After eight-year struggle, Security Guard accepted into Tsinghua University

 

This is from the South China Morning Post here.

A former security guard from northeastern China has successfully secured a spot in a postgraduate programme at the prestigious Tsinghua University after an impressive eight attempts and is now ambitiously pursuing a PhD at Harvard.

Yang Xiao, 31, hailing from Shenyang in Liaoning province, has harboured the dream of attending Tsinghua since childhood, as reported by the mainland media outlet Jiupai News.

After sitting for the national college entrance examination, or gaokao, in 2013, he was accepted into the Central Academy of Fine Arts, where his unique painting style was deemed a more suitable match.

Upon graduating in 2018, Yang returned to Shenyang, established an art school, and nurtured a stable relationship. He subsequently applied for postgraduate study at Tsinghua, motivated not only by his childhood aspirations but also by a promise to his girlfriend.

Unfortunately, his first attempt was disheartening: he fell over 100 points short of the required acceptance score.

During his free time, Yang worked out to stay strong and healthy for his demanding schedule. Photo: Douyin

During his free time, Yang worked out to stay strong and healthy for his demanding schedule. Photo: Douyin

Embarrassed and reluctant to reveal the truth, Yang allowed his girlfriend to believe he had already started his postgraduate studies, hoping to succeed in the following year and make amends.

Regrettably, he did not succeed again. Unable to keep up the facade, he ended the relationship and succumbed to heartbreak and self-doubt.

During his third year of preparation, Yang embarked on an online romance. He recounted how the woman frequently solicited money from him, citing various ailments and gambling debts, ultimately draining him of over one million yuan (US$150,000).

When the relationship finally ended, Yang found himself deeply indebted and still without a postgraduate placement. His parents intervened to help him repay the money, and sadly, his art school was forced to shut down.

In the ensuing years, he consistently missed Tsinghua’s cut-off score by a narrow margin.

To support himself, Yang spent a year working as a cleaner before taking on a position as a security guard at an international student residence on Tsinghua’s campus, where he stayed for two years.

Before entering Tsinghua, Yang worked as a campus security guard, sneaking into classes to attend lectures to prepare. Photo: Douyin

Before entering Tsinghua, Yang worked as a campus security guard, sneaking into classes to attend lectures to prepare. Photo: Douyin

He shared with the media that the physical exhaustion was manageable; however, the emotional toll stemming from the stark contrast between his current life and the one he aspired to was far more challenging.

One particular encounter lingered in his memory. While on duty, a mother pointed at him and told her child: “If you do not study hard, you will end up like him.”

Yang reflected that the comment struck him deeply but also fuelled his determination to reach Tsinghua and propelled him forward.

During the day, he sneaked into classrooms at Tsinghua to attend lectures. At night, he practised English with international students while fulfilling his duties.

He was subsequently promoted to the role of security team leader, which came with a higher salary and a lighter workload, granting him more time to dedicate to his studies, although the specifics of his income were not disclosed.

Yang noted that his time as a security guard transformed his perspective on labour and instilled in him a profound respect for individuals from all walks of life.

Despite living frugally, he once invested nearly all his savings on a flight to attend an academic seminar, which later resulted in him winning several research awards.

In June, after an eight-year struggle, Yang was accepted into Tsinghua University’s Academy of Arts and Design on his eighth attempt, surpassing the cut-off score by 34 points, as reported.

He will focus on intangible cultural heritage and digital innovation. Although the programme typically spans three years, he hopes to complete it in two due to financial constraints and his aspirations for further education.

His next objective is to secure a fully funded PhD at Harvard, where he aims to delve deeper into research on intangible cultural heritage.

One online observer remarked: “As a graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Yang already possesses a robust foundation. Regardless of the path he chose, his talent was destined to shine through.”

PAKISTANI KASHMIR ELECTION VIOLENCE - UP TO 400 KASHMIRIS KILLED BY PAK ARMY. STILL ONGOING.

