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.
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.
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.
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.
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