China is expanding, China is expanding! China is expansionist? Really?

 

This is the world represented on a chess board. China used to occupy only one square, being cornered and isolated by the Americas and their allies. Today China has squeezed 3 more squares of space and the American terrorists are alarmed and shouting, China is expanding, China is expansionist. Raise your defence budget to stop China's expansion. 

The American terrorists would not talk about all the squares they have and had occupied for decades, at one time with China only having one square. The Americans still want to contain China to one square, in a little corner. And the brain dead and unthinking American allies, colonies and cronies will shout, yea, yea, China is expanding, China is expansionist. Stop China, stop China. They would not want to know that the American terrorists are occupying nearly the whole chess board, own them, control them as part of the American Empire.

Washington clowns believe lunatic Trump is the smartest rogue and take look up too him for directions

 Everyone, every American, knows that Trump is a loose cannon, with nothing in his head. Trump is even more stupid and dangerous than Bush Junior. But you know what, the rogue regime in Washington, and all the clowns in Washington have different ideas. They are so dull and dense that they could not find another smarter man than them and all thinks Trump is a genius, the smartest guy in Capitol Hill. And they look up to him for direction, for advice on everything, even how to think and what to say and what and when to laugh.

The inhuman fiasco in wanting to kill Iranians without thinking whether he can do it is out there for all to see. Trump thought he has the biggest dick and can swing at the Iranians to kill them all. He boastfully sent several aircraft carriers to want to frighten the Iranians. When these are not enough, he again boastfully sent 50,000 American boys and girls to threaten to invade Iran. The world is laughing at his stupidity. All the aircraft carriers and warships and his 50,000 boys and girls have to look for a safe haven to park themselves away from Iranian shore. Getting too near means instant fried eggs.

But Trump not only cannot think. He did not have to think. Netanyahu is making all the thinking and decisions for him. Netanyahu will order him around, do this, do that, or else more Epstein Files and tapes will be exposed. Trump is not only a stupid man, but a kept man, a man that is blackmailed by the Israelis to do the bidding of Israel.

America is now sold to Israel by Trump, the supposedly genius in Washington. Not only the rogues and clowns in Washington are not protesting or complaining, the American masses, the hillbillies and rednecks think this is alright, to fight and die for Israel, to be controlled and ruled by Israel.

America, the most powerful superpower, is let by a clown called Trump. And the Americans all agreed that he is the best clown to make America great again. They all have faith in this lunatic. They believe in everything he is doing, his every order, policy, when all is failing. They cannot see that all the wars, sanctions, tariffs are not working, but pretending that they are working. Because they believe that Trump is Godsend to save America. When you just believe, you can believe in anything, even in lunatic clown Trump as the smartest man in America.

Trump kicks India out of his Indo Pacific Command

There is a commentary by an Indian Geopolitical Analyst that even the USA is seeing India as irrelevant in their scheme of things in East Asia. Modi can continue to hug and cling to Trump's leg as much as he wants, but the stray dog is losing its usefulness in the eyes of Trump.

The perception he was talking about involves the changes by the USA Government, removing the title 'Indo' from the Indo-Pacific Command and renaming it just 'US Pacific Command'.

Before the change, India was supposed to be part of the Indo-Pacific Command structure in Asia, with India overseeing the Indian Ocean sphere of influence on behalf of the USA. The USA now realizes that India is hardly capable of playing its part as a party to the former Indo-Pacific Command structure.

This may seem a minor change, but the implications are hardly minor. For India, it means the USA is not looking at India as a geopolitical ally, but a passenger that could be a liability moving forward. The USA no longer sees India as a relevant partner that it can still use against China.

In time to come, India's position in QUAD is also becoming irrelevant. What has India contributed to QUAD since its formation in 2007? Same as what has India contributed to BRICS since its inauguration in 2009? Oops, sorry, India's contribution in BRICS is being a good 'trojan horse' for the USA.


Anonymous

Anyone believes Trump is not lying?

Yes, what deal? From afar, most people can tell that this was no deal, just another fake deal to allow Trum to make the stock market move up and down like a yo-yo.

I think we have seen and heard enough not to be fooled. Iran must not take the lull as a time to relax and take things easy. Dealing with terrorists does not afford the luxury of being unprepared. Trump already told Iran it must behave. That is a tell-tale sign of what is to come. The USA, like Israel, does not have to behave. They can misbehave in any way they like.

Even the Iranians know that Trump is using his utterances to move the stock market. It is as clear as daylight. The man wants to gather as much wealth as he can, maybe buying his way out from hell, which he belongs to without fail. Creating wars and killing innocent children already condemn Trump's fate in hell, which no amount of wealth can mitigate.

Actually, Trump is terrified of being impeached and losing his Presidency. Then he will have to serve his time. But the law works in mysterious ways in the USA, with hardcore criminals, drug cartel chiefs and terrorists just pardoned by Trump himself. Could Trump really pardon himself for his felony charges and pedophile crimes?


Anonymous

Only the very dense would still buy American tech equipment. Don't ask who

 

18 min by Eli to explain all the risks users will have to face when buying American chips and high tech equipment, with all the conditions and political demands and facing sanctions, bans and supplies and parts and support cut off anytime the American terrorists choose to impose. 

Like what Eli said, buying Chinese tech equipment is like buying anything from a shop, just swipe your credit cards and take it home. No question asks, no political baggage, no fear of sanctions and being cut off from support of parts and services.

Who to buy from is easy to decide. Buy America, so said the American cronies...because their balls are being squeezed by the American terrorists, like cannot use Huawei 5G.

When no population growth is the best way forward

 Oh, how stupid to make such a statement. The conventional wisdom is that you need growth and the only way for growth is population growth. No population growth, no economic growth, a decline is starting. China is in serious trouble because its population is ageing and not growing. India is the most promising country to be the next superpower because it has a healthy population growth. This is the economic law of growth, growth and growth. These prevailing assumptions were made at a time when there were no computers, AI, robotics and factories that operate without a single human bean working in them.

Does anyone know that growing population means growing consumption of land, food, power, water and resources, and the need to provide more and more jobs? Does anyone know that the resources in this world is finite, the resources in every country is finite? If this economic theory that growth is the only way forward, and growth means population growth, what will be the population of the earth in 50 years, 100 years and onwards, if every country just keep producing more people? What will happen to a piece of rock like Singapore with absolutely limited land and no resources and only think of growing its population?

Everyone and many countries are screaming happily, China is at the brink of collapse, a big disaster is coming. I will bet with anyone that in the next 30 years, China will keep on growing even without the population growth and growing even faster. China is likely to keep on growing and prospering for the next 100 years despite no or low population growth. Anyone want to bet that India with its growing population will overtake China in economic growth in the next 50 years?

With 1.4 billion population and growing, the demand for job creation is very serious. At 3% population growth, it will mean 42 million heads a year, or at half the demand, 21 million jobs to be created a year for the growing population. India depends on the whole world to create jobs for Indians. If India cannot export its joblessness overseas, India will implode for sure. India's population and unemployment is a burden to the whole world.

Can Singapore really continue to grow based on growing population and growing consumption, to 10m or 20m population? And if the same economic theory is the way to growth, how about 50m or 100m people in this piece of rock? Where to house them, build the Tower of Babel? Create jobs for another 5m or 10m when we are already facing retrenchment and unemployment problems?

