https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Nrgw37If0
Kishore Mahbubani, consumate diplomat extraordinaire, Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
Steve Orlins, President of the National Committee on US China Relations
Kishore has been in the academic and political theatre far more longer than many of the western scholars, academics and politicians. A product of LKY/GKS and Rajaratnam vintage, he has met enough of westerners and their stereotyping views of China, a China that is bad and the West that is good, despite the later butchering the world after invading them and snatching lands to call it theirs like USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and many lands and islands all over the world. And they had the cheek to call China expansionist and aggressive when China was also a victim of their invasion, colonialism and looting. And China's crime was for adopting the communist ideology and for building islands in the Pacific Ocean that belonged to them, discovered by China long before the Asean countries became nation states and know about these islands and atolls.
In this one hour video, supposedly to discuss about Kishore's book, 'Has China Won', this was only touched on in the beginning and at the end, the whole video was how this smug and mischievous self professed China expert regurgitated the American fabricated lies about China and the problems they created for China and treating China as the bad guy, and they, the whites, the Americans, the good guys. The intent and motive of this Orlins were expressed clearly in his facial expression of an ugly American when he touched on China, unable to hide or disguise his screwed up views and hatred for China from his upbringing. A hillbilly wanting to pass off as a well travelled and well exposed learned man.
The favourite lines were Xinjiang, Taiwan, South China Sea, Hong Kong and of course Covid19. No one can miss where this Steve Orlins was coming from and where he wanted to take Kishore to. And he insinuatingly attempted to play on Kishore's ethnicity in the Sino Indian Border dispute, trying very hard to snook Kishore to take an anti China stand.
Kishore has seen these all, having been in the same position with many same thinking or unthinking Americans and casually parried off his loaded suggestions as questions like a suave diplomat without telling this American not to be foolish. In the process Kishore tried his part to educate this man on how to think logically. Kishore was at his best, having honed this skill to take on the western stereotypes and their one track mind so very often, to turn all the accusations and allegations into baseless hot air.
This Orlins could only smile and accepted Kishore's view and unable to add more salt and pepper to fuel his anti China agenda. It was so nice to watch, without knowing that it was a one hour webinar, how Kishore gave this man and the audience a lesson in American fabricated lies and hypocrisies. Kishore is getting better and better with so many opportunities to practise with the American and western unthinking stereotypes and their echo chambers.
This was a class act by Kishore in front of a mainly American audience that stay tuned to the webinar till the very end as acknowledged by Orlins.
By the way, the Chinese people are the happiest people at the moment and are fully behind the CCP that brought them prosperity, security and a good life. What shit the Americans are talking about totalitarian state, communist state and all the rubbish.There are now more billionaires in China than in the US. China is now better than the USA in many respects, clean, orderly, safe, peaceful and the Chinese people going about chasing their China Dream unlike the circus in the USA runs by clowns and evil men, bickering, cursing, lying, cheating, corruption, disorder, shootings, killings, and the Americans not only suffering from the Covid19 mess but also getting poorer and poorer. Many have lost their jobs and going to lose their homes and with an empty bank account and have to leave on charity and food banks.
Today the Chinese are very proud and confident of being Chinese and with a future brighter than the Americans. What shitty democracy, fake human rights, fake freedom and fake rule of law, who cares! The most important thing is for a country to be run well, the people's life getting better and better and richer and richer to live peacefully and well.
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After the 2011 watershed GE, the Old Man was discredited and put in cold storage by the prodigal son, followed signalling an internal power struggle amongst the three factions within the Paparazzi.
After the Old Man's demise, the power struggle within Paparazzi was accelerated and completed. The Old Man's gang was perged and ousted. The Wooden Head gang was also purged, living only the powerless but still usefool head of the Wooden Head. The Black Ants gang came out triumphant and now controls the incompetent and sickly Emperor plus all the eunuchs and the apparatus of government.
Likewise, in the academic faction, there was also a struggle for influence between the the two Think Tankers' gangs. The Black Ants' appendage came out triumphant over the Patriots.
That's why we see so many black ants in Sin City today, showing off their teeth and biting the hands that feed them.
"Has China Won?"
