A UNITED ASEAN STAND ON TAIWAN NEEDED

 ASEAN STAND ON TAIWAN IS NEEDED

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The United States has offered more than US$150 million to ASEAN countries for initiatives including maritime cooperation and clean energy as Washington seeks to advance its position in the wider geopolitical competition with China. US President Joe Biden is hosting US-ASEAN Summit with his counterparts from the 10-member ASEAN bloc.

US$60 million, as compared to US$60B for Ukraine, would be directed to “promote a free and open Indo-Pacific” – a phrase Washington has used to assert maritime rights, including military exercises, in a region where China and at least four ASEAN members have overlapping sovereignty claims in the South China Sea.

ASEAN should make it absolutely clear that the 10 nations would not support any US military and economic actions that may be directed at China over its domestic matter with Taiwan. Specifically, ASEAN must be prepared to bar any military air and sea vessels into the ASEAN region in the event of a US/Allied-China conflict. ASEAN should also state in crystal-clear unambiguous words that it does not welcome any form of NATO presence in the region.

In fact, the latest money will allow the United States Coast Guard (and US Navy?) to assign more resources to the region for training and security cooperation, the White House announcement said. The US Coast Guard will also send an attaché to the US mission to ASEAN, and work with the State Department on new initiatives to fight illegal fishing activities.

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Biden and Putin having different dreams - Gala extravaganza in Moscow

WASHINGTON: It has been more than two months since Russia sent troops into Ukraine. Facing mounting losses and slow, limited gains, Russian President Vladimir Putin “doesn’t have a way out right now”, said United States President Joe Biden on Monday (May 9), adding that he was “trying to figure out what we do about that”.

The war is clearly not going the way Putin wanted. Russia’s air force has not dominated the skies, its ground advances have been stalled by strong Ukrainian resistance, and its sanctions-hit economy is expected to shrink by 10 per cent, the worst contraction in nearly three decades. CNA

The above from a Reuters report in CNA clearly spelt out the dreams of Biden, or his beliefs how the Ukraine war in progressing.  To him the Americans are so successful and Putin is in big trouble. That is Biden's reality or belief. Did he really know what was Putin's objective and what is really happening on the ground?

One thing for sure, the Russian economy is chugging along fine. What or which economy will collapse in another 6 months would likely come from Europe, excluding Ukraine's economy that is already a basket case. A few of the European countries would be on their knees if this war continues for another 6 months and will be begging for mercy. 

How the war is being fought is determined by Putin, not by Ukraine or the US. Putin chooses where he wants to hit, where he wants to put his forces, at will and Ukraine or the US could do nothing about it. The myth that Ukraine took back Kiev by pushing Putin's forces back to the east is laughable. Putin, after having achieved his objectives, have pulled back voluntarily to the east to secure the eastern regions and cities that would be under Russia's control for good plus the prize possession of the underground fortress with all the evidence of bioweapons, thousands of children used as test specimens and the number of American and NATO generals booking into his special hotel for such high class POWs. 

This is history in the making for so many top western generals to be captured and to be put on trial in Moscow for war crimes. The most important objective of Putin's is the destruction of the NATO command centre and biochem weapon labs plus all the deadly biochemicals stored under the Azovstal steel plant.  Putin did not go into this war to capture Kiev or the whole of Ukraine.

Putin to date has achieved what he set out, and capturing Kiev was never his goal, but a distraction. And yes, he has full control and dominance over the entire Ukrainian airspace. No NATO or Ukrainian aircraft could fly without being shot down. So what is Biden talking about?  Did Biden really know what he is saying or dreaming?

This senile old man is just reading from the script without knowing what it was all about. The following months would be gala extravaganza in Moscow with all the American and NATO generals and top scientists paraded in front of the world media to confess their crimes against humanity, how they captured thousands of children for deadly infectious experiments using biochemical weapons.

Putin now would have all the evidence and confession to put the final nails on the coffin of the evil American Empire. Get your pop corns and beer ready for the show and be ready to pop champagne as well when the final curtain falls.

PS. The Americans are reopening their embassy in Kiev, knowing very well that Russia would not attack it anymore. This confirms what Putin's objective was from the beginning of this war, the prize catch in the Mariupol underground fortress and its destruction.

IS crying wolf to create fear to control the world is coming to an end.

 When the USA and the West continue to lie about threats and forced leaders to believe in their lies, there will come a time when such lies no longer will work. Other leaders just grew tired of too much lying, just like too much winning for the USA over the trade war with China.

