Two nations to work together to fuel skills development. This piece of news is perhaps the most important news of the day, or the year, but hidden in page 8. It should be front page news. India is the rising star in the world stage, slated to be the next super power, oops, the number one super power in the world. And Singapore has been drifting aimlessly and many are saying, sliding into the Third World. There are many obvious things that Singapore can learn from India. The most important thing is education.
Singapore, despite the bragging right of having two of the world's top universities, is failing in producing the kind of talents that India is producing. Top CEOs, bankers, IT experts, doctors, professors etc etc, are the pride of India. Indian universities are producing them like a well machine production line, to be employed in the biggest companies all over the world, including in Singapore. Without these Indian talents, American and western MNCs would be in trouble. Singapore's DBS would not be what it is today, including many other big companies and GLCs, if Singapore did not bring in the Indian talents.
The dearth of talents in this talentless island speaks for itself. Something is drastically wrong in Singapore's education system that is not producing the top talents that it needs. The best that Singapore is producing now could be taxi and Grab drivers, highly talented and armed with degrees and diplomas, the best taxi and Grab drivers in the world.
Now that Singapore has discovered its weaknesses and willing to learn from India, Singapore can go ahead and import all the top talents from India, bankers, CEOs, IT experts, doctors and professors. The last is the most important. Singapore should import many more Indian professors to fill its two top universities so that they can also produce the same kind of top Indian talents Singapore needs, and also for the world. With the universities filled with Indian professors and producing the kind of graduates that are as good as Indian universities, maybe then Singapore needs not have to import Indian talents anymore. Indian professors would also be considered as foreign academics, so would also boost up the rankings of the universities.
Indian talents are proven world wide. Indian unversities are proven worldwide for producing excellent talents, despite the biased western grading systems that put them at the bottom of the ladder. And India is the next number one super power. It has already starting to over China in many fields, in space technology, IT, ICBMs, aircraft carriers, mobile phones, EVs, pharmaceuticals. India's aircraft carrier Vikrant is better than Chinese aircraft carriers. India's fighter aircraft Rafaeles are better than China's J20s. India is the world's number one democracy, it is going to be the world's most populous nation, overtaking China.
All these are facts from Indian media, double checked and verified. With all these achievements and accolades, India is the real stuff. No bluff.
Singapore would soon be able to return to its past glories as the most productive and progressive nation state with the help of India, and be as great as India. India is the ray of hope for Singapore. Instead of looking east or west, Singapore is looking to India. A very brilliant choice to bet on a dark horse. When you know that you have lost it, running out of ideas, India is the way to go. India would make Singapore great again.
No mention India speed train travelling 120 beat china
ReplyDeleteAlso indian train can take thousand of passenger at once.
ReplyDeleteIndian trains are better than China trains according to India media. This is a fact. Indian technology is the best in the world.
ReplyDeleteIndian IT also world best. If Boeing 737 SuperMax use Indian IT, they would not crash on take off or landing.
ReplyDeleteWhen India sent its aircraft carrier Vikrant to the South China Sea to threaten the Chinese, all the Chinese warships got so shock, they all ran away.
ReplyDeleteDBS cannot be what it is today without Indian talents. Must recruit more top bankers from India to replace the no talent local bankers. Or at least bring in the top Indian bankers to teach and train the local bankers, to upgrade their banking skills. Can also send them to India for training in Indian banks to learn the ropes from the best run Indian banks.
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ReplyDeleteIndia is shouting loudly via some social media sites that it is going to be a superpower. And the USA and UK probably heard it loud and clear, which is why India is targeted by BBC, Hindenburg and George Soros.
ReplyDeleteThe Chinese always have this to say - Cow calfs do not realised the danger posed by tigers (translated literally, but impact always get lost in translation). As if Japan, Germany and now China had or are being told not to overtake the USA or else isn't a lesson good enough for the Indians. Now the writing is already on the wall, even before India is capable of becoming a superpower.
Pride comes before a fall is always a reminder to be heeded.
Indian talents excel not only in IT, technology, academia and business. They excel also in song and dance. Look how Natu Natu is taking the world by storm. Even one of the world's most powerful women (the most powerful in the Little Red Dot) is gaga over it and is learning its song and dance moves.
