ASEAN's Credibility At Stake?

The slow progress in resolving the political crisis in Myanmar would have real consequences on its people, as well as the credibility of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a Rules-Based Organisation, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Oct 26, 2021.

Mr Lee urged the military authorities in Myanmar to cooperate with the ASEAN-appointed Special Envoy, Brunei's Second Minister for Foreign Affairs Erywan Yusof, who has not been able to enter the country since his appointment in August.

Speaking at the 38th and 39th (?) ASEAN Summit, which takes place virtually for three days starting from Tuesday, Mr Lee said that ASEAN leaders remain concerned about the situation in Myanmar.

On Feb 1 this year, Myanmar's military staged a coup, deposed elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and arrested several of her party's political leaders.

Contrary to its long Standing Principle and Practice of Non-interference, ASEAN leaders have been criticising Myanmar's military Junta’s actions this time round.

Last week, four Asean leaders had pushed to exclude the Myanmar Junta Leader Min Aung Hlaing from attending the ASEAN summit.

It was then decided that a non-political representative from Myanmar be invited instead. However, Myanmar did not send anyone to the submit.

Mr Lee said that Singapore strongly supports ASEAN’s efforts to assist Myanmar in a positive, peaceful and constructive manner and is committed to implementing a five-point consensus, a plan ASEAN had put forward to the Myanmar Junta in April to halt the ongoing violence, send humanitarian aid and facilitate dialogue among all parties involved.


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Myanmar's Military Junta has rejected the proposal and refused to allow any representative of ASEAN to enter Myanmar.

As such, there is an impasse. No progress has been made.

Unless ASEAN sends a combined military force, with the help of the USA, to invade Myanmar, any talk about progress in taming the Myanmar coup leaders through political rhetoric is frivolous.

By not living up to ASEAN's openly declared Principle of Non-interference in the internal affairs of member states, ASEAN has already lost its credibility and sincerity, and destroyed its one and only fundamental Principle - the Principle of Non-Interference.  

LIPS

Singapore politics - Misplaced trust, misplaced priorities

 In a democratic political system, the people are given the right and power to elect their representatives to Parliament to look after their interest, protect their interest, speak out for their interest. And the elected govt is supposed to do the same, to look after the interest of the people that elected them to be the govt.

What if the elected representatives are more interested in speaking up for those that did not elect them as their representatives instead of the people that elected them? What if the govt is always thinking and planning for the interest of foreigners other than the citizens, the people that elected them?

It is disgusting to see how vocal and zealous of MPs wasting their time and effort speaking out for foreign workers, we understand their plight, as if these are their main responsibilities, not the interest of their constituents, the people that elected them to Parliament. Likewise, some are speaking out for animals, accepted that animals also need to be taken care of, but what about the people that elected them for the very purpose of looking after their interest?

Similarly, what shall you say of a govt that have been peddling to the interest and well beings of foreigners and not the citizens? Jobs for foreigners, good jobs for foreigners, shitty jobs for the people that elected them? Free vaccines and freebies for foreigners?

Why elect representatives that think your interest is less important than those of foreigners and dogs and cats? Why elect a govt that panders to the needs of foreigners and make you grab drivers and food delivery boys and girls?

Might as well don't vote for them. This is misplaced trust and misplaced priorities when there are so many issues and problems facing the people but they chose to talk and speak out for people that did not vote them to represent them. Animals are more important to them.

How outrageous!

What do you think?

End Of ASEAN - Playing Into The Hands Of Lucifer

A Zone of Peace and Neutrality. That was ASEAN 's aspiration. That was the mission of all the ten member states of ASEAN. United we stand, divided we fall. Unity is strength.

Unity in the face of Big Power rivalry.

Strength against the persistent and powerful onslaught of the only Superpower's coercion and intimidation, blackmailing and interference, influence peddling and bribery, in order to divide and rule in Hegemonic Fashion throughout the whole World.

Formed for that purpose. Became successful in a limited way. Stood up as a torn in the neck of the Evil US Hegemonic Empire, which has been plotting to destroy or dismantle it for a very long time now.

Then, all of a sudden, there was a military coup in Myanmar and the opportunity came. The chance for the Evil Schemer Lucifer to destroy ASEAN came. Like a terrible blood-sucking vampire, it never let go its bite. Its bite has infected and transformed the ASEAN states into little vampires. The rest is history.

It took them so many years and so much deliberate and concerted efforts to stand together, to unite for one common cause and to chart a course for the creation and maintenance of that precious Zone of Peace and Neutrality.

It took them so many years of pains to stand together in order to uphold the Principle of No Interference in the internal affairs of member states. Yet with a moment of indiscretion, just like committing adultery, and most probably influenced by an itchy urge to satisfy a desire to please a certain Big Dick in the Western Hemisphere, they abandoned that Principle of No Interference in the internal affairs of member states.

Like committing adultery, one moment of pleasure, one moment of indiscretion, one's dignity, integrity, reputation and righteousness are destroyed forever. One's efforts in the maintenance of celibacy and purity for the entire life are thrown into the gutters.

That is what ASEAN is doing collectively to itself for the last three months, as if they have never experienced military coups before. The dignity, image, integrity, reputation and moral standing of ASEAN are gone forever!

Instead of going after those who are trying to turn the Zone of Peace and Neutrality into a War Zone with the introduction and proliferation of nuclear submarines into Australia, to destabilise the region and to cause conflicts, ASEAN turned its uncalled-for attention into meddling in the internal affairs of Myanmar.

