Covid19 - Why I choose the traditional vaccines instead of mRNA vaccines

 The traditional vaccine is produced using dead Covid19 virus to stimulate your body to produce antibodies to destroy the dead virus. After this phase, your body would be able to recognise a Covid19 virus and repeat the production of antibodies to deal with it. It is a simple tested process. Dead virus would not harm the body system. 

Why mRNA is a bit more dicey? The mRNA, m stands for messenger, is not dead virus. It is a part of the Covid19 virus, virile, and when injected into the body, the messenger will activate the body to produce more mRNAs, simulating a Covid19 attack. The amount of mRNA produced by the body is variable depending on the individual.  When too little is produced, the body may not react and produce enough antibodies to deal with the attack., thus rendering the vaccine ineffective.

When sufficient mRNA is produced, in simple terms, the normal reaction, the body would produce the necessary amount of antibodies to kill the mRNA and after that the body would be ready to tackle any Covid19 virus attack. The body is thus trained and immuned in a way from Covid19 attack.

The problem is when the body produces too much mRNAs.  When this happened, more antibodies must be produced to kill them off, causing great stress on the body system. Some may be able to recover from this, some may not.

Another problem is, what if not all mRNA were killed off? RNA and DNA are basic building blocks of cells and could freely attach to each other, a bit here, a bit there, leading to new DNAs. The permutations and combinations are infinite though the chances are very small. What if it happened, and with millions of people being injected with mRNAs, surely a few may get into this complication. Then the origin of the mRNA becomes an issue.  What animal was used to extract the mRNA? The new DNAs could have parts of the DNA of the animal. Then sci fi fiction may come true. No one is sure about this as Nature has a funny way of finding its own way to reproduce itself.

The mRNA vaccines thus has two processes against the traditional vaccines that only reacted to the dead virus to produce antibodies.  One process of the mRNA is to stimulate the body to produce more RNAs. Too little or too much would not have the best results. Too much could have too much problem, too little have too little problem.

The second process is for the presence of RNAs, technically would not lead to Covid19 infection, to activate the body defence system to produce antibodies to kill them. When too much RNAs were stimulated, proportionally more antibodies needed to be produced and this may cause too much stress, depending on the individual.  Older folks may not take the stress well.

The third part,  not part of the process, is the possibility of RNA bits fusing with the body DNA bits. This can be considered rare but not totally impossible.  This could become another problem. The result of such a combination could only be seen, unfortunately, over a longer time phase.

So, I would opt for the traditional vaccine, even if it would come later.  Singapore's situation is fairly well controlled and we are not in high risk countries like the USA or India and Brazil. There is no need to rush and no need to try the new mRNA vaccines which were approved for emergency use only.

This is my personal view and why I prefer to wait for the proven and well tested traditional vaccines.

Truth Hurts: The Pathetic, Programmed Singaporeans

 Truth Hurts: The Pathetic, Programmed Singaporeans

Singapore kids are drilled day in day out from Play School to K1 and K2, from Primary 1 to Primary 6, from Secondary 1 to Secondary 5, from ITE to Polytechnic, from Junior College to University, from National Service to Reservists to become Obedient Dumb-Asses, unable to think by themselves for themselves without guidance and instructions from somebody above them.

India's kids are taught and trained from very young by their parents, teachers, peers and the corrupted environment to learn to survive and flourish under difficult and disadvantaged situations at all times and against all odds. Learning how to talk their way out of any situation, in order to get what they want, is the foremost requirement in their life-long learning criteria.

Singaporean kids have been systematically and subtly groomed to become daft and idiotic for at least 20 years of their early lives. Equipped with a string of deficiencies - serious lack of critical thinking ability, lack of survival instinct and lack of fighting spirit, always obey the authority and not allowed to protest - Singaporeans are doomed to fail in the competitive job markets locally and elsewhere, made more difficult by government's treacherous open-legs policies.

Growing up afraid of this and afraid of that, a Singapore child becomes by default a kiasu and kiasi young adult when he turns 21 years old. Learning to obey the Authority without question is their life-long learning
criteria.

Therefore, when Election time comes, he or she will obediently and cowardly vote to retain the party in Authority, in power, to give him or her guidance and instructions like a slave receiving orders from his/her Master. By now, if he/she has no guidance and instructions, he/she simply don't know what to say and don't know what to do. He/she has become a human robot, except that it needs eat, shit and get screwed.

Accustomed, groomed and trained to be a human robotic machine, a young Singapore adult, that is unable to protest, will simply and obediently suffer in silence.

Take a look at their social media pages and blogs such as RB's, TOC and TRE, you will know that only a small handful of Singaporeans have shown interests in the political development in this country. This distinctly shows that Singaporeans are unable to voice political conviction or disinterested in participating in the process of running the country, allowing their lives to be run over and under by the ruling elites.

This is the pathetic and tragic state of affairs for Singapore and Singaporeans. Until and unless this systemic social engineering psychological programme is stopped and reversed, Singapore and Singaporeans will continue to go down the rabbit hole in this created surreal Alice Wonderland, a socially-engineered Dreamland full of hidden oversized creatures which are devious, hungry and vicious.

May God have mercy upon us!


SSO - 18 February 2021.

Genocide, the real practitioners were the USA and Canada

 

Wed, 17 February 2021, 3:06 am

Canada and other nations are considering labelling China's treatment of its Uighur minority a genocide, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday.

This comes after Donald Trump's outgoing administration last month said Beijing's incarceration of mostly Muslim minorities in its far western Xinjiang region amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity.

"It's a word that is extremely loaded and is certainly something that we should be looking at in the case of the Uighurs," Trudeau told a news conference.  Yahoo News

Above is another smear campaign by the evil whites pretending to be champions of Muslims after invading their countries, bombing and killing millions of Muslims, occupied their countries and turned them into dysfunctional states but now using this excuse to attack and smear China.

 It is time to expose their evil past when they committed genocides against their natives in the millions, tens or hundreds of millions until the natives of  both North and South Americas are near to extinction. The worst affected were the native Americans in North America, now called Canada and USA. Just because the whites did not want to talk about them, pretended that nothing happened, the evil and wicked crimes were in a scale unimaginable in the history of humankind.  The few natives alive today are too small in numbers to fight back against the racist whites that terminated them to near extinction. And these white men are now putting on a sheet of white cloth and claiming to be protector of minorities when they were the worse criminals in genociding the natives of the land they stole and live on today.

