Trojan Horses and Little USAs, got difference meh?

The South China Sea dispute has led to the often quipped terms in the lips of the protagonists like Trojan Horses and Little USAs. Both terms are unique in their origins, from Singapore or by Singaporeans. You don’t hear them being repeated by leaders, diplomats or analysts from other Asean countries, not even from the USA. And the way the terms were used, especially Trojan Horses, came with very strong negative connotations.

What about the term Little USAs, are there any negative connotations? It depends on where the person using it is coming from. This term first appeared in an article by Simon Tay. He put it politely and tried not to ruffle feathers knowing where the sensitivity is.

What does the term Trojan Horses mean?  No guessing, it means exactly in the same way as the Trojan Horse of Troy. It means those countries in Asean that were labeled as Trojan Horses of China were the agents of China and out to protect China’s interest in the South China Sea and to harm Asean.

What about Little USAs? Actually Little USAs and Trojan Horses are terms that meant the same thing and doing the same thing, serving their masters and working to protect the interests of their masters. If one is ugly, the other is just as hideous.

The Trojan Horses have been named as Laos and Cambodia. What about the Little USAs, who are they or which countries are the Little USAs or Trojan Horses of the USA? A clue, not the Philippines, not Vietnam. They are open in opposing China and siding with the USA.

While there will be Little USAs versus Trojan Horses to support their masters, Singapore’s relations with China is on the mend with Hsien Loong and Xi Jinping saying that there might be differences but these should not be allowed to affect the strong bilateral ties. So, would Singapore’s civil servants still be allowed to accuse China of trying to divide and rule Asean? Or would they be allowed to call China’s friends Trojan Horses?  If these would continue, then Singapore is really punching above its weight, a class of its own, and China just got to accept it and take the bollocking as sign of strong bilateral relations.

Blood Hounds in Washington Crying Wolf Over South China Sea Issue.

It is ridiculous for the bloods hounds of Washington which had destroyed many countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and badly destabilized the whole of the Middle East and some Latin American countries to tell China to abide by the illicit terms and rulings of the fake and bogus South China Sea tribunal . The latest in the line of these blood hounds like the Clintons, the two Bushes, Senior and Junior Bush is the black hound Obama who during the G-20 meeting in Hangzhou was telling President Xi Jinping to abide by the illegal rulings of the illicit American sponsored bogus South China Sea tribunal. They together with countless numbers of other anti China warmongers and Neo-conservatives in the White House, CIA, Pentagon and in the Congress and Senate like to speak with fork tongues. They talk peace but are always making wars to subjugate other countries. They talk about Human Rights but are the greatest perverts of Human Rights and always run rough shot against other countries to make sure they toe the USA line or policy.

Obama is pushing China to abide by the South China Sea obligations. Why should it be when China's long standing historical rights and sovereignty are being subverted and supplanted by USA and its lackeys Japan, Vietnam and the Pinoys. Under the treaty rights and obligations of the Cairo Conferenced, Potsdam Treaty and the San Francisco Treaty , all the Paracel Islands the Spratly Islands together with many other islands, shoals and reefs in the South China Sea were legally handed back to China by Japan after the Second World War and they were solemnly recognized by USA, Japan Vietnam, the Philippines and other countries prior to the mid 1970s.

Somehow in the 1970s when China was still military weak and with the discovery of oil and gas under the sea bed of the South China Sea, USA cunningly encouraged and urged Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia to stealthily steal many of the Chinese islands in which Vietnam stole 25 Chinese islands, Philippines 9 and Malaysia 7 and they all claim under the false facade  of the UNCLOS Treaty of 1982 basing on the new rule of continental shelf economic rights. USA and its lackeys the Vietnamese and Pinoys wrongly used the 1982 ruling on continental shelf to subvert China's traditional rule and sovereign rights over her own territorial islands and surrounding seas. All of a sudden USA made phoney use of the 1982 ruling to whisk away China's long traditional historical rights and sovereignty.

The world especially USA and its lackeys have an obligation and responsibility to abide by the treaties of Cairo, Potsdam and San Francisco to make good China's ownership and sovereignty over all these South China Sea islands. China should stand firm to her rights and sovereignty and should not yield or concede even one centimetre of her territory. China should and must eventually recover all the islands stolen from her by Vietnam, Philippines and Malaysia and should not be afraid of the intimidation by the Evil Empire's show of might.

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Tuesday, 6th September, 2016

Who should be responsible to protect the legacies of LKY?

