AsalBukanAnwar

So, I've had some thoughts on that story — what's wrong with Malaysia, what's wrong with Malaysians, what's the biggest problem of the network states in general and could Kazakhstan be a solution. They are on my Substack — read below. 🔗 ⬇️

Malaysia is demonstrating why it isn’t a good long term home for the Network School (NS). Given that the goal of the NS is to attract Elite Human Capital, not allowing entry of Israelis and having criminal penalties against homosexuality limit Malaysia and Forest Cities attractiveness. Now NS has enough of a reputation to negotiate with other countries, ask for some tax and regulatory concessions. How much is unclear, but with effective negotiating it could be significant. Key criteria to consider 1) welcoming host country - host country should welcome them, 2) good location - nice climate, flights relatively quick from target markets, 3) good airport - proximity to well-connected airport, 4) land availability - depending on growth ambitions, a few hundred ha is probably sufficient, and 5) legal concessions - what legal concessions the host country is willing to grant NS. The legal concessions are worth exploring further. Key concessions pursing include, 1) work/residence visas, 2) taxes, 3) zoning and land use, 4) business registration/approvals, 5) regulatory sandbox for fintech, biotech. In my experience, key to the concessions are framing as a win-win and giving government oversight. One example is, NS would process work/residence visas. Then host country would have two weeks to review. Host country can only deny visa under pre-agreed upon criteria. If not decision in two weeks, then automatic approval. Most governments are more amenable to such an arragement, especially the middle income or above countries NS should be pursuing. The host country has oversight, but the default status strongly favors NS. With those conditions, the options for NS are Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Southeast Asia benefits from proximity to India and China, as well as having governments that might be more pragmatic about cutting a deal. Eastern Europe, for example, the Balkans, has many countries with nice climates, proximity to Europe, and small governments that might be flexible. Latin America has several countries that could be a good fit, especially in the southern cone, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Managing the process of selecting the next host country, hopefully one that can be a permanent home for NS has important implications not just for NS, but charter cities and the future of sovereignty.

Kind of wild how Balaji wanted to be like LKY and got treated like LKY by Malaysia

Even you don’t like, what Tony Pua says is valid & true PH lose, BN + PN win, Zahid will be the PM Some said - Aren’t u accepting Zahid to be DPM Hello, why do some of you act blur? Did you give them enough seats to govern? Unity Govt is the only solution, proposed by YDPA

Theres a very real reason why most companies that actually started in Malaysia always end up in Singapore later. One of which is that you need to have a Bumi chairman if you ever decide to go public in Malaysia (usually some political crony) and you’ll be constantly harassed for “favors” by other political cronies One family friend ended up spending all his cash and bought his son a Porsche because a crony was trying to extract a cash bribe or else he’d get audited by the IRS. So he just spent all his cash and went well I don’t have any money anymore 🤣

Woah this past few days I notice plenty Si Kitol zaman Modern and penjilat .