An erudite scholarly description of the possibilities of what ASEAN could be like and how it could likely 'stand up' to the Trump administration (part II) if and when the need should arise.
Stand up to the Trump adminstration? They will not. Not now not in the foreseeable future. ASEAN failed to collectively stand up to the US led Regime Change juggernaut when Hillary Clinton and Obama attacked governments of South East Asia, Hong Kong and South Asia when the Regime Change juggernaut rolled over these nations collectively refered to as ASEAN.
ASEAN's troubles began when sychophants of the West readily swallowed up the anti China rhetoric that US in particular spewed their self righteous venom into the region through a well oiled machine of disruption consisting of social media supported by foreign educated and locally venerated social groups that they funded (like Bersih and the Malaysian Bar and 80 other so called NGO's).
Out of that ASEAN inherited the first wave of destabilization of the Asian miracle in 1967 in the Asian financial crisis. A destructive orgy of financial meddling by George Soros and other "free market" champions with their hands on the levers of the "fre market".
ASEAN still did not learn from that experience. It had neither the will no the leadership with the intellectual strength nor collective the political will to confront the USA. Too many ifferent ideologies too much self interest to defend.
Singapore and Hong Kong (under Tung Chee Hwa) sang panagyrics to Soros and the West whilst Dr. Mahathir called him out as the King with no new clothes. Dr. Mahathir's idea of market forces and those of the revilled Soros were at variance and diametrically opposed to each others.
Not long after Tung Chee Hwa had praised Soros, than Soros barassed attacked his currency. Not long after that we learned that the pristine white and incorrutible Singapore had lost tens of billions of dollars through Soros inspired investments, an attack on the Sing dollar, which prompted the late LKY and his son to blithely tell workers in Singapore whose pension funds had been squandered in Soros inspired investments "they'll simply have to work long and harder make up for thes losses". Suddenly the economic gospels of "fundamentals" did not appear to matter.
TIn truth, there was no breach of fundamentals on the part of ASEAN and the rest of a rising Asia. There was a breach of that so called unity and strength of ASEAN, a superficial entity that was created by the West for the West as a dumping ground for their high risk investments and services overseen by butchers (Suharto and the Marcos family, Hun Sen and the Thai military).
There is no unity in diversity in ASEAN. Too many self interested forces at work in what could otherwise be a force for good and a proper quilt instead of the patchwork of individual dictatorships pretending to be a unified force.
At present ASEAN's constituent components are largely ruled by despots posing as democrats, kings and statesmen, all with their hands in the till and an army at their disposal to waste dissidents.
When the one solitary opportunity to stand together and to show some spine arose in recent years, they all ran for cover. That was the setting up of DS Najib by forces within the Malaysian ruling elite, its justice system and its other institutions political and social, all corrupted one way or the other. Its was a planned coup by the US against a democratic government using local minions to achieve their goals. And there will never ever be a shortage of such trojans in ASEAN. Why?
The Asian way. There is no loyalty in ASEAN without money. It is "the Asian way" or rather the ASEAN way.
An erudite scholarly description of the possibilities of what ASEAN could be like and how it could likely 'stand up' to the Trump administration (part II) if and when the need should arise.
Stand up to the Trump adminstration? They will not. Not now not in the foreseeable future. ASEAN failed to collectively stand up to the US led Regime Change juggernaut when Hillary Clinton and Obama attacked governments of South East Asia, Hong Kong and South Asia when the Regime Change juggernaut rolled over these nations collectively refered to as ASEAN.
ASEAN's troubles began when sychophants of the West readily swallowed up the anti China rhetoric that US in particular spewed their self righteous venom into the region through a well oiled machine of disruption consisting of social media supported by foreign educated and locally venerated social groups that they funded (like Bersih and the Malaysian Bar and 80 other so called NGO's).
Out of that ASEAN inherited the first wave of destabilization of the Asian miracle in 1967 in the Asian financial crisis. A destructive orgy of financial meddling by George Soros and other "free market" champions with their hands on the levers of the "fre market".
ASEAN still did not learn from that experience. It had neither the will no the leadership with the intellectual strength nor collective the political will to confront the USA. Too many ifferent ideologies too much self interest to defend.
Singapore and Hong Kong (under Tung Chee Hwa) sang panagyrics to Soros and the West whilst Dr. Mahathir called him out as the King with no new clothes. Dr. Mahathir's idea of market forces and those of the revilled Soros were at variance and diametrically opposed to each others.
Not long after Tung Chee Hwa had praised Soros, than Soros barassed attacked his currency. Not long after that we learned that the pristine white and incorrutible Singapore had lost tens of billions of dollars through Soros inspired investments, an attack on the Sing dollar, which prompted the late LKY and his son to blithely tell workers in Singapore whose pension funds had been squandered in Soros inspired investments "they'll simply have to work long and harder make up for thes losses". Suddenly the economic gospels of "fundamentals" did not appear to matter.
TIn truth, there was no breach of fundamentals on the part of ASEAN and the rest of a rising Asia. There was a breach of that so called unity and strength of ASEAN, a superficial entity that was created by the West for the West as a dumping ground for their high risk investments and services overseen by butchers (Suharto and the Marcos family, Hun Sen and the Thai military).
There is no unity in diversity in ASEAN. Too many self interested forces at work in what could otherwise be a force for good and a proper quilt instead of the patchwork of individual dictatorships pretending to be a unified force.
At present ASEAN's constituent components are largely ruled by despots posing as democrats, kings and statesmen, all with their hands in the till and an army at their disposal to waste dissidents.
When the one solitary opportunity to stand together and to show some spine arose in recent years, they all ran for cover. That was the setting up of DS Najib by forces within the Malaysian ruling elite, its justice system and its other institutions political and social, all corrupted one way or the other. Its was a planned coup by the US against a democratic government using local minions to achieve their goals. And there will never ever be a shortage of such trojans in ASEAN. Why?
The Asian way. There is no loyalty in ASEAN without money. It is "the Asian way" or rather the ASEAN way.