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3 days ago

The Shield And The Weapon Called Freedom

In 1900, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China and plundered it. Prior to that in 1884, the corrupted Qing Dynasty which ruled China at that time and led by Empress Dowager Cixi, spent a huge sum of money on reconstructing and enlarging the Summer Palace as she wanted to celebrate her…

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The Shield And The Weapon Called Freedom
The Shield And The Weapon Called Freedom

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Sep 19

The Two Systems

Background One may have realise that it is always the West that has explored unchartered territories. The Asians seems to be always (though not all the time, as evident by TSMC and Samsung’s semiconductor industry) lagging behind. This has got to do with firstly the difference in mindset and secondly the…

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The Two Systems
The Two Systems

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Sep 11

Huawei’s 7nm Chips

On 29 August 2023, Huawei announced its latest smartphone series, the Huawei Mate 60 and Mate 60 Pro. The phone itself is nothing fanciful, but the components which made up the phone shocked the world. …

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Huawei’s 7nm Chips
Huawei’s 7nm Chips

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Sep 5

Resources

This will be a very short post. This website was created in 2008, and throughout the years I have wrote different things. This website has undergone 3 major revamps, each with a different type of content as I grew up and focused on different things. This version talks about my…

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Sep 3

Japan’s Radioactive Nuclear Wastewater

‘The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.’ This statement was widely attributed to either Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin or Vladimir Lenin. But regardless of who came up with this, it is a common perception of the capitalist in communist societies. And often times, the…

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Japan’s Radioactive Nuclear Wastewater
Japan’s Radioactive Nuclear Wastewater

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Aug 29

The Fentanyl War

200 years ago, the West sent drugs into China and plunged the country into chaos. The population became addicted to drugs and lost the will to fight and to work. Control of the people by the West was easy. China lost 2 opium wars, sank into a state of decline…

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The Fentanyl War
The Fentanyl War

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Aug 25

Why Is A University Degree Important

In one of my previous post I talk about whether a university degree is worth it. In the post I recommended for most to get a university degree, even though in today’s world the value of a degree has been diluted with the many low barrier universities. Universities used to…

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Why Is A University Degree Important
Why Is A University Degree Important

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Aug 19

Money Laundering

Singapore recently conducted an operation involving more than 400 police officers and arrested 10 people suspected in money laundering. The cash and assets confiscated are worth about 1 billion SGD (approx 736 million USD). …

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Money Laundering
Money Laundering

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Aug 15

The Resources We Are Allocated

Ever society is made up of a pyramid-shaped structure — be it power or money. The masses are at the bottom, while the few at the top contro most of the society’s power and wealth. If resources are allocated equally, there will be enough for everyone of the 7 billion…

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The Resources We Are Allocated
The Resources We Are Allocated

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Aug 10

The Overall Climate For Property

This will be the last article on property for this period, having written a series on rental, 1 article on capital appreciation and even side-tracked 1 article on fengshui. Today we will zoom out further on the economy. …

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The Overall Climate For Property
The Overall Climate For Property

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