The way to go is not population growth. This narrative is guaranteed to destroy the world, depleting all available resources to feed all the mouths, depleting all the energy, all the land....You need real productivity with lesser population, more goods and services, more land and resources for lesser people, abundance of goods and services for everyone, with the help of AI, robotics, automation, technology.... Growing population is so easy. A child will also know it without having to think. And every child will know his HDB flat is getting smaller for each generation. Hong Kong cage living is coming.

Never underestimate China, but ok to underestimate USA when led by clowns and D graders

The USA initially wanted to decouple from China, thinking it will bring China down to its knees, with all the rhetorics created to rally the doggies. Then they found out the hard way that the sword cuts both ways. Just to mention one or two items make a fool out of the whole decoupling idea - China's rare earth dominance and its hold over the USA agricultural sector. The USA found out that its testicles got stuck in seaweeds and find it impossible to untangle itself. So, they literally stopped talking about decoupling and adopted the derisking mantra. The USA had mastered the use of 'word salads' extremely well. But China is not easily fooled.

But trying to walk back on the decoupling idea is already too late. China is fully aware that the USA has no cards to play by decoupling from China. In fact, all the rhetorics regarding trade wars and tariffs are giving China hints that it must be self-dependent in all sectors. And the Chinese are sparing no effort and resources to help the USA to decouple from China today.

As I always say, China is chipping away relentlessly at the last bastion of USA power - its lead in high-end chips. The USA is stirring up a hornet's nest and will get bitten soon. Success for China may be slow, but the writing is on the wall. China is deadly serious about turning the tables on the USA in high- end chips. China is a patient learner, a patient planner and a patient strategist. As they say, slow and steady wins the race. The USA is overly arrogant regarding its control over the chip industry. It may soon realize that its arrogance is going to cost it dearly. The USA never really expected China to rise so rapidly over the last four decades. Never under-estimate China's revolve when it is pushed into a corner.


Anonymous

Foreign companies inside India are all taken over by India sooner or later. Some stupid countries pretend it is not happening to their companies

India's mission is indeed to create more Indias around the world. Companies that invested in India, make some money, become profitable and the Indians will say let us take over. The reputation that India is 'the graveyard of companies' is no idle joke.

Now, we also know that using the Indian formula of taking over other people's companies at home, Indians in the West are indeed also taking over well-established companies, built up by others and already highly profitable. The Indians really know how to manoeuvre into positions of power in those companies, like a snake slithering through the shadows. That they have succeeded even in highly matured economies must be a credit to the Indian formula they created at home and horned into a national strategy outside India.

Now the whole world knows that India is un-investible. Fool them once, shame on India; fool them twice, shame on them. Yet, some are still not totally convinced. That by the way has come full circle, with more than 2,800 multinational companies fleeing India. That is not a ripple, it is a tsunami that India can ill afford with job creation a necessity with high unemployment a perennial problem.

Perhaps forked tongue Modi can still convince the Europeans to go back into India and taste the Indian cuisine. As they say, a fool is born every minute.


Anonymous

The Taiwan DPP leaders are all Japanese demons camouflaged with pseudo Chinese names and they must be destroyed at all cost.

The Taiwan DPP leaders are all descendants of former Japanese officers who occupied Taiwan from 1905 to 1945, and now camouflaged their true Japanese identity with pseudo Chinese names. They must be destroyed at all cost, and every Chinese has a duty and responsibility to see that they and Japan are totally destroyed and obliterated from this world.

Not retaking Taiwan is an insult to all Chinese people, Chinese Nation and Civilization  as well as an insult to Heaven and Earth. 

The true state of the Taiwanese government under the DPP both past and present. It is really shocking and unbelievable that so many high-ranking officials in Taiwan both in the government and private sectors are Japanese ghosts and demons playing havoc with the security and survival of China and the Chinese people.

Those who rule Taiwan now under the banner of DPP are all Japanese demons. Thus reclaiming Taiwan now is the sacred duty of all Chinese people and it is the continuous War of Resistance against Japan and its imbecile backer the evil and diabolical Anglo-Saxon American United States in a new era of the great Chinese Nation rejuvenation and  Civilization..

Below is a list of the names of some of the Japanese demons who managed to infiltrate into the Chinese Taiwan province and government.

1.   Lee Teng-hui: Not surnamed Lee : Birth name : Iwasato Teng-hui, of Japanese descent:

      Ancestral home: Misawa, Aomori Prefecture , Japan.

2.   Chen Chi-chung: Not surnamed Chen: Birth Name: Yoysuka Tsukizuk, of Japanese descent.

      Ancestral home : Abashiri City, Hokkaido, Japan.

3.   Chen Chu: Not surnamed  Chen: Birth name: Shindo Tsuka Kiku, of Japanese descent:

      Ancestral home: Kuroishi, Aomori prefecture , Japan.

4.   Hsieh Chang-ting: Not surnamed Hsieh: Real name: Okabuchi Cho-ting, of Japanese descent:

      Ancestral home: Ono-cho, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

5.   Lin Yi-xiong: Not surnamed Lin: Real name: KojimaYoshio, of Japanese descent:

      Ancestral home: Abashiri City, Hokkaido, Japan.

6.   Tsai Ing-wen, not surnamed Tsai: Birth name: Umehara Ing-wen, of Japanese descent.

       Ancestral home: Ninohe Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

7.    Lai Ching-te: Not surnamed Lai: Birth name: Teraoka Kiyonori, of Japanese descent.

       Ancestral home: Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

8,    Chen Shui-bian : Not surnamed Chen: Birth name: Shimabukuro Shui-bian, of Japanese descent.

        Ancestral home: Hachimantai, Iwate  Prefecrure, Japan.

9.    Su Tseng-chang: Not surnamed Su: Real name: Honda Sadamasa, of Japanese descent.

        Ancestral home: Minamisoma City, Fukushima, Japan

The above are only some examples of the most glaring and  notorious Japanese demons operating in Taiwan under the protection of the anti-China satanic and warmongering Anglo-Saxon United States.

There are tens of thousands of other sinister Japanese descendants hiding in Taiwan under pseudo Chinese names. They will eventually be flushed out and send back to Japan when China liberate and regain Taiwan .

It is the sacred duty and responsibility of all Chinese people to pass this message round the world especially  to all other Chinese people wherever they may be, 

All Chinese people must ensure that China will never be bullied, trodden, trampled or invaded again by any foreign countries. Any country which tries to meddle with China will meet China as its nemesis and face total destruction and obliteration.

Southernglory1

Saturday, 20th June, 2026

Japan sunk!

 

This is what would happen to Japan should the Japanese be foolish enough to start a war with China, Russia and North Korea. There will be no Japan to talk about again. Japan is just a Mickey Mouse today and should stop its foolishness that it can still run over China, Russia and North Korea. it is a mismatch. Period.

Indian military expansionism - The foxes will say the hens love them

India’s increasing military footprint is largely welcomed in Southeast Asia, which sees India as relatively benign rather than aggressive or imperialist, says former foreign correspondent Nirmal Ghosh.

SINGAPORE: Located around 80 nautical miles from Aceh and 430 nautical miles from the coast of Thailand, the Great Nicobar Island is closer to these Southeast Asian countries than it is to India.

