The European brand name, LV brags a story of rags-to-riches. So do Laos and Vietnam (LV), the two developing countries, China's stable friends.

China issues dominate the agenda of G7 summit, suggesting that China is a rising global power to be reckoned with.

If a man makes a promise but cannot deliver it, that is bad enough. This man happens to be the President of the United States, who has planned to visit Australia, and Papua New Guinea, "to counter China's growing influence" in the region that the US has long forgotten since World War ll.

If asked to use three words to characterize President Biden – without thinking – I'd utter, "Rationality, Rationality, Rationality." And for his predecessor, Donald J. Trump, the words would be, "Poor Impulse Control," meaning that his sense of "control" is poor and impulsive.

With all eyes on the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Eastern Europe, the civil war in Myanmar has not been given due attention, not to mention humanitarian treatments.

There is this leadership issue that has been puzzling me for days and months: When the Chinese president and his Indian counterpart were busy building bilateral ties, their military commanders on the disputed border went on to destabilize their joint efforts, turning their formerly rosy relationship into embarrassment, and now reaching diplomatic impasse. Why?

I still maintain the theoretical assumption that it was US President Joe Biden who first passive aggressively engaged Putin in the Russia-Ukraine war, keeping Trump in mind, believing that a war time US president is invincible.

There is the story that America is a "world policeman", whose task it is to go against one nation or another, who is believed to be a "rival", or a "pariah" as defined by the US.

Janet Yellen announced that she planned to travel to China "at the appropriate time" to engage in a "substantive dialogue on economic issues."

Most recently, an urbane Mao Ning chastised Mike Gallagher and the new U.S House Committee dedicated to countering the Communist Party of China. She demanded that they discard their ideological bias and zero-sum Cold War mentality. The new House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party must view China and China-U.S. relations in an objective and rational light, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a daily briefing.

Napoleon Bonaparte likened China to "A sleeping lion", he said, "when it wakes up, it will shake the world." China has now awakened.

Of all the places in Asia-Pacific, the Taiwan cross-strait is undoubtedly the most nerve-wracking stretch of waters; one time you see evidence of US fleets insisting on "freedom of navigation"; at other times you hear Chinese PLA firing shots and flying fighter jets over the island of Taiwan; you can even sense the smell of gun powder among curls of smokes. So far, it's all smokes. But when it becomes real?!

Why would Ma's visit to mainland China be a controversy? Is controversy abominably bad, or is it a logical step that could lead to pragmatic debates and open a window of opportunity in cross-strait relations?

It's not Europe's best time; it is the worst in modern times. And yet why would Xi Jinping stretch out his hand to Macron, Europe's loneliest leader?

The value of this article lies in its ability in informing the truth to the poorly informed public that NATO has become an American-owned military enterprise that is entirely master-minded and managed by the United States of America and that its president, Joe Biden is the de facto Supreme Commander.