Will Apec meet the moment? PM Lee off to attend high-stakes summit in San Francisco Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.
Certain opinion leaders in "Global Britain" seem to be having yet another serious anxiety attack over China. Recently, three letters appeared adjacent to one another in The Times.
While it makes eminent sense for Singapore as a sovereign state not to take sides in the escalating geopolitical rivalry between China and the United States, this should not mean its citizens must suspend their faculties for critical thinking and not discern fact from fabrication.
It is not an idle pursuit to try and form an informed judgment about which of the two big powers poses the greater threat to peace and stability in this region. Is the US really out to help defend freedom of navigation in this region and a rules-based international order against an increasingly encroaching China - or is that just a ruse to contain the latter s rise and maintain America s global hegemony?