But the sleepy island - the site of a roughly US$10 billion infrastructure project championed by the Indian government as one that would “enhance India's national security, strategic and defence presence” - has drawn little commentary from Southeast Asia so far.  CNA

Indian military expansionism is welcomed in Southeast Asia? My eyeballs are rolling. Which SE Asian state would love the Indian military in the region? Oh, they have little commentary on India's expansion. Silence means consent. This is the reasoning of clowns.

As the first sentence said it, Nicobar is nearer to Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia than India. Why is there a need for this poor country that could barely feed its people to want to spend US$10 billion to build a naval base in a deserted island? Who are the enemies the Indians are defending from? Or what is the intent of India to insert military forces into SE Asia? To show the Asean countries that India is a superpower, a regional hegemon?

India is relatively benign and not aggressive? Says who? My little toes are all laughing. But this kind of lies will be welcomed by the dense and unthinking. Ask the neighbours of India, ie Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka and China. India still sits on hundreds of thousands square kilometers of Chinese lands that the Brits stole from China and refused to return them to China. India's hostile and aggressive regional hegemon behaviours has made enemies of every one of its immediate neighbours. India is still claiming part of Kashmir, Indianised those under its control. India is daydreaming about the Bharat Empire that extends from Afghanistan to Myanmar, including Tibet and the islands in the Indian Ocean. It is all shown in the Indian map of the Bharat Empire. India has no imperialist dream?  Oops, many little boys and girls in Singapore will believe so.

India is benign, not expansionist? The fox saying the hens love them? Only silly hen will love the Indian foxes and want the foxes to protect them. Asean countries that think India is benign and welcomed by Asean please raise your hand. I see one hand waving frantically.

What do you think? 

What deal is Trump gloating about?

What deal is Trump gloating about? That is no more than just a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), with six months given for further negotiation and subject to extension. Trump will have plenty of time in the meanwhile to carry on with his stock market manipulation with his on and off antics.

The main topic of disagreement, as I see it, centered on the enriched Uranium and the possibility of Iran acquiring the nuke, which had basically already been settled under the old agreement made by Barrack Obama. Trump tore that up and is now making the same utterance, just to put his name on it, about keeping Iran away from having a nuke. The reason for tearing up that Obama deal is a farce, and I believe it was all a ploy to allow Israel and the USA to have a free hand in carrying out attacks on Iran without the Obama deal getting in the way.

Just listen to the hogwash that Trump is now making, talking about bombing Iran into hell if it does not behave. Who is he talking to, as if teaching a kid about what misbehavior is supposed to be? From bombing Iran back to the stone age, to turning Iran into rubble and now bombing the hell out of Iran, shows that Trump is no more than a spoilt kid throwing tantrums. As they say, empty vessel makes the most noise. The USA is out of weapons, ammunition and has no more cards to play, just shouting rhetorics to try to scare the Iranians.

Now, I could not help thinking also about the price of oil going downhill as if everything is suddenly back to normal. Nothing is back to normal as far as the Gulf States are concerned, with all the damage that some believe may take years to repair. So, what is the sudden euphoria about the energy sector?

Another interesting item emerging from the woodwork is the US$300 billion in the MOU for Iran's reconstruction. J. D. Vance is telling the MAGA base that not a single cent is coming from USA taxpayer's pocket. Can anyone tell us, where that US$300 billion is going to come from? Are the Gulf States going to foot the bill. Now that is adding insult to injury, which I think they are not going to take it lying down. After all, they have reconstruction to do themselves from the Iranian retaliation strikes and not to forget the almost four months of massive losses suffered from the Hormuz closure.


Anonymous

India is partnering EU to build 6 Gen fighter and EVs...the blind idolising the blind

Understand that Modi has an understanding with the EU to co-operate in the EV battery sector in order to counter China's dominance.

Now, the EU does not have much of a reputation in the field of EV battery manufacturing, and so does India. Perhaps the blind leading the blind can come up with something earth shattering. Moreover, China still controls all the raw materials, like Lithium, for the manufacturing of EV batteries. China presently holds 70% market share of global battery manufacturing.

Having said that, China is now moving away from Lithium based EV batteries and is already into mass producing sodium-ion based batteries that are a better storage medium and have longer charging life cycles than Lithium based batteries. Such batteries are safer, generate less heat and less likely to explode and causing destructive fires.


Anonymous

D grader clown Trump giving the world a briefing on America secrets and classified information...and he did not know what he was doing

 

41 min of classified and top secret information flowing freely from the mouth of this clown. He disclosed how deeply the Americans were involved in the wars and mischiefs in the Middle East, that clown Trump was the one that ordered the execution of Khamenei. Anyone in the business of intelligence, guarding national secrets would be shocked at what this clown revealed. Anyone else saying what this clown said would have been charged for violating the protection of secrets acts and be charged and jailed. This clown freely offering them publicly to the intelligence services of America's friends and foes.

Great job, D grader POTUS. With this clown in charge, America does not need enemies. He makes the job of collecting American secrets so easy.

American losers targeting Singaporeans using their long arm of the law

SINGAPORE: Shipping veteran Teo Siong Seng and other executives accused by the United States of conspiring to restrict output and fix the prices of dry containers have been sued by a pair of US firms.

The class-action lawsuits from manufacturer CA Spalding Company and shipping company Daybreak Express are separate from the indictments by the US Department of Justice. They were filed on Jun 2 and Jun 9, respectively.

Both suits were filed against Singamas, China International Marine Containers, CXIC Group Containers and a group of executives, including Mr Teo, who is the CEO and chairman of Singamas. The firms are seeking monetary damages....

SINGAPORE: Shipping veteran Teo Siong Seng and other executives accused by the United States of conspiring to restrict output and fix the prices of dry containers have been sued by a pair of US firms.

The class-action lawsuits from manufacturer CA Spalding Company and shipping company Daybreak Express are separate from the indictments by the US Department of Justice. They were filed on Jun 2 and Jun 9, respectively.

Both suits were filed against Singamas, China International Marine Containers, CXIC Group Containers and a group of executives, including Mr Teo, who is the CEO and chairman of Singamas. The firms are seeking monetary damages.  CNA

The bankrupt American terrorists, unproductive losers, are now using their laws to target a Singaporean shipping magnate and some Singaporeans using the only thing they know best, useless lawyers to squeeze money from their victims by twist and turn, using every excuse they can find in their law of the jungle. 

This is not much different from the Washington clowns accusing Iran of the potential and intent to build nuclear weapon, and bombing and attacking Iran in the name of peace and to open the Strait of Hormuz. The American terrorists have been bullying the rest of the world with their rogue regime behind them, thinking and behaving as if they are the mafia that owns the world. They have attacked many countries with China, Russia, Iran and Latin countries as their primary targets. Oops, killing Iranians, Arabs and Muslims is now their main preoccupation.

Singapore is a key American ally but also not spared. A poor Singaporean is headhunted as rich enough to be fleeced by their unproductive lawyers that make a living backed by their kangaroo courts. Looks like this poor Singaporean is going to be the fat goat the American gangsters are looking for since they are no longer able to compete in the international market and need other ways to make money, by hook or by crook. The lunatic Trump is attacking every country he deems fit at his fancy. The American Justice Department and these loose lawyers are just following what Trump is doing, use their American mafia law to bully and rob victims not under their jurisdiction. By the way, this poor Singaporean is well connected. Michael Fay was connected also with President Clinton to protect him.

