Yes, this country is going down as another scum country. It is a rogue regime headed by a clueless boy.
The Canadian rogue govt would arrest an innocent person for no reason but under the instruction or behest of another country like the USA. They did not care whether it is right or wrong, whether the person committed a crime or not, they simply go and arrest the person. Yes a person need not commit a crime to be arrested.
And they treated a highly educated and dignified lady, a top executive of a foreign company like a dangerous criminal, hand cuffed, leg cuffed and paraded in public to show how uncivilised the rogues were.
Canada is a shame to the world community, a country of kidnappers!
12/13/2018
Huawei CFO case – China compels to act
The vile unilateral arrest of Huawei’s CFO by the Canadian govt under
instruction from the Americans compelled the Chinese govt to act against
the Canadians and the Americans. This is an arrest of a Chinese
national on transit and who has not committed any crime in Canada or the
USA. The alleged crime is a violation of an American sanction on Iran
that was unilaterally imposed by the US and nationals of other countries
need to comply unless they are operating in the USA.
If the Americans can imposed their domestic laws on foreign nationals in other parts of the world, it would mean the American laws are international laws or the USA is the Empire of the world and every country would come under American laws.
China or any country would not subject their nationals to American laws and jurisdiction. This is a violation of the rights of other nationals and China must act or its govt would loose the support and respect of its citizens and countries of the world. After several stern warnings, the Canadians still refused to release Meng Wanzhou from custody. The latest, she has been allowed bail. This is not enough. The bail conditions were atrociously prohibitive, $10m bail, electronic tag, and the cruel hand and leg cuffing of a dignified and highly educated female top executive were incomprehensible. Only a rogue regime could ever do such wicked things.
It has been reported that China has arrested an ex Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig in China. Kovrig is now working with an International Crisis Group in Hong Kong. If the Canadians and the Americans deemed fit to address Chinese nationals for not breaking any of their laws, China can do likewise in return for the rogue behavior of these regimes. The Americans got the cheek to tell China to respect human rights and to release the Canadians. And they have issued warnings to Americans not to visit China for fear of arrest. This must be expected. China cannot sit idly by and allow Chinese nationals to be arrested anywhere in the world by rogue regimes when they did not commit any crimes against those countries. Kovrig must be treated under the same conditions as Meng, handcuffed, leg cuffed and paraded in court. The bail conditions should be no less than Meng.
More arrests of Americans and Canadians are on the card if Meng Wanzhou is not released. Both can play the same dirty game. If the Americans and Canadians want to play international kidnappers, China too can do the same. If China does not act to arrest the Canadians or Americans, then the Americans and Canadians would be embolden to arrest Chinese businessmen anywhere, anytime they so chose. This fear would stop Chinese businessmen from travelling outside China and must be removed at once. With the arrest of the Canadian, China is telling the Canadians and Americans that they too are subject to be arrested by China at will anywhere, anytime. The boyish PM Trudeau cannot pretend and act so innocently over this kidnapping of Meng, that it was a legal matter and has nothing to do with him or politics. Now his little balls are being caught between China and the USA and other Canadians are going to pay for his childish prank on China. He is being taught a lesson not to meddle with the men in the game of politics. And Canada is now know throughout the world as a dangerous country of kidnappers. They would arrest anyone under instruction from the US, even innocent people who did not commit any crime in Canada. Beware when travelling to this terrorist country.
While the American’s main intent was to kill Huawei, China has banned the sale of all Apple iPhones in the whole of China.
PS. There is a rumour that Kovrig has secret information on North Korea and North Korea is asking China to repatriate him to serve jail time in North Korea : ) How’s that for tit for tat? Wait for more Canadians to be arrested in greater China.
If the Americans can imposed their domestic laws on foreign nationals in other parts of the world, it would mean the American laws are international laws or the USA is the Empire of the world and every country would come under American laws.
China or any country would not subject their nationals to American laws and jurisdiction. This is a violation of the rights of other nationals and China must act or its govt would loose the support and respect of its citizens and countries of the world. After several stern warnings, the Canadians still refused to release Meng Wanzhou from custody. The latest, she has been allowed bail. This is not enough. The bail conditions were atrociously prohibitive, $10m bail, electronic tag, and the cruel hand and leg cuffing of a dignified and highly educated female top executive were incomprehensible. Only a rogue regime could ever do such wicked things.
It has been reported that China has arrested an ex Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig in China. Kovrig is now working with an International Crisis Group in Hong Kong. If the Canadians and the Americans deemed fit to address Chinese nationals for not breaking any of their laws, China can do likewise in return for the rogue behavior of these regimes. The Americans got the cheek to tell China to respect human rights and to release the Canadians. And they have issued warnings to Americans not to visit China for fear of arrest. This must be expected. China cannot sit idly by and allow Chinese nationals to be arrested anywhere in the world by rogue regimes when they did not commit any crimes against those countries. Kovrig must be treated under the same conditions as Meng, handcuffed, leg cuffed and paraded in court. The bail conditions should be no less than Meng.
More arrests of Americans and Canadians are on the card if Meng Wanzhou is not released. Both can play the same dirty game. If the Americans and Canadians want to play international kidnappers, China too can do the same. If China does not act to arrest the Canadians or Americans, then the Americans and Canadians would be embolden to arrest Chinese businessmen anywhere, anytime they so chose. This fear would stop Chinese businessmen from travelling outside China and must be removed at once. With the arrest of the Canadian, China is telling the Canadians and Americans that they too are subject to be arrested by China at will anywhere, anytime. The boyish PM Trudeau cannot pretend and act so innocently over this kidnapping of Meng, that it was a legal matter and has nothing to do with him or politics. Now his little balls are being caught between China and the USA and other Canadians are going to pay for his childish prank on China. He is being taught a lesson not to meddle with the men in the game of politics. And Canada is now know throughout the world as a dangerous country of kidnappers. They would arrest anyone under instruction from the US, even innocent people who did not commit any crime in Canada. Beware when travelling to this terrorist country.
While the American’s main intent was to kill Huawei, China has banned the sale of all Apple iPhones in the whole of China.
PS. There is a rumour that Kovrig has secret information on North Korea and North Korea is asking China to repatriate him to serve jail time in North Korea : ) How’s that for tit for tat? Wait for more Canadians to be arrested in greater China.
12/12/2018
Desperate Evil Empire Resorts to Commercial & Financial Terrorism
The audacity of this criminal act of kidnapping a Chinese national, the Chief Financial Officer of Huawei, Meng Wanzhou goes beyond the norms of human conduct in international relations. By prefabricating and trumping up fake charges against Meng Wanzhou, US shows that it is a desperate country that has become wild and mad totally devoid of reason and logical thinking.
The Evil Empire thinks by its desperate criminal act it can hold back China's development of 5G by its international renowned company Huawei. China's success in developing 5G shows it is leading the world in the latest fifth industrial revolution which is not only good for China but also for the entire world. Why must US and some of its Western allies look at China's success in 5G with jaundiced eyes? It is really shameless, illogical and totally wild and mad for US to tell China to stop its 5G development just to give America time to catch up with it.
China is many years ahead of US and its Western allies in 5G development. The 5G system will be fully functional in China from 2019 and in many Asian, European and African countries by between 2020 and 2025.
When USA is unable to compete with China in a level playing field it resorts to using dirty underhand methods to try to stop China's technological advancement. By kidnapping and retaining Meng Wanzhou the Evil Empire thinks it can extort billions of dollars from China under its wild illicit sanctions. So far the Evil Empire has earlier gone away with extorting two billion dollars from another Chinese firm ZTE under the same illicit sanctions.
America has been cheating and swindling the whole world with its control of the PetroDollar. It has weaponized the PetroDollar and using it as a monetary and financial weapon to bully and threaten countries big and small to achieve its political and military aim of world domination and hegemony. With its full control of the PetroDollar the Evil Empire has been able to abusively using sanctions arbitrarily and indiscriminately to extort billions of dollars from other countries. This extreme abuse of using sanctions base on America's nefarious and illicit rules is tantamount to using mafia tactics to arm robbery and arm twisting to force designated victims to pay illicit extortion money.
Moreover US sanctions on Iran is illegal as it is against the decision of the United Nations and has been strongly objected and rejected by Germany, England, France, Italy, Russia, India, Japan and China.
The illegal kidnapping and retention of Huawei's Chief Financial Officer, Meng Wanzhou is a dastardly criminal act which must be strongly denounced and condemned by the whole civilised world. The retention of Meng Wanzhou is clearly part of this shameless America's rogue tactic to browbeat and terrorise the world. Huawei and its Chief Financial Officer , Meng WSanzhou had done nothing wrong or illegal. The rogue Evil Empire must hence quickly release Meng Wanzhou without conditions.
If the USA resorts to commercial and financial terrorism and wrongful and illegal retention of a company's executive officer other countries will not be long to learn the precedent set by America and the Evil Empire will soon find itself in the receiving end.
Southernglory1
Wednesday, 12th December, 2018
The Evil Empire thinks by its desperate criminal act it can hold back China's development of 5G by its international renowned company Huawei. China's success in developing 5G shows it is leading the world in the latest fifth industrial revolution which is not only good for China but also for the entire world. Why must US and some of its Western allies look at China's success in 5G with jaundiced eyes? It is really shameless, illogical and totally wild and mad for US to tell China to stop its 5G development just to give America time to catch up with it.
