Tag: Singapore
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Singapore's hybrid warfare strategy is lacking
Singapore’s strategy for countering hybrid warfare is focused on the military and cyber fields. Unfortunately, hybrid warfare is fought mainly at the moral level.
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Singapore's politics of personality
Singapore’s opposition parties need to become political parties, not personality parties.
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More Laws, More Crime
In 1920, the United States passed the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing the production, sale and transportation of alcohol. The next thirteen years saw an upshot in banditry, the rise of organised crime on the backs of alcohol smuggling, gang violence, police corruption and an international alcohol smuggling racket that raked in millions of dollars…
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A Brave New World of Neo-Tribes and Crumbling Civilisations
The nation-state system is fading, replaced by neo-tribalism. With this change comes the erosion of civilisation.
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When Diversity Meets Policy
Singapore’s CMIO model is a blunt instrument. But it also underpins many of Singapore’s policies. It is easy to talk about dropping CMIO, but the real question is what policymaking tool provides a better way — and what are the costs of such a tool.
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A Different Kind of Privileged Literature
Grace Chia alleges gender bias in the Singapore Literature Prize, and in writing in general. There is privilege — but of a different kind.