Older  Age

                                       The person is young, he always thinks about retirement age, and provisions are to be made for a healthy, happy, and comfortable life thereafter. Mostly, sometimes it relates to financial arrangements for retirement and old age. It is important to consider the financial aspect of retirement, but it is not sufficient to make that period happy and healthy.  Other aspects are more important to make one's older life healthy, happy, and comfortable.

                           It is not important how long one lives, but it is very important how one lives during the old period.  Old age is more difficult to live than one's professional life. This is because in old age one loses its identity and its usefulness from the social point of view. In the process, one loses their social contact and friends who were professionally connected. 

                       Therefore, in old age, one must have good Hobbies and Work that one could not do during professional life. Besides, a change of attitude is required, as one's personal life is different from one's professional life. That should make one more humble and a good listener. It can make a person popular in social life.

                      However,  in old age, one may have few friends, but good and close friends. Such a friend can give a pleasant opportunity to talk about one's emotional problems. This is because a person requires more warmth and love in old age, which makes one happy and comfortable. In old age person requires a friend with whom they can laugh and cry as well as discuss some social problems.

                    Old people get more time to think, so they should be able to decide what to keep and what to give up. It makes one more adjustable so that it makes life smooth, happy, and healthy.  The ultimate happiness can be achieved by praying and becoming more spiritual. 

                     The most important thing in old age is to be active and to mix with people, including young people, to show that you have not lost your usefulness in society and have not become irrelevant. 

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Giant  Chinese Companies

                                                                                China is ahead in utilizing high-tech in its products.  It has made Chinese products cheap and popular.

                                                 BYD is one of the manufacturers of electric automobiles that has been selling more cars than even Tesla, the American car Company.  BYD has sold 80000 more vehicles worldwide than Tesla.  Chinese EV cars are not only cheaper than Tesla cars, but they also come with an advanced assisted drive system. In its latest technology is being used. Besides that, they have introduced a battery that can be charged in five minutes and is sufficient to drive about 250 miles. All these latest technological applications have made BYD cars more attractive in the world market. This also shows that China is spending a large amount on research into the latest technology.

                                                  Alibaba, another Chinese company, is doing well in Artificial Intelligence. It has been earning very well in E-Commerce and Cloud Computing. In the year 2024, it earned about $130 billion and became one of the leading companies to use AI. Its Qwen model is being used about 300 million times by several companies. Those companies are doing well in finance, education, and including in automobile industry.   

                                                 Chinese 'DeepSeek' start-up company has surprised the world by introducing its A1,' R1 Reasoning Model', which can compete with any American AI  Models.  It is cheaper to handle. It had also affected the US  share market to fall by one trillion dollars. This is because China entered in race for the 'AI Chat Box' Market.

                                                   In view of the above, Chinese products are becoming more and more popular as China is after the use of the latest technology.

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War And Children

                                        What is the relation between war and children? However, it has become the main subject of negotiation in the Ukraine war.  It is reported that thousands of Ukrainian children were abducted from the war zone to Russia. It is also noted that orphanage centers in war frontline cities of Ukraine appear to be vacant. 

                                        Ukraine had submitted the list of lost children during the peace talks with Russia. It is presumed that those children were saved by Russian soldiers and evacuated during the war. Russia has to find out how many of them are alive.  Outside Russia, it is considered to be a war crime, as those children were kidnapped. There were instances where one of the kidnapped children refused to talk to their parent. This shows that the longer those children remain in Russia, the more difficult it will be to trace them.

                                        1200 children have been returned because of the efforts made by their relatives and humanitarian organizations.  However, the Ukrainian government had given an additional list of 339 of children and asked Russia to return them as a goodwill gesture in the peace talks. However, Yale University's report says that 8400 Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia. However, America does not want Ukraine to make one of the conditions to return kidnapped children in peace talks with Russia. America its own way, is making an effort to get returned of those children.

                                       International Criminal Court, Hague, issued an arrest warrant against the russian president for the unlawful transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia. The Russian president is irritated due to an arrest warrant, but said issue is not on his priorities. It is observed that russian media consider the adoption and reeducation of Ukrainian children as charity and an act of patriotism. It is said that those transferred Ukrainian children are kept in Russia in 136 places, which are consist of schools, hotels, hospitals, and summer camps. The Ukrainian government is giving due priority to the return of those 11000 children as one of the conditions in peace talks with Russia.  The Ukrainian president has assigned the task of getting back those children to his close aide, who is conversant with russian geography.

                                     It is observed that the population of Ukraine has been reduced to 32 million from 41 million after Russian aggression, and the abduction of those children is making the crisis more serious. 

                                    However, one thing is certain that war has nothing to do with children. The abduction of those children is creating more emotional, social, and family miseries in Ukraine, which is more severe than the physical destruction of war. Besides that, it is a humanitarian problem.

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