Balochistan wants to break away from Pakistan. 
KPK or Khyber Pakhtunhwa also wants to break away from Pakistan. 
The latest entrant is Azad Kashmir or Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (POJK).
Recently there were some elections and of course violence.
The Pak Army has shot and killed up to 400 people (estimates).
Will POJK also want to break away from Pakistan.

Activist groups and social media channels claim the true number of casualties exceeds 100 to 400 due to intense firing in epicenters like Rawalakot and Mirpur, alongside allegations of secret burials by authorities.

'Documented' clashes and crackdowns by security forces against the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) 'Long March' and election-related protests have resulted in at least 60 to 80 recorded deaths since early June 2026. 

Here is a 6 minute video.

Here is a much longer (one hour) podcast by Gunners Shot which has much details and very sad videos from inside Kashmir where people are crying and pleading against being shot and killed by the Pakistan Army. Click here:   https://www.youtube.com/live/-yjZQZmlnso?si=dhFzXqlW5Kcc7qtV

INDIA COLLAPSING ON ITSELF.

 Please read my very brief comments.

• confrontation between brutal police and peaceful students in Delhi 
• demos after 2.2 million students sat for entrance exam 
• authorities cancelled completed exams
• because question papers leaked, available for sale
• 16 May, Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founded online
• India’s chief justice said unemployed youth “cockroaches”
• after three weeks, first CJP student demonstrations in Delhi
• leading to a massive round-the-clock protest
• Students attacked
• Widespread support for protests quickly grew across India
• police attacked students violently, using teargas, anti-riot guns 

• 1.45 billion population, 65% (950 million) under 35 
• 40% unemployed or not in education
• 16% of 15-29 age group unemployed
• 40% of 15-25 age group unemployed
• less than 7% of male graduates find job within one year of graduating

• govt failed to reform corrupt, ineffective education systems 
• failed to generate adequate job opportunities 
• social liability and political risk for govt 
• disillusioned young voters feel let down
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• last weekend Modi caved-in to mass protests for third time 
• Modi sacked education minister, students’ primary demand
• removed top education bureaucrat
• first was 2019 protests in north-east India delayed controversial citizenship laws 
• Then 2021 agricultural laws cancelled after mass protests by Punjab famers
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• task force to reform mass leakage of exam papers 
• Compensation for families of 21 medical students committed suicide 
• quality of public education remains poor
• primary schools lack books and reliable teachers 
• universities inadequate in qualifications of graduates 
• massive corruption at all levels, leaking exam papers
• Inability to generate jobs
• Jan 2022 - 12 million applicants for 35,000 low-level jobs in Railways 
• Frustrated youth blocked tracks, set train coaches on fire in poor Uttar Pradesh
• nationwide demos when military jobs replaced with four-year contracts
• led to highway blockades, hunger strikes and arson
• by John Elliott, Asia Sentinel’s South Asia correspondent

MY COMMENTS: For the vast majority of Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis they have no future. Hello Dato-Dato those of you who are involved in human trafficking, PATI cartels etc please take note. The people smuggling and illegal workers industry will be booming for many decades to come.

Kepada para pengundi di Nismilan, percayalah: orang kaya akan terus kaya, orang biasa akan terus orang biasa.

 

Pilihan Raya Negeri Nismilan ke-16 akan diadakan pada Sabtu, 1 Ogos 2026. Dewan Undangan Negeri telah dibubarkan pada 5 Jun 2026, dan Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya kemudiannya menetapkan tarikh pengundian pada 1 Ogos 2026.

Kepada pengundi di Nismilan, percayalah tidak banyak akan berubah di Nismilan  selepas pilihan raya negeri pada 1hb Ogos nanti. Tinggal lima hari lagi. Cuba tanya diri sendiri – kenapa pula pilihan raya negeri ini diadakan lebih awal? Apakah sebab tempoh kerajaan negeri telah berakhir lebih awal?  Apakah untuk membela nasib anda?  Jawapannya tidak. The answer is no.

