US is known to be the heaven for corrupt Chinese government officials and business person, But if you are just a wealthy Chinese worth US$20 millions or more, should you buy the US Golden VISA or will Hong Kong and Singapore a better choice? By Johnson Choi, Dec 23, 2025
From a rational planning perspective, Hong Kong and Singapore, as international financial centers, offer the following advantages:
Tax Efficiency: Territorial taxation principles, with exemptions on offshore income, and relatively low tax burdens on capital gains and inheritance.
Geographic Location: Proximity to Mainland China facilitates maintaining Asian business networks.
Legal Integration: Common law systems aligned with international standards, ensuring robust protection of property rights.
Political Stability: Both regions have long been recognized by international rating agencies for their stable legal environments.
While the U.S. EB-5 investment immigration program provides access to education and market opportunities, the following considerations should be noted:
The global taxation system may impose higher tax burdens on high-net-worth individuals.
Long-term residency requirements and exit mechanisms are complex.
Recent policy tightening has led to longer approval cycles and increased compliance costs.
Once a green card or U.S. citizenship is obtained, relinquishing it is extremely difficult and often comes with significant penalties.
The U.S. faces challenges such as anti-Asian sentiment, homelessness, gun violence, a “pay-to-play” system for government contracts, institutionalized corruption, and personal safety concerns.
A diversified strategy is recommended: Consider using Hong Kong or Singapore as primary wealth management hubs while obtaining U.S. visas through legal channels to facilitate family education and business engagements. Specific plans should be customized in consultation with cross-border tax attorneys and wealth management institutions, taking into account individual asset structures, family needs, and risk tolerance.
Immigration policies of any country should be utilized within legal frameworks. The essence of wealth planning lies in achieving long-term, stable asset preservation and inheritance.
Video with English subtitles: Danger Signals! Europe in Collapse, Japan Testing Red Lines, the Final China–U.S. Game! A Dramatic Shift? 影片有英文字幕: 危险信号!欧洲崩溃,日本试探底线,中美的最终博弈!剧变?
At a time when the global situation is undergoing violent turbulence, we are standing at a historic crossroads. This episode revisits the geopolitical evolution of the past three decades and provides a systematic analysis of the strategic choices facing Europe, the United States, Japan, and China amid today’s complex upheavals.
From the strategic considerations behind proposals by several European countries to form a “multinational peacekeeping force,” to the latest debates over security frameworks in East Asia, the complexity of the situation now exceeds anything seen before. How should we understand the underlying logic behind these signals? Could 2026 become a collective reckoning point for the global debt cycle and strategic rivalries?
Key Topics in This Episode
📍 The Dilemma of European Strategic Autonomy: An in-depth analysis of how Europe seeks balance amid multiple power games, and the far-reaching impact of the Ukraine situation on Europe’s future security architecture.
📍 Trends in Japan’s Security Policy: An objective examination of recent discussions on “regional security” and “strategic deterrence,” and their potential challenges to the postwar international order and the non-proliferation regime.
📍 Balancing Great-Power Competition: An analysis of the latest developments in China–U.S. trade and military strategies, as well as recent practices by China and Russia in maintaining regional stability and building defensive coordination.
📍 Forecasting the 2026 Strategic Turning Point: Projecting possible trajectories of the global situation from three dimensions—economics, debt, and political competition.
⚠️ Disclaimer (Very Important, Recommended to Keep): This video is based solely on logical reasoning and academic geopolitical discussion derived from publicly available news sources, and is intended to provide diverse perspectives for observation. Literary or metaphorical expressions used in the video (such as the word “mushroom”) serve only as rhetorical devices to convey the urgency of the situation and do not represent support for any form of violence, war, or extremist behavior. This channel advocates upholding international law and supports resolving international disputes through peaceful dialogue.
The “richest man in Asia” has been counting money for half a century relying on geographical arbitrage. However, the data in 2025 poured cold water on Singapore: GDP growth rate was cut in half, the transit business collapsed extensively, and the gantry crane went silent. In this silent competition, Hainan Yangpu Port is making strong efforts as a “Niu Hulu”. Not only has the cost dropped by 32%, but it has also “de-Malacca” the energy channel.
When point-to-point direct flights replace middlemen to earn price differences, can this small country still maintain its myth?
