The New China - The New Long March

After 150 years of falling victims to international gangsters and hyenas that tore the country apart and impoverised the govt and people, the Chinese people have clawed back, step by step, in a painful and long journey to recovery, to rebuild their country and the lives of their people. No longer is the stigma of shame associated with being Chinese, something to live with and with heads bend. The Chinese have not only stood up but found themselves, and the confidence to be among the best civilisations and states in the world. All the sanctions, blockades, isolations, banning, did not work. The Chinese people have acquired all the scientific, engineering and technological knowhows to be among the best in scientific and engineering discovery, innovation and creation.

China is undoubtedly the new superpower without having to claim to be. It is challenging the West in leading edge technology in every field and overtaking the West in many areas. No need any hype, and no amount of badmouthing and smearing and blocking would change anything. China is way ahead in the fourth industrial revolution involving artificial intelligence and communication system and technology. What Huawei and other top Chinese companies have achieved cannot be stopped by the Americans or the West.

China is on a roll, unstoppable. It would run over all the roadblocks the Americans and the West are trying to throw into its path. China is now an economic power house, a major commercial trade partner, a leading military super power, self sufficient in designing and manufacturing everything it needs in warfare. It is conquering space, for real, not Hollywood makeshift moon landings or used of CGIs.

What is more important to China is not just the rebuilding of the infrastructure of the world, the rebuilding of countries robbed, destroyed and neglected by western imperialism, colonialism and incessant warfare. China is also looking foremost at the quality of life of its people, all 1.4b of them. More than 800m Chinese have been moved up from poverty and the target is zero poverty by year 2049 with China becoming a prosperous nation for all its people.

Just 40 years ago, China was still soaking in a sea of bicycles and Mao green tunics. Poverty was everywhere with dilapidated buildings built over centuries and still standing and badly needing repairs. The poor Chinese have to live with whatever there was no matter how bad they were.

The China today is gleaming new futuristic cities with high rise buildings and superb roads and rail ways crisscrossing the country and the whole of Asia. China has rebuilt itself to become a modern nation state and with good quality homes for its people. The dull, inscrutable and hopeless faces of the Chinese sea of humanity have changed to a brightly dressed people with smiles and hopes of a brighter and better future for now and future generations to come.

Below are just a couple of pics from CNA that showed the new China and the new Chinese people, the new homes that are many times better that what they came to learn from us in the 1980s and how they have improved on them to make them better for their people. If I am not mistaken, these are the quality of their public housing.

China is a people on the march, a nation on a march. This is a New Long March of the Chinese people to the future, to live well and with confidence as descendants of the dragon, of a great Chinese Civilisation. No more slums for westerners to parade on print on their media.

They have excess new buildings, homes and cities that the East chose to highlight as ghost cities without bothering to tell the wealth and investments poured into such cities, the designs and planning that eventually would all be occupied by the farmers and peasants moving out from their villages into well planned and organised cities and homes with all the modern facilities and transportation network. The transformation of China has just begun.

A Brief Synopsis of India's China War. - 1962 (I have redone this post)

Below are some salient points and facts behind the Sino-Indian border war of 1962. A good knowledge of the historical background of the disputed boundaries is essential to the understanding of the dispute.

There are many cumulative factors that cause the Sino-Indian border war in the foothills of the Himalayas mountain ridges in 1962. There is the historical factor of British colonialism and imperialism in India expanding right into Chinese territories in Tibet, India's ambitious Forward Policy of building military outposts deep into Chinese territories far beyond the McMahon Line , a boundary illaterally drawn by the British but never recognized by China, US/UK Western political and psychological support as well as Soviet Union's behind the scene instigation and support that encouraged India to attack China. Also it was due to India's ambition of inheriting the mantle of British colonialism and imperialism at the expense of China and India's overconfidence and miscalculation that China would not fight back in the event of Indian attack on Chinese border troops , a false and fake feedback given to India by US/UK and Soviet Union that finally goaded India to attack China.

Throughout the 18th and 19th century British colonialism in India expanded maliciously towards the Chinese territories in Tibet. British expansionism incurred on Chinese territories in the Himalayas in both the north west region of Aksai Chin and the north east of southern Tibet in Tawang province.

England refused to budge from occupied Chinese territories inspite of endless years of negotiations taking advantage of a weak and decadent Chinese government then.

