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Stroke Heng spent 3 years of his life fighting hard for this CECA deal.

tanwahtiu

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(The India-Australia CECA had about 9 rounds of negotiations between the two countries since 2011 but to little avail; the process is ongoing.

It's similar with the India-New Zealand CECA, from 2010 and after many rounds of negotiations, still no agreement on CECA.

India pulled out of RCEP, the world's largest FTA, at the last moment because many of the member countries will not accommodate India's insistence of the liberal movement of her workers across countries.)

"For Australia, one of the most politically-sensitive sticking points was *India’s desire for a more relaxed visa regime for Indian workers."*

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/25/prospects-for-an-australia-india-trade-deal

"With their ‘zero-sum game’ mindset, Indian negotiators are almost never interested in offering concessions, but are aggressive in pursuing India’s offensive interests. *Negotiations with the European Union, Canada, New Zealand and the United States have so far failed to reach any meaningful conclusion."*


https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/03/08/can-an-australia-india-fta-succeed-where-rcep-failed
India need one black hole is enough to slip into 5 eye... one CECA agreement with Singapore and ahneh trained as u work in GLC for 4 years, from zero to heroes to Superstar IT, nursing, banking workers is good enough to enter 5 eye with bonus Singapore citizenships passport....

So let's see how 5 eye feel when their Superstar IT high valued high pay jobs are stolen by fake degree ahneh from Singapore....
 

tanwahtiu

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So when u see whitecollar ahneh workers in the city during lunch time, these are the from zero to heroes to Superstar IT, nursing, medical and banking workers....

Like Jesus is a Superstar...

 

bobby

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Stroke Heng obviously donch know about working smart...not just working hard 3 years long.
 

Maxico

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CECA came into existence because of two objectives.

1. Economic advancement
2. New citizens

India was chosen for economic advancement after the fallout at Suzhou Industrial Project in China. LKY was hurt badly and conceded that the project had not turned out as planned and had made him more cautious about investments in China. Singapore lost US90m and reduced its stake from 65 to 35%

Singapore took advantage of India's weaknesses, corruptions and low level of national income and per capita income. Dirt cheap labour.
What has a layman benefited from the investment? Nothing! Only the GLC and its cronies benefited.

Just for illustration;
When a GLC clinched say a 5b project in India who do they call? All their cronies will hurriedly set up companies in India to supply their products and services to their needs. There is a lot of money to be made from there and am not sure if our government officials were tempted inevitably. At the end of the day all the cronies there become rich and happy. GLC also made some money lah otherwise how MSM propagate the benefits of CECA.
How much of that profits trickle down to the layman? How much has he benefited? He still pay the same GST with endless price increase in electricity and medicine fee. They should have thrown in a free MRT for those old and over sixty. How much could they lose?

Impatience, greed and an eagerness to conclude the CECA agreement in the shortest time possible our ministers overlooked some of the notes in Article 9 particularly Article 9.5 & 9.6 which were not in Singapore's favour.
In order to mask this mistake 'talent' was born. It has since become a political tool to replenish low votes. Another advantage Singapore exploited is Indians are poor and desperately looking for greener pasture. By offering them citizenships cum scholarships even chopping off one finger as a pre-requites they will still come.
The data on how many CECA were given PR status and citizenship is either unknown or cannot be known.
The size of CECAnaut is growing so rapidly that some condos in the East smelled like a unflushed toilets
Lunches were stolen plates were broken those affected were at the mercy of the government. Water consumption rose demand for new shit water also grow and nobody is sure what the side effects are 50 – 100 years from now. Inadequate infrastructures and overcrowdings created even more stresses and frustrations.
Have the talents brought happiness and benefits to Singaporeans?

This government is shrewd and cunning, they make people hate CECA not the PAP who used the CECA for political gain.
 

myfoot123

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This was the brainchild of Loong, and I suspect his butchy wife, soon after he had ascended the throne in 2004.

Don't get distracted by what Mr East Coast Plan did or did not do, even as he is undoubtedly the designated scapegoat now.
Heng is not as smart as we all think. Even Silvia Lim believed he doesn't made the cut for being a leader. Eventually, Heng given up the opportunity to become PM goes to prove how small his pair of balls are. That being said, he is not the real mastermind behind the CECA deal. There is more than just meet the eyes, just like how the Nasi Lemak housewife was swiftly shoved into Yistana without the people mandate. The real pair of hands is what ilked their own siblings and branded dishonourable.
 
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