America's fake democratic system is failing and collapsing

 There is one 'Red Line' in the West that can never be crossed. That is telling the world that Communism is doing better than Democracy. That reality is happening with Communist China, but the fantasy that democracy will always triumph communism is still being trumpeted to no avail. Otherwise, why is there such a need for the USA and the West to counter China economically at all costs today? Why is there all the hubris about having to protect democracy around the world if it is still a triumphant system? When companies lost the competition, advertising is necessary and logical.

And that is why India can never be the next China, not to talk about surpassing China. India is, in fact, handicapped and stifled by its democratic system of Government, where even farting needs the consensus of the voters. The actions of the Indian Government are held hostage by the need to cater to voters every few years. Things do not move smoothly in every endeavor, be it high speed rails, overhauling its agricultural system, securing land for infrastructures on top of a cumbersome administrative system inherited from the British that hampers progress.

China is able to progress so fast because the Government is not held hostage by voters and partisan needs, but solely catering to national interest and needs. The Government charts the direction and the private sector investors follow the route set up. Every investor knows what and where to invest in, what and where the priorities are and are confident that the direction taken is not going to falter and support hampered. That is why China dominates in most sectors of the global economy, be it shipbuilding, motor vehicles production, manufacturing and now putting all the priorities into semiconductors.

If India thinks that the USA will allow it to rise like China to challenge the USA, it is mistaken. They have only to look at Japan and Germany, and now China to draw its conclusion. 

Anonymous

Team Singapore - Foreigners calling themselves Singaporeans that we do not know

SINGAPORE: The most sustainable way for Singapore football to grow is to build up a pool of its own youth players rather than just importing foreign talent, said Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong.

Speaking on CNA programme Talking Point, he said this approach would also be the most relatable to Singapore.

"Occasionally, we might supplement with a few who’ve been here, who not just as a footballer, but as a person can relate to Singapore and Singaporeans. I think that’s important.

"Because I don’t want a team that is made up of people who wear my jersey, have my flag, but I don’t know them." CNA

At one time, not too long ago, Singapore's coffer was filled with nothing but cash, cash and cash. With so much money, every solution is about money. Money can solve every problem in Singapore. There was this great idea that we could get into the World Cup final by paying our way with money, buy all the top footballers, spend a billion or two, and walla, we will be in the World Cup final. So easy. Why waste time training and training Singaporeans that got us no where?

Edwin Tong's idea is quite new and innovative after a lapse of 40 years. How come no one could come up with such a great idea until now? What happened to the old idea of instant trees, just buy what we want, and get it instantly? If no one can see the joke of having a team of foreigners wearing Singapore jerseys and waving on top of our open deck buses during a victory parade, and every Singaporean does not know who they are, that they look so different from us, maybe Singapore has arrived, as a hotel, with foreigners as our role models.

Edwin Tong's idea may bear fruit in 20 years or longer. Singapore has waited more than 30 years for a return to the Kallang Roar era when we have intelligent and skillful footballers to win matches. So there is no harm waiting for another 30 years, Investing in our own talents is a long term process, just like investing our national reserves. Early stages lose a lot of never mind, look at the long, long term.

This same policy can also be applied to how we brought in millions of foreigners, called foreign talents, and depleted our own talent pool to the point that we don't bother to train our own talents anymore. Just bring in the instant trees. Singapore was a financial centre in SE Asia for decades, if not South and East Asia, the most progressive and advanced banking and financial centre, but ended up with no banking and finance talents. All must be imported. All those we have are no talents, good for nothing goons. No point training them. Even so called talents from third world villages with backward banking systems, are good enough or better than Singaporeans to head our banks and filling up to management positions. I think they have already given up with our unsophisticated no talent Singaporeans in banking and finance. In this field, foreign talents good,

Would Edwin's policy be applied across the board, across all industries, in the ministries, GLCs, to groom our own talents instead of buying foreigners, instant trees?

What do you think? Without the Goh Keng Swees, no political leaders would think like him, to groom and grow our own talents, Singapore for Singaporeans. Finally, there is a lonely voice in a little corner of Parliament, Edwin Tong, to call out to groom our own talents, but only in football. The other ministries and GLCs still very happy bringing in instant trees instead of using out 'no talent' Singaporeans. Just saw an angmoh as Head of DBS East Asia on TV. Totally agree with Edwin that no Singaporeans would know him except for the people that recruited him.

Hopefully a flash in a pan may spread to become a tsunami, if not a little tropical storm would also be good,

What do you think? Would the super talents in charge think Singaporeans got talent and can be groomed to take over top jobs in Singapore, and not become jig and platform workers?

