China wants to turn Singapore into its mouthpiece
Bloomberg News reported on 1 Dec some comments by Bilahari Kausikan on the recent spat between China and Singapore. “This is not the first time Singapore ships equipment from Taiwan through Hong Kong,” said Bilahari Kausikan, an ambassador-at-large for Singapore. The fact this particular consignment was picked up shows China...
Terrexgate: How Mindef’s tits got caught in the wringer?
The HK version of events as reported by BBC seems to imply that the customes officers were surprised by what they found because the vehicles were not supposed to have entered HK because no approval had been sought or given to enter HK. According to the BBC “strategic goods” must be licensed for transshipment . Customs officers...
Keeping power in a one-party state
More on why S’pore should be analysed from the perspective that it’s a one-party state like China and N Korea rather than as an authoritarian mutant version of a democratic state. BBC’s Carrie Gracie( http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37724839) wrote recently China’s “consultative democracy” has one glaring...
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