ReplyDeleteThe Americans learnt its lesson for underestimating China's rise and found it too late to contain China. So it has to act fast to stop India's rise before it is too late.
ReplyDeleteThe Americans cannot afford to have another China in India that it was unable to control and contain anymore. They have to stop India's rise NOW.
India made a wrong and silly move, by broadcasting its superpower intentions too early. Even Germany and Japan, not having announced any semblance of their superpower intentions, but just competing too well on economic grounds, were taken down by the USA from competing with them. All done without a whimper by Germany and Japan, obediently and under the thumb of the USA.
ReplyDeleteChina is choosing to differ in bowing to the USA. China and Russia is providing a challenge to the USA for the rest of world to follow, making China as a pure competitor to challenge the USA that John Joseph Mearsheimer is talking about.
China kept its intention close to its chest for probably three decades, without resorting to loud announcements, and content to bid for time with just upgrading its military defence capabilities, lifting the bulk of its population out of poverty in the interim, enhancing its manufacturing capabilities to compete successfully globally, investing and improving its domestic infrastructure, expanding its soft power across all of Africa, Latin America, Middle East and Asia successfully with its BRI projects and infrastructure developments overseas.
China used the decades well and fruitfully, instead of opting for confrontation and wasting its resources. The trade surpluses with the USA had been well recycled to the chagrin of the USA. It mitigated the importance of the IMF and World Bank.
Even then, the USA, after taking its eyes away from China towards the Middle East and its preooccupation with terrorism, soon realised, knew and feared belatedly what China is doing and became nervous and paranoid when China overtook them in GDP (PPP) and also closing in fast on its nominal GDP as well. Even cutting off China from many technologies and researh over many fields failed to stop China's progress. And so the demonisation, hyping up of threats to instil fear in countries around China, forming alliances to contain China in technology, possibly the only one area still left for them to exploit to keep China down.
But the rise of BRICS is posing yet another big problem for the USA going forward. This is too big and wide a grouping to contain and kept down. And BRICS is growing, with lately, even Mexico touted as a super economy, joining. They can try to ignore the BRICS threat as overblown at their own peril, just like the China rising from the ashes to become a geo-political hot potato blowing up in their face of the USA.
BRICS will carry the de-dollaristion move to another level. That is basically the movement that will be the straw to break the camel's back in de-dollarisation if it succeeds, and it must not fail, in order to provide the world with an alternative to the US$ hegemony and the SWIFT control.
With China producing practically everything a country needs and at very competitive prices, also the biggest consumer market, countries can trade with China bypassing the USA and Europe.
ReplyDeleteAnd China is the biggest trading partner to more than 120 countries in the world. These countries no longer need to hold US dollars as reserve to import goods from China. The appreciation of the value of dollar vis a vis their currencies and the loss in confidence in the dollar by the world meant that these countries can dump the dollar and using the Yuan instead.
Thus they no longer need to fear sanctions by the Americans. Simply trade with China and get a better deal and better value for the money.
Going forward, can the USA or Europe produce anything competitive enough to replace Chinese products being sold in the USA and Europe? Even before the onset of high energy cost, already the USA and Europe could not match the Chinese in the price of manufactured products. Now that high energy cost is going to be around for a stretch, how are USA and European manufacturers going to compete globally with China?
ReplyDeleteAs we can see, inflation is not even a problem in China despite the energy crisis, but still crippling the Western economy. And how are chip makers under the chip alliance going to sell their chips when the Chinese market is getting more and more independent of Western, Taiwanese and Japanese manufacturers? They can hype about the collapse of China over the chip issue if it is intended just to make them feel good.
Japan has practically dumped the Indian project as it is a losing proposition. It is now a non starter.
ReplyDeleteI think NTUC's business is dropping. Crowds that used to throng NTUC outlets are no longer there, even on days with discounts offered for selected groups. What is happening? COVID19 and the subsequent migration towards online purchases does have its effect I believe.
ReplyDeleteThe American chip manufacturers want to make chips to sell to China but the US said cannot sell.