Pilihan raya awal ini tidak ada kena-mengena dengan anda sebagai pengundi dan rakyat biasa. Pilihan raya ini berlaku kerana golongan kaya dan berkuasa sedang main politik - mereka nak tunjuk siapa lebih kuat. Untuk mereka menjaga kedudukan mereka. Kuasa punya pasal. Kuasa maksudnya piti punya pasal. Kuasa dan piti seiring sejalan. Mereka semua jauh lebih kaya daripada anda - orang biasa Nismilan. Mereka mempunyai duit dan kuasa. Tapi mereka tak setuju sesama sendiri. Akibatnya, DUN dibubarkan. Akibatnya mereka mahu anda – rakyat biasa Nismilan – keluar mengundi untuk memberi mereka lesen lima tahun lagi untuk mereka buat ikut suka hati mereka. Untuk satu penggal lagi.

Apakah kehidupan anda penduduk Nismilan akan menjadi jauh lebih baik selepas pilihan raya ini? Mudah kita nak jawab soalan ini. Tengoklah EMPAT TAHUN  yang sudah. Banyak mana kehidupan anda bertambah baik dalam tempoh empat tahun yang sudah? Apakah kehidupan harian anda dan anak-anak anda merasa dan mengalami perubahan yang besar? Atau apakah anda masih struggle bertungkus-lumus setiap hari, sekadar hidup nak hidup? 

Mari kita tanya rakyat Johor. Mereka baru sahaja keluar mengundi pada 11 Julai – kini sudah 16 hari berlalu. Mereka telah mengundi parti pilihan mereka. Apakah kehidupan mereka sudah berubah dengan positif? Poli-tikus atau tikus-tikus politik akan berkata masih terlalu awal untuk menilainya. Baru 16 hari sejak PRN. Betul ke? Bukankah poli-tikus yang sama telah pegang kuasa sejak empat tahun lalu? Jadi soalan ini tetap wajar  – adakah kehidupan anda bertambah lebih baik sepanjang empat tahun yang lalu? Dan adakah ia akan bertambah lebih baik lagi pada tempoh lima tahun akan datang?

Jika anda tanya saya, jawapan saya ialah tidak. Bagi saya, kebanyakan orang biasa akan hanya meneruskan kehidupan dari hari ke hari. Hidup nak hidup. Just to survive. Banyak itu saja. Kita semua mempunyai impian dan harapan. Untuk diri kita, untuk anak-anak kita. Kita tahu apa yang kita mahu. Sebab itulah kita memilih poli-tikus untuk mewakili kita. Tetapi apakah mereka benar-benar mewakili kita? Apakah mereka benar-benar bantu mencapaikan hasrat yang kita harapkan? Bagi saya, jawapannya ialah tidak. The answer is NO.

Semalam saya terima video TikTok yang menunjukkan se-ekor tikus politik yang kaya raya jutawan.  Anak-anak dan isteri dia pun kaya raya jutawan. Sakau duit kita. Dia sedang ceramah di Nismilan. Dulu dia ditangkap rasuah. Di hadapkan ke mahkamah. Tetapi poo kanan poo kiri, kes itu tak jadi apa. 

Oleh itu, kepada rakyat Nismilan, fikirlah dengan sebaik-baiknya apabila anda mengundi pada 1 Ogos 2026. Tidak banyak yang akan berubah dalam kehidupan anda. Kehidupan anda tidak akan banyak berubah selagi anda tidak membuat keputusan untuk menukar poli-tikus yang gagal membantu anda. Tukar saja. Pilih yang lain. Kick Them Out. Semakin kerap anda menukar poli-tikus ini,  lebih baik untuk anda.

Sampaikan mesej kepada dia orang: "Kalau awak tak tahu buat perubahan positif dalam kehidupan saya, saya akan membuat perubahan negatif dalam kehidupan awak."

