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.