Eric Loh

Trump's cryptocurrency ventures are just perfect for geopolitics dirty money from Russia that may have influenced his soft stance on Putin. He is just so corrupted that this can't be ruled out.

I think your problem is that you don't understand the meaning of concessional loan and a standard loan.

It is clear by now that Trump has failed dramatically in Ukraine. He has not ended the war in 24 hours and will not do so in 100 days either as he promised. His leadership and mediating drive has stalled and its strategy unclear. He is indecisive and ineffective. His only strategy out of this is to pressure Ukraine into capituating to Russia. Putin shunned any meeting with Trump and he is waiting for Trump is stop military aid before launching a big scale invasion. Ukraine will have to fight for the life. Trump's legacy will be a disgrace and will further drive a wedge with allies. Trump lack the leverage to make Putin reconsider and Putin is playing Trump like a fiddle.

The damage to the Tesla brand will take years to recover. Musk not managing the situation well by continuing his role in DOGE. If Tesla go under, it can bankrupt Musk. He may be force to sell SpaceX. He will regret bigly the day he kiss up to Trump hind. He should know better that Trump is a poison ivy.

You can ditto all that you said about Trump winning the trade war with China.

Foreign investments are boon not a bane for UK or for any countries. How’s foreign investment a major problem. UK financial problem stemmed from a combination of factors including cost of living crisis, high inflation, Brexit related labor shortages and low wage growth.

From ending the war in 24 hours to giving this peace plan a pass is a big fall from grace. The smart money from the beginning is that he is a serial shameless b<deleted>ter and most are not wrong. 4 more years of shameless boasting then.

I will clear up 2 of your points as they are facts. 1. GDP is tracked and analysed by IMF and OCED and private financial houses like Reuters. It will be economically catastrophic to massage critical economic data. 1. Chine’s debt to GDP is half of USA. Rest of your opinion, I am not bother to respond.

It has already been stated that export to US is 12% of total export trade. Here is another fact for you. Chinese export to US only account for about 3% of China total GDP. China Q1 was 5.4% higher than forecast while US Q1 decline -2.8% and facing recession. Goldman Sachs forecast that the drag from US trade tensions will cut their China forecast to 4% which is still much higher than US. The tariffs will hurt both sides but China is better positioned to absorb much of the pain by diversification, financial stimulation, subsidies and new export markets. Meanwhile US is isolated economically and staring at high inflation. You really need to take off your blinders and be intellectually rationale. You don’t seem to know much.

It’s healthy for US and China to compete in every domain not check or prevent. US can’t stop China ascension economically or militarily. Even with allies, US can’t stop China; even more so when USA is isolated and alone. The 2 superpowers and the rest of the world can benefit from a measure of cooperation and preventing a major catastrophic war. Not a zero sum game for both countries to cooperate. Thailand and asean will benefit immensely from China growing economic strength although it has to be managed based on national interests. Trump is handling foreign policies poorly and have given the edge to china influence globally. Wealthy Chinese are already in Thailand as well as in Malaysia and other asean countries. Poor Chinese have no means to travel and acquire assets.

You don't see that as a problem?

Sure not that clever to wear a made-in-china dress when attacking China's trade practices. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/white-house-karoline-leavitt-trump-made-china-dress-5071816

Trump will never get all the trade deals completed in 90 days as he keep changing the goal post. His trade officials involved in negotiations are all in the dark on clear policies. The Japan negotiation has grinded to a halt because Trump just willy nilly added a non trade requirement to the table. He added remuneration on military bases as aspect of the trade deal with Japan. The Japan team is blind sighted on this last minute addition. Japan Diet is frustrated with the ambiquity of the deal. This trade negotiation is far from close and going no where due to Trump idiosyncrasy.

Erroneous data entry that has been widely reported. Surely you intelligent enough to believe that the uninhibited islands have electronic manufacturing facilities. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revealed-how-trump-tariffs-slugged-norfolk-island-and-uninhabited-heard-and-mcdonald-islands

There are no inhabitants on the island. A simple fact that you seem to miss. The McDonaldnians are more amused than worried by Trump's ridiculous tariffs on the island chain. reuters.com/markets/asia/tiny-australian-outpost-gets-steep-trump-tariff-despite-few-exports-2025-04-03/