9/02/2012
Nuclear power dream or nightmare?
Anyone remembers the report on Malaysia’s
plan for nuclear power plants in the ST recently? It seems that among the
gungho Asean countries, those thinking too big with their swollen heads and
those who think they need to keep growing their populations to achieve economic
growth at all cost, there is no other option than nuclear. Oil is going too be
too expensive in times to come and the growing demand for more energy with
bigger population and bigger appetite means nuclear and nothing else.
What is so beautiful about the Malaysian nuclear plan is the
location of their nuclear power plants, one near Penang
and one near Sinkieland. Obviously these have nothing to do with the
concentration of Chinese population in Penang, Sinkieland
and Southern Johore. The main reason for the choice of
locations is simply to get them as far away from KL as possible. A nuclear
mishap is going to neutralise a sizable area for a long time as can be seen in Fukushima
, Chernobyl and Three
Mile Island in the US.
And the heroes who are brave enough to resettle in the radioactive zone must be
praying to have godzilla or ultraman as their offsprings.
Sinkieland is equally deadset on the nuclear option I think.
What to do when population growth is a must or cannot be slowed down without
affecting economic growth? They must be planning for 10m or 20m population in
the future and are seriously investing in research and development of nuclear
plants here. And the snake oil sellers would never tell you the whole truth
about the risk involved. Even a 0.0001% risk is too high a risk in the context
of Sinkieland. We can never think of locating our nuclear plants in KL or Penang
for sure. So how far and how safe would it be in Tuas, Changi or Tekong?
9/01/2012
Imposing West's will on China goes against global norms
Imposing West's will on China goes against global norms
Updated: 2012-09-01 07:59
By Guo Jiping ( China Daily)
China's continuous gains in strength have fanned the flames of envy, misgiving and even horror among certain Westerners, leading some to slander Beijing's development, squeeze its strategic space and challenge its main interests.
China's fast economic development over the past 30-odd years has not prevented the spread of empty talk about subjects such as "China's collapse", "China's responsibility" and "China's expansion". The country's rapid gain in international influence has been accompanied by a so-called alliance of values, the "return to the Asia-Pacific" strategy and similar Western initiatives.
Certain Westerners are always trying to contend that China's achievements are the "products of a distorted political system". Even Chinese athletes who excelled in the just-concluded London Olympics have seen their praiseworthy performances come under the harsh light of such criticism.
China has consistently walked the road of peaceful development and held high the banner of cooperation. As early as in the 1970s, the late leader Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China's reform and opening-up, solemnly vowed at a United Nations assembly that China will never seek hegemony. The ideals of peace and harmony are upheld in China's millennium-old traditional culture and are rooted deeply in the hearts and minds of the Chinese people.
A country can forge a suitable path for development only by conducting explorations in accordance with its national conditions, instead of by simply following other countries' methods. The Chinese people find no fault in the road Western countries have taken and only ask that the road they have chosen be accorded the same sort of respect. Common sense dictates that the only fit judges of a country's path of development are the people of that country themselves.
The Chinese are satisfied with the direction development has taken them. According to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, they are now more satisfied with their prevailing path of development and government than many other peoples in the world are with theirs.
Western countries, in one moment, accuse China of hampering the entry of foreign companies into its market and then, in the next, conjure up various pretexts to sabotage plans to liberalize trade and investment.
The Chinese government places a priority on protecting intellectual property rights, knowing well that they pertain to the openness of the country's economy. In the decades since China's reform and opening-up, the country has never slackened its efforts to safeguard such rights and has continuously worked to perfect its legal system.
China has also taken measures to coordinate global work related to energy conservation and climate change. China is committed to being able to say by 2020 that it is emitting 40 percent to 45 percent less carbon dioxide for each unit of its gross domestic product than it was in 2005, and to having 15 percent of its primary energy come from renewable, nuclear and other non-fossil sources of energy.
