24-06-2016, 10:54 AM
Without ASEAN Singapore doesn't even have a voice. You can say Euro is lame but without EU, US would have no counterbalance in USD or politics. Without lame NATO USSR would not be contained though people know US is the might behind NATO.
Membership has its privileges. That's why UK unilaterally join China's ADB. It is another posturing.
Read LKY's books which is quite revealing about international politics. Disclaimer: I am a fan of pre-1980s LKY era.
I'm not even sure how Putin's strategy on Crimea, Ukraine and Syria is considered predictable even as oil plunges and Rubles goes to waste. North Korea is playing roulette... Putin is playing Bridge... there's a difference.
Economically GB growth is likely going to lag behind unless like I posted above, they are going to reposition as US or China centric, which IMHO is even tougher. It won't be overnight but I always remember the richest country 50 years ago in ASEAN was Burma and most stable was Phillippines. Ceylon was center of administration prowess. The mighty pound post WW2 is reduced to even third place after Deutsche Mark. It takes just one generation of decision makers of 50 years which I am unsure that SG50 had got the message.
I came to realise things don't happen by accident; they happen on purpose. Ditto the newsflows on stocks
Membership has its privileges. That's why UK unilaterally join China's ADB. It is another posturing.
Read LKY's books which is quite revealing about international politics. Disclaimer: I am a fan of pre-1980s LKY era.
I'm not even sure how Putin's strategy on Crimea, Ukraine and Syria is considered predictable even as oil plunges and Rubles goes to waste. North Korea is playing roulette... Putin is playing Bridge... there's a difference.
Economically GB growth is likely going to lag behind unless like I posted above, they are going to reposition as US or China centric, which IMHO is even tougher. It won't be overnight but I always remember the richest country 50 years ago in ASEAN was Burma and most stable was Phillippines. Ceylon was center of administration prowess. The mighty pound post WW2 is reduced to even third place after Deutsche Mark. It takes just one generation of decision makers of 50 years which I am unsure that SG50 had got the message.
I came to realise things don't happen by accident; they happen on purpose. Ditto the newsflows on stocks