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Comment & Analysis Archive
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Should SEA Think Nuclear?
Even as governments want to move ahead, many questions remain to be answered Published: TODAY, 30 Apr 2010 Following the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave assurances that even as the Republic moves towards nuclear energy, its feasibility will first be studied. It is not only Singapore that is thinking about [...] -
The Options for Myanmar
TODAY, 1 April 2010 by Simon Tay and William Hatch The decision not to allow iconic Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to participate in elections in Myanmar was bad enough. But the latest news that her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), will also not participate leads many to worry that the vote later this [...] -
The changing state of US-Asia ties
The Straits Times, THINK TANK, 24 Mar 2010 UNITED States President Barack Obama’s decision to postpone his visit to Indonesia and Australia last week was understandable. The health-care Bill, a centrepiece in his legislative agenda, was at a critical juncture and domestic priorities trump international visits. Moreover, the President had visited Asia less than six months [...] -
Economic sense & nonsense of global warming
BY PETER LÖSCHER - Climate change is a fact. Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere are higher today than at any point during the last 350,000 years. If carbon dioxide emissions were to double by 2035, the temperature of our planet would rise between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees celsius – with catastrophic consequences for civilization and our entire biosphere. We cannot afford this. -
Climate Change: Global Warming’s Technology Deficit
BY BJØRN LOMBORG - Our current approach to solving global warming will not work. It is flawed economically, because carbon taxes will cost a fortune and do little, and it is flawed politically, because negotiations to reduce CO2 emissions will become ever more fraught and divisive. And even if you disagree on both counts, the current approach is also flawed technologically. -
The Tipping Point: The rise of the East, the demise of the West
BY STEPHEN KING - We have reached a tipping point in global economic affairs. While there are some encouraging signs of recovery in the developed world, the real economic action is taking place elsewhere. For both cyclical and structural reasons, the emerging nations are set to dominate world economic activity in the years ahead. -
Political implications of the crisis for regional economies: The East Asia case
There are many political-security challenges in East Asia, such as terrorism, proliferation of WMD, transnational crime, climate change, energy security, pandemic diseases, and natural disasters. However, in the last 18 months or so a new political-security challenge has arisen that has overridden everything else, not only in the East Asian region but also globally, namely [...] -
G-20: Gulliver and Lilliputians?
BY SIMON TAY - CRISES provoke changes. The initiative to bring together the world's 20 largest economies last November was one change the global economic crisis instigated. The Group of 20 (G-20) summit meeting in September in Pittsburgh was only its third. But the G-20 has already emerged as the key grouping in the global crisis. -
United by disaster
There is no simple, single or immediate solution to the haze The week the earthquake hit Padang, I was in Kuala Lumpur for a dialogue about the regional haze. Should we be criticising Indonesia for the fires, someone asked, when the country had just suffered such tragedy? Does the haze pollution seem inconsequential? Does Indonesia have the [...] -
Speech by Mr Lim Hng Kiang at PECC Conference
The global economic situation has eased since the financial crisis started about a year back. Leading indicators are looking up, and the IMF recently lifted its forecast for global GDP growth in 2010 to around 3%. But it is too early to take our eyes off the economy – it will be a bumpy ride, fraught with risks.
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