I seriously doubt the PAP dictatorship will do the right and honest thing and step back from gerrymandering the election amongst its other historical electoral shenanigans that keep its "winning formula" from being broken. It's that scared of losing power, especially now that corruption is attached to the image of a Singapore being incorruptible, and no thanks to a couple of its own -- now former -- ministers and a seriously rich Singapore Chinese businessman.
Just as I doubt any of Singapore's so-called academics and think-tanks would have the vertebrae to undertake serious and independent study of corruption in Singapore generally and especially corruption linking businesses to the one-party PAP state that gives rise to the specter of cronyism in the city-state.
In terms of domestic issues, nothing has changed: they're the same old issues except at a slightly elevated level of urgency, especially in the wake of the completely delusional US president Donald Trump's retributive rule, increasingly like Singapore, rule by law (not rule of law) and Trump's voodoo economics, all of which could see greater uncertainty swiping the Singapore economy despite its historical hype and hubris that its technocratic elite will be able to ensure the economy won't take big hits to create create higher inflationary pressures and employment uncertainty among Simnagpre voters.
On the external front, again not much will change either. What stupidities and idiocies Trump and his looney pact of losers and sycophants who wield Trumpist autocratic power in DC, it'll be business as usual. Singapore needs American projection of power to keep itself safe from its neighboring Muslim countries despite their so-called (lame) ASEAN brotherhood claims, and particularly as China become more and more belligerent in the region as Trump's vacuous foreign policy sees the US unhinging itself from Northeast and Southeast Asia and even the Indo-Pacific. The one real test to Singapore's national security will come when and if China can "talk" Thailand into building the Kra Canal that will circumvent the US-controlled Malacca Strait both in terms of naval and commercial shipping.
Beyond this, I don't see anything new happening in Singapore -- hugely boring and sterile as it's always been, much like its politics.
I agree. NTUC is, to all intents and purposes, controlled by the PAP one-party dictatorship, just as all of Singapore's media and the judicial system are controlled by the same. Though, having said that, historically, the opposition Workers' Party has tried to find some affiliation or association with fragments of the NTUC, perhaps hoping internal wranglings will see the NTUC break up. Hard to see this happening, however. NTUC chiefs know which side of their bread is buttered.
I seriously doubt the PAP dictatorship will do the right and honest thing and step back from gerrymandering the election amongst its other historical electoral shenanigans that keep its "winning formula" from being broken. It's that scared of losing power, especially now that corruption is attached to the image of a Singapore being incorruptible, and no thanks to a couple of its own -- now former -- ministers and a seriously rich Singapore Chinese businessman.
Just as I doubt any of Singapore's so-called academics and think-tanks would have the vertebrae to undertake serious and independent study of corruption in Singapore generally and especially corruption linking businesses to the one-party PAP state that gives rise to the specter of cronyism in the city-state.
In terms of domestic issues, nothing has changed: they're the same old issues except at a slightly elevated level of urgency, especially in the wake of the completely delusional US president Donald Trump's retributive rule, increasingly like Singapore, rule by law (not rule of law) and Trump's voodoo economics, all of which could see greater uncertainty swiping the Singapore economy despite its historical hype and hubris that its technocratic elite will be able to ensure the economy won't take big hits to create create higher inflationary pressures and employment uncertainty among Simnagpre voters.
On the external front, again not much will change either. What stupidities and idiocies Trump and his looney pact of losers and sycophants who wield Trumpist autocratic power in DC, it'll be business as usual. Singapore needs American projection of power to keep itself safe from its neighboring Muslim countries despite their so-called (lame) ASEAN brotherhood claims, and particularly as China become more and more belligerent in the region as Trump's vacuous foreign policy sees the US unhinging itself from Northeast and Southeast Asia and even the Indo-Pacific. The one real test to Singapore's national security will come when and if China can "talk" Thailand into building the Kra Canal that will circumvent the US-controlled Malacca Strait both in terms of naval and commercial shipping.
Beyond this, I don't see anything new happening in Singapore -- hugely boring and sterile as it's always been, much like its politics.
National Trades Union Congress is associated with the government, NOT the opposition
Thank you, it was a Human Rights Watch designation, we have removed the reference --Eds.
I agree. NTUC is, to all intents and purposes, controlled by the PAP one-party dictatorship, just as all of Singapore's media and the judicial system are controlled by the same. Though, having said that, historically, the opposition Workers' Party has tried to find some affiliation or association with fragments of the NTUC, perhaps hoping internal wranglings will see the NTUC break up. Hard to see this happening, however. NTUC chiefs know which side of their bread is buttered.