BennyWHK
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Thanks to the US-Israeli war on Iran, the use of China’s renminbi in cross-border trade is SURGING.
Transactions through Beijing’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) recently hit RECORD HIGHS as sanctioned oil trade shifted into yuan settlement.
CHINA = BIG WINNER.
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@MsMelChen Since you hate Chinese, then ban all business dealings with China! Ban all dealings!
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Since its founding, the CCP has sought to use the Leninist concept of the United Front to extend its influence abroad by weaponizing ethnic ties to the Chinese diaspora.
Lee Kuan Yew knew this first hand. In the 1950s–60s, Chinese medium schools and left wing unions in Singapore were heavily infiltrated by communist elements tied to Maoist China and the Malayan Communist Party. They caused a lot of trouble for him.
He once said:
"The danger is, if you are Chinese-educated and only Chinese-educated, you are monolingual, then your source of literature will be communist."
So one of the smartest things LKY did was to make English the working language of government, business, education, and administration (while promoting bilingualism with mother tongues).
Lee recognized that "ethnic strings" could be weaponized. Prioritizing English was more than just an anti-communist measure. Lee Kuan Yew understood that it would help create a neutral, unifying language and identity in Singapore’s multiracial society, while also cutting the emotional and cultural ties that linked its ethnic Chinese population to their ancestral homeland.
Ties which the CCP are only too happy to weaponize.
It's significant that Lee Hsien Loong - Lee Kuan Yew’s own son and Singapore’s former Prime Minister - chose to reaffirm the very ethos of his father’s founding vision before an audience in mainland China, speaking directly to the Chinese leadership and the CCP itself.
UnveiledChina@Unveiled_ChinaX
Singapore's most senior diplomat just stood on Chinese soil and told the Chinese state directly: we cooperate with you because of shared interests, not because of shared blood. That sentence is more significant than it sounds. Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore's former Prime Minister and current Senior Minister, completed a five-day visit to China last week, meeting officials in Guangxi and Shanghai. Speaking to Singapore media on May 22, he was direct: "We are a Chinese-majority country, but we are a multiracial society. We are a separate country with separate sovereignty from China." He added that Singapore's ties with China are grounded in mutual benefit, not shared ethnicity or ancestry. This is a deliberate and pointed statement. The CCP has spent decades promoting the idea that ethnic Chinese people around the world, regardless of citizenship, share a special bond with the Chinese motherland. The concept of 同宗同源, meaning "same ancestry, same roots," is embedded in Chinese state rhetoric aimed at diaspora communities across Southeast Asia, including Singapore's Chinese majority. United Front Work Department operations, diaspora engagement programs, and state media all lean on this framing to cultivate affinity, influence, and loyalty among overseas Chinese populations. Lee Hsien Loong said that is not the basis of Singapore's relationship with China. Singapore cooperates with Beijing because it serves Singapore's interests. Full stop. The moment those interests diverge, the shared ethnicity changes nothing. Singapore has maintained this position since Lee Kuan Yew built the country. It rejects the "Third China" label. It maintains strong ties with the United States, Japan, and the West while trading extensively with Beijing. It is ethnically Chinese-majority and fiercely sovereign. That combination makes it a direct challenge to the CCP's narrative that Chinese ethnicity implies Chinese political alignment. Lee said it in Shanghai. In front of Chinese media. After visiting Chinese officials. The message was intentional and the audience was chosen carefully. #Singapore #China #CCP #LeeHsienLoong #Sovereignty #Geopolitics #SoutheastAsia #UnitedFront #Diaspora #ASEAN
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@IsaacShaheed @BeijingDai @MsMelChen Yes, she has once again made a brilliant statement.x.com/MsMelChen/stat…
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen
Since its founding, the CCP has sought to use the Leninist concept of the United Front to extend its influence abroad by weaponizing ethnic ties to the Chinese diaspora. Lee Kuan Yew knew this first hand. In the 1950s–60s, Chinese medium schools and left wing unions in Singapore were heavily infiltrated by communist elements tied to Maoist China and the Malayan Communist Party. They caused a lot of trouble for him. He once said: "The danger is, if you are Chinese-educated and only Chinese-educated, you are monolingual, then your source of literature will be communist." So one of the smartest things LKY did was to make English the working language of government, business, education, and administration (while promoting bilingualism with mother tongues). Lee recognized that "ethnic strings" could be weaponized. Prioritizing English was more than just an anti-communist measure. Lee Kuan Yew understood that it would help create a neutral, unifying language and identity in Singapore’s multiracial society, while also cutting the emotional and cultural ties that linked its ethnic Chinese population to their ancestral homeland. Ties which the CCP are only too happy to weaponize. It's significant that Lee Hsien Loong - Lee Kuan Yew’s own son and Singapore’s former Prime Minister - chose to reaffirm the very ethos of his father’s founding vision before an audience in mainland China, speaking directly to the Chinese leadership and the CCP itself.