The barbaric West headed by the USA is ganging up again to destroy China

The psychiatric warmongering West headed by the United States is creating turmoils and wars all over planet earth just as they did in the last three or four centuries. The US is determined to bring the whole world under Western hegemony headed by the US itself. The question and the problem is what makes the US think it is qualified to rule the world. Just look at the faces of all the political leaders of USA and its European allies, doesn't everyone of them look either like the savage killing hyena, lion, leopard, tiger, cobra, black mamba or man-eating crocodile?The Anglo-Saxon US government is making a horrible chaotic mess of its rule in America. The Western European countries are in a similar state of chaotic disorder. The political leaders and politicians of USA and EU countries are nothing but vicious thugs, gangsters, hoodlums, bandits and brigands and savage hawkish barbarians. Though the United States and the European countries are in civil disarray but they are united in one single purpose of bringing all countries of the world under their white men's hegemonic rule.In the last two centuries they almost dismembered China. First from 1800s to 1890s they imposed the Opium Wars on China. China was debilitated by their opium which they traded illegally and smuggled into all Chinese towns, cities and ports. In the First World War (1914 to 1918) England and its Western allies fought against Germany and its allies, Italy, Turkey and Hungary. A fledgling China which overthrown the Ching Dynasty in 1911 was conned and coerced to help England and its allies in its war effort. China provided hundreds of thousands of Chinese to mend the military industrial war factories and to dig the trenches in the frontline of conflict.However, after the war England and its Western allies betrayed China. At the Versailles Treaty in 1918 England, France and the United States gave the former German occupied Chinese province of Shangtung to Japan, a member of the Western allies instead of giving it back to China. This aroused the outrage of the Chinese people and Chinese students and industrial workers all over China in major cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Ningpo, Sian, Xiamen, Chengtu, Chongqing and Canton rose up spontaneously in angry protests and carried out demonstrations for weeks and months to protest the outrage betrayal.After the downfall of the Ching Dynasty in 1911, China was still a divided country with many provinces under the control of warlords who were former generals in the Ching Dynasty. The Republic of China under President Doctor Sun Yat Sen had asked the Western powers and Russia for financial loans to develop a united China and to get rid of the warlords. But both the Western powers and Russia turned down China's request. They were very open in saying that a united Chinese nation was not to their benefit and advantage as they could no longer exercise their extra-territorial rights.China was passing through a perilous journey in the years from 1919 to the 1940s. Many provinces were still under the warlords and many Western powers, Russia and Japan still had extra-territorial rights and control in many Chinese provinces, ports, towns and cities. Japan was starting to turn aggressive against China. It started to invade North-East China in 1931 and there after it carried out a full scale war against China. In this Japanese war on China, no western country, not even Russia and America was willing to help China. The Chinese had to fight the Japanese alone.It was during these tumultuous years China saw the birth of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 in Shanghai. Doctor Sun Yat Sen had died of sickness in 1925 and the presidency and the Kuomintang Party (KMT) was taken over by his chief army officer Chiang Kai Shek a very shallow man very lacking in quality and intelligence. Doctor Sun Yat Sen had always insisted on the KMT working together with the CPC to build up a strong united China. However, the peanut head Chiang who had been under strong American influence and control thought otherwise. In the meantime Mao Tse-Tung the leader of the CPC and its army had insisted on a united front to fight the Japanese. But Chiang Kai Shek did not want to cooperate with Mao Tse-Tung. He wanted to get rid of Mao Tse-Tung and his CPC. While Mao and his CPC army was conducting guerilla warfare against the Japanese, Chiang looked the other way and did nothing. Instead he was rounding up the communists by the thousands and killing them in Shanghai and all over China. Instead of fighting the Japanese Chiang was attacking the CPC armies all the time. Chiang had fallen under the strong influence and control of the United States which had a strong hatred for Chinese communists. At the end of the Second World War in 1945, civil war between Chiang's KMT and Mao's CPC broke out in 1946. Inspite of heavy US support both financially and militarily, Chiang's KMT lost the civil war and with the help of the Americans he was able to flee to Taiwan in 1949 with the remnants of his followers. The Chinese Communist Party led by Chairman Mao Tse-Tung won the civil war because they had the full sincere support of the whole Chinese population who strongly believed that only Chairman Mao and the Chinese Communist Party whose selflessness and dedication to fight and wipe out foreign aggression could save China.In the meantime US continued to interfere in China's internal affairs. In 1950 the United States engineered the Korean War. When US air force bombed Chinese territory across the Yalu River Mao and his CPC declared war on the US and fought along side of the North Korean communist regime. The United States then stationed its Seventh Fleet in Taiwan Strait to prevent Mao's army from crossing over to Taiwan to deal a final blow to Chiang and his KMT army. If the US had not interfered in the Chinese Civil War Mao and his CPC army would long ago have taken back Taiwan.In the Korean War 1950 to 1953 China had to fight not only against the US but also its cohort of over twenty to thirty allied countries in which each had sent its armed forces to fight along side with US. Inspite of overwhelming odds China fought the US and its allies to a standstill and an armistice was eventually signed at the end of 1953. So technically the Korean War has not ended.Inspite of its defeat in the Korean War, the United States and its Western allies had never given up hope of destroying China and the Chinese people. Every year the US will find all kinds of excuses to confront and to contain China. It has for years been using hybrid warfare against China trying to weaken and wear down China. It used trade blockades and sanctions against China. It started trade wars and high tariffs against China. Its navy and air force conduct never ending encroachment on Chinese coast lines. It instigates neighbouring countries to gang up against China. It never stop provoking China in whatever ways it deems fit. It never stops instigating its poodles like Japan, Philippines, South Korea, India and Taiwan to provoke China. It shamelessly tries to make use of Japan and the Philippines to fight its proxy war against China. It organizes antagonistic blocks like UNKUS and QUAD to provoke hostilities and to contain China. It even forced NATO to expand its operation in East Asia with Japan as the center to contain China. However, with China growing extensively in power and strength every day both financially, economically, politically and militarily, the US diabolical plot against China is bound to be doomed. On the other hand all the US and its Western allies evil diabolical plots against China and other socialist countries may boomerang and come home to roost for US and its allies. The US Petro dollar in which it has been used shamelessly for over 70 years to scam, con and rob the whole world freely is under attack and will soon be vanished. 