Itulah kuasa mengundi dalam tangan anda para pendundi di Nismilan. Kick Them Out. 

The Coverup : So When Exactly Will The Report Be Made Public?

As of today Sunday 26 July 2026, that  report has not yet been publicly released. They said they will release it but it is still an Insha Allah situation. 

• Here's the sequence of events:
• 23 July 2026: we were told they had, in principle, decided to make the report public, subject to procedural checks bla bla. 

OSTB: What procedure? Three years have gone by still playing procedures kah?

• report not released three years earlier to avoid undermining public confidence while its finances and governance were being restructured. 
• publication could have triggered panic withdrawals by depositors.
• 23–24 July 2026: party poops publicly supported releasing report 
• so depositors and public could understand its findings.
• As of 26 July 2026 (today) no confirmation report has been published

OSTB: Firstly here is a list of Insha Allah promises still not delivered: 

• Prime minister term limited to 10 years. First tabled on 3rd March 2026. Then postponed to June 2026. Now 26 July 2026 still nothing. Insha Allah.
• Separation of the Attorney General and Public Prosecutor - still Insha Allah.
• Freedom of Information Act - Insha Allah
• Ombudsman Act - WT .. is that. Another Insha Allah.
• Political Financing Act - this one I can confirm GO FLY KITES.
• MPs and senior officials publicly declare assets - NO WAY JOSE.
• Equal constituency sizes / electoral reform - GO FLY KITES

MY COMMENTS: Ok lets focus on this part

• report not released three years earlier to avoid undermining public confidence while its finances and governance were being restructured. 
• publication could have triggered panic withdrawals by depositors.

This is first class bull sh_t. 

LETS USE A HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION.  

Bank Negara Malaysia has the legal responsibility to regulate and monitor the operations of all the licensed banks in this country.

Lets say through their monitoring Bank Negara finds out that a major bank in the country is facing a liquidity crisis. Due to a. poor management b. corruption c. fraud, d. incompetence and e. all of the above the major bank is facing serious cashflow and liquidity issues. (This is just a hypothetical situation. Like a simulation ok). 

Bank Negara reports to the Ministry of Finance. So Bank Negara informs the Minister of Finance 'We have detected serious cash flow problems in one of our major banks. It will certainly undermine public confidence in the bank. It will trigger panic withdrawals by the bank's depositors.'  

Now the Finance Minister - being a politician and a chameleon and having suffered far too many embarrassing bungles (at least once every week) - he instructs Bank Negara 'Dont tell the public. Lets try to manage this without informing the public'. 

What does this mean? It means that: 

Bank depositors cannot make fully informed decisions.

Investors may continue buying shares without knowing material facts.

Delayed disclosure may allow losses to become larger.

Public confidence will be damaged when the concealment is discovered.

False or misleading statements could have been made

There could be statutory disclosure obligations applicable 

Public funds were put at risk

There was a breach of fiduciary duties by somebody along the line.

OSTB: But all this was swept under the carpet. It was a big time coverup by the politicians and the regulators. But DONT FORGET - this is just a hypothetical situation. No bank in Malaysia is facing any liquidity issues.  

MESSING UP THE HOSPITALS

KSN directed immediate measures to address critical issues at PPUM
called for a meeting to discuss the matter
PPUM is a teaching hospital
immediate action on decisions reached 
discussion involved MOHE, MOH, the VC of UM and PPUM admin
policy-related issues arising from public complaints
including long waiting times
challenges in delivery of clinical services
issues related to skilled manpower and specialist expertise
— Bernama

MY COMMENTS: 

First of all the Vice Chancellor will not know anything about managing a hospital. Managing a hospital and managing a university are two different things. So they are asking a teacher to manage patients, doctors, nurses, treating the sick. This idea of teaching hospitals is of course a tried and true system since modern medicine was invented. 

But it does not mean they cannot screw it up. However today in Malaysia not only teaching hospitals but too many government hospitals are facing too many "challenges". 

