Lee Kuan Yew - Stop being a westernised Asian!

 

Stop being a westernised Asian! In other words, stop being a banana! This is the message Lee Kuan Yew wanted to pass on, that Asians should not be too westernised and forgot who they were and their roots and became westernised into a world that they did not belong, would not be accepted except superficially by a small minority in the West.

15 min clip on Lee Kuan Yew's view on the importance of the mother tongue and his cultural root as a Chinese, and how his stay in England made him more Chinese, more aware that he was Chinese and the western culture was a different world that he did not belong. 

From the start he said that though he spoke English better than Chinese, it could not change him from being a Chinese and thinking like a Chinese...that he would never be an Englishmen for a thousand generations. His thinking and value system would be Chinese, not western.

Lee Kuan Yew was born a Baba, brought up in a Baba family. But in his late years he took extra pride in donning Chinese style mandarin shirt in public. He did not forget his roots, he did not forget that he was of ethnic Chinese stock, though a Singaporean. Lee Kuan Yew's personal journey was a transformation from a Baba to a Chinaman.

PS. Happy New Year!

Xinjiang invites the world to visit to hunt for concentration camps and genocide

 Now, after all the great promotion about Xinjiang over racial mistreatment and human rights abuses, foreign visitors are flocking to visit the region to have a look at how the Uyghurs are doing under such bad treatment. They are also searching high and low for those concentration camps. All they found were the beautiful and well-kept mosques, well developed infrastructures, friendly people of all races living together harmoniously.

Some even compared the Uyghur Muslims with the Muslims in the Middle East. Who is having a better life without conflict? Have the Uyghurs been forced to migrate due to wars created by the Whites and treated as unwelcomed aliens by the Whites like in Europe. In fact, the Muslims and minority races in China have better benefits than the majority Han people. They can have more kids, more educational benefits and subsidies. But this has never aroused jealousy among the Hans. The cultural heritage of live and let live have never been a problem in China, only hyped up by the lies of the West to instigate animosity and promote chaos. That it existed in the West does not mean it is existing in China, which they are trying very hard to portray as the norm. It failed miserably!

But amidst all the lies, the truth is being discovered by Westerners travelling to the region and seeing for themselves the reality. They realized they had been lied to by Western propaganda machine. Oh, please do not say that all vloggers are paid to say those good things about China and Xinjiang. China is not the USA, where paying to spread propaganda is in its DNA, since time immemorial.

Anonymous

China does not abandon countries that it helped before

 China does not abandon countries that it helped before. China had given help to Africa for decades, since the visit of Chou En Lai in 1963, even when it was dirt poor itself, and Chou made a promise that had been kept to this day of helping Africa. Did China push North Korea under the bus after the Korean War? The West had attempted to split the good relations between China and North Korea with veiled fabrication of disagreements. Did China abandon Vietnam after helping it to fight the USA? China is still Vietnam's biggest trading partner and a great investment destination for Chinese investors. That is how Vietnam grew so fast over the last decade or two. It made the USA nervous and paranoid.

Now China is even helping Afghanistan to rebuild its economy and infrastructure. In fact, China has no roots in Afghanistan before and yet is willing to help in its reconstruction. One thing though, China should not help in Ukraine with its reconstruction when things go back to normal. After all, Ukraine is not in a position to pay for any reconstruction. Let the USA and the Europeans do the rebuilding and set their own debt traps for Ukraine under the IMF or World Bank.

Anonymous

F grade EU leaders no match for D grade Trump...all taken to the cleaners

 The forefathers of the present crop of EU leaders must be turning in their graves seeing their legacy being destroyed by their offsprings. Never in history have I seen such stupid leaders being taken to the cleaners by the USA without a whimper or showing any sign of protesting. Even dogs will bark loudly in protest if treated unfairly, but not these EU leaders. Just look at Mexico's new leader, Claudia Sheinbaum, voicing her protest over Trump's tariff threat. There are brave leaders and there are cowardly leaders.

The worst thing about the EU leaders today was and is making their own citizens suffer the indignity of having their jobs stolen by the USA. Oops sorry, cannot say stolen, but lured to the USA, unlike USA jobs that were touted to be stolen by China for attracting USA companies to set up shop in China to take advantage of the lower wages, that were later claimed to be 'slave wages' after reaping all the benefits. I fail to differentiate the two scenarios that looks perfectly alike to me. But of course, the stupid EU leaders would not dare to accuse the USA of stealing their citizen's jobs.

To add insult to injury, the USA is even attempting to push the Europeans under water when they are already drowning. Leaders work for the benefit and improvement of their own citizens, not throw them under the bus just to help another country to do harm to them. This could only happen in a socialist country like China of course, LOL. What China did in lifting more than 800 million citizens out of poverty was and is wrong in the context of their benevolent democratic system.

Anonymous

Americans developing EV battery from scratch. China started 30 years ago

 Kevin Wamsley on his site 'Inside China Business' did an interesting analysis and discourse on EV batteries and what the USA is trying to do to prevent USA EV makers from relying heavily on Chinese EV batteries.

 
The USA is going all out now to build EV batteries at home but starting from scratch. China is already in control of all the essential raw materials that goes into such EV battery production. And the Chinese are well ahead in battery innovations for EVs.

The USA just have a plan and is just trying to start looking for those raw materials, with feasibility studies ongoing, and eventually hoping to start digging under the ground for the raw materials, build plants to process them and to feed their EV battery makers at home. How many years that will take is unknown and what will be the cost? Will investors bite? Of course, subsidies will be used as always, but for how long and how competitive can this all get?

In order to do entice investments, investors of such projects are demanding the USA Government set tariffs at 920% on Chinese batteries imported into the USA. USA EV makers are at present importing Chinese batteries amounting to almost US$2 billion a month.

If such astronomical tariffs become reality, USA consumers will shy away from buying EVs, which suits Trump's agenda of supporting fossil fuel extraction. And while the rest of the world continue to enjoy buying cheap Chinese EVs that cost half the price of USA or EU made EVs, USA consumers will have to make do with highly expensive EVs.

The USA has already lost the plot and trying to turn the tide on the spur of the moment. China already set in motion its plan to corner the EV battery market and EV production sector three decades ago. That is how China is now dominating this sector and many other sectors. Semiconductors and aviation will be the next frontier that China is eyeing. Do not bet against China.

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