Christopher Hsieh

@OopsGuess What's this recent SGP bashing fantasy some X users have gotten into, especially the ones who are pro China? The anti SGP rhetoric is leaning toward lunacy, but it's all happening suddenly. It's almost synchronised. There is a larger force at play, it's just too coincidental.

Some Singaporean colonial minds love imagining that Singapore’s value comes from holding China hostage through the Strait of Malacca. Cute fantasy. Malacca is important. But it is not destiny. Thailand is reviving a $30 billion Land Bridge project to connect the Gulf of Thailand with the Andaman Sea through ports, railways, roads, and pipelines — a coast-to-coast corridor designed to reduce dependence on Malacca. So, will it replace Malacca overnight? Of cause not, but that is not the point. The point is that China and the region are not stupid enough to leave their future permanently trapped inside one chokepoint controlled by Western-aligned fantasies. There is Thailand. There is Malaysia. There is the China-Laos Railway. There are overland corridors. There are ports, pipelines, railways, and industrial routes being built across Asia. Singapore’s mistake is thinking geography alone equals permanent leverage. It does not. Geography gives you a seat. History decides whether you become a partner or a tool. And if Singapore thinks its strategic value lies in helping the West choke China, then China will do what China always does: build around the choke point. So yes, Malacca matters. But China’s answer to pressure has never been begging. It is routes, rails, ports, corridors, ships, pipelines, and time. Every attempted choke point eventually becomes another engineering problem.

@zhao_dashuai Eh, screw your "analysis"; it's becoming NYTimes level trash. Expected better of you, but it's only getting worse.

你们新加坡官媒为什么天天给新加坡华人洗脑，让他们接受印度裔？ 这明显是给未来的印度裔统治做铺垫。如果新加坡的华人有点骨气，那你们应该马上推翻这个买办政权。 不用担心，解放军向新加坡投送一个空降旅只需24小时。你们尽管揭竿起义。

@RnaudBertrand This is a huge cassus belli for Pakistan. I think India would do well with smarter and more intelligent leadership. Such a shame, that from a billion plus population leaders like such get pushed to the top.

This is an absolutely major story and almost no Western media covered it: India's water minister CR Patil said on Tuesday that "it is certain, not a single drop of water will go (to Pakistan) in the coming years." Patil said that India is "actively working on it" after "directives" from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As a reminder, Pakistan's dependence on water from India is close to total: the country is essentially built around the Indus river system, all of whose rivers flow through India before entering Pakistan. The Indus system irrigates 80% of Pakistan's farmland, generates a third of its electricity, supplies its major cities with drinking water, and sustains the livelihoods of some 240 million people. So, essentially, no water from India = annihilation of Pakistan as a state. Pretty damn consequential, all the more given we're talking about 2 nuclear powers here. And all the more because, understandably, Pakistan's formal position is that water diversion would constitute "an act of war" (dawn.com/news/1906310). Unfortunately, Patil's statement isn't just talk: India already set up the legal framework to make this possible. Last year, they unilaterally suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, despite the treaty containing no withdrawal clause. It used to be the one piece of India-Pakistan relations that worked, and had survived multiple wars and over six decades of hostility. Now India is saying officially that it will "never be restored" (aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/22…). The one mitigating factor here is physics: you don't just "turn off" a major Himalayan river system. Diverting rivers of this magnitude means building massive storage and canal infrastructure in Himalayan terrain: projects measured in years. But India IS ACTUALLY BUILDING that infrastructure: for instance it just approved in May the building of the so-called "Chenab–Beas Link Tunnel," an 8.7km ₹2,352 crore (~$280M) tunnel designed to divert water from the Chenab basin into India's Beas river system. The Chenab is one of the main tributaries of the Indus - and one of the three "western rivers" (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab) allocated to Pakistan under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty. Which means that, unfortunately, Patil's "not a single drop of water in the coming years" looks like a roadmap: the infrastructure to strangle Pakistan's water supply is being approved and tendered in plain sight. This is also a story about selective media coverage and double standards: I'm willing to bet that 99% of people in the West have never heard of any of this. Now make this thought experiment: imagine China announced it was building infrastructure to cut off every drop of water flowing to India and its ministers proclaimed on television that "not a single drop" would cross the border. It would be wall-to-wall coverage, sanctions packages, and a thousand op-eds about Beijing "weaponizing water." Heck we don't need to imagine because the simple fact of China merely building a hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo (the upstream Brahmaputra) generated exactly the wall-to-wall alarm I'm describing, even though China threatened nothing and even though Indian officials said the threat is a "myth" given the fact that the river gathers most of its volume inside India from monsoon rains (tribuneindia.com/news/india/pak…). Malign intent was still presumed from the act of construction, because it's China. In India's case, the intent couldn't possibly be clearer: it's proclaimed by ministers on the record, and backed by India's actions. But because they're a courted Western partner, what they're doing - arguably the most extreme form of economic warfare imaginable, directed at a nuclear state - largely gets silence. Src for screenshot: tribune.com.pk/story/2612412/…

@zhao_dashuai @zaobaosg This comment shows how well you know Singapore. I don't think there's 8% Indians in the US. Secondly, I think we have a good grasp of using immigration policies to control what kind of people we need. A good percentage of Indians coming here have no real path to permanency in SG.

