，而警方往往因資源不足而反應乏力；公共安全則因與成癮問題和精神健康危機深深交織的無家可歸者問題而不斷受到侵蝕。

如今，這種氛圍愈發激化。在嚴厲反移民政策的幌子下，執法部門越來越多地根據種族對個人進行側寫。非白人的面孔常被例行公事地懷疑為「非法移民」，導致其與重罪犯一同被逮捕和拘留——這是一種「有罪直到被證明無辜」的做法，正當法律程序可能需時數日甚至數月。家人往往陷入痛苦的沉默，當局不會提供關於其親人的任何信息。

更糟的是，昔日邊緣的極端主義思想正被主流化。像三K黨這類團體的前成員，如今已在「讓美國再次偉大」這類運動中找到了發聲管道和平台。在「美國優先」等口號下，一種危險的情緒已被釋放——這彷彿是一個針對非族裔的「開放狩獵季」，他們日益被視為目標。

在我們自己的社群內部，有些人建議逆來順受：「你選擇住在這裡，那就忍著吧。別離開，也別抱怨。」

你同意嗎？

這種沉默同化的立場，要求我們接受一個日益惡化的現實。它將韌性與被動混為一談。選擇並不僅僅是在沉默忍受或離開之間二選一；它關乎我們有權公開倡導我們曾被允諾的安全、尊嚴與平等。

Work with China for win-win, work against China, you lose. SCMP: The turning point for China’s AI sector came when Hangzhou-based DeepSeek released its V3 and R1 models – in December 2024 and January, respectively – that were on par with OpenAI’s GPT and Meta’s Llama models at the time, although they were developed at a fraction of the training costs spent by those US firms. 與中國合作才能實現雙贏，與中國對抗只會失敗。 《南華早報》報導，中國人工智慧產業的轉折點出現在總部位於杭州的DeepSeek公司分別於2024年12月和2025年1月發布了其V3和R1模型，這些模型的性能與當時OpenAI的GPT和Meta的Llama模型不相上下，儘管其開發成本僅為這些公司投入的一小部分.

Video: US-Sino Culture Experience Consortium (USCEC) 7th Anniversary Banquet on 12/12/2025 美中文化促進會，第六届年度晚宴暨籌款晚會
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Video: China is a civilization pretending to be a nation state. 中國是一個偽裝成民族國家的文明體.
https://rumble.com/v72y5lu-china-is-a-civilization-pretending-to-be-a-nation-state..html
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