The One China Policy & Principle are recognised by all first, second and most third World countries. The exceptions are 20 odd island nations in the Caribbean and the Pacific who diplomatically recognise Taiwan as a sovereign nation where many received grants in exchange.
Despite that PRC allows anything and everything under the sun for nations to engage Taiwan including for trade, military exercises etc
Both Hen and Viv B are diverting Singaporeans from the real issue which is the massive fuck-up in military logistics by the SAF and Mindef.
An MNC and even our local Banks will dismiss staff if they send a commercially sensitive documents to a competitor or the wrong intended party even by mistake.
We handed over a military equipment that has been shortlisted by USMC. Armour plate protection for military vehicles especially personnel carriers has been all the rage when IEDs started taking out soldiers in poorly protected military vehicles. It became a political issue when British soldiers returned home in body bags and many with missing limbs on their first tour in Afghanistan.
The experts in this forum have already stated that it is proprietary. It is unlikely to be shortlisted by USMC if the armour is not above a certain grade. So it is naturally of interest to the Chinese and they pounced on the chance.
Its like the SMRT when the CEO claimed within hours of the death of 2 trainees that procedures was followed. Few weeks later they then said that procedures was not followed. Kwek is from the SAF. Its the same - immediately claim they did no wrong, stand firm and pretend others are at fault. Look at the Youth Olympics - it was massive failure not only on the budget but we saw food poisoning, empty stadia, students bussed to locations without their consent to fill seats etc. Look at Hen's wife who was in charge of the SGH cluster that led to 8 deaths over 6 months over poor hygiene and practices. They even claimed sabotage and even made a Police report after months of keeping quiet.
It is no surprise that both Hen and Viv B are running point on these. Not that they were assigned but they knew what to do when they have acquired political baggage. Would you ever catch Tharman getting involved where citizens are deliberately misled on a daily basis. Now with small arms being mentioned, are we going to blame the shipper again.
Comments such as " we will continue to train in Taiwan" is a red herring. The whole fucking world including farmers in PRC know that we were training in Taiwan. We have repeatedly briefed PRC on military exercise in Taiwan over 3 decades to allay any fears that it a joint exercise with PRC in mind.
Imagine both are well qualified medical doctors and one is a President Scholar. They don't even have to enter politics and probably will make more in their profession. Yet their moral compass is fucked up and even prepared to lie to the very people they are supposed to serve.
When he fucked up in YOG, we knew that Viv B will a running dog forever and after SGH cluster calamity involving his wife, we knew that Hen will end up in the same kennel. If this was Yeo Guat Kwong who was only Chinese Teacher we would understand that he needs to do all these things to feather his nest. But these 2 men who did not need to ended up because of reasons that they will only know.
Hen remark wasn't helpful. If he claimed we recognise the one China principle and training overseas was a matter of bilateral agreements. Then is there any bilateral agreement between sinkieland and China to allow saf to conduct military exercise in Taiwan province?