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Friday, December 30, 2022

Health Screening Appointments can be made on MySejahtera while users unable to access appointment details; MOH steps up Covid-19 awareness|

Health minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa says appointments for outpatient treatment and other visits in 2023 may be made on the MySejahtera app starting today.

MySejahtera services to include booking for hospital, clinic appointments .

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MySejahtera users unable to access appointment details

MySejahtera users who had vaccination appointments today were unable to access their appointment details on the mobile application.

PUTRAJAYA: Patients can expect shorter waiting times at government health facilities now that the appointment system in MySejahtera has been expanded to include other services like outpatient treatment, says the Health Minister.

“The services that will be included are outpatient treatment, National Health Screening Initiative (NHSI), Peka B40 health screening, pre-employment/pre-education health inspection, pre-marriage screening (KBM), Stop Smoking Service, family planning services, and health procedures such as wound treatment and others,” Dr Zaliha Mustafa said.

The service has been implemented in 673 health clinics in phases beginning with the NHSI programme, PeKA B40 and KBM.

It will be expanded to other services in stages to also address overcrowding at registration counters, she said in a statement yesterday.

She said her ministry is committed to digitalising all health systems in line with its Digital Strategic Plan 2021-2025 under the second Core Strategy, which is the Strengthening of New Technology.

She said the appointment system was meant to help health facilities plan and arrange their service schedule based on their capacity.

Dr Zaliha also said among the advantages of this online appointment system is that clients can plan visits to primary health facilities according to the scheduled time.

“Other than that, clients can change their schedule through the MySejahtera app without having to call the health facility.

“This system will also have an automated reminder so that clients can attend their appointment according to the schedule date and time,” she said.

She added for emergency cases such as fever or contagious diseases, the public can straight go to any clinic without having to make any appointment.

The appointment system in MySejahtera for 2023 is already active and bookings can be made immediately.

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The US has two options with China, prepare to be #2 or stop China from being #1. What's the best option for the US?

The best option for USA and the rest of the world is to accept that it is no longer the #1 world power. There is no way to stop China’s rise, unless USA goes to war with China in which case everybody loses.

What will happen next in China?

Well, this is very clear.

But, as always, none of this is reported in the West. So most Americans, Brits and Europeans are unaware of the announcements that China has made regarding their plans and the actions that they are involved in.

Here’s a summary of the plan.

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Why will the USA be dethroned from being a superpower?

It won’t be. It will simply lose its #1 position in the world. USA will remain a superpower for many decades to come.

China will overtake USA for the #1 spot, probably within the next decade or two. The reasons for this are many:

China is an unstoppable economic juggernaut. It is already the world’s largest economy by GDP PPP, and it is expected to surpass USA in terms of nominal GDP by the end of this decade.
USA faces numerous and daunting domestic problems such as deep and chronic political division, crushing national debt, crumbling infrastructure, unaffordable health care, unaffordable housing, mass incarceration, rampant gun violence, systemic racism, extreme economic inequality, etc.
USA is failing in foreign policy. Just look at the recent Afghanistan fiasco. Look at Iraq and Syria.
China doesn’t waste money on the military; it uses its money for economic development. USA spends nearly a trillion dollars on the military, more than the next 11 countries combined!
China doesn’t waste energy fighting wars; it hasn’t fought a single war since 1979! USA has fought wars in Afghanistan, Bosnia, El Salvador, Grenada, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, etc.
Countries are starting to move away from the US Dollar, turning to the Euro, Bitcoin, and even the Yuan.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is gaining massive influence around the globe. In Latin America and Africa and Middle East and Central Asia and SE Asia.
China engages ASEAN countries in trade through RCEP, the world’s largest free trade bloc.
China is pursuing diplomacy throughout the Middle East rather than bombing the shit out of the region. Recently, it signed a 25-year cooperation deal with Iran. And China is negotiating with the Taliban for the future of Afghanistan instead of invading and occupying the country for 20 years.
China has 4X the US population: 1.4 billion people. They are moving towards full development.

USA’s heydays are over.

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

US politicians get jittery about TikTok’s tech, rising influence

Some Biden administration officials are pushing for the sale of TikTok's US branch, citing the so-called security concerns over the company's operations in the country, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

One couldn't help but raise the suspicion that behind the so-called reasons of protecting US national security is the untold, hidden intention to seize Chinese technology.

While a forced sale may just be a proposal for discussion by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, there is no denying that TikTok has been increasingly cornered in the US. This is not because its commercial operation has run into problems, but because it has faced growing political coercion from anti-China politicians in Washington.

At least 15 states across the US have banned TikTok on government devices in the past month. Many federal agencies, including the White House and the departments of defense, homeland security and state, have already banned TikTok from government-owned devices. The latest funding bill passed by the US Congress last week includes a measure banning TikTok from devices used by federal employees.

Two weeks ago, anti-China senators including Marco Rubio announced a legislation bid to block all transactions from any social media company "in or under the influence" of China and Russia, which could kick TikTok out of the US if the bill were to become law.

All of these bans or legislative efforts are on the grounds of the so-called national security threat. Without any solid evidence or proof, the charge has been frequently used by the US government in cracking down on TikTok for quite some time.

Former US President Donald Trump once attempted to force ByteDance to sell TikTok to US companies two years ago, but a US federal judge blocked the attempt, and further bids to argue the case were dropped when the Biden administration came to power.

Yet, as TikTok has gained a larger market share amid a challenging business climate, there has been a menacing resurfacing of national security risks, which offers a glimpse into the deterioration of regulatory environment in the US.

It is doubtful how much US national security is at stake that precipitated Washiington's crackdown on TikTok. Instead, it looks increasingly like a robbery of others' technology.

A report published by GroupM, a media buying agency owned by WPP, estimated earlier this month that TikTok doubled its advertising revenues in 2022, becoming the only big social media platform to garner rising advertising revenues this year, beating rivals like Meta and Snap.

What Washington cares about is not whether TikTok is free of security concerns, but the sheer commercial interests behind the rapid rise of TikTok. To put it bluntly, the US government never appeared interested in offering any solution to the so-called security problem.

The US use of government power to stigmatize or try to rob TikTok is nothing but a Washington driven effort to maintain its global hegemony. If anything, unfair treatments the company received in the US market have been sufficient enough to hurt its reputation and increase the political risks in the eyes of the investors and advertisers, which will inevitably squeeze the country's future development space.

To put it another way, it shows that Washington simply cannot allow a foreign company to grow competitive enough to challenge its American peers.

The reason why TikTok has been targeted by the US is because it represents the rise of a new algorithmic technology that has enabled it to become the most successful app in the world in recent years. This is the representative of Chinese high-tech companies gaining an advantage in international markets through their own innovations.

Indeed, when the former Trump administration tried to push through a forced sale of TikTok in 2020, China introduced a new export regulation requiring Beijing's approval for certain technology transfers, including recommendation algorithms. And it is beyond doubt that China will protect its own core technologies and will not allow technology robbery by any party.

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