Asian Games 2026 - India is better than Japan in organising sports events

 NAGOYA: Japan is traditionally seen as a reliable host for major sporting events but an Asian Games dogged by organisational woes has tarnished that image and raised questions over future bids, experts say.

The Games in Aichi-Nagoya saw a catalogue of mishaps, from athletes taken to the wrong venues to the North Korean national anthem played for the South Korean hockey team.

There were not enough beds for the over 17,000 athletes and officials, a bigger number than the Olympics.

Countries complained of being stranded for up to six hours at the airport on arrival....

Ryu Seung-min, president of the Korean Sport and Olympic Committee, said: "If I were to give them a grade, it would be an F."

Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) president Seiko Hashimoto admitted that "there were many problems", but said the country wants to host more international events....

"This is all part of the Games, but we need to analyse those issues so we can tackle them for the next future opportunity."  CNA

What is happening to Japan, the Asian industrial power once rooted to overtake the Americans is failing over and over again and is the target of complaints by third world countries for failing in organising ability and efficiency. The incompetency of the Japanese started even before the start of the game, from arrival at airports and providing accommodation for the athletes and officials. Thereafter the mistakes kept cropping up one after another and some very serious ones.

Japan was once regarded as the epitome of efficiency, the pride of Asia. They invented JIT processes, zero defect QC, operating and manufacturing efficient models that the standards for the world to follow. The mistakes happening in the Asian Games are elementary stuff, nothing difficult to handle. All that was needed was a little bit of effort, more care in the details, more planning and careful administration. What is so hard about such stuff? 

India did a better job in organising the last Commonwealth Games. There were complaints but not about efficiency or planning, Japan has a lot to learn from the Indians in planning another big games. If India has the kind of resources and funds, India would definitely do a much better job than the Japanese in Nagoya. Has Japan joined the Third World in organising and planning efficiency? All the athletes and officials went to Japan and expect Japan to do better than China or at least the same, but horror, to be met with mistakes after mistakes and disruptions and disqualifications.

Between Japan and India, both vying to host the Olympics, I think the Olympic Committee will hand it to the Indians with eyes closed, if it comes to that. Sayonara Japan!

What is the best way to bring down the USA?

 What is the best way to bring down the USA? De-dollarization is the only way. The USA is militarily well prepared against countries trying to do it through head-on clash with the USA military. That has been factored in when the USA had formulated its intention to control the world. It will be unlikely to be successful, with its money printing privilege. Take away this privilege and the USA will fall when demand for US$ keeps falling. More money printing will decimate its internal economy.

The USA will continue to weaponize the US$ if countries do not wise up now and use less of the US$ toilet paper. The Middle East oil states must start by selling oil outside the US$. Easier said than done, as the oil Sheikh's oil wealth are now all mostly invested in the USA or the West. They have been held hostage by the USA. But the Middle East oil states should realize that the USA is unable to protect them as a result of the current war against Iran. Therefore, using the mantra of protecting them has lost its capability going forward. It is time for a rethink.

Now the USA is going to be involved in four wars simultaneously - Ukraine, Israel, Iran and soon Saudi Arabia if it steps in against the Houthis. Does the USA really have the capability and capacity to provide all the weapons needed? China holds the key with its rare earth elements required for the manufacturing of all weapons - fighter jets, submarines, aircraft carriers, other warships, missiles and drones. You can say that China is weaponizing its dominance in rare earth supplies. The same way the USA is weaponizing its fiat currency. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. The sword cuts both ways.

BRICS was created specifically for de-dollarization. It was not a creation of a militaristic mindset, unlike those that talks about military alliances with every breath when forging alliance. BRICS is peaceful bloc and I think countries wanted to join for its dynamic thinking. The process of de-dollarization may be slow and there will be attempts to sabotage its agenda. But with careful vetting and systematic measures in place to prevent subterfuge, it will grow. Ten, twenty or thirty years timeline is not a long way for things to work out under China's thinking. China thinks long term and is patient, dogmatic, relentless when it focuses on issues, just like the four decades it took for it to rise.

