The South and SE Asia political chess board

 Apple's manufacturing in India still depends on Chinese supply chains providing essential components for its factories, which right now is being shipped to India to support the Apple manufacturing base in India. No other country is able to provide the bulk of those components even if they try. China should start to restrict export of all those components to India as well.

Since India wants to start playing games against Chinese manufacturers in India, China can easily oblige. China depends little on India and can easily find alternative sources for its requirements, like iron ore.

For India to antagonise China right now is committing economic suicide like the EU, when India needed investments in manufacturing to create all the jobs for its high growth population. Having a fast growing population needs fast growing job creation, and only in manufacturing is this possible.

Which country has been investing big time in Vietnam, India, Bangladesh and Asean over the decades? Chinese companies should now avoid India at all cost, whether in technology, infrastructure or raw materials extraction. Let the Japs and Western countries help India and see what they get. China should focus on Africa.

Talking about ASEAN, despite the groups economic orientation towards China generally, the Philippines is the weak link that the USA is exploiting. With a weak leader, a hardcore anti-China military, a population highly brainwashed by the USA propaganda machine over the decades, and with lots of younger half bred Pinoys of USA/Filipino blood, it is easy to manipulate the Government and country.

Manipulating Indonesia and Malaysia, with Muslims the controlling power, the USA is unlikely to succeed, though there have been attempts in Malaysia over the years. Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia are basically friendly towards China, and afford little leeway in terms of free elections for the USA to install stooges into power. That leave Vietnam, which the USA is trying, via India, to instigate hostilities towards China, knowing the South China Sea dispute is something to leverage on. But Vietnam depends mainly on the Chinese Market for its products and unlikely to bite the carrot offered by India of a bath tub gift for a start. That leaves the Philippines as the most promising weak link that the USA is going all out to exploit.

Anonymous

BRICS - One Trojan Horse is bad enough, no more.

 Lately, Western leaders are inviting themselves to Beijing (and BRICS), after the high profile visits of Elon Musk and Bill Gates. Most are uninvited, or self invited, but China will not decline receiving them if they insist on visiting. Even some are waiting to be invited like Joe Biden.

Macron invited himself to join the BRICS meeting in South Africa in August, but Putin disinvited his attempt. Japan is also making overtures about being interested in joining BRICS, hoping to get an invitation to join the BRICS meeting in South Africa. As an unfriendly country towards Russia and China, would Putin and Xi even think about accepting Japan into the group?

These are Trojan Horses, controlled by the USA, that BRICS must never admit at all cost. Already, India is a big problem for BRICS to resolve. Modi was summoned to Washington just recently, to brief barely-conscious Biden regarding what is happening inside BRICS. Of course this will never be admitted or revealed, but when snakes talk to each other in private, no one else must know.

All said, France and Japan must never, ever be inducted into BRICS. That would be a disaster of massive proportions. In fact every country in the EU vis a vis Nato, QUAD, AUKUS, Five Eyes group and G7 members must never be allowed to join BRICS. India, as an invitee to the G7 meeting, is also highly suspect, but India is already in, so great care must be taken to keep India at arms length.

Anonymous

Salient truth and Facts: The Sins & Evil Deeds of Anglo-Saxons are Beyond Redemption: PART THREE

 PART      THREE:       The Anglo-Saxon Americans are the greatest perverts of human rights and democracy. 

The United States is an illegal, illegitimate and illicit savage barbaric state that has been causing endless monstrous crimes, turmoils, choas and perennial wars in this world for over two hundred years since 1776.

The Anglo-Saxon Americans have been using 'Human Rights' and 'Democracy' as part and parcel of their hybrid warfare against Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. These American political thugs and hoodlums have for years and decades been abusing human rights and democracy by  committing the worst and most sinful unpardonable criminal acts against other people and nations and then fallaciously turn around to accuse others like Russia or China of doing what they have been guilty of doing all the time. Trying to hang the label of criminal abuse of human rights and democracy on others does not in any way lighten their weight of criminality or lessen the sins of their abominable acts against mankind.

The Anglo-Saxon United States has always been an illegal illicit state founded on the genocide of native Americans. Thus the US is not only an undemocratic state but in every sense it is a heinous criminal state. In genociding the natives to almost total extinction the Anglo-Saxon Americans the marauding criminal invaders from Europe have committed the most brutal and lethal abuse of human rights. As it is they have never stopped in their ill-treatments of the native Americans even to this very present time. They have never shown any remorse or contrition for their atrocities against the natives of America. To add insult to injury they like to hypocritically lecture to other people or countries about human rights and democracy. To show their sincerity which they actually have none they must practise what they preach and atone for their criminal breach of human rights and democracy against the natives by giving back the lands to the natives and return to their original abode in England and Europe.