@zaobaosg 你们就自毁吧，印度人在美国的比例比新加坡少很多。但也挡不住印度人接手硅谷的管理层。 印度人的基因里就充斥着种族裙带主义。进来一个能给你变出一窝。

尽管新加坡多年来建设的社会结构根本上具有韧性，人民也支持多元种族理念，受访学者提醒国人不能掉以轻心，因为我国还是会被外部力量动摇，尤其当种族课题被有心人利用时。 #Echobox=1780778453" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">zaobao.com.sg/news/singapore…

@Chicky_Think Why can't we have it faster? It's been at least a decade since this topic was discussed in parliament. Better late than never.

Singapore is quietly laying the groundwork for nuclear. Most people missed it. The government released nuclear feasibility studies. Still framed as "research." Still framed as "no decision yet." That's exactly how Singapore operates. They don't announce. They condition. Release a bit. Let the public absorb. Then move. Here's the second signal. December 1, 2025 — Singapore launched DC-CFA2. 200MW of new data centre capacity opened for application. Bonus capacity for operators who bring innovative green energy. That phrase is doing a lot of work. Zoom out. AI runs on four layers. Energy → Infrastructure → Models → Applications. Everything you interact with sits at the top. Nothing runs without the bottom. Singapore is building the bottom. Data centres are going up. Green energy is being incentivised. Nuclear is the only scalable answer for a land-scarce grid. I think Singapore will agree to build nuclear within the decade. Maybe sooner.

@zhao_dashuai Meh. I think if you want to maintain your credibility, perhaps comment on Singapore fairly, else you're just creating a mountain of a molehill.

Singapore now blames China for discontent at home against Indians in the city-state. Singapore is too afraid to embrace their Han identity, the Confucian meritocracy that built the city. Instead, their government is brainwashing its Han majority to embrace their "Indianness" claiming it as an integral part of the Singapore identity. Chinese identity built Singapore, Indian identity will destroy it. This is a subtle but clear trend of late, just last month, Singaporean press attacked the Chinese film "Dear You", a highly acclaimed film released this year, telling the story of a Chaoshan family from southern China, and their connections to family members moved to Southeast Asia (Thailand). State controlled Singaporean press hated it because they see it as China asserting the cultural connections between China and the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. Many in Singapore would worship the West and their special relations with the US, denouncing their own blood relatives. This trend of importing 3rd world ideas and culture from India will be the city's downfall. And it aligns with the suicidal migration policies of Western liberalism.

@TheSincereDude What's the use - in two years' time either the same govt or another govt will flip flop and place the same tax or creative new tax. No confidence.

The same Modi govt that RAISED FPI capital gains tax to 12.5% in Budget 2025, effective April 2026, is now scrapping it entirely via ORDINANCE, bypassing Parliament. Translation: They broke investor confidence, the rupee bled 5%+, and now they’re panic-reversing through the back door. This isn’t policy. This is firefighting dressed up as vision. The Iran war didn’t create this crisis; years of ad-hoc tax decisions, unpredictable policy flip-flops, and zero long-term fiscal strategy did. Foreign investors don’t flee stable economies. They fled THIS one. And now Indian middle-class taxpayers, who get NO capital gains relief, are watching their govt roll out red carpets for foreign funds via Presidential ordinance while Parliament sits idle. Two rules. Two Indias.

@zhao_dashuai Shazam is not that good, as compared to the xiaomi one that's inbuilt into the OS.

I think we Chinese are starting to create our own Brazilian Phonk music.😱 Just found one on Douyin, and Shazam can't find the original song.

@LTAsg Yes please, more of this! I've had enough of being woken up in the middle of the night from these loud vehicles driven by uncouth uncivilised individuals.

🚨 #Reminder: It is an offence to illegally modify any vehicles. 👮‍♂️ On 26 March 2026, Garage R Performance Centre Pte Ltd was fined $6,000 for illegally modifying vehicle exhaust systems on 5 separate occasions between 2022 and 2025. ⬇️ Refer to the visual for more info.

@devonaura @macroschema Interesting photograph, hardly any people.

