Malaysia is but a tiny dot in the world economy and map. As a military power, it is negligible.
But Malaysia is BIG in name calling and at deriding non-Malays. The Umno-led Barisan Nasional federal government (meaning ministers) and their lackeys love calling ethnic Chinese who are born and bred in Malaysia Cina Babi (Chinese Pigs), Balik Tongsan (Go Back To China).
However, their global shame, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) Prime Minister Najib Razak, has for the past month or two been seen favouring China politically and economically.
However, and unfortunately, many of his lackeys, especially his Umno-loving racial and religious bigots have yet to see Najib's sudden “change of heart” for China.
Perhaps it is due to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) probe into the 1MDB multi-billion-dollar/ringgit money-laundering probe that has triggered similar investigations in some 10 countries that have seen 1MDB-linked assets and financial facilities being frozen.
Or, perhaps Najib is leaning towards China, politically and economically, because he needs immediate investments from China to keep Malaysia’s administration and economy afloat.
Whatever, it is time for the Umno-loving racial and religious bigots to stop insulting the non-Malays before they inadvertently cross the line of tolerance and face the wrath of the Chinese.
And China has displayed its clearest and absolute contempt for “Superpower US” by giving President Barrack Hussein Obama a “slap” when he arrived in China for the G20 summit.
China has no fear whatsoever for the US as it’s economic, political and military ties with Russia are as solid as a rock, so to speak and to say the least.
So, the Umno Malays should stop playing Cina Babi politics to undermine 1MDB Najib’s efforts to be buddy buddy with China.
It is counter productive to both Malaysians and Malaysia.
Read these two postings by the Malaysian-banned online news portal Malaysia Chronicle for context (and also No News Is Bad News earlier postings): http://victorlim2016.blogspot.my/2016/08/dont-forget-chinese-russian-combined.html, http://victorlim2016.blogspot.my/2016/08/china-steps-up-silk-route-advantage-to.html and http://victorlim2016.blogspot.my/2016/08/americans-squeezed-sidelined-by-chinese.html):
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Politics | September 5, 2016 by | 0 Comments
Russia has proven to be too strong, and too smart, for the superpower America. So, the United States, under the leadership of lame duck President Barack Obama, chose to bully China instead. History has taught the Chinese a painful lesson that becoming an economic superpower without an equivalent strong military power is suicidal.
When China tried to claim almost the whole South China Sea for strategic reasons – economic, resources, defence, expansion or whatever you wish to call it – the U.S. suddenly found a good reason engaging the Chinese militarily. Besides war of words and provoking each other with military gadgets, both U.S. and China aren’t ready to go to war.
Presidents prior to Obama were normally respected by world leaders, or at least they had pretended to show respect to the most powerful man on planet Earth. But not Barack Obama, whom is being called all sort of nasty names but a strong leader by his own American people. Russian Vladimir Putin has been toying and ridiculing Barack Obama for as long as one can remember.
With about 137 days left until Obama leaves office on 20 January 2017, his trip to Hangzhou for the Group of 20 Summit in China is his final tour of Asia. Beijing should try extending the best hospitality to the POTUS, out of respect. Turns out, a war was already in full force on the tarmac – Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport – before Obama could exit of the magnificent Air Force One.
While authorities in the host city of Hangzhou had rolled out the red carpet for the arrival of Obama, the American president was forced to disembark Air Force One via a rarely usedalternative exit on Saturday after no staircasewas provided. Humiliated, China’s leaders have now been accused of delivering a calculated diplomatic snub to Barack Obama.However, before Obama was made to wait while a decision is made about the staircase, a war of words was already happening on the tarmac at the airport. A quarrel erupted between a presidential aide and a Chinese official who demanded journalists travelling with Obama beprohibited from getting anywhere near him, obviously for security reason.
While the Chinese official might not want to take any security risk, or deliberately attempted to start chaos, it was seen as a breach of decorum observed whenever the American president arrives in a foreign locale. The Chinese authorities had even put up a blue rope under the wing of Air Force One, forcing the journalists to stand behind it, making photographing and recording tough.
At one point a White House official told the Chinese official that Obama was their president and the Air Force One was their plane and the press wasn’t moving, let alone taking silly instructions from the Chinese. In retaliation, the Chinese official replied angrily – “This is our country. This is our airport.”
When National Security Adviser Susan Rice and senior White House staffer Ben Rhodes tried to get closer to the president, lifting up a blue rope and walking under it, the Chinese official turned his fire on Rice in an attempt to block her progress. As they exchanged angry words her Secret Service agent stepped in to usher her past him.
While press access is generally granted wide freedom in the democracy United States, the same cannot be said about communist China where news media are controlled. The Chinese Communist Party insists that media must follow the party line and promote what it calls “positive propaganda.” As news spread about Obama’s humiliating treatment, Beijing points finger squarely on Washington.
