Chapter 1215: Position Issue

"Four" Oh... Fan Heng was stunned when he heard this. He thought that every country has its national spring whip pad, so where can we talk about having a shameless hair tattoo?

Fan Wubing pointed to the things on the Internet and explained to his father Fan Heng, "This thing is obviously prepared for the Chinese. On the surface, it makes the Chinese feel better after seeing it, but in fact it has no meaning at all, because the English It is the real official language of Singapore.”

Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong responded to the Washington Post's call to "block China" and blatantly refused to visit China, causing an uproar in the world's public opinion. This was in sharp contrast to the French Prime Minister and the Indian Defense Minister who visited China not long after.

After Goh Chok Tong returned, the "Lianhe Zaobao" forum proudly said, "Goh Chok Tong's actions have been praised and welcomed by Southeast Asian countries. On May 2, when Goh Chok Tong was interviewed by the media, he openly doubted China's ability to govern China. Claimed that foreign investment should leave China.

But a few days later, Taiwan's vanguard government gave up its usual tone of attacking mainland China and instead wished that mainland China and Hong Kong would overcome the crisis as soon as possible. Instead, the Wall Street Journal of the United States published an article titled "It's Hard to Conceal China's Economic Aura", which is in sharp contrast to Goh Chok Tong.

At the ASEAN Summit, Goh Chok Tong initially took the lead in rejecting China's participation in the meeting. However, without China's participation, the meeting was meaningless. Later, he had to "temporarily invite" China to participate. It was also stipulated that ASEAN would hold the meeting first, and then in the second paragraph The agenda allowed China to participate.

Despite the low-level treatment, the Chinese Prime Minister attended the meeting and proposed establishing a prevention and control fund. He also expressed that China is willing to donate US$1.2 million.

Unexpectedly, Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong publicly refused to provide the measly average donation of 130,000 US dollars. Goh Chok Tong even boasted about his attitude when he returned home, saying that the leaders of other ASEAN countries at that time were looking at his attitude. , it was he who took the lead in rejecting China’s proposal. As if he were a hero from a Southeast Asian country.

Singapore's high-profile anti-China campaign at this time is not completely unreasonable, because it is about to visit the United States to sign the New-US Free Trade Treaty, and needs to dress itself as a bridgehead for the US's anti-China campaign in Southeast Asia to gain the most benefits for itself.

During Goh Chok Tong's visit to the United States, he praised the United States in a high-profile manner and hoped that the United States would play a leading role in the fight against Canada. Unexpectedly, the US Health Secretary had a phone call with Vice Premier Goh today and said that he was willing to fully support China's fight against Canada, which made him feel frustrated. A gray nose.

During China's fight against terrorism, Germany generously provided huge aid. France took actions to break the world's blockade on China when China was in internal and external difficulties. India also took the initiative to break the international blockade and criticized the international media for excessive reporting. Japan took the initiative to In terms of assistance in terms of capital, technology and equipment, South Korea provided symbolic emergency assistance to China, the United Kingdom provided US$5 million in aid, and the United States also promised to do its best to help China tide over the difficulties.

Singapore is the only country in the world that highly criticizes, ridicules China and takes pleasure in its misfortunes.

Singapore plausibly says that it is because China does not have freedom of press and freedom of speech that it has suffered such attacks. Therefore, Singapore certainly has reason to scold China.

But does Singapore have freedom of speech? Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao forum has implemented a comprehensive blocking policy on posts that comment on diplomatic relations between China and Singapore, including deleting posts and blocking emails. This is true for a small forum, not to mention Lianhe Zaobao’s press freedom. In fact, Lianhe Zaobao has never criticized Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s dictator.

Singapore is actually a family-style dictatorship with a democratic halo, no different from North Korea. Singapore’s next generation leader is Lee Kuan Yew’s son Lee Hsien Loong. This has long been decided. Goh Chok Tong is just a transitional one. After all, today’s Lee Hsien Loong He is too young to hold his position.

Calling China from Singapore is more expensive than calling China from the United States. The reason is that Singapore's telecommunications company was single-handedly controlled by the Lee family. Lee Kuan Yew once fought a lawsuit with the American media because of their "false reports" on him. It was the first and only lawsuit in American history between a foreign leader and the American media.

In fact, Lee Kuan Yew does not understand the spirit of American law and the spirit of press freedom. The American media does not need to guarantee 100% accuracy in reporting public figures, because public figures have discourse hegemony and can defend themselves at any time.

Lee Kuan Yew's lawsuit with the media only shows his ignorance of the spirit of democracy and freedom.

"In fact, Singapore has always been a bridgehead. Lee Kuan Yew used the influence of Malaysians to start his career. After Singapore gained independence, it massacred people, closed Chinese schools, and banned the speaking of Chinese.