The American terrorists and gangsters are really desperate with a fake economy depending on the Stock Market but no real production of goods and services. Other than the bubble in Wall Street, all the American industries are crumbling and bankruptcies are growing, One by one they will fall on the wayside...bankrupt. So blame someone else! Sue someone else, sue big, big and hope to get something in return. They have their kangaroo courts and the rogue Washington regime behind them against victims that have no one to protect them from these predators. The American law of the jungle reaches every country that cannot defend themselves and their own citizens.

The American thugs and unproductive rogue lawyers are raping Singaporeans and thinking they can get away with millions or billions fabricating charges.

India's mission is to create more Indias around the world

 India is a super power and has a lot to contribute and share with the world. India is a rich ancient civilisation with very colourful culture and history. India has arrived as a super power and wanted to share its rich experience with the rest of the world. India is like America, wants to spread its great culture and way of life to the world. India is another country with a mission, to make countries of the world like India.

In every city or town that is taken over by the Indians, the Indians will quickly turn them into little Indias and celebrate all the Indian festivals in their best forms. Indian culture, religion, food, way of life become the norm to mesmerise their host countries. Those that have no cultural base, not proud of their own culture, would want to embrace the Indian culture, wear Indian clothing, learn to eat like the Indians, with their hands.

Countries that are occupied and taken over by large population of Indians are richer by being able to share and know what India and Indians are like. The more they welcome the Indians, the better they become, benefiting from the Indian talents, Indian technology and AIs and helping them to become first world countries, like Singapore.

Hypothetically, if the Indians were to turn all the countries into India, where will they then migrate to since India is not a place they want to be, the dysfunctional failed country they ran away from, the country that could not provide them a good life and the opportunities for good jobs, good and developed infrastructure. If every country becomes like India, ....

It is very difficult to understand the confused mind of a D grader

In order to provide a good answer to the D grader, China is now selling less and less to the USA, which will reduce the trade deficit. I guess that is what Trump wants and is going to be good for the USA. Let the USA buy more from other countries, more expensively. In other words, decoupling will solve all the deficit problem with China once and for all, and China is helping the USA to reach that goal.

It must also be said that China is already helping the USA to reduce its trade deficit by selling less rare earths to the USA, am I right. Why does the USA want to import more rare earths from China that will make the deficit worse, lol?

On the other hand, in order to sell more to China, why is the USA putting all the sanctions and hurdles to prevent sales of chips to China and only the outdated versions were offered to China. Trump thinks the Chinese are as dumb as he is trying to keep the Chinese dependent on USA tech.

The good thing about those sanctions is that they have helped in fast tracking the Chinese into striving to be self-dependent much faster and pouring in resources to enable China to stay away from USA tech. China would still be dependent on USA tech if all those tech sanctions had not been put in place by the USA. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention, and the Chinese are just keeping their heads down and powering ahead.

Now, the Chinese are rising to become a big competitor in the field of memory chips, which even Samsung, the world's biggest memory chip maker, is worried.

The Chinses are now on their way to making high-end chips using new architecture that has the USA, ASML and TSMC worried as well. That they have found a way around, without depending on hardware constraints controlled by the USA, is a game changer. The soothsayers in the West can continue to throw doubts in the new architecture created by the Chinese, but China will have the last laugh when the shit hits their fan.


Anonymous

Operation Kill Iranians - What deal? Or market manipulation?

What deal? it is just another manipulation of the stock market to enable some people to make tons of money, including Trump, his family and cronies.

Do we honestly believe that Trump is really going against Netanyahu in Lebanon now? The show must go on, and Trump knows how to manipulate the situation using his 'Art of the Deal'. Remember that the man managed to con his way through six bankruptcies using crooked deals.

But the rich around Trump do not care how he cooked up his deals, so long as they continue to make all the money. And the USA is being governed by the super-rich. The USA is after all an 'oligarchy' where only the rich have the means to stand for election.


Anonymous

The Iran American Peace Deal - What it means

 The coming Iran American Deal that Trumps is touting out loud, will it be signed, how long will it last? Which idiot is trusting the sneaky American terrorists and Trump to honour the deal? Israel is not a member of this deal and has announced that it would not be bound by it and would continue to attack Lebanon. The Iranians have added Lebanon as part of the deal.  What this deal meant is literally a deal between the Americans and the Iranians. So, technically and legally, Iran and America may agree to a peace deal, but Iran and Israel will still be fighting. The Americans cannot accuse the Iranians for attacking the Israelis and use it as an excuse to attack Iran.

This deal is not what the Israelis expected. They have been planning all their wars against the Arabs and Muslims based on the premise that the Americans will be the main fighting force, and the Israelis be the supporting role. And the goal, wipe out the Iranians, the Arabs and Muslims. With the Americans out of the picture because of this peace deal, the Israelis will have to fight the Iranians, Arabs and Muslims alone. How about that?

This may be the best thing for Iran and the Arab and Muslim states. The Israelis want to fight, bring it on, without the Americans. Lets see how good the Israelis are and how long they can last without the Americans. The reality may be a return to the past wars when the Americans will continue to support and fight for the Israelis, donning Israeli uniforms, repainting aircraft with Israeli insignias, and continuing to supply all the bombs and weapons to the Israelis. It will be another farcical Israeli war against the Arabs and Muslims, with the Americans doing the heavy lifting and dying for Israel. Nothing really change in spite of the peace deal with Iran. Only thing that changed is that the Arabs and Muslims now have all the necessary weapons they need to take on the Israelis, not toys from the Americans.

Caveat, if Trump can hold on to his part of the deal, or the Americans strongly protest against fighting and dying for the Israelis. If this is able to stop the Americans involved in the next war between the Israelis and the Arabs and Muslims, it will be fun to watch and see how the Israeli terrorists be wiped out by the Arabs and Muslims, led by Iran.

Get your pop corns and beer ready for the great spectacle to begin.

D grade Trump claimed China is raping USA, trade deficit is bad for America...

22 min clip on how American clowns under chief clown Trump are chipping away the transactions in the SWIFT system, turning them to the BRICS alternative financial system, especially CIPS. US$312 billion were rerouted to the CIPS because the American clowns sanctioned 34 Singapore entities for trading with Russia, Iran and Venezuelan supply chains. The immediate effect, all the affected entities and their trading partners migrated to CIPS, bringing along all their businesses.

Never underestimate the stupidity of D graders. They cannot differentiate what is good and bad, who is taking advantage of the world or being raped by the world. Trump used to rant about America being raped by China and the world with huge trading deficits. To the ignoramus clowns like Trump, trade deficits must be bad and must be reduced at all costs. This led to his tariff wars and sanctions against China and all American trade partners...to reduce trade deficits.

The truth is that America only buys what it needs, what it wants, what is of value to America. The big trade deficits mean that America is seeing great value from its buying of foreign goods and services. America and Americans would not be buying and buying if not getting benefits and values from their spending. That is why the average Americans are all looking like overfed gorillas, especially the beasts in American police uniforms. They eat too much, consumed too much. Whose fault is that? They can't grow that big for being raped by overconsumption. 

America can reduce its trade deficit simply by consuming less, by not importing more, by compromising on their good life from purchasing cheap and good stuff they need from abroad. Why called this as being raped by China? Oops, D grade Trump's has limited vocabulary and is only familiar with thug language.

