Video: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong did not forget his Chinese roots, spoke Mandarin at the Singapore legislative council spoken highly of CPC and China. Whereas many Chinese in US and Canada felt ashamed of their Chinese roots. 新加坡總理李顯龍不忘中國根，在新加坡立法會議上講普通話，高度評價中國共產黨和中國。 而美國和加拿大的許多華人則為自己的中國血統感到羞恥.
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Video: Singtao live show this morning on Taiwan make a lot of sense.

Offer Taiwanese lots of perks including no income tax after reunification.

70% Housing discounts in Taiwan after reunification.

Window of exits for Taiwanese who hated China to leave before and after reunification.

Time table for reunification to allow people like English Tsai a graceful exit.

No need invade Taiwan, just destroying all Taiwan airports, electrical facilities, water supplies and all ports facilities.

US is all talk, will not defend Taiwan.

Singapore cancels free Covid healthcare for those ‘unvaccinated by choice’. Much respect for Singapore Government. Make your choice and take the responsibility.

Straits Time Singapore: Chinese Jack MA sharing his Billions thru XJP call for common prosperity in Rural Farming Project.

50%+ never left the country, 16% never cross state lines, frogs sat at bottom of the wells, don’t get to see the world, Americans easily brainwashed by News Medias controlled US military industrial complex & US Govt. World Journal SF 11-9-21

On China relations and Taiwan, it’s time for the US to grow up by Terry Su, November 8 2021

The Biden administration is raising the spectre of conflict over Taiwan when it should be solving domestic problems.

While American exceptionalism has had a good run, the US needs to wake up to the fact it may no longer be so special.

In its 10 months in office, the Biden administration has been generally rudderless but steadfast in its China-bashing policy, which remains a rare bipartisan rallying point in current American politics.

Lately, the administration has seemed determined to be more provocative about Taiwan, which Beijing maintains is a renegade province it will eventually recover.

COP26: even with Xi’s absence, China’s climate actions speak louder than words by Neal Kimberley Nov 8 2021

Given China’s manufacturing heft, it is no surprise that it is the world’s biggest carbon emitter – But Beijing is taking practical measures to transition to a carbon neutral economy, and inspiring other developing countries in the process.

Although US President Joe Biden has understandably sought to gain political capital from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s absence from COP26, the UN climate conference in Glasgow, Beijing’s actions speak louder than words. Indeed, China’s plan to achieve a carbon neutral economy by 2060 may prove to be a template for many developing countries.

“I think it’s been a big mistake, quite frankly … with respect to China not showing up,” Biden said at COP26 last week. “The rest of the world is going to look to China and say, ‘what value-added are they providing?’”

Well, in the first place, as regards the optics of COP26, although Xi himself didn’t travel to Scotland, China sent a senior team of delegates and is engaging in the process.

That’s in stark contrast to the United States’ patchy recent record on climate change, although the current administration might prefer not to acknowledge it. Indeed, China was “not the one who withdrew from the #ParisAgreement”, as Zhang Jun, China’s ambassador to the United Nations, tweeted last week, in a telling reference to the actions of Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump.

Former Philippine president Gloria Arroyo joins senior Chinese diplomats to warn of dangers posed by increased US military presence at South China Seas

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says ocean is not a ‘zero-sum game’ and no one should use it as a tool to impose unilateral power.

Biden and Congress agree: Build Back Bombs Better: $1.75 trillion for the social welfare/climate bill; $1.75 trillion for ‘modernizing’ nukes. By JOHN WALSH, NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Joe Biden, shown here in July 2020 during his ultimately successful campaign for the US presidency, speaks at a ‘Build Back Better’ clean energy event in Wilmington, Delaware. Photo: AFP / Olivier Douliery
Last Friday, the US Congress passed the “Infrastructure” Bill, which will be signed into law post haste, says the White House. The bill, designed to upgrade roads, bridges, transport and broadband, is a bricks-and-mortar affair and will benefit industry and commerce. It is the first of two bills that have been the center of attention in the US for months now.

The second bill is the Build Back Better bill. This bill has provisions for childcare and preschool, elder care, health care, prescription-drug pricing, immigration and curbing greenhouse-gas emissions. This might be described as a bill for people, not for bricks and mortar. It has been the darling of progressives in Congress. The White House has now promised it will come up for a vote by November 15.

Whatever one may think of the Build Back Better bill, there is no doubt it is a shadow of its original self. The total for the Build Back Better plan was to be in the neighborhood of $6 trillion, as originally envisaged by congressional progressives, and then it slipped to about $3 trillion, and now it has shrunk again to $1.75 trillion – the incredible shrinking Build Back Better bill.

It is woefully inadequate. On health care, greenhouse gases, family leave, education and other matters, it is little more than a stingy beginning.

Now look at the cost of “upgrading” and “modernizing” the US nuclear arsenal, a program that was originated by Barack Obama, after he got his Nobel Peace Prize, and has now ballooned beyond its original $1 trillion price tag to a stunning $1.75 trillion. No shrinkage there. For both main US political parties, no cost is too high to keep us Americans poised every instant on the razor edge of Accidental Armageddon.

Nuclear weapon “modernization,” however, is only one small corner of the total picture. Let’s look at the entire military budget.

President Joe Biden’s first budget for the Pentagon and nuclear weapons, for fiscal 2022, is about $750 billion. The spending on the Build Back Better Bill is to extend over 10 years, yielding an average annual expenditure of $175 billion. Biden’s “transformative,” historic” Build Back Better plan gets only 23% of the Pentagon budget – assuming the latter is not fattened up even more.

