Should Singapore agree to the request by the US Navy to be their base? Will China sees this as a threat? How can the government respond to this request?
Here are my views.
a) Singapore already has an agreement to provide naval facilities to the US Navy. This new request can be an extension of the current arrangement.
b) I suppose that the facilities is being provided on commercial terms. It will give economic benefits to Singapore.
c) America will soon come under a new administration. The trade and other disputes between America and China will probably be resolved in the near future.
d) Singapore can have a dialogue with China (through the diplomatic channels in Beijing and Singapore) and explain our approach and decision. We can hear and address any special concern from China.
I am hopeful that this decision can be taken in the interest of preserving the peace and stability of the region and in furthering our economic interest.
Tan Kin Lian
Above post by Tan Kin Lian in TRE. When the Americans talked about balance of power, it means they have all the nuclear weapons, all the WMD, you have none. That's is the American meaning of balance of power, a situation when they can whack the daylight out of any country at will and no one can hit them back, ie they will be the big time gangsters holding the world at ransom.
When the Americans talked about peace, maintaining peace, it is about peace for the Americans, ie they are safe and you are not. Just look at Iran and North Korea, two countries that can never be equal to the Americans in terms of military might and possession of WMD. But the Americans are lying to the world daily that these two countries are a threat to them and must not be allowed to have any WMD, only the Americans can have them. And who is threatening to obliterate who, in the name of its own security? Who is the real threat to who? The Americans are the threat to world peace, to all the smaller countries, in fact to all the countries including Russia and China, that the Americans are calculating and planning when to nuke them. No country in their right mind would dare to talk or dream about threatening the Americans or attacking the Americans. This is only a myth, a red herring that the evil Americans are spreading to be used as an excuse to threaten other countries. Only the evil Americans is the threat to other countries, not the other way.
So, is providing a military base for the Americans for peace in the region and the world, or to enhance the Americans to create more mischief, to threaten China and all the countries in the region, to enhance American hegemony? If it is any about peace and stability, it is for the Americans, it is for American hegemony.
What is the intent and purpose of the Americans wanting to have a naval base in Singapore? To maintain American world dominance and to contain China, to threaten China in the region. How would China perceive this development when the Americans have been sailing its warships to the South China Sea to provoke China, to violate Chinese territorial integrity? Is this for peace or for the bullying of China and any wrong move would only start a major war with Singapore as an obvious military target if China strikes back at American military bases used to attack China? Singapore leaders must stop being naive and think they could get away with this, providing a military base for the Americans to attack China.
If this is for commercial reasons, for the money, then Singapore should offer its backside to every country, just like a prostitute, not choosing its customers. To just offer a military base to the Americans or the Quad members, Singapore is taking sides and be complicit in the American plan to threaten and contain China. By the way, the presence of military bases is anything but for commercial or economic interests to the Americans.
American presence in the midst of Asean in not going to be taken lightly by Asean countries and would be seen as a hostile act by China. Period. The Americans and the Quad countries have been talking about choking the Straits of Malacca to cut off the supply of oil and goods to China. For peace, for who?
PS. US navy secretary has called for a new command to be formed ‘in the crossroads between the Indian and Pacific oceans’ The Americans are claiming the Indo Pacific Region as part of their Empire. Asean leaders please take note. The American Empire is taking over the region, and this is not aggressive behaviour, not expansionist, just American Exceptionalism, the world hegemon in action, all peaceful and nice, very nice and very friendly. Please invite them to be your new masters. Oops, no need, they already invited themselves here and no need to bother whether you like it or not.
Pax Indo Pacifica is becoming a reality. The region will become like the Caribbean, an American pond. Would any twit be asking China to come in to balance this evil Empire? Or instead asking the evil Empire already here, to balance China that is not here? The same kind of excuse from the American playbook for starting war, create a red herring as an excuse to move into the region to be the hegemon.
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If Singapore leaders are agreeable to the American Gangsters setting up a military base in Singapore, for economic reasons then they are saying to China and the world that money is more important than anything else. Even at the expense of good relationships with surrounding countries. Even at the expense of peace and stability.
How can the Gangsters come right into your backyard and station his gangs here, then tell you it is for peace and security? Only idiots can buy into that.
But we have a lot of idiots in charge....
any reactions from the estimated 2.5 million foreigners (including 570,000 pr) currently living here ?
In Singapore, who carry the big balls of the Americans huh ?
