Comments by "shazmosushi" (@shazmosushi) on "Looking Back at Malaysia’s New Economic Plan" video.

  1. It's very sad that Malaysia's inequality issues have caused race to be a major factor in politics. One problem with race-based policies is there's so much difference within each racial group. In America, the black or Asian children of wealthy doctors might go to the best school districts are clearly in a very good position. While there are poor rural whites living around drug addicts in a trailer park in West Virginia, poor blacks in a violent inner-city school district, or the multi-generationally poor descendants of refugees who fled Cambodia in the 1970s. Using the limited tax payer money to improve the lives/education/opportunities of those with the most dire socioeconomic circumstances (regardless of race) is the best approach. In Malaysia of the 1970s (and probably 2020s), even policies blind to race would be helping the ethnic Malays more as a ratio of the population, but it would mean the poorest ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians would also have more opportunities to escape poverty. It takes political leadership to convince a country to adopt policies blind to race. But I think even the ethnic Malays voting blocs could be convinced: much of their privileged positions would be preserved (because as far as I understand Malays continue to be poorer than other races in Malaysia), and it would definitely improve the country's international image and long-term racial harmony.
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  2. lol "umm, no" as in "thanks but no thanks"?
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  3. Punctuation, my dude!
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  4. The only way to do honest polling is with regular free and fair elections: even the Trump vote was higher than polled in 2016 and 2020 due to the famous "shy Trump voter". I'm sure there's a massive "shy CCP supporter" (and "shy staunchly anti CCP" groups too). High-ranking members of the Taiwanese government have said that Taiwan is not going to unify with China unless it becomes a full-fledged democracy compatible with Taiwan. And the Taiwanese people have been voting clearly against unification with Xi Jinping's China. Especially along generational lines (and everybody sees what happened to Hong Kong). And the most likely way that China will become a democracy is if a reformer like Taiwan's Chiang Ching-kuo makes the Chinese Communist Party a democratically competitive party and slowly loosens the restrictions like Deng Xiaoping did for the economy. It may take a few decades from the leadership to come to the realization that this is the only path forward that would see China growing. Though Xi Jinping may still be in power in 3 decades, so I doubt this will happen. If China doesn't have democratic reform it's a just a matter of time (a few short decades away) until Taiwan formalizes its status as being an independent and sovereign country for more than 150 years (since 1912) and it will formally rename itself the Republic of Taiwan. Time is ticking for China, so the next few decades are dangerous. I recommend listening to Jim Fanell's "Decade of Concern" arguments. The easiest way to do this is from episode #45 of the China Unscripted podcast, which is available on YouTube under the titled "#45 How Big a Threat is China's Navy? | Captain Jim Fanell".
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