India needs more silly governments to sign CECA to export its unemployed

 CECA issues

Allegations have erupted across India over widespread cheating and corruption tainting the results of the country’s fiercely competitive national medical entrance exam.

Allegations of cheating and test leaks in the most recent National Eligibility Cum Entrance Exam Test – Undergraduate (NEET-UG) surfaced after the exam results, released on June 4, showed an unusually high number of students receiving top marks, affecting the overall benchmark for admission.

Every year, over 2 million students in India battle it out to get one of just 110,000 available spots to study medicine. Of the total seats available, around 60,000 are in state universities, with the rest in private colleges.

According to the 2024 India Employment Report published by the International Labour Organisation and the Institute of Human Development, the share of educated youth among the unemployed rose from 54.2 per cent in 2000 to 65.7 per cent in 2022.

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Scary indeed !

Malacca Strait would not be a choke point if neighbouring states did not allow America to operate a military base to threaten China

 Red Dot can sashay another few years and will be like the Brits, Japs and USA, stagnant in GDP growth and just straggling along. Red Dot is now facing a peer competitor in China, just like what the USA and the EU is facing. China is going to eat Red Dot's lunch. That is why fear mongering by the USA's anti-China mantra is working so well against Japan, South Korea, EU and Red Dot that they have to snuggle close together to contain China.

Malaysia is joining BRICS for a bigger Global South market. Malaysia is also expanding its Ports for a bigger bite of trade using the BRI. Thailand is still undecided about the Isthmus of Kra project, which if China gets involved, is going to be green lights ahead. Thailand will benefit just like the Panama Canal benefitted the Panama Government's coffers. And that puts into question the validity of the Straits of Malacca's choke point which is instrumental in the event of hostilities between the USA and China. Red Dot depends on its strategic position and had been able to benefit from it for centuries. What if all this is just depleted even without being taken away?

Right now, the intention of the Nicaraguan Government and Chinese Government's joint interest to open up another channel to rival the dying Panama Canal due to climate change, is already causing concern for the USA's ability to have its military transit between the Pacific and Atlantic with ease and in a timely manner. There is now a long queue of ships waiting to cross the Panama Canal due to cutbacks and shipowners are crying over loss of revenue and heightened costs from such delays.

This Nicaraguan Canal will be totally beyond the control of the USA. And like the benefit to Thailand with the Isthmus of Kra project, the Nicaraguan Government will benefit if they open up an alternative channel to enable ships to cross the Atlantic into the Pacific with ease and vice versa. 

Anonymous 

PS. China's fear of being choked by the Malacca Strait turns into Malaysia's advantage over Singapore. Malaysia could further leverage on this by keeping Singapore out of the Malaysia, Thailand, Laos and China high speed rail network.

America throwing Japan, Germany and other European states under the bus

 Why blame Russia or Iran for the missiles fired by the Houthis? What about the USA missiles fired by Ukraine and Israel? Must blame the USA also, right?

What if the Russians shot down and found parts of drones made by DJI, bought by Ukraine from Walmart, launched by Ukraine and hitting Russian troops? Must Russia blame China too or blame Ukraine?

The twisted thinking of the West is so warped, that it is unbelievable. Now Japan is trying to sanction Chinese firms doing business with Russia and China is retaliating. China is Japan's largest trading partner and Japan is taking suicidal action against Chinese firms just to please the USA. The Japanese puppet has been screwed around by the Puppeteer without realizing its own interest is being compromised, just like the stupid Europeans.

People in glass houses should not throw stones. Japan is in deep trouble with its economy and the Yen slowly turning into rubbles, and still thinks it is a global economic power trying to please the USA, its master puppeteer. What is laughable is that a crippled Germany can still overtake Japan to become the third largest economy in the world. Further slide in the Yen may see Japan slipping further into the sewers.

If this is not a display of 'stupidity has no cure' syndrome, what else is?

Anonymous

Why China must ban Americans from its Tiangong Space Station

 Let us also not forget that Chinese are not allowed on the International Space Station because they are well, Chinese. Who made that decision to exclude China? The USA of course, the troublemaker anywhere it goes, even in space.

Now China has its own Tiangong Space Station and China is doing the right thing by denying the USA's application to join others in research on China's space station. China slapped the USA by saying that the USA has nothing positive to contribute. That is quite true, considering the USA is still intent on hanging on to a 26-year-old space junk that is falling apart.

China must choose carefully who it will allow to set foot on its own Space Station. Whatever complaints that others may make, China must tell them it is for 'National Security' reasons, LOL.

China is also looking at the possibility of setting up a manned lunar base as soon as this decade. That will put China firmly in a position to dominate space exploration as well. 

Anonymous 

PS. The Americans accused China of violating international law for not using the international space language ie English, in its Tiangong Space Station. This is American rules based order and the Americans set the rules. China just show its middle finger to the Americans and continues to use Chinese in its space station.

Asean should review its membership criteria

 As an organisation of small nation states wanting to preserve peace in the region through neutrality, Asean is always face with the challenge of big power interference, wanting to take control of Asean to do their bidding, to be coerced to take sides and become pawns in big power rivalry. One clear evidence of this is the continuing bickering within Asean to want to poke its fingers into the internal affairs of Myanmar, a position that the founding fathers of Asean clearly did not want Asean to do. Asean must not be allowed to interfere with the domestic affairs of its member states.

Who is behind this fetish behaviour, pushing Asean to poke into the affairs of Myanmar? The answer is quite obvious. Then again, knowing shallow some Asean leaders are, some may unconsciously be duped or persuaded to do the bidding of big powers, some willingly, knowingly, some innocently, some stupidly without know they were doing it.

As an organisation that wants to be free from big power rivalry, Asean wants to be friends of all countries, all powers, but not to the extend of becoming their crony. Asean welcome all big powers to be here, but to leave Asean alone, not to coerce Asean member states to take sides. In this matter, the US has been the biggest culprit forcing Asean to take sides. But the US cronies in Asean would instead call out China as the guilty party coercing Asean to take sides. No prizes for guessing who are the American cronies.

Asean and the region is increasing being dragged into America's hegemonic war plan. And tension has been rising and reaching new heights in the South China Sea with American crony, oops, American new colony the Philippines provoking China under the egging of the Americans. The Philippines has even offered more military bases for the Americans to strengthen their military presence in the region, an act that is contrary to what Asean stands for.

Asean may want to look into this development and review its membership criteria, to forbid Asean member states to host military bases of foreign powers. This should be an important criteria for membership in Asean. If Asean compromise on this, then with more American colonies and crony states within Asean, it would be very difficult for Asean to maintain its neutrality in big power rivalry and would be dragged to become pawns and pay a heavy price like Ukraine.

East Timor is also waiting at the door for membership. East Timor has also allowed the Americans to build a military base in its island. One American colony is bad enough. Two would soon become three and Asean could lose its way and its original purpose, as a neutral regional organisation free from big power interference.

As it is, the Americans are worming into the organisation. A gap has been breached and could get bigger and Asean could sleep walk into becoming a pawn of the Americans.