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Are Singapore’s best days behind us? A lot depends on global affairs
A confluence of developments is undermining the global world order. Understanding this puts Forward Singapore in context.
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A dose of foreign policy literacy can help us appreciate the global challenges facing Singapore, frame policy choices and disabuse us of our navel-gazing tendencies, says the writer.
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I was a young student in 2001 when it felt like the world had gone insane.
The World Trade Center twin towers in New York City had just collapsed, brought down by two passenger jets. A third struck the United States’ Pentagon. Together the attacks precipitated a stock market crash wiping out US$1.4 trillion the first week.
