Middle East - No more wars

 The Arab and Muslim countries are mapping out a grand plan to rid the region of wars. There shall be no more wars in the Middle East, from Morocco in the West to Afghanistan in the East, from Turkiye in the North to Yemen in the South, it would be a region of peace and transquility. It is not easy after centuries of incessant warfare mastermind by the white men. The Arab and Muslim countries, ancient civilisations deep in culture, knowledge and wisdom, and rich in mineral and resources, were plunged into ages of darkness, wars and killings and destruction of their countries and people.

The Arab and Muslim countries have awoken to the cause of their tragedy and poverty. There is only one simple thing to do. Get rid of Satan, the evil Empire and the white men. All their troubles and warfare and demise were caused by the evil Empire and the white men.

The most important move is to chase the white men out of the region and make peace, build friendship among the Arab and Muslim states. The peace movement is gaining momentum. Peace between states that were historical enemies, peace between Iran and Saudi Arabia, peace between Syria and Turkiye, and peace among the various tribes, factions. And peace between the Sunnis and the Shiities, all brethens of the Abrahamic faith. They shall all live and prosper under the guidance of Allah, not misguided by Satan and the white men.

Russia and China are also being roped in to be peacemakers and bridge builders. All the funds and resources that were wasted on endless and meaningless wars would now be channeled to rebuild the lands and to build a better life for all the Arab and Muslim people. When peace returns, where the infrastructure is rebuilt, when the states are functional, the Arab and Muslim refugees around the world would have a peaceful and prosperous oasis in the region to return and to call home.

The Arab and Muslim states have embarked on a productive and beneficial journey together, to bring peace and prosperity for their people and their lands.

Good riddance to Satan and the white devils. The success of this gargantuan task requires the cooperation and commitment of all the Arab and Muslim people, to stand firm and together and not be manipulated by the white devils to hate and kill each other. Stay together as one united people and work for peace and prosperity for their brothers and sisters.

There shall be no wars and no white men to incite and agitate them for wars in the Middle East.

Inshallah. Bless the Arab and Muslim people in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia.

Biden slaps the Pacific Islanders

It strikes me as odd that Joe Biden is so confident that the USA debt ceiling impasse will be settled by next week, after months of horse trading and tough threats. In other words, all that wrangling in Congress is just a show purposely put on to fool, both their domestic audiences and the world. Just raise the ceiling and be done with it, as they always did, in fact that ceiling had been raised or revised 78 times by Congress since the 1960, or more than once a yearly affair, in an almost soap opera fashion.
They have been putting on excellent shows, I must admit, and will continue to do so till eternity. Biden is cancelling his Papua New Guinea trip to meet leaders of the Pacific Islands before proceeding to his QUAD summit in Australia. He is now having a G7 meeting in Japan, but will be returning home to deal with the debt ceiling, which must be solved by next week, undoubtedly with cheering and standing ovation to boot in Congress. Biden is very confident that the debt ceiling will be settled next week, just as confident as his prediction that the Nord Stream pipelines will be bombed somehow. How uncanny is his dementia mind in predicting events! But he could not remember what he ate that morning if you ask him.

That QUAD summit and meeting leaders of the Pacific Islanders were supposed to have been called to jell the QUAD members, and rally and incite the Pacific Islanders to, as expected, counter China. Always nothing else of benefit to give, but calling others to counter China for the interest of the USA. What can the Pacific Islanders expect to gain from countering China? Papua New Guinea, the host of Biden's visit to the country, and his meeting with leaders of the Pacific Islands, had spent much effort in preparing for Biden's trip and felt ignored and kicked around like a dog. Like Africa, I think the USA is thinking that those Pacific Islands are also 'shit holes' to them. So, why bother so much? Wake up you Pacific guys!

Compare the 'China Central Asia Summit' between China and five Central Asia countries of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. And what was the purpose of their meeting? To draw up blueprints for China/Central Asia co-operation. In other words to foster closer economic ties, development, and more infrastructures building. Did I hear anything about the meeting meant to coax those five countries to help China counter the USA?

Imagine the size of the bloc coming together with Russia and the potential power they hold, with all the resources they have still to be exploited. The Pinnacle of Power is flowing back to Central Asia and the USA has lost its hold.

Anonymous

Th Americans need introspection to redeem itself

 The only redemption for the USA is a deep and honest introspection into their thuggish white supremacy mindset, the corruption of its Deep State political ruling class, and their toxic system of oligarchic enrichment that benefits only the elites in Wall Street and the big corporations, their obscene militarism and tyranny of 'national security' that suppress democracy but promote US dictatorship and world hegemony.

