TR EMERITUS

A major ideology of the PAP is to keep generating economic growth, and with a better standard of living, people would keep voting for them. As Bill Clinton said in his election campaign against George Bush, “It’s the economy, Stupid!”, but LKY could have told him that, way before. So, after independence, the PAP quickly... 

One of the tragic illusion that many countries of the 3rd world entertain is the notion that politicians and civil servants can successfully perform entrepreneurial functions. It is curious that, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the belief persists. - Dr Goh Keng Swee, former Singapore Deputy Prime Minister,... 

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...