In the movie classic "Top Gun", hot shot Maverick is given a dressing down for endangering a US$40 million fighter jet, "Son, your ego's writing cheques your body can't cash".
He's not yet 86, but every time Foreign Minister George Yeo makes unsolicited comments about China's policies and how it should be engaged, one is reminded of the ant who was staring up the rear of an elephant, with the intention of rape. This time he has gone too far, and become a greater security threat to our country than all the jihadist wannabes put together.
Washington Post reported the shot fired across the bow by Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the Asean Regional Forum in Hanoi, during an unpleasant exchange between Yang and US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton:
"When he returned, he gave a rambling 30-minute response in which he accused the United States of plotting against China, seemed to poke fun of Vietnam's socialist credentials and apparently threatened Singapore, according to US and Asian officials in the room. 'China is a big country and other countries are small countries, and that's just a fact,' he said, staring directly at Singapore's Foreign Minister George Yeo, according to several participants at the meeting."
MFA quickly issued a statement, claiming, "..Minister Yeo did not see Minister's Yang's words or glance as threatening to Singapore." Just how did he qualify for the Foreign Minister job anyway? Maybe he needs to attend one of those SPUR (Skills Programme For Upgrading And Resilience) courses on body language and nuances of the spoken word. The last time Yeo goofed up badly was during a meeting at the UN's General Assembly in 2004, when he provoked Taiwan's Foreign Minister Chen Tan-sun into describing Singapore as "the size of a piece of snot". Mr Chen said of Yeo's speech, "It was nothing but an effort to embrace China's 'balls', forgive me using such a word". Talk about being wedged between a rock and a very hard place.
In July Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong met with business leaders and politicians in Houston and was asked why Singapore allocates $11.5 billion for defence, the highest budget among all the ministries. Lee told the gathering Singapore spends on defence "in order to feel safe", "We're very small. Your Mayor said we're the size of the city of Houston. But I think we're smaller than the city of Houston". He might also add that his cabinet ministers have very big mouths.
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Is there any use of the excrement of the snout?
ReplyDeleteBut the Foreign Minister is much considered by some Singaporeans as a 'philosopher' leh. Well, he, a child of his god who believes making money from casinos(vice) is not sinful. Expansion of Geylang for more vice money aka economic progress should be fine with him too hor ?
Can a snot be building material for bridges to connect the world ?
'Bo tua bo suay' - remember?
ReplyDelete(What he called Catherin Lim who wrote the now famous and acknowledged article on the 'affective divide'.)
just another idiot in white as they would be on the 9th August
ReplyDeleteGeorgie Yeo got what was coming to him. It's imperative for Georgie to know his place when he steps out of tiny red dot.
ReplyDeleteI am not surprised if PRC and Taiwan leaders are aware LKY and Nathan served the Japanese Imperial army. Such men will be branded as cowards and traitors. Only in tiny red dot can both men end up as PM and president. By now the intelligence agency of PRC and Taiwan would have read the British declassified records on LKY, the unflattering impression that he seized power by being a backstabber and a coward.
Fast forward and surely PRC and Taiwan can see how tiny red dot is run by LKY and son. And I am pretty certain they are not clueless about the hopeless son. Now ask ourselves whether the leaders of the above countries can respect or tolerate a lapdog such as Georgie coming from tiny red dot ?
He don't know die. He is always telling others what to do. He doesn't know his size. His day of reckoning is here and his alamo will be at the Aljunied GRC which he won narrowly.Those who live in this GRC let's us make his dream come true.... another has been a minister.
ReplyDeletePAP ministers are a threat to Singapore, period.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why they think that Singaporeans are idiots and they can get away with anything and everything - this has to stop soon!
ReplyDeleteActually it's the PAP Ministers, including the old man, who are the real idiots. Just shutting up their big arrogant mouths would do us Singaporeans a great service when overseas,
ReplyDeletewould spare us the embarrasment.