China awakens, flattens the earth......lessons for us in Penang & Malaysia

To see China now and China three decades ago as it emerges from years of self-imposed isolation and the madness of trying to apply Mao's theories to the real world...is to see the unleashing of China's greatest assets....the great genius of its people, their diligence, their ability to toil under tremendous difficulties and its culture that withstood centuries of onslaught from all quarters including Western viruses of both capitalism and socialism.

This one man willing to resist Mao and the prevailing popular cause and got into trouble, not once but twice. He was dealt harsly and landed himself in labour camps, saw his children brutalised.......

Yet today, because of his belief that pragmatism and empiricism should prevailed, China is able to pull herself out of the deep ideological grave that she has dugged herself into after the 1949 revolution....SEEKING TRUTH FROM FACTS ....He urge his nation to abandon ideological positions and preconceptions, but rather to seek to use what works.....to see the world as it is rather than what it ought to be......By just doing that China was set free to develop to be what it is today.....

Can Malaysia and Penang, do that. Are we still trying to see the world as it ought rather what it is? Are we trying to mould the world to our ideological framework or whether we are willing to take the worl as it is and work out the best solution one step at a time....as our Chinese friends up north like to say......yi pu..yi pu ...lai ... one step at a time.....

Lessons we ignore to our peril........and slowly our rankings slip......further and further down...the world is flat and it gets flatter everyday.......only the quick and nimble survive.....We in Malaysia will learn soon enough that the world does not owe us a living.....