India still fantasising its big power dream. Only low thinking leaders will be mesmerised by India

India thinks it is a favorite dog of the USA all along. It gets invited to the G7 and with that it thinks it can sashay inside BRICS as well. Trump probably threatened India not to join the BRI and the Indians complied. Joining BRICS was a different matter, as it means India became the Trojan Horse for the USA inside BRICS. Now, India is like a stray dog left behind by other countries in Asia.

Thankfully, India was also invited to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) the largest free trade agreement in the world made up of 15 nations around the Indo-Pacific region but chose not to join. That was a blessing in disguise for the others. The Indians think too highly of themselves, refusing to join knowing that China is the dominant nation. India is only interested in bullying its smaller neighbors like Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. When Pakistan and Bangladesh moved closer to China, India was not happy. India is behaving like the USA, not allowing China to have any influence over any other country.


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TFR (2025) PLUMMETED to 0.87!

 Repost - Part 1

"Leo81June 14, 2026 6:19 am
"Earlier this year in parliament, DPM GKY spoke about Sg facing an "existential problem" ...

TFR (2025) PLUMMETED to 0.87!

In 2013, our beloved founding PM LKY（国父李光耀）published his last book (One Man's View of the World). In the Singapore chapter, founding PM LKY lamented that our Singaporean core will be halved in one generation if our TFR remains unchanged (in 2013, Sg's TFR was about 1.21). At that time PM3 was in charge (and his "personal TFR" was 4.0) holding helm for almost 21 years in all (Aug 2004 - May 2024).

PM4 now in his 3rd year is facing an existential Sg threat of 0.87 TFR ... (NOT sure what is PM4's "personal TFR", anybody knows?) ...

Have you ever wonder assuming PM4 serves as long as PM3 at the top, by 2043, what would Sg's TFR be?

If this problem is NOT serious ("事情大条”），what is?"


Uncle RB: "Or is it a case of not seeing the elephants in the room?"

In terms of Sg's low TFR (0.87) in 2025, probably YES ... Policy makers likely missed out "the elephants in the room" when attempting to solve Sg's TFR problems ...

The solution may lie in two terms or phrases, one in Chinese and the other in English.

Let's start with the English term first which is "cognitive ambidexterity"
(as the cohort in RB's following are mostly "Jiak Cunt Tongue" [potato aka french fries lovers], ie, mostly 英哥lish speaking elites) .

The Chinese has a term with similar meaning "辨证思维” 。。。

The TFR issue is NOT unlike an extremely complex, highly integrated structural system of myriad nodes and intricate links that need to be optimised at the micro as well as macro level, forming a huge social supply chain tied up with external environment and with many components exhibiting enthropic characteristic which need to be managed not as a social tax but a fuel to engender healthy TFR.

In the Chinese term "辨证思维", the first variable that one must understand in order to tackle a problem is "the situation" ... what (actually) are you dealing with (NOT what you see or think you are dealing with which in Chinese its meaning is embodied in the opposite term aka ”形式思维”）。

Uncle RB: "...barking up the wrong
tree?"

Likely yes because if one tries to address Sg's low TFR issue using ”形式思维”, then history is the best judge with each passing year's TFR worst than the year before ...

If one is suffering from say high blood sugar and being treated with say high bp medication, obviously the outcome could be like Sg's TFR and end up "disastriously". Hence, when they missed the elephants in the room in terms of Sg's TFR problem and barked up the wrong tree, the end result is the 0.87 TFR (2025)?

To put it bluntly, how does a potential Sg young mother say working in the financial sector view parenthood?

1) A child is NOT a hedgable liability?

2) It is 100% illiquid?

3) It is (at least) a 20+ years voluntary penalty?

When a policy maker sees the TFR issue in the wrong light, she/ he is hoping the players make a wrong move and go into parenthood which highly rational and intelligent Sg females understanding the efficient economic and business environment they are in would choose NOT to play the game?

If someone identifies the problem wrongly, the remedies will be incorrect and the problem remained unresolved. Period.