If the USA did not resort to arm twisting and veiled threats, such as you are either with us or against us, not many sensible leaders would be following them meekly and blindly. Even some Europeans within NATO are now having second thoughts on the war in Ukraine. Analysts have come to the conclusion that NATO will not last till the end of this decade. So, Sweden and Finland joining is just hogwash just to show the world their fake solidarity to create new fake threats for Russia.

They also lied about Vietnam, creating fabricated fears that if South Vietnam falls, the rest of South East Asia will fall like dominoes. Well, now that South Vietnam has fallen, did the countries of South East Asia fell to the communist? Did this happen even when they already fled with tails between their legs and left SEA to the communist? That was one big lie.

They also lied about Iraq, fabricating evidence of WMD and chemical weapons possession. They fabricate videos of trucks carrying pipes claiming those were to be used for making missiles. They fabricate fake videos showing white powders manufactured by factories and bombed those factories to kingdom come. These factories were later found to be baby milk powder factories and in consequence depriving Iraqi babies of their feed. This is a war crime and genocide. They were never investigated.

Now, they have fabricated all the lies about Ukraine where they were hiding biological weapon labs and using neo Nazi elements to get rid of Russians in the East. There was genocide committed against Russians in the Donbass and Luhansk region, which was denied all along. Putin had no choice but to step in.

Wonder whether people have noticed that there is now a media war being hatched against the Philippines over the election of Marcos Jr, who is making a beeline towards China. The USA will be funding the opposition, NGOs, and more CIA involvements in destabilising the Philippines.

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Asean US Summit - Contempt of Asean

 8 Asean head of states, Presidents and PMs, took 2 days off to fly to the US for a summit meeting with their counterpart, the President of USA. All they had of Biden's time was a dinner and a 2 hour meeting with second rung leaders like Blinken and Sherman. To add insult to injury, the Asean Presidents and PMs were treated like second tier national leaders, no individual meeting with the Emperor. The Emperor had no time to see them individually.

During the two hour meeting with the 8 Asean head of states, the table arrangement was demeaning. Normal protocol would have leaders of similar seniority facing each other in two long tables. In this case, all the Asean heads of state were on one side facing a couple of minister level American leaders. The Emperor was sitting at one end of the tables, looking down on the two rows of tables like presiding over them. The Americans did not miss the chance to tell the Asean head of states that Biden was the Emperor and was gracious enough to share a couple of hours with them when they paid their homage.

And the Emperor was so generous to throw some crumbs to the poor Asean leaders that travelled from thousands of miles just to take photographs with him, all US$150m as a gift or less than US$15m for each Asean country. The Asean leaders must be lapping up the crumbs with joy.

This honorarium did not come free with no conditions. The Emperor would henceforth send his Coast Guard patrol boats to patrol Asean waters as part of his Empire. And Asean leaders cannot say no. The Emperor said so and that is it. The Emperor did not have to consult the Asean leaders to do this. And Asean leaders must be grateful for the Emperor to send his Coast Guards to protect them, from who? The Asean waters are so dangerous and needs the Empire's protection. I am still wondering whether Asean is going to take this gesture kindly, that they are now part of the American Empire as they cannot protect themselves...and the Asean waters now belong to the Empire. This is not a subtle move by the Americans to control the waters of Asean. The Emperor claimed it right before the 8 Asean leaders that it belongs to the American Empire. Now one Coast Guard boat, and this will increase over time to many Coast Guard boats in Asean waters.

Can you imagine this? The Asean leaders travelled all the way to the USA to take orders from the Emperor and to agree that Asean is now under the protection of the Empire!

What did the Asean leaders gain in return? A free dinner with the Emperor and a chance to have a photo op with the Emperor to bring home to frame it up?

SEA Games - Gold standard

 

This chart is posted in TRE by Mohamad Rasul Mohamed.

When is LKY going jump up from his grave? In his time, this kind of things would never be allowed to happen. And if it did, heads would roll. Working with him, every comma and full stop must be in its right place. That was the gold standard of LKY.

We are now in May 2022.

This is gold. How low can we go?

I remember someone once said, what is acceptable? 99% good enough? In third world countries, 90% would be excellent. In the production of media, if 99% is good enough, it would mean that for every 100 words, there will be 1 mistake. Count how many hundred of thousands of words in a daily newspaper, how many thousand mistake would be there?