Anonymous 

American cronies have no choice but to live with NGOs

 Which is why any opposition group in whatever form, providing aid in whichever form, must be made to disclose its source of funding. Governments everywhere knows what to do with funding for terrorist activities but never make any serious effort to rein in those NGOs fermenting the same activity of creating chaos when the time arrives. But NGOs are smart and insert themselves in help groups, religious entities and innocent sounding Samaritan establishments, making it difficult to sound them out.

We can see why there is so much opposition in Thailand trying to enact a law to force NGOs to disclose their source of funding that will reveal who is behind all the protests and who are pulling the strings. Of course, no trail will ever lead to the main culprit, but the funding source will tell us who they are working for. NED is funded by the USA Government and many billionaire elites like George Soros. If the trail leads to NED, it means USA Government involvement and means interference in the internal affairs of nations.

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When doing business in India, find an Indian with the right contact and all will be fine

  This is the conventional wisdom often heard in little Red Dot. We have the right Indians with the contacts and know the ways and the ropes, to navigate the Indian power grid with differential access to the who's who in India. Investing in India is a walk in the park. Our contacts go all the way to Modi and everything can be resolved with the public not knowing what is happening behind closed doors. This may be the reason why Singapore's investments in India, hundreds of billions, have been going on so smoothly, without a hitch. Even the small storm in the teacup when DBS was made to acquire a failed Indian bank and being asked to pay for their losses and whatever, nothing else was heard of it. Problems solved, QED when you have good Indian contacts.

The SIA investment in Air India and Air India calling its major shareholders to pay up for its losses will likely go the same way. All settled peacefully behind closed doors. Getting the right contacts is very important when doing business in India. 

What is the catch? What is the meaning of contacts? In China, it is called 'guanxi'. I do not know what is it called in India. In the USA it is called lobbying. What is the difference when big businesses are conducted based on guanxi, contacts or lobbying? Don't they need to go by the rule of law, by what is written in the contracts?

There is an underlying assumptions in such business dealings. The contacts will serve the interests of the investing or paying party. And when doing business in India, the contacts are likely to be well connected Indians. The Indian contacts will be the middlemen, the go between, the deal makers. The investing party, likely not Indians, will use his Indian contacts to talk to the Indians. Presumably the Indian contacts will work in favour of whoever hires him to be the contact. So he will be on the side of the investing party when negotiating with the Indians in India, could be the Indian govt. Caveat, hopefully the assumptions and presumptions are correct, and the contacts will negotiate in favour of the investing party. 

So, you have a non Indian investor hiring an Indian national to represent him to negotiate with the other Indian party in a business deal in India. The non Indian investor has no choice but to have complete trust in the Indian contact. What are the chances that the two Indians will snook the non Indian investing party for their own interests, making their own deals in the process? Trust them.

What do you think?

Clown Rubio thinks American youths are as stupid as him

 During Xi's recent visit to Washington, he told the USA that China is open to welcoming 100,000 USA students to study in China. That has created immediately a tsunami of fear among USA leaders and the MSM has already started spreading propaganda about indoctrination and brainwashing if such students were allowed to go to China to study. Are USA students so weak minded and cannot think for themselves what is right and what is wrong and need its leaders to worry for them for life? Chinese students have been studying in USA universities for decades, most staying behind to work in USA, benefiting its industries and university research programs. But the tide is turning and Chinese students mostly prefer to return to China after graduation without the fear of racism and that can now afford them a better future in research and innovation. rather than risk being targeted as spies and getting prosecuted. The number of Chinese students studying in USA has fallen over the years and most Universities have lost much revenue catering to such students from China. More than the fees are the supporting businesses catering to such students.

Xi's invitation has ignited a genuine fear among the USA universities, most of all if USA students flock to China to get a very affordable but not inferior education in China. The other bigger fear of the USA Government is that USA students in China are going to see the real China as opposed to the fabricated news about China over the decades. This is going to open up a can of worms, if younger USA people are able to see the good life in China, the infrastructures, the cheap cost of living, the innovation in the universities and whether Chinese citizens are living in stifled conditions.

Why need to go to the USA to study, paying an arm and a leg when universities in China can provide a cheaper education of equal caliber? On top of that, Chinese entities now favor graduates from Chinese universities, while returning students from USA are no more the preferred choice.

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