ReplyDeleteChina is now not buying chips and not buying chip making machine and steadily making progress in making chip making machine and also all the chips it needs. In two years, China would be self sufficient and all the chip manufacturers would have to eat their own chips for breakfast, lunch and dinner and with the inventory building to high heavens and no buyers.
There will be cut throat fire sales and retrenchment when the manufacturers have to downsize their capacities and workforce.
Indian ways of doing business is quite predictable. Only the fools are blind to deal with the Indians. They would strike a deal and once signed, and money sank into the project, all the monkey business would appear trying to squeeze as much as they could from the other party.
ReplyDeleteEvery fool that thinks there is a lot of potential and money to be made from India would only end up throwing good money after bad money and never see the light at the end of the tunnel. It is an endless dark pit.
Many western companies had been there and would not bother to try investing in India again. But the fools with OPM would keep on dumping OPM and hoping one day, in the long term, perhaps after they die, that they could recoup their losses.
Stupidity has no cure. But no bother, as the money loss is OPM.
Indians can said that the red Indians were originated from them. In the distance future they can help the red Indians to claim back America from the white men. Of course, must be a Superpower first.
ReplyDeleteThat will really frighten the Anglo Saxon Whites in North America out of their pants. Where could they go to if the Red Indians of unknown numbers still surviving, helped by the South Asian Indians of 1.4 billion is a lot of people to fight with. Going back to Europe is out of the question? Or have they found another planet to move to just in case? Over three hundred million Whites is a lot of people to move to another planet. Need a time machine to do that. Maybe Mars, which is nearer, will be fine. But I would definitely support that move by India, LOL. Think of it, both are not called Indians for nothing.
ReplyDeleteBut, not to worry. Biden will pass a law or an executive order forbidding both Indian factions from doing that. Never mind if he knows or not what he is signing. It is just a stroke of the pen and everything is solved. So simple just like taking care of the bank runs. You see, Biden can pass laws that he expects other countries must follow, like it or not. I suppose that is all allowed under the USA 'Rules Based Order'. No wonder they love their 'Rules Based Order'!
US Senate yesterday recognises McMahon Line as international boundary between India & China, also terms Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India, with aim at encouraging India to confront China more intensely.
ReplyDeleteArunachal Pradesh, the name conjured by India to South Tibet, belongs to China historically.
The white are assuming that no one would dare challenge their illegal occupation of the lands they now called their own, stolen from the natives.
ReplyDeleteThey have no legal basis to own these lands.
The Brits already did that with artifacts in museums stolen from India, China, Africa, Middle East and others by passing or changing the laws that gives the museums the right to prevent those artifacts from being taken back.
ReplyDeleteYou can be sure that when the shit hits the fan, the Anglo Saxon Whites will likewise pass laws to prevent the Native American Indians from ever taking back their land. After all, the guns are in their hands.
How nice it will be for a thief to be able to also pass a similar law to prevent the owner from taking back what legally belongs to him. Making an illegal act legal with just a stroke of the pen. Everybody can then go around to lie, cheat and steal to take possession of houses, cars, etc. Anyway, just joking about the impossible!
Now you know why they are proposing this so called Rules Based Order. They write whatever rules they want to serve their interests.
ReplyDeleteAny takers? Only thieves would support such Rules Based Order.
The best rule in the world is to write your own rules for others to obey.
ReplyDeleteThen you can also write your own paycheck.
This is not a case of white men are smart.
ReplyDeleteIt is a case of coloured people are stupid to want to accept his white men's rule.
If White Men are smart, why are the Whites in UK accepting an Indian PM to rule over them? And worse still, being ruled by an Indian whose origin is from a former colony they had ultimate control. I am confused about who is the smart one in the equation.
ReplyDeleteKeep bringing in those Indian "talents" & by next generation, a new country called Yindiapore will emerge. Each "talents" will import the entire clan over & slowly ghettos will emerge where Yinglish & Hindi be spoken.
ReplyDeleteTheir children all go to Indian International School, entire family not mixing with locals, look down at locals because they're "expats" & will not adapt to local way of life.
Tell this to Pritam.
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