War
On 17th April, 1987, the then UMNO Youth Chief Najib Razak (now Prime Minister of Malaysia) famously issued a threat to the ethnic-Chinese that he wanted to “soak the keris (Malay dagger) in Chinese blood.” It was the most hateful and racist message an UMNO-Malay leader has had ever delivered to the Malaysian Chinese, whom […]
... written on Aug 19 2017Quick, get some candles, prepare to hold hands and pretend the world is still safe from terror attacks. If you wish, Donald Trump is there as a punching bag, never mind the U.S. president has been foaming at the mouth telling all and sundry that the real bad people were the radical Islamic terrorists, not […]
... written on Aug 18 2017Kim Jong-un has backed off from firing at least 4 missiles on Guam, an attempt to supposedly surround the U.S. territory with “fire”. Nobody believed the dictator would follow through with his threat in the first place though. But it was a relief; with some American news media celebrate the cancellation as a victory to […]
... written on Aug 15 2017The probability of a Korean War II happening is very slim – 99% it won’t happen. Still, there’s 1% chance that it would. The small percentage is due to ego the size of a jumbo jet displayed by both Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. Both cannot back down as they would lose face. One of […]
... written on Aug 11 2017Nobody believes North Korea would and could strike the mighty United States. If the hermit kingdom could do that – successfully nukes South Korea, Japan or even the U.S. – then it only goes to show that the North Korean’s military technology is superior to the Americans’. Suddenly the U.S. and the West no longer […]
... written on Aug 09 2017China’s highly secretive 19th National Congress has begun. The Middle Kingdom might be a one-party system ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t any political power struggle within the powerful Chinese party. Nobody knows for sure who gets promoted and who doesn’t. The process of leadership change in China is […]
... written on Aug 04 2017The number is 755 – that’s how many U.S. diplomats have to leave Russia by September 1. In essence, that means there’re 1,210 U.S. diplomatic employees currently employed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok. However, the United States has not confirmed how many diplomatic employees are in […]
... written on Jul 31 2017South China Sea belongs to China, and the world can forget about lecturing, let alone forcing, the Chinese about respecting international law. The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration verdict last year, of which says that China couldn’t claim historic rights in all the waters within a “nine-dash” line used by Beijing to delineate its claims, was […]
... written on Jul 25 2017Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte revealed 2 months ago that Chinese counterpart China Xi Jinping had warned him there would be “war” if Manila tried to enforce an arbitration ruling and drill for oil in a disputed part of the South China Sea. He was, of course, referring to Hague’s award which granted Philippine sovereign rights […]
... written on Jul 24 2017The culprit behind the Saudi-Qatar crisis has been found – the U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates). In what appears to be like a TV-series drama or a plot involving gangs turf war, Abu Dhabi has been exposed as the bad guy who had planted a fake news story that eventually sparked the diplomatic crisis in the […]
... written on Jul 21 2017
