Singapore is going to be an Angmoh tua kee country

SINGAPORE: A large majority of Singapore-born citizens believe that an English test should be part of the country's citizenship application process, according to a CNA poll.

About 80 per cent of the 500 respondents were in favour of the test, following a suggestion in Parliament last month that has sparked spirited public discussions.  CNA

80% of 500 respondents wanted English test for citizenship application. Who are these 500?  Are they representative of the Singapore population? Presumably, since the poll was conducted by CNA and in English, the respondents are all English educated.

I asked 100 ah peks and ah sohs in the kopitiams and markets and 100% said no to English as a requirement. So how? Are the ah peks and ah sohs representatives of the Singapore population? 

Can the Chinese media conduct a similar poll and see what kind of result would it get? 

Just less than 40 years ago, China was still a very poor and underdeveloped country and many Asean countries looked down on China and the Chinese language was even banned in some Asean countries. Today, Asean countries are still developing countries, but China is already a super power, the number two economic power and going to be number one. The Chinese language is going to be one of the most important language. Some Asean developing mentality and mindset still cannot see how far they have been left behind by China and still think so highly of themselves and still thinking China and Chinese are below them. What simpleton!

The China Space Station is using Chinese and foreign astronauts would have to learn Chinese. And here we have simpletons still living in the 20th Century and thinking the world has not changed, and wanting English as a must language to be a citizen? Some even have the same mindset as those in Hong Kong, wanting Singapore to be like a British colony, speak English, the language of the colonial masters and be very proud of it. By the way, the colonial masters are now heading to oblivion. They are being wiped out from the continent of Africa.

It is ok for India to stick to English as they did not have a common language to communicate with each other. Singapore chose to be a multi lingua society to capitalise on our ability to speak more languages. In the region, Malay is equally important to communicate with our neighbours. English is convenient but must not be raised to a status to determine citizenship. 

PS. Italy banning the use of English in their country while Singapore is so proud to make a non native language a must to be a citizen.  What is the meaning of pride of one's own language and culture?

EU country’s ruling party fights ‘anglomania’

The Italian government is considering a ban on the use of foreign words in official communication.
A group of legislators from the ruling Brothers of Italy party has proposed banning the use of foreign words and terms in Italian public administration, schools, and universities.

Pitching India's democracy against China's communism

India is following the tactics of the Anglo Saxon Whites. Keep Bhutan and Kashmir poor and it will be easier to control them. And keep neighbours poor as well, so that India can be seen as better off. Just look at Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as examples. And India would certainly not like Pakistan to be better. But China crashed the Indian party, racing so far ahead that the Indians are extremely jealous and vindictive. They refused to joing the BRI and RCEP when given the chance. Well, let us see.

On the other hand, China's policy is to help neighbours and other countries get rich with infrastructure developments, so that they grow and progress and in the process China can do more trade with them under a win win situation. The BRI was conceived for that purpose, and faced immediate demonisation and condemnation, highlighting its ills, debt traps and trying to sabotage its implementation, using terrorism to create problems particularly across Central Asia.

The USA and the West had used brainwashing techniques to demonise communism as backward and not progressive and can never lift its citizens out of poverty compared to democracy for decades. They created wars to destroy communism, in Vietnam, the Korean Peninsula, and managed to succeed in Europe, with the Soviet Union and East Germany falling apart. Well, today, that has been proven a myth and a lie.

But they were so confident of themselves that they took their eyes off China, thinking that China, like every other communist country, can never overtake them. Now they have seen what is before them and what others have also seen in fueling China's rise. Does the changing world not aware of what is going on? Even the Africans, dubbed the 'Dark Continent' saw the benefits and are now following the right path.

And democracy, the system itself, is breaking up. Many democratic countries are actually now actually more autocratic than democratic in name only. 

 

 Anonymous 

The warmongers are the real Axis of Evil

And who is the number three evil warmonger making up the real 'Axis of Evil?' The third member of AUKUS of course. Set up to make this region the next theatre of conflict, after the Middle East and Europe, its purpose has been defined clear as daylight, and that is to counter China.

Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Palestine were the main players during the Middle East turmoil, with Israel the catalyst being inserted there for the purpose of destablising the region by the Warmonger in Chief. Now Israel's position is losing relevance for the Warmonger in Chief, and is facing chaos for not condemning Russia. This is hardly surprising.

In Europe, the conflict in Ukraine was created by the Warmonger in Chief, using Russia as the scapegoat, with Little Britain the main instigator and Nato the cheerleader from behind that started the ball rolling first, by planting the idea of a move to allow Ukraine to join Nato, which is the Red Line that Russia would not allow Ukraine to cross.