The pathetic and sad cases of the natives of USA and Canada must be brought up to the UN for review and the criminals must be severely punished and made to pay for their crimes. The victims must be compensated for their sufferings and lost of their lives and lands. The evil Canadians and Americans are again pointing fingers at others to distract and divert the attention from their crimes against humanity. An abominable crime that western media would not want to talk about and pretended that all was forgotten.

Countries of the world cannot keep quiet and let the evil whites to set the agenda and walk around pretending to be angels when their hands are dripping with blood of the natives once lived in Canada and the USA.

Make crime pays. Make those that committed genocide pay. Make the Americans and Canadians own up to their crimes, apologise and put behind bars. Expose their hypocrisies and not allow them to go on pretending to be angels when they are devils in disguise.

The Americans are still killing the Arabs and Muslims today, everyday.

Fake degree is a crime against Singaporeans - I am very angry. Are you angry?

I am very angry and very sorry for all the Singaporeans that have lost their jobs to these fake degree holders.

Someone must be responsible for this tragedy happening to Singaporeans. This thing did not happen yesterday. This thing is no secret. This thing is open secret.  Everyone knows about it. You do not have to put your ears on the ground to hear it.

Why must Singaporeans suffered because of the incompetence of those who let this happened to them?

Would something finally be done to save Singaporeans from this cancer?

I don't think so. The damage is so severe that taking them out would be like pulling down the whole house. And we paid millions for this painful and sickening mess. Sigh.

Why is this happening to Singaporeans? Would Lee Kuan Yew and the first generation of leaders allow this to happen if they are in charge?

Are you angry? 

What kind of crime is this? Singaporeans do not deserve this kind of injustice.

Fake degrees - Cheating or crime or Nevermind?

 

Times of India reported earlier this month that during a routine investigation of a fake degree case, the Indian police had uncovered a much bigger case of an Indian university selling tens of thousands of fake degrees to multitude of people (‘Manav Bharti University of Himachal Pradesh sold 36000 fake‘, 1 Feb)....

The 36,000 fake degrees issued by Manav Bharti University was said to be only the tip of an iceberg, as the number of fake degrees issued is known to be many more. The scam is likely to run into crores of rupees, said the investigation team.

Manav Bharti University graduates found working in Singapore

A cursory check on LinkedIn, a popular social media site for working professionals, revealed that there are already a number of graduates from Manav Bharti University working in Singapore:

It would certainly be good if Ms Teo could clarify the matter in Parliament so that local companies who have employed these Manav Bharti University graduates would have a peace of mind, knowing that the quality of their hires is not in dispute.

 

The above is part of an article in TOC. I think everything is fine. No need to check. All those already employed in Singapore companies can continue to work. The new mantra in Singapore is,'can work ok leow, no need degrees'. So these cheats definitely can work if they have been employed for so long. Nevermind, let them work. Using fake degree is not a crime. So also ok.  Ooops, my apologies, I also not sure you can call this cheating or a crime. Anyone can clarify on this?

Question, what is the point of having expensive world class universities here? For show only? For the stupid only? Why brag about our world class ranking?

Nowadays law also very difficult to understand. Very flexible, everything also very flexible. Got degree no degree does not matter. Who cares. Singapore is very innovative and up to date with market practices. Anything also can. No need standard anymore. No need degrees anymore. True or not?

What do you think? Would anything happen to these cheats? Remember the case in Infocomm Ministry?  Maybe they would catch a few and case close.  The problem is too big now, so no time and not enough resources to deal with it. Dunno how many more universities are involved and how many thousands are already in Singapore. But what is important is that they contributed to our economic growth, the more the merrier. These cheats must be laughing themselves crazy at the stupidity of Singapore. Sacked Singaporeans and replaced them with fakes.  And praising the fakes as talents.

PS. I know in the past faking degrees was a crime and people had gone to jail. Now looks like 'simi lan jiao' also can. Singapore must be the top destination for all the fakes from India to land a good job here. And our stupid PMETs still losing their jobs to the fakes without a clue what is going on. 

And the imbeciles are soooo happy.

Americans, bad losers trying to stop the Chinese growth engine

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will hold his first event with leaders from the Group of Seven nations in a virtual meeting on Friday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, the world economy and dealing with China as a group, the White House said on Sunday.

"This virtual engagement with leaders of the world’s leading democratic market economies will provide an opportunity for President Biden to discuss plans to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, and rebuild the global economy," the White House said in a statement.  Yahoo News

What about China? Why no mention of China? Oh, the agenda is how to confront China. The Americans should be focusing on how to fight the pandemic at home and how to revive their own economy. The economies of the world do not need the meddling of a destructive America.  China is doing very well to revive the economies around the world, in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.  The BRI projects would keep the world economy humming along for another 30 years if the rogue and troublemaking Americans  did not try to disrupt and throw obstacles into its path.

For the Americans as a destructive force is already bad enough. Now they are trying to rope in the Europeans to help them to destroy the world economies kick started by China.  China is the engine of growth.  Without China pushing the cart, without BRI, the world would have gone into a recession long before the pandemic. The no idea Americans could only think of wars to export more arms and weapons of destruction. Their economy is built on wars and war industries. They needed wars and have created enemies and bogeymen like Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and terrorism to feed the demands of wars.

China is not a pandemic or a disease but a successful competitor in trade and development and in many fields of human endeavours.  China is helping to rebuild the infrastructure of many countries and the world, to interconnect the world more efficiently for trade and development. The Americans are the losers. Instead of competing to be better, to be more efficient, to produce more and becoming more competitive, the Americans are trying to slow China down, throw in obstacles in China's path, trying to break the Chinese growth engine, wanting to curb and control China to what it expects of China, a poor, inefficient economy that cannot compete with them. This is the only solution that the destructive and warmongering Americans could think of, fighting China by cheating, bullying, threatening China with wars. If the warmongering Americans succeed, then the economies of the world would collapse with a world war of unmentionable destruction.

America is a bad loser and is behaving very badly, threatening world peace and stability. Why don't the bankrupt of ideas evil Americans do something positive, like making themselves better and more competitive instead of trying to drag down those that run faster than them?

The Europeans are trying to run as fast as China, competing with China under the same rules and environment, rules set by the Americans. But loser America is trying to change the rules, by not playing by the rules, by trying to break the legs of anyone that is running ahead of them. If the Europeans were to listen to the mischievous and cheating and lying Americans, they would be dragged into a world war that would destroy them first before it destroy the Americans.  Merkel and Macron and other European leaders would have better sense to go along with the evil Americans to destroy themselves. Let the bad and troublemaking Americans to go and fight their own dirty wars of destruction. 