Hence the phrase "cognitive ambidexterity" ... (Chinese equivalent "辨证思维")."

Repost - Part 2

"Next, how to identify the solutions?

a) ASFR (32-39);

If one is a (senior) policy maker, likely she/ he has NEVER work in the PRIVATE SECTOR before? True? So they probably never work in any marketing position or how to achieve high revenue year in year out etc?

So what is the (possible) solution?

The hint(s) already given above. (Don't be "lazy", go figure out. Aren't you already paid humongously every month with fat bonuses every year?)

b) ASFR (15-25 and 40-49) likely near zero ...

c) 辨证思维 - 情况明， 方法对，决心大 - GO!

You use ”形式思维”, it is akin to what was incorrectly attributed to Einstein aka: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.""

Leo81

Operation Kill Iranians - War of propaganda, lies, strategies and deceptions

  After the WMD lie to invade and destroy Iraq, the Israelis and Americans just simply cooked up another incoherent lie that Iran is about 2 weeks to acquiring a nuclear bomb, so they have to hurry to kill all the Iranians. Their ultimate objective is the eradication of Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East and replace it with a Greater Israel that stretches across all the Arab and Muslim states. When Iran is gone, next would be Turkey and subsequently there will be no more resistance from the Arab and Muslim world. No Arabs and Muslims in Middle East, only Israel and Israelis. The American and Israeli terrorists have no respect for the Arab and Muslim states, treating them as irritants waiting to be wiped away from the region.

For the immediate future, the main goal is to keep the Arabs and Muslims in turmoil, turning every Arab and Muslim states into dysfunctional state, weak and with decreasing population from regular lawn mowing operations, wars and genocides. Gaza is completely gone. Lebanon a job in progress. Iraq is dysfunctional, like Syria, and now Iran to become another Iraq. Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the smaller rich Arab states like Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE are already in the pockets, unable to resist when the time comes, hapless, completely at the mercy of the Americans. Actually these small Arab states are in deep trouble. UAE's tourism and property industries have bottomed out. Kuwait is even in a worst situation.

Trump had bragged many times about totally obliterating Iran's nuclear making capability but also repeating that Iran was 2 weeks away from having a nuclear bomb. Such inconsistent and incoherent lies are being flagged by American analysts and politicians as incoherent lies. But Trump and Netanyahu did not care, did not bother to explain them away. Power is in their hands and they just bulldozed their ways, to destroy Iran and kill Iranians as and when they like.  Trump and drunkard Hegseth have repeatedly said Iran's nuclear and military have been completely destroyed. Then why still bombing and attacking Iran?

In the process more lies, fake news, misinformation and false flag incidents were spread to make them look like the winning side. Iran's defence capability has been destroyed, Iran's missile manufacturing arms have been destroyed, Iran's nuclear facilities have also been destroyed, the Iranians are revolting against the Iranian govt, Ayatollah Khamenei and 40 top Iranians have been assassinated...sp 

Who knows, when this war ends, Iran will present Khamenei and the 40 top commanders in a parade? In a war of lies and deception, anything can be true, anything can be false. They could fake the 911 Twin Tower attack, the WMD attack, why can't the Iranians fake the death of Khamenei and the 40 commanders? There are many advantages to fake this. The death of Khamenei would mobilise the Iranians and Arabs and Muslims to the side of Iran. The death of Khamenei would distract the attention of the Americans and Israelis and make Khamenei safer, no more the target of assassination. Similarly this applies to the 40 top commanders. They can continue to command the Iranian forces to fight back without having to look behind their backs. And don't forget, the Iranians were already watching over general Esmail Qaani, working for Mossad and were aware of what was coming and had all the time to prevent the assassination.

Nothing is real or false until the war is over. The Americans and Israelis can lie and deceive, so can the Iranians and the Arabs and Muslims to take advantage of the deception and war strategies. The Iranians have home ground advantage. Have been sitting there for centuries, millennia. The Americans and Israelis are intruders, the Americans from across oceans. Who can last longer in a war of attrition? The Americans and Israelis are under enormous logistic strains, economies in tatters. The Iranians just sit there and wait for them to wear out.

