General profile of people best to live in United States or China in the coming years. 未來最適合居住在美國或中國的人們的整體概況 By Johnson Choi 1/24/24
I took a close look at my clients and interactions with various chamber of commerce and business organizations in US and China with special focus between 2010-2023. My comment is not scientific but based on dealing with their personal finance and business affairs. 我仔細研究了我的客戶以及與美國和中國各商會和商業組織的互動，特別關注 2010 年至 2023 年期間的情況。 我的評論並不科學，而是基於處理他們的個人財務和商業事務.
Chinese that are blue collar workers, poor in English, lack of formal education in China could improve their standard of living taking the jobs Americans don’t want, United States is best for them. But if they think coming to US could enjoy freedom democracy human rights and rules of law, they will be disappointed because they don’t have the right skin color. I found Chinese that are highly educated but lack English skills, many became cooks, waiters and jobs with low esteem according to the Chinese standards. 中國藍領工人，英語不好，在中國缺乏正規教育，到美國可以提高他們的生活水平，從事美國人不想要的工作，美國對他們來說是最好的。 但如果他們認為來美國可以享受自由、民主、人權和法治，他們會感到失望，因為他們沒有合適的膚色。 我發現中國人受過高等教育，但缺乏英語技能，許多人成為了廚師、服務員等等，按照中國標準是不被受尊重的工作.
Chinese, American Born Chinese and overseas Chinese find opportunities in China if they are educated with technical skills especially in the fields of finance, science, AI, chips technology. You don’t need to master Chinese language to work in China, but it definitely helps if you do. 中國人、美國出生的華人和海外華人如果接受過技術技能教育，尤其是在金融、科學、人工智慧、晶片技術領域等等，他們就會在中國找到比美國更好的機會。 在中國工作你不需要掌握中文，但如果你掌握中文一定會有幫助.
Envy & congrats him picking China, the best country to work and live! Matteo Glovannini: In August 2022 after 9 years living in the world’s second largest economy, of which 8 spent in the capital city of Beijing, I became a Permanent Resident of China (中华人民共和国外国人永久居留身份证). 羨慕和恭喜他選擇了中國, 全球最好的國家工作和生活！ Matteo Glovannini：在世界第二大經濟體生活了9年後，其中8年在首都北京度過，2022年8月，我成為了中國永久居民.
Today I receive the Five Star Card (五星卡), the third generation of foreign permanent resident ID card, from the National Immigration Administration (NIA).
The new version has been adjusted from 15 digits to 18 digits, in accordance with the national standard of the “Citizen Identification Number” of the Chinese Resident Identity Card. It has optimized information storage, enhanced layout design, and more advanced anti-counterfeiting technology to better protect personal information.
Becoming Permanent Resident of a country where it is relatively difficult to obtain such recognition was a long-awaited milestone that symbolized years of hard work, cultural immersion, and individual growth.
Today represents a further testament of commitment to a country that unlocked personal and professional opportunities.
Leaving the racist and Asian Hate United States? Debunking the excuses of too old to move and relocate: Upping sticks after 30 years in Hong Kong was a simple choice for 91-year-old Lu, who decided to move into a residential care home across the border in Guangdong province. The sprightly Guangzhou-born woman, who had lived in Hong Kong with her son, said residential care homes in the city were unsuitable for her. Last June she moved to the public Home for the Aged Nansha. 離開種族主義和亞洲仇恨的美國？ 揭穿因年齡太大而無法搬家和搬遷的藉口: 對於91歲的盧先生來說，在香港生活了30年後，他的選擇很簡單，他決定搬進邊境另一邊的廣東省的一所安老院。 這位活潑的廣州出生的女士曾與兒子一起住在香港，她說香港的安老院不適合她。 去年6月，她搬進了南沙公立安養院。
In the vast wasteland of Wuyuan county in northern China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, soil scientist Li Yuyi and his colleagues have found a way to turn huge swathes of saline-alkaline land into fertile fields.
Video: China’s Double Attack On Israel, US At International Criminal Court ICJ: ‘Palestine Has Right To Armed Resistance’ | Gaza War Video: https://youtu.be/VeyNB5js5B0?si=YW686SfyhgnMG1kX On the fourth day of the hearing of a case questioning Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories – West Bank and East Jerusalem – at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), China criticised Tel Aviv for deliberately preventing Palestinian self-determination. While stressing that Palestinians have an ‘inalienable’ right to armed resistance against Israeli occupation, Beijing countered the arguments presented by the US at The Hague a day before and implicitly slammed Washington’s overall stance on the issue.
