Singapore’s policy is ‘to be close to all great powers’
Prof Tommy Koh says that Singapore’s policy is “to be close to all great powers”, but that we pursue a policy of non-alignment. (ST, 8/4/22) He quotes our first foreign minister, Mr S Rajaratnam in his inaugural speech at the UN in 1965. In that speech, Mr Rajaratnam said that we do not side with “narrow power bloc...
Opening the border with Malaysia
I share my impressions about visiting Johore on 12 and 13 April. This is the first time that I visited Johor after an absence of two years due to Singapore's circuit breaker and Malaysia's movement control order (MCO). When the two government decided to open the border on 1 April 2022, they expected a flood of visitors from...
Look beyond personal reasons and self interest
Many people are unhappy with the "communist government" in China. You can find them in Taiwan, Hong Kong and in Singapore. Many of these people have reasons to be unhappy with the communist government. In many cases, they came from wealthy families that had a good life before China fell to the communists. These families could...
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