Firstly the acute shortages of doctors and specialists is a direct result of the really stupid and way past shelf life ketuanan policies where numbers of doctors are still subject to some quota number stuck on somebody's wall. So now we all pay the price. And the price paid by the politicians is that you will get kicked out again and again at the next polls. Its as simple as that.

Then there is not enough money to pay for all the medical services. The gomen just announced that they are cutting RM3.0 billion from medical services.  Report: Treasury Wants RM3b Cut To Health Ministry’s 2026 Budget By CodeBlue | 29 April 2026

Despite no money there is wastage / leakage in procurement, building new facilities, follow through services etc. Building new facilities is crucial. The gomen must build even more facilities. But the wastage and the leakages occur through overpricing, who gets the construction contracts and things like that. Old ketuanan style. Nothing has changed. 

I know one gomen hospital where they would tell some classes of patients that their medication would be delivered to their houses - for free. Wow! I know because I  was a beneficiary.  So someone must benefit (projek dan kontrak)  from  getting the contract to deliver the meds to peoples' houses. There must be thousands of home deliveries. 

Lately they have changed this a little. I must pay a fee of RM10.00 if I want them to send the meds to my house. (You can also pick up the meds at the hospital pharmacy but you may have to wait - sometimes for hours). So I pay RM10 and the guy sends the meds to my house. But  I live 40 km away and I can assure you the cost of the delivery will be more than RM10.00. Even the packaging itself is expensive. First there is a cold pack for some meds, then they pack it inside sterile plastic, sometimes there is styrofoam and then the whole thing is put inside a nice cardboard box.  And it must be delivered by car with air conditioning. All this costs money.  Then toll, petrol plus the delivery driver's salary. I used to tell them, "Look I am already here let me pick up my medication from the pharmacy". They will say, 'Takpa Encik. You go home. We will send it to your house'.  As I said someone has to benefit, someone makes money from the projek dan kontrak to provide the delivery services. This is wastage.  And they want to cut RM3.0 billion from the medical services budget. 

Back to the UMMC issue.

The oldest teaching hospitals in Europe are hundreds of years old.  In Holland the Dutch University Medical Centre (UMC) system is a distinctive model in which the medical school, teaching hospital, specialist care, and biomedical research are integrated into a single institution. Rather than a university merely being affiliated with a hospital, the hospital and medical faculty operate as one organisation.

Perhaps this is the model they are trying to establish here. But it will not work as well here. (I have a suggestion). Here the culture is different. Here they are not as professional. Here, regardless of the very high qualifications, the staff still behave like kampong people.  I get really irritated when the doctor refuses to talk or even smile at me. And then you have the village idiots who gossip with the other staff about personal matters, while treating the patient. As though the patient is a nuisance and they are doing you a favour. And I have seen the staff at hospitals play with their smartphones instead of attending to the patients. So the professionalism is lacking. It is still kampong behaviour. 

But not all. The pharmacists, nurses and staff who went out of their way to assist me. But these were individual examples of par excellence.  It is not built into the system. The system as a whole does not guarantee excellence. It is almost random. Like it must be your lucky day. Or not your lucky day. 

Believe me I dont expect the KSN or the KSUs to understand all this. Too much reading on a Sunday. Or on any day. Retirement is close anyway.

Here is my suggestion: place the administration of all the teaching hospitals (staffing, procurement, maintenance etc) under the Ministry of Health. Create a department - Department of Teaching Hospitals. WHY? Because the MOH are the content experts. Or they shud be. They know best how to own, operate/manage and maintain a hospital.  The universiti VCs do not have the skills to manage hospitals.

All staffing, procurement, maintenance, ops shud be under the MOH - like any other hospital. Except the teaching and the curricula part should be left to the medical faculty of the university that is affiliated with that hospital. Plus the university shud have an input on the selection, promotion etc of the teaching staff. Leave the rest to the MOH.