The situation is even more barbaric when we look at the entire “national security” budget, which includes the yearly budget of the 17 “intel” agencies and comes to $1.3 trillion. No expenditure is too great, it seems, to ensure that the feds track all our phone conversations and e-mails and harass every unsuspecting Chinese student and academic they can get their mitts on. It would take only 13% of that $1.3 trillion to fund Build Back Better.

For weeks the mainstream US media have been burdening its audience with a grueling daily account of the Build Back Better bill, with tedious detail about inter- and intra-partisan quarreling. The basic tale is that US Senator Joe Manchin is standing in the way of all that is good, holy and angelic in the political world.

True, but that makes him nothing more than a typical senator. However, the Manchin morality play touches on a simple but important question for those already feeling the limber fingers on their wallets of the insidious pickpocket, inflation. How are we to pay for Build Back Better? Regardless of which side of the question you come down on, cost constitutes an obstacle in influential quarters.

From all of the above, a compelling proposal emerges. A 23% cut in the military budget (or if you wish to cast your net wider, a 13% cut in the “national security” budget) would fund the entire Build Back Better Bill – with no more cuts.

With a 23% cut for fiscal 2022, the military budget drops from $750 billion to $580 billion. That is still well in excess of the combined military expenditures of $314 billion for China ($252 billion) and Russia ($62 billion). In fact a cut of 50% in the military outlay would still leave it at $375 billion, still higher than the combined expenditure of Russia and China.

If an elected official cannot agree to that, he or she is either paranoid or a hegemonist up to no good. In either event. they should be barred from public office.

The military budget of $750 billion is now under “continuing resolution,” which means interim funding until a final vote can be taken in the weeks ahead. One needs no crystal ball to forecast broad bipartisan support for this piece of legislation. The only serious discussion will be how much to increase the amount.

“Bomb Back Better,” if we might call it that, will sail through Congress and the White House as effortlessly as a vulture on the wing.

Common sense suggests we Americans transfer our hard-earned dollars from guns to butter, but no such prospect is in sight. Only one act is required to get to that promised land. We must not vote for anyone who cannot see his or her way to an ironclad commitment to a 50% cut in the National “Security” Budget – for starters. It’s as easy as that.

JOHN WALSH
John V Walsh, until recently a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, has written on issues of peace and health care for Asia Times, EastBayTimes/Mercury News, LA Progressive, Antiwar.com, Counter Punch and others.

Biden and Congress agree: Build Back Bombs Better

China delivers largest, most advanced warship to Pakistan by Liu Xuanzun Nov 08 2021

China launches first Type 054A/P frigate for Pakistan in Shanghai in August 2020.

China on Monday delivered to Pakistan the largest and most advanced warship China has ever exported, in a move that highlights the friendship between the two countries and will contribute to the two countries’ all-weather strategic cooperative partnership.

Designed and built by China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited (CSSC), the frigate was delivered to the Pakistan Navy in a commissioning ceremony in Shanghai, CSSC announced in a statement on Monday.

The Type 054A/P frigate was named the PNS Tughril, according to a statement the Pakistan Navy sent to the Global Times on Monday.

The PNS Tughril is the first hull of four Type 054 frigates being constructed for the Pakistan Navy, the Pakistan Navy said, noting that the ship is a technologically advanced and highly capable platform with enormous surface-to-surface, surface-to-air and underwater firepower, besides extensive surveillance potentials.

Being equipped with state-of-the-art combat management and an electronic warfare system along with modern self-defense capabilities, the Type 054A/P frigate can simultaneously execute a number of naval warfare missions in a highly intense multi-threat environment, the Pakistani statement said.

The frigate is the largest and most advanced warship China has ever exported, CSSC said.

The completion and the delivery of the vessel is another major achievement of China-Pakistan friendship, and will further enhance the all-weather strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries, the Chinese shipbuilding company said in the statement.

Pakistani Ambassador to China Moin ul Haque said that the commissioning of the PNS Tughril ushers in a new chapter in Pakistan-China friendship that has matured through the test of time and remained steadfast in all domains, according to the statement from the Pakistan Navy.

In the context of the overall security paradigm of the region, Tughril-class frigates will strengthen Pakistan Navy’s capabilities to respond to maritime challenges to ensure seaward defense, maintain peace, stability and balance of power in the Indian Ocean region, the ambassador said, who also praised the concerted efforts made by China for the landmark achievement by the timely delivery of the well-equipped and potent frigate despite the global pandemic.

The Vice Party Secretary and Director of the Board at CSSC Du Gang also applauded the timely construction of PNS Tughril while emphasizing that the commissioning of the ship is a major milestone and a testimony of the China-Pakistan long-lived friendship, as both countries are bound by the affinity of trust, compassion and commonality.

The head of the Pakistan Navy Mission overseeing construction of the 054A/P frigate, Commodore Rashid Mehmood Sheikh, said that the PNS Tughril, being a multi-mission capable frigate, will form the mainstay of the Pakistan Navy fleet while bolstering the Pakistan Navy’s maritime defense capabilities, according to the Pakistani statement.

The delivery of the frigate also serves as a milestone in expanding the influence of Chinese vessels as products and boosting their competitiveness in the international market, CSSC said.

Zhang Junshe, a senior research fellow at the PLA Naval Research Academy, told the Global Times in a previous interview that the Type 054A, on which the Type 054A/P is based, is China’s most advanced frigate.

Compared to previous Chinese frigates, the new ship has better air defense capability, as it is equipped with an improved radar system and a larger amount of missiles with a longer range, Zhang said, noting that the Type 054A frigate also has world-class stealth capability.