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I couldn’t help but smile (Or was it a smirk?) and think of the leaders, the PAP 4G team are offering us as PM when I saw this on FaceBook. Who is the Visionary, Innovator or Influencer among Chan Chun Sing, Lawrence Wong, Ong Ye Kung and Desmond Lee? My view is that none of them fit into any of the three categories. But... 

China has a population of 1.4 billion. India has a population only slightly smaller. Covid attacked China in December 2019. It was a new virus. Very little was known about it. The virus caused severe havoc in China. 4,630 people has since died. During the first wave of the pandemic, India was not affected severely. The death... 

Earlier this month, I participated in the Harvard Asia Conference panel on US-China commercial relations. My co-panellists were Mr Steve Orlins, president of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and Harvard professors Graham Allison and William Kirby. Remarkably, there was a strong consensus among us that...