Who built the big cities of Asia and SE Asia?

  Southeast Asia is poised to be the next super growth region of the world, with high economic growth and industrialisation in process. Semiconductors and EVs and AIs will lead SE Asia in its next phase of development.  After Europe, America and then China, SE Asia is the next gem to shine brightly in a region of peace and stability. Caveat, peace is not crushed by foreign forces lying in the dark corners of Asean capitals and jungles. Caveat, the silly ASEAN leaders will not be conned by evil  foreign powers into wars, intentionally or unintentionally. China is investing heavily in the Asean countries, exporting its industries into Asean, capitalising on Asean's labour pool and a growing middle class market. 

China's contribution to Asean's growth and infrastructure development was preceded by the contributions of the Chinese diaspora several decades earlier. The gleaming high rise towers of Bangkok, KL, Manila and Jakarta were shining examples of the roles played by the Chinese diaspora and now China joining the queue in new infrastructure developments.

India also has its share in the growth of Asean and South Asia. The gleaming high rise towers of Singapore City and Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Indian cities were the contributions of the Indians and the Indian diaspora.

The Indians will build the best cities in India and South Asia in the future. 

The big cities of China, Japan and Korea were their own achievements, using their own native talents.

Thanks to India and China, and the Indian and Chinese diaspora, South Asia and SE Asia have clean, modern and gleaming cities to match the developed world. Asean countries and South Asia will soon join the ranks of developed countries with modern and smart cities. Very likely Asean countries and India will reach developed country status ahead of China, they are not content to be just a developing country.

Who are the Capital Land, UOL, Far East Organisation, GuocoLand. Frasers Properties, City Development, Bukit Sembawang, MCL etc etc?  Oh, these are just developers. They don't build Singapore. Without them Singapore will also be just as well built as it is today by the Indian workers.

Clown Trump only trust clowns

Trump does not realize that he is sleepwalking into another Vietnam, with USA troops and logistics converging on to the Middle East. He boasted about bombing Kharg Island 'for fun' and Iran can do nothing about it. Iran will likewise take out all the USA owned oil storage facilities in the Middle East. And that also means the Straits of Hormuz is a dead zone for ships. How is that going to stop the war within another two to three weeks? It will be Vietnam all over again.

North Vietnam was not even militarily prepared as Iran today, just leveraging on their experience in expelling the French at Dien Bien Phu. Not to forget that North Vietnam was then fighting against South Vietnam supported by USA, South Korea among others, with all the superiority in aerial power, logistics and manpower.

What does that tell us about Trump just sending tens of thousands of USA troops to the Middle East, into a meat grinder, fighting Iranian troops that have the advantage of geographical layout, defensive hideout and equally well-developed weaponry like drones and missiles.

But Trump is a military genius with zero military background, and he listens not to the military top brass, but follows the advice of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the USA Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, both Jews serving the interest of Netanyahu.

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Silly Trump thinks other leaders are as stupid as him

 Trump claims he is also helping China by keeping the Straits of Hormuz open. Trump is attempting to drag China directly into the conflict. He demands that countries should send warships to escort tankers in and out of the Persian Gulf. So far, no takers as they do not want to participate in Trump's illegal war.

China does not even have to listen to Trump's sick reasoning, knowing that the USA had all along been trying to suffocate China's energy needs with all those choke points set up in the event of a conflict. The USA's seizure of Venezuela's oil was to prevent China from buying cheap Venezuelan crude, outside of the US$. Same for the intent to seize Iran's oil of which China is the main buyer, all done outside the US$. Iran now demands that those buying Iranian oil must pay in Yuan. Think about that.

Another development centers on Trump now begging countries to buy Russian oil. That must be a turnout from the books, after four long years of sanctioning Russian energy. This is a direct afront against Ukraine and NATO Europe. They have been thrown under the bus. Russia may not necessarily want to sell to Europe again, not even India. Russia wants India to pay in Yuan, now also without the discounts. This is for trying to betray Russia by attempting to buy oil from USA and elsewhere.

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Operation Kill Iranians will end American presence in the Middle East...and end Israel as well

 Trump did not see it coming. Understandable giving the limitation in his grey matter. He is behaving like the low thinking mafia chief, can only see as far as his nose. He thought he could bully Iran and destroy Iran like crushing a cockroach, using his clout.

Trump is now in panic, calling all Americans in the Middle East to evacuate immediately. Now, take the first flight out of the region or risk being killed. The heat is unbearable and the military brass must be telling him with no uncertain terms that the war is spreading out of control and looking bad. Trump, like all arrogant Americans, only thinks that the Americans are the invincible military force, unchallengeable and can do anything they want, to harm, to kill. They have been bragging and convincing themselves that the rest of the world are dummies, no match to the Americans. They think the rest of the world are stupid and not doing anything to beef up their defence capabilities for such a day, to fight against the American and Israeli terrorists.

The latest order is for all Americans, non essential staff, to leave the Middle East, leaving behind the soldiers and the CIA operators. This is the first time that the Americans are willingly running away. This is the first step in a Middle East free of American terrorists. The Americans left behind are legitimate military targets to be terminated with extreme prejudice by the Iranians and the Arab and Muslim forces.

The conceited and lying Americans still believe that they are in control of the Arab and Muslim world, that they can continue to manipulate and dominate over them, collaborating with the Israelis to kill them and to take over their lands. The Arabs and Muslims are playing the patient game, pretending to be daft and stupid, pretending to be hapless and be ordered and kicked around by the Americans and the Israelis.

The Arabs and Muslims are making their own plans to free themselves from the clutches of the American and Israeli terrorists. Once this war is tilted in favour of the Iranians, you can bet all the Arabs and Muslim states will rise together to get rid of the American and Israeli terrorists from their lands, never to allow them to step foot in the Middle East again. 

Freedom for the Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East and Africa is within reach now that the stupid Americans led by a lunatic, some called him idiot, clown or whatever and have overreached themselves, exposing their own vulnerabilities. When the Americans are beaten, the Israelis will be turned into minced meat by the Arabs and Muslims. Gone will be their fake invincibility myths. They will be chased out of the Middle East once again, according to the Bible, to wander around the world, no country to call their own.

The Middle East is land for the descendants of Abraham determined by bloodline. The Arabs are the descendants of Abraham, not the white European Jews. They can called themselves Jews but they are NOT descendants of Abraham.

No Americans and Jews in Arab land, the land their father, Abraham, passed down to them. Trump is sent by God to return the land to the descendants of Abraham, not to be stolen by the Americans and the Jews from Europe. The end of this war is a new rupture for the Middle East, void of American and Israeli terrorists.

Shale oil versus Arab oil

 Yes US, viz the orange bankrupt, has claimed they have more oil than Saudi.

Statistically, it's true but most of that yankee oil is shale oil.
Shale oil is oil trapped in the microscopic pores of shale rock. It cannot flow. The only way to recover it is to frack the rock pump steam into the fracks, and pump the hot water/oil mixture to the surface. It's very expensive and the breakeven oil price to operate such a well is at least USD60/barrel years ago. With inflation, this could be higher now.
Of course in the current crises, it's economical to produce this oil but they'll have to operate tens of thousands of them as the flow rate of these wells is very low, maximum of a few hundred barrels a day for a good well. The bad wells will produce only tens of barrels a day. Compare this to the prolific middle eastern wells that produce up to tens of thousands barrels a day per well.
Now you know why Trump is the orange bankrupt.

Anonymous 

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