PM Lee said we hv to watch closely what policies the USA is pursuing while noting Sino-Sgp relationship has grown with the 3rd gov-to-gov project in ChongQing.
Good that he looks past the recent Terrex saga with China.
USA will stay engage in Asia Pacific for sure as it needs to contain the emergence of China. How we balance between USA n China as the USA will surely want to continue to leverage on whatever they had built n developed with Sgp in the past decades, especially knowing that Sgp has got into bit of a bother with China due to our supposed over friendliness with USA, us vital.
The main ally for the USA will be Japan, especially with Abe in charge, as this is the one that CAN match China with USA's help.
If the hawks r running Trump's foreign agenda, careless confrontation with China involving Japan n USA can't be discounted.
How we stay neutral n get the understanding of both USA n China is vital.
Minister Chan said Sgp has top educational system n etc. and we should be OK is OK only if we recognised that our local talents r no longer cost competitive (especially the gold collar n some white collar ones, against foreign talents). Without this realisation, no effort will be expanded on helping Sgp talents to realise the super high wages r no longer sustainable n we better learn to do more with lower pay n producing higher outputs!
If my learned friend's assertion that the recent Inchcape UK sending expats to take over regional roles by local because the expats will be even cheaper than the local regional folks is true n real, it is a big problem!!
Sgp can survive only if we acknowledged our deficiencies n areas for improvement, otherwise just keep saying united we go forward will be fine is delusional!!
To quote the misquoting FM Vivian: "We call a spade a spade" is needed here though not during the Terrex saga.
Majulah Singapura!
Good that he looks past the recent Terrex saga with China.
USA will stay engage in Asia Pacific for sure as it needs to contain the emergence of China. How we balance between USA n China as the USA will surely want to continue to leverage on whatever they had built n developed with Sgp in the past decades, especially knowing that Sgp has got into bit of a bother with China due to our supposed over friendliness with USA, us vital.
The main ally for the USA will be Japan, especially with Abe in charge, as this is the one that CAN match China with USA's help.
If the hawks r running Trump's foreign agenda, careless confrontation with China involving Japan n USA can't be discounted.
How we stay neutral n get the understanding of both USA n China is vital.
Minister Chan said Sgp has top educational system n etc. and we should be OK is OK only if we recognised that our local talents r no longer cost competitive (especially the gold collar n some white collar ones, against foreign talents). Without this realisation, no effort will be expanded on helping Sgp talents to realise the super high wages r no longer sustainable n we better learn to do more with lower pay n producing higher outputs!
If my learned friend's assertion that the recent Inchcape UK sending expats to take over regional roles by local because the expats will be even cheaper than the local regional folks is true n real, it is a big problem!!
Sgp can survive only if we acknowledged our deficiencies n areas for improvement, otherwise just keep saying united we go forward will be fine is delusional!!
To quote the misquoting FM Vivian: "We call a spade a spade" is needed here though not during the Terrex saga.
Majulah Singapura!
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