TR EMERITUS

Almost a week into the seizure of nine Singapore's Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC) in Hong Kong, the Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen told the press that Singapore would commence legal proceedings for its recovery after the reasons for the detainment were made clear. I find this requirement for “clarification” rather superfluous... 

Apparently this is a "successful" ambush carried out by Beijing, politically speaking. An extremely tactful and carefully planned political ambush that most of us had never expected it to come from this transshipment of military equipment from Taiwan to Singapore. It is basically one stone multiple targets hit, with minimum... 

For more than 40 years, Singapore Armed Forces have been training in Taiwan under the codename Starlight. This was an open secret without any party making an issue out of it. China could have protested but chose to close an eye and over the years everyone seemed to take this unusual relationship for granted. Today, arising from...