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  • Terrex Case: PRC Ship Captain And Shipping Company Face Charges From Hong Kong Authorities

    Terrex Case: PRC Ship Captain And Shipping Company Face Charges From Hong Kong Authorities

    The captain of a container ship belonging to shipping company APL has been charged with not having the required licence when his vessel stopped in Hong Kong with nine Singapore Armed Forces armoured vehicles last November.

    Pan Xuejun, 39, did not enter a plea at the West Kowloon Magistrate Court yesterday. The Chinese national faces one count of importing strategic commodities without the necessary licence. He was allowed bail of HK$50,000 (S$9,010), and his case has been adjourned to May 19. If convicted, Pan could face a fine and up to seven years in jail.

    APL is understood to be also facing prosecution.

    The Hong Kong authorities said it has “sufficient evidence to prove” that both APL and Pan had breached the law. It also said the Singapore Government could not be held responsible for the breach as it was only the consignee of the vehicles.

    The court heard that on Nov 23 last year, Pan was the captain of a vessel transporting the Singapore-made Terrex infantry carriers back to Singapore after a military exercise in Taiwan. The ship stopped in Hong Kong without an import licence issued by the city’s Director-General of Trade and Industry. This led Customs officials to seize the vehicles.

    According to the Customs authorities, vessels must declare all cargo on board before docking at its port. Generally, cargo in transit does not require an “import or export licence” as it will remain on the ship. However, such a licence is needed for “certain type of strategic commodities”.

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • 3 Things SAF Can Do With The Returned Terrexes

    3 Things SAF Can Do With The Returned Terrexes

    Finally, the PRC government is returning our Terrexes to us. They had so much time with the Terrexes that they probably copied every inch of it and are already manufacturing battalion-sized Terrexes somewhere in China now.

    So what do we do with the Terrexes? Here are our suggestions:

    1. Deploy the Terrexes to ferry people in times of another inevitable MRT disruption. More specifically, they could ferry the very old and very young to their next destinations. Have you seen the crunch that people get themselves into when trying to get on the bridging bus services? With the Terrexes, no one will dare get in their way.Disruption 1Disruption 2
    2. Set them up to provide joy-rides at the Istana, at every public holiday open house. The Istana is sprawling. The children will love the adventure.Open House
    3. Display them in the Army Museum. The best way to learn and progress is to learn from mistakes made in history.Army Museum

     

    Any better ideas?

     

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  • Lee Hsien Loong And South China Sea – “Roared Like A Tiger, But Now Quiet As A Mouse”

    Lee Hsien Loong And South China Sea – “Roared Like A Tiger, But Now Quiet As A Mouse”

    By: Tan Jee Say

    1. In July 2016, when the Hague tribunal ruled in favour of the Philippines but against some of China’s claims in the South China Sea, PM Lee loudly and vehemently urged China to abide by the ruling, adding that only when countries respect international rules, will small nations have a chance to survive in a global world.

    2. Many events have happened in the months following the Hague tribunal. US President-elect Trump had spoken on the SCS. China had flown a nuclear bomber over the SCS. But PM Lee has remained silent.

    3. Staying quiet or making neutral remarks softly, is the right thing to do for a small nation who is not a claimant in the disputed territories. Otherwise we may provoke hostile reactions from parties directly involved in the dispute.

    4. But after roaring on the scene like a tiger and then suddenly turning quiet as a mouse 5 months later, what does this episode tell us about the leadership of PM Lee who has said ad infinitum that Singapore requires exceptional leadership to survive. What has PM Lee shown us about his tiger-turned-mouse leadership? This reminds me of the famous line in the popular beer advertisement, “Give that man a Tiger”. Yes we want a tiger, a real tiger, not a paper tiger.

    5. This tiger-turned-mouse analogy is inspired by PM Lee’s castigation of WP’s performance , “You voted for a tiger in the chamber and you got a mouse in the House” (1 September 2015). Colourful imagery, PM. Now look at yourself in the mirror.

     

    Source: https://thesgdaily.com

  • Donald Low: Singaporeans Need To Get Facts Right On Singapore’s Role In China’s Economic Modernisation

    Donald Low: Singaporeans Need To Get Facts Right On Singapore’s Role In China’s Economic Modernisation

    The Singaporeans who think that the current kerfuffle with China shows that the Chinese government has forgotten that it was Singapore that inspired China’s economic modernization (beginning with Deng Xiaoping’s visit to Singapore in 1978) really need to get their heads (and their understanding of economic history) checked.

    First, the Chinese do not forget easily.

    Second, it is simply not true that Singapore’s development story was of great relevance for China. China’s development experience of the last thirty years has a lot more in common with Japan, South Korea and Taiwan’s experience: export-led industrialization through home-grown firms rather than MNCs, industrial policy aimed at developing indigenous capabilities rather than simply importing technologies from abroad, maintenance of tariff barriers (rather than the free trade that Singapore practised) for relatively long periods to benefit local companies, financial repression rather than a liberalized capital account, relatively weak rule of law, government-business relations that are quite cosy and corrupt, etc. All these practices are more reminiscent of China’s northeast Asian neighbors than of Singapore. So it’s simply not true that our development experience was an important role model for China; it’s delusional for us to think we are—then, or now.

    To the extent that the Chinese were interested in the Singapore experience at all, it has more to do with how the state maintained law and order, political stability and one party rule in an ostensibly democratic environment.

     

    Source: Donald Low

  • PRC Government Tabloid: Punish Singapore – Melt Down Confiscated Terrexes

    PRC Government Tabloid: Punish Singapore – Melt Down Confiscated Terrexes

    China’s state run tabloid The Global Times wrote on Tuesday (29 November 2016) that the 9 Singaporean troop carriers which had been confiscated by China should be melted down at the steel mills to express their displeasure with Singapore over its military relationship with Taiwan.

    The Global Times wrote a scathing report blasting Singapore for its careless handling of its armoured vehicles and said that this implied Singapore’s failure to take China’s displeasure over the long standing Taiwan relationship seriously.

    It claimed that Singapore’s image among the ordinary Chinese people was so rotten that it was best that the PRC Govt sent the armoured carriers to the steel mills to be melted down as punishment for Singapore.

    Global Times added that Singapore should reflect on its hypocrisy and seek enlightenment in its relations with China.

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com