This is one of the more than 13 books written by Kishore Mahbubani (KM).
KM is a Singaporean diplomat and scholar with unrivalled access to policymakers in Beijing and Washington.
He has written this definitive guide to the deep fault lines in the relationship, a clear-eyed assessment of the risk of any confrontation, and a bracingly honest appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses, and superpower eccentricities, of the Unlawful States of America (USA) and China.
China and the USA are world powers without serious rivals.
They eye each other warily across the Pacific.
They communicate poorly.
There seems little natural empathy from both sides.
A massive geopolitical contest has begun.
USA prizes freedom; China values freedom from chaos.
USA values strategic decisiveness; China values patience.
USA is becoming a society of lasting inequality; China is a society based upon meritocracy.
USA has abandoned multi-lateralism and becomes isolationist and self-centered; China welcomes multi-lateralism and embraces global brotherhood and shared prosperity.
The West’s two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns.
How will the West react to its new status of a superpower in decline?
In Kishore Mahbubani’s timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, that it must stop seeking to intervene, politically and militarily, in the affairs of other nations.
He examines the West’s greatest follies of recent times:
1. The humiliation of Russia at the end of the Cold War, which led to the rise of Putin.
2. The invasion of Iraq after 9/11, which destabilised the Middle East.
Yet, he argues, essential to future world peace are the Western constructs of democracy and reason, which it must continue to promote, by diplomacy rather than force, via multilateral institutions of global governance such as the UN.
Only by recognising its changing status, and seeking to influence rather than dominate, he warns, can the West continue to play a key geopolitical role.
“Kishore Mahbubani might well be the most intelligent, friendly and doggedly persistent critic of the West. In this brief book, he delivers some of his trademark analysis and pungent observations. We should all think of it as the cold shower that is urgently needed to revive the West” — Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World
“A powerful, disputatious book. It’s not comfortable reading, and it wasn’t meant to be” — Paul Kennedy, Director of International Security Studies and Professor of History at Yale University
Philip Shetler-Jones: The West Has Lost Its Dominant Global Position, And It Should Handle Its Decline Gracefully – Forbes
Hans Dembowski: Kishore Mahbubani asks: “Has the west lost it?” – D+C
Gerard Baker: China’s dominance shouldn’t shock the West – Times of London
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Is the West’s era of dominance slipping away to China and India? – Telegraph
Joseph Nye: Has the West Lost It? A Provocation, by Kishore Mahbubani – Financial Times
Tom Switzer: The West might be losing it – but China is far from winning – Sydney Morning Herald
Walau based on online citizen sg going to set up travel bubble with India. I think it's madness
No choice lah. Singapore will become 3rd world without the Indians coming here to raise productivity and create jobs for daft Singaporeans.
Without the Indians who is going to run the banks?
Without the Indians who is going to provide IT solutions?
Without the Indians who is going to teach our students in the universities?
Without the Indians who is going to fill up the spaces in Chennai Business Park and Mumbai Financial centre?
Without the Indians who is going to buy up the properties in Eastern Singapore?
Without the Indians who is going to rent HDB apartments?
Ya Hor 100% correct
Has Myanmar bought a lemon?
India has delivered a submarine to Myanmar for the latter to train soldiers. The submarine, renamed UMS Minye Theinkhathu after a historical hero in Myanmar, appeared in a naval exercise conducted by the Myanmar navy in mid-October. It can operate up to 300 meters deep.
India wants to get rid of a retired and outdated submarine, and Myanmar needs one to train its soldiers. The two sides take what they need in a simple deal.
The submarine India sold to Myanmar belongs to a class of diesel-electric attack submarines built by the Soviet Union during the Cold War years.
India purchased the submarine from the Soviet Union in the 1980s and named it the INS Sindhuvir. The submarine retired in 2017 and underwent refitting at the Hindustan Shipyard Limited in Vizag.
Although India said that the submarine could serve the Myanmar army to at least 2030 after refitting, experts doubted the submarine's functionality, as it had served in Indian army for more than 30 years, entering the end of a submarine's life - and the refitting only gave it refurbishment, but did not upgrade its system and facilities.
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