The evil Americans can no longer save themselves and now wanting to dump the Europeans together into their own shit hole. The world would not be kind to losers and would be very unforgiving to bad losers. The Americans should best bury themselves in their own isolated world of wars and destruction and leave the world in peace. China and Europe would be there to pull the economies of the world along happily without the Americans.

When the evil Americans could not even save themselves, still thinking of trying to destroy the world on the pretext of saving the world. The EU leaders should set the agenda to discuss how the evil Americans could behave less evil and stop inciting and fighting wars, and stop killing people around the world. The devils must not be setting the agenda.

The EU leaders must tell Biden that the world is very concerned about the mismanagement of the pandemic in America and the spread of the virus all over America. The world is also very concerned about what happened at Fort Detrick and Biden should be transparent and provide all the data and information on the virus leak in the facility. Biden must also be made to produce information on the American soldiers that were in Wuhan. 

Now who are the sickos that spread the mischievous narrative that if the Chinese were rich they would consume too much resources and that would endanger the world? What this sick narrative is saying is that China and the Chinese people cannot be allowed to be rich and live well like the whites. And how many silly bananas also went around spreading this sick narrative as if it is reasonable, that China and Chinese are a threat because they are getting richer and consuming more?

More young Singaporeans are setting out to be hawkers

Singapore – Amidst the Covid-19 downturn, more young Singaporeans are setting out to be hawkers....

“The local or traditional, iconic dishes would be disappearing if young people do not take over the stall or learn these dishes,” said apprentice Lim Wei Keat.

Newcomers like him will help existing hawkers pass on their legacy. “I’m getting older, and my children don’t want to take over, so if I don’t teach apprentices then the flavour will disappear from Singapore,” said the owner Neo Cheng Leong.

 Hawker food critic K.F. Seetoh commented, “Back in the day, it (the hawker business) was really seen as a profession for those who have no route into life. So that has changed a lot today, but that perception hasn’t gone.”

He was referring to the perception that hawkers are in a low-paid profession, causing the young to choose to be baristas or bartenders instead.

“There’s still a school of people who would say ‘What, you want to be a hawker? What’s wrong with you?'” added Mr Seetoh. CNA

This is like a paradigm shift. Our young are gradually turning to the professions of their fathers and grand fathers, becoming part time drivers, security guards, now becoming hawkers.  Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Is this progress, to be encouraged or to be frown upon?

I would rather hear things like banking jobs or ITs would disappear if no Singaporeans would want to take on these jobs. This is a scary truth. No Singaporean interested in being CEOs of Singaporean banks. I would rather hear highly skilled jobs like professors, doctors, engineers etc would disappear if no Singaporeans would want to take these jobs. But of course these good jobs would not disappear as more foreigners would be brought in to fill them and let the clueless and unthinking Singaporeans continue their love to be part time cab drivers and hawkers. Do not blame the imbeciles. They tried but could not find enough good and skill Singaporeans suitable for these top jobs. It must be the fault of poorly qualified no talent Singaporeans.

Don't blame our world class education system and universities as well.  They are doing an excellent job for sure. Just can't figure out what the students were learning that made them graduated with skills that are not suitable for top jobs, but to be hawkers or part time workers. Should the third world half past six universities and degree mills learn from our world class universities or the other way round, our world class universities learning from them? Have they been recruiting the best academics from the third world universities to boost our university talent pool?

But Singaporeans still have a bright future. Nothing to worry about.  These new or old professions, not the oldest profession I hope, are respectable professions. Soon Singaporean maids would be in vogue and maybe diploma or degree courses would be offered to be professional maids. Only Singaporeans need apply. The bright future, to work for foreign talents and their families.

Covid19 - The real reason behind the shortfall

 The pharma manufacturers are finding excuses not to deliver their contractual obligation of Covid19 vaccines to the buyers that paid cash for it. Some gave the excuses that they are expanding their plants to increase production, some with weak excuses for non delivery. My first reaction was that they had found problems with their vaccines and are trying to rectify them with new vaccines still in the process of changes to make them safer, less adverse effects and more effective.

 I was wrong, this is the real reason why there is a huge shortage and even European allies were left out in the cold. Only two countries are hoarding the vaccines for themselves, the USA and UK. While China is distributing to more than 54 countries world wide, with big demands, each country could only receive a million or lesser as the first installment and more will follow when more are produced. Below is what is being reported by AFP.

'WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden announced plans to vaccinate most Americans by the end of July with the help of 200 million newly acquired doses, as the country's inoculation campaign kicked off a new phase in drugstores and supermarket pharmacies, some of which will offer shots as of Friday (Feb 12).'

The Americans have acquired hundreds of millions of doses for themselves, the 'generous angelic' Americans, wanting to share and help the world and this is what they had done behind the back of the world. My view, they armtwisted the pharma producers to deliver to them first, in big amounts and bypassed the rest. And their hardcore allies are sacrificed, including Bolsonaro of Brazil, Trump's good friend and the EU. Their orders delayed until they have fulfilled the demands of the Americans and Brits.

The Europeans are not stupid and are calling foul, wanting to sue the manufacturers and now forced to break their commitments not to use Chinese vaccines with the Americans/Brits. They are considering using Chinese vaccines. Some have already ordered from China. 

Merkel and Macron are furious, taken as suckers, fools by the Americans and Brits.  The Americans and Brits have sacrificed the European countries to protect and save themselves in this pandemic. The Europeans trusted the Americans and Brits and were cheated.  If they can cheat the Europeans, who else they would not cheat or sweep aside?

Covid19 - Why USA refuses to accept findings of Wuhan Investigation by WHO

 The Americans would not accept the WHO findings that the virus did not originate from China and cannot accept this for good reasons. If the virus did not come from China, it must come from somewhere else. And if they could not put the blame on China to deflect attention to themselves, to the incident in Fort Detrick, the next move would be an investigation by WHO in Fort Detrick. Die, die, the Americans must put the blame on China to save their own skins and to cover their evil deed. The Americans are behaving like someone who had committed a crime but pointing the finger at the victim of a burglary the Americans committed against the victim. The Americans would not stop asking, for the moment they stop, the attention would turn to them. they would drag this lie on and on, relentlessly, to keep the world from coming after them.

The Americans are now demanding to study the data obtained by WHO in Wuhan. By the way, are they members of WHO? If not, no talk. If they have returned to the fold, pay up all their dues to WHO, or else no talk. China should insist that the Americans provide data on what happened in Fort Detrick and the activities of the American soldiers in Wuhan during the Military Games in exchange.   If not, no way.

