Tag Archives: Foreign Policy

In a dramatic U-turn posted yesterday following the publication of the article on TODAYonline, the dean has since claimed that mainstream media had published his email without his permission.

Nothing wrong with what Kishore Mahbubani said. He basically said that if it doesn't involve us (i.e. "beyond our borders"), we should be prudent about interfering. He didn't say that if it involves us, we should be cowed and be a pushover. Bilahari Kauisikan, as supported by K Shanmugam Sc, however, read Mahbubani's article to mean that we should be "meekly compliant", "subordinate", "grovel", "running dogs", and a "tame poodle" to larger countries. And took serious offense with that.

Indonesia wants to reclaim airspace controlled by Singapore within 5 years, according to an ambitious plan by President Joko Widodo, who in recent weeks has been showing off a more muscular foreign policy in the region.

The historical basis of the Silk Road was fair exchange and mutual benefit, and China’s intentions for its New Silk Road vision are no different, said Singapore’s former Foreign Minister George Yeo yesterday (June 3) at a public forum. China does not intend to subordinate the economic strategies of other countries to its own and is misunderstood by others, said Mr Yeo at the forum on Asia and the middle-income trap organised by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.