LKY’s visit to Malaysia
LKY’s visit to Malaysia attracted a lot of attention from the media on both sides of the Causeway. It also created excitement among the Malaysian politicians on both sides of the political divide.
To most people, the visit seems to be an extremely sincere attempt to improve the relations between Singapore and Malaysia , but is this really the case?
The answer is unfortunately an NO!
Open and hidden motives
Contrary to what most people think, LKY visited Malaysia with ulterior motives- open and hidden!
The open motive for visiting Malaysia- which Dr Mahathir has also managed to guess correctly- is for the sake of a sand deal!
Since Singapore could get sand from Vietnam , what should it do such a ‘meaningless’ thing?
It is because concluding a sand deal with Malaysia will allow the extraordinary government to claim credit! So far, the performance of the extraordinary government do not in any way show a good example of what is called extraordinary!
Then what are the hidden- unspoken- motives?
What will happen if Malaysia DO NOT RETURN Mas Selamat Kastari in 2011?
What will happen if Malaysia DO NOT RENEW the Water Agreement that will expire in 2011?
People that LKY meet
LKY met up with people like the Kelantan MB and the Chief Minister of Penang . The Kelantan MB is a formidable man thus LKY is right to meet him. The Chief Minister of Penang is a good proxy since LKY will not meet the Senior Mr Lim!
People that LKY did not chose to meet
He did not meet Dr Mahathir, the Kelantan Royal Family, the Senior Mr Lim as well as Anwar Ibrahim.
He did not meet Dr Mahathir because he detests the latter! If he could send the man to his maker, LKY will definitely send another letter to the Malaysia government! We can’t blame LKY for this. It is because Dr Mahathir is too ‘rude’! Even if LKY visits Malaysia with ulterior motives- open and hidden, he is after a guest! Dr Mahathir should have been more ‘generous’ as a host. Instead he told the whole world about what LKY is trying to do, isn’t Dr Mahathir being ‘mean’ in doing this?
He did not meet the Kelantan Royal Family, the Senior Mr Lim and Anwar Ibrahim because he is too self righteous! Thus before the court judge passes his judgment on Anwar Ibrahim, LKY has already passed his own judgment! As for the Kelantan Royal Family, it is due to what happened in Singapore . Thus before the court judge passes his judgment on Kelantan Crown Prince, LKY has already passed his own judgment!
People that LKY chose to meet
LKY chose to meet up with Mrs Najab.
Conclusion
LKY’s visit did not achieve much except for the intense attention from the media on both sides of the Causeway. He did not manage to conclude the sand deal that extraordinary government has hoped for in order to claim credit!
Thus, it is fair to say that the trip is a waste of time, efforts and money!
In order for PAP to claim credit that will make it look good in the coming elections, it wasted taxpayers’ monies!
So much for integrity, principles and the rule of law!