When the Petro dollar is gone US will be as poor as the church mouse. Thus with the destruction of the Petro dollar the Unipolar world of USA is hanging in the balance and will soon be gone in the dustbin of history. On the other hand there is now a rush with a domino effect by many countries of the South to join and support the Multipolar World as initiated by Russia, China and the BRICS countries. With the death of the Petro dollar hopefully the evil tendency of the US and its satanic hordes of barbaric allies to create troubles, wars of aggression, turmoils, choas and hostilities all over the world will be curbed and thus allow the world to have more peace and harmony. Southernglory1 Thursday, 26th September, 2024

Debt trap not good for Africa...but good for America

 

 The Americans are taking the lead to frighten the African countries and the rest of the world about debt trap for building infrastructures in their countries. To the Americans, poor countries that cannot afford to pay must remain poor and undeveloped, must not borrow money to develop their countries. Debt is bad.

Debt is good only for the Americans. The Americans have chalked up more than $35 trillion of debt and growing rapidly and this is good. All the Americans are in debt, with their credit cards, spending like no tomorrow. But Africans and people of the Global South must not spend like the Americans, must not incur debt, must not borrow to buy a house or a car. Such expenditure would end up in debt traps.

By the way, there is another type of debt trap that is good and the Americans and the West would not talk about it. African states are in debt to American and western banking institutions by as high as 80% of their total debt and have nothing to show for it. On the other hand, their Chinese debt amounts to only 10 to 12% of their total debt. And these are for infrastructure development, in highways, rails, ports, cities, schools, hospitals, bridges etc etc. They all all visible to the eyes and are long term assets to these countries.

And the interest rate of Chinese loans are the lowest with many interest free loans to needy countries. The interest rates charged by the American and western banking institutions are obsessively high, often twice the rate charged by China. Why are the Americans and the West silent about these horrible debt, not talking about them? These are the real debt traps that the African and Global South countries are saddled with for decades and unable to pay back, resulting in these countries forever remaining poor and undeveloped, remaining as shit hole countries. 

The Americans and the West cannot hide the debt traps they created for the African and Global South countries. By not talking about them does not mean that no one knows. By attacking China as a diversion would not work. The truth is in Beijing, where practically every African leaders are there to negotiate for more trade and cheap loans from China.  And China does not disappoint. 

The African leaders are not stupid. They are seeing with their own eyes what had happened to their countries after centuries of plunder, pillage, exploitation, looting and neglect by the western colonial powers. They are taking the future of their countries into their own hands, to rebuild their countries to become modern and developed states, with cheap loans and technology from China. They are not going to be deceived by the West and controlled and robbed by the West anymore.

No more debt traps from the Americans and the West. Americans and Europeans, get out of Africa!

BRICS or QUAD - When would India be booted out?

 Common sense will tell us that no country can straddle two boats at the same time and be able to claim being loyal to both sides. It cannot work. One side is going to be betrayed.

BRICS must settle the India issue in order for further progress. Otherwise, that 'Sword of Damocles' will continue to hang over its head. BRICS cannot afford sensitive information being leaked to the QUAD and vis a vis the USA. Either such sensitive information be denied to India or India must be barred or removed from BRICS. It cannot go on forever.

There must be a new ruling stipulating that whichever country joins any alliance with the USA as partners must be prevented from joining BRICS. Putin already put in place a new rule that forbids countries joining the sanctions against Russia must not be allowed to join BRICS. That should be the way forward for BRICS to be constructive and safe. It is no use crying over spilt milk later on by not doing the necessary to prevent any sabotage of the agenda of BRICS and its de-dollarization objective.

Allowing the devil into the house is easy, but getting rid of the devil from the house is going to be difficult. 

Anonymous