No more licensed websites after TR Emeritus went off line

 The TR Emeritus, the last of the licensed Singapore website on current affairs has been mothballed for a while. TOC is operating in Taiwan, I think. Oops, Mothership is now operating like a business concern, an approved main media. Looks like there are no or not many local current affairs website left other than those related to food and pets and hobbies.

Saw on the news that they are looking at unlicensed websites and may take actions. I presume this will include blogs like mysingaporenews as well. I have received a test prompt from MHA in my mobile. 

My position is very simple. If they don't like what I am posting, just drop me a line to close it and I will stop posting. No need to sweat the small stuff. The faces in Phoenix Park are all aliens to me now.

redbean.

China and USA, a case of thinking and strategic planning versus gangster businesses

But the West’s actions, including Japan’s earlier industrial policies, cannot compare to China’s strategic, comprehensive “all-of-government” approach, which is in a league of its own. The Chinese government draws on the country’s surplus domestic savings to target industries of the future, while marshalling the full resources of the NDRC, state-owned enterprises, state-directed banks and state-supported investment funds.

Trump’s transactional interventions not only lack an overarching strategy; their scope will be limited by a US economy that is short on domestic savings, increasingly saddled with big, ugly federal budget deficits. Moreover, amid a full-blown outbreak of Sinophobia, there is strong bipartisan distaste for anything resembling Chinese-style market-based socialism.  CNA

The above is quoted from an article, Commentary: China plans, America reacts
While China has a strategic planning process, America has neither a plan nor a strategy, says economist Stephen S Roach.

The stark leadership style between America and China cannot be more evident today. One depending on an ancient system of democracy but turning out more like democrazy, electing any Tom, Dick and Harry, to run a modern govt of a scale never seen before. The complexity of todays' govt is far from the economy of cowboys and Red Indians with so many areas of concern and interests that need specialists and well trained professionals to manage, not nitwits, scoundreds, cheats and conmen. 

Trump's cabinet consists of a bunch of D graders acting as if they are the smartest Americans to run the country when D stands for daft, dumb, degraded, dunces, dense, dimwit, disgusting, devious, dunderhead....... There is no way to run a country the size America with makeshift political clowns. Trump is treating the running of America like a mafia don, demanding this and that with threats and terror to get what he wants.

On the other hand, China carefully cultivated and trained an army of bureaucrats and statesmen who are in the business for life, and picked from the best of the cohorts available, not conmen, TV jokers and gangsters.

Their carefully built up national reserves are carefully and strategically invested in technology and industries of the future, not in anything that makes money, or simply going to war to acquire land to build holiday resorts or real estates. Here lies the difference, every investment is carefully thought through by experts with a long term view, not on the spur of the moment because one politician claimed he has connection or know someone and can make a quick buck.

The investments in BRI, investments in ports and infrastructure, solar technology, EVs, high end chips. quantum technology, AI, aeronautics, marine engineering, high speed train etc etc are the manifestation of deep and strategic thinkings, unlike the thinking or no thinking or gangsters and conmen.

Where is America today and where it is heading vis a vis China are all there for the world to see.

PS. This blog may not exist for much longer. Waiting for orders to close shop.

Singapore has tertiary educated workforce for PHV drivers, bicycle attendance, food, deliver agents and hawkers

Oops just to add delegates and medias and spectators that come to our beautiful land won't be disappointed and boring as we had the most wonderful Singaporeans to serve all of you.
We had PHD holders aka PHV Private Hired Vehicles to serve you.

They could talk anything under the Sun and Moon.

From "A" Star Technologies Researchers to Genome Sequencings and etc!

We also have Unis Graduates doing now parking bicycles attendants at all Singapore parking bays of Easy Rides Hello Rides and also Spore Indie rides.

You want to go bicycling places round our island? Not to worry they could even draw you a most thorough map learnt from their Polys and Unis days.

Also Higher institutions food and parcels delivery agents which could even brighten your days if you wish to have a chit chat with them.

Besides we also have at least "A" Levels or even Polys and Unis First Class Hawkers in our Gourmet Island.

Now we even leave all our high tech services to foreigners with their first-class Mars and Pluto Degrees that we can boast to, have the most of First class smooth running of our island wide MRT trains and also many Government and Private Corporations data efficiency that are most beneficial to all of you.

Singaporeans now preferred our FORTE above-mentioned professions and jobs.

So U.N. what's you waiting for?

We have First Class Grandiose Buildings here in CBD and other Ds for you to choose!

What's say you Secretary General Antonio Guterres?

You won't look so stressed when you are here in our Beautiful Singapore where 90 percent of our peoples are friendly and so electrocuted, oops Educated.

Here so safe that we could even just placed cardboard Law Officers and no crimes committee.

Our regular and NS officers can drink kopi happily 😊


Virgo49

US looking for more things to weaponise

Having experienced failure and yet using sanctions hoping to cripple other countries is the thinking of a clogged mindset.

Tariffs are also failing, and the USA is scrapping the bottom of the barrel for more things to weaponize against its opponents. With de-dollarization and the presence of BRICS, weaponizing the US$ and other financial measures will accelerate the fall of the US$ hegemony. It is a sword that is going to cut both ways.

The USA debt is unpayable, and that is the stark reality. Those who hold US Treasuries and other assets must be wary of their debts being wiped out, unless they are also holding USA assets in their country as collateral. Gold is going to be the safest bet, not stablecoins that can be devalued.

Argentina is caught in a trap set by the USA using the IMF, a situation it had fallen into for decades. Its US$ loans from the IMF need US$ to repay to keep Argentina from default, and the USA is desperately trying to save Argentina by extending help to the tune of US$20 billion. Suffice to say, this is adding fuel to fire as Argentina is digging itself deeper into a debt trap that only selling the whole country to the USA is the final solution. The USA is eyeing the raw resources of Argentina, with help that is tied to a long chain. How is Argentina going to repay the USA the US$20 billion, when it cannot even service its debt to the IMF?


Anonymous

American Dream is now a nightmare

The American Dream is now a nightmare for those risking their lives to sneak into the country from the South. Trump and his White supremacists want to make the USA just for the Whites, claiming immigrants have no place to be in the USA. Did anyone hear about the screaming that Asians are not welcomed in USA? Never mind even if it is the pot calling the kettle black.

Who actually owned the land on the North American continent in the first place? Who was it who stole the land of the Native American Indians? None other than the Anglo-Saxon Whites from Europe. Did the Whites pay the Natives for the land they took by force after using religion to con the Natives? Did the Whites not used genocides to get rid of the Native American Indians, reducing them to near extinction level, so that the Whites can rule unhindered?

If immigrants from the South are not welcomed to be in the USA, what about the Whites themselves? Were they not also immigrants? I am sure the Native American Indians will be more than happy to have North America given back to them and the Anglo-Saxon Whites returning to Europe.

It is heaven's blessing that China did not end up like North America. China belongs to the Chinese but would be like North America if the Anglo-Saxon Whites managed to divide China up into concessions. The Chinese would probably now be living in real concentration camps in Xinjiang. Had that happened, China's name may not even exist. Perhaps they would have called China as 'United States of Asia' instead, LOL.

Anonymous