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I suspect there must be my followers at Lianhe Zaobao, because some of its articles seem to be responding to my posts on X about Singapore.
First, Lianhe Zaobao labeled those of us Chinese who criticize Singapore as “inexplicable, gloating, and excessively doom-mongering Chinese netizens spewing nonsense about Singapore on social media.” It looks like me, doesn't it?
Then, it nitpicked and harshly criticized 《Letters from Ah Ma》, a film about Chinese immigrants who went to Southeast Asia in the last century to make a living — just days after I posted my view that “this film makes people realize that Singapore’s current elite are traitors to Chinese civilization.”
Even Lee Hsien Loong, during his recent visit to China, stated that “Singapore and China are friends, but Singapore is an independent country from China,” whereas I often refer to Singapore as “China’s Crimea,” suggesting it should hold a referendum to join China.
To test whether these people are really following my X, I’m going to put forward a new argument: As a Chinese-majority country, Singapore’s government has an obligation to maintain the dominance of Chinese culture there. If its government deliberately seeks to extinguish Chinese culture, that would be a betrayal of Chinese civilization, and China would have the duty to launch a “Crusade southward” to recover it. I look forward to Lianhe Zaobao publishing an article questioning the legitimacy of my “Crusade southward.” lol.
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China is an atheist country. The CCP has no religion. So China has no right to choose the next Dalai Lama. It should free Tibet and the Tibetan people. Very simple we are not Chinese nor were we ever part of China. For 67 years you have misruled Tibet.The Tibetan people want out
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Time favors Taiwan over China.
Fareed Zakaria@FareedZakaria
Could economic concerns keep China from invading Taiwan? In the second part of our conversation, I discussed whether access to Western markets could be a guardrail on Chinese aggression against the island with President Emeritus of @CFR_org @RichardHaass and former Singaporean diplomat @mahbubani_k:
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@Jay83214566 How many years of history does the United States have? How many years of history does China have? There are currently two space stations in space: ISS and China's unique Tiangong space station. China has collected lunar soil samples from the far side of the moon.
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China hasn’t landed anyone on the Moon. Ever. NASA already has a woman assigned for lunar orbit. Aspirations aren’t missions.The math favors America.
PLA_Overwhelm@junshiguancha1
The first woman on the Moon won’t be American. She’ll be Chinese. 🇨🇳 China’s 23rd manned mission just launched. Its 4th female astronaut is aboard. One of them will make history before 2030. Humanity’s future in space is being rewritten — by her.
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🇸🇬新加坡前总理、现任高级部长李显龙：“新加坡与中国合作，基于共同利益——而非共同血脉。”
💥5月22日，他在上海，当着中国官员的面：
🔺“我们是一个华人占多数的国家，但我们是多民族社会。我们是拥有独立主权的独立国家。”
🔺“新加坡与中国合作，基于共同利益——而非共同血脉。”
👉这句话直接戳穿了中共几十年来的”同宗同源”叙事。
🇨🇳中共长期通过统战部、侨务工作，向东南亚华人社区传递一个信号：你们与中国有天然纽带，无论国籍如何。
🇸🇬李显龙的回答是：不。
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访问中国后，李显龙在采访中，用英文强调：新加坡是独立国家，主权独立于中国，跟中国是基于朋友的合作！
王局拍案@wangjupaian
【李显龙访华后谈中美关系：稳定对世界有利，但各方仍对未来有担忧】5月18日起，新加坡国务资政李显龙前往中国广西与上海展开为期五天的访问。这也是李显龙时隔一年半，再次以国务资政身份访华。 在总结此次访问时，李显龙表示，亚洲国家都会受惠于中国的发展。他谈到中美关系时称，去年中美之间曾经历不少风波，也出现过“非常紧张的时刻”，今年情况虽然有所缓和，但未来依然存在担忧，“如果中美再出状况，大家也都有心理准备”。 李显龙认为，过去十几年，随着中美实力对比变化，以及双方对彼此态度越来越强硬，两国关系未来仍可能出现新的紧张与摩擦。 视频来源：youtube.com/watch?v=seJP-2…
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李显龙站在中共国的土地上，当面切断了“血浓于水”的统战叙事。
新加坡是华人占多数的国家。
中共长期喜欢用同宗同源来拉拢海外华人。
试图把血缘认同，偷偷置换成对北京的政治认同。
李显龙这次直接把界限划平了。
他原话直接告诉对方。
我们是不同的社会，不同的国家。
新加坡有着完全独立的生存方式。
双方交朋友、谈合作，基础只有一个，那就是共同利益。
这跟大家是不是同一个种族，毫无关联。
生意可以做，技术也可以学。
他甚至在讲话里提到中共国在广泛应用 AI ，值得新加坡借鉴。
