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Never trust this guy from South Africa; a well known China basher. Chan Rasjid.

From the little I know, Vietnam seems a very difficult country to deal with. Deng Xiaopeng learned a lesson well trying to fight a border war with Vietnam. It is the only country in the world which has won a war with the US. They seem to have people with good judgments. It is a fact that having...

Currently, Vietnam has only 268 reported cases and no death. It does not mean covid-19 is "no big deal". The Vietnamese government recognized very early that the "Wuhan virus is a big deal" and took the epidemic very seriously. "Viet Nam shows how you can contain COVID-19 with limited...

Since the 1970's when Nixon removed the last vestige of the US dollar having any relation with gold, the world's currencies are all "managed"; each country must have a policy to set its currency rate. This means setting its rate with the the US dollar as the dollar is the world's reserve...

Money creation is different from our reserves. A country's reserve generally means a country's foreign exchange reserves (plus gold, etc). It includes the net assets of GIC and Temasek as they belong to our government. For most countries, it is usually their holdings of US government bonds and...

Yes! I think I understand random sampling. But I think no government would care to do it. The rate of true infection rate in a country may be found as a good and large enough random sample test for covid-19 would give a very good approximation of how much of the population is infected. Then we...

Sorry for the figures. I quoted them with no interpretations, just for anyone interested. Rasjid.

"What I am asking though is why the world is shut down for this virus but not for other causes of death that have caused even bigger spikes in previous years? ... Was data from the previous years wrong? Were those deaths somehow justified whereas dying from Covid-19 is not." Dear Leongsam, I...

Leongsam, your insistence that covid-19 is just only like the flu has become your religion, no more based on logic and rationality. Human nature is basically weak and tends easily towards prejudice. Once a person has attached himself strongly to a point of view, it is almost impossible for him...

No one is going to ask Japan to pay its "debts". The other aspect that is important is that a country can produce goods. Japan is a productive nation. Rasjid.

Wrong! Madam Ho Ching is the genius. She borrowed big time knowing where to put the money. Borrow and invest correctly is the Mother of Superior Investment! Rasjid.

https://worldpopulationreviw.com/countries/countries-by-national-debt/ National debt to GDP for 2020: Japan No 1 = 234% of GDP USA 8 = 107% Singapore 10 = 112% (national debt $254 billion) "Japan, with its population of 127,185,332, has the highest national debt in the world at 234.18% of its...

Some say the USD is toilet paper. It is not so. It is just one among the many "toilet paper" currencies floating around. In general, many of today's fiat currencies (paper money) may be considered as "toilet paper" as they are created "out_of_thin_air" - from nothing. US public dept 1990 -...

Yes. I think it is not "tested", but they probably monitored for signs and symptoms. Still the figures does show mortality could be about 3 % Rasjid.

goto channel news asia today. But of course, we can argue if figures are correct. But why anyone or government would lie about such mundane statistics. edit: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-tops-2-500-12586016 Rasjid.

Very surprising for Iran, 57 millions have been screened for covid-19. So their figures for death and infections are reliable. Total 2517 death out of a total 35408 infected means a mortality rate of 7%. Chan Rasjid

The 10% mortality rate for the corona virus is wrong. The Italy death rate of 9000 is correct as any death with symptoms similar to Covid-19 would have been tested. The 90,000 infections comes only from the tested numbers; there could be many infections that have not been accounted. So the...

Italy total infection about 90,000; out of these, the death is 9000. The articles by the "experts" are silly. We don't care whether there have been other infections going undetected. The 9000 death is from the tested cases of 90,000 infection. So it is silly to try to argue against the mortality...

POFMA! Fake video. Photo shop!

Another very charismatic Chinese speaker. Hubei is a rice bowl of China; the crops aare now roting in the fields. No seeds planted now means no harvest next year. The locust are now in Pakistan and India heading towards China. Chan Rasjid.