Despite all of this, some Westerners seem to be willfully ignoring China's unremitting work to meet international accords. Disregarding China's low amount of energy use per capita and low emissions of carbon dioxide per capita, and its efforts to conserve energy and reduce emissions, they try to place the entire blame for global warming on China.
Yet they cannot ignore that China's remarkable achievements over the past 30 years have shaken the "moral code" Western countries have attempted to use to rule the world. China's success once again proves that there is no one-size-fits-all method for ensuring a country's development.
China will unwaveringly travel a development road that merely suits its national conditions and is in no way intended to promote "ideological competition". At the same time, China will not tolerate attempts to squeeze its development space and disturb its development process.
With the quickening pace of globalization, China and Western countries should cooperate more with each other in complementary ways. This will not only bring strength to their development, but also improve international relations and make bigger contributions to world peace and prosperity.
To this end, China and Western countries should try to resolve their disputes in a prudent manner as part of efforts to strengthen mutual trust and reduce misunderstanding and misgivings.
At the moment, China's priorities are in finding better ways to handle the country's domestic affairs, achieve development and make further progress along a socialist road with Chinese characteristics.
The author is a commentator at People's Daily and this article was first carried in that newspaper.
(China Daily 09/01/2012 page5)
Assault on the dull Sinkie mind
Unknowingly, unthinkingly, the Sinkies have been under
constant and repetitive attacks on their ability and confidence. Today, many
Sinkies did not have a sense of well being and self worth. They lack confidence
and cower in the presence of foreign talents, even those from the third world
countries and working under some with dubious or maybe even fake credentials.
This sickness has transcended the country and if not arrested, Sinkies will
turn themselves into third world people in their first world home. The half
baked foreigners are acting smug and holding the Sinkies in contempt behind
their backs.
The Sinkies have been told that they are daft, lazy, uninspiring,
lack creativity, no drive, unproductive. They are even told that they are
irresponsible with their money and would gamble them away. But it is alright
for others to gamble with their money and lose them in the billions.
And a simple thing like building homes for the people, with
all the money and resources they could not do it well. By not building, they
created a big shortage to impose all kinds of silly rules to tell the daft
Sinkies why they have to wait for years to get their flats. And many were
excluded from buying on the excuse that they would deprive those who needed
more from getting their flats. Of course daft Sinkies believe in the stories
and started attacking one another for depriving others the chance of getting
their flats.
On the other hand, foreigners were praised as the talents
that are here to help the daft Sinkies. Without the foreign talents the daft
Sinkies would not be able to have a better life. While we are a top financial
centre, we claimed that we have no finance talents and have to go to small
towns that have medieval little banking systems to recruit their finance
talents to run our world class banks. We are one of the most highly wired and
computerised city but our IT talents are all kaput, or no talent. Again we go
to small little towns to hire their IT talents with many haven’t even hold a
laptop or an android phone in their hands.
Maybe it is true. Sinlieland is what it is today because of
the smart foreigners. Sinkies are only good as taxi drivers and cleaners.
Sinkies were sleeping when the city developed into a world class city with the
help of foreigners who could not help their own countries to progress. More
reasons to thank them for contributing their talents to help Sinkieland than
their own home countries. Big sacrifice really. Sinkieland is what it is today
without the contribution of daft Sinkies.
The latest barrage against the Sinkies is that they are anti
foreigners. And the message is being drummed in, with the media reinforcing the
accusation. Sinkies are xenophobic. How many foreigners were attacked or beaten
by Sinkies or the reverse? Is there a coordinated campaign to undermine the
confidence of Sinkies?
Who is leading the attack on Sinkies to make them dull and
daft and to feel inferior and inadequate to the foreigners from third world
countries that came from third grade schools and universities while we boast of
world class universities? Or our universities were built to train foreigners
instead. That may be the reason why Sinkies are so untalented, and sooo lack of
talent and needed to be replaced and helped by foreign talents.
Sinkies must look at the mirror and ask themselves, are they
really that daft and easily branded by any tag. If they are not, what are they
going to do about it? What do you think?
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