The Subjective Aspect Of Awards For Defamation Law Suits

 
How do judges come up with the magic figure for the sum of money to award the plaintiff in a civil law defamation suit?

In addition, how does the judge know how much legal cost to allocate to the winning side's lawyers?

If the plaintiff engages a big team of expensive lawyers led by a famous and popularly-known sure-win $enior counsel, instead of using one reasonably-priced, equally-qualified but not-so-famous counsel, where does the judge draw the line? Or, the sky is the limit?

Does it mean that the legal cost must be tailored to the amount demanded by the winning side only? If so, is it not an unfair and subjective way of allocating costs? What is a fair yardstick of measure? Is there even a fair yardstick in practical existence today?

How does the judge determine how much compensation is fair?

Isn't the whole question of compensation and cost a very subjective issue, left to the arbitrary decision of one imperfect human bean, which is subjected to personal idiosyncrasies and innate biases? And sometimes under pressure of time and stress due to heavy workloads or other reasons.

More often than not, it is a matter of conjuring up a figure by estimating (or guesstimating) in favour of the plaintiff, keeping fingers crossed and hoping that it is acceptable, isn't it?

Why must defamation law suits be pegged to large monetary awards, like tikam tikam, like lottery prizes? Isn't such an award defeats the purpose of the defamation law suit itself? It stinks big time. The bigger the award, the bigger the stinking effect (pun intented).

How does the amount of money restore the fame that is lost?

Money can never replace the damage already inflicted upon the image of the person.

The right thing to do is to order the defendent to retract the offending words that were said or written, make a public apology unreservedly and promise not to repeat the same thing again. (Which were asked for in the first place but the defendent has refused to acceed.)

If money is to be considered as a part of the compensation, a $1 symbolic representation should suffice. Otherwise, the defamation law becomes a vehicle for clever and/or unscrupulous lawyers to exploit for quick and easy personal monetary gains and also as a means to institute vindictive punitive pursuits.

In all fairness, shouldn't there be a limit to the extent to which the monetary compensation and cost can be imposed? Otherwise, as has been seen many times, the civil defamation law has inadvertently allowed the rich and powerful to take advantage over the poor and weak, by suing them "until pants drop", as has been popularly referred to in the streets, and even in the Parliamentary debates!

Justice must be seen to be fair in order to be fair.

From the bottom of my heart,

Yours truly,

The Queen of Hearts.
22 April 2021.

Crowd-Funding As An Indirect Form Of Redress By The Court Of Public Opinions?

Following in the footsteps of Leong's successful crowd funding to pay the entire sum of $130,000 to pay Lee for the defamation suit on Leong's posting of a link to an article in a Malaysian website, Roy has also managed to crowdfund the entire sum of $144,000 owed to Lee due to the court's award of $150,000 to Lee for the defamation suit on Roy's article about the CPF Scheme six years ago.

The payment of $150,000 is to be done in monthly instalments of $100 for six years. Thereafter, $1000 per month until 2033.

Such a long-drawn cruel/merciful punishment!

By 2033, another 12 years to go, may be one of the two parties would be dead already?

Justice must be seen to have been done. It must also be seen as impartial and not contaminated or twisted in anyway whatsoever.

There should be no doubts, displays or indications of fear, favour or ill-will on the part of those who decide on the ultimate outcome in the applications of the common and civil laws.

The collective minds of the educated and learned discerning public are more powerful and impartial than any individual or group of legal practioners.

The fact that both Leong and Roy are able to attract the public to contribute the full amount required in both instances in record times means there is a very strong public Message being sent to those involved in the outcome of the defamation law suits.

To me, it is a form of redress by the Court of Public Opinions on what the public might have seen or considered as injustice, miscarriage of justice, wrong application or misinterpretation of the defamation laws. This is only my personal view.

What do you think?

SSO

April 20, 2021 10:35 pm

Muslims the most hated people by the evil West

For centuries, the western world has been conducting endless wars against the Muslims particularly in the Middle East and Africa.  The Muslims are the most hated people of the West with some exception for their allies like Saudi Arabia, Jordan and UAE.  The intense hate culminated in the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria after the questionable bombing of the Twin Towers on 911. Many believed that the 911 event was staged and used as an excuse to invade Muslim and Arab land, just like the fabricated intelligence of Iraq possession of WMD. 

What happened following 911 was a series of blood letting of Muslims and Arabs in the countries invaded.  The West invented a new phrase, war on Terrorism aka War on Muslims, as the terrorists were all Muslims to justify their military adventure and to kill Muslims under the pretext of killing terrorists. How many hundred thousands of Muslims and Arabs have they killed, and still killing, and how many millions of Arabs and Muslims have been maimed for life, homes destroyed, became jobless, countryless, became refugees, without home and country?

The hatred for Muslims and Arabs can be best summarised in this Wikipedia definition of the War against the Muslims and Arabs - War against Islam is a term used to describe a concerted effort to harm, weaken or annihilate the societal system of Islam, using military, economic, social and cultural means, Or means invading and interfering in Islamic countries under the pretext of the war on terror, or using the media to create a negative stereotype about Islam. The perpetrators of the theory are thought to be non-Muslims, particularly the Western world and "false Muslims", allegedly in collusion with political actors in the Western world.  

The West have no sympathy when killing Muslims and Arabs is concerned. They even joked about it, calling them war collateral, not killing of human beans. There was no outpouring of sympathy for the killing and destruction of human beans in such a scale as compare to the killing of a single white man or woman in their war against the Muslims. Such disgusting display of hate and belittling of the lives of Muslims and Arabs were not condemned by the western media and taken as part and parcel of their way of life, their western narratives. Arab and Muslim lives are cheap and dispensable, not even worth mentioning.

Today the West are crying buckets of crocodile tears of their alleged genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, in their disinformation war against China.  The West suddenly were bowed over by their fabricated genocide of Muslims and are all united to stand up to defend the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang like another Crusade, this time their enemy is China. While they are beating their war drums in their farcical campaign of defending the Muslims in Xinjiang, the killings of Muslims continues daily in their wars against the Muslims in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Eygpt, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, etc etc.

How real are the hypocritical West in their defence of the Uyghur Muslims, when the Uyghur Muslims are having a great life in Xinjiang, living in peace and prosperity, many many times better than the Arabs and Muslims in war torn countries invaded by the western forces, and the refugees scattered all over the world because of the invasion by the West? The few trouble makers in Xinjiang were trained terrorists, trained and armed by the West to commit terrorist acts in peaceful Xinjiang to create instability and chaos in the region. These are the real people the West are trying to protect, their paid mercenaries, their terrorists. But their real agenda was their war with China, to bring down China, nothing to do with the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. They are still trying to hookwink the Muslims to fight and die for the white Empire and rule over the Muslims and Arab world.

It is good that the rest of the world have gotten used to western lies and wild unsubstantiated allegations and no longer believe in them. The Muslim and Arab world too totally ignored the western media and go about their lives as normal, and cooperating with China to improve trade to better the lives of their people. Only the western media and a few evil western countries are still singing this chorus of genocide in Xinjiang to a disinterested international audience. They still think the Arabs and Muslims are so gullible. They can see the Arab and Muslim countries being invaded and destroyed, the arabs and Muslims being killed and scattered as homeless refugees. The Arab and Muslim world have seen through the western hypocrisies and their wars against the Muslims and their hate for Muslims. 

Without the Arab and Muslim world believing in the white lies, the West can do nothing much to harm China other than harming themselves and exposing themselves to more ridicules by the rest of the world. White men and white lies are no longer believeable by the rest of the world.