China is many years ahead of US and its Western allies in 5G development. The 5G system will be fully functional in China from 2019 and in many Asian, European and African countries by between 2020 and 2025.
When USA is unable to compete with China in a level playing field it resorts to using dirty underhand methods to try to stop China's technological advancement. By kidnapping and retaining Meng Wanzhou the Evil Empire thinks it can extort billions of dollars from China under its wild illicit sanctions. So far the Evil Empire has earlier gone away with extorting two billion dollars from another Chinese firm ZTE under the same illicit sanctions.
America has been cheating and swindling the whole world with its control of the PetroDollar. It has weaponized the PetroDollar and using it as a monetary and financial weapon to bully and threaten countries big and small to achieve its political and military aim of world domination and hegemony. With its full control of the PetroDollar the Evil Empire has been able to abusively using sanctions arbitrarily and indiscriminately to extort billions of dollars from other countries. This extreme abuse of using sanctions base on America's nefarious and illicit rules is tantamount to using mafia tactics to arm robbery and arm twisting to force designated victims to pay illicit extortion money.
Moreover US sanctions on Iran is illegal as it is against the decision of the United Nations and has been strongly objected and rejected by Germany, England, France, Italy, Russia, India, Japan and China.
The illegal kidnapping and retention of Huawei's Chief Financial Officer, Meng Wanzhou is a dastardly criminal act which must be strongly denounced and condemned by the whole civilised world. The retention of Meng Wanzhou is clearly part of this shameless America's rogue tactic to browbeat and terrorise the world. Huawei and its Chief Financial Officer , Meng WSanzhou had done nothing wrong or illegal. The rogue Evil Empire must hence quickly release Meng Wanzhou without conditions.
If the USA resorts to commercial and financial terrorism and wrongful and illegal retention of a company's executive officer other countries will not be long to learn the precedent set by America and the Evil Empire will soon find itself in the receiving end.
Southernglory1
Wednesday, 12th December, 2018
Fandi being replaced by foreign coach for the national team
Just a few months into the job Fandi is being replaced yet by another
foreign coach. Has Fandi failed doing what he was supposed to do, raise
the standard of the national football team? I would say yes and no. He
failed because there was little improvement, a kind of more or less the
same situation. No, because with the present team, no wonder coach can
do anything to make them better. Can the new foreign coach do better,
maybe, maybe not? If he is going to keep the same team, nothing will
change.
There is a Chinese saying, change the water without changing the medicine. If the players are the same players, no wonder coach can make them better. Many foreign coaches had come and gone, collecting their fat pay without any improvement. And the administration cannot see anything wrong and also failed to understand what was wrong and keep on changing coaches like changing underwear and expects miracles by a new coach to turn a bunch of mediocre players into world champions. If this could be done, it would have been done long ago. Stupidity is to keep on doing the same and expect something new to happen.
What is wrong with the players, yes, what is wrong with the players, not the coaches? Look back and reflect on the past glorious days of Singapore football and try to see the differences between then and now. Where were the Rajagopals and the Quah Kim Songs? Today we have a homogenous team of wannabe Fandis, even a new generation of Fandis. And they still could not deliver without the Rajagopals and the Quah Kim Songs.
Get the message? Forget about changing the coaches. Put Fandi back and change the players if they want the national team to improve and deliver the results. Picking the right players is more important than training them to play well. Choo Seng Quee picked Fandi from the mob because he was good at talent spotting. You need good coaches with this instinct and skill to pick good players, not players that looked good but cannot deliver.
This is a disease, that anything foreign is good. Pick a foreigner to head an organization and let him pick all the foreigners to replace the Singaporeans. Let him eventually replace all Singaporeans in Singapore with foreigners. How to destroy Singapore or Singaporeans? It is as easy as ABC. Let the foreigners do as he wants, hire as he wants, using Singapore’s money to spend on bringing in more foreigners and paying foreigners in the millions. A bland cheque to hire and hire foreigners.
PS. The Malaysian team was at its best when Towkay Soh Chin Ann was in charge with Santokh Singh in defence.
There is a Chinese saying, change the water without changing the medicine. If the players are the same players, no wonder coach can make them better. Many foreign coaches had come and gone, collecting their fat pay without any improvement. And the administration cannot see anything wrong and also failed to understand what was wrong and keep on changing coaches like changing underwear and expects miracles by a new coach to turn a bunch of mediocre players into world champions. If this could be done, it would have been done long ago. Stupidity is to keep on doing the same and expect something new to happen.
What is wrong with the players, yes, what is wrong with the players, not the coaches? Look back and reflect on the past glorious days of Singapore football and try to see the differences between then and now. Where were the Rajagopals and the Quah Kim Songs? Today we have a homogenous team of wannabe Fandis, even a new generation of Fandis. And they still could not deliver without the Rajagopals and the Quah Kim Songs.
Get the message? Forget about changing the coaches. Put Fandi back and change the players if they want the national team to improve and deliver the results. Picking the right players is more important than training them to play well. Choo Seng Quee picked Fandi from the mob because he was good at talent spotting. You need good coaches with this instinct and skill to pick good players, not players that looked good but cannot deliver.
This is a disease, that anything foreign is good. Pick a foreigner to head an organization and let him pick all the foreigners to replace the Singaporeans. Let him eventually replace all Singaporeans in Singapore with foreigners. How to destroy Singapore or Singaporeans? It is as easy as ABC. Let the foreigners do as he wants, hire as he wants, using Singapore’s money to spend on bringing in more foreigners and paying foreigners in the millions. A bland cheque to hire and hire foreigners.
PS. The Malaysian team was at its best when Towkay Soh Chin Ann was in charge with Santokh Singh in defence.
12/11/2018
What we Cannot Defend Do Not Belong to us.
A Singapore Lesson
Déjà vu 2002. A young Singapore National Service Army Reservist
(NSman) packed his uniforms and military gear into his car, ready to report and
fights the war for which he had been trained for and been on standby for over
15 years earlier. He had hoped that war
will never come; but he remembered Sun
Tzu’s 1st Principle in The Art of War - “Do not assume that the
enemy will not come, but be prepared for his coming”.
2018 last week, 16 years on; the sons of
Singapore’s earlier NSmen braced themselves as they stood their ground for the
potential armed conflicts which none of us actually wanted but prepared for.
In 2002, a Malaysian gunboat had
intruded and dropped anchor in Singapore waters in the vicinity of Pedra Branca
Island where Horsburgh Lighthouse stands.
This unannounced provocative action followed Malaysia’s arbitrary claim
of sovereignty and ownership over the Island and the Lighthouse, which was built
by the British in 1851, without producing any basis for her purported
legitimacy. Singapore
had operated the Horsburgh Lighthouse on the granite island for more than 130
years without protest from its neighbour Malaysia (formerly Malaya), who
actually acknowledged in a 1953 letter
that “Johore (Malaya’s Southernmost
State) does not claim ownership of Pedra Branca”.
For over more than a few days in 2002, the Singapore
Navy encircled the Malaysian gunboat as our elite Commandos secured the
Lighthouse, on the soccer-field size Island, with machine gun positions and
other defensive weapons. The standoff
was tense and intense. Elsewhere, 14 km
away on the Singapore mainland, I had enjoined several thousand other NSmen
readied to be deployed for the Mission which we were operationally-ready and
trained for – to
protect and safeguard the sovereignty of Singapore.
Then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew knew that the Petra
Branca situation should not be allowed to fester and remain. A Malaysian political party had already
called for the invasion and occupation of the Island and Lighthouse. PM Lee ordered the Malaysian gunboat to leave (by
a specified deadline) or “be sunk”! The ultimatum was quickly relayed through
diplomatic channels to Malaysia. To
shorten this narrative, the Malaysian gunboat left long before PM Lee’s
deadline as promptly as its unwelcomed arrival. Everyone knew that PM Lee was a man of action
who meant every word, warning and threat. And sovereign is not a game to ‘play, play’
(in Singlish) or to be trifled with.
“WHAT WE CANNOT DEFEND DO NOT BELONG TO US!” – The Key Lesson.
The dispute over Petra Branca was finally resolved by
the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
at The Hague in 2008. The ICJ recognized
and ruled that Singapore has sovereignty over Petra Branca. Status
update: In February 2017, Malaysia applied to the ICJ to overturn
its 2008 decision, citing new “facts”.
Malaysia subsequently withdrew her application in June 2018, after these
new “facts” were examined and found to be immaterial and irrelevant to support
any review of the 2008 ICJ decision.
Fast-Forward 16 years to October-November 2018. Malaysian
Government vessels, presumably including some armed naval ships, blatantly and
deliberately intruded and violated Singapore Territorial Waters off Tuas on
more than 14 occasions. Like in 2002,
the latest intrusions were not responding to any Singaporean provocations. They followed the 25 October 2018 unilateral Malaysian official declaration to extend
her Johor Port Limits arbitrarily beyond even their 1979 self-declared maritime
boundary into our de facto, longstanding and established Singapore territorial
waters.
The extension of Johor Port Limits makes no economic or rational sense and is a deliberate provocative action since
Johor Port activities had also slowed down and reduced considerably because of the
recessionary Malaysian economy due to domestic
unrests, falling palm oil and petroleum prices. So,
why the need to increase the Johor Port Limits? The 2 Johor Ports of Pasir Gudang and
Tanjung Pelepas also handled less than
9.5 million 20-foot equivalent container units (TEU) compared to Singapore’s 34
million TEU, which is second only to Shanghai’s 40 million TEU. Even
so without the Port volume, Why Extend Them Into Other Country’s Territory?