WHO must insist that the USA agree to an investigation in Fort Detrick and the activities of the American soldiers that participated in the Wuhan Military Games in September 2019. These must be the terms and conditions for sharing the investigation data with the Americans. Though the lying and cheating and dishonourable Americans may say yes and later refuse to cooperate, it is still necessary to make these conditions and let the Americans prove once again that they are unreliable and dishonest scheming liars if they backed out on their commitments.

After the investigation in Wuhan, it is now for WHO to look at the other conspiracy theories and Fort Detrick is standing up like a sore prick, dripping with Covid19 virus everywhere and all over. WHO cannot stop investigating Fort Detrick and the American soldiers in Wuhan after China acceded to its request to investigate Wuhan based on sinister American allegations.

WHO has to show to China and the world that it handles all cases fairly without discrimination. The more the Americans refused to let WHO conducts its investigation, the more guilty they will look.  The Americans have to stand up and face the investigation squarely if they are innocent, innocent until proven guilty.

WHO's next stop must be Fort Detrick, USA.  All the evidence is pointing there as the origin of the Covid19 Pandemic.

Chinese New Year and the Symbolism Explaimed by Premier Chou En Lai. By Sun Lai Yung

 

Chinese New Year and the Symbolism Explained by Premier Chou En Lai

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Westerners see the dragon as a fire-breathing evil being. Greek mythology had a 100-headed dragon that was slain by Heracles. Similarly, Heracles slays another dragon called Lerneaen Hydra. In ancient China, the ‘Chinese Dragons’ are legendary creatures that are benevolent. Dragon for the Chinese is “strength and good fortune”.

The Chinese people believe that they are the descendants of the dragon. While ‘Western Dragons’ lived in castles and caves the Chinese dragon lived in the sea, rivers, and lakes. The Western Dragon breathed fire, the Chinese Dragon brings rain.

Over the centuries, the Chinese Dragon was associated with the Emperor of China. Only Emperors and high Mandarins were allowed to wear robes depicting Dragon motifs. For the Chinese, dragon festivals with dragon boat races, and dragon dances are part of their culture. Children are named dragon, actors such as Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee were given Chinese names as dragon. Incidentally, Chinese movies named Enter the Dragon, Way of the Dragon, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon were popular.

The West took awhile to understand the difference. The West and East saw the same dragon differently.

This Chinese New Year is “The Year of the Dog”. The Chinese greet each other by saying “Gong Xi Fa Cai” (pronounced goon si fa sai), which means “may you be blessed with prosperity”. In the Chinese zodiac calendar there are 12 animals for each year, in a cycle of 12 years. In the Western zodiac calendar each animal is for a month with 12 zodiac signs for a year.

The story of the Chinese zodiac animals

There are 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac calendar, starting with the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. Each animal has its own unique characteristics.

The fable goes that the Jade Emperor wanted to invite the animals for dinner and another story says that he wanted to select 12 animals to be his guards. He sent an immortal being into man’s world to spread the message that the first 12 animals that went passed the heavenly gate, would be selected.

Once the news spread across the animal kingdom, the rat got up very early. On his way to the gate, he encountered a river. He had to stop there, owing to the swift current. After waiting a long time, the rat noticed the ox about to cross the river and swiftly jumped onto the ox’s back. The amiable ox did not mind.

The cat too lazily walked up to the ox and jumped. Once upon a time the cat and rat were good friends; so all three of them were on the way to the heavenly gate. In the middle of the river, the cunning rat kicked the sleeping cat off the ox’s back. The cat fell into the river and since cats are poor swimmers never made it to the heavenly gate.

Ever since, the cat has never forgiven the rat. After crossing the river, the rat swiftly jumped off the ox’s back and dashed to the feet of the emperor. The rat won first place and the ox was second.

The tiger and rabbit came third and fourth because both are fast and competitive, but the Tiger was faster. (The rabbit got across the river by hopping on stepping stones and a floating log also with the help of the dragon.)

After the ox, came the tiger, panting away while explaining to the emperor just how difficult it was to cross the river with the heavy currents pushing it downstream all the time. But with powerful strength, it made it to shore and was named the third animal in the cycle.

From a distance came a thumping sound and out hopped the rabbit. It explained how it crossed the river: by jumping from one stone to another in nimble fashion. Halfway through, it almost lost the race but the rabbit was lucky enough to grab hold of a floating log that later washed him to shore. For that, it became the fourth animal in the zodiac cycle.

Coming in fifth place was the gallant dragon. Of course the Emperor was deeply curious as to why a strong flying creature such as the dragon should fail to reach first. The mighty dragon explained that he had to stop and make rain to help all the people and creatures of the earth; therefore he was held back a little. Then on his way to the finish line, he saw a little helpless rabbit clinging on to a log so he did a good deed and gave a puff of breath to the poor creature so that it could land on the shore.

The emperor was very pleased with the actions of the dragon and he was added into the zodiac cycle. As soon as he had done so, a galloping sound was heard and the horse appeared. Hidden on the horse’s hoof was the slimy sneaky snake whose sudden appearance gave the horse a fright thus making it fall back and gave the snake sixth spot whilst the horse took seventh.

Not long after that, a little distance away, the sheep, monkey, and rooster came to the shore. These three creatures helped each other to get to where they are. The rooster spotted a raft, and took the other two animals with it. Together, the sheep and the monkey cleared the weeds, tugged and pulled and finally got the raft to the shore. Because of their combined efforts, the Emperor was very pleased and promptly named the sheep as the eighth creature, the monkey as the ninth, and the rooster the tenth.

The 11th animal is the dog. His explanation for being late although he was supposed to be the best swimmer amongst the rest was that he needed a good bath after a long spell, and the fresh water from the river was too big a temptation. For that, he almost didn’t make it to the finish line.

Just as the emperor was about to call it a day, an oink and squeal was heard from a little pig. The term “lazy pig” is due here as the pig got hungry during the race, promptly stopped for a feast, then fell asleep. After the nap, the pig continued the race and was named the twelfth and last animal of the zodiac cycle.

These 12 animals became guards of the heavenly gate and entered the Chinese zodiac signs.

The Chinese zodiac sign based on the year one is born signifies your character. This is the Chinese belief. 

Chinese zodiac signs – meaning and significance

For the western mind, it is unthinkable that a person is associated with an animal. In Chinese culture, by birth one could be a dog, a pig, a monkey, or a snake. These are derogatory terms to be associated with a human being. In the Chinese way of life and thinking, these very animals symbolise salient characteristics. These animal characteristics are part of human nature too. In Chinese martial arts, there are many forms of fighting; fighting like a tiger, a dog on river barges, a snake. The Chinese, in their ancient wisdom, understood the importance of the behaviour and characteristics of animals and used it to benefit them in their daily lives.