The other big farce that D grade Trump and his clowns could not appreciate is the monopoly money they are using to exchange for goods and services. The pieces of paper the Americans printed cost as much as the paper and ink used, nothing more. America and Americans are benefitting all the way, actually cheating and raping the world by exchanging their useless pieces of paper for real stuff, useful stuff that American needs. 

What is US$40 trillion debt? This is meaningless, at little cost to America, and deliberately allowed to balloon by the Americans as a special exorbitant privilege. Only America can enjoy this privilege by being the issuer of the international currency, the greenbacks. And this is a happy debt if trust is not undermined or destroyed. The debt can go to infinity, America can continue to print all the dollars they need and want, to buy and consume all they want, with nothing to worry about.

But then comes along D grade Trump to destroy this special privilege by grabbing money belonging to other states and individuals, like gangsters, thinking there will be no consequences. And the clowns that Trump brought along, appointed to be incharge of monetary and financial policies just do what Trump wants him to do. They continue to undermine the trust in the dollar and the American banking and finance system, destroying the decades of trust built in the dollar and SWIFT system. 

The rest is history. Dedollarisation is in full steam. BRICS banking and financial systems are all ready to take over the role of SWIFT, to replace all that the Americans have built. Thanks to D grade Trump and his clowns, this process is irreversible and they did not have any inkling of it. The Designated National List and Specially Designated National List continue to expand to sanction and ban more entities and individuals from the SWIFT system, meaning sending more away to alternative systems. And the latest additional list of entities being banned was in February 2025. It means till now, these clowns still cannot see the damage and harm they are doing to America and the SWIFT system. Simply unbelievable! But what can one expect from clowns? They are happily chipping away the dollar and SWIFT system and their exorbitant privilege. The US$40 trillion debt is now hanging like the albatross on the neck of America, about to rip it off.

PS. If America were to cut down its trade with China to reduce the trade deficit, and then to buy the same items from somewhere else, America's trade deficit would grow much bigger because no other country can sell at a lower price than China,

India still fantasising its big power dream. Only low thinking leaders will be mesmerised by India

India thinks it is a favorite dog of the USA all along. It gets invited to the G7 and with that it thinks it can sashay inside BRICS as well. Trump probably threatened India not to join the BRI and the Indians complied. Joining BRICS was a different matter, as it means India became the Trojan Horse for the USA inside BRICS. Now, India is like a stray dog left behind by other countries in Asia.

Thankfully, India was also invited to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) the largest free trade agreement in the world made up of 15 nations around the Indo-Pacific region but chose not to join. That was a blessing in disguise for the others. The Indians think too highly of themselves, refusing to join knowing that China is the dominant nation. India is only interested in bullying its smaller neighbors like Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. When Pakistan and Bangladesh moved closer to China, India was not happy. India is behaving like the USA, not allowing China to have any influence over any other country.


Anonymous

TFR (2025) PLUMMETED to 0.87!

 Repost - Part 1

"Leo81June 14, 2026 6:19 am
"Earlier this year in parliament, DPM GKY spoke about Sg facing an "existential problem" ...

TFR (2025) PLUMMETED to 0.87!

In 2013, our beloved founding PM LKY（国父李光耀）published his last book (One Man's View of the World). In the Singapore chapter, founding PM LKY lamented that our Singaporean core will be halved in one generation if our TFR remains unchanged (in 2013, Sg's TFR was about 1.21). At that time PM3 was in charge (and his "personal TFR" was 4.0) holding helm for almost 21 years in all (Aug 2004 - May 2024).

PM4 now in his 3rd year is facing an existential Sg threat of 0.87 TFR ... (NOT sure what is PM4's "personal TFR", anybody knows?) ...

Have you ever wonder assuming PM4 serves as long as PM3 at the top, by 2043, what would Sg's TFR be?

If this problem is NOT serious ("事情大条”），what is?"


Uncle RB: "Or is it a case of not seeing the elephants in the room?"

In terms of Sg's low TFR (0.87) in 2025, probably YES ... Policy makers likely missed out "the elephants in the room" when attempting to solve Sg's TFR problems ...

The solution may lie in two terms or phrases, one in Chinese and the other in English.

Let's start with the English term first which is "cognitive ambidexterity"
(as the cohort in RB's following are mostly "Jiak Cunt Tongue" [potato aka french fries lovers], ie, mostly 英哥lish speaking elites) .

The Chinese has a term with similar meaning "辨证思维” 。。。

The TFR issue is NOT unlike an extremely complex, highly integrated structural system of myriad nodes and intricate links that need to be optimised at the micro as well as macro level, forming a huge social supply chain tied up with external environment and with many components exhibiting enthropic characteristic which need to be managed not as a social tax but a fuel to engender healthy TFR.

In the Chinese term "辨证思维", the first variable that one must understand in order to tackle a problem is "the situation" ... what (actually) are you dealing with (NOT what you see or think you are dealing with which in Chinese its meaning is embodied in the opposite term aka ”形式思维”）。

Uncle RB: "...barking up the wrong
tree?"

Likely yes because if one tries to address Sg's low TFR issue using ”形式思维”, then history is the best judge with each passing year's TFR worst than the year before ...

If one is suffering from say high blood sugar and being treated with say high bp medication, obviously the outcome could be like Sg's TFR and end up "disastriously". Hence, when they missed the elephants in the room in terms of Sg's TFR problem and barked up the wrong tree, the end result is the 0.87 TFR (2025)?

To put it bluntly, how does a potential Sg young mother say working in the financial sector view parenthood?

1) A child is NOT a hedgable liability?

2) It is 100% illiquid?

3) It is (at least) a 20+ years voluntary penalty?

When a policy maker sees the TFR issue in the wrong light, she/ he is hoping the players make a wrong move and go into parenthood which highly rational and intelligent Sg females understanding the efficient economic and business environment they are in would choose NOT to play the game?

If someone identifies the problem wrongly, the remedies will be incorrect and the problem remained unresolved. Period.

Hence the phrase "cognitive ambidexterity" ... (Chinese equivalent "辨证思维")."

Repost - Part 2

"Next, how to identify the solutions?

a) ASFR (32-39);

If one is a (senior) policy maker, likely she/ he has NEVER work in the PRIVATE SECTOR before? True? So they probably never work in any marketing position or how to achieve high revenue year in year out etc?

So what is the (possible) solution?

The hint(s) already given above. (Don't be "lazy", go figure out. Aren't you already paid humongously every month with fat bonuses every year?)

b) ASFR (15-25 and 40-49) likely near zero ...

c) 辨证思维 - 情况明， 方法对，决心大 - GO!

You use ”形式思维”, it is akin to what was incorrectly attributed to Einstein aka: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.""

Leo81

Operation Kill Iranians - War of propaganda, lies, strategies and deceptions

  After the WMD lie to invade and destroy Iraq, the Israelis and Americans just simply cooked up another incoherent lie that Iran is about 2 weeks to acquiring a nuclear bomb, so they have to hurry to kill all the Iranians. Their ultimate objective is the eradication of Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East and replace it with a Greater Israel that stretches across all the Arab and Muslim states. When Iran is gone, next would be Turkey and subsequently there will be no more resistance from the Arab and Muslim world. No Arabs and Muslims in Middle East, only Israel and Israelis. The American and Israeli terrorists have no respect for the Arab and Muslim states, treating them as irritants waiting to be wiped away from the region.

