11/28/2022

Rude and offensive diplomacy

 The Americans have honed and perfected their rude and offensive diplomacy against China in the last 3 decades by using human rights, democracy and meddling with China's internal affairs as the offensive subjects. These, with willing or coerced allies and unwilling states, become a very effective and irritating weapons against a China that was still weak and unable to take a strong stand to ward off the assault. China needs to grow stronger and be confident and firm to deal with these daily affronts by the American and the West.

The Americans have coordinated this strategy and using western media and media of its stooges to play these up to continue to smear China at every moment and every opportunity available. In every major meeting, summit, regional or international gathering, the issues of human rights, democracy and China's internal affairs would be highlighted, be the main agenda, regardless of the purpose of the meeting or gathering. Climate change, trade, science, business or whatever would take a back seat while these issues were treated as first page news, to take precedents over the main agenda. And the main western media and media of the stooges would obediently splashed them as headline news.

Every visit to China by any delegations, trade, diplomatic or whatever, the visitors, low level or national leaders, they must bring up these issues with China. Boy PM Trudeau was so proud to tell the press he brought up such issues with Xi during the G20. Another boy PM Sunak also raised these issues in the same summit. Every visit to China by western nations and American stooges have been carefully briefed and coordinated to include these issues in the agenda.

The gist of this methodology is very simple. It is like slapping China first to put China on the defensive before dealing with the actual agenda. A weak China would end up being smeared and wasting its time trying to defend these vicious allegations and interference in its domestic affairs, forgetting that the visitors have no right to meddle with China's domestic affairs, forgetting that it is very rude for visitors to come to China and deliver the first blow at the host. And if China is meek, or try to be polite, to be a good host, and did not hit back, then China would look bad and silly. And the western media would blow it up as first page news. Reuters, AFP, AP etc etc would always include such issues in their reporting without fail. It is a mandatory reporting, to keep hammering China, to keep hammering the readers with such propaganda, to sink them into their subconscious that China is bad.

China is a super power. And as a super power, China must act and behave as a super power. China needs not be rude or be a bully. But for rude and unfriendly guests, China must be ready to take the broom and chase them out of China. In fact, China must make it conditional that guests and delegations visiting China are not permitted to talk about China's domestic affairs, not to interfere or question China's domestic affairs and policies, they are none of the visitors business, and not to talk about human rights or democracy. By allowing the visitors to raise them, it puts the visitors on a higher moral ground, with the advantage of taking the offensive. China must make it an official policy that these issues would not be welcomed and visitors or delegations wanting to raise such issues would not be allowed into China. And if they are in China, they would be evicted immediately, PNG, and send to the airport. This must include visiting national leaders as well. China must no longer tolerate such silly antics of vile and uncouth visitors. If they want to be rude, China must return their rudeness in kind. Period.

When would China make this official and announce to the world that it would no longer tolerate such rude visitors and would not entertain rude visitors. Only friendly visitors would be welcome and be warmly received. Rude, bad, unfriendly and mischievous visitors have no place to be in China.

11/27/2022

Indian super talents conquering the world



Here is a look at famous Indian CEOs at the helm of major American companies.

Sundar Pichai, Alphabet Inc
Parag Agrawal, Twitter 
Satya Nadella, Microsoft
Shantanu Narayen, Adobe Inc
Arvind Krishna, IBM
Raj Subramaniam, FedEx
Leena Nair, Chanel
CS Venkatakrishnan, Barclays
Sonia Syngal, Gap
Laxman Narasimhan, Starbucks
George Kurian,  NetApp
Nikesh Arora, Palo Alto Networks
Jayshree Ullal – Arista Networks
Ajaypal Singh Banga – Executive Chairman, Mastercard
Sanjay Mehrotra – Micron TechnologLaxman Narasimha 
Rangarajan Raghu Raghuram - VMware
Laxman Narasimhan - Reckitt Benckiser
Punit Renjen - Deloitte
Anjali Sud - Vimeo
Vivek Sankaran - Albertsons Companies
Niraj S. Shah - Wayfair
Ivan Manuel Menezes - Diageo
Vasant Kalathur Narasimhan - Novartis
Sharmishtha Shar Dubey - Match Group
Anshuman Jain - Deutsche Bank, Cantor Fitzgerald
Rajeev Suri - Nokia, Inmarsat
Dinesh C. Paliwal - Harman International
Rakesh Kapoor - Reckitt Benckiser
Francisco D’Souza - Cognizant
Sanjay Kumar Jha - Motorola and GlobalFoundries
Indra Krishnamurthy - PepsiCo

The above is just a token of the thousands of Indian super talents heading billion dollar companies.  Singapore would not be able to afford them nor have billion dollar companies worthy to hire them.

If only Indian companies could afford to hire them, many Indian companies would be in the Fortune 500 list. With their super talents they could easily turn many Indian companies into top companies in the world. The world's gain is India's lost.  Maybe if Singapore is willing to hire them, they may turn some of Singapore's companies to join the Fortune 500 list too.

What do you think? These are the world's top employees to those companies that could afford to pay them.

PS. Ooops, Twitter just changed its CEO to Elon Musk.

11/26/2022

Ukraine - Unconstitutional for NATO countries to train Ukrainian troops



Involving Croatia in EUMAM isn’t constitutional, president Milanovic has announced


Croatia can’t train Ukrainian troops on its territory as part of the EU aid program as that would be unconstitutional, President Zoran Milanovic said on Tuesday, responding to a request from the defense ministry in Zagreb.

