Asean - Can Asean look after its own security and territory?

 The Americans are planning to take over the India Ocean and western Pacific Ocean as part of the American Empire by creating a First Fleet of American warships to patrol and control the region bounded by the two oceans. This aggressive expansionist move by the Americans have been met with silence from the Asean states that are about to come under a new Imperial power, to be subjugated into semi colonies of the American Empire. This is not a rumour.  The new temp Secretary of Defence, Christopher Miller, has confirmed the plan and its execution.

The fate of the Asean states are as good as sealed. Their seas around them would be patrolled and controlled by the American First Fleet, to protect them and keep them safe, from who? Not the Americans of course, as the Americans are the protectors, the Empire and they are now part of the Empire.

Why is it that the region needs to be protected by the American Empire? Who is going to invade and colonise the Asean countries? China? China had never done that even during the peak of its naval power in the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th Century under the Ming Dynasty. The Chinese Fleet under the command of Admiral Zheng He came, visited the region and as far as Africa but never attack or colonise any of the Asean countries that were then very small kingdoms at best. They were not nation states like we know today, no Malaysia or Indonesia but scattered islands with their village or tribal chiefs.

Only in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries when the European colonial powers came were the islands and land in the region conquered and colonised and became colonies of the white men. Asean countries only became independent nation states after WW2 when they were given independence, some fought for it, by the white colonial powers. Now another white colonial power is coming in, raising a strawman in China as the aggressive power wanting to colonise the Asean states and walked in as the new Imperial or Colonial power of the region. Yes, the white men are going to colonise and rule the Asean region again on the pretext that the Asean countries are incapable to looking after themselves and needed their protection militarily, with warships and gunboats.

Are the Asean countries unable to protect themselves and need become American protectorates? Is China really a threat, wanting to conquer and take over the Asean states? Or is the same white wolf, now in sheep skin, is the real threat and marching in to take over control of the region? What is the truth? Who is the real aggressor and expansionist power wanting to control the region?

The earlier colonial powers had come and left. The American Empire came and had stayed in South Korea and Japan.  They wanted to stay on in Vietnam but were driven out after a long protracted and destructive war in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. They are still clinging to their bases in South Korea and Japan, refusing to give up the bases, and with agreements with these two semi colonies that in times of war, both their armed forces would come under the command of the American Commander in Chief. The Americans based the HQ of its Seventh Fleet in Yokosuka, Japan.

It was a stroke of good luck that the Philippines were able to dislodge the American bases from their country. Now some quarters in the Philippines are toying with the idea of reinviting the Americans to set up their bases there again. This time if it happens again, they can forget about the Americans leaving again. 

Would Asean countries meekly accept the fate that the American Empire is coming in to rule over them, to be their protector, that they cannot look after their own defence against a fictitious enemy created by the Americans? Once the First Fleet is formed and moved into the region, Asean would be forever 'safe' as protectorates of the American Empire. They would be as safe as the Afghans with Australian soldiers running wild in their land, and as safe as Libya, Iraq and Syria, with their new colonial masters, the Americans.

Who in Asean would dare to stand up to oppose the American military presence in the region? Which country would dare to say no now that the Americans have officially declared that they are coming in, like they are flirting in the South China Sea?

Who is the threat to Asean independence, self ruled and neutrality? Some American cronies would not mind being ruled by the Americans for sure. As they said, silence is consent.  The Americans have flown the balloon to test the reaction of Asean states and the signal they are getting is that it is ok to take over the region as part of the American Empire. The Americans would soon be here to dominate the Asean countries and region.

Did the Asean countries remember who invaded them, who colonised them, who plundered and looted their countries, who robbed off their dignities as human beans? Did Vietnam remember who did carpet bombing in their country, who sprayed Agent Orange on their land? Did the Philippines remember who massacred their forefathers? What about Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar etc etc?

DBS-LVB Deal - Was It Make Hay While The Sun Shines Or Make Haste While Neglecting Due Diligence?

 1984 George Orwell said... DBS-LVB Deal - Was It Make Hay While The Sun Shines Or Make Haste While Neglecting Due Diligence?

India's news media have reported that Subramanian Swami (SS), an Indian MP of the ruling BJP party, has asked the Modi government to put the Lakshmi Vilas Bank deal with DBS India on hold, in order to facilitate a forensic audit of the takeover of the assets of LVB by DBS.

SS also called for an examination of the allegations on money laundering made against DBS internationally and in Singapore.

In his letter to PM Modi, Swami said, “What is amazing is that RBI had sought objections from stakeholders which were to be filed by the close of business hours on November 20, 2020, effectively giving less than 72 hours for them to respond.”

Several stakeholders had raised objections to the deal. However, the RBI forwarded the draft proposal for Cabinet’s approval in great haste on November 25, without factoring any such objections. The merger came into effect two days later, on November 27.

Swami alleged that the haste with which RBI carried out the LVB-DBS merger, the unprecedented and unreasonable terms under which the bond and shareholders’ interest have been written off, and the arbitrary manner in which DBS Bank India was chosen without going through any standard operating procedure, raise serious questions on the functioning and integrity of India’s Central Bank, RBI.

Swami said there is a serious flaw in the functioning of RBI and lack of accountability inside the Indian Central Bank.

It must be noted that DBS India has already received capital infusion of Rs2,500 crore (S$450 million) from DBS Bank Singapore, as stipulated in the hasty LVB-DBS Merger Agreement.

Comments:

1. Anything done in haste is bound to lead to serious flaws because a thorough and careful feasibility study cannot be diligently executed in that time frame.