Just look at how vicious are the Americans and the whites are trying to destroy Iran, another Muslim state.  The West would not allow a Muslim country to have nuclear weapon to stand up to them. Look at how they cooperate with Israel to bully the Palestinians and control the whole of the Middle East? How's that compare to their their love of Muslims in Xinjiang?

PS. Now read this quote from theguardian.com

Donald Trump had made headlines before, in June 2015, when he had called for a “great, great wall” along the Mexican border. Back then, he was hovering around ninth place in a crowded field of Republican candidates. But by 7 December, when he released a short statement calling for the “total and complete shutdown” of Muslim immigration, he was the frontrunner for his party’s nomination. His message, that Islam itself was a threat to America, was heard loud and clear across the globe, not least by 1.6 billion Muslims.

Now, as president, he appears to be following through. On Friday he stunned us again by announcing that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries – encompassing around 220 million people – would be barred from entering the US for 90 days. On Sunday, his long-time ally, Rudy Giuliani, traced the order back to a conversation about the “Muslim ban” in which Trump asked him to “show me the right way to do it legally”. While commentators have had their work cut out trying to follow the twists and turns of Trump’s logic on everything from climate change to the CIA, on this issue his attitude has been consistent. If there is a Trump doctrine, “war on Islam” has to be a strong contender.

The Evil Empire is resurrecting the 500 Years Curse of the evil white race on all the Non-White Countries : PART ONE

  The shadows and apparitions of the evil white race 500 years curse seem to be occuring everywhere in non-white countries during the last 70 years. Is it a pre-cursor to evil white countries trying to reassume their continuation of the 500 years evil white race dominance over non-white countries. Non-white peoples and countries must make sure this would never happen again. Never trust the evil white race. They have every intention to again subdue all non-white peoples and countries under their savage hegemony.

 The United States under the guise of bringing democracy and human rights to non-white contries is actually using them as political tool kits to bring these unsuspicious countries under US and Western hegemonic control again and thus bringing back the 500 years curse of the evil white race.

 After the Second World War most of the non-white countries had thrown off the yoke of Western colonisation after years of life-long violent struggle of resistance against the return of the white colonialist powers. India and Pakistan  got their independence in 1947 after some years of resurrection against the return of British Empire as Winston Churchill the obnoxious white racist  killer and genocider of non-white people  intended to continue  British rule in India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Bangladesh. President Sukarno achieved independence for Indonesia after he led  the Indonesians in their long fight and struggle from 1945 to early 1950s to get rid of the Dutch imperialists.  China which suffered the most from Western imperialists for about 200 years only managed to get its independence in October 1st, 1949, after years of violent and bloody struggle and resistance against the return of the British, American. French, Russian and Japanese imperialists.

After the Second World War America saw itself as the only pre-eminent superpower which could establish world hegemony in place of the Britiish, French and Russian empires. American policy to dominate the whole world is not new or incidental through circumstance of history. It has been the established policy of US since the first day of its independence. As Christopher Black a renowned international criminal lawyer based in Toronto in his article on 8th June, 2019 in New Eastern Outlook,  'This Outlaw Power ' said : 

"The aggressive objectives of the successive American governments were and are not accidents or mistakes arising out of immediate political circumstances but are a deliberate and necessary part of American Foreign Policy. From its inception the American political leadership has claimed to unite the American people with a consciousness of their mission and destiny  to dominate the world. War is seen as inevitable or highly probable to accomplish these objectives where intimidation and bribery fail."

The Chinese feel insulted and indignified when the US falsely and wrongly accused the Chinese people as thieves for stealing their technology. On the contrary US and the West have been stealing and using Chinese technologies for thousands of years. A world renowned British scientist, Professor Joseph Needham of Cambridge University, said long ago, "The world owes much to ancient Chinese science and technology."  "Every modern science and technology has its basic foundation in China." And in the early 1960s he said, "Give China a hundred years peace abd she will produce wonders in the world." Thus China's advance in 5G, AI, Quantum computing and surpass the USA and the West in many branches of latest science and technology attest to Professor Needham's farsighted forecast of China's plausible achievents for the benefit of mankind. For now US and the West are trying to steal China's latest discovery in science and technology. 

However, being unable to compete with China in science and technology in a fair level playing field the US has resorted to diabolical means to constrain China's progress and development. It started a trade war against China hoping to pin China down economically. Then it falsely accused and illegally targeted Chinese high tech companies of spying hoping to destroy these companies and stop them from competing with Google, Facebook, Apple and Intel. The US had earlier in 1980s destroyed the Japanese high tech company Toshiba and in the 1990s the French firm Alstom. But it is a high wet dream if US thinks it can destroy Chinese high tech companies like Hwawei, Alibaba, ZTE, Tik Tok and Ten Cent. The US is relentlessly plottinng the downfall of China hoping it could eventually bring China under its demonic control. Nevertheless though it can never succeed to take down China it has in the meantime cause a lot of trouble and irritations to the Chinese people and China.

The US has always been  flaunting ostentatiously to the world of its superiority, its wealth and glory. They should stop bragging as the whole world  knows  the truth that the US acquired its wealth in an illicit and clandestine diabolical manner. Christopher Black wrote: "The early prosperity of the US was built on the backs of slave labour, extermination of the indigenous peoples and theft of their lands, colonization and exploitation of other countries, including China, and over two hundred years of continual warfare to secure the resources and markets of first the Western Hemisphere, then the world. Their 'prestige' comes out of the barrel of a gun. The US economic and military aggression against those nations that refuse to obey American demands to serve their interests ever increases and never abates."

In the light of Christopher Black revelations we see in the last 70 years,  the West headed by the US have been increasingly hostile and aggressive towards all non-white countries in Asia, Africa, Central and South America. Though US lost the Korean War which it started in 1950 it managed to reduce South Korea and Japan into US semi-colonies or US protectorates under US absolute military control. Under such US coersive control the South Koreans and the Japanese cannot claim to have any more self-respect, dignity and sovereignty. US instigated and incited internecine strives amongst the Middle East Arab muslim states which ended up with US taking full control of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Libya, UAE  and partial control of other states and as a result US monopolizes and exploits the oil resources in the region for its own benefits to the detriment of the Arab states which are immensely impoverished.  

The state of Iran is anathema to the United States and America has never failed in trying to take down the Ayatolah government for regime change. It blockades Iran and uses extreme economic, financial and political sanctions to bring  down Iran. However, although all these evil US designs failed to bring Iran to its knees they nevertheless cause tremendous sufferings and deaths to millions of the common Iranian people.

US  continues to interfere in China's internal affairs. It created the Honkong riots under its Umbrella revolution to destabilise China. Failing in the Hong Kong umbrella revolution it now tries to stoke a Uyghur spring revolution with false allegation of genocide and forced labour of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang hoping to incite the world muslims to go against China. America pays only lip service to its One China Policy when it continuously tries to provoke China by instigating Taiwanese Chinese separatists with illicit actions and activities.  Moreover US has wicked designs to foment suspicion and hostilities between some South East Asian countries  and China to serve the evil motive of its geopolitical interests of controlling the whole of South China Sea. On hind sight it can be seen that US created the United Nations Conventions on the Laws of the Seas was to deprive China's traditional and historical legal ownerships and sovereignty of all China's island territories in the South China Sea. And US ultimate design  was to work behind the screen of UNCLOS to instigate some littoral states of South China Sea to illegally steal many of the Chinese islands in the South China Sea  under the UNCLOS rule of right to claim 200 miles of offshore waters as exclusive economic zones. However, the treacherous US and its western allies have themselves never signed the UNCLOS agreement. Isn't there  something fishy and odious behind? Similarly by illegally handling over the trusteeship and administration of the Chinese islands of Diao Yudao in the East China Sea to Japan, US has planted the seeds of contention and future wars between Japan and China to satisfy US geopolitical agenda of not only controlling Japan but also the whole of East China Sea and the South China Sea arena.