⚖️ This video provides an in-depth analysis of the changes in shipping in Southeast Asia and looks at how China is reshaping the global trade landscape through land-sea linkage.
💡 Core ideas: ✅ 1. The cost of path dependence: Singapore is overly dependent on transit trade. Under the new flat “spider web” trade model, the role of middlemen is rapidly being marginalized. ✅ 2. Reconstruction of China’s power: The rise of the China-Laos Railway and Hainan Yangpu Port is not a simple competition, but a qualitative change in the trade between China and ASEAN from the “candied haws of apples” model to a “point-to-point” efficient connection. ✅ 3. The end of the era of geographical arbitrage: The global trade flow will always flow in the direction with the least resistance and the lowest cost. Gone are the days of relying on monopoly intersections to collect “travel money”.
🎙️ About this channel Use data, history and strategic perspectives to analyze changes in the world pattern.
From regional economies to global games, let’s understand the power logic behind the times.
The Disruption Dilemma: Why Perceived Threat Shapes Resistance. By Johnson Choi, Dec 22 2025
顛覆的兩難:為何感知到的威脅形塑了抵抗. 作者: 蔡永強. 2025年12月22日
The Fear of AI: Job Replacement at Specific Levels
There is apprehension about AI, but its initial threat is often aimed at specific functions and roles. Professions centered on predictable, repetitive analysis or procedural tasks are most vulnerable. This includes:
Basic Accounting & Bookkeeping
Entry-level Statisticians & Data Processors
Front-line Programmers (writing boilerplate code)
Pharmacists (in dispensary roles)
Research Assistants (in data gathering & literature reviews)
The fear is real, but it is largely a technological displacement of particular job categories within nations.
The “Threat” of China: Systemic Challenge to Hegemony
The resistance from Western nations toward China is of a different magnitude. It is not about replacing tasks, but about reordering the global economic and geopolitical system. The core reasons are:
Value Capture, Not Just Cost-Cutting: China moved beyond being the “world’s factory” for low-value goods. It now produces high-value products and services (e.g., EVs, 5G, green tech, advanced engineering) at a fraction of the traditional cost, directly challenging the premium profits long enjoyed by industrial leaders like the United States and Germany.
Breaking the “Fat Profit” Supply Chain: For decades, Western nations, led by the U.S., managed a global system where they controlled high-value design, IP, and financial nodes. China’s ascent, particularly through initiatives like the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has physically and politically broken this model. By building alternative land and sea routes, China provides nations with options, dismantling monopoly control and redistributing economic leverage.
A Challenge to Hierarchy, Not Just Jobs: The U.S.-led system functioned with “vassal” states in a clear hierarchy. China’s model offers a form of strategic partnership without political alignment, effectively bypassing this chain of command. This is perceived not as an efficiency gain, but as an existential threat to the political and security order that underpinned Western economic dominance.
Conclusion: The Core Difference
In essence, AI is seen as disrupting how work is done within the existing system. China is seen as disrupting who controls and benefits from the system itself. The latter challenges national identity, global influence, and decades of strategic advantage, which explains the more profound and geopolitical nature of the resistance.
KJ Noh video with Chinese subtitles: Jimmy Lai Convicted: The Truth Behind Hong Kong’s US‑Backed Color Revolution KJ Noh 影片|中文字幕 《黎智英定罪:香港「美國支持的顏色革命」背後真相》
Political analyst, educator and journalist, KJ Noh joins Ileana Chan and Sara Vivacqua for this week’s Empire Watch Weekly LIVE.
KJ unpacks the conviction of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, which Western outlets frame as an attack on “press freedom.” He explains how Lai functioned as the Rupert Murdoch of Hong Kong’s US‑backed color revolution, using his tabloid empire to destabilize China while lobbying Washington for sanctions and intervention. KJ situates the case within Hong Kong’s colonial history, showing how the city was never democratic but long served as a staging ground for imperial operations. He reveals how the extradition law controversy was weaponized into a violent regime‑change campaign, with Lai at its center, and how his trial exposes the propaganda machine behind the democracy myth.
