Singapore should start to learn from China in public health and transportation

 When Deng Xiaoping opened up China in 1978, he sent many delegations of Chinese leaders to Singapore to study and learn how this little island could prosper like the rich western countries. After a few hundred visits and studying, the Chinese leaders brought back all the blueprints of how to build and develop a city state to China, including the procedures, processes, rules and regulations to govern a city state. The Chinese did not copy everything from the book. They studied and digested whatever they had learnt and were selective in picking up the best practices and discarded what were not suitable to China, modified and scaled up everything to apply to a continental size country when a big city is more than ten times the size of Singapore in every aspect.

China has problems of its own, eg corruption. But they did not adopt Singapore's way of paying their leaders obscene salaries to keep them from corruption. They did not adopt the COE system to drive car prices sky high. They did not allow public transport to become too expensive for the average citizen. They realised that housing's main objective for their citizens is a good and affordable home, not for speculation and skyhigh prices like in Hong Kong. 

China has grown, developed and changed, in many ways quite similar to Singapore, and in many ways quite different from Singapore. Both countries developed differently in some areas that served their respective countries and people well.

Public transportation is something that Singapore can learn from China. China's policy is to provide efficient and relatively cheap public transportation for its people, understanding that the moving of goods, services and people are like the blood system in the human body. Stopping or slowing the flow is critical to the health of the system. China has now the best and most affordable public transport system in the whole world, very modern, and very fast and efficient.

Singapore needs to bring down the cost of public transportation, both MRT, buses and taxis to really within the means of the average Singaporeans, especially the retirees and seniors. Not many average Singaporeans can afford to pay $30 to $50 for a taxi ride. The exorbitant prices of taxis in New York, London, Paris and major western cities are not the right models for Singapore. Ok for the rich but not the average Singaporeans, let alone the retirees. Many retirees have 20 or 30 years to live without an income but may need to take taxis in times of need. How to pay $30 when they don't even have a dollar in their pocket?

The buses and MRT can always serve the no income Singaporeans better, with lower fares to allow them to move freely to explore Singapore, to enjoy the infrastructure and smell the roses.

The other big issue is medical care and services which China has done very much better in many ways. Cost, efficiency, affordability and availability are things that Singapore can learn from. The quality of Singapore's health and medical facilities and services may be world class, but very unaffordable and not accessible to the average Singaporeans and the seniors. Waiting time for medical appointments, especially specialist, the cost of such appointments are serious matters. Even basic GP services, dental treatment are now priced beyond imagination. 

China did not have cheap third world medical professionals to fall back on. There is no need to pay third world professionals the same level of income as Singaporeans. There is a better mid point to make them happy while working here while helping to bring down medicare cost.

Learn from China to bring down the cost of medical care and services. China is a very big country, with very big population and not as rich as Singapore. If China can have a more efficient and accessible medical care and service than Singapore, and really affordable measured by the average Chinese income and retirees, there is no reason why Singapore cannot do so.

There are many things that Singapore, once the master, can learn from the student, China. Just start by looking at the cost of public transportation and public medical care and services for a start. Public housing is heading to fall over the cliff.

More evidence that Qatar bombing was executed by the Americans stationed in Qatar

Qatar has probably forgotten about how they were bombed and Palestinian leaders were killed inside Qatar. It is time to resume good relations with their 'guardian angels', the Americans. Maybe buy another Boeing 747 to present to Trump for assuring that the incident would not happen again. Just trust the Americans as always, like the whole Arab and Muslim world trusting the Americans for protection and buying American weapons with no questions whether they can be used when in need. Maybe the truth is now surfacing too often and too fast and even if they did not want to believe that the Americans were lying to them, taking them as fools, the truths are slamming them hard in their faces that they cannot pretend not to be. Another likelihood is that the Qataris knew that it was the Americans that did it but pretended not to know. The Arabs have been living with this lie for centuries, knowing who were the real devils but have no choice, have to sleep with the devils or been killed and destroyed like Iraq, Syria and Libya, like Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi and Assad.

There are now more evidences that the Israelis did not fly all the way from Israel, across hostile Arab territories, engaged in several dangerous air to air refuelling, enduring aircrew fatigue of several hours strapped inside fighter jets, violating Arab airspace, to be seen on radar screens, just to conduct such a mission and risked being shot down. The easiest thing was for the American forces in Qatar to execute the assassination, a piece of cake.

There are tens of radar stations in every Arab country in the region, in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq and also in Qatar. They have all confirmed that their radars did not pick up the Israeli aircraft on their screens. How could this be possible? In Qatar, this can be easily done, assuming the Israeli jets did come in, by standing down all the Qatari radar controllers and operators. There is no need to switch off the radars with the Americans operating them. They could even guide the Israeli jets to their targets, without the Qataris knowing what was happening.