Spelling the end of US hegemony: NATO, the evil empire, UK, Japan & S Korea – the axis of evil combined could not win the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. They fantasized after destroying Russia will eat China for lunch. So far they are eating bones. Future world order being decided by Ukraine conflict – Russia’s top senator. The standoff between Moscow and Kiev has turned into a major confrontation involving the West, Valentina Matvienko has said.
US Hypocrisy and Genocide: Here’s who the West should really be ‘decolonizing’ Russia’s supposed imperial ambitions get a lot of airtime, but Israel gets a free pass to do what it wants with Palestine. Similarly US dislike Muslims but love Muslims in Xinjiang! US war machine controls US Gov’t got the final say.
Video: In less than 20 years, AI will takeover 1/2 of all today’s jobs such as movie & Ad productions, waitress, chef, pilot, flight attendant, production line workers, maid, caregivers, soldier, fighter pilots, engineers and if single will even create your dream wife and husband! 在不到20年的時間裡，人工智慧將接管當今一半以上的工作, 例如電影和廣告製作、女服務生、廚師、飛行員、空服員、生產線工人、女傭、護理人員、士兵、戰鬥機飛行員、工程師, 如果你是單身甚至製造一個夢想妻子和丈夫給你. https://rumble.com/v4fg8ef-in-less-than-20-years-ai-will-takeover-12-of-all-todays-jobs.html Open this and watch more trending videos. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8oa6bcY/
Why Putin Went to War? US wants you to believe Putin went to war as a dictator but failed to inform the Americans that NATO planned to aims nuclear weapons from Ukraine at Moscow (still remember how US react to the Cuban crisis)
Two years ago today Vladimir Putin explained why he went to war. He said he had no intention to control Ukraine and only wanted to “demilitarize” and “de-Nazify” it, after the U.S. had pushed Russia too far, wrote Joe Lauria.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a TV address Thursday morning that the goal of Russia’s military operation was not to take control of Ukraine, but to “demilitarize” and “de-Nazify” the country. Moments after he spoke, explosions were heard in several Ukrainian cities.
The Russian Defense Ministry said these were “precision” attacks against Ukrainian military installations and that civilians were not being targeted. It said Ukraine’s air force on the ground and its air defenses had been destroyed.
The Ukrainian government, which declared a state of emergency and broke off diplomatic relations with Russia, said an invasion was underway and that Russia had landed forces at the port city of Odessa, on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, as well as entering from Belarus in the north. It said it had killed 50 Russian troops and shot down six Russian fighter jets, which Russia denied.
Putin said one of the operation’s aims was to arrest certain people in Ukraine, likely the neo-Nazis who burned dozens of unarmed people alive in a building in Odessa in 2014. In his speech Monday, Putin said Moscow knows who they are. Russia said it aims to destroy neo-Nazi brigades, such as Right Sector and the Azov Battalion.
Putin said the aim was not to occupy Ukraine, but he gave no indication when Russia might leave. It could be over quickly if Russia’s objectives are met. But war has its own logic and often lays waste to military plans.
The BBC reported that according to Ukrainian authorities 50 civilians have been killed so far. President Joe Biden is certain how this will turn out.
“President Putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering,” Biden said Wednesday night. “Russia alone is responsible for the death and destruction this attack will bring, and the United States and its allies and partners will respond in a united and decisive way. The world will hold Russia accountable.”
Diminishing Russia
Biden is to make a televised address on Thursday after he coordinates a response to Russia’s military action in Ukraine with the G7 and NATO. Biden said he will announce a new package of economic sanctions against Russia, in addition to those imposed on Monday, but reiterated that U.S. and NATO forces would not become involved.
According to TASS, Russia’s news agency, the EU said it intends to weaken “Russia’s economic base and the country’s capacity to modernize.”
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson even hinted at British military involvement. “Our mission is clear,” he said. “Diplomatically, politically, economically and eventually militarily this hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in failure.”
In a White House readout after the last phone call between Biden and Putin this month, Biden said Russia would be “diminished” if it invades, a longstanding U.S. goal.
In addition to the sanctions, Russia has faced widespread condemnation from most of the world, expressed at United Nations meetings this week, including an emergency session of the Security Council on Wednesday night. Several nations spoke in melodramatic tones about the military operation changing global security. Many of those nations supported the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
On Monday, Putin said he would send Russian “peacekeepers” into Lugansk and Donetsk, which he recognized as states independent from Ukraine. The West denounced it as an invasion, triggering the first round of sanctions against Russia.
Putin said the Russian troops were sent in to protect ethnic Russians, many of whom have now fled for safety over the border to Russia.
