Won't let WTA in again. I hope Lijian will say that WTA is not pulled in China for 1 year but forever.
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Brother @ansy1968 I understand that some of the officers PMA (Navy) from the Philippines are actually sent to refine or hone their studies in Annapolis, MD I learned this through an ex Filipina-American girl I dated because her cousin came who was a Navy Cadet from the Philippines stayed over at her parents place on some weekends while he was studying at Annapolis. But that practice isn't only limited with the Philippine Navy, the practice is pretty much done throughout all the military branches in the Philippines. The practice is done to ensure that the Philippines next generations of officers are vetted, known for familiarization and supervised by the Americans to ensure undying loyalty not to the country of the Philippines but also to the institution of American military. After all, the PMA was patterned after the USMA of West Point.
The practice of training future officers by the American military is also done as a form on intelligence gathering and then having the ability to use any of their vetted officers to be used in the future operations for subversion, assassination and best of all to be used to topple the government the Americans don't like. The Americans have similar programs for Latin America called the School of Americas (which later had a name changed but the schools mission remains the same) and also for just about every continent you can imagine.
Marcos was betrayed by his own family members which were Enrile and most notably Gen.Fidel V. Ramos, a man who was also a graduate of West Point; a Cadet captain according from one of the research article I read about the man. He served in Korea, also Vietnam in some capacity.
Tennis is like golf. Generally a sport for the well off. A sport for the 1% not the masses.
@Bellum_Romanum bro Ramos is AMBOY, and you're right about the US military exchange program, aside from perpetuating its imperialist policy, we are at the mercy of the American regarding our equipment which came from military surplus. And the ironic thing is that we have to pay for the expensive refurbished (spare parts is hard to come by thus resulting in the inoperability of the machine)which resulted in major accident. The SAF 44 and the Marawi incident has some unintended consequences, with American involvement in the former and the US indifference in the latter, it had awaken a nationalistic fervor that is hidden among the officers. With Duterte advocating an Independent Foreign Policy, it had find support among the rank and file of the military. Especially that Duterte had delivered on his promise of raising their salary by 100%, taking care of their needs and equipping with modern and new armaments not second hand. It had raise morale and dignified the AFP.
Yes, the best response is to hit them in their pocket books. China should formally create a list of hostile entities where any company doing business with an entity on the list would be banned from China. There should also be a similar list for individuals. Any organization affiliated with such hostile individuals and their family members would get added to the list of hostile entities. So in the case of WTA, the president and board members of WTA would be classified as hostile individuals, making them and their family members unemployable.
California is set to adopt new math teaching principles that are based in critical race theory. These changes, which include deemphasizing calculus and pulling programs for academically gifted students, will "apply social justice principles to math lessons."
This is the hard truth about Malaysia that the govt and its supporters are trying to ignore. There won't be a bounce back. Just a relative normalization. Malaysia has been talking about bouncing back from the: 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, 2008 US Subprime Crisis, 2015 1MDB Scandal & Ringgit Crisis, and the current Covid-19 pandemic. Malaysia has never truly bounced back from even the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. The governance of Malaysia is now worse than ever. So why should we be confident now?
Now, there is indication by Malaysia about wanting to revive the Malaysia-Singapore HSR. Now, after the compensation and separation of the previously canceled HSR project had only just been completed in January this year.
Why the sudden change of mind? It was only back in 2019 that Malaysia under the then PM Mahathir Mohammad, was so eager to cancel the project. Mainly just to spite Singapore and Najib Razak, the previous PM. The Malaysian government must have suddenly realized how stupid they were. Because they really are that stupid. They must have looked with envy at the HSR projects that are ongoing or completed in: Thailand, Laos, and Indonesia. But will Singapore agree this time? And who could blame them if they don't? Would you even trust Malaysia after what they did? Its schoolboy level of foreign relations!
This Malay supremacy ideology has been the most harmful thing to happen in Malaysia. On the surface, it divides Malaysia into the "Bumiputeras (mostly Malays)" and the "non-Bumiputeras (others)". The Bumiputeras enjoys more favourable loans, education, government sector work opportunities, and even child-raising assistance. Think of China's own preferential treatment for minorities, but inverted, for the Malay majority. The original aim is to rebalance wealth that was traditionally focused in the more enterprising Malaysian Chinese communities to the Malays. It started in 1971, and was called the New Economic Policy (NEP).
But over many decades, this NEP had ironically not worked. The majority of the Malays still live below the middle class range, and there is still a sizable number of them still below the poverty line. The wealth gap has even increased ever since. Why? Its simple, the NEP was hijacked by the corrupt. Instead of helping the majority of Malays, it benefited only the politicians, and their elite gangs of families and cronies. Its only these small percentage of Malay elites that gets most of the good stuff. The rest of the Malay population can barely get any real wealth opportunities, and are only given spare change once in awhile to keep them content.
The real damage of this Malay supremacy ideology is in the education and culture. Most Malays are educated from birth that they are 'special' and that they have some kind of privilege. The kings of Malaysia are Malays, Islam is the state religion, Malaysia must be ruled by Malays only, supremacy of the Malay race vs the other races who are merely just subjects. This created a culture of entitlement. That the Malays are entitled to opportunities, and wealth. That they don't have to earn them. If any Malays are missing out on the gravy train, then the Chinese are typically blamed for whatever reasons. That's why race riots have happened, and why Sinophobia is popular.
This Malay supremacy ideology creates a generally anti-competitive mindset among the Malays. It made most of them very complacent by Asian standards. Workplace professionalism is not taken seriously, especially among the younger generation. Hence they find less and less working opportunities in the private sector. When you come to Malaysia for a business trip, pay attention to the factory floors. Factory floor workers are primarily staffed by foreign labour from Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Indonesia, etc. The local Malays want more wages for less professionalism on their end. If you are a multinational corporation wanting to open a factory in Asia, why open in Malaysia? Why not do it directly in Indonesia or Bangladesh? Less agent fees to pay.
I've witnessed the damaging effect of the Malay supremacy ideology. That is why I am confident, that unless there is a major overhaul in its leadership, Malaysia's future is pretty much screwed.
PS: Hindutva and Jai Hind ideology in India is quite similar to Malay supremacy ideology in Malaysia. Entitlement and privileges without merit. So it's interesting to see where India is heading.
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Bouncing back. I more predict Malaysia will engage in a 40 year Konfrontasi with Singapore for the rest of the century