It is important China must find ways and means with Japan and ASEAN countries to settle and break down  this unnatural US created entangling problem in order to avoid future wars and the never ending choas and hostilities of the Middle East syndrome which will exactly fit into US well  calculated geopolitical agenda.

US and UK also worked behind the scenes to instigate and encourage India to steal Chinese lands in South East Tibet and the Aksai Chin region in the South West of Chinese province of Xinjiang. Constant Indian encroachment and invasion of Chinese lands culminated in the India-China war of 1962 in which India was soundly defeated by China's Peoples Liberation Army. However with US support and encouragement India never stops its infrigements on Chinese territories which have been the cause of constant border clashes. Thus by stoking animosities between India and China, the evil US hopes to recruit India as its ally to confront China in its geopolitical agenda. 

The United States thinks if it can take down China and Russia the world will be at its feet and it will be the first time in history that the whole world and all the countries therein will be brought under the sole absolute hegemonic control of one single country of the United States. That is a wild dream and we the countries of the free world must unite to dash that vile dream and destroy forever the evil demonic United States.

Southernglory1

Wednesday, 21st  April, 2021.

Redress Of Injustice

Redress of injustice can come in several ways. Not necessarily by the way of the legalistic courts through fallible human judges who are imperfect beans subjected to all sorts of natural and unnatural influencing factors and sectors.

Humans are the most emotionally unstable creatures on Mother Earth. A judge's thinking, interpretation of the laws and decisions can easily be influenced by countless factors and sectors. No one can claim that he is perfect under any circumstances. No one should even dare to think that he is perfect in anyway, in anything, in any subject.

No one is an actual expert as far as the laws of man are concerned. Why? Very simply put, it is because the man-made laws are made by imperfect human beings and interpreted and applied by imperfect human beings!

Man-made laws, like man-made languages, are evolving all the time. What was considered right yesterday can be considered wrong today. What is considered right today might be considered wrong tomorrow. It all depends on changing circumstances and changing environments, from country to country.

Personalities also play a very substantial part in the interpretation and application of man-made laws. No one person in the world can claim that he is always fair, unbias, non-corrupt, non-influenciable, totally upright and completely fair in all situations, under all circumstances.

A strong and steady character differs widely and significantly from a weak and meek character. An appointed position differs widely and significantly from a self-made and elected position.

Especially in any case involving high-powered dignitaries verses commoners, whether perceived or real, there is a strong tendency for the public to scrutinise the judge (or judges) and his (or their) judgement more closely and in depth, more inclined towards thinking that undue behind the scenes influences directly or indirectly could have been the devil in the works of deliverance.

Especially so, when records show distinctly that out of 10 cases involving high-powered personalities, at least 8 resulted in favour of the high-powered personnel, then the whole legal system and process is automatically called into question by the educated and learned discerning public. A 50/50 probability would be more palatable. A 80% tilt towards one side, any side, of the scale of justice cannot and must not be so easily accepted and swallowed, and happily pat one another's back and move on. If it does and carries on for a long time, frictions will accumulate, until one final day it will explode for sure. This kind of ostrich mentality cannot and must not be condoned for the good of our nation and the future of our people.

Yes, justice is blind. But the problem is that judges are not blind!

Therefore, redress of injustice must also come from the following ways:

1. Divine Intervention.

2. Natural Justice.

3. Court of Public Opinions.


SSO - 21 April 2021, Wednesday.

Roy Ngerng has raised $144,000 in 8 days to pay Hsien Loong

'Over the last 8 days, you have helped to crowdfund the balance amount of S$144,000. At the start of this crowdfunding campaign, after seeking the advice of my lawyers, I have already transferred the first installment of S$1,000 from this crowdfunding to Lee Hsien Loong, which leaves S$143,000.'

The above is quoted from Roy Ngerng's post in the TRE. His lawyer, Eugene Thuraisingam, has written to Hsien Loong to make a lump sum payment for the full amount outstanding of the award by the court. 

In a short few weeks, one after another, Singaporeans have come forward to donate $133,000 and $144,000 to Leong Sze Hian and Roy Ngerng to pay for the damages awarded by the courts to Hsien Loong in his defamation suits against the two. This generous act of the Singaporeans, many did not know the two personally, some were even unemployed, speaks a lot about the generosity of the Singaporeans, and more. In a way they have taken sides, and helped to relieve the financial burdens of the two men and free them from the stress and anxiety arising from the defamation suits.

Oh, Leong Sze Hian's financial burden is not over. The legal fee for Davinder Singh's service is another $130,000. So the crowdfunding must go on.

What's more is there to say about the politics of Singapore? What's more to say about the kindness and big hearts of Singaporeans especially during a pandemic when many are also financially stressed?

The Singaporeans are willing to pay from their own pockets when it has nothing to do with them, or is it?

What do you think?

What about this from theindependent.com? 

'Singapore — Courts should take into consideration that libel damages can be crowdfunded and the amounts should be increased accordingly, says Mr Calvin Cheng.

In a Facebook post on Saturday (Apr 17), the former Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) contended that courts should increase the libel damages as supporters of the libellous causes can share in the punishment.'

My immediate thought is that if Ah Kow's reputation is worth $2 the court could award him $2m in damages if the court thinks the public through crowdfunding would be willing to contribute $2m to pay for the award. I am so brilliant with this kind of logic. Oops, cannot call this logic.

Sometimes stupidity could be mistaken for talent.

Is Singapore looking for a 4G PM, look no further. Singapore can have its own version of Donald Trump.  Can anyhow hantam, the President is always right. If wrong it is called alternative truth. Heard of a clown President?

Me, The Lucky Millionaire?

 

Me, The Lucky Millionaire?

If I am assured of striking lottery of more than $1,000,000 a year, for the rest of my easy-peesy life, would I be so stupid as to deprive myself of this rare and special gift that my God (or Godfather, whichever appropriate) has engineered for me?

And in return for that all I have to do is to take and follow orders?

And all my brain-works are actually done by my subordinates, my consultants, the specialists and some young up-and-coming "promising" scholars?

And my supervisory role is done by my personal secretaries and the many side-kicks I have been given.

And I don't need to shoulder any responsibility whatsoever when I blundered. All I have to do is to give a statement that I do not accept what others say about my role, responsibility and performance, whatever they maybe?

What a wonderful life!

Do you think I will care for my own rice bowl more than I care about you, the digits most of whom I don't even know existed?

And doing it day by day, month by month, and year by year, I have become so accustomed to such comfy, easy-peesy, multi-million job with no responsibility (with scapegoats aplenty down below always ready to cushion the blow for me), what do you think I will become?

A Fat Cat? That cannot catch the mouse?

Over-confidence, arrogance, incompetence and inefficiency set in, naturally with time?

And I don't even put my clothes on anymore, exposing myself totally naked, yet I keep wearing a mask to cover my face, to hide my real face from the world?

Thank my lucky star! Thank God! Thank Godfather!