In fact since 1999 or earlier, all ships of every
nationality, including Malaysia, have recognized and respected Singapore’s
territorial jurisdiction of the violated waters eg regular patrols by the
Singapore Navy and Police Coast Guards, and seeking our permission to enter
them. The shipping community was therefore
baffled and confused by the 11 Nov 2018 Malaysian Port Circular and 22 Nov 2018
Notice to Mariners.
Like in 2002, Singapore protested the Malaysian
intrusions through the usual diplomatic channels, but the provocative
intrusions continued unabated almost daily.
The Singapore Navy intercepted the
Malaysian vessels and warned them to leave our territorial waters.
Singapore declared at a Press Conference on 4 December
2018 that the unilateral and arbitrary extension
of Johore Port Limits “violated Singapore’s sovereignty”. Several Singapore Ministers, all NSmen
themselves, including the Defense Minister, have also publicly warned Malaysia
to “cease and desist” her provocations or face their natural consequences from
the full might of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).
“WHAT BELONGS TO US, WE WILL FIGHT AND DEFEND AT ALL COSTS!”
– The NSmen
Response.
There is no ambiguity in a unified Singaporean response to the latest Malaysian provocations
and violations of Singapore sovereign territory. Even the leading opposition political party in
Parliament, many also NSmen themselves, issued a Press Statement in full
support of
“our men and women in all our security and
enforcement agencies who have been activated to deal with the incursion of
Malaysian vessels into Singapore waters”.
The
Singapore Port Limits are now extended to
the boundaries of our own Territorial waters.
Know that more than 1,000 ships use the Singapore Port on a daily basis.
Last Friday, even after Singapore’s public warnings in
all the news and social media, at least 3 Malaysian ships made further illegal incursions
in violation of our waters. Lucky for
them, they were spared from total annihilation within seconds by our Harpoon Missiles only by the well-disciplined restraint of the Singapore
Navy.
Malaysians and Singaporeans must understand that the
return of Dr Mahathir as Malaysian Prime Minister a few months ago means also
embracing the baggage of Dr M’s past bitterness with Singapore during his first
tenure as
Prime Minister from 1981 to 2003. In
addition to his
own failure in building a better Malaysia, Dr M's personality and feelings
of lower self-esteem and inferiority to former Singapore Prime Minister
Lee Kuan Yew explain his driving motivations when dealing with Singapore. We should not be stupid or foolish enough to
be suck into any war due to someone’s inability to adapt and adjust to his
current surroundings.
In Sun Tzu’s 2nd Principle in The Art of War, he said: “When
the enemy attacks, he must be met (or crushed) with unassailable and invincible
force”. Singapore
wants to be a friend to all countries.
We have always regarded Malaysia to be a close friend and often good neighbor. DO NOT
MAKE US YOUR ENEMY.
Tin pot dictators with tin can brains
The western media are having a field day demonising and discrediting
China and its BRI projects as one that would turn countries into debt
owing to China and in worse case surrendering the projects to China in
the end. It is all China’s fault and it is all China’s scheme of things,
to make these countries in debt?
Is this true? How many countries and their leaders would want to be debt ridden willingly without a gun pointing at their heads and with all the time in the world to use their best men and best brains to negotiate a project to their benefits? China’s BRI projects and infrastructure investments in foreign countries are projects that were negotiated between two willing parties that have seen the goodness of the projects to go ahead. Only sick and idiotic leaders would sign away their national interests to China willingly. The terms and conditions of such projects were carefully negotiated on an equal paper terms.
This is unlike imperialism and colonialism of the West when they came, they saw and they conquered. The locals and natives have no say. The West came and decided what they wanted and took everything they wanted, even enslaving the natives and ruled over them. How is this compare to the present China BRI and infrastructure projects? China bullying the unwilling partners into submission, into debt? How many fools believe in this western myth?
Every leader of an independent country that agreed to participate in the BRI or infrastructure projects went in with their eyes wide open and has carefully thought through before signing on the papers. China can only offer to invest, to build and to finance at terms that are favourable to the other party and the projects must be seen as beneficial to the other parties.
The western poisonous narrative is that these leaders are idiots, cannot think and easily duped by China or simply blind. So they were taken for a ride by China. There are some other possibilities like corrupt leaders that think of their own pockets first and country last. There are also tin pot leaders or dictators with brains made of tin cans, empty and making a lot of noise when rattled. When you have leaders with a tin can brain, can you blame China for failures in the successful management of the projects or failure to finance the projects they wanted and signed with China?
Big infrastructure projects involved big capital commitments and these can only be recoverable over many years or decades. In China, many projects would be loss making initially and would only breakeven over several decades. Not many countries can build huge infrastructure projects and finance them with ready cash. It is like buying a property, it has to be financed over 30 or 50 years. And there are projects that would at best breakeven but their real contributions are in other areas and industries like highways and railroads.
The logic and reasoning of Mahathir over the debt of Malaysia incurred by Najib are simply hogwash. These projects are meant to be long term and financed over the long term. And the benefits are there over the long term, especially the Malacca port that would serve the same purpose as the Gwadar port in Pakistan and Piraeus port in Greece. It benefits Pakistan, Greece and China. Only tin pot leaders would think China or any country would pour in money to build and finance projects that would benefit other countries and not China or themselves. Najib’s big plan could be compromised by the falling oil prices as that was where his money was coming front to finance these projects. Did he have other contingency plans should oil prices fell drastically and unable to finance his projects? Did he over budgeted?
The cancellation of the east coast high speed train would scuttle the reasons for the Malacca port and the huge train manufacturing plant in KL. They are all inter related as part of the BRI. Pulling off one big piece would bring down the whole plan. Tin pot leaders would not be able to understand the complexities of big plans except one at a time. They called this single factor analysis. They cannot grasp anything more than 1 when they have tin cans as brains.
So, is it the fault of China or countries that failed to do their sums right to have joint projects with China in the BRI? Or is it the fault of tin pot brain leaders? Even tin pot leaders would not be stupid enough to willingly sign contracts with China or anyone else that would not benefit their countries, unless their arms are twisted, beholden and a colony or semi colony like Japan and South Korea and several others of the American Empire.
Indonesia and the Philippines are going ahead with multi billion dollar projects with China and clearly know the consequences to avoid a debt trap. This can only happen if they did their sums and financing right. They cannot come back and blame China latter when they mismanaged or done their sums wrongly in the future. At this moment both govts are very happy with the deals with China, fair and square. How else could it be for them to sign if the deals are not favourable to them and did meet their needs and interests?
But the West would be sounding for alarm that these two govts are running themselves into debt traps set by China. Are these govts made of fools?
PS. After the foolish Mahathir cancelled China’s high speed train and other major projects linked to the BRI, Malaysia has gone back to China for help to make Malacca the port of call for China’s merchant fleet and be the centre of the BRI in the region, replacing Singapore. This is after the recent spat with Singapore over the sea dispute. Would China say yes when the other projects that were part of the BRI were cancelled that would make the Malacca port irrelevant, a misfit? Tin can brains and tin can thinking.
Is this true? How many countries and their leaders would want to be debt ridden willingly without a gun pointing at their heads and with all the time in the world to use their best men and best brains to negotiate a project to their benefits? China’s BRI projects and infrastructure investments in foreign countries are projects that were negotiated between two willing parties that have seen the goodness of the projects to go ahead. Only sick and idiotic leaders would sign away their national interests to China willingly. The terms and conditions of such projects were carefully negotiated on an equal paper terms.
This is unlike imperialism and colonialism of the West when they came, they saw and they conquered. The locals and natives have no say. The West came and decided what they wanted and took everything they wanted, even enslaving the natives and ruled over them. How is this compare to the present China BRI and infrastructure projects? China bullying the unwilling partners into submission, into debt? How many fools believe in this western myth?
Every leader of an independent country that agreed to participate in the BRI or infrastructure projects went in with their eyes wide open and has carefully thought through before signing on the papers. China can only offer to invest, to build and to finance at terms that are favourable to the other party and the projects must be seen as beneficial to the other parties.
The western poisonous narrative is that these leaders are idiots, cannot think and easily duped by China or simply blind. So they were taken for a ride by China. There are some other possibilities like corrupt leaders that think of their own pockets first and country last. There are also tin pot leaders or dictators with brains made of tin cans, empty and making a lot of noise when rattled. When you have leaders with a tin can brain, can you blame China for failures in the successful management of the projects or failure to finance the projects they wanted and signed with China?
Big infrastructure projects involved big capital commitments and these can only be recoverable over many years or decades. In China, many projects would be loss making initially and would only breakeven over several decades. Not many countries can build huge infrastructure projects and finance them with ready cash. It is like buying a property, it has to be financed over 30 or 50 years. And there are projects that would at best breakeven but their real contributions are in other areas and industries like highways and railroads.
The logic and reasoning of Mahathir over the debt of Malaysia incurred by Najib are simply hogwash. These projects are meant to be long term and financed over the long term. And the benefits are there over the long term, especially the Malacca port that would serve the same purpose as the Gwadar port in Pakistan and Piraeus port in Greece. It benefits Pakistan, Greece and China. Only tin pot leaders would think China or any country would pour in money to build and finance projects that would benefit other countries and not China or themselves. Najib’s big plan could be compromised by the falling oil prices as that was where his money was coming front to finance these projects. Did he have other contingency plans should oil prices fell drastically and unable to finance his projects? Did he over budgeted?