Now in East Asia, the Warmonger in Chief already roped in Australia and Japan to spearhead the confrontation with China, using Taiwan as the scapegoat. The Philippines' attempt to realign its foreign policy obviously met with very serious threats, such that Marcos Jr had to backtrack and bow to the demands of the Warmonger in Chief, even allowing them to have four more bases in the Philippines to station more troops for countering China.

Duterte had said, when he was President, in no uncertain terms, that he may not survive the CIA if he continues with his overture towards improving relations with China. Now, they are fabricating crimes against him using the ICC over his crackdown on the drug menace in the Philippines. Trying to get rid of the drug lords is being investigated as a crime? Someone obviously had so much to lose that it becomes a crime to kill off those drug lords. Question is, who is going to arrest Duterte should such a warrant of arrest by the ICC is made against Duterte? My feeling is that Marcos Jr will be forced to do it, as he has no sway over the military unlike his father. Marcos Jr is coming across as a 'Lame Duck' President.

 Anonymous 

PS. A San Jose police union chief accused of importing and reselling deadly synthetic opioids from suppliers in half a dozen countries to customers all over the US turned herself in on Friday, according to local media. Joanne Marian Segovia faces up to 20 years in prison for attempting to unlawfully import valerylfentanyl, a Schedule I synthetic fentanyl analogue.

Segovia allegedly spent nearly a decade of her tenure as executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association trafficking in the deadly drugs, using police resources to move pills and powders around the country.

Using her personal and office computers, she ordered thousands of pills at a time from China, Hong Kong, Hungary, and India, receiving at least 61 such shipments at the union office and her home between October 2015 and January 2023 labeled as party favors, makeup, chocolates, and other innocuous items, according to the US Department of Justice’s criminal complaint. She then used the union’s UPS account to ship the synthetic narcotics to domestic customers right out of her office, taking payment via CashApp.  RT

Now you know who were behind the drug smuggling in the Philippines and why they are against Duterte for wanting to put an end to the drug problem. The drugs came from them, to make money and also to poison the Pinoys, just like the opium in 19th century China. They wanted to drug the Pinoys and weaken the country, easy to manipulate and control when the Pinoys are drug addicts.

LKY - Americans lacked depth, wisdom and finese

 

In 4 minutes, LKY gave a summary of his impression of the Americans, they were lacking in depth, judgement or wisdom, and how they tried to subvert Singapore, bribing a Special Branch officer to spy on Singapore, very typical of Americans then and now, and insulted Singapore when caught, trying to bribe LKY with $10m instead to hush up the matter. Interesting views on his observation of the fumbling Americans, lacking finese and propriety. 

And what LKY said then is still valid today if you see the clowns in Washington destroying the American Empire with their amateurish and stupid ways of coercing the world. And to think that they even destroyed the golden goose that laid the golden eggs, ie weaponising the dollar and robbing people and country's money deposited in American banks.

They destroyed everything in the American dollar as a reserve currency and their financial system. No one is going to trust the Americans anymore.

Can the Americans be trusted? If you look at Channel News America churning out daily attacks on China, you know very well that the Americans are behind it.

Growing body of evidence suggests that the US would destroy Taiwan semiconductor factories if China invades

As Bloomberg reported in October 2022, former officials with ties to the Pentagon have urged the Biden administration to destroy Taiwan’s semiconductor industry in the event of a Chinese military assault. The outlet cited Elbridge Colby, a rabidly anti-China former Pentagon official, proclaiming, “We can’t allow such a valuable equity to fall into Chinese hands, I think it would be nuts.”

Last year, the US Army War College’s most-downloaded paper called for a similarly ruthless strategy. “To start, the United States and Taiwan should lay plans for a targeted scorched-earth strategy that would render Taiwan not just unattractive if ever seized by force, but positively costly to maintain,” the paper proposed. “This could be done most effectively by threatening to destroy facilities belonging to the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the most important chipmaker in the world and China’s most important supplier.”

“An automatic mechanism might be designed, which would be triggered once an invasion was confirmed,” the paper suggested, adding that the US and its allies could “give refuge” to Taiwanese workers in the sector, while Taipei could make “and publicize plans to target the mainland’s chip-fabrication lines using cruise and ballistic missiles, including the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation facility in Shanghai.” The paper also proposed a “preplanned sanctions campaign against any chip exports to China.”

Former White House National Security Advisor Robert C. O’Brien had also hinted at a sinister US contingency plan in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Rather than see Taiwan’s semiconductor factories fall into China's hands, the US and its allies would simply pull a Nordstream.

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