SSO

April 19, 2021 2:25 pm

China's moment to cross the Rubicon, carrying a big stick

 China has had it enough of being attacked by countries that benefited from its trade, attacking, smearing and demonising China.  Some even openly called China enemy. Now with a strong military able to take out any country that dares to flirt with a war against China, and the biggest consumer market in the world and growing rapidly with the rise of a new middle class hungry to acquire all the accessories of a good life, the Chinese consumer market is irresistible for any profit driving corporations or countries to ignore. Not participating in the Chinese consumer market is as good as not doing business at all.  There is no other market that is hungry and has the money to pay for all the goods and services at the a volume unmatched elsewhere.

With the cocky and hostile West and their crony countries still thinking that they could trade and make insane profits from China and could still take liberty to attack China, taking sanctions against China, the time has come for China to take a stand, no deals with hostile and enemy countries. The Americans, British, Japanese and even Europeans would have to lick their own ass if they insist on their bullying and unfriendly behaviour towards China.

The recent spat created by the BCI and the stonewalling of H&M, Nike, Adidas and a few other  related countries and their imminent expulsion from the Chinese market is a good lesson for the sillies and unthinking to know what they are dealing with.  Australia is licking its wound and acting tough, pretending that it doesn't hurt when hundreds of billions of revenue vanished in thin air.

Britain, Canada are top on the no trade no deal list. Japan and Taiwan come closely behind. There is no reason for China to be nice to these ingrates. There is no reason for China to continue to do business with hostile and unfriendly countries.  There is no reason for China to engage and meet up with unfriendly countries to talk about human rights, democracy or its domestic affairs. China would completely stop talking to anyone or country should any of these items be in the agenda. It is better not to waste time with them, no talks is better than talking. China does not have to entertain enemies of China with hostile intent and agenda. Just completely ignore them. China must not allow troublemakers to set the agenda for talks.

Anyone or country wanting to talk, meet or negotiate with China would have to a common agenda agreeable by both parties.  Talking nonsense, talking about China's domestic affairs are interference and would not be allowed. Period.

China has to cross the Rubicon, to say No to all rubbish. Anyone or country wanting to talk or meet up with China, it must be for mutual benefits, on trade and development, not on politicking and definitely no talks on China's domestic affairs.  Anyone or country wanting to meddle or interfere with China's domestic affairs should go home and talk to themselves. China must be prepared to cut off relations, cut off trade ties with trouble making corporations or countries. Period.

If Japan insists on making an enemy out of China, wanting to support Taiwanese independence movement, wanting to poke its fingers in the South China Sea, they can pack up all their investments in China. This is the way to deal with rogues, ruffians and hostile people and countries.  There is no need to be nice to them anymore. China does not need to trade with Japan. Japan needs the Chinese market badly as they have no where else to go. Asean market is too small and challenged by the South Koreans and China. America and European market have a lot of barriers the Japanese were unable to penetrate. Best, America is imposing sanctions and raising trade barriers against Japan.

Japan will be dead duck without the Chinese market and without China as the manufacturing base. Dare to do a Pearl Harbour on China?

Singapore - The Beginning Of The End?

The Blackdot Survey's latest revelation shows that only 20% (1 in 5) of Singaporeans are confident in the 4G leadership leading Singapore forward.

That means an overwhelming majority of Singaporeans are not happy with the 4G leaders handpicked by the PAP Tea Party Team, led by you know who.

This is a shocking revelation if it truly reflects the overall sentiment on the ground. It clearly shows a few things:

1. That the shepherd who selected the 4G sheep does not have that keen pair of eyes that on real leadership qualities, or

2. That the shepherd deliberately sacrificed true and good qualities for loyalty. That's why many personal secretaries and personal lawyer were picked to hold ministerial and other key positions? And we are to believe that there is no conflict of interests? Or,

3. That the PAP has already been scrapping the bottom for real quality talents. Or,

4. That the out-of-this-world obscene pay not only did not attract real quality leaders but actually attracted "don't rock the boat", self-survivalist, yes-men followers instead.

Together with many other critical issues, does this loss of confidence in the chosen ones mean the beginning of the end for Singapore and Singaporeans?

I may be wrong. I hope I am wrong. If so, I stand corrected.

What do you think?

SSO
April 19, 2021 8:08 am

Nobel Peace Prize needs a cleansing

 

 

Listen to a Norwegian talking about how the Nobel Peace Prize has been dragged through the mud and going completely against the will of its founder, Alfred Nobel. The mission of the Nobel Peace Prize was to recognise and reward people who have contributed to improving and uplifting the lives of humanity, disarmament and peace, not wars and killings and manufacturing and selling arms.

The recent recipients of this Prize were people that have not contributed anything as required for this Prize. Obama was awarded the Prize a few days after he became President of USA, done nothing yet but eventually proven to be a warmonger, killing a lot of innocent people through wars, dropping the most bombs of all American Presidents. The award of a Peace Prize to Obama has totally discredited and destroyed what the Nobel Peace Prize was supposed to be.  It was the most shameful thing to do for this organisation, to award this reputable Prize to someone that had done nothing worthy when he received it but then went on to do everything against what the Prize was created for.

And the most deserving individual that should be honoured with such an award, lifting 800m people out of poverty, initiated the Belt and Road Initiative to connect millions of people, bring prosperity to millions of people in more than 100 countries, a massive project for economic growth and peace, is still not recognised and nominated for this Prize, is an insult and abuse to the spirit of the Nobel Peace Prize.

When would anyone with some sense of justice, nominate Xi Jinping for the Nobel Peace Price for the things he had done in the spirit and mission of the Nobel Peace Prize?

It is very shameful that this honourable Peace Prize has been politicised and hijacked by the Americans to honour the crooks and murderers, the warmongers but refused to recognise the deserving individuals that this Prize is supposed to honour. The contributions of Xi Jinping for humanity and peace of humankind are unmatched by anyone alive today. The BRI may still be work in progress, but take a look at Africa and see what China under Xi Jinping has done to rebuild Africa into a new continent of growth and opportunities and the uplifting of the lives of hundreds of millions of Africans, once exploited, looted and left to rot by the European Empires. 

Xi Jinping not only improves the lives of 1.4b Chinese but also hundreds of millions of Central Asians and Africans. No one in human history has done a fraction of what Xi has achieved during his time in office. But for political reasons, no one would dare to even suggest to include Xi Jinping as a nominee for this Prize. 

How hypocritical this Nobel Peace Prize has become. It is turning into a joke that honoured warmongers and murderers but ignored those that really contributed to peace and progress for humankind. It should be renamed as the American Dishonourable War Prize. Alfred Nobel must be turning in his grave for the insult to his noble contribution to better civilisation.

Black army officers threatened by white policemen, pepper sprayed and handcuffed...

 

This black officer could have been shot and killed by the white policemen, just because he was black. His army uniform, his rank as a lieutenant were of no relevance, not respected by the white policemen. He was as good as a nigger. If he dared to insist on his right or stood firm, his life would be at risk. He could be dead.

This is white racist America where black men, coloured people, Chinese, Muslims, Latinos, Jews, have never been treated as equal citizens. This country belongs to the white men and the rest were tolerated as second or third class citizens. The blacks would always be treated as descendants of slaves, bad people, dangerous people.  The only people that is more dangerous than the blacks are the white policemen. They have killed more innocent black people than the criminals did in the USA.

Watch this short video to see how the whites bullied and held the blacks in disdain. The blacks have no human rights under the whites. The blacks just have to remain meek and be bullied. They cannot rebel or revolt against the white brutality. The blacks knew their place in white America.

Fox News Tucker Carlson calls out American lies on western Covid19 vaccines

Below are some paragraphs of an article in RT. Tucker Carlson was furious with American lies. For this to come out from an American hawk surely must mean something, something really bad.

