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No one does it at home. Only in commercial kitchens and hawker stalls where you have a big enough fire. The key is cleaning up after frying or cooking curry. Malay kitchens are spotless even though they cook sambal every day. The Indians don't bother to clean up. And ghee is more tenacious...

Play with words: 'did not cause excess deaths during the pandemic'. Most of the excess deaths from mRNA vaccination are showing up now: sudden cardiac deaths, turbo-cancers, depressed immunity to many pathogens, Long COVID...

America's greatness was undisputable up to the 70s where there was a huge middle class, great innovation, very little poverty, very little unemployment and decent social safety nets. There was the American dream, and it was for real. Today's America is living on past glories: the highest income...

You're behind the times. A generation ago, the Chinese depended on reverse engineering and copycat strategies. Today they're almost catching up with the US in terms of absolute R & D spending, and surpassed the US in per capita GDP R & D spending. China is the already largest contributor to...

This I agree with 100%. Problem is when you have small segment of billionaires, 50% sandwiched middle class, 45% poor farmers and rising income gap, you get social unrest. No elections means CCP may be toppled, maybe another revolution. Eventually for China to be rich and great and...

My wife's aunt rented her apartment to an Indian family - 2 years' contract. When she got back her apartment after two years, the kitchen cabinets and walls were so filthy and stained with ghee she had to spend $20k to renovate the entire kitchen. After that she never rented her apartment to any...

Actually China is the world's largest market for many consumer goods: cars, cellphones, luxury items, renewable energy. Its auto market is the size of the US and Europe combined. All this is not reflected in trade figures (which show huge surpluses), because what China needs and buys, China...

And your point is? The floods must be caused by Xi and the CCP. Climate change is a myth. LOL.

After the US strikes on Iran, China said that the US remains the only country that can project power anywhere in the world. The Chinese sent two surveillance vessels to learn from the US, not to support Teheran. At no time did the Chinese claim military parity with the US. It's actually the...

You can say all you want... there's $20 trillion of USD circulating round the world in electronic form, but only $2.3 trillion in physical form. The US economy is just sustained on deficit spending and speculation in financial assets, not on real production of goods and services China buys...

Manufacturing is production of real goods. The real economy. Provides jobs, creates wealth, grows the economy. If coupled to adequate market signals overproduction can be largely avoided. The financialization of the US economy has resulted in increasing funds pouring into speculation in capital...

Patrick McGee: "Donald Trump is more of a threat to Apple's operations than Xi Jinping has ever been. Mr Xi and Mr Cook have the same interests. Apple gets abundant, cheap labour and world-class robotics. Xi gets the spillover effects that benefit Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and the broader electronics...

You give China too much credit. China is not interested in the toppling the US. It has enough problems domestically. In the medium term it has only 3 aims: 1. Generate jobs to eradicate poverty (countryside) and make the people happy. Tackle economic bubbles. Maintain access to resources like...

You may say China has a top-down industrial policy, partially convertible RMB, limited freedom of speech & expression, authoritarian rule, export driven economy, no free elections, neijuan resulting in property bubble, etc... all true. But it has lifted 800 mil people out of abject poverty...

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They are still #1 because once you have become #1 you have all the tools at your disposal to maintain your dominance and bully the rest of the world into submission. That's how the Brits ruled the world for 150 years - on the back of the slave trade, exploiting the colonies and the opium trade...

You're either smokin' too much weed, still wet behind the ears, or don't know your history... or maybe all three. 1. USD and US economy. Ever heard of how the USD ended the link to gold in 1971? The petrodollar in 1974 which gave the USD world's reserve currency status? The US economy is a...

The RTS will allow more Malaysians to commute here to work daily, and more Singaporeans to go to JB for makan, shopping, groceries and short vacations. It will not benefit our tourism. The only positive thing is it will probably ease the jams at the Causeway and Second Link checkpoints.

I believe it's Yunnan Hui, looking at the food.

All wayang la. Free market when it benefits them - exploiting 3rd World labour, forcing open 3rd World markets on pretext of investments, incurring huge 3rd World loans on pretext of developmental aid. Closed market when competitors outsell, out-manufacture them - resort to dirty tactics like...