It was said that Premier Chou En-lai was once having a meal with his European friends. A person in this group passed an impolite comment when he was drunk. “You Chinese carry the signs of pigs, dogs, and mice at birth. I can’t understand what’s going on in the mind of your ancestors?”

At that point, the distinguished group of friends started to laugh. They started to toast each other boisterously.

The cultured and serene atmosphere was broken.

Some people believe that when someone insults your ancestors, even if you don’t have a response to it, the least you could do is to retort calmly. For a while, not a single word was uttered. It was probably because they have not come across this situation before, especially in the presence of such a distinguished host. Then, Premier Chou En-lai stood up and spoke to everybody in a calm and peaceful way.

“The Chinese ancestors were very wise. They arranged the twelve zodiac signs in pairs; six pairs in a cycle. In this way, they expressed their hopes and wishes for the generation that came after them.” The room became silent. There were some sceptical looks among the audience.

Premier Chou En-lai continued: “The first pair of animals is the rat and ox.

“The rat represents wisdom and the ox represents diligence. Wisdom and diligence must operate in harmony. If there is wisdom but no diligence in applying it, it’s foolishness. On the other hand, if there is diligence but no wisdom, it’s an act of folly.

“That’s why wisdom and diligence must go hand in hand. This is our ancestor’s first wish for us. The first pair of animal also represents the most important hope.

“The second pair is the tiger and rabbit.

“The tiger represents courage and the rabbit represents carefulness. These two qualities must work closely together. In that way, it can have a better chance to achieve success. Without carefulness, courage becomes recklessness. Similarly, without courage, carefulness becomes cowardice. This pair of qualities is very important. That’s why it is the second pair.”

Premier Zhou En-lai looked at the audience and then he added: “Therefore, when we demonstrate our carefulness, please do not think that we do not have the courage to fight for social justice.

“In truth, what our ancestors are pursuing is wisdom through integrity, harmony, and balance. It’s never about a single hope or task.”

When he saw that the audience was deep in thought, Premier Chou En-lai continued: “The third pair is the dragon and snake.

“They represent strength and flexibility. Strength without flexibility becomes brittle. Without strength, flexibility becomes meaningless. That’s why strength with flexibility is an important lesson from our ancestors that has lasted through time.

“The next pair is the horse and goat.

“The horse represents the ability to gallop to success. The goat represents the ability to be considerate and have compassion. If a person only looks after himself as he pursues his goal and with no consideration for others, he will face obstacles from the people around him. Finally, he may not even be successful. However, if a person only looks after others and seek only to be amiable, he will not have a sense of direction. His goal will eventually be lost.

“That’s why the spirit of the horse and virtues of the goat must be applied in harmony with each other. This is our ancestors’ fourth wish for us.

“The next pair is the monkey and the chicken.

“The monkey represents agility. As for chicken, as there were no clocks in the days of old, it is needed to wake humans to start a new day. The chicken represents stability. The qualities of agility and stability must be tightly coupled together.

“If you have agility but no stability, your best plan will not come to pass. However, if you focused on having stability and refuse to change, you will not have a better future. When the two qualities are in harmony, on one side, there will be stability in terms of having, for example, effective system and collaboration.

“On the other side, there will be a release of unrelenting creativity and innovation to achieve progress. When these two qualities operate in synergy, it is one of the basic imperatives to achieve success.

“Lastly, we have the dog and pig.

“The dog represents loyalty while the pig represents good nature. If a person is loyal but does not have a good nature, he will be blindly following others. On the other hand, if he has a good nature but does not have loyalty, he will have no people and principles to guide him.

“That’s why whether its loyalty to a country, loyalty to a team, or loyalty to an ideal, you need to ensure that good nature is tightly coupled with and working alongside with it. In that way, you can have a deep-seated sense of loyalty that comes from the heart.

“This is why the Chinese believe that the outer core must be in alignment with the inner core. At the inner core, we must have a pure heart that subscribes to high moral values. We must seek to live with ethos and positive principles. We must live up to our words and not do anything that will harm others.

“At the external core, we must be knowledgeable about the ways of the world. We must be wise in managing affairs around us. We need to focus on what matters in life and not be influenced by evil.

“We need to live with integrity and in harmony with others and the environment. We must not have any form of prejudice or seek to discriminate against anyone.”

At the end of his speech, there was complete silence.

This is ancient wisdom passed down from Laotze and Confucius and dozens of great thinkers from China. To understand the Chinese, even something as simple as a zodiac sign, one must understand the Chinese way of thinking.

(Sun Lai Yung has worked in the USA, Singapore, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Bahrain. He is currently employed as a consultant at a global consultancy company. He has a Masters Degree in Economics from Northeastern University Boston. He can be contacted at laisun.consultancy@gmail.com)

 

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Chinese New Year Celebration in China - No mask required!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sivEdztAKXs

 

China is the only country that has kept Covid19 under control and could go about their lives normally, celebrating Chinese New Year 2021 like no other country could, after missing such a celebration in 2020, the year that Covid19 was sinisterly planted into Wuhan to destroy the celebration and joy of 1.4b people. This year China did everything it could to return to normal, to live life normally, without the need for masks, to celebrate the Spring Festival and welcoming a new year, the Year of the Ox.

Above is one of 4 parts of CCTV production to welcome the new year. Because of the abundance of talents, a one hour programme was just not enough to show case the Chinese talents. A 4 hour show is normal in China today.

This production was broadcast to 173 countries to share the joy and happiness of a civilisation in celebration. The well being of Chinese people in China did not come easy and the oppressive and hate China hate Chinese West are still throwing all kinds of obstacles to block the progress and rise of China.

Below is a pic of old China, in the 1960s. Then, poverty was everywhere. Backwardness was everywhere.

Here are the other 3 parts of the Spring Festival Gala by CCTV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac9ADx8CEhA part 2/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAW8AdM2ZZc part 3/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veO8DcF1ITM part 4/4

Happy Chinese New Year on the Year of the Ox

 

PS, this is the link put up by Anon 12:28pm  https://youtu.be/9Gg79DP7fkY

《拜新年》 演唱：凤凰传奇

Trump and his rogues led to more hate crimes against Asians

 

Daniel Dae Kim and Daniel Wu are offering a reward for information that could help find the suspect who assaulted a 91-year-old man in the Chinatown district of Oakland, California, last month.

An elderly man was walking down 8th and Harrison Streets outside the Asian Resource Center on Jan. 31 when an unidentified person shoved him to the ground. The suspect also attacked a 60-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman the same day, according to ABC 7.

