Miscellaneous News

Now the Eunuch Union and their Asian Vassals can fund the US government.

Chinese Banks have been instructed to curb new US treasury purchases and those with heavy exposure are told to reduce their holdings. The $682 billion holding of US treasuries will continue to decline.

tamsen_ikard said:

I don't think people actually read what Cheng Li Wun said, and what she said is not only naive. ITS WRONG!

Why would US and China start ""Co-operating" if China and Taiwan got along or even had reunification.

I think it will actually increase US-China friction cause US will feel even more threatened.

The cold war will not be solved just cause China and Taiwan got along.

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Are you certain of what she is saying.

She is saying some sort of unification deal is good for everyone.

If it is good for Taiwan and good for China, if they come to a deal, then has to be good for everyone.

Do not see the problem with that.

The KMT is saying that, officially it seems. Does the DPP want to sabotage that and guarantee a war, with Taiwan being the frontline? Of course we known who made Taiwan the frontline, which is anti-China elements.

That is the problem Lai has. He has no room to seek independence. Hence his muted policies.

Therefore, if Taiwan wants a deal, and not willing to fight, it is complete propaganda that the Americans and Japanese will be willing to fight China when Taiwan is not.

That is the reality behind the noise.

That is why we know who holds the strong cards in this situation.

_killuminati_ said:

Lol @ text on patch

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They going through a very Chinese time in their life.

RoastGooseHKer said:

That is something Beijing needs to figure out how to deter.

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Why do you think Beijing is trying to deter this?

My feeling is more like Beijing is thinking of a way to kill them all if necessary, then dismember Japan.

That is what the Russians were thinking, when they try to negotiate with Ukraine and Europe. Finally they had enough.

Right now, all the Japanese have is a big mouth.

So we wait and see.

I believe China's impending response will not be an escalation of tensions, but rather a largely silent.

We must be clear about one thing: China's measures against Japan are based on the Japanese Prime Minister's remarks regarding interference in the Taiwan situation. However, the Japanese House of Representatives election is an internal affair of Japan, and China will not publicly comment on it, let alone take any measures directly. This is China's consistent diplomatic stance. I bet a reporter will soon ask this question at a Ministry of Foreign Affairs press conference, and the spokesperson's response will be, "This is Japan's internal affair."

What will happen next:
1. The implementation and expansion of the ban on Japanese entertainment. Similar to the ban on Korean entertainment, without substantive documentation, approval will simply be denied.

2. Travel warnings to Japan and reductions in flights.

3. A substantial embargo on Japanese agricultural products (not just seafood).

4. The full implementation of the dual-use embargo, referring to the 100+ pages of documents and the fact that the Japanese economy is heavily reliant on conglomerates, and that these conglomerates are more or less involved in the MIC (Military-Industrial Complex).

What remains is developing productivity: the continued de-Americanization of the semiconductor industry (which is already inevitable de-Japanese), EV exports and overseas factory construction squeezing out Japanese car brands from the local market, the continued dominance of the shipbuilding industry, and a further reduction holdings of US Treasury bonds, etc. These are all natural occurrences, and things that Japan is powerless to resist.

All of this began months ago, even during Fumio Kishida's tenure, and only slightly thawed during Shigeru Ishiba's time. China no longer needs to make a big show of it; what it needs to do next is tighten the screws a few more times.

You know all this talk about Japan made me realize despite all this hype (mainly by Jai Hinds) that next war with China is gonna be with India, at the end of the day when things are serious, its gonna be Japan. Despite not being a nuclear power, those guys are serious about fighting and considered a real threat due to competency.

Of course when the fighting starts, I'm sure there are those will will try to attack China when its distracted. So China better be prepared for that scenario as well.

Vietnam’s legendary maths genius Ngo Bao Chau to join University of Hong Kong​

The Fields Medal winner and his country’s most distinguished mathematician is leaving the US and returning to Asia
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Mathematician Ngo Bao Chau, who made history in 2010 as the first Vietnamese recipient of the prestigious Fields Medal, will join the faculty at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) as a chair professor in June 2026.

Ngo, 53, currently distinguished service professor and chair of the University of Chicago’s mathematics department, is a pre-eminent figure in Vietnamese mathematics. announced his new appointment on Thursday.

