What Others Say, and Think About It

三月初 马来西亚上演大戏，名为  《鹬蚌相争 渔翁得利》 下集预告 好像是 《乌鸦与狐狸的故事》 Comic Sources: http://www.themalaysiantimes.com.my/jenaka-pakatan-harapan-sebelum-pru14/anuar-and-mahathir/ https://sarawakvoice.com/2016/09/28/perdana-menteri-malaysia-mahathir-pilih-muhyiddin-pakatan-harapan-pilih-anwar/ http://helpvictor.blogspot.com/2012/04/najibs-comic.html

After the stay-at-home order, while the president is working hard to re-open economy in the US, the death of an African-American which has been widespread over social media, has ignited anger within protesters in the country, and results in violence on the street. Source:  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52872401 The image from BBC news reminded me of the protest happened in Hong Kong by the pro-democracy, as shown below, which is also portraying the fight between the protesters and the police. Source:  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52829176?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c95yz8vxvy8t/hong-kong-anti-government-protests&link_location=live-reporting-story One is due to race discrimination, another is fight against democracy and freedom. Both protests taken in different countries share many images in common -- the protesters' stubbornness, defense or action from the riot police, which are controversial depend on your poin...

The headline from Asia Sentinel dated May 26, 2020 -- Nobody to Drain the Swamp, Ambition takes precedence over governance as leaders squabble. Summary of a coterie of geriatric leaders who are wrecking the stability while the world is fighting with the pandemic, according to this article. a) 94-year-old: Resigned as the 7th PM in February, then tried to reclaim the job. Seen as traitor by the Malay middle class -- no credibility left. b) 72-year-old: Sitting as the leader of the opposition in May 18 parliament. Showing his immaturity and naked ambition, trying to rebuild the on-again-off-again PH coalition. c) 73-year-old: Elected by Agong as the 8th PM in March, after leaving PH coalition to join with so-called PN coalition. Has been going all out to add to his razor-thin 114-109 majority in May 18 parliament. d) 66-year-old: Lost 2018 election and stepped down as the 6th PM. Allegedly was responsible for the biggest financial scandal in the country's history ...

While our neighbours are competing to seize opportunities from the plan to relocate US factories out of China... such headline from The Economist might scare off our potential investors... https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/indonesia-dreams-of-an-investment https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/05/23/malaysias-shaky-government-dodges-a-no-confidence-motion

I was reading an interview article where Lee Kuan Yew was discussing about the race-based politics in the context of Singapore and Malaysia societies in 2010.  (Source: https://says.com/my/news/lee-kuan-yew-on-race-based-politics-and-why-it-will-destroy-our-society) Singapore is a nation with Chinese as majority, whereas Malaysia with Malay as majority. While declaring Bahasa as their national language, this national leader of Singapore had attempted to implement equal opportunities policy in a multi-racial base society, despite being accused of destroying Chinese education. This is a bold move with his purpose to avoid people playing on race, language and religion cards, as he mentioned during the interview. I am wondering, is there any national leader in Malaysia will take this bold move by putting aside the race and religion differences? Well, maybe some from a very few? However, the political leaders with such mindset will hardly gain popular vote from the maj...