The cancellation of the east coast high speed train would scuttle the reasons for the Malacca port and the huge train manufacturing plant in KL. They are all inter related as part of the BRI. Pulling off one big piece would bring down the whole plan. Tin pot leaders would not be able to understand the complexities of big plans except one at a time. They called this single factor analysis. They cannot grasp anything more than 1 when they have tin cans as brains.
So, is it the fault of China or countries that failed to do their sums right to have joint projects with China in the BRI? Or is it the fault of tin pot brain leaders? Even tin pot leaders would not be stupid enough to willingly sign contracts with China or anyone else that would not benefit their countries, unless their arms are twisted, beholden and a colony or semi colony like Japan and South Korea and several others of the American Empire.
Indonesia and the Philippines are going ahead with multi billion dollar projects with China and clearly know the consequences to avoid a debt trap. This can only happen if they did their sums and financing right. They cannot come back and blame China latter when they mismanaged or done their sums wrongly in the future. At this moment both govts are very happy with the deals with China, fair and square. How else could it be for them to sign if the deals are not favourable to them and did meet their needs and interests?
But the West would be sounding for alarm that these two govts are running themselves into debt traps set by China. Are these govts made of fools?
PS. After the foolish Mahathir cancelled China’s high speed train and other major projects linked to the BRI, Malaysia has gone back to China for help to make Malacca the port of call for China’s merchant fleet and be the centre of the BRI in the region, replacing Singapore. This is after the recent spat with Singapore over the sea dispute. Would China say yes when the other projects that were part of the BRI were cancelled that would make the Malacca port irrelevant, a misfit? Tin can brains and tin can thinking.
12/10/2018
Sino American War - Opportunity for Singapore
The Sino American War has been racheted a notch higher with the outrageous arrest of a Chinese citizen, Meng Wanzhou in Canada. The Americans are bent on fighting this war with China at any cost. The Chinese leaders are still sleeping, thinking that they could talk reasons with the rogues in the White House and appearing meek and accommodating would win the day. They might as well go down on their knees and beg Emperor Trump for mercy.
Trump is no different from the neocons. It is about the American Empire and ruling the world. China would not be allowed to challenge the American Empire and must be brought down on its knees. Hear that, China. Wake up and open your eyes to see what you are dealing with and their intent. There is not going to be any niceties. The arrest of Meng Wanzhou in the midst of a trade negotiation in Buenos Aires is the American's way of telling the Chinese that they could do anything to China and China would meekly accept its fate.
The whole world is watching at how China reacts to the American attacks, especially the American allies like Japan and Europe. China's meek and inaction have led them to a conclusion that China has lost the war and would be swallowed up by the Americans. Japan has read the situation and jumped in to not only ban Huawei from entering the Japanese market but also ZTE. To Japan, China has lost. Period. This is the prize China is paying for being weak and meek when attacked by the Americans. More American allies would join the pack to ban Huawei now. China brought this upon itself and deserves to be attacked, just like the invasion of China in 1937 by Japan. When you are weak, you deserves to be attacked. China has not learnt its lesson and it is being given a second lesson on not to be weak.
However, the most serious consequence for China is that top Chinese businessmen would fear to travel out of China as they are easy target for kidnapping by the rogue American regime and its mafia allies. How would this affect China as the next world leader and Chinese in the eyes of the world community?
Would Singapore join the American allies and ban Huawei's 5G from entering the Singapore market? This is crisis time and also an opportunity for Singapore to seize the moment, to be with China or against China. Huawei's 5G is the future technology and would transform Singapore into a truly smart city. Singapore could go along with Huawei and move ahead while the Americans and the West struggle to find their way to develop their 5G technology, maybe another decade. This is time on Singapore's side to be at the forefront of technology and be a model city for the West and the rest of the world and to win China's confidence to work with Singapore in the various projects Singapore is proposing in China. This could be the litmus test for Singapore and its well being in the future as the trading and transportation hub of SE Asia now that China is abandoning Malacca, Malaysia that was to replace Tuas, Singapore.
What would Singapore choose?
Trump is no different from the neocons. It is about the American Empire and ruling the world. China would not be allowed to challenge the American Empire and must be brought down on its knees. Hear that, China. Wake up and open your eyes to see what you are dealing with and their intent. There is not going to be any niceties. The arrest of Meng Wanzhou in the midst of a trade negotiation in Buenos Aires is the American's way of telling the Chinese that they could do anything to China and China would meekly accept its fate.
The whole world is watching at how China reacts to the American attacks, especially the American allies like Japan and Europe. China's meek and inaction have led them to a conclusion that China has lost the war and would be swallowed up by the Americans. Japan has read the situation and jumped in to not only ban Huawei from entering the Japanese market but also ZTE. To Japan, China has lost. Period. This is the prize China is paying for being weak and meek when attacked by the Americans. More American allies would join the pack to ban Huawei now. China brought this upon itself and deserves to be attacked, just like the invasion of China in 1937 by Japan. When you are weak, you deserves to be attacked. China has not learnt its lesson and it is being given a second lesson on not to be weak.
However, the most serious consequence for China is that top Chinese businessmen would fear to travel out of China as they are easy target for kidnapping by the rogue American regime and its mafia allies. How would this affect China as the next world leader and Chinese in the eyes of the world community?
Would Singapore join the American allies and ban Huawei's 5G from entering the Singapore market? This is crisis time and also an opportunity for Singapore to seize the moment, to be with China or against China. Huawei's 5G is the future technology and would transform Singapore into a truly smart city. Singapore could go along with Huawei and move ahead while the Americans and the West struggle to find their way to develop their 5G technology, maybe another decade. This is time on Singapore's side to be at the forefront of technology and be a model city for the West and the rest of the world and to win China's confidence to work with Singapore in the various projects Singapore is proposing in China. This could be the litmus test for Singapore and its well being in the future as the trading and transportation hub of SE Asia now that China is abandoning Malacca, Malaysia that was to replace Tuas, Singapore.
What would Singapore choose?
12/09/2018
China should stop talking and act
Today is the 8th day of the disgusting arrest of Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Huawei, and China is still talking and asking for her immediate arrest. Are the Chinaman really that stupid? This treacherous act by the uncivil whites is part and parcel of their act to contain and attack China, planned for a long time, and they are doing this blatantly. China still thinks being nice and polite and reasonable would be able to appeal to the senses of the mischievous whites that have been using their power and force to bully China and countries of the world for centuries.
China would have to act tough, arrest a few Canadians if they want the release of Meng. Otherwise they would continue to be slapped by the West and little USAs left and right and be seen as a useless foolish country, unable to protect its citizens from rogue regimes and the savages and barbarians in suits and ties.
China cannot run away from a fight or it would lose all credibility as a rising power in the eyes of the people of the world and to its own citizens. It cannot aspire to be the world leader if little countries can belittle and humiliate China whenever they want to.
China must stop talking and return an eye for a eye if they want such mischief to end immediately. Nothing else will do. As for the provocations in the South China Sea, it is time that China drag a few intruding warships home if it wants to stop the provocations. The whites only understood might is right. Stop being civil to the barbarians.
PS. Even Singapore is standing up to Malaysia. China cannot stand up to Canada? Unreasonableness must be met with unreasonableness.
China would have to act tough, arrest a few Canadians if they want the release of Meng. Otherwise they would continue to be slapped by the West and little USAs left and right and be seen as a useless foolish country, unable to protect its citizens from rogue regimes and the savages and barbarians in suits and ties.
China cannot run away from a fight or it would lose all credibility as a rising power in the eyes of the people of the world and to its own citizens. It cannot aspire to be the world leader if little countries can belittle and humiliate China whenever they want to.
China must stop talking and return an eye for a eye if they want such mischief to end immediately. Nothing else will do. As for the provocations in the South China Sea, it is time that China drag a few intruding warships home if it wants to stop the provocations. The whites only understood might is right. Stop being civil to the barbarians.
PS. Even Singapore is standing up to Malaysia. China cannot stand up to Canada? Unreasonableness must be met with unreasonableness.
What is a post turtle?
12/08/2018
The foul stench of whites
What is good and useful would be accepted and adopted. A rose is a rose
by whatever names. The 5G technology developed and perfected by Huawei
is the technology of the future. All communication equipment and
innovations would depend on this technology as their backbone and
leapfrog from this higher base infrastructure. Not accepting 5G
technology is going to be left behind, like cutting one’s nose to spite
one’s face.
The whites are desperate and running out of time. They could not compete with Huawei’s 5G technology infrastructure and are digging a hole in the ground to bury their heads. Four of the 5 eyes countries are closing ranks to deny the entry of Huawei’s 5G technology into their mobile communication industries, namely USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand. Canada is likely to follow suit. The white Europeans are also going to join the gangs of white marauders to build a wall against China and Huawei. They have banned Huawei not because it is a bad technology but on the fake and fictitious allegation that it could compromise their national interests. So 5G is out and they chose to remain in the Stone Age of communication technology and still yakking that Huawei is stealing their antique technology.
Huawei is synonymous with the future of communication technology. Countries that welcome Huawei would run ahead in the fast lane. Those that rejected Huawei and hiding behind their own self destructive myth would be left behind, period.