Here’s what is relevant. The first question: Is the vaccine safe? The second question: Is it effective? Safe and effective. That’s all that matters. Let’s address them in order.

From the moment the first shipments arrived in the U.S., we were assured this was the safest vaccine science has ever produced. The risks of taking it were so small that we could ignore them completely. "The worst thing that could happen," explained one medical expert on ABC News, "is having an allergic reaction." Clinical trials, they said, revealed no evidence at all that the vaccines could cause any life-threatening condition. In February, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Rochester called Dr. Angela Branche explained that the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine was particularly safe.

"The bottom line," Branche said, "is that nobody who has gotten these vaccines has died from COVID." As far as we know, that's still true. That vaccine does not cause COVID.

But it was hardly the bottom line or the end of the story. In fact, we know now that there are people who have become gravely ill from taking the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Some patients who received it developed complex and poorly understood immune system responses. Their bodies suddenly stopped developing adequate blood platelets, leading to bleeding and dangerous clotting.

According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), at least six young women experienced this response to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. One of them, a 45-year-old Virginia woman, died of a stroke last month, two weeks after getting the vaccine. Another woman, who apparently lives in Nebraska, is in critical condition. That’s pretty much the extent of what we know. The government won’t tell us more.

How significant is this? Well, if it happened to you or someone you loved, it would be highly significant. But here’s the statistical context: About seven million Americans have received the Johnson & Johnson shot so far. We know of six who have developed blood clotting disorder as a result.

By comparison, for some context, some versions of the birth control pill are believed to cause blood clots in one out of every 1,000 women, a far higher rate. So why the concern about this vaccine? Because there are reasons to believe those aren’t the real numbers. The real numbers may be much higher than that. Why do we think that? This morning, federal health authorities, including the FDA and the CDC, called on state governments to stop administering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. According to no less an authority than Tony Fauci, this ban could be permanent:...

Now, Fauci has declared that because the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has injured six people — which, if true, would make that vaccine much safer not just than birth control pills, but safer than many other vaccines we’ve distributed in the past — because this vaccine has hurt six people out of seven million, we need to stop using it immediately. Does that make sense to you? No, it really doesn’t. It seems possible there’s a lot more going on here.

It’s possible this vaccine is more dangerous than they’re indicating it is. Federal officials appeared to acknowledge that today. They noted that it's easy for physicians to miss the connection between the vaccine and the blood disorder it can cause. That may be happening. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is structured much like the AstraZeneca vaccine, which also uses DNA technology.

Across Europe, the AstraZeneca vaccine has been linked to blood clotting at a rate of approximately one in 100,000 patients. Several people have died from it. That's why a number of advanced countries -- including the U.K., Denmark, Canada, Germany, and the Philippines -- have limited or banned the use of the AstraZeneca shot.

Do authorities in this country believe the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been causing reactions at a similar rate? We don’t know the answer, because they haven’t told us. We do know that the way this country keeps track of Americans who are hurt by vaccines — something called the "Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System" — is notoriously inaccurate. (Ask any physician.) But, no one seems in a hurry to improve it. Our public health bureaucracy doesn’t seem that anxious to know all the details. 

So, after reading the above, who is lying, who is not producing the true data, who is not being transparent? China or America? The Americans are lying just to get their people vaccinated with vaccines that are not as safe as they publicly declared! Their vaccines are dangerous but still being pushed and jabbed into the bodies of Americans and hoping for the best, keeping the fingers crossed that nothing bad would happen.  This is the America that is being exposed to the world, and to the Americans. Liars playing dangerously with the lives of millions of Americans.

The only good thing is that they are doing it to the Americans first, hoarding these dangerous vaccines for themselves and saving the rest of the world from being hurt.

Thank you America and good riddance.

The USA is the problem, not China - Warmongering Americans spoiling for war

 As the evil Americans are all out to start a war with China, a mother of all wars that these evil white men think they could survive the destruction, China has no choice but to face up to the American threat. The American attacks are in many fronts, from trade war, tech war, space war, cyber war, media war, biological and chemical war now they are throwing everything at China, fabricating lies about Xinjiang to call for an independent Xinjiang, instigating Japan to dump toxic nuclear waste into the seas around China and egging the Taiwanese separatist to break away from China, what can the world expect China to do?

While the Americans are taunting and provoking China, China was busying building the ports,  roads and high speed rails for the BRI projects, spending more than a trillion dollars in the project, the same amount that the Americans are spending to acquire a fleet of F35 war machine.  Now China's attention has to be diverted to meet the American war threat. China would have to take the Americans head on. 

In America, the hate stirred by the white racist devils in Trump and Pompeo are gathering momentum with Asians in general and Chinese in particular being targets of violence by the whites and silly unthinking blacks. And a silly woman in Taiwan is inviting the big lump of lard to visit Taiwan, unable to tell who is causing so much hate against the Chinese people, which incidentally includes the Taiwanese. Hope the Chinese in Taiwan would know what to do with this evil white man when he is in Taiwan. Shame on that Taiwanese woman.

The increase in American warship activities in the seas around Taiwan has prompted the Chinese to reciprocate with the same. The more the Americans pushed the Taiwanese towards independence, the more China would be pushed to reunite Taiwan by force. And this date is looking like tomorrow. China is now in a state of war with the Americans.

The rest of the world are watching this war between China and the US with trepidation. Though everyone other than the equally evil 5 eyes Anglo Saxon countries are staying clear from this fight, the rest of the world know that they would not be spared from fallout caused by the reckless and irresponsible Americans. This war may start as a localised war in the East or South China Sea but would quickly escalate to include the Japanese and the 5 eyes countries and then goes nuclear.

Only the wild and primitive white men would think that this is an acceptable risk, the destruction of human civilisation in such a war.  No reasonable or thinking man would dare to go risk a nuclear war. But the evil white men are not reasonable thinking men. They are still the primitive tribes of Europe that think of nothing about conquering countries and committing genocides. This war if it ever happened, would be the mother of all wars. It would probably be the last war as not many human beans are expected to survive this nuclear holocaust.

Japan would be the first to be cooked as China would take out all the military bases there the moment war is started. It does not need many nuclear warheads to wipe out the whole of Japan. The evil Japanese are still thinking that war is possible and the damage acceptable, they could survive a nuclear war with China plus Russia, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea fighting as one block.

Pray God would destroy this evil white race before they destroy the world.

PS.  The white Europeans are also spoiling to attack Syria, a Muslim and Arab country.

'Despite whistleblower leaks casting doubts on the OPCW’s findings, the EU Parliament is determined to enforce the organization’s anti-Assad line on Syria. MEP Mick Wallace was accused of spreading “fake news” when he spoke out.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has taken an intense interest in Syria’s civil war, and has accused President Bashar Assad of deploying chemical weapons against his own people on several occasions. Its conclusions have twice been used to justify US military action against Syria, and a new OPCW report on Monday found “reasonable grounds” to suspect that a Syrian Army helicopter dropped chemical weapons on the town of Saraqib in 2018.

The OPCW’s reports are good news for Western interventionists, but the organization is not without its critics....

Mick Wallace, an Irish MEP, is among them. When OPCW Director-General Fernando Arias addressed the European Parliament Subcommittee of Security and Defence on Thursday, Wallace accused the OPCW of squashing evidence that Assad may not have been behind one particularly heinous 2018 attack in Douma, near Damascus.'   RT

Afghanistan - 20 years of butchery of tribesmen under the pretext of 911

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday (Apr 14) it's "time to end" America's longest war with the unconditional withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, where they have spent two decades in a bloody, increasingly futile battle against the Taliban.

