Dear all,

Wishing all, “A Prosperous and Happy CNY of Metal Rat, GONG XI FA CAI”

Below another comment I posted at Tun Mahathir’s blog:

Dear PM Tun Dr Mahathir,

Please allow me to response to @twinpeaks.

Let’s face reality with an open minded, “no man is an island” human being do badly when isolated from others and need to be part of a diverse community in order to thrive. If you are so close minded with you preconceived idea that “China communist government is evil, the most brutal and most inhumane form of governance” you are reacting to your own personal perspective view, arrogant/ignorance and not an objective statement based on facts and observations. If you are open minded, you would look at situation from all angles with respect and study your friends and foes history background, philosophy, behavior and belief system in order to understand them and response calmly with objective and unbiased view. That is how we should conduct our foreign policy with tact and diplomacy (being persuasive and assertive at the same time show understanding of other people and being sensitive to their opinions, beliefs, ideas and feelings) for peace to prevail and for mutual good and benefit.

“Malaysians want a new Malaysia that upholds the principles of fairness, good governance, integrity and the rule of law. They want a Malaysia that is a friend to all and enemy of none. They also want a Malaysia that will speak its mind on what is right and wrong, without fear or favor. A new Malaysia that believes in co-operation based on mutual respect, for mutual gain. The new Malaysia will firmly espouse the principles promoted by the UN in our international engagements. These include the principles of truth, human rights, the rule of law, justice, fairness, responsibility and accountability, as well as sustainability. - Tun Dr Mahathir”

Let’s debate what kind of leader and type of government best suit to achieve Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs:

1. Physiological needs- Food, Settle, Family and a Decent Standard of Living.
2. Safety needs- Peace and Security.
3. Social belonging- Friendship, Social Well-Being and Social Acceptance regardless of ethnicity, religion, language, culture, gender or any other status.
4. Self esteem- Respect and Feeling of Accomplishment.
5. Self-actualization- Freedom to achieve one’s full potential.
6. Transcendence- Giving oneself to something beyond oneself.

Type of political system:

1. Monarchy: Rule by hereditary King.
2. Theocracy: Rule by religion cleric in the name of god.
3. Dictatorship/Autocracy: Rule by a single strong person with minimal restrain.
4. Junta: Rule by military group.
5. Totalitarian: Rule by a single political authority.
6. Communism: Rule by a single political authority in which the state owns everything and operates everything on behalf of the people.
7. Anarchy: Rule by lawlessness and disorder (law of jungle)
8. Oligarchy/Plutocracy: Rule by 1% rich and powerful elite.
9. Colony: Rule by colonial master.
10. Fascism: Rule by mind controlled racist advocator of the supremacy of race.
11. Democracy:  Rule by elected multi political party’s representative who look after their represent interest.
12. Kleptrocracy: Rule by corrupt leaders that steal from the nation to enrich their personal and cronies’ wealth and power.
13. Federation: A union of small state and rule by group of elected multi-party’s representatives which are self-governed in internal affairs but are united under a central/federal government.
14. Republic: Rule by President who is elected by direct president election but sharing power with the elected house representative.

Malaysia is a federal representative democratic with constitutional monarchy, in which the Yang di-Pertua Agong is head of Federal, Sultan or Governor is head of state and the Prime Minister of Malaysia is the head of federal government with Islam as the official religion of the country but every person has the right to profess and practices his or her religion in peace and harmony.

Executive power is exercised by the federal government and the 13 state governments. Federal legislative power is vested in the federal parliament and state legislative power is vested in the 13 state assemblies. Election is called every 5 years term or less depend on PM/MB advice to Yang di-Pertua Agong/Sultans to dissolve federal parliament/state assemblies and call for general election to elect the federal and state legislators.

If you are open minded then please make a survey and examine which country citizen is best in achieving Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. And which political system is best in producing worthy leaders that “Giving oneself to something beyond oneself”

Communism is a proven failed economy system and undeniably China was once a failed state with Mao’s extreme left-wing communism experimentation that starved millions of its people to death. Communism stripped people of human dignity and moral value in self determination and free will in working hard in achieving Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

Today China is everything except communism, thanks to Deng’s open economy policy that emphasis on result rather than dogma or doctrine. China has gone a long way to becoming a market – capitalist – economy with a nominally Communist government. It has opened up to foreign investment (much more than, say, India). Its firms compete internationally and invest overseas. Some Chinese entrepreneurs like Jack Ma have global recognition. Day to day economic life operates through markets and farmers have greater ownership rights. There is a sophisticated stock exchange and capital markets with large and highly efficient and competitive State enterprises dominate banking, power, energy, and telecoms, major genuinely private companies (like Huawei, Lenovo, Ali Baba, Tencent and etc) and flourishing small to medium sized private companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Chinese_companies