但主权国家的底线，绝不能被血统绑架。
基因测序，定不了现代国家的外交契约。
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@moephlatro 中共为什么要高兴?高兴的不应该是可以把这些钱用在民生上吗？按省 GDP 排名，台湾省只排第 8，属于中国的 3 线省，搞清楚是要岛不要人。和统=特别行政省;武统=普通 3 线省。要台独先去搞清楚台湾现在的宪法。或者让美国承认台湾是个国家、或者成为美国第 51 个州。别天天搞假台独，自欺欺人！
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確實無人機、潛艦預算被刪除的後果，
是台灣無法大規模生產無人載具。
而無法造成美國期望的，必要時在台海呈現地獄景象
。而對此會最高興的，無疑就是中共。
Kyle@Kyleyoujustdoit
馬文君提案將潛艦及無人機預算刪凍，而國民黨最喜歡拿軍備採購及委製有弊案這個藉口來刪除國防預算，這根本就是跟中共表達我們台灣繳械投降；如果有弊案國民黨為什麼不去舉報，少在那邊扯什麼法院、監察院都是民進黨控制這種屁話。 再次強調無人機、潛艦預算被刪除，最高興的就是中共。 YT🔗 youtu.be/WJAzkBJU6yg?si…
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@Kyleyoujustdoit 中共为什么要高兴?高兴的不应该是可以把这些钱用在民生上吗？按省 GDP 排名，台湾省只排第 8，属于中国的 3 线省，别把自己看的太高。和统=特别行政省;武统=普通 3 线省。
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馬文君提案將潛艦及無人機預算刪凍，而國民黨最喜歡拿軍備採購及委製有弊案這個藉口來刪除國防預算，這根本就是跟中共表達我們台灣繳械投降；如果有弊案國民黨為什麼不去舉報，少在那邊扯什麼法院、監察院都是民進黨控制這種屁話。
再次強調無人機、潛艦預算被刪除，最高興的就是中共。
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youtu.be/WJAzkBJU6yg?si…
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INSIGHTS:
China just shipped its first real Nvidia rival.
Lisuan Tech's LX 7G100 GPU. Made fully in China.
Microsoft officially approved it.
Only the 4th company in history to achieve that.
The GPU still trails the RTX 4060 in performance.
But that's not the point. The point is it exists.
America tried to cut China off from advanced chips.
China responded by building their own.
The sanctions didn't slow China down.
They gave China a reason to accelerate.
Nvidia still leads. The gap is real.
But two years ago this GPU didn't exist.
Two years from now.
The gap will be smaller.
America assumed cutting off chips would win the AI race.
China is proving that assumption wrong.
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@XiaWan27472 在小红书上转发以下这段视频，没一会就有几个自称新加坡的人私信让把视频下架…再来疯狂投诉…直至平台把视频禁了。所以说，新加坡是个恶心的国家，李光燿还教美国怎样对付汉人。Singapore is a disgusting country, and Lee Guang Yao even taught the United States how to deal with Han Chinese.
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@zhao_dashuai Layer upon layer of kickbacks, turning waterproof junction boxes into ordinary sockets with regular clear tape. When it rains and electricity leaks, lives are at risk again...
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Indian company using tiny air purifiers outdoors to "filter the air" of pollution.
Here's how the scam works, the company bribed Indian government officials, who then uses public funds to purchase these machines, for each machine installed, those officials also get kickbacks.
The claimed output of these machines is 300 m3/h, which is less than a commercially available indoor air purifier, which filters air up to 500 m3/h.
This is why India is a joke country with a scam economy, it's governed by uneducated babus, applauded by Hindutva morons online, who claims India will be a superpower next year, every year.
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@lina84150038 哈哈哈…笑死我了。习近平工作做的很好，为什么要说习近平像维尼熊，如果他工作做的不好，那么我敢骂他是猪！你觉得14亿人比你笨？相信你的智商没有我一半高。
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@BlackArbitron Does Malaysia have objections? 😀(The Ford-class aircraft carrier cannot eject F-35s)
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@NorahTaipei There are only two paths for Taiwanese independence: amend the constitution, or have the United States recognize Taiwan as a country (or make it the 51st state). Otherwise, stop misleading supporters who trust you.
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Please do not refer to China as trying to uphold the rules-based order. Not while China continues to intimidate and harass neighboring countries like Taiwan and Philippines.
Chatham House@ChathamHouse
"The great revisionist power that China was said to be is now the major power that is seeking to uphold the rules-based order." Former Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull on the role reversal between China and the United States. Watch the event➡️ bit.ly/4wt27zP
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