For the immediate future, the main goal is to keep the Arabs and Muslims in turmoil, turning every Arab and Muslim states into dysfunctional state, weak and with decreasing population from regular lawn mowing operations, wars and genocides. Gaza is completely gone. Lebanon a job in progress. Iraq is dysfunctional, like Syria, and now Iran to become another Iraq. Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the smaller rich Arab states like Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE are already in the pockets, unable to resist when the time comes, hapless, completely at the mercy of the Americans. Actually these small Arab states are in deep trouble. UAE's tourism and property industries have bottomed out. Kuwait is even in a worst situation.

Trump had bragged many times about totally obliterating Iran's nuclear making capability but also repeating that Iran was 2 weeks away from having a nuclear bomb. Such inconsistent and incoherent lies are being flagged by American analysts and politicians as incoherent lies. But Trump and Netanyahu did not care, did not bother to explain them away. Power is in their hands and they just bulldozed their ways, to destroy Iran and kill Iranians as and when they like.  Trump and drunkard Hegseth have repeatedly said Iran's nuclear and military have been completely destroyed. Then why still bombing and attacking Iran?

In the process more lies, fake news, misinformation and false flag incidents were spread to make them look like the winning side. Iran's defence capability has been destroyed, Iran's missile manufacturing arms have been destroyed, Iran's nuclear facilities have also been destroyed, the Iranians are revolting against the Iranian govt, Ayatollah Khamenei and 40 top Iranians have been assassinated...sp 

Who knows, when this war ends, Iran will present Khamenei and the 40 top commanders in a parade? In a war of lies and deception, anything can be true, anything can be false. They could fake the 911 Twin Tower attack, the WMD attack, why can't the Iranians fake the death of Khamenei and the 40 commanders? There are many advantages to fake this. The death of Khamenei would mobilise the Iranians and Arabs and Muslims to the side of Iran. The death of Khamenei would distract the attention of the Americans and Israelis and make Khamenei safer, no more the target of assassination. Similarly this applies to the 40 top commanders. They can continue to command the Iranian forces to fight back without having to look behind their backs. And don't forget, the Iranians were already watching over general Esmail Qaani, working for Mossad and were aware of what was coming and had all the time to prevent the assassination.

Nothing is real or false until the war is over. The Americans and Israelis can lie and deceive, so can the Iranians and the Arabs and Muslims to take advantage of the deception and war strategies. The Iranians have home ground advantage. Have been sitting there for centuries, millennia. The Americans and Israelis are intruders, the Americans from across oceans. Who can last longer in a war of attrition? The Americans and Israelis are under enormous logistic strains, economies in tatters. The Iranians just sit there and wait for them to wear out.

Will the so called peace deal change anything? The Israelis are not part of the deal and announced that they will continue to attack Lebanon, and Iran will therefore attack Israel and the Americans cannot cry foul. Lebanon peace is part of the deal.

China recruiting real talents, others recruiting fake talents

 Real talents are prized items, great assets of countries to thrive in the new world of high technology. Countries are all competing for top real talents from the world to help them move forward in a world that is very different from the last century. Many countries have talent search programmes, recruiting foreign talents from all over the world. Some countries recruit real talents, some recruit fake talents, some recruit conmen and frauds as talents. 

The consequences and real results will show over the years. China has 1.4 billion people, producing millions of STEM talents for themselves and the world. This is not enough. China not only wants top talents from the world, China is laying out the red carpet for Chinese talents overseas, especially in America, to return to help the Motherland to compete with America and the world in the race to the future. China is not just attracting them back by telling them the Motherland needs them. This worked in the past, and still works now but not good enough. China is offering a package as much as US$800,000 for relocation back to the Motherland. The package varies but mostly offered to semiconductor and chip engineers. China needs all the top talents they can get in a very competitive and unforgiving war with the Americans and every talent recruited is a talent gained.

American clowns in Washington is also helping China to push all the top Chinese talents back to China. Their anti China racist policies are frightening the Chinese engineers and scientists, that their safety is at risk, their future no longer that bright, being targeted for fake criminal and espionage charges. The environment in America is now very toxic for Chinese engineers and scientists...and also for other foreign talents, especially real and fake talents from India.

For sure China will not be offering anything for fake talents and frauds. These fake talents and frauds will be left to stupid and gullible countries to grab to replace their no talent population. Chinese criteria and selection process are very stringent and meticulous. The process of hunting for top talents requires real talents to spot them. If the recruiters are frauds and fake talents, what they recruited will also be frauds and fake talents. And these comes in hoards, whole village of them will come along as fake and fraud talents that the gullible will not be able to tell the difference.

The speed of scientific and technological progress in China speak for themselves. The number of published scientific and engineering papers, the creativity and innovations in China are for all to see. For countries that go after fake talents and frauds, their progress cannot lie. Fake talents and frauds cannot produce the real stuff, real innovations and inventions to commercialise and put them into the market.

The success of China's talent hunting and recruitment will propel China to the front of the pack in this very competitive world and to turn China into a world leader in science, engineering and technology. Those that end up with fake talents and frauds will pretend to be doing well in their own fictional world and be left behind in the long term. Elon Musk knows what hiring fake talents meant. Boeing is paying heavily for hiring fake talents and risking bankruptcy.

Dear Leader Trump's immortality will last for as long as he is POTUS

At home, Trump is attempting to 'found' all the USA places of interest. The Kennedy Center was founded by him with his name placed above that of Kennedy for better effect. But that is now unravelling, but not too sure about the attempt to take his name down, as it is all covered up behind a screen for the time being. Trump is trying to cut off funding for those places not giving him the privilege of placing his name above others. I think other dictators pale in comparison to Trump.

What Trump cannot put his name on places he wanted to 'found', he demolished them, like the Rose Garden at the White House to rebuild it into a Trump Ballroom. Looks like a golden ballroom, with facilities for drones to do what I do not know. Only he knows in his warped mind.

There are other more sick jokes like building warships and calling them 'Trump Class of Warships'. Beyond all that, Trump has put his name on cryptos and trying to con people with million-dollar golden visas (with only one sold, lol)

Oh, not to forget, Trump is going to put his ugly face on a US$250 USA currency note to be issued. I think people would not want to piss on it as it is too expensive, unlike a US$2 note.

Immortality is not what one man thinks of himself. It is what others think of him, and I think Trump is not even close enough to be honored as such. The USA used to laugh at the same antics happening in North Korea of indulging in self-immortalization. I think Kim Jong Un, Putin and Xi are having their last laugh. As they say, who laughs last laughs best.


Anonymous

”Is it true that Singapore has no serious problems?”

 镇龙大叔 (aka Uncle Chua Chin Ling/ Redbean)：”Is it true that Singapore has no serious problems?”

镇龙大叔，你好！

你问： ”新加坡是不是没什么严重（或”大条”）的问题？”

说实话，还真有（而且很”大条”）！

Earlier this year in parliament, DPM GKY spoke about Sg facing an "existential problem" ...

TFR (2025) PLUMMETED to 0.87!

In 2013, our beloved founding PM LKY（国父李光耀）published his last book (One Man's View of the World). In the Singapore chapter, founding PM LKY lamented that our Singaporean core will be halved in one generation if our TFR remains unchanged (in 2013, Sg's TFR was about 1.21). At that time PM3 was in charge (and his "personal TFR" was 4.0) holding helm for almost 21 years in all (Aug 2004 - May 2024).

