Eric Loh

15 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Any statues of the Lee dictatorial dynasty knocking around for removal too?

Lee KY is a strong opponent of monuments especially himself. He even made clear that his home at Oxley Road should be demolished upon his passing. Nice try to defame a good man. 

17 hours ago, steve187 said:

getting out of hand now, there will nothing left of Britain's past, which can not be undone, the past is the past 

Outcry spreading to the far east. Statues of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore and Frank Swettenham in Malaysia are in peril of being removed. No one want to be reminded of those colonization days.

Steve Miller is contributing to his campaign racial unity speech. What can go wrong. 

Not wanting to be seen as the jilted party, Trump will tweet that he dump Kim first. 

In South East Asia, we leave the statues of colonial governors for the pigeons to perch. 

20 minutes ago, blazes said:

 

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

 

Clearly, my good man, you seem to have forgotten that Trump debated with the Clinton hag in 2016 and wiped the floor with her.

 

And equally clearly, you have never attended a debate, where truth and facts take a definite second place to WINNING an argument.

And after the debate (as most people on this website will probably attest) the "winner" is decided by the CNN and Fox "juries".  They (the juries) couldn't give a sh*t about Truth and Facts , but merely by who WON.  Won by any means.

 

 

When Trump say this, the debate descended into a comic act with him alone as the comedian. 
"nobody has more respect for women than I do" - a response that had the reporters in the media work room snickering. 

21 minutes ago, peleid said:

There was some strange virus going around the city I live in Thailand late last year/new year, my foreign friends had it (including myself) hung around for a longtime (which included breathing difficulty)

More likely to be dengue fever. Breathlessness common with dengue as it cause acute respiratory distress. Thailand had a spell of dengue epidemic recently.   

45 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

So this whole blm and Antifa movement is not funded by any organization is what you're saying. You live in a nice bubble if you think this entire situation just happened, that these protestors aren't organized on some level and all this costs money. And for sure blm and Antifa is a paid organization.

Protestors came from all walks of life mostly from the local area. Some people have taken time off work. This has been a spontaneous gathering of enraged citizens of police brutality on people of colours and recognized that the country is in danger and make the sacrifice to go away from families, friends and work for the better good of the country. You have desecrated their good intention. 

3 minutes ago, micmichd said:

The NATO is a hoax. With all these East European countries far far away from the Atlantic Ocean. I'm quite sure that Donald Trump doesn't care about NATO's fate at all. 

Maybe he does to protect his European resorts. 

3 hours ago, LennyW said:

Are people still taking advice from the WHO?? 

Trump and Bolsonaro didn't and their citizens paid the price with large number of infections and deaths. 

15 minutes ago, hugocnx said:

Yes, retaliation but not for G7 but for Germany not contributing their 2% to Nato.

Grossly wrong. 
https://m.dw.com/en/germany-to-match-us-contribution-to-nato-budget/a-51446211

This probably the best summary of Friday’s equities rise. 

The whole market is not up,” said Giorgio Caputo, a portfolio manager at J O Hambro Capital Management, who said his firm has added to stockholdings in recent months. “It’s the best of times for some firms. It’s the worst of times for other firms.”

11 hours ago, samran said:

No, to be fair to Boris I actually thinks he means it. This has got nothing to do with trump, who’d be hard up trying to locate HK on a map. 

 

There isn’t much he can do apart from the residency rights thing. 
 

The Chinese have essentially reneged on one county two systems. Some, me included hoped they’d honour it if only to keep an effective entry point for business into the county, but they seem happy to trash that now too. 
 

Britain can’t take back HK island and Kowloon, so the best they can do is give citizens there a safety net.
 

Sure it will <deleted> China off but China has shown really good form lately in pissing everyone off. 

BJ may have a legal obligation to allow entry of approx 350,000 Hong Kong’s BNO passport holders but will face a storm of protest from conservatives if he try to expand that residence privilege to the rest of eligible 3 million Hong Kong citizens. The parliament back in the 1980s put a stop to that suggestion. Still UK is not a top choice for migration. Hong Kong people are pragmatic and they consider matters like economics and family ties as important. 
 

I don’t think China will reneged on the autonomous status of Hong Kong until the declaration expire. The cost of building another Hong Kong as a financial center in the mainland is just too difficult and I would say impossible. Hong Kong has a role in China’s economic plan. China will clamp down on independence aspiration hard as this will threaten China cohesion. 
 

The west must learn how to live with China as a superpower and China rise is unstoppable. Much to gain from cooperation rather than try to decouple and creat frictions. 

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

Emperor Xi of the Yuan Dynasty! As dangerous or more so than Mao Zedong!

He is revered as much as Mao. His father was imprisoned during Mao’s cultural revolution. He is assertive as regards to issues of HK, Taiwan and SCS but he much prefer soft power and longer terms horizon. The liberal west should try to live with China as a super power rather than prevent them from being one. Much to be gained from global cooperation.