I have travelled to every corner and every state of India, and I can confidently say that there isn’t a single tourist destination in this shithole country that could be called safe, clean, well-managed, and truly offers good value for travellers

@ttprivateequity @macroschema It wasn't the destination that you were against, was it. It was what you had to go through on the way there, yes?

@macroschema Back when we worked as flight attendants, not only did it cost us nothing, but we even got paid to stay in 5-star all-inclusive hotels, yet we still didn't want to go to that country. Anyone who spends money going there is senseless...

@coberfranc @aviationbrk Let me guess - you don't even know which "country" China Airlines is from.

@aviationbrk China Airlines, tape it up and fly!

China Airlines Airbus A350-941 damaged its passenger door after the aircraft rolled backwards making contact with the boarding bridge at Melbourne Airport. Flight CI58 was scheduled to depart to Taipei which has now been cancelled due to the incident.

@acidrender @sab_maya_hai__ As opposed to - don't do anything, continue to have staff and pay staff costs while those 30 competitors can churn out things faster than your company can. 😂

@sab_maya_hai__ Tbh its just a short win, now these 200 ppl would back home and 100 of them start building with AI, 30 will be successful in creating a competitor to their previous company. Saved on 200 ppl salaries but created 30 competitors.

This company of 200 employees seems to be firing 80% people. Small IT companies will lead the firing. They are lot more agile than the biggies. My friends company is firing 50% employees in next 6 months.

@_ReverseAI_ @sab_maya_hai__ Hmmm.... Currently it mainly affects those in IT and Finance and of those jobs which are mainly to sit in front of a computer without having to meet stakeholders. The rest will still be fine, for now.

@sab_maya_hai__ The AI revolution has started a bit faster than I anticipated. This is going to have drastic effects on society if we suddenly have unemployment rates of 50-80%. @sab_maya_hai__, how is your friend taking this. Is his name also on the shortlist?

@Turbinetraveler Why is the APU still turned on?

A multi-spectral camera captures the Airbus A350’s Trent XWB engines unleashing 97,000 pounds of thrust at full power — pure engineering beauty in motion. 📹: scottiebateman

@jumpjim The design of the fuel cutoff switches should be changed to - if throttle is set to any power setting other than idle, fuel cutoff switches cannot be moved.

There is no feasible way for both Fuel Control switches to have jumped the detent they were in to the OFF position within 0.5 seconds of each other without manual intervention. What an absolutely fruitless waste of time. For reference the design has been the same throughout the Boeing fleet from 737s upwards encompassing 737, 747, 757, 767, 777 and 787s.

@karmicoder @zephyr_z9 Hmm, but if everybody is rich, nobody is rich.

@zephyr_z9 A country grows when there are more millionaires and billionaires collectively.

China 🇨🇳 has produced 2 very rich guys in the last 12-18 months Wang Ning, CEO of PopMart (Labubu guy)- $26.5 B Chen Tianshi, CEO of Cambricon (GPU guy)- $26 B

@FucTrill @StoneCh00365833 @Charlotte_xia59 None of them are mutually intelligible. Sometimes even mandarin spoken in the north is difficult to understand for those from the south.

If you laugh you go to hell

@AngelicaOung Only another 2-3 years until China democratises MSW durian from Hainan as well. Can't wait until prices can start coming down. At it's peak, it used to get to SG$30-35/kg. This year, it was already down to SG$12-15/kg.

MUSCAT SHINE GRAPEGATE: there’s a huge spat on Taiwanese social media about the Japanese grape variety “Muscat Shine”, a premium strain that’s been appropriated by Chinese farmers and subsequently “cabbagetized” in price. DPP poster: Muscat Shine was the pride of Japan until it was stolen by the Chinese. Now cheap “Muscat shine” grapes are all over China. Like anything else the Chinese get their hands on, they have cheapened Muscat Shine. KMTPP poster: You know the Japanese were just stealing our TSMC chip tech right? Apparently that’s ok but not fruit? KMTPP poster 2: Yep! I had some. Great price, great quality! KMTPP poster 3: does it taste better if you pay more? KMTPP poster 4: where did you think the “Taiwanese sweet persimmon” came from? KMTPP poster 5: how can grapes grown by compatriots be as sweet as those from your Japanese Daddy? So, whose side are you on? Team Sacred Japanese Grapes or Team Fruit Abundance?

@NASA_Tim @Rothmus This is it. While your answer is correct, nobody will bother reading it and learn, because that's how toxic X is.

@Rothmus A straight brick wall has to be at least two bricks thick or it will topple. The wavy wall can be a single brick thick because the shape provides lateral stability. Overall, you use less bricks.