Will the so called peace deal change anything? The Israelis are not part of the deal and announced that they will continue to attack Lebanon, and Iran will therefore attack Israel and the Americans cannot cry foul. Lebanon peace is part of the deal.

China recruiting real talents, others recruiting fake talents

 Real talents are prized items, great assets of countries to thrive in the new world of high technology. Countries are all competing for top real talents from the world to help them move forward in a world that is very different from the last century. Many countries have talent search programmes, recruiting foreign talents from all over the world. Some countries recruit real talents, some recruit fake talents, some recruit conmen and frauds as talents. 

The consequences and real results will show over the years. China has 1.4 billion people, producing millions of STEM talents for themselves and the world. This is not enough. China not only wants top talents from the world, China is laying out the red carpet for Chinese talents overseas, especially in America, to return to help the Motherland to compete with America and the world in the race to the future. China is not just attracting them back by telling them the Motherland needs them. This worked in the past, and still works now but not good enough. China is offering a package as much as US$800,000 for relocation back to the Motherland. The package varies but mostly offered to semiconductor and chip engineers. China needs all the top talents they can get in a very competitive and unforgiving war with the Americans and every talent recruited is a talent gained.

American clowns in Washington is also helping China to push all the top Chinese talents back to China. Their anti China racist policies are frightening the Chinese engineers and scientists, that their safety is at risk, their future no longer that bright, being targeted for fake criminal and espionage charges. The environment in America is now very toxic for Chinese engineers and scientists...and also for other foreign talents, especially real and fake talents from India.

For sure China will not be offering anything for fake talents and frauds. These fake talents and frauds will be left to stupid and gullible countries to grab to replace their no talent population. Chinese criteria and selection process are very stringent and meticulous. The process of hunting for top talents requires real talents to spot them. If the recruiters are frauds and fake talents, what they recruited will also be frauds and fake talents. And these comes in hoards, whole village of them will come along as fake and fraud talents that the gullible will not be able to tell the difference.

The speed of scientific and technological progress in China speak for themselves. The number of published scientific and engineering papers, the creativity and innovations in China are for all to see. For countries that go after fake talents and frauds, their progress cannot lie. Fake talents and frauds cannot produce the real stuff, real innovations and inventions to commercialise and put them into the market.

The success of China's talent hunting and recruitment will propel China to the front of the pack in this very competitive world and to turn China into a world leader in science, engineering and technology. Those that end up with fake talents and frauds will pretend to be doing well in their own fictional world and be left behind in the long term. Elon Musk knows what hiring fake talents meant. Boeing is paying heavily for hiring fake talents and risking bankruptcy.

Dear Leader Trump's immortality will last for as long as he is POTUS

At home, Trump is attempting to 'found' all the USA places of interest. The Kennedy Center was founded by him with his name placed above that of Kennedy for better effect. But that is now unravelling, but not too sure about the attempt to take his name down, as it is all covered up behind a screen for the time being. Trump is trying to cut off funding for those places not giving him the privilege of placing his name above others. I think other dictators pale in comparison to Trump.

What Trump cannot put his name on places he wanted to 'found', he demolished them, like the Rose Garden at the White House to rebuild it into a Trump Ballroom. Looks like a golden ballroom, with facilities for drones to do what I do not know. Only he knows in his warped mind.

There are other more sick jokes like building warships and calling them 'Trump Class of Warships'. Beyond all that, Trump has put his name on cryptos and trying to con people with million-dollar golden visas (with only one sold, lol)

Oh, not to forget, Trump is going to put his ugly face on a US$250 USA currency note to be issued. I think people would not want to piss on it as it is too expensive, unlike a US$2 note.

Immortality is not what one man thinks of himself. It is what others think of him, and I think Trump is not even close enough to be honored as such. The USA used to laugh at the same antics happening in North Korea of indulging in self-immortalization. I think Kim Jong Un, Putin and Xi are having their last laugh. As they say, who laughs last laughs best.


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