Dubbed the "forever war", the US military onslaught in Afghanistan began in response to the Sep 11, 2001 attacks against the United States.

Now, 20 years later - after almost 2,400 US military and tens of thousands of Afghan deaths - Biden named Sep 11 as the deadline by which the last US soldiers will have finally departed. The pullout will begin on May 1.  AFP

Using the pretext of 911, accusing the poor tribesmen of Afghanistan of involvement in a false flag attack on World Trade Centre, the Americans invaded Afghanistan and stay there for 20 years, killing and murdering the tribesmen daily.  'A decade ago, the United States had about 100,000 troops in Afghanistan.' Thousands of innocent Afghans, fathers and mothers, children, babies and women, were slaughtered daily by the Americans till today and still going on, 20 long dreadful years after their self inflicted bombing of the twin towers. No one dares to condemn this barbarism.

The 911 bombings had nothing to do with the Afghans, nothing to do with the Talibans.  These tribesmen living in the desolated mountains of Afghanistan were never a threat to the USA.  Many did not know anything about the USA. But they were convenient victims of the American butchers.  The Americans were using them for training, to experiment and test their weapons of mass destruction, to expend their obsolete weapons so that they could acquire more new and deadly weapons.

Where is the condemnation from the so called evil no conscience western media for war crimes and crimes against these hapless tribesmen of Afghanistan? They have no means to travel to the USA to pose a threat to the white supremacists.  They have better things to do than to want to attack a country they have never heard of and did not no where.

The world, the UN, must condemn the unilateral invasion of Afghanistan by the evil white men and the killings and destruction of their country.  They must be made to pay for war crimes and compensation to the Afghan people and charge for these crimes against humanity. By the way, the Afghans and Talibans are Muslims, the religion the whites hate most. Forget about the farce of speaking for the Muslims in Xinjiang, another hoax, another fabricated lies to serve the interest of the white warmongers, to instigate the Muslims against China.

Where are the crocodile tears? Where are those whites that were standing on high moral grounds? The Afghans and Talibans are also people that have a right to live, to live in peace, to bring up children and to look after their old folks.

"A horrific attack 20 years ago ... cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021," he said. "It's time to end the forever war."  Biden

It can be explained. The Americans just need wars, unending wars, to support their war industries. When the Americans start a war, it is meant to last for as long as possible. They made the invaded countries pay for their expenses, soldiers and weapons expended in the wars. They made Americans pay for all the soldiers, military bases, military weapons and weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical weapons and labs by creating imaginary enemies or making enemies of other countries to justify a never ending and increasing budget. And a bonus if they have oil or gold in their banks.

War is business, big business, the biggest contributor to the American economies.  Now they are forcing their semi colonies, allies and cronies to pay for the stationing of troops and weapons in the respective countries. The Americans are the world's number one gangsters, the world's number one terrorists, the world' number one warmongers.

Spending 20 years to kill Afghan tribesmen that have nothing to do with the lives of Americans and exploiting and destroying the lives of Arabs and Muslims using lies, fabricated lies. What did the world say, what did the UN say about these crimes against humanity?

Covid19 data - Who is the bigger liar? Who can be trusted with their numbers?

MEHDI HASAN, MSNBC, APRIL 11: Eating and drinking indoors and in restaurants and bars. Is that ok now?

FAUCI: No it’s still not OK for the simple reason that the level of infection in the community is still really disturbingly high ... And if you are vaccinated, please remember that you still have to be careful and not get involved in crowded situations, particularly indoors where people are not wearing masks.


Photo credit to Reuters

This is a festival in India where the numbers could be a hundred thousand or more? Is this ok? It was reported that only 1,000 cases of infection were detected in 48 hours. How many more cases would be detected in the new few days or weeks?



How believeable are the Indian numbers of Covid19 infection of 13.8m against America's 31.4m when India has a 1.4b population against America's 330m, and India is so fond of having such big festivals and crowds? Simple extrapolation, given the laxity in control measures in India relative to USA, who should have a bigger infection number? Photo credit to themothership



The Covid-19 virus has been detected in more than 2,000 people within the Indian city of Haridwar, Uttarakhand, where people have gathered for one of the world's biggest religious festivals, the Kumbh Mela, Indian media Scroll.in reported.
The festival which is held from April 1 to 30, sees pilgrims immersing themselves in the Ganges river to cleanse their sins, is expected to have 1 million daily visitors.

Covid19 - Why so difficult for China to provide vaccine trial data?

 The West have been fighting the vaccine war with China, bragging about their 95% efficacy rates and denigrating Chinese vaccines for low efficacy rates. With the passing of days, more and more problems are surfacing from the use of western vaccines, with some very deadly. Two are already on the verge of being banned but clinging on like the past great white hopes, desperately explaining away problems and adverse effects associated with them. On the other hand, Chinese vaccines using the proven traditional methods continue to be used widely with very little adverse effects, safe and with very good track records on reducing or preventing serious infections.

The West continue to demand for more data on Chinese vaccines as a way to smear Chinese vaccines. Yes the West can produce their own data, cooked their own data to suit their claims. China has some difficulties producing  data from their trials not because China was hiding or being not transparent. The West conducted their own vaccine trials themselves in their own countries with their own technicians and expertise. The Chinese did not have this privilege. 

China was hit by the virus first.  China was the first to map out the virus genomes and shared with the world.  China was the first to start work on the vaccines. Then came the road block because China was so successful in stopping the spread of the virus.  There were too few cases of infection in China to make conducting vaccine trials meaningful.  China needed to seek assistance and cooperation from foreign countries with high infection rates to conduct vaccine trials.

Several precious months were lost negotiating with countries on the trials and training foreign staff on the trial processes. By the time 5 countries agreed to conduct the trials, several months had gone by.  Thus China started the trials later than western countries.

This is not the only problem faced by the Chinese. China had to rely almost completely on foreign expertise in the conduct of vaccines trials.  The participating countries wanted to be the ones managing the trials. China could not use their experts to conduct the trials. China could not have full control of the trials and could not have dedicated and committed experts to see through the trials.  China was at the mercy of participating countries and their expertise to conduct the trials professional and zealously according to the prescribed methodology.

China was also at the mercy of foreign interference and sabotaged. There were elements in these countries that were less cooperative in conducting the trials, let alone western meddling to undermine the effectiveness of the trials. Without its own dedicated experts involved in the trials, China had to struggle to make the best of the data made available by foreign expertise. This is not the most desirable outcome for China. This could also explain the huge discrepancies in the efficacy rates obtained from different countries, ranging from 50% to 90% that made moderation and calibration very difficult. 

The same vaccines and recommended methodology but conducted by different experts in different countries with different understanding and commitments and level of training would lead to a wide range of results. The reconciliation process thus became problematical. How to make sense between 50% efficacy and 90% efficacy from the same vaccine but done by different people in different countries? If only China could do it on its own in China and write its own narratives like the West, the consistency of the trial data could be more manageable.

As it was, China has to make do with whatever data that were compiled by the different countries and their agencies. The shortcomings were never due to China being not transparent and not forthcoming but due to external circumstances. 

What is important today are the results. More than 100 countries have used Chinese vaccines and are happy with the results.  They were no major adverse cases or incidents, no blood clotting, no death etc etc and no chance for the West and its vicious media to talk bad about Chinese vaccines.

More and more western vaccines are going to stumble and their shortcomings cannot be covered or hidden for long.  AstraZeneca and John and Johnson are down and going out. Should have been stopped from use if they were not western vaccines. They are desperately trying to hang on to the two white hopes and praying that they could go on using them while gambling with other people's lives.