British failure to settle its occupation of Chinese territories before it left India laid the foundation to the border war between India and China. Nehru's India was adament in refusing to talk and negotiate with China over the Chinese lands stolen from China by the British and now inherited by India as fait accompli Indian territories. Thus India wants to inherit the mantle of British colonialism and imperialism at the expense of China.

During the same period of 18th and 19th century another European imperial power Russia was expanding into Chinese territories both in Siberia in the north up to the Pacific coast where Vladivostok ( a former Chinese city ) is and in the south and south west in Xinjiang and Tibet in the Hindu Kush and Karakoram mountains.

Both England and Russia had the same compulsion to expansion. And wherever new territories were occupied they established military outposts to fortify and strengthen their illicit and illegal occupation and to overcome local resistance. And that was how China lost vast territories to England in the south and three million and five hundred thousand square miles of Chinese lands to Russia in the north as well as thousands of square miles of Chinese territories in the Illi region of Xinjiang.


PART TWO

On 14th March, 1899, in Peking, England agreed that the whole Karakash Valley and all Aksai Chin territory belonged to China. In the Simla Convention in 1914 Britain confirmed that Aksai Chin belonged to China. However, in 1947 when India became independent it refused to recognize Aksai Chin as Chinese territory.

When British forces reached the Himalayas it found that the states of Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan were all under some sort of Chinese suzerainty. In 1914 England illegally took the Tawang district of southern Tibet from China in which China objected and protested strongly. In 1946 an Indian map of Nehru's book "Discovery of India" 1st edition showed the Tawang province as Chinese territory. However, Britain's failure to reach an agreement with China left unresolved boundary problems to independent India in 1947, when it was granted independence on 14th August, 1947.

China had always protested the stealing of Chinese territories in Aksai Chin and Tawang and considered the Simla Convention in 1914 invalid. In October 1962 , China officially asked India to return to China a large swathe of territory from Ladakh to Assam which include Sikkim and the Darjeeling district.

India not only refused to return Tawang to China but renamed the province as the North-East Frontier Agency. India then adopted a forward policy of the British in grabbing more Chinese lands beyond the illegal McMahon Line and building military outposts to strengthen its occupation. When China called for talks and negotiations to settle the boundary issues it was always rebuffed by India which stubbornly maintained that they were Indian territories and there was nothing to talk or negotiate. India's attitude was on the model of the arrogant Americans or the west and that is 'accept what I claim or else there is nothing to talk about.'

In September 1962, India arm forces pressed forward in the western sector of Aksai Chin and the eastern sector - the North East Frontier Agency ( NEFA ). Thus it was India's forward policy which led to war. India believed and the belief was strengthened and assured by UK,US and Soviet Union that China would not fight back if India pressed forward and attack Chinese troops at the border. This strong conviction that China would not retaliate in the face of Indian attack encouraged India to continue its attack on China more aggressively from 6th October, 1962.

In the meantime China appealeed to India to talk and negotiate a peaceful settlement instead of resorting to fighting. However, India's attitude meant that settlement must be on India's terms.. When India continued to attack China finally had to retaliate and pushed back Indian forces. It was then that India shamefully claimed that China had carried out an unprovoked attack on India.

India had committed aggression against China but was quick to reversely put the blame on China for attacking India.It was a terrible shameful lie. It showed how dishonourable India can be.

India turned panicky with the disastrous defeat of its armies in the border war. Nehru appealed to America and England for military aid. India gave a list of the weaponeries it required from USA . On 29th October, 1962, Nehru accepted US military aid. This exposed India's false and fake non-alignment policy. India was looking at war with China as hours of greatness. From the 12th to 16th November,1962, India carried out large scale attack on Chinese forces in the north-east, NEFA. Again Indian forces were routed by the Chinese peasant armies.

On the night of 20th November, 1962, Nehru appealed for US intervention to bomb Chinese forces and also requested for US to despatch an aircraft carrier to the Bay of Bengal.

PART THREE

China declared unilateral ceasefire

On 20th November, 1962, China announced to the world of its unilateral ceasefire and withdrawal to 20KM behind the line of actual control which existed between China and India on 7th November, 1959 - The McMahon Line which China had never recognized.

China's army had advanced into the territory south of the McMahon Line , "in order to thoroughly rout the Indian reactionaries and to shatter their plan of altering the border status quo by armed force and to create conditions for a negotiated settlement. It was the first time in recorded history that a great power has not exploited military success by demanding something more." ( Quote from Neville Maxwell ) . China could have marched easily into into New Delhi, India's capital.

