TR EMERITUS

For many years, I held the view that the political system adopted in communist countries is a better system. In a communist country, the constitution provides that the country has to be run "under the leadership of the communist party". This requires the leaders to be elected by the members of the communist party. The alternative... 

Someone posed this question - If the Chinese system is so effective, why does it only work in China and isn't being adopted by other developing nations? I will answer the question. What is the effective aspect of the China political system? We have to look at the tremendous progress made by China over the past three decades... 

Click to enlarge Sometimes you have to remember what they say, the words they use, the tone they invoke. In 2013, Chan Chun Sing - a former Army general - invoked the ghost of Britain's war time Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, in his speech at the PAP convention. I always remembered the CCS' speech because of how he saw the...