PM4 now in his 3rd year is facing an existential Sg threat of 0.87 TFR ... (NOT sure what is PM4's "personal TFR", anybody knows?) ...

Have you ever wonder assuming PM4 serves as long as PM3 at the top, by 2043, what would Sg's TFR be?

If this problem is NOT serious ("事情大条”），what is?

RB, you tell me lah!

Regards,
小弟Leo81

When is Singapore going to upgrade and use AI to save hawking business and food recipe?

 The quality of the hawker centres and food courts has been given a leg up with graduates joining the business, like graduates driving grabs for a living. This is upgrading from the quality of the labour being injected into the trade. So far, other than a few optics on such a trend changing event, the focus is on the quality of food preparation and maybe presentation. But how much can be changed other than having food prepared by graduates or served by graduates? The tertiary education may help in food hygiene perhaps.

What can graduates bring into this traditional trade that illiterate grandpa and grandma can do and even do better? Cashless payments using apps in mobile phones like restaurants may look cool and chic. Expanding into home delivery using apps and delivery services could add another dimension to the business. What really may be game changing is AI and robotics. How about that? Getting robots to do the cooking and serving? China is already having these, with robotic coffee maker. To go further and deeper, let the AI to start evaluating the food preparation, food quality. Health value may be another way to go. Oops, AI and robotics may replace the human labour in the trade, top most and most convenient will be table cleaners and dishwashers.

The professionals in the business would have many better ideas on how to adapt AI and robotics to upgrade the hawking business and take it to the next level. All hawker centres and food courts will be run and served by AI machines, food vending machines and robotics, and the graduates can stay behind the curtain to manage the change, the apps and machine learning.

Traditional business and trade are cute and emotional to be preserved for posterity. But to remain viable in the future when the returns have to be good enough to retain graduates, when more than 50% of the population will be graduates, and to compete with foreign talents, hawking and food business need to do more than what it is doing now to survive. Instead of Michelin Stars, have stalls hanging up graduate degrees and diplomas. Otherwise, other than a few graduates to keep some freshness in the trade, it will eventually be taken over by cheaper and more hardworking foreigners.

Just some fanciful musing.

Operation Kill Iranians - Iran is winning by doing nothing, just bleed the American regime dry by keeping the Americans in the quicksand

 The Operation to kill Iranians, to cripple the economies of the Arab and Muslim states will go on and on. These are the objectives of Netanyahu and Trump. Both need the war to go on forever. The crippling of the Arab and Muslim states would take some time to take effect. Anyone believing that the Jews and the American terrorists want to end the war must have his head checked. Prolonging the war is good and necessary for the survival and to stay in power for Trump and Netanyahu The Jews are all for it. The empty head hillbillies and rednecks are also for it. But the ignorant and uninvolved American masses may not be for it but could not do anything about it. They cannot remove Trump and his clowns nor the traitors in Washington that have been bought over by the Israelis and working for the interests of the Israelis.

Keeping the war going seems the goal of Netanyahu and Trump. The thing is how long can they do so without the American people rebelling and marching in the streets like the dying days of the Vietnam War? Trump is still controlling all the news to prevent the American public from knowing the true damage from this war. He keeps saying we are winning, but not telling the Americans how many American boys and girls have been killed and had returned home in body bags. He is not telling the Americans how much it is costing America for each day the war is on. The American Treasury is bleeding. The numbers and euphoria in Wall Street are fake and can pop any time. The real American economy is collapsing everyday.

Iran should just hold on, while getting the full support from its allies, China, Russia, North Korea and the Arab and Muslim states, quietly and covertly of course. All the Arab and Muslim states, with a few exceptions, are behind Iran. The cost for prolonging this war, sitting on home ground, is relatively low compares to the cost to the Americans and Israelis. For sitting under the desert sun or under the tropical heat in the oceans, the American boys and girls are literally being cooked and barbequed alive. And the logistics and supply chains to keep them happy are enormous. US$1b or US$2b a day is going to bleed the American dry in no time. How long can the Americans keep printing money before they run out of ink and paper?

The Iranians have friends with deep pockets to keep them going, with food and weapons. Who is supporting the American and Israeli terrorists? The Europeans have abandoned them. They are on their own. The tiny Israeli economy is cooked. How many more days or months can the Americans and Israelis hold on to this war? China and Russia alone have enough to keep feeding the Iranians for as long as it needs, for what it takes. Iran has the world's factory and the world's biggest agriculture power house behind it.

Turn this into another Vietnam without American forces on the ground, but still bleeding the American and Israeli resources. They cannot tolerate hardship and deprivation for long. Time is on Iran's side. The 80 year old limpy dick may fall off anytime.

Huawei under sanctioned now deploying 6G. America still struggling with 4G faking as 5G

Remember that the USA Government itself is investing big in those big tech giants, which means its influence over them is more evident than hearsay. Yet the USA Government had the audacity to talk about Chinese companies having ties to the CCP, when big USA companies are even partly owned by the USA Government. The ties to the USA Government make sure that these big tech giants can have all the monetary support from the USA Government, just like today where the Government changed the rules for their IPOs by fast tracking their entry into Nasdaq.

We do remember that Huawei was sanctioned for the exact same reason of having ties to the Chinese Government. In reality, Huawei is largely owned by its employees holding its shares. Huawei was banned not for having ties to the Chinese Government. Huawei was banned for taking businesses away from other big Western telecommunication giants like Nokia and Erickson. Moreover, with Huawei's 5G setup, the USA Government was unable to utilize Huawei for its spying activities. This would be detrimental for the USA and Europeans.


Anonymous

Downing of Apache helicopter. Iranian missile marked Shahed, Made in Iran, landed on the lap of the chopper pilot without exploding

The downing of the Apache helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz is starting to be questioned. Iran is saying it was not responsible, while Trump is using this as an excuse to attack Iran once again. Was it a false flag? The USA was reported to have reverse-engineered and cloned the Shahed Drone that took down the helicopter.

There is a very interesting spin about the whole affair, with Trump speaking to someone and claiming that the Iranian Shahed Drone landed right in the cockpit area between the two pilots of the Apache helicopter, did not explode, and the two pilots were said to have escaped without any injury. A very interesting story now ought to be classified as another 'miracle on 34th Street'.

What is even more audacious is that the helicopter itself did not explode or disintegrate after being hit, even if the Shahed Drone failed to detonate. Is this even possible, I do not know, or just another miracle.

The lies generated by the USA are just impossible to believe. When they bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, they claimed they used an outdated map. An outdated map used by the world's most advanced military? Believe it or not is up to you.

Hedging on that incident, some people are saying that the USA also used an outdated map to bomb a girl's school, converted from an army camp earlier. That says a lot about the fact checking mantra we are hearing every day. How could a world-class military not do some fact checking about that girl's school is mind boggling. But the USA will get away with the mass murder, with the UN, ICC and human rights group closing their eyes to the whole affair. Any country doing that and the doggies will bark and howl day and night about war crimes and the ICC will be shouting the loudest.


Anonymous

Grow your own trees from the seeds up

 This concept seems very ancient in Singapore today. What is the point of wasting time and resources when talents are available from the rest of the world, fully trained and paid for and ready to work? This makes a lot of sense in its own ways, very cost effective, and the talents are there just in time when needed.

