An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Without much warning, Minilee appeared on national TV last night, hijacking both Channel 5 of Mediacorpse and ChannelNewAsia of SPH at the same time. As the CGI title animation helpfully informed, this was A Conversation with the Prime Minister. Singapore's Ambassador-at-large Dr Chan Heng Chee sat across Minilee for the next half hour, asking him questions on "population growth challenges", a looming identity crisis, and whether we could afford to slow down.
The immediate reaction of the blogosphere has been to point out the inconsistency between Minilee's message of yesterday and his policies up to yesterday, as well as the inability or unwillingness of Chan Heng Chee to ask difficult questions. These are valid concerns, given that the conversation may be read as a defense of the public policy of Minilee's decade-long administration, and the calibre of the lively intellectual salons that Chan is reported to have hosted during her tenure in Washington.
It is appropriate to feel disappointed, perhaps even cheated, that given the academic credentials of Chan, Minilee got away with howlers in his conversation like this....
http://akikonomu.blogspot.sg/2015/08...ster-just.html
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05-08-2015, 08:20 AM
The Con in the PM's "In Conversation" with Chan Heng Chee
