Western firms empowering the CCP: When well-meaning top execs, understandably concerned with short-term profits, balance sheet & competitive advantages — but to use these concerns to veil political, & geopolitical factors in their decisions these being incompatible to the core national security interests of the United States and the American soldiers…

Wait … I’m sorry, but the PDF file is yet to be completed in 18 hours and to be sent immediately afterwards. 13Jan26 – 518am. Ernest Barraquias Jr. // Article to be composed in 24 hours.

But first, Iran and the Iranian people. (Snippets here.) We stand in solidarity with people who are fighting for freedom, and especially against brutal, violent dictators. Right now, the Iranian people, millions of them, in one of the most repressive and violent regimes in the world, so fearsome, all kinds of citizens are risking …

Zhou Bo of Tsinghua University: “After 1979, the Chinese military … hasn’t even killed a single foreigner overseas…. You cannot give me an example of a Chinese PLA firing a bullet at anyone…. The United States has never talked about using nuclear weapons against Russia first…. So … why would some people … talk about using nuclear weapons against China? … because they believe China’s nuclear arsenal is small. The Chinese should increase it to the extent that the United States would never ever dare to think about using nuclear weapons against the Chinese….” // My arguments.

Zhou Bo’s overly simplistic rationale and false logic for CCP-China’s rapid build-up of nuclear arsenal is suggestive of the U.S. posing an existential threat to China, a flipping of the reality that CCP-China is in-fact, in a U.S.-led world rules-based order environment where it thrived and rose to power (and now defying), rushing in its pursuit of diplomatic, economic, militarily global hegemony, threatening neighbors and the world. My take, an enumeration of CCP-China’s 75-year track record.

6Jan25 – 351am Taipei time. 1st draft.

Some Facts

— Between the Great Leap …

Maduro Falls. Dictator stole the last 2 elections in Venezuela, was an illegitimate leader. Not just the chief enabler but mastermind of a flood after flood of poison (illegal drugs) and violent criminals to the U.S. (and Europe, etc.) causing violence and deaths of 100s of 1000s. I have been posting about him & his relatives for many years since 2017, a risk I took, now I can say, to help save many lives (but not in ways casual visitors to this website would think)

3Jan26, 11pm – Manila-Taipei time or 10am New York/Miami time. Texts in blue added 4Jan26.

CCP-China, the PLA, Russia, Iran and sober-minded North Korean military strategists must have been in fear-inspiring awe as to the effectiveness of the swift and precise special operations conducted by the United States military to capture Nicolas Maduro and his wife in the heart of Caracas, an inland city 3,000 feet above sea level. Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford or CVN-78 (named after the 38th U.S. President who like 41st U.S President H.W. Bush, …