China can do what they are doing to Australia on trade. Economy being relying on trade especially with China, we'll be done in no time. Costly wars are for silly men with stupid high egos like the Americans.
Resurgence Of Terrorist Activity Is Very Bad For Everyone And Everywhere
"SINGAPORE — Following a resurgence of terrorist activity in France and other parts of the world in recent months, 37 people have been investigated by Singapore’s Internal Security Department (ISD) for suspected radical inclinations, inciting violence online or stoking communal unrest. Among the group are 14 Singaporeans.
One of the 37, a Bangladeshi construction worker, was arrested under the Internal Security Act on Nov 2 following investigations into his alleged terrorism-related activities." ~ TODAY.
Any form of terror is bad.
Any form of terrorism is very bad.
Any country, organisation or individual that instigates, promotes or supports terrorism or terrorists is terribly bad.
No organisation nor country should make use of terror or terrorism against others.
A country that is against terrorism and terrorists must do its utmost best, both covertly and openly, to alienate, condemn, denounce, oppose, suppress and destroy them totally, not once but at all times.
A country like USA, on the surface uses propaganda to blind the eyes and mesmerise the brains of the masses that it is against terrorism and terrorists but, behind the thinly veiled facet, is actually creating, organising, instigating, training, arming, supporting and promoting terrorism, terrorist organisations and terrorists. Some countries, big and small, turn a deaf ear,and a blind eye and a dumb mind towards the fact that USA is actually, for all intents and purposes, the BIGGEST TERRORIST IN THE WORLD.
Allowing the Biggest Terrorist to set up an operations military base in Singapore simply runs counter to what Singapore is advocating on the issue of Terrorism.
One cannot have the cake and eat it as well.
Economic gains should never be the paramount parameter to use as an excuse to fool the world in accepting the Biggest Terrorist in the World to set up a Terror Nest in the land-scarce tiny island. There are many more urgent and serious factors to bear in mind.
For example, during the US War in Vietnam, American GIs were lowed to R&R in Singapore. Though they brought in Tourist Dollars, they also brought in diseases, decadent attitude and behaviour, hatred and violence. In the long-run, anti-American sentiment developed and, I still remember, we formed small gangs to go after those GIs at their favourite water-holes. Whenever they drank and got themselves half-drunk, they would create troubles. They bullied and abused the local girls, women and children who were too weak and powerless to counter them. Every night, there were fights. And the police was nowhere to be found. So, our small gangs took over to protect our locals against those big bullies and skunks.
If the USA is allowed to set up an operating militarised terrorist base in Singapore, rest assured in a very short while, history will have to repeat itself!
The small terrorists killed a handful of people at a time. The world's number one terrorist state, the USA, killed by the thousands, destroyed countries by bombings and at times used WMD.
Will put this article up tomorrow.
Israel Army Told to Ready in Case U.S. Strikes Iran, Axios Says
The Israeli government instructed the military to prepare for a possible military strike by the U.S. against Iran during the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term, Axios reported, citing unidentified Israeli officials.
The instructions were given because the officials anticipate “a very sensitive period” prior to the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, and not because of any intelligence or assessment that the U.S. will order a strike, the report said.
Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping Wednesday ordered the armed forces to strengthen training under real combat conditions and raise the capability of winning wars.
PAPies already stated not going to allow US navy base in Singapore. Existing services such as refuelling, maintenance, simple repairs, training with SAF, R & R to continue as per normal.
Fyi the original SAF NCO Club lost millions of dollars of business when it moved from Beach Rd (directly opposite Raffles Hotel) to Boon Lay.
Sure some cheapskate US sailors & marines will go to the Boon Lay club after landing at Tuas, but majority head straight to Orchard Rd.
Lots of fun when I did duty at the old NCO Club in the 1980s with US military police (US Navy Shore Patrol), whacking & handcuffing drunk and unruly US servicemen. I used to keep a chungkul stick behind the counter for the fun times.
The reason Tan Kin Lian had not only not been elected as our President but also lost his election deposit is because his thinking is so shallow. It is best he keeps his thoughts to himself because each time he spreads his idea, he just simply reveals the numb-skull brain that is inside his cranial.
Anon 5.26
I concur. You said what I always thought and still thinks!
whose IQ is like room temperature ? the answer is .... tan kin lian.
At one time he was the blue eye boy of the regime.
But he winks too much!
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