@chongjaian
Political scientist from 🇸🇬. Works on security & foreign policy in NE & SE, major power competition. AcademiaSG co-editor. Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie China. Currently teaches at the National University of Singapore. Comments mine alone.
感謝《958 城市頻道》的採訪！https://www.melisten.sg/podcast/playlist/capital-958-jujiaoguoji-175621/958jujiaoguojizhongguojiefangjungaocengjielianluomadailaidechongji-3136486?cid=internal_sharetool_melisten_mobileiphone_29012026
Xi’s purge of top Chinese generals has cost Western governments a key contact and deepened fears that the PLA is becoming even more walled-off – Bloomberg: ‘chief of the PLA’s Joint Staff Department [Liu] had been the most effective point of contact for managing risks and preventing miscalculation’
Thanks to the @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social for reaching out.
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I spoke with the🇨🇳's The Paper on their podcast last week (in Mandarin), where I shared some thoughts on looking at current global changes from🇸🇬＆ Southeast Asia. #Singapore #ForeignPolicy
Saya kesempatan bercakap dgn The Paper dari🇨🇳(dalam Bahasa Mandarin) tentang berubah baru-baru ini dalam dunia, melihat dari🇸🇬dan Asia Tenggara.
www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/6973...
上週有機會🇨🇳《澎湃》新聞對話，聊了從🇸🇬和東南亞如何看待變化中的世界局勢。
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Spoke w/ @channelnewsasia.bsky.social on the continuing 🇯🇵🇨🇳 differences in the light of the upcoming 🇯🇵 elections.
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#Singapore #Singapura #新加坡 #Parliament #Parlemen #国会 #politics #politik #政治 #LeaderOfTheOpposition #PemimpinOposisi #反对党领导 #在野领袖
昨天晚上上了《亞洲新文臺938》節目，與的Daniel Martin 討論新加坡總理兼人民行動黨密書長黃循財，免去工人黨秘書長國會在野領導職務一事。
www.channelnewsasia.com/listen/cna93...
Bercakap tentang Daniel Martin di atas radio 938 kemarin malam tentang penyingkiran kedudukan Pemimpin Oposisi dari Pritam Singh dari Parti Pekerja oleh Perdana Menteri Singapura dan sekretaris-jenderal Parti Tindakan Rakyat Lawrence Wong.
www.channelnewsasia.com/listen/cna93...
Spoke with Daniel Martin @cna-poster.bsky.social CNA938 yesterday about the withdrawal of the Leader of the Opposition from Pritam Singh of the Worker's Party by Prime Minister and People's Action Party Secretary-General Lawrence Wong.
www.channelnewsasia.com/listen/cna93...
Chinese-linked hackers target US entities with Venezuelan-themed phishing emails – Reuters: ‘the latest example of a long-running Chinese cyberespionage group known as “Mustang Panda” using headlines or key issues in a given country as a means to steal data and establish footholds in U.S. …’
AcademiaSG 編輯和米希跟大學林愿清老師在大西洋理事會刊登的新文章內，討論新加坡經濟模式的長短處，以及改革的遠景。新加坡經濟模式，經常被標榜為發展的典範，不過成功背後，也有相當的代價和風險。在動盪、競爭加劇的世界環境下，新加坡經濟模式可能碰到前所未見的挑戰。＃新加坡 ＃經濟
Sering diangkat sebagai contoh sukses ekonomi, model Singapura datang dengan kos dan risiko sebenar--terutamanya dalam dunia menghadapi menghadapi persaingan dan perbalahan yang semakin meningkat.
AcademiaSG penyunting bersama dan Profesor dari Universiti Michigan Linda Lim bercakap kekuatan dan kelemahan pada ekonomi Singapura, dan prospek untuk pembaharuan. #Singapura #ekonomi
AcademiaSG co-editor Linda Lim from @umich.edu discusses the strengths of & challenges facing🇸🇬's economic model+ideas for reform. Oft touted as an eg of success, 🇸🇬's model comes w/ real costs ＆risks, esp in a more uncertain global environment.
#singapore #economy
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After a long campaign, @zeldaperkins.bsky.social recently won a major victory against the misuse of NDAs in the UK.
“You cannot use the law to hide harm,” she told Index.
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Keneutralan mungkin mengandung masalah juga. Belgia keneutralan sebelum perang dunia pertama dan kedua. Laos dan Kamboja keneutralan setelah Perjanjian Perdamaian Geneva pada tahun 1954. Tetapi semua kena serangan. Keneutralan bukan terjadi hanya karena Anda teriak dengan keras.
Di antara hal-hal yang saya katakan ada “tidak memilih pihak” mungkin cukup di dunia ketika negara-negara hebat sedang bersaing. Hal itu mungkin malah mengundang dihukum oleh negara hebat yang tidak puas atau bahkan beberapa negara hebat.
Saya sangat bahagia untuk kesempakatan bercakap dengan Mediacorp Channel 8 tentang persaingan negara-negara hebat. Mungkin waktunya tidak cukup, beberapa komentar saya tidak termasuk laporan ini.
Being neutral with insufficient capacity, could lead to a fate like🇧🇪before the two world wars, or🇱🇦&🇰🇭after the 1954 Geneva Accords. All proclaimed neutrality. All were attacked.
Glad to have an opportunity to speak with “Focal Point” on @mediacorp.bsky.social Channel 8. Perhaps time did not allow, but I also made the point that “not choosing sides” could invite punishment by one or more dissatisfied major powers.
很高興有機會與《8頻道》「焦點」節目對話。有一點，或許時間不夠，被刪掉。我也有提到在弱肉強食的環境下，不選邊的作為，也可能被不滿的強權制裁，甚至被多方制裁。要維持中立，必須有足夠實力。後者可能變成兩次世界大戰前都維持中立的比利時，或在1954年日內瓦和談後的寮國（老撾）和柬埔寨，變成被侵略的頭號對象。中立不是喊喊就能自保。
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Happy to join friends here to work on navigating US-PRC ties!
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It may find itself simultaneously under pressure from both of today’s major powers as a result. Despite Singapore’s uniqueness, these are considerations that may similarly affect other smaller states that previously gained from more stable major power ties.
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Such conditions reduce the range of options for Singapore to “not choose” and work with both major powers. Singapore must now navigate these more complicated new circumstances, but policy inertia and the costs of adjustment may limit its ability to undertake such shifts.
potentially even more benefits than themselves so long as they profited themselves. As US-PRC rivalries intensify, Washington and Beijing focus increasingly on relative gains which means they see advantages by the other as detrimental to themselves.
Acting as a successful middleman is predicated on a degree of major power accommodation
that accepted the prioritization of absolute gains among major powers. Contending major powers could accept that rivals could accrue benefits,
New chapter on 🇸🇬 in the Palgrave Handbook on Geopolitics.
As a smaller actor in world affairs, Singapore will feel the ups & downs in major power relations more than most. Singapore historically benefited as a commercial conduit among major powers, even before its establishment as a nation-state.