Once it has bent backwards to discard that Principle of No Interference, it has opened its backside to the whole world to screw it right and proper.

There is no excuse. No matter how their respective Foreign Ministers tried to explain, using whatever clever and cunning words to defray the criticisms and change others' perceptions and conclusions, it won't work. The die has been cast.

There is no more Principle to uphold. There is no more Principle to talk about. You have only one Principle. Very simple and straight forward Principle, yet you screwed up. You are unable or unwilling to uphold it!? What human rights and democracy are you talking about? You don't even have any moral standing to talk about yourself. Go look into the mirror first.

Now, what is there left for the rest of the ASEAN member states, except Myanmar?

Myanmar can now hold her head up high and look straight into the eyes of every other ASEAN countries and show them the middle finger and tell them to shaft it up!

ASEAN is now divided. There is no more unity. There is no more credibility. There is no more trust. There is no more strength. That is the tragic end of ASEAN!

Stupidity has no cure! 

LIPS

China - From Land of little opportunities to Land of many possibilities

 The country was poor, not many jobs available in an agrarian society without industrialisation and the modern factories. What were the jobs and occupation available?

The best jobs that paid well, and extremely well for the corrupted, were the govt officials. That was the dream of all the poor peasants. Study hard, became a govt official and the future would be made, fame and fortune and money. 升官发财。 The other available jobs would the civil service, iron rice bowl. Even the low level officials could provide a decent life for their families, and if they were willing to cahoot with the top officials, they too could be rich, as part of the cronyism of the govt service.

The rest of the people were likely to be farmers, planting and growing food in little plots of land to feed themselves, or they would be jobless. Then the cooks in the tea houses, the waiters, the salesmen peddling their wares, and pulling passengers in their two wheeler carts, or food delivery, and of course the cleaners and dishwashers. Village doctors, shop keepers were reasonable occupation, but they would not become rich.

There were also the merchants that made it rich travelling the silk routes and sailing the high seas. But there were not many professionals or PMET jobs around. Living was hard but bearable.

Then came the foreigners with the guns and cannons. And they took over the country. Most of the top jobs were taken over by foreigners. The one holding the real power were the foreigners. And the natives had to suck up to the foreigners to be their assistants and lackeys just to earn a living in their own country. The rich and powerful continued to live their decadent and corrupt lives. The quality of life of the people went down a few notches. New professions like bandits, cheats and conmen, thieves, kidnappers were aplenty when normal occupation were hard to come by.

Then came the peasant revolution. The corrupt officials and landlords were executed and a new order was established. It took decades to eradicate inequality and to rebuild a new order that is more egalitarian with the wealth spread wider and further down the social ladder.

70 years passed and a land that was lack of opportunities is now a land of many possibilities. The people could work hard and believe they could be better tomorrow. The land is theirs and they affectionately called it their motherland. No more foreigners be allowed to rule over them, to take the top jobs, especially those in the govt service or govt related companies. The country and jobs were for the people of a self respecting country. No need to suck up to foreigners, no need to disgrace themselves as less able than the foreigners, no need to depend on foreigners for expertise or to create jobs for their own people. No need to be cheated by fake talents.

Foreigners are allowed in the country but under their terms and laws. Foreigners were there to complement and to contribute in their own ways to the country, but not there to steal their jobs and their lunches. This is the pride of a self respecting people that believed in themselves, their ability to achieve greatness on their own steam. They do not have to be humiliated by foreigners in their own country. No foreigners would dare to have the audacity to tell them they have no talent and the foreigners were there, invited, to help them because they have no talent. Such shameful and self deprecating statements would never come out from the mouth of a proud civilisation that is equal to the best in the world.

They have created their own order in their own country and all the opportunities and possibilities for their people, and travelling the world with heads held high, with dignity not bought by paying themselves millions for doing nothing useful or worthy. They paid themselves pittance for what they contribute to their country, and uplifting the quality of life of their people to be the best in the world.

Their motherland is theirs, always theirs, and would not be taken over by foreigners, a land of endless opportunities and possibilities for them to pass on from generation to generation...not to pass to foreigners.

The CIA's Mission Against China

The CIA had expanded its mission against China. This has been openly announced by the Biden Administration as well as the Chief of the CIA.

A new specially organised and huge unit with its own headquarters has just been set up to focus fully on China like previously during the US-USSR Cold War.

The US has now changed its stance against China, from strategic competitor to that of ENEMY.

Joe Biden repeatedly said that the US is not going to start a Cold War with China. In fact, the Trade War, Technology War, Legal War, and Propaganda War have started during Trump's Presidency already. Therefore, that means the Cold War had already begun.

Joe Biden is correct to say that the US is not going to start a Cold War with China because the Cold War has already started!

The US is in fact preparing to start a HOT WAR with China.

That's why the US troops in Afghanistan and the Middle East are being pulled out to pivot towards the South and East China Sea, for future deployments in Australia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. And possibly also to Myanmar and Cambodia.

That's why the CIA has been expanded to confront China in a more aggressive, deliberate, extensive and all-encompassing way.

In addition, a special budget of US$300 million per year has been allocated to smear and demonize China and spread falsehoods and false flags against China. All the US mass media (including the BBC of UK) and AFP. AP and Reuters - the three main news distributors - have also been engaged and paid to research and produce articles detrimental to the good name of China.

China must think of how to arrest the imminent threats of the CIA and be prepared for an all-out war with the Evil US Empire and Allies.

Better be prepared than to be caught with pants down like 150 years ago.


LIPS.