Combat in Donbass
Fierce fighting was reported Thursday along the line of separation between Ukrainian forces and militias from Donetsk and Lugansk. It is not clear to what extent Russian forces are taking part in the Donbass battle and if the aim is to capture all of the two breakaway provinces.
Both had voted for independence from Ukraine in 2014 after a coup overthrew the elected president Viktor Yanukovych. The new Ukrainian government then launched a war against the provinces to crush their bid for independence, a war that is still going on eight years later at the cost of 14,000 lives.
Neo-Nazi groups, such as Right Sector and the Azov Battalion, who revere the World War II Ukrainian fascist leader Stepan Bandera, took part in the coup as well as in the ongoing war against Lugansk and Donetsk.
A Matter of ‘Life or Death’
The Russian military action follows demands made in December by Russia to the U.S. and NATO in the form of treaty proposals that would require Ukraine and Georgia not to join NATO; U.S. missiles in Poland and Romania to be removed; and NATO deployments to Eastern Europe reversed.
The U.S. and NATO rejected the proposals and instead sent more NATO forces to Eastern Europe and have been heavily arming Ukraine.
In his address on Thursday morning, Putin said the military operation he was launching was a “question of life or death” for Russia, referring to NATO’s expansion east since the late 1990s. He said:
“For the United States and its allies, it is a policy of containing Russia, with obvious geopolitical dividends. For our country, it is a matter of life and death, a matter of our historical future as a nation. This is not an exaggeration; this is a fact. It is not only a very real threat to our interests but to the very existence of our state and to its sovereignty. It is the red line which we have spoken about on numerous occasions. They have crossed it.”
Detailed Explanation of Causes and Aims of Operation
In his 3,350-word speech, Putin laid out in full detail the reasons he decided to take military action and what he hopes it will achieve. The speech is a devastating critique of U.S. policy toward Russia over the past 30 years, which no doubt will fall on deaf ears in Washington.
Western media is so far ignoring the speech or superficially dismissing it. But it has to be carefully studied if anyone is interested in understanding why Russia launched this military operation. Just calling Putin “Hitler,” as Nancy Pelosi did Wednesday night, won’t do.
Hitler in fact features in Putin’s address. For instance, addressing the Ukrainian military, Putin said:
“Your fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers did not fight the Nazi occupiers and did not defend our common Motherland to allow today’s neo-Nazis to seize power in Ukraine. You swore the oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people and not to the junta, the people’s adversary which is plundering Ukraine and humiliating the Ukrainian people.”
He linked the Nazis’ invasion of Russia to NATO’s threat today, saying this time there would be no appeasement:
“Of course, this situation begs a question: what next, what are we to expect? If history is any guide, we know that in 1940 and early 1941 the Soviet Union went to great lengths to prevent war or at least delay its outbreak. To this end, the USSR sought not to provoke the potential aggressor until the very end by refraining or postponing the most urgent and obvious preparations it had to make to defend itself from an imminent attack. When it finally acted, it was too late.
As a result, the country was not prepared to counter the invasion by Nazi Germany, which attacked our Motherland on June 22, 1941, without declaring war. The country stopped the enemy and went on to defeat it, but this came at a tremendous cost. The attempt to appease the aggressor ahead of the Great Patriotic War proved to be a mistake which came at a high cost for our people. In the first months after the hostilities broke out, we lost vast territories of strategic importance, as well as millions of lives. We will not make this mistake the second time. We have no right to do so.”
Putin said the existential threat from NATO’s expansion was the main reason for military action:
“Our biggest concerns and worries, [are] the fundamental threats which irresponsible Western politicians created for Russia consistently, rudely and unceremoniously from year to year. I am referring to the eastward expansion of NATO, which is moving its military infrastructure ever closer to the Russian border.
It is a fact that over the past 30 years we have been patiently trying to come to an agreement with the leading NATO countries regarding the principles of equal and indivisible security in Europe. In response to our proposals, we invariably faced either cynical deception and lies or attempts at pressure and blackmail, while the North Atlantic alliance continued to expand despite our protests and concerns. Its military machine is moving and, as I said, is approaching our very border.
Why is this happening? Where did this insolent manner of talking down from the height of their exceptionalism, infallibility and all-permissiveness come from? What is the explanation for this contemptuous and disdainful attitude to our interests and absolutely legitimate demands?”
Putin called the Americans “con-artists” for lying about NATO expansion. He referred to:
“promises not to expand NATO eastwards even by an inch. To reiterate: they have deceived us, or, to put it simply, they have played us. Sure, one often hears that politics is a dirty business. It could be, but it shouldn’t be as dirty as it is now, not to such an extent. This type of con-artist behaviour is contrary not only to the principles of international relations but also and above all to the generally accepted norms of morality and ethics.”