When Hong Kong returned to China, Singapore created public opinion everywhere, saying that Hong Kong was about to decline and that the financial center of East Asia should be transferred to Southeast Asia. As a result, this dream affected Indonesia and Malaysia.

In order to compete for the status of financial centers, Southeast Asian countries accelerated financial liberalization and introduced foreign banks, which eventually became the trigger of the Southeast Asian financial crisis.

If China had not withstood the pressure and promised not to devalue the yuan, Southeast Asian countries would have been doomed long ago. "

"All political parties in Hong Kong, whether left, center or right, are very disgusted with Lee Kuan Yew, and the Hong Kong media has been lashing out at him. When Lee Kuan Yew visited Hong Kong to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Hong Kong, a group of university students went to protest. Lee Kuan Yew mocked them, saying that if they dared to protest in Zhongnanhai, they would have real courage, implying that China is nothing but a dictatorship." Fan Wubing said to his father Fan Heng, "But which Singaporean dared to protest to Lee Kuan Yew? Lee Kuan Yew did not forget to brag about himself, emphasizing that he was a leader elected by Singaporeans, but in Singapore's elections, military police and national security personnel can openly monitor voters and write ballots. This kind of election under state violence is actually advertised as a democratic election. Isn't it a joke? .

Fan Heng did not express any opinion on this, but some There is really no need to explain things too clearly.

However, in China, due to the long-term poor news flow and untrue reports, some negative news has not been disclosed, which has led to the Chinese people's complete lack of understanding of certain countries, so there are many misunderstandings.

Objectively speaking, the Chinese people's closeness to Singapore is really groundless. Just by watching a few Singaporean soap operas, they intuitively think that Singaporeans are part of the Chinese. Some simple-minded young people even think that Singapore should be a Chinese overseas agency.

In fact, if you have seriously studied the history and formation of Singapore, you will not have this feeling.

In the early years, Singapore was a British colony located in Southeast Asia with a predominantly Chinese population. It inevitably has a colonial color. A small number of Chinese who received English education served the British colonial government and enjoyed relatively high living conditions, while most Chinese who could not speak English did not live a satisfactory life. They just regarded Singapore as a place to make a living and still identified themselves as Chinese.

Even some wealthy Chinese, who did not receive English education and adhered to strong Chinese cultural traditions, did not have a high social status in Singapore. These people also identified themselves as Chinese. Until Singapore was established in 1965, many older Chinese still identified themselves as Chinese.

This phenomenon continued until the 1990s of the last century. After China and Singapore established diplomatic relations in 1990, the Chinese in Singapore gradually began to call themselves Singaporeans.

It is impossible for a country to have only There is a voice. There are also pro-China and pro-US factions in Singapore, but the government led by Lee Kuan Yew is a staunch pro-US, and Chinese who yearn for China have been suppressed.

In the 1960s, Nanyang University once confronted the pro-US government of Lee Kuan Yew, and was brutally suppressed. The university was closed. Now it is renamed Nanyang Technological University and reopened.

In 1997, when the Southeast Asian financial crisis hit France, China helped them with a highly responsible attitude, fully reflecting the demeanor of a great power, unlike the realism of the United States, which stayed out of the matter. Therefore, the pro-China faction in Singapore once rose. Indonesia and Malaysia opened visas to China, and the Philippines refused to station American warships.

In Singapore, the pro-China faction represented by President Ong Teng Cheong also hoped to get closer to China, but was suppressed by Lee Kuan Yew again, and President Ong Teng Cheong subsequently stepped down.

In 1993, Singapore held its first presidential election. Ong Teng Cheong won and became the first democratically elected president of Singapore. However, due to health reasons, he gave up the presidential election in 1999, so Singapore's ambassador-at-large and director of the Institute of Singapore Rapanadhan was declared elected president without any opponent qualified to challenge.

Then Wang Dingchang ended his six-year term as president and settled in the United States for treatment.

In February last year, Wang Dingchang died in the hospital, and then a "family-assisted funeral" was held in Singapore instead of a formal state funeral. This was because President Wang Dingchang had a dispute with the then People's Action Party over the national reserve fund during his last term, and it was believed that he did not deserve the courtesy of a state funeral.

In fact, President Wang Dingchang's resignation was mainly because he could not resist the Lee Kuan Yew Group politically and was forced to go to the United States. It was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

The pro-China faction in the government's top leadership could not resist the Lee Kuan Yew Group, so naturally ordinary Singaporean Chinese could not say anything. Although there are many Chinese in Singapore who yearn for China and hope to get closer to China, Singapore's one-party dictatorship is more serious than China's, and can be described as terrifying. Ordinary Chinese are also helpless about this.