NTUC should align with Singaporeans, not the PAP: Gerald Giam

[Hightech88]

 

[Hightech88]

LMW: Can you find another trade union in the world where the trade union chief is a minister? Are there any countries? Please if there are tell me​

 

[nabeifuckpap]

 

[A Singaporean]

But coolie gene Sinkies need cdc vouchers.

 

[A Singaporean]

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When daughter married son of PM, everything is easy.

 

[wendychan]

but hero Calvin Cheng says otherwise. go read his latest FB
and lots of groupies creaming themselves agreeing with him

 

[hofmann]

LMW: Can you find another trade union in the world where the trade union chief is a minister? Are there any countries? Please if there are tell me​

This just means there is no other country in the world where the Minister/government gets to dictate policy to workers and neuter them of their rights.

That's why our workers don't even have the simple right to disconnect and you have NMP Mark Lee telling workers to stay connected even when on leave.

 

[JohnTan]

But PAP is Singapore and Singapore is PAP.

 

[VanDick]

But PAP is Singapore and Singapore is PAP.

Sounds like 100% communism to me.

 

[k1976]

But coolie gene Sinkies need cdc vouchers.

Mee too

 

[nabeifuckpap]

But PAP is Singapore and Singapore is PAP.

This is how we deal with communists

 

[JohnTan]

This is how we deal with communists

PAP isn't communist. In fact, PAP put many communists behind bars. Majulah PAP!

 

[Charlie99]

But PAP is Singapore and Singapore is PAP.

That is not correct.
Singapore is not the PAP

 

[JohnTan]

That is not correct.
Singapore is not the PAP

It is correct. Singapore is PAP and PAP is Singapore. Our founders were from PAP. Even our National Pledge was composed by PAP.

 

[Hightech88]

 

[laksaboy]

LOL, NTUC is a fake labour union, a proxy organization of the PAP.

Never forget what kind of country you are living in. See things as what they are, not what you fantasize them to be.

 

[bobby]

Liddat say then must also align SAF, SPF, Judiciary, Civil Service, HDB etc with Singaporeans and not PAP

 

[congo9]

But PAP is Singapore and Singapore is PAP.

That's very PRC like..
We no need a Winnie Xi like character to bring suffering to Singkie.

 

[jw5]

Gerald talks like it is the first day he knows PAP.

 

[k1976]

That's very PRC like..
We no need a Winnie Xi like character to bring suffering to Singkie.

https://thediplomat.com/2015/03/lee-kuan-yew-the-father-of-modern-china/


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Lee Kuan Yew: The Father of Modern China?​

Lee Kuan Yew’s influence helped shape the China we know today.

By Shannon Tiezzi
March 24, 2015


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With the passing of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister and one of the most influential Asian politicians, leaders and media outlets all over the world have put in their two cents on his legacy. In the Western world, analysis of his influence is generally mixed; the Washington Post, for example, led off its piece by calling Lee “the democratic world’s favorite dictator.” But in China, where Lee’s mix of authoritarian governance and economic reform proved hugely influential, reflections are far more glowing.
China’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on March 23 saying that “the Chinese side deeply mourns the loss of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew.” The statement praised Lee as “a uniquely influential statesman in Asia and a strategist embodying oriental values and international vision.”
For China, that high praise might actually be underestimating Lee’s importance. After the death of Mao Zedong, Beijing’s leaders knew that Maoist philosophy was not the way forward for China – but they were loath to adopt Western alternatives such as democracy and a free market economy. In Lee’s Singapore, Chinese leaders found an alternative path, a path they could sell as being uniquely suited for Asian (or “oriental,” as China’s FM put it) values. That choice, to combine economic reforms with authoritarianism, shaped China as we know it today.
Jin Canrong of Renmin University told China Daily that Lee’s greatest contribution to China was “sharing Singapore’s successful experience in governance.” In his biography of Deng Xiaoping, Ezra Vogel wrote that China’s great reformed was inspired by the example of Lee’s Singapore. Xi Jinping himself has said that China’s modernization process has been undeniably shaped by the “tens of thousands of Chinese officials” who went to Singapore to study Lee’s model. Lee himself visited China over 30 times and met with Chinese leaders from Mao to Xi Jinping, offering advice.
Perhaps Lee’s greatest legacy for China was inspiring not simply Deng’s economic reforms, but the very idea that reform and adaptation is a never-ending, essential process. As Lee put it in a 2007 interview with the New York Times, Singapore embraces practicality rather than ideology: “Does it work? If it works, let’s try it. If it’s fine, let’s continue it. If it doesn’t work, toss it out, try another one.” That pragmatic stance is echoed in Deng Xiaoping’s famous statement that “it doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.”