“Given the justifiably great interest of the Croatian public in the announced participation of [Croatian military] members in the EU military assistance mission to Ukraine, and the unclear and unexplained circumstances that participation would entail, the Office of the President has to inform the public that the minister’s proposal is unfit to be considered,” Milanovic said, before explaining his reasoning.

Defense Minister Mario Banozic had sent Milanovic a draft proposal for Croatian participation in the European Union Military Assistance Mission (EUMAM), which reportedly involves training around 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers on the territory of the bloc.

The Croatian constitution does not give Banozic standing to make such a proposal, the president noted. Nor does it allow Ukrainian troops to set foot on Croatian soil, he argued, as Kiev is “not a member of any alliance” Zagreb belongs to and there are no international treaties otherwise regulating their status.

The above is from RT. Croatia is the first NATO country that questioned the constitutional obligation and responsibility of NATO countries to train Ukrainian soldiers inside its country. This poses another question, is the Ukraine War constitutional as Ukraine is not a member of NATO?

With so many NATO countries being dragged into this unconstitutional war as NATO has no obligation to defend a non member, and with so many NATO countries training Ukraine troops in their land, why none of the other NATO members question the legality of this war? It is, from the beginning, an American war against Russia, or at most an AngloSaxon war against Russia. Why were all the NATO members being blindly led into this war, wasting so much of their resources to aid Ukraine? Where does NATO's obligation stop? Or NATO can simply expand it to cover any country in any continent, to come to their defence, to defend Taiwan or any Middle East, Central Asia or SE Asian country?

Is NATO the policeman of the world?

11/25/2022

Special dedication to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim - 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia

 Have been following this man since the days when he was a youth leader fighting for Malay rights, for the rights and well being of rural Malays. For a while there seemed to be a winning streak when he steadily rode the tide of Malay politics and became the Deputy PM and PM designate under Mahathir.

Anwar as the next PM of Malaysia was almost a certainty. All of a sudden the nightmare began. It was hell all the way for Anwar and his family. There was little help coming from his Malay supporters, or the help was futile under the rein of Mahathir. Mahathir was like God or Allah, untouchable and unopposable. When he said die, Anwar must die. No one would go against the will of Mahathir. No one dared to speak up for Anwar. To make matter worse, many turned against him, the Malay folk hero became a villain, an outcast rejected by the people he loved, the people he fought for.

Anwar and his family went through the darkest days of their lives, quite alone, abandoned, disowned by the Malay elite in UMNO. It was a very painful chapter in the family history, best forgotten and unsaid.

The family stayed together through thick and thin. The wife, Wan Azizah, and daughter, Nurul Izzah, took up the mettle to fight on as a family for the name of the family and for their father. The struggle could be turned into a tear jerker. They soldiered on to fight in every GE in the absence of their father, Anwar, locked up in a prison cell, cheated and betrayed again and again. He was supposed to be locked up and forgotten, with the key thrown away.  But he has a wonderful and capable wife in Wan Azizah, a a family of fighters like Nurul, that would not give up on him and kept his flame alive in the dark corner of his prison cell. They did not give up on him.  Azizah held on to his seat, feathered his seat and warmth his seat for his return. Meanwhile, Azizah and Nurul became successful politicians in their own right and only took a step back when Anwar returned as a free man, to continue his political career and an uphill battle. Many had already written him off for good. No way is Anwar going to make it. No way!

Today, against all odds, Anwar is now the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia, a fate that was very difficult to visualise even a few days back. There were many that stood in his way, stood against him and swore would not support him. Anwar is the new Malaysia Miracle!

Anwar is back, after a long 24 years fighting a lonely battle. He has redeemed himself and brought back pride and respect for himself and his family. I think many of the Malay rakyat would equally celebrate in joy for the return of their folk hero in Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar has stepped out from his shadow to be a shining light again in Malaysian politics.

Anwar is a class above all the Malaysian politicians that were hillbillies or kampong boys and only good in gutter politics. Anwar could stand in a world stage to discuss world affairs that no Malaysian politicians could do. Anwar is not only a national leader but could rise as an international statesman, even outshine Mahathir. Intellectually he is the best Malay politician Malaysia has ever produced.

Malaysian politics would never be the same again. Inshyallah.

Why is life so difficult now has a happy ending. But the toughest battle is yet to be, the hard work is just beginning.

Anwar is a real life Malay folk hero, and a legend in the making.

PS. Behind a successful man there is a woman. Behind Anwar there are two women, Wan Azizah and Nurul. Anwar is so blessed to have them beside him.


Anwar could bring a change to Malaysian politics


Anwar could bring a change to Malaysian politics. But in Malaysia, political leaders have to continue with special treatment for the Malays to remain in power, and Anwar is thought to be someone with a broader mind and that may marginalise the rights of the Malays.

Malaysia is descending into chaos in the days ahead. Not good for the country and for investors. Anwar's PH cannot agree with Muhyiddin. Muhyiddin's PN cannot agree with Hamidi. It seems Hamidi's BN cannot agree with Anwar after their recent meeting.

In any case, even with a coalition, there will be sabotaging ahead, just like in the past with Mad Hatter and Mud. Then Malaysians were ecstatic and talking about a new dawn that later turned into dusk.

And Mad Hatter is still demonising Anwar claiming that Malaysians do not like Anwar although Anwar thinks otherwise.

What about Mad Hatter himself, still trying his luck at 97, thinking that Malaysians still like him, yet his party, GTA, a pure Malay party, did not win any seat, with Mad Hatter losing his deposit as well. Very embarassing indeed. 
 
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