NOR is it valued on your YUAN reserves, or even the much talked about super BRICS currency of the future.
THE rich, ironically is what GOD through mother nature has given each nation as its birth right.
IF you abuse your birth right, you could well end up, holding the beggar's bowl for help from your brother, VIEW : as Malaysia found out when Indonesia said NO to our request to buy rice from them.
THE politics of the new rich, is not confined to our nation, as we can see it being played live on TikTok screens and on CNN as READ : India suspends water treaties with Pakistan, treaties that were never touched even when both countries were at war.
STRANGELY, India's decision to use water as a weapon, comes merely two weeks after, the country alleged READ : that china building the world's largest dam, was akin to a water bomb which could sink Northern India and Bangladesh.
EVEN the slightest mention of war between India and Pakistan, is going to have an impact on our own rice supplies.
ONCE upon a time, nearly four decades ago, due to our GOD given birthrights, we were self sufficient in rice, but we squandered that away in a fluff.
WE have ample water though for our people and the Proposed Data Centers, READ : which requires a tremendous amount of water.
IT will be a sad day indeed, when we wake up one day to find out even that birthright we have given it a way for a SONG.