China repatriated to India all 6,000 Indian prisoners together with all their guns, mortars, artilleries, brand new American automatic rifles and a Russian helicopter in serviceable condition.

China called for talks and negotiations again but was constantly rebuffed by India despite appeal by some Afro-Asian nations viz Egypt,UAR and Sri Lanka. Instead India in 1963 conducted a joint Anglo-American air exercise with long range fighter aircraft flying in to operate from Indian Air Force bases. Nehru had in November, 1962 called for Anglo-American intervention in the Sino-Indian border war. It was a betrayal of the Afro-Asian non-aligned neutral spirit. Further India also called for Soviet Union's help to build up her defenses.

It was India's intransigence in refusing to talking peace through negotiations that the borders were therefore settled down into an armed truce and diplomatic relations between China and India were frozen in limbo. In 1969 a suggestion by Mrs Indira Ghandi to mend diplomatic relations with China was rejected by Congress.

Nevertheless, China's long standing offer to negotiate a boundary settlement on the basis of the status quo when India is ready to do so still stands.


PART FOUR

In September, 1971, Neville Maxwell's book on India's China War had aroused a hostile uproar in India. Led by politicians and parliamentarians the public demanded punitive action against the publisher and the writer, Blames for the defeat of the border war were hurled and levelled at each other between and among the different groups of politicians, parliamentarians, Indian Intelligence Bureau and the military.

Subsequently the retired army general - General Thapar broke his silence and in an article in the Statesman of 9th January, 1971 blamed the civilian defense minister , the director of Indian Intelligence Bureau and the civilian government not only for interference in purely military matters on flimsy political grounds but also for provoking the border war, when the defense minister ordered the army to evict the Chinese from Thag La ridge and other border areas both in the west and the east despite General Thapar's misgivings regarding Chinese reactions and its consequences.

It was generally believed by Nehru , his cabinet and his generals that China would not react strongly to India's forward policy and to India's attack on Chinese border troops. General Kaul was a warhawk who persuaded Nehru and the parliamentarians to strongly support the forward policy and eviction of Chinese troops from their outposts that led the Indian army to establish advance checkposts to outflank Chinese positions. Further India supported the CIA armed Tibetan emigres to foment and organize a separatist armed rebellion in Tibet . In fact Mullit the director of India's Intelligence Bureau and Nehru as well as many Indian generals and parliamentarians believe that India's national security can only be preserved by either India's occupation of Tibet or by helping to establish an independent Tibet state subservient to India. This has become a permanent feature of India's foreign policy.


Foot note:

This synopsis base on Neville Maxwell's book, " India's China War " is written to present the truths elicited from facts to refute the false and fake representations by some overseas - ASEAN Indian intellectuals who still hold strong social and emotional ties to India that they cannot overcome their Psychological pain of India's defeat in the Sino-Indian war of 1962. Therefore they pretentiously claimed innocense of India and blame China for the border war. Thus for years they persistently and consistantly talk, speak and write damaging articles to disparage and demonise China to give China a bad image. They are also quick to condemn China in any dispute between China and other countries viz US, Japan, Vietnam or the Philippines without any logical basis other than their chronic pathological hatred for China .

Hopefully this brief synopsis will set them in the right perspective of historical truth and not base on their irrational thinking arising out of their emotional ethnic ties to India.


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Wednesday, 11th July,2018

Raising the quality of doctors

SINGAPORE: Starting 2020, the list of overseas medical schools whose graduates can practise in Singapore will shrink from 160 to 103.

This comes after the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) reviewed the overseas medical schools with registrable basic medical qualifications, it said in a joint press release with the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Thursday (Apr 18).

The changes come as the need to recruit overseas-trained doctors abates, with total annual intakes from local medical schools rising from 300 in 2010 to about 500 in 2018....

Responding to CNA's queries, MOH and SMC said that in recent years, it registered about 120 doctors annually who had trained at the affected medical schools. Of those, about 30 were Singaporean or Permanent Residents.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/moh-cuts-overseas-medical-schools-approved-for-practise-in-11459004

In recent years Singapore had registered about 120 doctors from the delisted list of medical schools or about 1,200 for a 10 year period or 2,400 if over 20 years. The big question everyone will be asking would be the standard of medical practitioners from the delisted list and whether they have compromised the overall quality of medical services here. Hypothetically, if the approved list is equated to be the A list, the delisted list could be B or C list. So those from the B or C list that have gone through the gates would still be practising here due to our shortages of doctors.

