Military
Najib Razak, the disgraced son of Malaysia’s second Prime Minister Abdul Razak, has started to panic over the scandal involving LCS (Littoral Combat Ship). After close to 10 years since the project took off, none of the six warships, worth a staggering RM9 billion, has been delivered. Worse, despite having paid RM6 billion, not a […]
... written on Aug 14 2022Zumwalt-class stealth destroyer from the United States and Chinese Type 055 stealth guided destroyer might be invisible and undetectable. But both ships are no match for Malaysia LCS (Littoral Combat Ship). None of the six warships, worth a staggering RM9 billion, can be detected since 2013 until today. Despite having paid RM6 billion, no vessel […]
... written on Aug 09 2022Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Malaysia Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen all had met with Nancy Pelosi during the U.S. House Speaker’s Asia Tour. But when Pelosi, second in line to the presidency, arrived in South Korea, the country’s president – Yoon Suk-yeol – only agreed to speak to Pelosi […]
... written on Aug 06 2022Who the hell is China to tell the United States, the strongest and mightiest nation in the world, which country it can or cannot visit? That was basically the provocative and arrogant statement issued by both Republican and Democrats politicians. Adding fuel to the fire, news media like CNN and Fox News continuously condemned President […]
... written on Aug 04 2022Former President Donald Trump once told a Republican Senator – “Taiwan is like two feet from China. We are 8,000 miles away. If they invade, there isn’t a fucking thing we can do about it”. The senator, who was trying to convince Trump to do everything possible in his power to persuade China not to […]
... written on Jul 31 2022Biden currently has enough on his plate. From high gas price to inflation and from record low approval rating to losing the Ukraine war, the president has no appetite for more problems. The last thing the Commander-in-Chief wants is another big war. Heck, the U.S. is reluctant to fight even a war with Russia, let […]
... written on Jul 25 2022For many years, Malaysia has been ignoring claims on Sabah, a Malaysian state in the northern part of the island of Borneo, by the heirs of the Sulu Sultanate – till the spectacular seizure of Petronas assets in Azerbaijan worth US$2 billion (RM8.9 billion) about a week ago. Petronas, the national oil company, has total […]
... written on Jul 20 2022Zelensky has just sacked Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, India, Norway, Hungary and Czech Republic. The stunning mass firing has raised eyebrows because one of the envoys – Andriy Melnyk – had served in Germany for 7 years. No explanation was offered for the dismissal, but Zelensky has urged his diplomats to drum up international support […]
... written on Jul 11 2022When the U.S. sneezes, the world catches a cold. However, with China’s economic rise, the world could also catch a cold when China sneezes. The world quickly learns the impact of China shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Negative global spillover from falling industrial and manufacturing activity in China could trigger retrenchment, inflation or even recession. Since […]
... written on Jul 04 2022Since Russia launched its so-called “special military operation” to de-Nazify Ukraine on February 24, nobody pays any attention to Kaliningrad, a small piece of land sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland. It was only after Lithuania decided last week (June 18) to ban the transit of goods through its territory to Kaliningrad that the world attention […]
... written on Jun 26 2022