Good riddance to the smelly whites. History is turning against you. Your time of glory is over.
Below is a pertinent quote from Hsien Loong posted in the TRE by Ausgustine Low.
'Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave this bit of advice to world leaders at the G-20 summit in Argentina last Friday: “We cannot freeze the status quo, we will not succeed in preserving out of date arrangements, because the world will leave us behind.”
He was making the point that countries have to embrace technological change instead of yielding to their anxieties and causing obstruction.'
The whites are desperate and running out of time. They could not compete with Huawei’s 5G technology infrastructure and are digging a hole in the ground to bury their heads. Four of the 5 eyes countries are closing ranks to deny the entry of Huawei’s 5G technology into their mobile communication industries, namely USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand. Canada is likely to follow suit. The white Europeans are also going to join the gangs of white marauders to build a wall against China and Huawei. They have banned Huawei not because it is a bad technology but on the fake and fictitious allegation that it could compromise their national interests. So 5G is out and they chose to remain in the Stone Age of communication technology and still yakking that Huawei is stealing their antique technology.
Huawei is synonymous with the future of communication technology. Countries that welcome Huawei would run ahead in the fast lane. Those that rejected Huawei and hiding behind their own self destructive myth would be left behind, period.
Good riddance to the smelly whites. History is turning against you. Your time of glory is over.
Below is a pertinent quote from Hsien Loong posted in the TRE by Ausgustine Low.
'Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave this bit of advice to world leaders at the G-20 summit in Argentina last Friday: “We cannot freeze the status quo, we will not succeed in preserving out of date arrangements, because the world will leave us behind.”
He was making the point that countries have to embrace technological change instead of yielding to their anxieties and causing obstruction.'
12/07/2018
White rogues playing dirty – Huawei CFO arrested
Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada pending extradiction to
the US for alleged charges of violating US sanctions. The full nature
of the allegation is still not explained. This is how dirty the white
men are when they are desperate. They are trying every means to cripple
Huawei’s ascendancy as the most advanced mobile phone technology
company. Now, unable to compete, they have resorted to harassment and
illegal arrest of Huawei’s personnel.
This is war. China must not take this lightly as the evil white rogues would take inaction as weakness and would be more aggressive and lawless in their actions. China could also drum up some fictitious charges and arrest a few Americans in China or Hongkong to trade.
The evil whites would never change and still think they are above the law and can be lawless and do anything they want. This is critical time and the relentless pressure the Americans are mounting against China cannot be stopped by appeasement. The tit for tat trade war must be extended to tit for tat in such lawless act for supremacy.
China cannot be on the receiving end all the time. The time is now to stand firm and return every blow with counter blow or continue to be hit under the belt. China must stand up to the evil Empire’s bullying if it wants to survive in this lawless world when might is right.
The Chinese population would demand Xi to take tough action against Canada for a start. The whole world would be looking at China to see if it is still the whipping boy of the West. If this is what they think of China, China’s place in the international arena would be erased. As a major power, China cannot sit idly by to be bullied by a small country like Canada and is forced to act. China cannot allow its citizens to be arrested or harassed by rogue regimes freely. China cannot allow Chinese to be attacked and killed by savages and beasts for political expediency.
Xi could give a call to Trump for her immediate release or else all deals are off. China has to protect its citizens against the world’s number one rogue regime and its cronies. The desperateness of the white rogues is telling and they are resorting to recklessness and aggression. Canada must also be punished for acting as another little USA.
The US cannot apply its laws against citizens of another country but to its citizens or companies operating in the USA if the sanction is unilateral and not recognized by other countries. China does not recognize this American sanction and arresting Chinese citizens is infringing on the sovereignty and rights of a citizen of another country, in this case Chinese citizen and China.
Can the Americans go everywhere to arrest anyone who traded with Iran or North Korea due to their unilateral sanctions?
PS. Since the Canadians think they can arrest Chinese citizens that did not commit crimes in Canada, China should reciprocate by arresting a few Canadians in China for the same reason, did not commit crimes in China.
This is war. China must not take this lightly as the evil white rogues would take inaction as weakness and would be more aggressive and lawless in their actions. China could also drum up some fictitious charges and arrest a few Americans in China or Hongkong to trade.
The evil whites would never change and still think they are above the law and can be lawless and do anything they want. This is critical time and the relentless pressure the Americans are mounting against China cannot be stopped by appeasement. The tit for tat trade war must be extended to tit for tat in such lawless act for supremacy.
China cannot be on the receiving end all the time. The time is now to stand firm and return every blow with counter blow or continue to be hit under the belt. China must stand up to the evil Empire’s bullying if it wants to survive in this lawless world when might is right.
The Chinese population would demand Xi to take tough action against Canada for a start. The whole world would be looking at China to see if it is still the whipping boy of the West. If this is what they think of China, China’s place in the international arena would be erased. As a major power, China cannot sit idly by to be bullied by a small country like Canada and is forced to act. China cannot allow its citizens to be arrested or harassed by rogue regimes freely. China cannot allow Chinese to be attacked and killed by savages and beasts for political expediency.
Xi could give a call to Trump for her immediate release or else all deals are off. China has to protect its citizens against the world’s number one rogue regime and its cronies. The desperateness of the white rogues is telling and they are resorting to recklessness and aggression. Canada must also be punished for acting as another little USA.
The US cannot apply its laws against citizens of another country but to its citizens or companies operating in the USA if the sanction is unilateral and not recognized by other countries. China does not recognize this American sanction and arresting Chinese citizens is infringing on the sovereignty and rights of a citizen of another country, in this case Chinese citizen and China.
Can the Americans go everywhere to arrest anyone who traded with Iran or North Korea due to their unilateral sanctions?
PS. Since the Canadians think they can arrest Chinese citizens that did not commit crimes in Canada, China should reciprocate by arresting a few Canadians in China for the same reason, did not commit crimes in China.
12/06/2018
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Hsien Loong suing Leong Sze Hian for defamation
Leong Sze Hian is being sued by Hsien Loong for sharing an article in
thestatestimes alleging that Hsien Loong is complicit in the 1MDB
corruption scandal. Leong posted this in his Facebook,
‘According to The Straits Times, Leong shared the article “Breaking News: Singapore Lee Hsien Loong becomes 1MDB’s key investigation target – Najib signed several unfair…” and alleged that former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak had signed “secret deals” with Lee to launder money through Singaporean banks….
Both ST and TOC reported that on Nov. 12, Leong then received a letter from Drew & Napier, demanding that Leong make a public apology and compensate PM Lee for damages.’ Quoted from The mothership
Alleging or accusing someone of corruption, particularly politicians in office is a very dangerous thing unless one has all the evidence and the money to fight an expensive lawsuit. One can be sued until bankrupt or be bankrupted by the fees paid to lawyers even if one wins the case. Not many people have hard evidence to win such cases. Thus it is futile to make such allegations.
While we discuss and criticise govt policies and social, economic and political issues, please stay away from attacking anyone personally especially on corruption or abuse of power. It is not necessary to do so as we are just ordinary citizens and unable to pay the price of a legal tussle or to defend ourselves effectively when being sued. Remember what had happened in the NKF golden tap case. The first whistleblower had to pay damages and apologised even when he was right.
I hope this blog will continue without infringing such taboo areas. Otherwise we would have to abandon this blog for good. So post carefully and be critical on issues but stay away from trouble, from alleging anyone of wrongdoings. Do not be too personal. Don’t throw an egg against a stone wall. Know your limits and your proper place. You can’t punch above your weight as a nobody individual. Accept your fate. Don’t wanna be a dead or bankrupt hero.
‘According to The Straits Times, Leong shared the article “Breaking News: Singapore Lee Hsien Loong becomes 1MDB’s key investigation target – Najib signed several unfair…” and alleged that former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak had signed “secret deals” with Lee to launder money through Singaporean banks….
Both ST and TOC reported that on Nov. 12, Leong then received a letter from Drew & Napier, demanding that Leong make a public apology and compensate PM Lee for damages.’ Quoted from The mothership
Alleging or accusing someone of corruption, particularly politicians in office is a very dangerous thing unless one has all the evidence and the money to fight an expensive lawsuit. One can be sued until bankrupt or be bankrupted by the fees paid to lawyers even if one wins the case. Not many people have hard evidence to win such cases. Thus it is futile to make such allegations.
While we discuss and criticise govt policies and social, economic and political issues, please stay away from attacking anyone personally especially on corruption or abuse of power. It is not necessary to do so as we are just ordinary citizens and unable to pay the price of a legal tussle or to defend ourselves effectively when being sued. Remember what had happened in the NKF golden tap case. The first whistleblower had to pay damages and apologised even when he was right.
I hope this blog will continue without infringing such taboo areas. Otherwise we would have to abandon this blog for good. So post carefully and be critical on issues but stay away from trouble, from alleging anyone of wrongdoings. Do not be too personal. Don’t throw an egg against a stone wall. Know your limits and your proper place. You can’t punch above your weight as a nobody individual. Accept your fate. Don’t wanna be a dead or bankrupt hero.
12/05/2018
Singapore Malaysia sea and space row brewing
'Earlier on Tuesday, Loke told
the Malaysian parliament that his country intends to reclaim its
airspace over southern Johor from Singapore....