Japan to poison the ocean with radioactive waste water - endangering lives on earth

Photo credit Global Times
Tue, 13 April 2021, 8:17 am

Japan's government on Tuesday approved a plan to release more than one million tonnes of treated water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, in a controversial decision that follows years of debate.

The release, which is not likely to begin for several years and could take decades to complete, has sparked concern in neighbouring countries and faces fierce opposition from local fishing communities and anti-nuclear activists. Yahoo News

How irresponsible can the Japanese be? And being in the western camp, this is supported by the IAEA, that it is normal, acceptable. Imagine what kind of adverse coverage if China would to release radioactive water into the ocean.  1.25 million tonnes of contaminated water is not a drop in the ocean. Japanese fishermen are protesting, China and South Korea are protesting as they would be the first to suffer the consequences.  

The fish in the surrounding water will be contaminated and may not be edible anymore.  The whole fishing industry in Japan, S Korea and China could be compromised and destroyed.  The people eating the fish could be poisoned for life. And this is only the beginning as radioactive material would last for aeons and eventually the whole Pacific Ocean and other oceans would be affected as well. The sea current would bring the radioactive waste to the western coast of America, California, Alaska, Canada etc etc would not be spared.

Who would be brave or silly enough to buy fish and related products from Japan or S Korea, China and Taiwan? This could become an international crisis many times worse than the Covid19 pandemic when fish stocks could not be consume and not only the prices of fish and other food products shoot to the rood, there will be food shortage around the world. 

And the irresponsible Japanese govt is adamant to go ahead with the release of the radioactive waste. God forbids, this is going to be an international disaster and affect the survival of human civilisation. Where is Greenpeace? No protest because Japan is also in their camp?

The Americans in collusion with the Japanese, are not objecting to the poisoning of the oceans. So Japan is going ahead to destroy livestocks in the ocean and endanger the whole world. China, Russia and the Koreans, plus the Asean countries must not allow this to happen. Covid19 pandemic has killed enough people but nothing compare to the contamination of the oceans with radioactive waste. mRNA vaccines could alter human DNAs and create freaks and mutants but would not be in the same proportion as radioactive livestocks in the ocean, mutant fish and marine life that would be eaten leading to mutant human beans. This irresponsible action of the Japanese must be stopped.

The Americans created Covid19 to kill Asians, the Japanese going to dump radioactive waste to kill humankind. The combined effect of these two disastrous acts could cripple the existence of life on earth. No one cares?  The UN does not care? No big mouth in Asean bothers to say anything? This is an existential problem, many times more serious than what is happening in Myanmar.

This is a horror story of human civilisation! No noise from western media? No condemnation, no mass protest?

PS.  Greenpeace did make a statement, 'Environmental protection NGO Greenpeace East Asia condemned the decision, saying that it "completely disregards the human rights and interests of the people in Fukushima, wider Japan and the Asia-Pacific region,"'

"I am a citizen of Fukushima Prefecture. The decision was cruel," said a netizen, noting that "the image of the prefecture and the local fishery industry will 100 percent be damaged, something only the immediate victims would know."

Meng Wanzhou - Extraterritorial rights to arrest foreign nationals

Chinese tech giant Huawei on Monday said it had reached an agreement with HSBC in Hong Kong to secure documents that its senior executive Meng Wanzhou hopes will help her fight extradition to the United States from Canada.

Chief financial officer Meng -- whose father is the company's founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei -- has been in a two-year battle against extradition over allegations that Huawei violated US sanctions on Iran.  Yahoo News

The HSBC has finally agreed to release documents requested by Meng Wanzhou's lawyer to prove that HSBC knew about her company's business transactions with Iran. The details have yet to be disclosed and it is not sure what HSBC would produce eventually. Like it or not, HSBC is cooked for its part in implicating and compromising a Chinese national by passing confidential documents to the Americans. Its future in doing business in Hong Kong and China is now under a big question mark and the likelihood of its operations being curtailed or even its licence being terminated cannot be ruled out. Trying to be a monkey at the expense of China has a very high price to pay.

What is pertinent in this case is the abuse of the Americans in passing laws that allowed it to arrest citizens of other countries for violating American laws. China must take a lesson on this and pass as many such laws as possible to forbid trade and military exchanges between Taiwan and any country.  Countries and individuals in violation of such laws passed in China would allow China the right to make arrest under Chinese laws. China could ban all military transaction, sales of military weapons or acts that undermine China's national interest with Taiwan. China can then set out to arrest Americans and Europeans or American cronies that violated these Chinese laws. 

China must not wait and let the Americans arrest its nationals freely.  Both sides can play the same game. China must impose sanctions on military transaction and sales of arms to Taiwan by any country immediately. Pass a law and wait to arrest some Americans and throw them into Chinese jails. This cannot be a one way traffic, that America can create such excuses to arrest Chinese nationals and China could only look helplessly and unable to do anything. All American companies and their personnel involved in selling arms to Taiwan would be immediate target for arrest. There are plenty of them in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

China must just do it and not be a hapless victims China could start throwing warnings at the Aemricans for violating Chinese laws and undermining China's national interests. Let the Americans have a taste of their medicine. Chinese sanctions should also include arms sales to China's enemies or countries hostile to China like S Korea, Japan and India. The placing of offensive weapons in S Korea should also be sanctioned. 

Oh,  China can also pass laws to arrest foreign journalists for spreading lies against China. There are so many of them out there waiting to be arrested.

China, just do it. What are you waiting for? China must also have extraterritorial rights to arrest Americans and 5 eyes countries' nationals violating Chinese sanctions and Chinese laws.

China should continue to be a punching bag to the West and the rest of the world?

 

Nice pic from RT - What a beautiful sight
The Americans and western countries are getting very unhappy with China today, and their daily grievance is that China is now so assertive and at times very aggressive. China is so different from yesteryears when it was just a punching bag for everyone. Not only America was throwing punches at China with impunity, with China standing there to be punched until blue black all over. Small little European countries too were doing the same and enjoying every moment of it, not expecting China to hit back or dodge the punches. In a way China was just there for them to throw punches as and when they liked. 

Even silly little Asean countries also took potshots at China like it was a right, a right thing to do to China. Some even threatened China, smeared China, badmouthed China, and some were so arrogant as to want to send their patrol boats to confront China. Some arresting Chinese fishing boats like real. For they knew then that China would not hit back. China was a perfect whipping boy for everyone.

In a way China was a joke. A country of continental size, with a population of more than 1b people, but standing out there like a punching bag for everyone to punch for free and to be ridiculed. The more China restrained itself from hitting back, the more China was attacked. It was like an invitation to the world to punch and kick China as and when they liked.  No one was complaining that China was assertive or aggressive.  Everyone took China for granted, that China was there like a vase, a vase made of china.  That was how China got this name, by courtesy of the Brits. China was like a porcelain vase, easily broken when knocked.

China must continue as a china vase, meek, docile and a punching bag. It is inconceiveable and improper for China to hit back when slapped, unbecoming to stand up when attacked and smeared or admonished by any country, big or small. No one respect China for its restraints. No one country ever considered whether it is right and proper to take liberty at China and whether China has the right to hit back. The world took it for granted that China would always be the China, the punching bag for the rest of the world.

When China stood up and hit back, it was a shock to the world. How could China do that? It was supposed to turn the other cheek, in silence. How could China be so rude, so aggressive and dare to hit back at anyone? And how could China talk back to the Americans, to the Europeans? How dare China imposed sanctions on Americans and Europeans?