Born in Hanoi in 1972, Ngo showed early brilliance, winning gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1988 and 1989, before going on to become the youngest full professor in Vietnamese history.

Ngo earned his PhD from Paris-Sud University in 1997 and held positions at a number of prestigious institutions, including the French National Centre for Scientific Research and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has also served as scientific director of the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics.

In 2009, Ngo earned global acclaim for his groundbreaking proof of the Langlands Programme, a grand unified theory of mathematics proposed in 1967 and described as “one of mathematics’ most ambitious theoretical frameworks,” according to the HKU website.

Time magazine hailed the solving of this decades-old problem as one of its Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of the year, and in 2010, Ngo, aged 38, was awarded the Fields Medal – often regarded as mathematics’ Nobel Prize for researchers under 40.

His other honours include the Clay Research Award in 2004, along with the Oberwolfach Prize and the Sophie Germain Prize, both awarded in 2007. Ngo became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 and a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2016.

According to Vietnamese media reports, Ngo chose HKU from among several offers he received. He was motivated by a desire to work in Asia, to be closer to his ageing parents and to engage more deeply in nurturing Vietnam’s next generation of mathematics talent.

Xiang Zhang, HKU’s president and vice-chancellor, said Ngo’s appointment marked “another defining moment in our mission to pursue global scholarly excellence [that] cements our role as a nexus for visionary research”.

“It reinforces Hong Kong’s standing as a premier hub where East and West converge to shape the future of knowledge,” he added, according to the announcement published on the HKU website.

In the statement, Ngo expressed his own vision about the appointment, saying that HKU’s global connectivity and interdisciplinary culture created the ideal environment for transformative research.

“I am excited to collaborate with the university’s brightest minds to advance mathematics and help redefine scientific discovery for decades to come,” he said.



You know 2 weeks back some other famous Viet professor was leaving Yale to move to HKU so I was thinking about this guy. Turns out maybe it planned thing amongst Vietnamese.

Now all we are waiting for is Terrence Tao.

bsdnf said:

further reduction holdings of US Treasury bonds, etc. These are all natural occurrences, and things that Japan is powerless to resist.

All of this began months ago, even during Fumio Kishida's tenure, and only slightly thawed during Shigeru Ishiba's time. China no longer needs to make a big show of it; what it needs to do next is tighten the screws a few more times.

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Funny thing is now that China has taken the next step in dumping US treasuries, the US will force Japan to buy more treasuries to make up for it (they mentioned selling off US bonds as a "negotiating tactic" back in march 2025, don't kid yourself, Japan WILL DO what the US tells them). Probably at soon-to-be crap interest rates. However, Japan needs to defend it's currency which is cratering at the moment and they need to exchange/sell their current US Dollar reserves for JPY to do so. But this is in direct contrast with what the Sadist Daddy across the Pacific Ocean wants them to do since they want these reserves to flow back into the US in the form of treasuries purchases. If they drop their US debt purchases too much, daddy will punish them for sure.

What will they do?

Thecore said:

Funny thing is now that China has taken the next step in dumping US treasuries, the US will force Japan to buy more treasuries to make up for it (they mentioned selling off US bonds as a "negotiating tactic" back in march 2025, don't kid yourself, Japan WILL DO what the US tells them). Probably at soon-to-be crap interest rates. However, Japan needs to defend it's currency which is cratering at the moment and they need to exchange/sell their current US Dollar reserves for JPY to do so. But this is in direct contrast with what the Sadist Daddy across the Pacific Ocean wants them to do since they want these reserves to flow back into the US in the form of treasuries purchases. If they drop their US debt purchases too much, daddy will punish them for sure.

What will they do?

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I don't know, Japan's fundamentals are so bad that it seems like everything they do is wrong, a dead end.

supercat said:

Good luck upgrading Japan's arms industry and mass-producing offensive missiles with China's rare earth ban.

Gordon G. Chang is daydreaming again.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020259470291653088

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Yes,all you white/brown,black,yellow idiots can "enjoy" your type 2 diabetese,heart diseases,cancers/infections and of course erectile dysfunction.