Beijing said – “China provides a rolling staircase for every arriving state leader, but the US side complained that the driver doesn’t speak English and can’t understand security instructions from the United States; so China proposed that we could assign a translator to sit beside the driver, but the US side turned down the proposal and insisted that they didn’t need the staircaseprovided by the airport.” Now, while China may not be on par with U.S. or Russia as far as military technology is concerned, Beijing is more than capable of hosting an event such as the Group of 20 Summit. It’s not like this is the first time the country has hosted an event where they need to coordinatemultiple world leader arrivals at airport(s).
The question is, did the U.S. delegation deliberately made a mountain out of a molehill? As a host, Beijing has tried hard to ensure a flawless event by closing down shops, driving away local residents and banning all civil activities in and outside the venues. Heck, Hangzhou was so secured that it looked like aghost town with not a single fly could breach in, let alone terrorists.Unless the U.S. official had repetitively ignored the security protocol arranged by the Chinese, it’s hard to imagine how the fiasco on the airport tarmac could have happened. There’re accusations that the U.S. media wanted to paint a negative image on China by orchestrating the airport issue. After all, theirpreferred candidate Hillary Clinton is said to be presently in her hiding.
Jorge Guajardo, Mexico’s former ambassador to China, believes he has the answer – “These things do not happen by mistake. Not with the Chinese. I’ve dealt with the Chinese for 6 years. I’ve done these visits. I took Xi Jinping to Mexico. I received two Mexican presidents in China. I know exactly how these things get worked out. It’s down to the last detail in everything. It’s not a mistake. It’s not.”
Guajardo offered his theory – “It’s a snub. It’s a way of saying: ‘You know, you’re not that special to us.’ It’s part of the new Chinese arrogance. It’s part of stirring up Chinese nationalism. Its part of saying: ‘China stands up to the superpower.’ Its part of saying: ‘And by the way, you’re just someone else to us.’ It works very well with the local audience.”
Considering Beijing had hosted bigger events such as the Olympic Games without breaking a sweat, Bill Bishop, a China expert, agreed that Obama’s welcome was a deliberate screw up since the Chinese have been preparing for over 1-year for the G20. He thinks President Xi Jinping wanted to tell his 1-billion people – “Look, we can make the American president go out of the ass of the plane.”
Another message, other than Xi Jinping can toy around with Barack Obama the same way Vladimir Putin did, is that Beijing doesn’t give two hoots about press freedom, something which Obama had raised on his previous visits to China. Now that Obama is to leave White House, Beijing might be sending a naughty message – by harassing American press freedom.
When asked, President Obama offered a diplomatic reply, or rather a face-saving response, and suggested that his Chinese hosts might have found the size of the US delegation “a little overwhelming”. He said – “We’ve got a lot of planes, a lot of helicopters, a lot of cars and a lot of guys. If you are a host country, sometimes it may feel a little bit much.”
That doesn’t sound convincing as Susan Rice, the US national security adviser, admitted she had been surprised by the handling of the president’s arrival –“They did things that weren’t anticipated.” She’s obviously annoyed that the U.S. president had been forced to leave Air Force One through a door normally reserved for high-security trips to places such as Afghanistan.
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Politics | September 4, 2016 by | 0 Comments
FILE- In this May 11, 2015 file photo, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak addresses delegates during his speech at the Malaysia's ruling party United Malays National Organization's (UMNO) anniversary celebration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Najib is facing the risk of a criminal charge over allegations that millions of dollars were funneled from an indebted state fund to his personal bank accounts, the first time the country's leader has faced criminal allegations. The attorney general confirmed late Saturday, July 4, 2015 he has received documents from an official investigation that made the link between Najib and the investment fund 1MDB. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul, File)How Come The Chinese Always Get The Blames & Beatings
During the Low Yat Crisis last year, Prime Minister Najib Razak almost made his dad proud. Like his father’s 1969 bloody racial riots, Malaysia was on a brink of its second racial riot. A phone theft involving 2 young Malays quickly turned into a mini racial riot when hundreds more Malays, instigated by thugs under UMNO’s payroll, readied for racial war.
Extreme group ISMA, another branch of UMNO (the ruling political party led by PM Najib Razak) claimed it was only natural for Malay youths (involved in the theft) to release their anger on the ethnic-Chinese businessmen because the ethnic-Malays are known for “running amok”. The moral of the story: the Chinese should clap and cheer when the Malays steal.
When Mr. Najib failed to shake off the 1MDB scandal this year, he partnered with Islamic party PAS, whom was allegedly paid RM90 million by the prime minister, and introduced ancient and brutal “Hudud Law”. Claiming the hudud was for Muslims, not non-Muslims, every single Chinese was called anti-Islam for asking a fair question – is hudud law practical in a multi-religious society?