On Friday, Kim and Wu announced on social media that they would be offering a $25,000 reward "for information leading to the arrest and conviction of this man and his accomplices."

"We must do more to help the literally thousands of Americans who have suffered at the hands of this absolutely senseless violence. Please help us bring this criminal to justice," Kim wrote alongside a video of the incident on Instagram.

"The number of hate crimes against Asian Americans continues to skyrocket, despite our repeated pleas for help. The crimes are too often ignored and even excused," he added.  Yahoo News

America, like its 5 eyes countries, especially Australia, is a racist country except that its racism against the native Americans and the black Afro Americans were swallowed up in silence for centuries. The media would not be bothered to report on them.  The native Americans hardly had a voice, too few left to mean anything.  The blacks just accepted it as a fact of life, of white privilege. It was many many times worse in the days of black slaves. They could not have asked for better. The Black Lives Matter protest is only a blip in their history, in their lives.  Nothing much would change and the white killer cops would walk free.

The racist crimes against Asians, especially Chinese were also taken as a matter of fact in white supremacist America. What to do? Being a minority and desperate to start a new life in the US, the victims just took the body punches and occasionally serious injuries or deaths in their strides. Trump and his racist gangs in the White House made matter worse and played it up to extreme proportion in his anti China and hate Chinese policies. Covid19 is blown out of proportion to make the label stick, that it came from Wuhan, China to deflect the truth that it really came from Fort Detrick, USA. 

Trump and his mean racist gangs could not let up, could not keep quite if they were to cover their tracks from Fort Detrick. Just keep repeating the lie that it came from China and no one would have the time to ask and point fingers at the Americans, nothing to do with the innocent evil Americans.

As Trump and his evil gangs like Pompeo kept beating the racist drum and racist rant, more and more of his white supremacists would be incensed and would take it out on Chinese or Asians looking like Chinese. These evil white racists must face justice one day, for bullying, beating and attacking the coloured people. The day will come for them to be on the receiving end of this racism.

It has been centuries and that day has yet to come. Hope it will come earlier.

NOT SO FAST PLEASE: Don't Sweep SNEC's Blunder Under The Carpet

Below is part of an article from TOC reposted here by SSO.

"In the wake of reports over the weekend that the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) has given a member of staff the equivalent to 5 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine due to human error, it is notable that none of the senior members of Government has addressed this mistake publicly.

In addition, the error was apparently made on 14 Jan which begs the question of why it took so long for the public to be informed?

To make matters, worse, it seems like the wife of our Prime Minister, Madam Ho Ching (Madam Ho) has attempted to defend such mistakes on her Facebook page.

Among other things, Madam Ho has said “When you have mass exercises like vaccination, it is easy to make mistakes. We are human after all.” While mistakes are understandable and sometimes unavoidable, it seems completely tone-deaf to dismiss this error when the various relevant ministers have not even spoken up on the issue.

If the mistake was made on her husband, would she be so sanguine?"


Comments:

1. Blunders dismissed so easily and rapidly by the power in the shadow is tantamount to condoning and encouraging more such acts to happen.

2. It not only speaks of favouritism but also indirectly trying to cover up a blunder with a dismissive attitude.

3. When big blunders are dismissed so easily and quickly, what will happen to the medium and small blunders? Common sense tells that they had probably be swept under the carpet, may be over the last 20 years of shadowy power behind the scenes.

4. Why are the Health Ministrer and COVID-19 Team Co-Chairman keeping so quiet over this huge blunder?

5. Why is the Prime Minister also keeping so quiet about this blunder, and allowed his wife to overshadow him by firing the first shot?

6. Silence is not golden in this case. Speaking too late and allowing third parties to fire first means glaring poor leadership and the inability to size up the situation in a timely manner.

7. It also means taking Singaporeans and voters for granted and taking their responsibilities too lightly and their jobs too comfortably.

8. At least put up a show lah. Ask one of the million-dollar Ministers to make a parliamentary statement in order to take responsibility
and address this blunder, and promise to ensure that such blunders will not happen again.

9. Alternatively, initiate a board of Inquiry to look into the blunder and recommend standard operating procedures for the future. If even such actions also refused to do, then it speaks volumes about the leadership as a whole.

10. What has happened to all the political acumen and the wisdom passed down by the grand Old Man? Out of sight, out of mind?


SSO - 9 Feb 2021

American ploy to control European and South East Asian countries - Erect bogeymen!

 European and South East Asian countries are daily being coerced by the Americans to take sides against China. No, do not listen to the lies by the western media and Americans that China is forcing them to take sides against the Americans. China has been trading happily with every country in the world without anyone being forced to go against the Americans.  Stop listening to the white lies.

With the rise of China, and China being the number one trading partner to many countries, it is foolish and pure stupidity to want to go against China at the behest of the evil American Empire. South East Asian countries are tired of being dragged by the nose to go against China or Russia. No more Coalition of the Unwilling, to be led to war by the Americans under the pressure of either with the Americans or against the Americans. No more bullying by the Americans to take sides.

Australia and its rogue govt led by a dumb PM Morrison, full of zeal to want to be the barking dog of the Americans to attack China, are now left out in the cold. No trade, no communication. Daft Australians think it is their right to make Chinese money and also the right to dig at China. Now it is learning the painful lesson.

Europe, under the leadership of Merkel and Macron, are now standing up to the American coercion. They know that the future of Europe lies in trading with China and the rest of the world, and would not be arm twisted by the Americans to go against China or Russia.  European countries have their pride and would not want to be the pawns of the Americans, become sacrificial lambs of the Americans. Going against these two countries would mean Europe would become the enemies of China and Russia. It also means no more trade and investment, no more cheap oil and natural gas from Russia but to buy expensive oil and natural gas and goods from the Americans. No 5G. European manufacturers, car makers would have to kiss the Chinese market goodbye.

Merkel and Macron have come out openly in defiance against pressure by the Biden Administration to form a military coalition against Russia and China. For doing so, European countries would come under the control and dictate of the Americans, like colonies of the evil American Empire with the American calling the shot, telling them who they can trade with and do business with. The bottom line is that no trade and relations with China and Russia, only with the Americans. Europe would lose its independence and be subjugated by the evil American Empire. 

European countries cannot afford to lose the biggest consumer market in the world and be reliance on the mature and shrinking American market and be bullied and threatened by the Americans as and when the Americans wanted to. Russia is no longer a threat to the European countries unlike the USSR. Russia is now a shadow of itself, a much smaller country than the Soviet Union. But the Americans would want to continue to harp about the Russian threat to frighten the European countries. This lie would not go down well to countries like Germany and France. They are as powerful as Russia and have no fear of Russia.  Both had even invaded Russia in the past. They do not need a bogeyman to trick them into fearing a shadow by the evil Americans.