If the Israelis really flew their fighter jets and refuelling tankers, they must be picked up by ground radars. Only the F35s, if their stealth coating were effective, may escaped detection. But not the F15s, F16s or tankers. They would be there like light bulbs on a Christmas tree. They can only switch off the IFF in the aircraft. The ground radars cannot be switched off without being noticed, unless, like in Qatar, when the Americans were in charge and told them to go for their prayers or stand down. For all the radars to be switched off, or all the radar operators and controllers to stand down cannot go unnoticed or reported. No such reports, no such evidence. All the radars were operating and running. The Israeli aircraft must be spotted, if not by all, would be seen by most of them. But none had seen them, meaning they were not there. The Israelis did not fly them across the Arabian sky.

It was so easy for the American or Israeli forces on the ground or sea to fire a few Tomahawks or even handheld launchers at the targets. Cheap, fast, efficient, and easily scattered without leaving a trace. Did the Israelis or Americans do it? No aircraft were in the air for sure. Talking about 10 or 12 aircraft, and launching missiles at the same target within a minute each! A fighter jet would need several minutes to make a turn. They could not be all at their respective launching points to release their targets with such precision, and not spotted, not seen!

The whole incident smells like hell.

America can only fight a military war. China is fighting in all fronts and winning

I think the USA and the West would still love to hear the showboating that China is still far behind in the high-end chips area and will take another ten years to catch up. Well, China is undoubtedly unfazed by all the hyping, with all the questioning and answering done by the Western media and analysts.

What does it matter when China can make all the money just leveraging on legacy chips? If China can spend a little money to improve its chip design and upgrading, well and good. No need to fork out an arm and a leg to compete in the high-end chips sector. That will come naturally sooner or later. It is the same with development. A country can develop faster, but others can still catch up in time. Just look around and you will understand.

So, I think China is not going to follow or compete with the USA blindly. China does what is best for its people and not what the USA thinks it should do for the USA's interest by pouring money into doing unnecessary things for egos sake. China learnt its lesson from the collapse of the Soviet Union trying to compete militarily against the USA and hollowed out itself.


Anonymous

Bankrupt Trump wants to build warships named after him...what about a 100m gold Trump statue?

 With so much money collected from tariffs, according to Trump, the USA is now furiously going into building warships, named Trump-class warships he boasted about, no less, all to counter China. They will be state of the art warships with hypersonic missiles and laser weapons. Ya, just wonder how Trump's Space Force is doing. Trump wants to control the global seas as well as space. Big plans!

Did Trump forget something? China controls rare earth that those warships are going to need for construction, from basic 2.4 tons to 4 tons, on top of all the rare earth needed for those weapons on board. And China is not going to relent on its rare earth grip for sure, not to allow its enemy to build weapons that will be used to target China later on. That would be stupidity of the highest order.

Trump can continue to fool his base with his rhetoric, but not everyone around the world is convinced. USA shipbuilding is totally non-existent, just 0.1% of global total, and that was in 2023. That sector existed just to keep the USA's naval fleet functioning. Oh, sure the USA can just start building up its fantasy shipyards using Lego bricks for speed. How long is real building of shipyards going to take? How long it will take just to train skilled workers to go big into shipbuilding? Have they even started training and producing naval engineers in universities to cater to the expected demand? I think they just found out about China's shipbuilding dominance not long ago, so no head start yet obviously to address the manpower problem. Same old same old Trump standing on a dung heap, showboating and putting the cart before the horse. Why brag so much when the world knows it is all baloney, same as the rare earth alliances now being created.

I expect China to say nothing and keep mum about the issue, as always. Let the facts speak for itself in time to come. By the way, all the crowing about China's weapon development have been done by the MSM of the West and anti-China social media, just to keep hyping up the Chinese threat. China just built weapons that it needs, quietly, tested them discreetly, keep them away from prying eyes. They are only exposed in battle, like the India/Pakistan conflict recently. Chinese weapons will be tested again in Venezuela and Iran, as Israel is planning another attack.

Anonymous

American rainbow warriors good only to kill women, children and old folks

Like I posted before, the Americunts Soldiers won't meet face to face with REAL Soldiers of Other Countries!

Their Military Tactics are to carpet bomb the enemies then when they are already half dead then they moved in for mopping up operations.

But if the other adversaries are also Militarily trained then they be scared to even move in.

DEFEATED even by Vietcongs Girls and also Previously Chinese Peasants Militias and also the sandals wearing Afghans they the Americunts hype and hot airs soldiers dare you fight face to face with adversaries of Russia, China, North Korea?

Fat hope! Even shoot hot air balloons also needed three to four missiles and also these are quite Stationery in the air, what's about Fighters Jets?

Also hand guns own planes downed by own friendly fires and also on-board own Carrier also fall-out into the Seas.

Planes and helicopters also flying nearby own fleet and not in Real wars actions also fell and sunk!

The Americunts can only use proxies to fight their wars and all the while are sloths and bums enjoying their blind pays.

If at Home bases lies in Grandma's panties or long Jane's.

Shall be slaughtered if dared fight with Russians and the PRCs.

See Ukraine so many NATO Officers and soldiers surrendered without a fight.

The Euro Nuts and Brits still wants to boast

Must be tired of livings


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