Putin said Russia had long wanted to cooperate with the West. “Those who aspire to global dominance have publicly designated Russia as their enemy. They did so with impunity. Make no mistake, they had no reason to act this way,” he said.
Cold War Triumphalism & Its Consequences
Putin said the collapse of the Soviet Union had led to a redivision of the world and a change to international law and norms. New rules were needed but instead of achieving this
“professionally, smoothly, patiently, and with due regard and respect for the interests of all states … we saw a state of euphoria created by the feeling of absolute superiority, a kind of modern absolutism coupled with the low cultural standards and arrogance of those who formulated and pushed through decisions that suited only themselves.”
Putin then said this “absolutism,” with the Soviet Union no longer as a barrier, led to unchecked U.S. aggression, starting with NATO’s bombing of Serbia in 1999, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and U.S. involvement in Syria. Russia has been taking note of the destruction Washington has wrought, even as it seems whitewashed from American minds.
“First a bloody military operation was waged against Belgrade, without the UN Security Council’s sanction but with combat aircraft and missiles used in the heart of Europe. The bombing of peaceful cities and vital infrastructure went on for several weeks. I have to recall these facts, because some Western colleagues prefer to forget them, and when we mentioned the event, they prefer to avoid speaking about international law.
Then came the turn of Iraq, Libya and Syria. The illegal use of military power against Libya and the distortion of all the UN Security Council decisions on Libya ruined the state, created a huge seat of international terrorism, and pushed the country towards a humanitarian catastrophe, into the vortex of a civil war, which has continued there for years. The tragedy, which was created for hundreds of thousands and even millions of people not only in Libya but in the whole region, has led to a large-scale exodus from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe.
A similar fate was also prepared for Syria. The combat operations conducted by the Western coalition in that country without the Syrian government’s approval or UN Security Council’s sanction can only be defined as aggression and intervention.
But the example that stands apart from the above events is, of course, the invasion of Iraq without any legal grounds. They used the pretext of allegedly reliable information available in the United States about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. To prove that allegation, the US Secretary of State held up a vial with white power, publicly, for the whole world to see, assuring the international community that it was a chemical warfare agent created in Iraq.
It later turned out that all of that was a fake and a sham, and that Iraq did not have any chemical weapons. Incredible and shocking but true. We witnessed lies made at the highest state level and voiced from the high UN rostrum. As a result we see a tremendous loss in human life, damage, destruction, and a colossal upsurge of terrorism.
Overall, it appears that nearly everywhere, in many regions of the world where the United States brought its law and order, this created bloody, non-healing wounds and the curse of international terrorism and extremism.”
Putin said over the past days “NATO leadership has been blunt in its statements that they need to accelerate and step up efforts to bring the alliance’s infrastructure closer to Russia’s borders. In other words, they have been toughening their position. We cannot stay idle and passively observe these developments. This would be an absolutely irresponsible thing to do for us.”
Ukraine, he said, had essentially become a de-facto NATO member posing the greatest threat to Russia.
“Any further expansion of the North Atlantic alliance’s infrastructure or the ongoing efforts to gain a military foothold of the Ukrainian territory are unacceptable for us. Of course, the question is not about NATO itself. It merely serves as a tool of US foreign policy. The problem is that in territories adjacent to Russia, which I have to note is our historical land, a hostile “anti-Russia” is taking shape. Fully controlled from the outside, it is doing everything to attract NATO armed forces and obtain cutting-edge weapons.”
A Parting Shot at European Vassals
Putin also blasted America’s European allies for not having the strength of principle or the moral fiber to stand up to Washington. He said:
“The United States is still a great country and a system-forming power. All its satellites not only humbly and obediently say yes to and parrot it at the slightest pretext but also imitate its behaviour and enthusiastically accept the rules it is offering them. Therefore, one can say with good reason and confidence that the whole so-called Western bloc formed by the United States in its own image and likeness is, in its entirety, the very same ’empire of lies.’”
[Read the full text of the speech.] [Kremlin and other Russian government websites are down after apparent cyber attack. The full text of the speech can be found on Bloomberg News here.]
Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former U.N. correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and other newspapers, including The Montreal Gazette, the London Daily Mail and The Star of Johannesburg. He was an investigative reporter for the Sunday Times of London, a financial reporter for Bloomberg News and began his professional work as a 19-year old stringer for The New York Times. He is the author of two books, A Political Odyssey, with Sen. Mike Gravel, foreword by Daniel Ellsberg; and How I Lost By Hillary Clinton, foreword by Julian Assange.
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