But to avoid those reckonings the thugs in Washington and the sociopaths in both parties will do everything they can to distract their public's attention of their failures and incompetencies with vitriol slanderous incitement against China, Russia, North Korea and Iran no matter how ridiculous and no matter how reckless and dangerous they can be.

In fact all American presidents including Biden and all American politicians or rather political hoodlums are willing to jeopardize world security even to the point of starting wars for as long as they can conceal their corrupt rule.

The Americans engneered the coronavirus - Covid 19, to destroy China, but turned around to accuse China of pandemic cover-up. This the most audacious American guilt-projection since 9/11, war on terror.

Sadly and regretably the Americans and people in the free world are so brainwashed and misinformed. The ruling American political charlatans and thugs may get away with murder as they are always used to, though not for long now.

Ling Tong Sing

Good class bungalows in Singapore

 

 31 Ridout Road

 

26 Ridout Road

Two huge and beautiful good class bungalows, built by the British colonial masters for their top officials governing this island, once seized by them as their colony. This is the proud heritage of Singapore, once a part of the great British Empire and its residents were not citizens but subjects of the British Empire. The colonial masters came from far away Europe in their gunboats and took this island and Malaya as theirs. Nobody thinks this is wrong or illegal, a violation of international laws or rules of law. Or is it that there were no laws so the Brits and other Europeans could come and grab all the lands they want and call it theirs? Or was it lawless, or laws under the guns?

And they occupied and built such spacious homes good enough for the royalties and aristocrats. These bungalows are located in a small enclave right in the heart of Singapore, 2 minutes from Orchard Road and the Istana, and in a totally quiet and idyllic exclusive environment of greeneries. No ugly high rise flats in the neighbourhood. What a way to rise in the morning and to retire at night, far from the maddening crowd of hoi polloi.

What a great place to live and bring up children. How many people in Singapore could afford to live in such splendid homes? How much would each cost, $100m or $200m or more? These are homes that the peasants can only dream of.

Blessed are those that could have the privilege to reside in such homes.

Global South and the tale of two summits

G7 summit in Japan is coinciding with China-Central Asia summit in Xi’an. The two perfectly encapsulate low weight of global South on most economic, military or technology metrics. Excluding EU, countries invited to Hiroshima control ~39% of global GDP, rising to 44% if Japan is included. By contrast, Central Asian countries that occupy a strategically important centre of Eurasia, have economic weight which is only slightly larger than the state of Michigan. Why is it important?

1. Depending on one’s definition of global South, it houses over 50% of global population but its weight in GDP terms is not much more than 20%. On the other hand, a broadly defined West (ie, US, Canada, UK, EU, Swiss/EEA, Australia, Japan and Korea) have ~15% of global population but ~60% of GDP, ~70% of R&D and ~80% of internationally recognized patents. China is the only partial counter balance

2. Unlike West that broadly agrees on a number of basics (ie importance of democracy, human rights, rule of law, institutional independence etc), global South does not have the same coherence. It is not to say that there are no disagreements in the west (there are plenty) but there is a cohesion on key issues. Global South on the other hand is in transition. Some reside in pre-modern Malthusian settings, others are passing through 19th-20th centuries while some are closer to our time. Why would you bother with Russia’s violation of the UN charter when warlords are redrawing borders in your neighborhood, without anyone doing anything about it? Why would you bother about many issues when you can’t even feed your population? Why would you support policies that go against the grind of still highly conservative culture that permeates your societies? The view of corruption is different – it is a lubricant that allows at least something to get done

3. These differences are key to productivity and the extent to which geopolitical pressures will keep flaring up, with bad societal and economic implications. Neither meaningless acronyms (BRICS), nor ‘debt colonialism’ by either west or China, nor the counter productive debates about past mistakes and blind alleys, nor suspect arguments of giving countries freedom from the ‘dominance by the elites’ (freedom from what and to do what?), nor China’s ‘indivisible security’ are helpful. Only Marshall Plan (greater than 10% of global GDP) rolled out systematically and accompanied by institutional building, sustained for several decades, can make a difference. Alas, chances of that happening, in the absence of greater conflagration, is zero

What does it mean for investors? No easy or even palatable answers. We are dividing into spheres of interest and Balkanizing. It is driven as much by the East as it is by the West. It is difficult to find a common ground between societies that inhabit different eras.

Anonymous