The Americans are also using the same trick in Asia, harping about the threats from China or North Korea.  Asian and South East Asian countries have also seen through this American lie. China and North Korea are not their enemies but the enemies of the Americans, raised as a threat to frighten them and to force them to be forever subservient slaves to the American Empire. Asian and South East Asian countries would not want to be forever controlled by the evil American Empire and wanted to chart their own destinies. Trading with a friendly China, their number one trading partner, is any time better than making an enemy of China, living in fear and forced to waste money buying American weapons.

Russia, China, North Korea etc are convenient bogeymen raised by the Americans to strike fear in the unthinking allies to think they are being threatened and needed to be protected. If this does not work, the Americans would agitate and provoke the Russians, Chinese or North Koreans by threats of war and any reaction by them would be called aggressive behaviour to frighten their unthinking allies. At the same time the Americans and all its covert agencies, NGOs and western media would fabricate lies, cooked up fake information to smear these countries, to drum in the imaginary threat as if they are real.

This ploy of constantly erecting a threat to frighten their allies to toe the lie, to live in fear, is a worn out lie and no longer believeable. They just could not continue with such lies and think they could control their unwilling allies to do their biddings and be part of the colonies of the evil Empire. European countries are breaking free from the American coercion. The Asian and South East Asian countries are also breaking free except for a few diehards that have their own agenda to push to want to live with the American lies and be cronies of the evil American Empire.

It is game over for the evil American Empire. No more white lies.

PS.  Latest bogeyman is Myanmar. The Americans have been waiting to move into Myanmar for many years. Now is the chance to be the lead man, the leader of another Coalition of the Willings and Unwillings, to invade Myanmar. How many happy cronies would be wagging their tails to join this Coalition to kill Myanmese?

The Confession Of A Typical Selfish Shortsighted Singapore Idiot

They came for the Opposition and dissenters, but I did not speak up because I thought they are the minority, and the majority of 61% has voted for the Party.

They came for the bloggers and whistleblowers, again I did not speak up. I thought if I live in peace and did not complain, it would be alright and everything would be just fine.

Then they came for my friends and neighbours, but again I did not think that it was my duty to speak up for them. I had thought that when Election time comes, I just VTO and kick them out but in the mean time I just suck it up and suffer silently like an idiot, it would be alright for me.

Finally, they came for me. OMG! There was no one left to speak up for me!

Signed: A Singapore Idiot.



From SSO - 9 Feb 2021.

More Blessings For Singapore! SNEC Blunder Or Error?

Yes, Singapore is so blessed that even an employee at the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) has been blunderingly, carelessly and complacently injected with FIVE doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine instead of only one.

SNEC revealed the incident only 3 days ago, when the serious blunder had taken place on 14 January during a Vaccination Experiment, using its staff as guinea-pigs "voluntarily".

SNEC has said that it was due to “human error” resulting from a lapse in communication among the Vaccination Team at the time. In other words, either no standard operating procedures were established or they were not strictly followed.

The use of the word "error" is an understatement. It obviously looks like a big serious blunder that should never have happened, and that could have caused long-term serious injury or even a slow death a few years down the road. Nobody really knows at this stage.

“The error was discovered within minutes of the vaccination when the staff was resting in a designated area after vaccination,” SNEC press release revealed.

“Senior doctors were alerted immediately and the staff was assessed and found to be well, with no adverse reaction or side effects.” The poor staff is so lucky and SNEC is so blessed.

The SNEC added that it has been following up closely with the staff member, who remains well. For now! We won't know the long term effects until time has past. Until it's too late to take any preventive action.

Although the incident took place earlier in January, news of it only broke out three days ago. Why took so long to release a press statement to inform the public?

Could it be a case of trying to cover up, initially?

And simply declared it as a "human error" will suffice?

No one takes responsibility for such a serious blunder?

No heads rolled?

No board of inquiry?

See? SNEC is so lucky and so blessed!


1984 George Orwell - 8 February 2021

Are high risk activities essential to character building?

I have been bombarded with this very serious question, high risk activities essential to character building. I am not talented to answer that. First thing that came to mind is that weak, specky, bookworm nerds, with very little physical exercises and activities, physically unfit, should not be made to perform monkey tricks that required physical muscles and strength.  Just like climbing Mount Everest, the climbers need many months of gruelling physical training before making the assault on the mountain.

But I do know of one high risk activities that are worth attempting. Cheating. Cheating in exams, buying paper degrees, cheap and good, printed in good quality paper, and present them to get a good paying jobs. And know how silly the people doing the vettings are, or how lazy they are to do due diligence, the chances of getting through and landing a good paying jobs is very high.

Why risk limbs and lives trying to be better than monkeys with monkey skills that are worth nothing. What character building when one eventually lost out to the cheats with fake degrees and probably become delivery boys or security guards, or if parents got money, become Grab drivers.  These jobs do not need character building. What is character building worth if a degree is just a piece of paper, cannot be eaten?

What do you think? Waste more money learning to become monkeys, performing monkey tricks? The street smarts would not waste time or a dime on such useless skills. They would be buying their degrees and honing their skills to get through that interview or bribing their way to a good job, through their connections. No need character building, no need monkey tricks.

PS.  Maybe they are preparing them to be soldiers, or commandos....or to clean high rise buildings.  People that took unnecessary risks that they did not have to, speak a lot about their characters.

Singapore Is A Blessed Country

Singapore is so blessed! Not joking. Why?

1. Don't have to fear the Lawless States of America using the CIA to bribe the leaders into becoming stooges of the Evil Empire or initiate a regime change.

2. Don't have to fear China and the Chinese people meddle in the country's internal affairs or take over the country.

3. Don't have to worry about the military launching a military coup to topple the government like in Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand. The military is already running the country for the past 17 years!

4. Also don't have to worry about having insufficient talents amongst the local population. All she has to do is to sign an agreement with India to import more and more degree-mills produced quickie talents (ability to get 7 certificates in six days without having to study and sit for exams - someone sits on their behalf) from India, the country that is so blessed with countless talented rapists, and corrupted police that helped covered up the rapists and their crimes, and with incomparable tongue-twisting smooth talkers.

5. Also don't need to worry that there is not enough Covid-19 infected people in the country. All she has to do is to open her legs wide-wide and invite the CECA Foreigners from India to bring in more and more of their Covid-19 infected fathers, mothers, in-laws, children and workers into Singapore to take away the jobs and occupy the houses of the local Singaporeans.