Hopefully all is well and there is really nothing to worry about. Oh, would India sue the Singapore Govt because not all Indian doctors would be allowed to practise here?

Apparently from the above step taken by SMC and MOH, not all medical schools are the same or of the same standard or standard that are deemed acceptable to Singapore. Would this reasoning be the same for all other disciplines like engineering, science, law, finance, commerce etc etc? Or the difference in standards in these other disciplines would not be too deadly compare to medicine so never mind? Would slip shod engineering work, architectural work, civil engineering or even finance be deadly enough and result in loss of life as well?

In the past, Singaporeans seeking a university education overseas would be very careful to identify only the reputable ones or those recognised by the Govt. This may seem to be history and nowadays everything goes as long as it is printed on good quality papers, would be acceptable in our globalised city where wildlife are preferred than the locals, where funny degrees from funny universities are seen as better than our world class universities, where many of our graduates from our world class universities are answerable or have to report to superiors with funny degrees from funny universities.

Should the Govt think that it is high time that it also do a spring cleaning like the SMC and MOH to list and delist universities of dubious credentials? Or the problem will be so humongous, especially with so many private universities commercialising education and selling degrees of all kinds here and all over the world?

What do you think?

US Destruction of Socialist Countries worldwide

          It is so disgusting that many naive or ignorant politicians in Asean countries are constantly asking the Evil Empire to come to Asia particularly South East Asia to provide a strategic balance to the region. They should know the United States has for centuries been creating choas, trouble, instabilities, corruption and wars of conquest and domination wherever it goes.

The native Americans never invite the Europeans, the Spanish, the British, France and Portugal to their countries. Nevertheless they went uninvited. What did they do then? For hundreds of years they went on a rampage to tear their lands and countries asunder, to rob, to kill, to destroy their culture, to genocide and to take possession of their lands and countries. Go and read to find out about the atrocities they committed against the natives of America. Africa, Australia and New Zealand. They said that happened in the past. How stupid can they be to say that. Don't they know the West especially the Evil Empire wicked deeds have never stopped and are still continuing.

The Evil Empire, the United States is the most wicked country on earth. It is a rogue terrorist state. It posts a dire threat to all people and all life due to its insidious drive for world hegemony.To ask the
Evil Empire to come to South East Asia is to court with death unnecessarily. The Hawaiians had learnt it in a hard way. They allowed the white Americans into the country too freely. The Americans grabbed all the best lands to plant thousands of acres of fruit trees. They exploited the Hawaiian labours to the bone with very meagre or low pay. When the local Hawiaan government wanted to tax their companies they refused to pay. They made things difficult for the Hawiian people and government. When the Hawiaan government threatened to nationalise their American United Fruit Company they called in the American military to overthrown the Hawiaan kingdom. The rest is all history for Hawaii became an American colony in 1905 and was annexed by America on the 21st August, 1959 against the wishes of the Hawiaans. The island is now flooded with white Americans the population of which is many times more than the local Haiwaiians. However the local Hawaiians have never given up their hope of fighting for their own independence. In this fight they need the help of all countries and the United Nations Organisation.

In the 1890s the United States undertook to help Cuba and the Philippines to fight for independence against Spanish rule. The fight against Spain ended with both Cuba and Philippines became the colonies of the Evil Empire, a change of colonial and imperial master. Both Cuba and the Philippines resisted fiercely against the Americans but to no avail against superior American military might. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans and Philippinos were brutally slaughtered by the savage Americans. Due to continuous fierce resistance from the Cubans the Evil Empire found it hard to retain its rule. It yielded to Cuba's independence but retain a province in Guantanamo as US military base and concentration camps. The Philippines got its quasi independence in 1948 after the Second World War for the Evil Empire continued to hold many strategic Philippine ports for its military bases.

In 1961 the Evil Empire again tried to invade Cuba to topple the socialist government of Fidel Castro. It was resoundly defeated by the Cubans in the Bay of Pigs.

The Evil Empire will attack and destroy small or weak countries with a socialist or leftist government whether  they are democratically elected or a leftist dictatorship. They hate countries with socialist governments that give no chance for American capitalists to exploit.

Thus from 1961 to 1973 United States tried to gain control over Vietnam by taking over the colonial war from France but was badly defeated by the Vietnamese.

