It's sad to see Hong Kong and Taiwan just going down the drain because they want to stay special, hubris of man.
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It's sad to see Hong Kong and Taiwan just going down the drain because they want to stay special, hubris of man.
German politicians are running to Taiwan again
Maybe Xi should scale back the time he meets with Scholz to 24 minutes, or just not meet with him at all.
An actual piece from a Singaporean journalist, Tan Dawn Wei of the Straits Times (Singapore)
She trying to make Xi look bad, but in the process make Xi look gud.
Isn't that the point? If China makes a mistake, the Communist Party is to blame, hence it keeps the CCP/CPC of China forever on their toes.
Lol this Tan Dawn Wei backfiring into herself.
Seems like Singapore has a serious case of bipolar disorder. Going the way of Taiwan and Hong Kong? This whole 'we are overseas Chinese hence gudder than mainland Chinese' drivel.
No.
That's what I mean by culture.
Imagine this.
Before Dawn became a journalist.
She would have spent 20 years as a child absorbing western culture from western media, believing everything she is told is correct.
Then she spent 4 years in a university absorbing a syllabus co opted from western university syllabus, referencing western media articles, writing her opinions on them.
By the time she apply for a job, she is completely into the western mainstream system.
Her reality.
Everything she believe in.
Is created from her growing and educational years.
It's not just Singapore, Taiwan or Hong Kong by the way.
Every place dominated by western media would have the same results.
I'm not sure how you expect someone reading "China bad" articles everyday to suddenly break the trend.
Nothing new. China and SK just declined faster. Japan has also always had decent rural villages while China/SK had rural villages emptied out. This is something we really need to avoid repeating mistakes of SK on. China needs a substantial rural reservoir of population, economics isn't everything, even Steve Bannon knew that. A country is more than an economy.
From
"Tan Dawn Wei has been China bureau chief since November 2018 after nearly two years as deputy foreign editor at The Straits Times. Previously, she was based in London, where she received her Masters in Digital Journalism with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2015. She has also been an assistant news editor at the news desk; news editor for The Sunday Times; and a senior correspondent at The Sunday Times and Life. In her spare time, Dawn enjoys punching and kicking bags in gritty muay thai gyms."
In order to pass her masters at University of London, she would have had to write articles that fit into what was acceptable in a London newspaper. Otherwise she wouldn't even have passed. When she returns to Singapore, she does her job as she was trained in London. Therefore what we have here is a system of training where London's values are transmitted to Singapore via the educational system.
Rather than looking at the paper and saying it is a Singapore paper. It is essentially no different from a UK paper. She was TRAINED to be a UK editor
If anybody ever wants things to change. This chain of education, culture and prestige has to be one day broken first. Even parents from China send their kids to America and London for university
I'm sure some members on SDF had a similar background and yet have broken the trend. Critical independent thinking is clearly necessary, are you saying Singaporeans don't possess that ability?
These numbers are just a funny regression exercise, that's it, don't take them seriously. It is simply impossible to accurately forecast anything a few years forward from now, let alone 2100. ANYONE who tries to claim the opposite should go back to school and not embarass himself. This is like trying to forecast stock market solely based on price data - regression models don't work on such noisy and feature-scarce datasets. Stock price is merely an aggregation of many other underlying features, same with population data.
Case in point, you could take German or Russian demographics data from the 90s and forecast that they would have lost like 10-20% of their population by now. We know that never happenned.
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I already made my point. I'm sure many people do break the trend. But I do believe that the vast majority of people don't, regardless of whether they are Singaporean or not.
Are you trying to generalize Singaporeans ?
I'm going to back out now.
Not interested in being confronted.