The Anglo-Saxon Americans have carried out myriads of  lethal crimes against humanity with their diabolical perversion and abuse of human rights and democracy against non-white people and countries. Their means of abusing human rights and democracy under the guise of protecting democracy and human rights are vast and varied and more so to principally serve as vehicles to maintain and secure white power and hegemony led by the Anglo-Saxons in collusion with the zionist Rothschild's Illuminati cabal.

There is no decency in all Western pseudo democratic governments . It is more appropriate to label them as demoncrazy. For hundreds of years since 1492 when the most notorious European pirate Christopher Columbus with support and collusion from the Pope of the Catholic Church started the beginning of the invasion and genocide of non Christians in the Americas which was then followed by endless streams of brutal invasions of practically all the countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand.  Following these invasions they robbed, steal, looted and plundered the wealth and resources of the victimized natives and finally butchered and genocided the natives brutally and mercilessly. These plundering of other countries resources have never stopped and is still happening now as is happening in the Middle East Arab muslim countries, in Africa and South America. The white, men especially the Anglo-Saxon Americans and England, France, Belgium, Holland, Spain and portugal have been taking all the oil, gold, diamond, copper, iron, coal, lithium, tin, bauxiite and uranium ores practically for free from the countries they invaded.

Another of their criminal act is to exploit local differences among the natives and incite them to fight among themselves. This was what happened to the hundreds of different American native tribes who were unsuspiciously led to fiight and destroy among themselves before white men went for the final kill to take over all of America. During the last seventy or eighty years after the Second World War , the West led by the Anglo-Saxon Americans and England managed to sow dissension among the Sunni and Shia muslims in the Middle East and incited them to fight among themselves. In the meantime during this choatic time the Anglo-Saxon Americans and the West are able to grab all the Middle East oil practically for free. Now the Americans are sowing suspicion and dissension among the littoral states in the South China Sea to go against China so that it can eventually take control of the region not only to grab all the oil resources in the region but also to contain China's development. 

The West especially the Anglo-Saxon America has no ethics, morals or conscience at all. They will do all their worst diabolical criminal activities to make others suffer and destroyed in order to achieve their ultimate motive of world dominance and hegemony by the white cabal led by the United States. Of course all non white countries must ensure that this diabolical plot of the United States will never succeed but in turn cooperate to bring down the evil West led by the Satanic and criminal United States.

The United States always use CIA and NED via NGOs to subvert and bring choas and turmoil to other countries which don't follow US dictates. By using CIA and NED via NGOs to subvert and carry out color revolutions to topple democratically elected governments which refuse  to tow US dictates is a very undemocratic hideous crime. USA had carried out over eighty regime change since the end of the Second World War. 

Another US revulsive abuse of human rights is the  constant  use of perennial plots to murder and assassinate political leaders like presidents, prime ministers and other influential ministers of countries which are adverse to US dictatorship. Many attempts were carried out by CIA to assassinate President De Gaulle of  France, Premier Zhou En-Lai of China, President Soekarno of Indonesia, President Chavez and Maduro of Venezuela and President Evo Morales of Bolivia. But fortunately they were all unsuccessful. These are hideous crimes and most undemocratic way of US and the West in their attempts to control and dominate the world under US hegemony.

The use and weaponizing of the US Petro Dollar is a vile and vicious scam to subvert the economy of countries which are adverse to US dictates. It has been a dirty scam of over seventy years in which US just print dollars out of thin air to pay for all the tangible assets of other countries resources like oil and mineral products and agricultural resources practically for free. The filthy US petro dollar is a fiat currency not supported by gold or other resources. It is a scam to impoverish other countries and make them forever indebted to US hegemony. Isn't this petro dollar scam a serious vile abuse of human rights. It is time the BRIC countries take down this toxic American toxic petro dollar.

The use of sanctions by the US and its Western allies on other countries is in actual fact a declaration of war. By sanctioning other countries both on the economy and on the important personnels of other countries the US hope to bring these countries down to their knees. The sanctions cause a lot of pain, death and suffering to the hundreds of millions of ordinary citizens of the victimized countries. These sanctions are a grave perversion of human rights and democracy. For these insidious crimes the United States and its horde of Western allies must be punished and make to pay a heavy price commensurate with the severity of their crime against humanity.

