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Saturday, Feb 14, 2026 - 00:38 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

It's Just Daggers Now


Wonder how much of this was A.I.Composed?
[N.B. Forget Grok, Bytedance's Seedance 2.0 is pretty incredible for video generation already - and without pesky censorship concerns*!]
(Source: straitstimes.com)

[*Probably unless it involves the CCP.]


The lack of subtlety in U.S.-China interactions - especially on the part of the former - had been noted last December, but America is really rubbing it in with a (series of) blatant CIA recruitment videos aimed at Chinese citizens, particularly military officers. Per the last post, they're not even offering bribe money now! Overall, the production values are decent enough, but I have to confess that the messaging seemed rather vague on the first watch-through - for example, the wording on the laptop form was "连络中央情报局" (i.e. intended to mean the CIA), but "中央" alone would far more often refer (in China) to the CCP's Central Committee (i.e. "中央委员会"), and be understood as a metonymy for China's national-level government as a whole.

Indeed, before the logo reveal at the end, the entire video wouldn't have been out of place as a call for Red Guard-type anti-counterrevolutionary fervour (possibly relevant from Xi's recent purges of the Central Military Commission [N.B. also 中央], leaving just himself and one other member... for now), which could have led to momentary confusion as to whether this was some sort of modern self-criticism campaign (that Xi's father was once on the receiving end of, as it happens), and led to much bewilderment at select party branches.

One supposes being the reigning God of War does confer some privileges, including a quite overt approach to "espionage" (think James Bond just showing up at the beginning of the movie with an IWI Negev light machine gun in each hand, and a bandolier of high explosive grenades); GOD-EMPEROR TRUMP has certainly lent truth to many of this blog's previous analyses, including assertions last month that he "doesn't need international law" (well, probably true) and that he has offered the "easy way or the hard way" (with respect to Greenland), exactly reflecting our December explanation.



果然是雄狮堂主，懂王川普！
(Source: instagram.com)


Certainly the most colourful of these fulfilled predictions was GEOTUS depicting himself as a Lion King in a, uh, rather tasteless video also featuring other political personages past and present, which has been defended as a honest mistake by a staffer. That said, while the vast majority of the initial outrage was about the portrayal of the Obamas, it can be quickly confirmed that the entire clip was massively offensive, so it could be less discriminatory than it appears at first glance.

At the higher geopolitical level, this only bolsters the description of great power politics as a "jungle world" by our late, great founding Foreign Minister S. Rajaratnam, as also brought up in a late January commentary in The Straits Times by the former LKYSPP Dean, who applied a crocodile analogy instead. The article would also discuss Carney's salient warning at Davos on how "the old order is not coming back", and that "if you are not at the table, you are on the menu" - on which more soon.

Today's focus will be closer to home, with the latest update in Singapore's on-and-off cyber defence adventures being yet another alleged attack from the UNC3886 hacker group, this time on all four of our major telcos. The local Operation Cyber Guardian supposedly spent eleven months evicting the snoops with there being "no evidence to-date that sensitive or personal data such as customer records were accessed or exfiltrated" - which could be reassuring, or just a sign that the attackers were pretty skilled actually.

The Chinese embassy promptly called out The Straits Times by name to express their strong dissatisfaction with the "groundless smears", though it was soon pointed out that that no explicit denial was made, apparently out of future plausible deniability considerations. Then again, some appreciation might be had for their Ministry of State Security not openly recruiting Singaporeans as informants on YouTube, mass-produced generic A.I. slop videos notwithstanding...



Makes a change from the usual property agent leaflets


By the way, this Falungong brochure was found nicely folded within an envelope in my letterbox, which had me recall when The Epoch Times was distributed on university campus perhaps some fifteen or twenty years past. Seeing as it's basically open season for propaganda locally, the more the merrier, I say!



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