KJ Noh is a political analyst, educator and journalist focusing on the geopolitics and political economy of the Asia-Pacific. He is also an organizer and contributor to Pivot to Peace. His latest book is “KILLING DEMOCRACY: Western Imperialism’s Legacy of Regime Change and Media Manipulation”
KJ Noh 是一名政治分析師、教育者與記者,研究重點為亞太地區的地緣政治與政治經濟學。他同時也是「Pivot to Peace」的組織者與撰稿人。其最新著作為 《扼殺民主:西方帝國主義的政權更迭與媒體操縱遺產》(KILLING DEMOCRACY: Western Imperialism’s Legacy of Regime Change and Media Manipulation).
Video with English Subtitles: The Leap from “Beasts of Burden” to “Human Beings”: What Exactly Is the Only True Historical Perspective in Chinese History? 影片有英文字幕: 從「牛馬」到「人」的跨越:究竟什麼才是中國歷史上唯一的真史觀?
Why, after reading three thousand years of history, do we still fail to see reality clearly?
Is it the regret of 1644, or the humiliation of 1840?
Peeling back the masks of emperors and generals, tearing apart the lies of so-called “golden ages.” Today, I will use the “scalpel” of class analysis to take you back to that great moment of leaping from “beasts of burden” to “human beings”!
On today’s internet, debates about historical perspectives have turned into battles over numbers. But behind figures like 1567, 1644, and 1840, what kind of power dynamics are hidden? This video will deeply dissect:
1567, the Longqing Opening: How did the Ming Dynasty, amidst the illusion of a Silver Empire, descend into class division and internal collapse?
1644, the Ming-Qing Transition: Why can a purely ethnic perspective not explain modern China’s backwardness? See clearly the “blood-soaked confluence” of Manchu and Han landlord classes.
The Pain of the Lanfang Republic: How did the Qianlong Emperor’s decree of “abandoning the people to their own demise” cause China to miss its last chance to participate in the Age of Exploration?
1949, the Return of Historical Perspective: Why is this said to be the first time in Chinese history that “the lives of the laboring people” were truly written into the ruling agenda?
From being exploited “beasts of burden” to becoming “masters” of their own destiny—this was not merely a change of regime, but a magnificent epic unparalleled in human history.
American logistic expert reports from China video: No one has positive view on US except Nigeria and Israel. Global opinion collapses for United States and Israel. That’s a big problem in the resource race. 美國物流在中國報導視訊有中文字幕: 除了奈及利亞和以色列,沒有國家對美國持正面看法。全球對美國和以色列的觀感急劇惡化。這在資源競逐中是個嚴重問題。
In surveys of nations across the world, strong majorities share deeply negative views of the United States and Israel.
China, on the other hand, is now preferred to the United States in most of the countries surveyed, even in what were previously strong allies.
These massive shifts in public opinion are undermining attempts by Washington to sign trade deals with resource-rich countries, especially for rare-earth minerals that the Pentagon desperately needs to rebuild badly depleted missile and munitions stockpiles.
The U.S. estimates that China will not be able to successfully manufacture EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography) equipment until 2035-2040, but Bloomberg has obtained secret documents indicating that China has already successfully developed EUV technology and is expected to begin production in 2028, with large-scale production by 2030 美國估計中國最早也要2035-2040才可以成功造出EUV, 但彭博社取得秘密文件,中國已經成功造出 EUV估計在2028年量產,2030大量生產. 美國這個跳梁小丑跟中國鬥,真的是不自量力,自取其辱!
Video: Sino-US Strategic Competition 2018-2025: Seven Years, Five Conflicts,The US Gambled Its National Destiny and Suffered a Crushing Defeat!中美博弈2018-2025:七年,五場戰爭,美國賭上國家命運徹底失敗,輸得很慘,美國差點連內褲都輸了!
China’s Trillion-Dollar Surplus! A Retrospective on How American Hegemony Gradually Collapsed.
This is a seven-year-long invisible war, and the outcome may exceed your imagination. 🧐
Today is December 21, 2025. Looking back, from the biological shadow of 2019 to the India-Pakistan air combat of 2025, the United States has played all its cards. Western media constantly touted the “China collapse theory,” yet China’s report card shows a single-year trade surplus surpassing one trillion dollars! 💸
In this video, we peel back the fog of history over these six years and delve deep into the truths concealed by mainstream media.