Thus by using the mechanism of murders and assassinations of foreign countries leaders, the vicious weaponizing of the Petro Dollar and SWIFT, the lethal use of sanctions and trade blockades and the brutal subversion of other countries viz regime change are a great grievous travesty of human rights and democracy by satanic Anglo-Saxon US and its Western allies. The countries of the free world led by Russia and China need to immediately put a full stop to all these Western hubris and monstrous designs to conquer the whole world under Western cabal domination led by the vile demonic United States. 

Having committed  the most brutal and dastardly criminal acts against all the non-white countries they now shamelessly put on a straight face and try to talk and lecture to them about human rights and democracy. Its high time all the non-white countries unite and kick these white hypocrites in the face and send them to burning hell forever. Any way the BRIC countries led by China and Russia are leading the way to destroy these satanic Western countries now led by the most arrogant and satanic Anglo-Saxon white Americans and the British.

Southernglory1

Saturday, 1st July, 2023

 

NUS graduates are employable...really, no bluff

SINGAPORE: The National University of Singapore (NUS) is now among the top 10 higher education institutions in the world.

NUS placed eighth in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings, which was released on Wednesday (Jun 28). ...

QS senior vice president Ben Sowter said an additional metric that considers a combination of employment rate and the achievements of alumni gave NUS an edge in this year’s ranking.

“Singaporean universities are doing a fantastic job of preparing their students for work,” he told CNA’s Singapore Tonight on Wednesday. “Employers have been recognising that for some time.”

This year's ranking introduced three new metrics, which are commitment to sustainability, international research networks, and employment after graduation.  CNA

This is excellent news for Singapore, for NUS and for its graduates. The employability of NUS graduates by employers could dispel the belief or narrative by some foreign HR agencies and recruiters that NUS graduates lack the required skills or knowledge and they have to look overseas, look to third world countries for employable graduates. If this ranking is marketable, then the first choice of employment must be NUS graduates and not funny graduates with funny degrees from funny universities overseas.

If this is true, then the cries of unemployed or under employed local PMETs must be misplaced. Or maybe our local PMETs are from funny universities with funny degrees, so unemployable.  Or maybe this ranking is new, and the findings are based on recent criteria and the impact has yet to be felt by NUS graduates. Or maybe it is only applicable to NUS graduates, not to other local top universities' graduates.

Unemployed and under employed local PMETs can stop driving taxis and start applying for real jobs that pay real money and with job security, CPF to pay for HDB mortgages.

Crossed my fingers, things are going to get better for NUS graduates. Just hope the ranking and findings are for real and HR will start to look up to NUS graduates, and hopefully also take a glance at graduates from other world class local universities.

And hopefully, many hopefully, in 10 to 20 years time, the top management of companies here will have Singaporean faces. But for now funny faces from third world countries with funny degrees are deemed highly desirable and employable. Even local big companies, including GLCs are helmed by foreigners or new citizens with foreign degrees.

What do you think? Ranking means anything? Can rankings translate into good job opportunities for the graduates? I remember local universities have been ranked very highly for many years but, but....

China diversifying its source of iron ore suppliers

Not much is mentioned about China importing substantial amounts of iron ore from India over the years. We only talk about the importance of China's dependence on Australia's iron ore after the trade dispute surfaced.
But of late, China is reducing its iron ore dependence on India, lowering its imports by about two thirds, or about US$160 billion worth. The Indians increased export duties on iron ore by 50%, which the Chinese find it exhorbitant and is diversifying its imports to cheaper sources. Now this is big loss for India by being too greedy.

China is instead buying more ore from Australia, Brazil (a member of the BRICS) and developing mines in Guinea (a potential BRICS member) and other sources as well.

Now, why is China making this move. In my humble opinion it has also to do with India now closing ranks with the USA, and with China lock in dispute with India over the borders, China is not waiting to be left in the lurch should the snakes decide to sanction iron ore exports to China. It is not impossible, and it will be a matter of grave concern, since China needs much more iron ore to fuel domestic and overseas demand for steel for infrastructure developments. Overdependence on Australia, close allies of the USA and India, is also a dangerous issue for China.

China learned a costly lesson over the semiconductor and chips industry sanctions orchestrated by the USA, and it not about to repeat the same mistake. China is going all out to be self-reliant and diversify its supply of raw materials as widely as possible. Africa is now the safest and most reliable supply chain for China to build up its raw material dependence in the long term. China already spent decades building up Africa, and is now reaping its just benefits.

Anonymous