Asked if he was concerned that
the airspace and maritime issues might escalate, Khaw said, “I certainly
hope not. As I said, it’s certainly not conducive to bilateral
relations. We have so many things that we want to work together. The
potential for doing much more is huge.
“We hope that good sense will prevail…let’s sit down and
let’s understand each other…find some common solution, common space
which can be a win-win.”' Yahoo News
Less than a month after Mahathir was honoured profusely by Singapore and even awarded a doctorate for fostering good relations between the two states, Malaysia and Singapore is staring at each other over cross border intrusions by Malaysian govt boats and reclaiming airspace delegated to Singapore air traffic control. The buttering of Mahathir did not seem to help in improving relations between the two states that was supposed to be damn bloody good with Mahathir in charge. If not they would be no need to give him the honorary doctorate. Perhaps Mahathir did not know what is happening and like Khaw said, someone from Singapore side must talk to Mahathir and hopefully Mahathir would tell his officials to stop messing up the good relations between the two states. If this does not happen then it is right to withdraw the honorary doctorate from him.
When Najib was in charge, relations was good but not damn bloody good. Otherwise we would have given Najib the same honorary doctorate for good relations. Come to think of it, Najib deserves a higher award for building a fantastic relationship between the two states. I am quite puzzled why relationship has taken a turn for the worse. Maybe we did not angkat Mahathir enough. How about inviting Mahathir for a durian party at the Istana and then give him Singapore's highest award, some pingkat tak boleh tahan (PTBT) for Mahathir to wear home? President Halimah could to the honour to hang the medal on Mahathir. Relations between the two states would surely improve and the current row could be quickly forgotten if Mahathir say so.
12/04/2018
Trump’s double talk - Soya beans turning into waste
Earlier I wrote about the Australia iron ore and other raw material that
have turned into rubbish, unwanted waste, when they could not find any
buyer. Yes, any product that has no buyer will become waste, as good as
worthless. And this is exactly what is happening to many of American’s
crops, particularly soya beans and other seed products. Even their
poultry products, sea food, like pork and lobsters, have become
worthless to a certain extent as China is not buying. China is buying
from Canada and elsewhere.
The agriculture and dairy farmers have been boosting their production to meet the growing demands of such products and growing rich happily until Trump’s reckless trade war with China. China’s purchase of these products has dropped by as much as 90%. The American farmers are desperate and trying to channel their goods to other countries but there are just not enough buyers that could buy at the same volume as China. China imports 60% of American soya beans.
The result of this trade war is that all the agricultural products are now turning into waste. The farmers stored as many as they could. The warehousing business has boomed. All the warehouses are full and they are furiously building more warehouses to cater for the demand, including cold stores for the meat and dairy products. But the volume laying in waiting is just too voluminous for the industry.
What could the farmers do but to let their crops rot literally in the fields. There is no meaning to harvest them as they have no place to store them and no buyers to take them away. The farmers are having a holiday, not tending to their farms. The livestock too are having a holiday, with extended life, thanks to Trump.
On the other side of the equation China is turning to other suppliers for their needs. Russia is offering China thousands of acres of land to plant soya beans. Other farmers around the world are doing roaring business with China. When the new suppliers and supply chains are established and met the needs of China, China would cease to depend on American farmers for good. The American farmers can have a long, long holiday, and maybe have to switch profession. Their products in the warehouses would be just be waste products with no buyer. And they would have to pay for their storage until they give up. And they would have to pay for removing and burning them away as dirt. China has also stopped importing American oil and LNG.
The American farmers have Donald Trump and his hawkish advisors to thank for their bad advice and bad policies. This is the beginning of the decline of the American Empire when bad and stupid men and women turned up in the White House and take charge.
Now there is a truce in Buenos Aires after the G20 Meeting. Trump declared victory. The Chinese are going to buy a lot of produce from America. What cock is Trump shouting? China wants to buy a lot from the US, and has been buying US poultry and farm produces all the while. 60% of American soya beans would to go China if not because of Trump’s silly trade war. Now Trump is happy, China is buying again…but never the same volume as China would have committed to buy from other sources.
China would not only want to buy again and buy more. But what is there to buy from the US other than farm produce and Boeings? China has everything and producing everything cheaper than the US? The only few things China wants to buy, and with a lot or American dollars, are high tech products, land, properties, but the Americans refused to sell hiding behind national security concerns. How much soya beans and meat can China buy to offset the trade imbalance? China has no use of the hoards of American dollars if it cannot use them to buy American products.
So, who is the idiot that caused the trade imbalance and what has the truce achieved in Buenos Aires? Nothing but going back to square one at most. This is quite like the Korean truce with a stalemate at the 38 parallel with the Americans claiming victory after being defeated by the PLA volunteers and chased all the way from the Yalu River to the 38 parallel. So this truce is another American victory because China continues to buy soya beans and American produce when China was buying all the while? What would happen is that China would no longer buy the same amount, but lesser as China has already bought what it needed and also developed new suppliers and supply chains.
Who is the loser and claiming victory? Many farmers would continue to go bankrupt as a result.
The agriculture and dairy farmers have been boosting their production to meet the growing demands of such products and growing rich happily until Trump’s reckless trade war with China. China’s purchase of these products has dropped by as much as 90%. The American farmers are desperate and trying to channel their goods to other countries but there are just not enough buyers that could buy at the same volume as China. China imports 60% of American soya beans.
The result of this trade war is that all the agricultural products are now turning into waste. The farmers stored as many as they could. The warehousing business has boomed. All the warehouses are full and they are furiously building more warehouses to cater for the demand, including cold stores for the meat and dairy products. But the volume laying in waiting is just too voluminous for the industry.
What could the farmers do but to let their crops rot literally in the fields. There is no meaning to harvest them as they have no place to store them and no buyers to take them away. The farmers are having a holiday, not tending to their farms. The livestock too are having a holiday, with extended life, thanks to Trump.
On the other side of the equation China is turning to other suppliers for their needs. Russia is offering China thousands of acres of land to plant soya beans. Other farmers around the world are doing roaring business with China. When the new suppliers and supply chains are established and met the needs of China, China would cease to depend on American farmers for good. The American farmers can have a long, long holiday, and maybe have to switch profession. Their products in the warehouses would be just be waste products with no buyer. And they would have to pay for their storage until they give up. And they would have to pay for removing and burning them away as dirt. China has also stopped importing American oil and LNG.
The American farmers have Donald Trump and his hawkish advisors to thank for their bad advice and bad policies. This is the beginning of the decline of the American Empire when bad and stupid men and women turned up in the White House and take charge.
Now there is a truce in Buenos Aires after the G20 Meeting. Trump declared victory. The Chinese are going to buy a lot of produce from America. What cock is Trump shouting? China wants to buy a lot from the US, and has been buying US poultry and farm produces all the while. 60% of American soya beans would to go China if not because of Trump’s silly trade war. Now Trump is happy, China is buying again…but never the same volume as China would have committed to buy from other sources.
China would not only want to buy again and buy more. But what is there to buy from the US other than farm produce and Boeings? China has everything and producing everything cheaper than the US? The only few things China wants to buy, and with a lot or American dollars, are high tech products, land, properties, but the Americans refused to sell hiding behind national security concerns. How much soya beans and meat can China buy to offset the trade imbalance? China has no use of the hoards of American dollars if it cannot use them to buy American products.
So, who is the idiot that caused the trade imbalance and what has the truce achieved in Buenos Aires? Nothing but going back to square one at most. This is quite like the Korean truce with a stalemate at the 38 parallel with the Americans claiming victory after being defeated by the PLA volunteers and chased all the way from the Yalu River to the 38 parallel. So this truce is another American victory because China continues to buy soya beans and American produce when China was buying all the while? What would happen is that China would no longer buy the same amount, but lesser as China has already bought what it needed and also developed new suppliers and supply chains.
Who is the loser and claiming victory? Many farmers would continue to go bankrupt as a result.
12/03/2018
Why are there so many anti China articles in the main media?
No one can walk away not noticing the amount of anti China articles or
negative articles by American and pro western writers on China,
depicting China as the bad guy and the Americans as the angel in the
local media. On 30 Nov alone, one full page in Top of the News with
three articles, two by ST’s US correspondent Nirmal Ghosh were
published. One of the articles even appeared on the front page of ST.
All these articles, all looking at China from the squint eyes of
American/western interests come first and are good are as good as fake
news or half truths, or even mischievous disinformation.
Why would reading the main media be like reading American or western media promoting western interests, presenting one sided and biased views that are mainly negative and hostile to China and China’s interests? It is understandable for western media to do so as they have been ruling the world for the last few centuries and what is right to them but bad for others are blinded to them. The constant narrative that colonialism and imperialism, western dominance and violence against the rest of the world is their normal and unquestionable truth. Is it objective reporting of news or is there a hidden agenda, a hidden hand to deride China and the rest of the world as the norm?
How would such articles be viewed by the Chinese who are obviously monitoring them and studying them closely to take stock of the thinking of the Singapore leaders? Is this good for Singapore China relations?
The govt has been telling everyone that Sino Singapore relations are very good, and Singapore is neutral vis a vis the Sino American rivalry for world supremacy and influence. Singapore has also repeatedly been sending high level delegations to China to want to establish more and better commercial and political exchanges and cooperations and these can only be fruitful if the Chinese did not have doubts in Singapore’s sincerity and neutrality towards China. If the Chinese perceive that the negative verbiage in the main media is intentional or officially sanctioned, then all the efforts and money spent sending delegations to China would be a waste of time and futile.
