Asians are going from being passengers on the bus of globalization to being co-drivers. |
In the areas that are critical to our survival, like Defense, Finance and the Ministry of Home Affairs, we look for the best talent. You lose New Orleans, and you have 100 other cities just like it. But we're a city-state. We lose Singapore and there is nothing else. So the standards of discipline are very high. There is a very high degree of accountability in Singapore. |
We live in a smaller and smaller world, but the capacity to misunderstand each other is enormous. |