2. Anyone or any government body proposing an agreement to be signed in haste must be subject to serious scrutiny and suspicion.

3. Anyone jumped into such hasty agreement is essentially an impatient and reckless person, especially when such a big and risky business deal is being considered.

4. Any government that condoned and supported such a hasty and reckless decision is not only careless but also negligent and irresponsible.

Has the outstanding Singapore government become careless, negligent and irresponsible lately, because too many foreigners-turned-citizens holding important, influential, key and top positions are actively and actually influencing government decisions and policies to the detriment of Singapore's strategic interests?

1984 George Orwell

What is a threat? Who is the threat? Who is the greatest threat to the world?

Who is a threat, what is a threat? This concept of threat is a trade mark of American hegemony. The Americans have been declaring this country and that country as a threat to them. Can anyone visualise how little countries or poor farmers in Afghanistan or some poor country be a threat to the biggest and most powerful Empire in history? Can North Korea or Iran really be a threat to the Americans even if they have a handful of nuclear weapons? Would they dare to use them knowing that the return fire from the American nuclear arsenal would cook every one of their citizens alive and their countries turned into Stone Age?

The Americans have been using this term, threat, as a convenient tool to demonise a country and set it up for attacks and persecution, trade and economic sanctions and invasion.  When the Americans declared a country as a threat, the poor country be very frighten, as the Americans are going to attack them in one way of another. They would be very lucky if it is just trade and economic sanctions. They would not die in an invasion, killed by bombs, but allowed to continue to live in poverty, cut from from the world in trade and economic activities. Most  of the time this threat is an outright American lie, an American mischief to do evil, to start wars, to kill as and when they like it.

So far only the Americans are telling the world who and who is a threat to the American Empire, using the western media to spread this evil edict. No country would dare to tell the world that the Americans are a threat to them. But the whole world knows that the Americans are the most evil, fearsome and deadly threat to countries that did not obey the Emperor in the White House and would be destroyed or diminished. 

While the Americans are lying to the world that small and weak countries are a threat to the Americans, an American myth, a white lie that no one believes, every country knows that the real threat to them and to the world is the evil American Empire. It is a case of an Emperor without clothes but no one dares to utter aloud that the Emperor is naked.

Once again, who is the greatest threat to the world, to world peace? No answers, but the answer is obvious. The evil Americans. America's security is the world's insecurity. They are using the security threat to threaten and control and dominate the world.

Once again, is there any smaller countries that is a threat to the American security? The answer, from the Americans, they would be bombed to the Stone Age in minutes. Is that a good answer?

China seen through westerners' eyes

Below are video clips of a few westerners that have or are living in China and telling the world what China is today as contrast to the untruths and lies that the western media are telling the world. Among them they have made numerous videos about China on their own, a passion, just like the bloggers in mysingaporenews, to help people understand China. And just like many bloggers that are publishing alternative truths, Matthew Galat has come under attacks by the IBs, in this case likely to be CIA operatives in China, publishing anti China videos to smear and demonise China.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HG1w1UXWwI - China's High Speed Train

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5oEySG2xcE - Sanjiang Banquet

Matthew Galat - Jayoe Nation

Cyrus Janssen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seiIj_hKKEU -The Truth about Pompeo and China

 

Lee Barrett - The future of China - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kal16ZvwhEw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTJuPm_P27I - Your American Dream is Made in China

Kirk Apesland - gweilo60

Nathan Rich - Huo Guo Da Wang - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBpNkqQaTEM - 'China Virus' lies

Malaysia - Political intrique within intrique

 Azmin Ali spilled the beans. The mastermind was Mahathir, the victim was Anwar. Again Anwar was played out by Mahathir and his hope of becoming the PM of Malaysia grows dimmer. 

In the latest report in the ST, Azmin said Perikatan Nasional PN was Mahathir's idea, a scheme hatched in Mahathir's house on 23 Feb. Presence were the heads of Umno, PKR, Parti Pribumi Bersatu, Parti Warisan of Sabah, PAS and Gabungan Parti Sarawak. Azmin was then deputy President of PKR. Notably absent was PKR's president Anwar Ibrahim, the man they were fixing not to become the PM of Malaysia.  The purpose of the meeting was to ensure Mahathir continue to be the PM.

The proposal was presented to the King with 131 statutory declarations in support of Mahathir, who needed only 112 to have the majority in Parliament. The plot was more intriquing with the suggestion that they would remove Mahathir later and replaced him by a Umno candidate. But Mahathir the wily fox saw through the bigger scheme of thingsand resigned as PM, throwing everyone off guard.

Mahathir had denied his involvement in this scheme and claiming that he would honour his words to let Anwar to take over from him as the next PM. His words must be music to Anwar's ears.

Who is telling the truth, who to trust, are becoming more ridiculous by the day. But whatever happened, poor Anwar would forever be the victim and the PM in waiting with so many playing against him behind his back.

Would Anwar ever be the next PM of Malaysia? With so many interested parties involved and with so many eyeing for the job and plotting against Anwar, it is going to take a miracle for Anwar to get himself into the PM office.

Malaysian politics is so complex with so many players that no one can really predict what is going to happen tomorrow. And the mastermind is still weaving his spider web of plots withing plots to want to be the PM the third time, or is it the fourth time, and making sure Anwar will never get there.

Anwar has a big mountain to climb over if he is ever to be the PM and he would need a lot of political skill to do that. Maybe after Mahathir has passed away.