6. And if necessary, there is really no need to worry about the non-Chinese not becoming Prime Minister because the non-Chinese are already holding the highest office in the land, ie. the Presidency. On top of that, the non-Chinese are holding key and crucial ministerial posts, such as the Home Affairs Minister, the Foreign Affairs Minister, the Law Minister, as well as the Chief Justice, Treasury Chief, and the national bank DBS Chief, and the President of the Law Society.

7. Over and above that, Singapore can also easily import foreigners to become Ministers and to fill other crucial top positions in both the public and private sectors, without the need to do much searching, soul searching.

8. Also Singapore can sell away her strategic national assets such as the power stations and still not worry a single bit because she can buy power from Malaysia, just like buying water from Malaysia too. And don't need to worry about being held ransom by the nice and friendly Malaysia government.

See? How blessed Singapore is?


1984 George Orwell - February 2021.

South China Sea - Who is aggressive/expansionist, who bullies who? A historical perspective

 The 'friendly' Americans just announced that they are creating a First Fleet to patrol and control the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. If you are thinking that they are aggressive and expansionist, you are wrong. The Asean states or American cronies would also say you are wrong.  The Americans are here to protect them. 

It is the Chinese that are aggressive and expansionist to claim the islands in the South China Sea. What about the Americans and Canadians claiming the continent of North America. the white Australians claiming the continent of Australia, the white New Zealanders claiming the two islands of New Zealand? Not expansionists, they have the rights to claim these continents and big islands, because the white Gods said so. That is white men's law, supernatural law, cannot be questioned. Is that what you are thinking?

What about the Asean states claiming the South China Sea islands, are they also aggressive and expansionists? 

Let's take a historical perspective of the claims of the South China Sea islands, who claimed first and who has more rights to these islands. For ease of understanding, let's divide the time frame into 4 periods, firstly before Colonialism, Colonialism, post Colonialism and post 1982, UNCLOS, United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.

Pre Colonialism

Before the European colonialists invaded and colonised South East Asia, China was already an established state, an Empire ruled by various dynasties. Ownership of land, islands during this era were usually decided by conquest and occupation. What was the status of the land in the SE Asia region? Were they owned by nation states or kingdoms? Nation states they were not, a few kingdoms existed and many were undefined islands populated by tribes. There was no Indonesia as a country, or the Philippines or Malaysia or Malaya to talk about.

The islands in the South China Sea, including those in the East China Sea like the Ryukyu chains and Diaoyu Islands were visited and discovered by the Chinese dynasties and marked as part of the Chinese empires. All the islands were clearly marked and recorded especially during the Ming Dynasty in the 16th/17 Centuries. There cannot be any dispute and the non countries of SE Asia were in no position to claim these islands as theirs, and in most cases they did not even know that these islands existed.

Colonialism in SE Asia

Then came Colonialism when the European powers invaded and seized the land and islands in SE Asia as their colonies. They regarded the natives as sub humans, no right to their land. Practically all the present nation states of SE Asia were seized by the European empires. So the natives could not be making claims on South China Sea islands and ownership of these islands. In reality, these islands still belonged to the Chinese Empire, the Qing Dynasty, as the European powers did not claim them.

In 1929, China drew up the map to include the islands in the South China Sea defined by the 9 dash lines.  There was the claim of ownership on the principle of nullus soli, no man's land. This is different from the colonialists that came and claimed lands and islands even if they were occupied, like the British claiming to have found Singapore, Penang, Malaya etc etc disregarding the presence of natives. So too were Columbus claiming America ignoring the ownership by native Americans.

Post WW2

During the wars, in 1895, Japanese seized the Ryukyu Island chain and Diaoyu Islands and Taiwan as war booty from China. Japan also occupied many of the islands in the South China Sea during their invasion of Asia and SE Asia. After WW2, then Japan was to return all the islands seized from China, islands in the East China Sea and South China Sea. For political reasons and administrative convenience, the Americans retained administrative control of the Ryukyu Islands and Diaoyu Islands. The rest, including Taiwan and South China Sea Island were returned to China.

The nation states of SE Asia came into existence when given independence from the colonial powers. But the islands in the South China Sea were not an issue, and they did not claim them as theirs. they had too big a plate to handle and were busily setting up their own govts.

1982 UNCLOS

The claims of Asean states on the South China Sea islands were mainly based on the provisions of UNCLOS. But when China signed the agreement, there was an exclusion clause that excluded claims on territorial rights and integrity, ie, no change in ownership of islands.

So, how much weight is there for Asean states to claim islands that were long claimed by China? Even in 1929 when the 9 dash lines were drawn, the Asean states did not exist, they were colonies of European Empires. China had claimed these islands many centuries back. Is China the aggressive and expansionist country that is claiming islands belonging to Asean states, or Asean states are the aggressive and expansionist states claiming Chinese islands as theirs under a new UNCLOS law?

The evil and treacherous Americans and western countries kept mum about the return of these islands to China in the post war agreement in Potsdam in 1945 and Paris Agreement in 1948, and encouraging the Asean states to make claims against Chinese islands and accusing China of being aggressive, expansionist and bullying Asean states when it is the Asean states that are trying to bully China in their spurious claims based on a new law that exclude claims on territorial rights.

Who is the devil, who is aggressive and expansionist? Who is or are the bully/bullies?

Modern aggression

In the colonial days, it was the strong that bullied and took the land from the weak. It was natural for the strong to be aggressive. Today it is the reverse. The weak bullying the strong and seizing land from the strong. China only started to reclaim the islands in the South China Sea in 1988. In the 1970s, Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia have already started to claim the South China Sea islands and reclaiming and filling up the islands. These weaker states have no regards to the bigger country China, and claimed Chinese islands as theirs, with UNCLOS and the Americans egging them on.

Many Chinese fishing vessels were arrested especially by the Philippines and demanded ransoms for the release of fishermen and their boats. They even attacked Chinese fishing boats, sank them to the bottom of the sea. Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines even wanted to attack Chinese Coast Guards and Chinese Navy ships.

China had to be very patient with these very aggressive small states challenging her rights and seizing her fishing boats and islands.  This kind of madness has to be stopped and finally China lost her patience and put the little aggressive states in their proper place, or face being spanked. Some order has returned to the South China Sea, with the proper pecking order now in place, except for the trouble making Americans. Australia is now feeling the pain in the ass, grimacing but pretending it doesn't hurt.

Still China is smeared by the West as the aggressor, and the small aggressive states as the poor and innocent victims. If it were the evil American Empire instead of China, none of these little states would dare even to move an inch or open their big mouths.