Every country and business enterprise doing business in China and with China did not think anything about China. They made huge profits from China but think that was their entitlements. And while benefiting from China's big orders and domestic markets, these countries and businesses felt very free to dig at China, to attack China without any concern that China would cut off their businesses. As the Chinese said, eating from a Chinese bowl and smashing the bowl after having their fills. Or as the western saying, have the cake and eat it. This is how the foreign companies and corporations see China.  China is there for them to make profits and to be kicked around.

Australia was the best example of such a relationship. China was practically throwing billions and billions at the Australians and the Australians openly declared that China was just a business partner and also an 'enemy'. And Australia would join the Americans to attack, provoke and threaten China, conducted 'freedom of navigation' trips in SC Sea, humiliate China, making it very difficult for Chinese investments in Australia, harassing Chinese businessmen and business in Australia, thinking that there would be no consequences. China would accept the punching and humiliation quietly. 

And when China hit back, the Australians sniggered, laughed it off as a joke. Nothing serious would happen and China would back off. China is now at the point of cutting all trade and business activities with Australia, maybe even diplomatic relations. 

The Canadians arrested a Chinese national that did not commit any crime in Canada, on behalf of the USA and also thought they could get away with it. China responded by arresting two Canadians on charges of espionage that could end up with death sentences or life imprisonment. They too thought that it was a joke. Nothing will happen to the two Canadians. How dared China arrest Canadian citizens.

Till today, the Australians and Canadians could not believe it is true, that China meant business. Upto today, the Europeans are also wondering why China is so aggressive. They could not understand why! This is not the China they knew and expected to be, that they could bully and threaten and piss off. China was a joke, a punching bag for them and for the rest of the world for a long long time. To them, China was a non entity, a non state, no rights, no need for self respect, cannot retaliate or get angry.

The Americans are still threatening China and attacking China daily as if it was normal and their rights as the Empire to do so. China is hitting back as well but the Americans would not stop and persist in the smear campaign, fabricating lies, provocations and challenges, treating China as an enemy like little Japan and Russia. It will be a piece of cake, a cake walk like invading Iraq or imposing sanctions on Iran or North Korea or Venezuela.

Time to wake up, bullies. The dragon has risen and will blow fires. No, the dragon is not assertive nor aggressive. The dragon will just bite and tear whoever that crosses its path to pieces. Whoever is still sleepwalking and thinking that China is a Sick Man, a piece of china, would not hit back, must be prepared for a rude awakening, and be prepared to feel the pain. China has bit the time, rebuilt and strengthened itself as a superpower. China has been preparing for this moment for a very long time. It is now in a different league from the little countries of the world. China would stand up to the Americans, eyeball to eyeball. China would throw punches right at the Americans for every punch the Americans threw at China. China would not dodge anymore. China is no longer the punching bag of yesteryears.

Small little countries of the world are well advised to know their places in the packing order. A new world order is in the making. Do not cross the line and take cheap potshots at China. You will get blue black eyes for sure. For those still thinking that it is alright to play the role of American cronies to conduct sneak attacks at China, they are asking for it. As for America, the evil Empire, the day of reckoning is nigh. China is not a walkover.  China will take America head on if needed be.

Anyone still thinks China should continue to be the docile and meek punching bag, to be kicked around by everyone? China cannot be assertive, cannot be aggressive when provoked, when attacked, when wronged?

Covid19 - Vaccine Imperialism

  “In a war—which this situation is, though we fight against an invisible enemy—you need to do whatever you can to make it stop,” Zeman told me in an email. “I frankly don’t think that receiving vaccines means losing independence, or any similar repercussions. It’s a business deal, for God’s sake.” Czech's President Milos Zeman

Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, he said that fears of Moscow and Beijing leveraging their influence over receiving countries are overblown. “We grossly exaggerate the payoff you get from trying to play geopolitics with humanitarian crises,” McFaul said. Plus, “it doesn’t do any good to say that China or Russia are using their vaccines to undermine our interests if you don’t have something else to offer.”

 

The above are two quotes from The Atlantic to emphasise what vaccines are all about, the saving of lives, not fighting a war of influence. But this has turned out to be a war as far as the Americans and the 5 eyes countries are concerned. It is another case of you are with us or against us. If a country is with the Americans, they must not use Russian or Chinese vaccines or they would be treated as against the Americans.  Some countries that have bought Chinese and Russian vaccines have stopped using them even after receiving the vaccines and paying for them for fear of offending the Empire.

This is the new American Imperialist War. The Americans would not allow its allies, in particular the EU countries and its cronies spread across the world to use Russian and Chinese vaccines. EU is facing the biggest brunt, with insufficient supply of the American vaccines but unable to accept the use of Russian and Chinese vaccines.  The simple tool to prevent them from doing so is approval.  Vaccines that were not approved by the American or EU authorities cannot be used in their respective countries. Germany and France and a few other EU countries have mooted to bring in Russian and Chinese vaccines but have backed off due to American opposition. A few eastern EU countries defied the ban and went ahead to have Russian and Chinese vaccines for their people.

The Americans are using the control and use of the vaccines to define their Empire and to control members of the Empire. In a way this is like playing God, who can have the vaccines and live and who cannot have the vaccines and die. The world is now divided into two camps, the American Empire and the rest of the world. China and Russian combined have distributed their vaccines to more than 100 countries outside the influence of the Empire, some getting the vaccines free, some at minimal cost.

The American Empire would want to do the same but unfortunately they were not able to produce even enough for themselves. And with the Americans first policy, more than 95% of American produced vaccines are kept for domestic use, leaving a trickle for their neighbours and allies. This pathetic situation risking the lives of hundreds of millions of American allies did not deter the Americans to be more magnanimous in a world crisis to loosen their grips and allow their allies to use Russian or Chinese vaccines.  They die their own business. There is a saying that it is easier to buy American weapons than buying vaccines from the Americans.

In the meantime, having cornered the vaccine market, the Americans are blowing their horns that they would share their vaccines with their allies and cronies, caveat, after they have vaccinated all the Americans. They are ramping up production but at the rate it is going, it would take at least another year before they could vaccinate all Americans. The rest of the Empire have to wait for their turns, if the day comes.

With the efficacy and immuned life of the vaccines at only 6 months or so, all Americans would have to go for another round of vaccinations before even all the Americans are vaccinated.  This is looking like the proverbial dog chasing its tail, an unending story of manufacturing the vaccines to meet and unstoppable demand. When then would the American allies have a chance to have their people vaccinated to the level of herd immunity with just the American vaccines? The Americans could only provide for 20% of the needs of their allies and cronies at best. This is American Imperialism at its best.

The rest of the world would likely have their full share of the vaccines from China and Russian. India was trying to fill the gap for the Empire with licence to manufacture AstraZeneca. This too is facing huge problems in the home front, rising infection rate and insufficient supply to feed the domestic demands. India has since stopped exporting its limited supply of the vaccines. What could make matter worse is that AstraZeneca is facing a credibility crisis. Many countries have stopped using AstraZeneca or posed stringent limits on its use.

American Vaccine Imperialism is here to stay and the allies and cronies are likely to pay a heavy price in the lives of their people. Not using Russian and Chinese vaccines can be deadly.  Even when the Americans are able to manufacture enough vaccines for export, maybe in 3 or 5 years, the cost could also be prohibitive to many of their allies and crony countries, not counting the difficulties in storing the -70C vaccines.

The rest of the world can do without this neo evil American Vaccine Imperialism. And they have China and Russian to thank for.