TR EMERITUS

I am not a political pundit but what I am trying to do is to make a psychoanalysis of the political manifestations that have captured the imagination of the world. The "thucidides's trap" coined by Havard Professor Graham Allison to describe the hegemonic rivalry of US-China relations has invoked world-wide interest but is dissented... 

Many people still have a vague idea about Operation Coldstore. The massive security round-up of leading CUF activists on 2 February 1963 crippled the chances of pro-communist revolutionists from capturing power. It was erroneously branded as a Lee Kuan Yew's brainchild and that he had solely mounted the operation on his own... 

We have inherited a political system from the British. Instead of British Masters we now have our own politicians  to govern the country under a so-called democratic system. The Prime Minister and his Cabinet set out the policies and the civil servants who are supposed to be politically neutral carry them out without question....