According to the American business magazines Fortune and Forbes, in 2019 Fortune's Global 500 list of the world's largest corporations included 119 Chinese companies, with combined revenues of US$ 8.2 trillion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unequal_treaty

China had endured century of humiliation (1849-1949) with unequal treaty forced upon China by foreign power. (Empire of Japan, Russian Empire, British Empire, United State, French Colonial Empire, German Empire, Kingdom of Italy, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of Spain, Kingdom of Netherlands). China is now an awakening new emerging economic and military super-power. Whether we like it or not, we need to live with this new reality and put our best interest forward by studying and understanding China in order to forge strategic alliance on the back of a Prosper-Thy-Neighbor policy that promotes the concept of shared security and prosperity based on mutual respect, for mutual gain.

Extract from Robert Kuok Memoir: “In its 5,000-year history, I doubt that China has had as enlightened a group of leaders as during the past 30 years. They wanted their country to grow, and their people to prosper. Few leaders today compare with China’s in terms of true patriotism, selfless devotion to duty, and complete willingness to dedicate their lives to the causes of nation-building and raising the peoples’ standard of living.

In my business travels around China, I often came across incompetent or bigoted officials. Nearly every time I had a major tussle with one, or I met a dubious vice governor or mayor, I would come back and, in my judgmental way, tell my colleagues, “How can that man run such-and-such a city?” And sure enough, the next time I visited the place, say a year later, the man had been removed and a better man was in his place. I began to note to myself and to others that in Southeast Asia, a bad egg gets promoted; in China, a bad egg is removed.

The years of experimenting with extreme left-wing communism have had adverse side effects on Chinese society. One effect is that many grew up without a strong moral compass. They acted as though your wealth should be shared with them. While they professed to share their wealth with you – they knew full well that they had nothing. I used to tell Chinese cadres: “That is not communism; it is highway robbery! You people are even indecent in not telling the truth to yourselves.”

To my mind, the two greatest challenges facing China are the restoration of education in morals and the establishment of the rule of law. A moral society cannot be attained through policing. You must begin at the beginning, and infuse the young with a strong sense of morality from a young age, both at home and at school. For centuries, Confucian principles provided China’s moral compass; they can do so again. 

The second important point is that China must strive to understand and implement the rule of law. This is more important than implementing democracy. It is a basic principle of the rule of law that everyone is equal before the law. In China today we have rule by man. Under the rule of law, even the General-Secretary of the Communist Party is not above the law.

I know many believe that it is impossible for a communist party to accept the rule of law. But I think that, if the Chinese Communist Party is to survive, the leaders of the Communist Party must adapt. Otherwise, the people of China will reject them and cast them out.

I only hope that the Communist Party will take the lead in implementing the rule of law. It will require a gigantic effort, as the culture must change and the legal infrastructure must be created. You have to train upright judges and lawyers to uphold the legal system. This may take 20-30 years, but it must start today. If the party succeeds in this monumental task, then the road ahead for China is filled with hope for all mankind.”

Thank you

Yours truly,

SS LEE

PS: "The cockroach management theory for self development"

• At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady. She started screaming out of fear.
• With a panic stricken face and trembling voice, she started jumping, with both hands desperately trying to get rid of the cockroach. 
• Her reaction was contagious, as everyone in her group also got panicky.
• The lady finally managed to push the cockroach away, but it landed on another lady in the group.
• Now, it was the turn of the other lady in the group to continue the drama.
• The waiter rushed forward to their rescue.
• In the relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter.
• The waiter stood firm, composed himself and observed the behavior of the cockroach on his shirt. When he was confident enough, he grabbed it with his fingers and threw it out of the restaurant.
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• Was the cockroach responsible for their histrionic behavior?
• If so, then why was the waiter not disturbed?
• He handled it near to perfection, without any chaos.
• It is not the cockroach, but the inability of those people to handle the disturbance caused by the cockroach, that disturbed the ladies.
• More than the problem, it's our reaction to the problem that creates chaos in our life.
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• Lessons learnt from the story:
• We should not react in life.
• We should always respond
• The women reacted, whereas the waiter responded.
• Reactions are always instinctive, whereas responses are always well thought of.
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• A beautiful way to understand LIFE:
• A Person who is HAPPY is happy not because everything is RIGHT in his Life...
• He is HAPPY because his Attitude towards Everything in his Life is Right!
• RESPOND TO ISSUES DON'T REACT and keep winning and be happy....*