US persistently tried to regime change of countries which do not toe its dictates.It attacked and invaded the Dominican Republic in 1965 to topple its leftist regime. In 1983 it attacked Grenada to topple a socialist government which was very close to Cuba.

In 1953 US overthrew the democratically elected government of Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran in a military coup after he threatened to nationalize British Petroleum  and replaced him with a pro US dictator, the Shah of Iran.

In 1954 US overthrew the democratically elected government of Jacob Arbenz of Guatemala in a CIA supported military coup because he wanted to nationalise the United Fruit Company owned by Rockefeller . CIA replaced Jacob Arbenz with pro US brutal dictators who killed over one hundred thousand Guatemalans.

Similarly democratically elected governments of Ecaudor, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and  Haiti were replaced or regime changed by CIA supported military coups and replaced with pro-US brutal dictators.

One of the most wicked and brutal plot of CIA in regime change in South America took place in Chile in1973. In that year CIA overthrew and assassinated Salvador Allende , Latin America first democratically elected socialist leader as president. When Allende's socialist government nationalized USA's exploitative companies in Chile, CIA planned a coup and replaced him with CIA backed General Augusto Pinochet who tortured and murdered thousands of Chileans in a crackdown on labour leaders and the socialist political parties.

But the most gruesome and most brutal regime change carried out by CIA happened in a South East Asia country. President Sukarno of Indonesia had trusted the Americans too much so that over the years CIA infiltrated the Indonesian government administration deeply especially in the military. Then in 1965 CIA overthrew Sukarno with a military coup . In fact since 1957 , CIA had been trying to eliminate Sukarno with several attempted assassinations. CIA replaced Sukarno with a staunchly pro-US traitor General Suharto who to maintain and sustain his rule brutally murdered more than a million to two million civilians , a large proportion of which were Indonesian Chinese. It was the CIA which provided Suharto with the list of names of those countless suspects of being socialists or leftists politically.

At present in South East Asia the next target for regime change by the Evil Empire is the Duterte government of the Philippines. President Duterte had declared war on the international drug and narcotic traffickers whose illicit trafficking of drugs in the Phillipines had destroyed thousands of Philippinos every year and milked billions of dollars out of the Phillippines in foreign exchange. Of course the biggest and greatest drug rings and narcotic traffickers in the Philippines are run by CIA in cahoot with corrupted officials in the police and military and with the help of local runners. Thus the Evil Empire is not happy with the lost of billions of dollars from secret illicit drug and narcotic  businesss in the Philippines due to President Duterte.s crackdown on the illicit trade. President Duterte has to be very careful for CIA will never give up assassination attempts on him to replace him with a Pro-US dictator like the previous corrupted  dictator president Marcos who ruled from 1950s to around mid 1970s.

Now the Evil Empire is intent on creating choas, instabilities, trouble dissensions  and wars between Asean countries and China under the falsehood and guise of freedom of navigation and to provide balance of power in the region. Basically there was peace and tranquility in the South China Sea region until the Evil Empire pivot into the region with clandestine activities.

Asean countries must have the wisdom not to fall into the American trap of providing help and assistance in whatever circumstance because it is always a death trap and a sure way to lose your freedom and national sovereignty.

The above are only some examples of socialist countries destroyed by the United States. There are many ,more  countless socialist countries or countries refusing to toe US line being destroyed in Africa, Middle-East and Southern Europe.

NB : To get a better perspective of world affairs Netizens should go into these websites, the articles of which are being written by non-bias professors and academics, renowned journalists and authors.

The websites are :   1.  Counterpunch.Org  2. New Eastern Outlook.  3.  Strategic Culture Foundation.  4.  Press TV.  5.  Russia Insider.  6.  Global Times  and  7.  The 4th Media

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Friday, 19th April, 2019

Indian professor explaining the 1962 Sino Indian War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb46KBaj54U

Mr. Nitin Shastree is a scholar about Indo-China war of 1962. He explains

the incidents of war in English language. Interviewer : Prof. Mahesh

Kulkarni.

I came across the above clip and quote where two Indian professors were explaining the Indian side of the story of the Sino Indian border war and how the Indians fought bravely and gloriously against the PLA. In one incident, the Indian soldiers ran out of ammunition. So they mounted their bayonets, all 90 of them and managed to kill 600 PLA soldiers as a result. Another glorious incident was how one Indian soldier fought and held out one battalion of PLA soldiers, singlehandedly.

Today is Good Friday, enjoy the short video. Happy Good Friday to all the believers.