LK Why (A Prime Memester)
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BREAKING: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine are nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
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
“The Enriched Uranium (Nuclear Dust!) will either be immediately turned over to the United States to be brought home and destroyed or, preferably, in conjunction and coordination with the Islamic Republic of Iran, destroyed in place or…” - President Donald J. Trump
🇷🇺🇫🇷 Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev calls on Putin to end "slaughter" after winning Cannes Grand Prix "Millions of people on both sides of the front line dream of only one thing — for the endless killing to stop. And the only person who can stop this meat grinder is you, Mr. President of the Russian Federation" No mention of the 21 people killed in Ukraine’s strike on a college in Starobelsk
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
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.
President Trump is expected to undergo his third scheduled medical checkup in 13 months, as outside physicians say they have persistent questions about his health and fitness. wapo.st/49T2BWd
@uncledoomer am i the only person who understands the obvious… these marketing girls are clearly very good at their jobs…
