Little Britain still trying to sound like a super power

 Little Britain, is still trying to sound like a superpower once again, claiming that China is a threat to the UK daily. It would be better for the world if this little poodle just kept quiet and stop barking in order not to elicit criticism. Did the PLA just launch an attack on the UK or is the poodle just barking to please its master? Kier Stammer had been humiliated at the peace meeting in Egypt when he had nothing positive to contribute and had to just sniff around like a stray dog having been told by Trump to shut up and stand behind.

Australian journalists, at a conference, ganged up and tried to corner Australia's former PM, Paul Keating about the threat from China and were roasted like piglets over a fire by Keating. Paul Keating bluntly asked them whether China had invaded Australia or given notice that it is going to attack Australia, which is what a threat really means. Those journalists were trying to use the occasion to demonize China regarding the disputes over iron ore and seafood from Australia, framing that as a threat to Australia.

Trade and commercial differences and disputes always arise in any situation involving companies and countries all over the world and is an everyday affair in every nook and corner, and if that is considered a threat the whole world would be at war with each other every minute of every day,

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USA needs to pray for themselves

 The USA honestly need to pray for themselves to survive instead of praying for China to collapse. Oh yes, since Gordon Chang wrote his nonsense, the USA has been praying very hard for China to collapse, but sad to say, twenty-five years is a long time for prayers that have yet to be answered.

Ford Motors CEO, Tim Farley, went to China and visited Chinese car manufacturers and returned stunned. 'It was the most humbling thing I've ever seen' he said. And he added - 'They have far superior in-vehicle technology' in his conclusion. While anti-China trolls keep denigrating Chinese EVs, it is a real eye opener that comes from one inside the business of making cars that really matters.

Elon Musk was making fun of Chinese EVs in the early years. Now who has the last laugh? Now, a source reported that Ferrari is also laughing at Chinese cars, but we know the nervousness hidden in that laughter. Remember, it is not the person who laugh first who has all the fun. It is always who laugh last that laughs best.

Recently, a group of venture capitalist from the West also visited China. They went, they saw and returned home realizing that what they invested in are going to be dead ducks further down the road and have to be recalibrated. In other words, they need to find new sources for investing their money, not in what they have already invested in.

As most people posted on social media, you have to visit China to see the real thing, not what is reported in the MSM and using that to demonize China.

Anonymous 

Flogging upgrading horse coming to an end

 Just as flogging the HDB upgrading horse came to an abrupt end with the realization that at the end of 99 years, flats worth half to three quarters of a million $ are just turning into mere rubbles, the housing horse flogging is going to come crashing down eventually. Singaporeans can keep on buying more and more expensive HDB flats, but when the shit hits the fan, who is going to clean the fan?

Just take a look at Japan's property crash in the early 1990s, which it never recovered after close to forty years, taking the Japanese stock market with it. Japan is also a relatively small country with limited land and property prices went into outer space and people were buying with cheap loans for speculation. What happened? Oh, it will not happen in Singapore because the Government thinks far ahead. Really?

China also faces the same problem lately but has taken steps to rein in the excesses. The Chinese Government had all the leverage to do so, pivoting investments into sectors like semiconductors, shipbuilding, EVs, batteries and renewable energy, sectors that have tremendous potential for growth rather than non-productive assets like malls and homes that were already overbuilt. Commerical and home prices escalate due to speculation and Xi stressed comprehensively that homes are for living in, not for speculation. Chinese investors have already taken the cue, so the chances of a property crisis in China had already been nipped in the bud, unlike what happened to Japan in the early 1990s. But foreigners who lost their pants speculating in the Chinese property market are very pissed off and still castigating Chinese property developers.

Talking about population explosion in Singapore, people need just to travel on MRT trains in the morning to realize the consequences. Those who drove in their big cars never see the problem of what a population explosion is all about. It is the small people who cannot afford a car that have to carry the burden. With the COE, cars are reserved for the rich, not the poor.

Punggol is an example of what happens when population grows disproportionately without adequate infrastructure. Why is the Government bringing in more bus services to serve Punggol, particularly Punggol Coast with the Singapore Institute of Technology and the digital district now opening up and traffic going to become problematic. This has also affected MRT commuters further down the line in Sengkang and Hougang.

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USA trying to spin narrative China is against the whole world

 The USA is trying to spin the narrative that China is against the whole world with the further sanctions of more rare earth metals. How about also framing Trump's tariff as against the whole world, which realistically is the case. And those tariffs are not just against humans. Even penguins are not spared. The problem is USA leaders never look at themselves in the mirror before they opened their mouths.

How many small countries really have a need for large amounts of rare earth elements when they have no manufacturing to speak of. Countries like those in the Himalayas, countries reliant largely on agriculture, countries inhabited by polar bears and penguins.

The world would rather China keep rare earth metals from falling into the hands of rogue and terrorist states like the USA so that they cannot keep producing weapons to target every Tom, Dick and Harry. Why would China even want to help the USA with rare earth metals for them to make more weapons, when their sole intention was to use them to destroy China? Who in his right mind would do that?

Singapore building for population explosion?

 SINGAPORE: The new Berlayar housing estate being built on the former Keppel Club golf course site will have about 7,000 public flats, up from the 6,000 previously announced.

This came after detailed planning studies of the 48-hectare site in Bukit Merah, which will also include 3,000 private units, said Singapore's Housing and Development Board (HDB) on Tuesday (Sep 23). CNA

Who says Singapore's population is shrinking? Who says Singapore's fertility rate is falling? All this is immaterial. Looking at the frenzy building programme, Singapore must be anticipating a population explosion soon. Singapore is building and building like no tomorrow, cutting down every inch of forest left, to build more flats for more people. Where are the people coming from when the fertility rate of Singapore is falling or has reached a point that is not replacing itself?

H1B visa fee is the first thing that came to mind. Where are the Indians going to go when they cannot pay the US100,000 fee to enter the USA? Singapore? Is Singapore seeing this as a great opportunity to welcome more talented Indians here? How would this change the CMIO formula? No changes for sure. As long as the foreigners are not given pink IC, there can be a few millions of them here, the CMIO balance will not be changed as this is based on citizenship.

Another question needs to be asked. Is Singapore's mission as a nation state is to provide housing for the rest of the world, to provide employment for the unemployed of the world? Why is there a need to keep on squeezing out every inch of land from the flora and fauna of the little island to build more flats to house more people, mostly foreigners and causing shortages in all things, resources, energy, land, housing and driving up cost of living, difficulties in securing university places or good jobs for Singaporean competing against foreigners?

Are Singaporeans in agreement with the govt policy of building more homes so as to bring in more foreigners to fill up every square inch of the land that could be spared for the flora and fauna if not for Singaporeans?

What do you think?