The Chinese are not stupid and our boys and girls must not take them for granted. If Singapore wants better relations with China, wants to participate in the BRI and jump on the Chinese economic bandwagon, the last thing it should do is to curb the spread of negative articles that put China in a bad light in the main media. The daily hammering of China is NG, no good for Sino Singapore relations. It stinks and smelt insincerity and duplicity. How could Sino Singapore relations move forward, to a higher level when this is going on in broad daylight almost daily? Would the Chinese fail to notice the kind of signals in the main media and happily work with Singapore in joint projects in the BRI or in other parts of China?
The big question is why is this allowed to go on unabated? Is it in Singapore’s interest? Or is Singapore being armed twisted by the Americans to go on painting China as the bad guy in the local media? These negative articles of China without questioning the wrongs and evilness of the Americans and the West are targeting which audience? What is the intent and purpose of looking at China from the American and western perspective and interests? The American dominance is waning and no longer the American law of the jungle rules. A new balance of international order and power is in the making and it is to Singapore’s interest to understand this reality and act and behave like it said, neutral to the powers in rivalry for world dominance.
Why would reading the main media be like reading American or western media promoting western interests, presenting one sided and biased views that are mainly negative and hostile to China and China’s interests? It is understandable for western media to do so as they have been ruling the world for the last few centuries and what is right to them but bad for others are blinded to them. The constant narrative that colonialism and imperialism, western dominance and violence against the rest of the world is their normal and unquestionable truth. Is it objective reporting of news or is there a hidden agenda, a hidden hand to deride China and the rest of the world as the norm?
How would such articles be viewed by the Chinese who are obviously monitoring them and studying them closely to take stock of the thinking of the Singapore leaders? Is this good for Singapore China relations?
The govt has been telling everyone that Sino Singapore relations are very good, and Singapore is neutral vis a vis the Sino American rivalry for world supremacy and influence. Singapore has also repeatedly been sending high level delegations to China to want to establish more and better commercial and political exchanges and cooperations and these can only be fruitful if the Chinese did not have doubts in Singapore’s sincerity and neutrality towards China. If the Chinese perceive that the negative verbiage in the main media is intentional or officially sanctioned, then all the efforts and money spent sending delegations to China would be a waste of time and futile.
The Chinese are not stupid and our boys and girls must not take them for granted. If Singapore wants better relations with China, wants to participate in the BRI and jump on the Chinese economic bandwagon, the last thing it should do is to curb the spread of negative articles that put China in a bad light in the main media. The daily hammering of China is NG, no good for Sino Singapore relations. It stinks and smelt insincerity and duplicity. How could Sino Singapore relations move forward, to a higher level when this is going on in broad daylight almost daily? Would the Chinese fail to notice the kind of signals in the main media and happily work with Singapore in joint projects in the BRI or in other parts of China?
The big question is why is this allowed to go on unabated? Is it in Singapore’s interest? Or is Singapore being armed twisted by the Americans to go on painting China as the bad guy in the local media? These negative articles of China without questioning the wrongs and evilness of the Americans and the West are targeting which audience? What is the intent and purpose of looking at China from the American and western perspective and interests? The American dominance is waning and no longer the American law of the jungle rules. A new balance of international order and power is in the making and it is to Singapore’s interest to understand this reality and act and behave like it said, neutral to the powers in rivalry for world dominance.
12/02/2018
Celebrating Our Seniors
Masters Athletics have an eventful packed year in 2019
2019 would be a very eventful and power packed year for masters athletics in Singapore. There will be road runs, relays, cross country races and athletic competitions locally and overseas to keep them very busy running for the whole year.
The first event to kick off would be the Singapore Masters Athletics X Country Run/Walk/Relay at MacRitchie Reservoir on Sunday 3 Mar 19. This would be closely followed by 3 events in a weekend.
3 May 19 – Singapore Masters Athletics 40th Anniversary Track & Field at Toa Payoh Stadium
4 May 19 – The first South East Asia Masters Track & Field Meet also at Toa Payoh Stadium
5 May 19 – the Singapore Masters Athletics International All Comers Meet also at Toa Payoh
And on 6/7 July the SMTFA is also organizing its first Track and Field International Championship in Singapore. Active Singapore would also be holding its annual track and field event at end of July and beginning of August.
This is not all. There is a major event in Kuching, Sarawak, the Asia Masters Athletics Track & Field Meet in December to end the year. There are also several road races/relays and cross country being held through the year.
The toughest period for masters athletics would be the May weekend. From the point of a sprinter, if a masters athlete is to participate in all 3 Meets during that one weekend, he would have to run at least 8 races, including heats and relays. This is very punishing. Normally 3 races would be about the max for a senior masters athlete.
In the World Masters, the timing of a masters sprinter in one event eg 100m, with heats, semis and finals, would fall rapidly over the 3 days. It is thus near impossible for any masters athlete to run 8 sprint races over 3 consecutive days. I am attempting to run on two of the Meets but have no confidence to run well the next day. That is how bad it is on the legs.
With the ministers and the politicians everyday talking about living well and living healthy, keeping fit, ageing gracefully, would they be supporting such masters athletic activities and making them part of the national campaign of promoting healthy ageing? Or would they ignore these programmes because they are not organized by the govt?
It would be great for all the senior community associations and clubs to bring their seniors to watch and celebrate how other seniors compete in these races and show them what are still possible despite the age. The races would be a great motivation and encouragement for the doubtful, that they need not live a sedentary life just because of old age. This could be a national event and festival for the seniors if the govt/PA or Activesg could put their acts together.
Grace Fu could make this as big or even a bigger event than the fighting diabetes thing that is going on. Or perhaps Gan Kim Yong and Amy Khor could join forces to pitch this as part of their well meaning health campaign for the seniors.
2019 would be a very eventful and power packed year for masters athletics in Singapore. There will be road runs, relays, cross country races and athletic competitions locally and overseas to keep them very busy running for the whole year.
The first event to kick off would be the Singapore Masters Athletics X Country Run/Walk/Relay at MacRitchie Reservoir on Sunday 3 Mar 19. This would be closely followed by 3 events in a weekend.
3 May 19 – Singapore Masters Athletics 40th Anniversary Track & Field at Toa Payoh Stadium
4 May 19 – The first South East Asia Masters Track & Field Meet also at Toa Payoh Stadium
5 May 19 – the Singapore Masters Athletics International All Comers Meet also at Toa Payoh
And on 6/7 July the SMTFA is also organizing its first Track and Field International Championship in Singapore. Active Singapore would also be holding its annual track and field event at end of July and beginning of August.
This is not all. There is a major event in Kuching, Sarawak, the Asia Masters Athletics Track & Field Meet in December to end the year. There are also several road races/relays and cross country being held through the year.
The toughest period for masters athletics would be the May weekend. From the point of a sprinter, if a masters athlete is to participate in all 3 Meets during that one weekend, he would have to run at least 8 races, including heats and relays. This is very punishing. Normally 3 races would be about the max for a senior masters athlete.
In the World Masters, the timing of a masters sprinter in one event eg 100m, with heats, semis and finals, would fall rapidly over the 3 days. It is thus near impossible for any masters athlete to run 8 sprint races over 3 consecutive days. I am attempting to run on two of the Meets but have no confidence to run well the next day. That is how bad it is on the legs.
With the ministers and the politicians everyday talking about living well and living healthy, keeping fit, ageing gracefully, would they be supporting such masters athletic activities and making them part of the national campaign of promoting healthy ageing? Or would they ignore these programmes because they are not organized by the govt?
It would be great for all the senior community associations and clubs to bring their seniors to watch and celebrate how other seniors compete in these races and show them what are still possible despite the age. The races would be a great motivation and encouragement for the doubtful, that they need not live a sedentary life just because of old age. This could be a national event and festival for the seniors if the govt/PA or Activesg could put their acts together.
Grace Fu could make this as big or even a bigger event than the fighting diabetes thing that is going on. Or perhaps Gan Kim Yong and Amy Khor could join forces to pitch this as part of their well meaning health campaign for the seniors.
12/01/2018
The Real History Behind The Hypocritical And Deceptive Thanksgiving PART ONE
Recently I watched a video presentation by Daunnette a Native American Indian and her friends who said, "What the US is telling about Thanksgiving is not true." The true story is the European invaders and settlers after killing of whole villages of natives would celebrate and called it Thanksgiving. After every killing and massacre of American Indians, the white killers and genociders would celebrate with big feasts and prayers which they called it Thanksgiving. It is a travesty of justice and fake piousness with the greatest hypocrisy in invoking the name of God for their evil deeds. So Thanksgiving is basically and truly a celebration of their wholesale wanton killings of countless numbers of innocent native lives and wholesale genocide of many native tribes.
Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, 26th November, 1863 as official National Day. He ordered 38 Dakota native American heroic resistant fighters to be hung for war crimes which they fabricated. Native American Indians all lost their lives to savage white invaders.
Daunnette and her friends are thankful for being born indigenous to America. They are thankful for still having their culture preserve alive by the native elders who kept their culture alive, and strong and stand as one united in the face of European aggression .