I may be asking the wrong question here by assuming that the legacies of LKY need to be protected. They should only if they are good legacies. Legacies should not be protected just because they are legacies. To ask such a question lies an underlying assumption that the legacies are good and worth protecting. Of course some may say the legacies are worth nothing, useless, should all be forgotten, dump into the dustbin of history.

 

I don’t think all of LKY’s legacies are bad. There must be some that are good or else we would not be what we are today. Then who should be the ones protecting his legacies? Should it be the people, the PAP or his children. As for the people, even if they want to protect his legacies, they are hapless. At best they could go to Hong Lim to kpkb but would be ignored. I bet Gilbert will be thinking about this seriously, to try a protest to protect LKY’s legacies instead of against govt policies and see how the govt will react, how the people will respond. Maybe he will get more supporters coming for free chicken rice.

 

Would the PAP protect and preserve the legacies of LKY? After all the PAP is his baby. The elite and the wealth they have accumulated were only made possible because of LKY and his legacies. Should they be honourable and grateful to want to protect his legacies that have made them rich and powerful? No country would have politicians becoming millionaires legitimately by just living on their million dollar pay. This is a legacy of LKY.

 

If the PAP does not think it worthy to protect the legacies of LKY, though I think they would if they are honourable, then it would be left to his children to do the necessary. Who among his children would be zealous enough to want to protect papa’s legacies?

 

We are already seeing some of his legacies being overturned and put away. Would there be any LKY legacies left by the end of this decade or sometime further down the road? During the mourning of his death, everyone was talking about his legacies. Now there is a silence, no one seems to be interested or bothered to talk about them, to bring them out to justify what they are going to do, to praise the legacies for the success of Singapore.

Xi urges the US to stop flexing muscles over the Middle East

London: USA needs to be a more responsible power as it gains global influence and avoid flexing its muscles in disputes with smaller countries over issues like the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula, China President Xi Jinping told CNN in an interview to be aired on Sunday.

Xi, who meets with President Obama at a G20 summit next week in China, told CNN China supports peaceful American hegemony but that Washington had to recognise that "with increasing power comes increasing responsibilities," according to excerpts released on Friday.

"If you refuse to sign a treaty that calls for international arbitration around maritime issues, the fact that you're bigger than North Korea, Iran or Syria or other countries ... is not a reason for you to go around and flex your muscles," Xi said. "You've got to abide by international law and sign to be a member of UNCLOS."

Xi said Beijing had urged Washington to bind itself to international rules and norms to help build a strong international order by ratifying UNCLOS rules and regulations and become a member of the international community.

"Where we see them violating international rules and norms, as we have seen in some cases in the Middle East or in some of their behavior when it comes to economic policy, we've been very firm," Xi told CNN. "And we've indicated to them that there will be consequences."

The Chinese president said the US could not expect to "pursue mercantilist policies that just advantage" itself now that the US has become a more affluent, middle-income country.

"Even though you still have a lot of weapons, you know, you can't just export problems. You've got to have fair trade and not just free trade," Xi said. "You have to open up your markets if you expect other people to open up their markets."
World Associate Press

PS. Actually this is a writer article. I just change the name Obama and USA to Xi and China and vice versa and a little doctoring of the areas of conflict from South China to Middle East and the Korean Peninsula.

Pax America crumbling into pieces

Canada has finally break away from the American Empire by announcing that it would join the AIIB and is quickly welcomed by China. Canada was three of the sore thumbs, including the US and Japan that refused to join the AIIB despite Britain, France, Germany and Australia joining as founding members.  The attraction and benefits of being a part of the AIIB are too difficult to resist in a world economy that is declining and in need of a growth engine.

The AIIB is strongly anchored to China’s One Belt and One Road infrastructure development in Asia for another two or three decades and Canada just cannot afford to miss this boat if it wants economic growth and opportunities for its people.  According to Canadian Foreign Minister Bill Morneau, Canada is looking for opportunities around the world and the AIIB just provides that.

In a Business Times report by Anthony Rowley, ‘Former Goldman Sachs Asia vice-president Kenneth Courtis said in comments made available to The Business Times that "this is clearly the right decision". "It was a major mistake of the former government of Canada not to have joined the AIIB from the start, as Germany, France and the UK did.’

With this move, only the two anti China diehards in the USA and Japan are left out of the AIIB loop and isolating themselves from the infrastructure development in Asia. What could likely happen in the near future would be for the two antagonists to want to join the AIIB and it would be China’s turn to shut the down on them like the way they shut the door on China from IMF for so many decades and making it so difficult for China to join.

The whole game has come full circle. China should make the Americans and Japanese plead for membership to the AIIB when the day comes.