In the 60s and 70s, in the days of LKY and GKS, planting your own seeds and grow them, turn them into trees to bear fruits were an important policies for the nation builders. There is nothing like your own citizens to depend on, trained and grew over the years, tested and proven, to run the country. Many of the Pioneer and Merdeka generations benefited from this policy. Many were fresh graduates, many were non graduates, without real skills and experience to fill many jobs that needed to be filled. Many grew in the job, some failed, but the net result is a bunch of dedicated leaders in different fields, in the govt and ministries, to turn Singapore into a well managed, organised, discipline and rich city states.

In those days, many local corporations and ministries have executive training programmes, management trainees, taking in fresh graduates to train them from scratch to become the next generations of leaders. The system worked well then, Many of the top executives, ministers, civil servants were the beneficiaries of this system. But they have forgotten how they arrived where they are today. The scheme was quietly abandoned. Now every donkey will bray, foreign talents best, bring in more foreign talents. Without those schemes in the past, these donkeys would not have a chance to be where they are today. The foreign talents will filled their positions.

Today, the fast pace of change and the availability of easy foreign talents, all cooked and baked, to be consumed, makes such policies irrelevant and unnecessary. Today, when nation building is no longer important other than lip service, anyone will do as long as he can do the jobs and looks good for the job, locals or foreigners do not matter.  Foreigners can be given the pink IC and turned into citizen with the stroke of a pen and be completely trusted with everything, with the most sensitive positions and information.

The priorities today are very different from the past. Today, citizenship, loyalty, trust, reliability do not have the same value and importance. A hotel does not need real and loyal citizens. Instant noodle is convenient and equally good. Why bother with the tedious and expensive process of training and grooming our own young citizens to be useful and productive over a longer period,... and also very costly? Just a call to the recruitment agency, there will be thousands of foreign talents available, so many to pick and choose. Chiat beh leow!

There is no need to plant your own seeds, water them, nourish them and wait for them to grow and to bear fruits in the long term. Too tedious, not cost effective. Instant tree, instant talents, instant citizens is the way to go.

What do you think?

India in BRICS and the BRI - a blessing or a woe?

 China was not particularly keen to have India in BRICS for obvious reasons. India was brought in by Putin at a time when Russia India were very closed, and Russia not really that closed to China, to have a bigger leverage over China in BRICS. What Putin did not anticipated was India's closeness with the Americans, India's anti China position, and how Russia and China grew so close because of American hostility.

The leverage of India in BRICS over China was not necessary now as Russia and China share more common interests than differences. Putin does not need India to challenge or overrule China in BRICS. Both Russia and China share a common vision and goals for BRICS. The supposedly leverage of India actually turned out to be a liability in BRICS, an obstacle that is dragging BRICS agenda and also a Trojan Horse peddling American interests against BRICS. 

India's presence is increasingly becoming a pain in BRICS, a spoiler. India thinks it is a super power when it is not, but wanted to behave and speak like a super power and would oppose whenever it can to show that it has a big say in BRICS. India does not fit in the matrix of BRICS and is best to be left out. But this is going to be tough to get rid of India. Hopefully, with Trump now going all out against anything India, the consecutive four attacks on India crew ships and killing more than 3 Indian sailors, will end the India fetish love for Americans.

In the case of the BRI, India was a welcomed partner. The Chinese BRI plan includes India as a big player with roads and rails traversing across India into the Indian Ocean. Fortunately for China, India refused to join BRI. This is a great blessing for China and BRI. The arrogant and confrontational behaviour of India, opposing China at all cost, is obvious in BRICS. China will have endless problems with India if India were to be in the BRI and with a network of roads and rails passing through India. China will not have peace with India just like BRICS.

Thank God that India voluntarily opt out of the BRI. China must never entertain the thought of reinviting India into the BRI. Let India go ahead with its great plans of an alternative BRI with the Americans and the Europeans. India's absence in the BRI is the greatest blessing for China, without a spoiler everyday trying to through a spanner in everything China wants to do. RCEP must also be thankful that India refused to join or it would have untold problems with India and ended nothing will move. China must learn from this mistake, never, never include India in any of its development plans if it wants to move forward smoothly and efficiently. India is cancer! India must also be got rid of in SCO.

Lunatic Trump on a path to found new countries, like the colonial past of European invaders

Trump attempted to 'found' Iran, but the natives told him to 'get lost', unlike the Native American Indians that have no weapons to take care of the Whites wanting to take over their land.

Now, we are seeing Trump attempting to take over other White people's land and facing hurdles from equally like-minded robbers and thieves. Trump wanted to make Canada into the 51st state of the USA. Canadians told him to find a spider. Trump tried to start a mission to take over Greenland, and the Danes, the owners of Greenland, told him to take a hike. I believe Greenland was also seized territory from the Inuit, the early settlers, by the Vikings of Europe.

Elsewhere throughout history, the Whites also attempted to 'found' China, a civilization that existed even before some of them were born or learned to behave like humans. So many attempts were made to 'found' China, which all failed. The Natives of China made sure of that by fighting back over many centuries.

Smaller and less progressive countries were all founded by the Whites. The people who lived there were not counted as people who owned the land. This is daylight robbery on a global scale. They came, they saw and they just took. No questions asked.


Anonymous

Many third world leaders like to be colonised by the whites, do nothing, take bribes, exploit their people, and protected by the whites

It is ironic that colonies of the White savages still hang on to the White's coattails wishing for themselves to be recolonized. Why fight for independence only to crawl back into the hole? Look around and you can see many former colonies of the Whites doing the same thing. The saving grace is that many countries in Africa have fought against imperialism, won their freedom and are not thinking of reverting back, at least for now. But corruption has a very strategic way of blocking the road to freedom forever.

Indonesia is facing an economic crisis, with the Rupiah sliding like skiers on the Alps. But USA is not the country to depend on like in the past and is only using Indonesia for its own interest and can hardly be expected to be able to change the fortunes of Indonesia. China is the better bet, but when stupidity has no cure, what can I say.

Of course, Indonesia still carried its anti-Chinese baggage - the riots in 1998 under Suharto. China and the Chinese still have to be reminded of the event, like the Nanjing Massacre, and investing in Indonesia has been tempered with that in mind. It is not just plain sailing, although under Joko Widodo, there were expectations of neutrality. At the G20 summit in Bali in 2022, Widodo stood firm over the inclusion of Russia at the meeting, refusing to abide by the calls by the USA and the others in the group to keep Russia out.

This is the same situation happening with the Philippines today. When Rodrigo Duterte was in power, he attempted to foster good relations with China, but under threats to his life, where he even mentioned about his ability to outlive the CIA threat, there were elements of hope that the Philippines will do the right thing. But everything turned to ashes when the USA engineered the return of the Marcos family and even to rule under its thumb. Now the Philippine is again recolonized by the USA under the radar. Money talks and bullshit walks can fool most people around the world.


Anonymous

36,000 fake degrees only?

 

9 min on India's fake degree industry. India is the world's largest exporters of fake degree holders, millions of them. Luckily, very lucky for Singapore, none landed in Singapore...because none or very few were caught.  And Singapore hired hundreds of thousands of Indian talents. This is a miracle in Singapore. Hundreds of thousands of Indian talents from the world's largest fake degree industry but all avoided Singapore. Is this a joke or what?

No need to check, to verify, or unable to verify, just trust them. Can do the job good enough. No degree, fake degree, never mind? I think only honest Indians choose to come to Singapore. Lucky Singapore.