The UMMC is not the only teaching hospital that has problems. The problems become more acute when these outfits become 'semi-privatised'. This means they start behaving like private hospitals and charge the patients very high fees. How exhorbitant? RM10,000 for an angiogram, RM40,000 if a stent is also involved  (but that was NOT a teaching hospital - just a gomen hospital turned 'semi-private'.) 

I think these gomen hospitals turned semi-private are getting carried away. They charge so much money, like many of the other predatory private hospitals we have in the country. The difference is the gomen hospital was set up using MY MONEY!! I already paid for the building of the hospital, for the doctors and nurses salaries, for the medicines etc. You use my money to build a hospital and to pay yourselves salaries and then you charge me money again - for the second time.

So what is the final outcome of all this? Kick them out. I am not going to vote for these idiots. Just kick them out.  Negeri Sembilan is coming up in SIX days. KICK THEM OUT.

MUST WATCH: THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY

 

MY COMMENTS:  I  have a collection of books about the Malayan Emergency, which I have read. I totally disagree with the story surrounding the Emergency. The Malayan Emergency was not what we have been told about. 

In 1945 after the end of World War 2 Britain was almost bankrupt. During the postwar reconstruction which began almost immediately  there was a boom in raw materials, including rubber and tin.  The rubber estates and tin mines in colonial Malaya began churning profits for British commercial interests as well as tax revenues for the British Crown. In no time Malaya was the single largest revenue earner for the entire British Empire. Then in 1946 Dato Onn organised all the Malays, he torpedoed the idea of the Malayan Union, he established UMNO and immediately began agitating for Malayan independence. The Independence movement picked up steam quite quickly. This made the British very uncomfortable. 

And - more importantly - on 17 August 1945 Soekarno had declared independence for Indonesia. Which resulted in the Indonesian War of Independence which lasted for FOUR years until the Dutch gave up and withdrew in 1949. There was serious fighting in Indonesia but there were no Dutch soldiers to do any fighting. Because the Dutch had lost Indonesia to the Japanese, Holland had been occupied by the Germans and there was no more Dutch colonial influence. So after the Japanese surrender, the British who had landed about 100,000 troops  to reoccupy Malaya and Singapore  offered to help the Dutch regain Indonesia. (Very white and neighbourly colonials).

British troops from Malaya were sent to Indonesia to fight Soekarno. The British Royal Air Force took off from air bases in Singapore, Johor, Melaka to bomb Indonesia. The British did not do all that for free.  The British secured concessions from the Dutch to exploit oil and gas deposits in Indonesia. Plus other goodies of course. 

Because the British seriously needed the colonial revenues to help prop up London.  Then in 1946 Dato Onn Jaafar was very successful in organising the Malays to defeat the Malayan Union, he founded UMNO in 1946 as a 'united Malays national organisation' and he wanted independence for Malaya - all this in 1946.

The British had a major trump card in their pocket - the single supreme leader of almost all the Communist organisations in Malaya at that time was a British secret agent. At that time 1945 - 1948 there were the:

Communist Party of Malaya (CPM / MCP)

Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA)

Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Ex-Service Comrades' Association (MPAJA Ex-Service Comrades' Association)

Malayan Democratic Union (MDU) – not a communist party, but worked closely with the CPM in the constitutional struggle.

Pan-Malayan Federation of Trade Unions (PMFTU) – communist-dominated.

New Democratic Youth League – CPM youth front.

Women's Federation – CPM women's front.

Min Yuen – underground civilian support organisation.

Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA - mentioned in the video)

etc etc. (The list is not exhaustive).