The first European immigrants who set sailed from England in September 1620 arrived aboard the ship Mayflower to the shores of present day Massachusetts. These British pioneers were only being able to survive the harsh first winter on the alien continent due to the self-less assistance of the native American Indians especially those from the Squanto tribe. When the pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, present day New York their first act was to pray. With the help of the Squanto and the Wampanoag tribe they survived and began to build a new home for their families. On their first Thanksgiving they came together to rejoice after their first harvest and praise God for His provision.
The pilgrims first met the Wampanoag Nation which comprised of sixty-nine tribes. The Wampanoag was part of the one of hundreds of Tribal Nations with diverse societies that had thrived for thousands of years before the arrival of the pilgrims. So it is a fallacy for the Europeans to claim they had discovered America when the continent had been inhabited by the natives for many millenia.
In the compendium of American reinventions that attempt to diminish its legacy of brutality in the subjugation of the continent's First People, Thanksgiving ranks high. The pilgrims had good reasons to give thanks particularly to the Wampanoag who through a treaty obligation offered protection to the British puritans.
It was doubtful whether the puritans offered thanks to the Tisquantum-Squanto tribe who helped them plant what they reaped at that 1621 harvest is unknown. But what is preserved in Wampanoag history is that Massasoit Sachem the leader of the Wampanoag arrived at Plymouth colony not to share in the pilgrim's feast but to see why they were firing canon and musket with abandon. After three days, Massasoit was satisfied that the intent was benign.
However five decades later there was no mistaking of the immigrants evil intent. The head of Massasoit's son , Metacomet also known as King Philip was displayed by the puritans at the entrance to the Plymouth in August 1676.
Metacomet's crime was to resist colonial domination and expansion. The British colonists offered "Thanksgiving" for their victory in Metacomet- "King Philip's War." and for twenty or more festivals annually what remained of the Sachem or leader's head bore silent witness to white men's crime and brutality in returning the goodness of the natives with evil satanic intent of wiping out the native American Indians. The first European immigrants and invaders had made clear they intent to take over the American continent and with it all its wealth and rich resources.
So the barbaric savage European invaders who started their invasion and plunder from the Eastern seaboard of the Atlantic coast would soon be extended to their eventual invasion and conquest of all the lands westward to the Golden Coast of the Pacific Ocean. There are too many sightless and silent witnesses in the wake of countless massacres of native tribes but each and every massacre is a cause for some tribal people to designate "Thanksgiving , a National Day of Mourning."
End of PART ONE
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Saturday, 1st December,2018
SOS -Save Our Seniors, Spare Our Seniors
Save the world, save the dogs and cats…but don’t bother about the seniors. Every kind hearted souls are calling for saving mother earth, saving animals from extinction, saving the dogs and cats and the wild boars. I am waiting for some kind souls to talk about saving and protecting our seniors. No one knows that the seniors must be saved? No one knows that the seniors are struggling to survive with little or no money, or a little savings in their CPF?
Are the seniors more important or the animals more important to deserve some attention from those that really care or pretending to care?
In this most expensive city of the world, when cost of living keeps going up, prices and fees/fares going up, how can the seniors survive when they are either jobless, retired or with little savings? To make matter worse, many are plagued by various forms of age related illnesses that they are unable to pay for medical care. And some have to depend on expensive supplements with prices going up and up to live.
For goodness sake, whenever there is any increase in fares/fees/charges, medicine and supplements, food, do not simply lump the seniors together, to share some of the increases no matter how small are the increases. The seniors simply have no income and trying to make ends meet with whatever that is left in their savings.
And please, have some mercy, and stop taking from the little money left in the seniors’ CPF accounts. No matter what reasons, how good, how caring, how meaningful, how insuring and assuring, don’t touch the seniors’ savings. They cannot afford them. Every cent, every dollar is needed to survive, to pass the day, one day at a time. It is evil and wicked to have designs on the little savings of the seniors. It is not compassionate to keep raising fares/fees and make the seniors pay for them. The seniors do not need anymore insurance schemes that robbed their CPF savings. They are waiting to die and everyday is a bonus.
Freeze further fare/fee increases and spare the seniors from them. Can understand this or not? Many seniors have no money left and they have 20 or 30 years still to live. Where is the mercy, where is the compassion? Treat the seniors a little better than the animals, please. Save our Seniors for goodness sake. Spare Our Seniors from the robbers.
Are the seniors more important or the animals more important to deserve some attention from those that really care or pretending to care?
In this most expensive city of the world, when cost of living keeps going up, prices and fees/fares going up, how can the seniors survive when they are either jobless, retired or with little savings? To make matter worse, many are plagued by various forms of age related illnesses that they are unable to pay for medical care. And some have to depend on expensive supplements with prices going up and up to live.
For goodness sake, whenever there is any increase in fares/fees/charges, medicine and supplements, food, do not simply lump the seniors together, to share some of the increases no matter how small are the increases. The seniors simply have no income and trying to make ends meet with whatever that is left in their savings.
And please, have some mercy, and stop taking from the little money left in the seniors’ CPF accounts. No matter what reasons, how good, how caring, how meaningful, how insuring and assuring, don’t touch the seniors’ savings. They cannot afford them. Every cent, every dollar is needed to survive, to pass the day, one day at a time. It is evil and wicked to have designs on the little savings of the seniors. It is not compassionate to keep raising fares/fees and make the seniors pay for them. The seniors do not need anymore insurance schemes that robbed their CPF savings. They are waiting to die and everyday is a bonus.
Freeze further fare/fee increases and spare the seniors from them. Can understand this or not? Many seniors have no money left and they have 20 or 30 years still to live. Where is the mercy, where is the compassion? Treat the seniors a little better than the animals, please. Save our Seniors for goodness sake. Spare Our Seniors from the robbers.
11/30/2018
5G – The American strangulation of China and Huawei
With all the shit that the western media have been spreading, with the
chief author in the USA, China is still a backward country and stealing
technology and intellectual properties from the Americans and the West.
For the last 3 to 4 decades, China was learning furiously from the West
and the Americans agreed to that arrangement when Nixon signed a
rapproachment agreement with China to share and exchange knowledge,
information and technology with students from China studying in American
universities. What theft that the gangsters in Washington are trying to
spread? This is completely legal, a mutual treaty and agreement.
Huawei’s 5G technology is now the leader in mobile phone industry. The Americans are losing behind and unable to catch up, unable to compete. In order to prevent Huawei from selling its 5G products, the Americans as usual raised the dubious national security threat to stop Huawei from joint venture with AT&T and also stopped Huawei from entering the American market.
This is not all. The Americans are telling all its allies to stop Huawei from entering their markets. These include Australia, New Zealand and Nato countries. However, countries that welcomed 5G have gone ahead to accept Huawei’s technology and mobile phone systems. More than 22 countries have gone ahead to allow Huawei to enter their markets.
If 5G is a real security risk to countries, would the Americans stop developing their 5G mobile phones? How would they sell their 5G system if they finally developed and caught up with Huawei? Would other countries also stop using American 5G on the same security grounds? If so, 5G technology would no longer be marketable, like nuclear weapons. The British and Germans did not have problems with Huawei’s 5G.
What are the Americans going to do about it? Try to buy time to steal Chinese/Huawei technology to keep up with China? Huawei is now the leading company in 5G technology. Bye bye America. The rest of the world is going to use Huawei’s 5G with a speed 20 times than the fastest mobile phone today. This 5G technology would transform all communication equipment, from space and satellite communication to AI, driverless cars, military technology and all industries etc etc. Without 5G, they are going to be lacking far far behind in the development of the respective industries.
Americans’ dirty trick, cannot win, block. Create fake news and fear. But this is not going to work anymore. The Chinese are not going to be oppressed to become laundrymen and cooks anymore. The Chinese will show the Americans who is more advance in the pursuit of science and technology. The Americans should try to build a high speed train to start with, without stealing Chinese technology.
Huawei’s 5G technology is now the leader in mobile phone industry. The Americans are losing behind and unable to catch up, unable to compete. In order to prevent Huawei from selling its 5G products, the Americans as usual raised the dubious national security threat to stop Huawei from joint venture with AT&T and also stopped Huawei from entering the American market.
This is not all. The Americans are telling all its allies to stop Huawei from entering their markets. These include Australia, New Zealand and Nato countries. However, countries that welcomed 5G have gone ahead to accept Huawei’s technology and mobile phone systems. More than 22 countries have gone ahead to allow Huawei to enter their markets.
If 5G is a real security risk to countries, would the Americans stop developing their 5G mobile phones? How would they sell their 5G system if they finally developed and caught up with Huawei? Would other countries also stop using American 5G on the same security grounds? If so, 5G technology would no longer be marketable, like nuclear weapons. The British and Germans did not have problems with Huawei’s 5G.
What are the Americans going to do about it? Try to buy time to steal Chinese/Huawei technology to keep up with China? Huawei is now the leading company in 5G technology. Bye bye America. The rest of the world is going to use Huawei’s 5G with a speed 20 times than the fastest mobile phone today. This 5G technology would transform all communication equipment, from space and satellite communication to AI, driverless cars, military technology and all industries etc etc. Without 5G, they are going to be lacking far far behind in the development of the respective industries.
Americans’ dirty trick, cannot win, block. Create fake news and fear. But this is not going to work anymore. The Chinese are not going to be oppressed to become laundrymen and cooks anymore. The Chinese will show the Americans who is more advance in the pursuit of science and technology. The Americans should try to build a high speed train to start with, without stealing Chinese technology.
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