Of course, just like the Low Yat Crisis which almost turned the country into racial riots, the Hudud Law Game was cleverly designed to divert attentionfrom PM Najib’s corruption, which has since spread and forced the U.S. Department of Justice linking the prime minister as “Malaysian Official 1” who helped enriching his stepson – Riza Aziz – to the tune of 1-billion US-dollar.
In both cases, the Chinese (or rather Malaysian Chinese) were at the end of the blames and beatings. But it appears Malaysia is not the only country which relies on ethnic-Chinese as punching bag when politician bigots are fast losing power, or trying to get elected into power. Just like Najib Razak, Donald Trump is called a racist bigot by Hillary Clinton, and it’s not hard to understand why.
Unlike Donald Trump who justifies that the Chinese (of China) were indeed making a fool out of Americans; Najib Razak, however, has zero justification why the Chinese (of Malaysia) are the root cause of his government’s failure. To be fair, Trump targets not only the Chinese but also the Mexicans, Muslims, Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans and anyone who supportsillegal immigrants and terrorists.
But the Chinese didn’t support illegal immigrants or terrorists. In fact, Trump’s isolationism through a proposal to build a great Mexico Wall has great similarity to the Great Wall of China. Ahh, but the Chinese were “cheaters” who constantly manipulates their currency in order to keep the value of its currency low relative to the US-dollar.
As a result, it creates a U.S. trade imbalance with China, not to mention the losses of hundreds of thousands of jobs when American companies move manufacturing and production to China. Trump conveniently ignores the fact that India, Africa and South America also offer cheap labours but didn’t attract American companies the same way China did.
Not only were wages exceedingly low in China, their productivity was high. That’s the social realities of commodities “Made in China”. More importantly, it was the “decentralization” from the Chinese Communist Party – allows the people starting private businesses, compete, thrive and re-invest that enables the Chinese produce the economies of scale today.
The Chinese didn’t force American companies at gun point to invest in China. It were the greedy American capitalists who saw the huge market of 1-billion Chinese consumers that made them abandoned comrade American workers. Yes, as long as they don’t threaten communist political power, 1-billion Chinese were allowed to make money through free market competition.
Japan too constantly manipulates its currency to boost its economy whenever exports and profits tumble. Strangely, Trump didn’t call the Japanese cheaters and currency manipulator. The possibility of Donald Trump becoming the next President of the United State is real, so much so that Alibaba founder Jack Ma has a warning: “When Trade Stops, Wars Start.”
Amusingly, Jack Ma is furiously promoting globalization, something which supposedly should be alien to the communist China (*grin*). Likewise, its laughable hearing Donald Trump screams until he foams at the mouth about isolationism and protectionism, something unthinkable to the capitalist champion America. Somehow, the world has gone upside down, has it not?
Besides accusing China of raping America with trade deficits, Trump also blames the Chinese of“outrageous theft of intellectual property.” Well, try telling that to billionaire Jack Ma who says counterfeit goods are now of better quality than the genuine products. Mr. Ma was referring to OEMs who were tasked by branded sellers such as Apple and Louis Vuitton but could make better products at a cheaper price.
Screw intellectual property and the need to enrich American brand owners. Impatiently, the Chinese producers were looking for ways to make their own products and sell them directly to consumers, using the internet for marketing. Chinese billionaire such as Jack Ma believes it’s thenew business model of going direct to the consumers that is destroying western luxury goods, not fake or IP.
Okay, perhaps imitations are bad and the Chinese should buy everything branded. Can you see what will happen next? Capitalism stops functioning because there’s no real free market competition, and the China economic reform fails to produce middle-class and upper-classconsumers. That’s precisely what India is experiencing now, despite having populations not too far away from China.
Without the Chinese, Apple will not make more than US$233.7 billion in revenue in 2015, half of which derived from China, although it has started shrinking thanks to saturation. Ford’s China will not be able to sell 1-million vehicles last year. Heck, Boeing sells so many planes to China that it’s opening a new factory in China just to assemble 737s.
Fortunately, like Jack Ma, everyone knows that Trump’s declaration of war against China’s trade and commerce is merely rhetoric without substance. Mr. Ma said – “Many years ago before election, the American (candidates) were anti-Soviet Union, now they are anti-China.”Because Russia is stronger under Vladimir Putin, U.S. is picking a weaker China to bully.
Seriously, would President Donald Trump dare slapping a 45% tariff on Chinese imports? It depends very much whether the American economy is in deep trouble, of which isn’t the case at the moment. Nevertheless, the Chinese always get the blames whenever they face president-wannabe like Donald Trump. And they always get the beatings whenever they face racists like Najib Razak. – http://www.financetwitter.com/"
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