The name of the supreme leader was the Vietnamese Chinese Loi Tek. Also known as:

• Loi Tek / Loi Teck
• Lai Tek
• Lai Teck
• Lai Te
• Loi Tak
• Mr. Wright (or simply Wright)
• Light (sometimes used in English sources)
• Chang Hung (also rendered Chang Hong) (who signed the Blantan Agreement)
• Wong Kim Geok
• Lee Soong
• Vietnamese names attributed to him
• Phạm Văn Đắc
• Hoàng A Nhạc (also written Hoang A Nhac)
• Nguyễn Văn Long (reported by Leon Comber)
• Lai Rac
• Trương Phước Đạt (or Truong Phuoc Dat) – before he appeared in Malaya in 1936.
• Other reported aliases
• Wong Siu-tong
• Lao Wu Huang
• Huynh Kim Ngoc
• Ly Minh Son
• Huang Kuo-
• Total number of aliases
• Japanese historian Yoji Akashi and later researchers have suggested that Lai Teck may have used more than 50 aliases during his career as a communist organizer and intelligence agent.
• His many identities reflected his extraordinary career as a triple agent, successively serving the French Sûreté, the British Special Branch, the Japanese Kempeitai, while simultaneously rising to become Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Malaya.

Then in March 1947 the British informed their master spy Lai Tek that his cover had been blown. So on 6 March 1947 Lai Tek escaped to Singapore and beyond. He also emptied the funds belonging to the Communist Party.  The Communists in Malaya were totally embarrassed, insulted and made fools of. The British had totally played them like playing a guitar. 

Just over 15 months later on 16 June 1948, the Communists launched those revenge attacks against the British planters in Sungei Siput in Perak and killed  Arthur Walker,  John Allison and Ian Christian.

Two days later on 18th May 1948 the British declared the Malayan Emergency. The young woman in the video Prof Rachel Leow, professor of History at Cambridge University raises the question (and the doubts) why did the British have to declare a state of Emergency over the whole country over the shooting of three planters in just one area Sungei Siput, Perak?  She says it was such a disproportionate response for the British to despatch 40,000 British troops to Malaya, organise 250,000 Home Guardsmen and mobilise another 60,000 Commonwealth troops over the death of three British rubber planters. It was not an all out shooting war by the Communists. It was just a Communist hit squad that was sent to shoot those planters. 

Well we can argue till the cows come home. But once the Brits declared the Emergency in 1946 the whole idea about Independence, Dato Onn's ground work was all pushed to the back burner for another 11 years.    British revenues were intact for another 11 years - until 1957.

And why did the British agree to our Independence in 1957? Again it was money. After the end of the Korean War in 1954, the rubber prices had crashed. There was an economic slowdown around the world. Colonial revenue from Malaya was also affected. The British had to fork out money to pay the salaries of Civil Servants in Malaya. So they cut us loose and "gave" us independence on 31 August 1957.

Chin Peng said Lai Tek was killed by his communist comrades in Bangkok.  When I was in school in Ipoh (early 1970s) I positively remember the Straits Times carrying a news report that Lai Tek the British agent had escaped to London. 

GUTSHOT PODCAST EP 99: DR M AS PRESIDENT OF DAP, ANTHONY LOKE AS PRESIDENT OF PAS

 

TRUMP TARIFFS MALAYSIA AGAIN.

 

By  PAUL WISEMAN and MAE ANDERSON

July 24, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners 

The United States will slap taxes of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 trading partners accounting for 99% of U.S. imports

The new tariffs will take effect just as temporary 10% worldwide tariffs expire at 12:01 a.m. Friday. 

'make it clear that this conduct carries consequences..' - signed by SIX US Congressmen.

 

Google AI describes this letter as follows:

This document appears to be a formal letter signed by several members of the U.S. Congress, including Greg Landsman, Josh Gottheimer, Jimmy Panetta, Dan Goldman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jared Moskowitz, Brad Sherman, and Jake Auchincloss. The text visible in the image urges the recipient to suspend IMET (International Military Education and Training) funding if Malaysia does not reverse a specific policy within 15 days. The letter emphasizes that certain conduct carries consequences and seeks to address a discriminatory policy through financial pressure on foreign aid.

My Comments: 

Hero dari jauh bolehlah. 
Tak payah angkat kaki untuk berjihad pun. 
Gempak sikit-sikit cukuplah.