Singapore will stand proud.
But this will need all our effort and heart to do it. We need a
strong team of leaders, fellow country men and good will people
from overseas to share a common destiny. It would not be easy, but
neither it is impossible.
We are going to stand proud and not slip into a chapter in history.
Believe in yourself and you will make it true. It is our common
good for singapore to grow and prosperous. There will be better
place overseas, but it does not belongs to you.
We all definite need to review our way of doing things, our
expectations, our demands and more importantly our young
generations; will they be distorted by material wealth / religion
extremism? will they stand together to face challenges like rise of
china, terrorism, foreign worker issues?
We must take reference from USA, the country prosperous because
they have a strong population base, annually replendish by
immgratants (foreign talents) to US. They are inspired to join a
dream, and a safe place for their young. For Singapore to success,
we have to emulate the US model. At least it is successful in USA
right.
But at the moment, it all gloomy here as the economy is undergoing
restructuring. Our patience for RMB to revaluate finally paid off
last week. Now we just need to wait for the next phase foe China
Economy to take off, and transform from a investment vacuum sucking
machine to a investment ATM for us. believe me, the chinese
businessmen and richmen are really really rich and spending power
beyond our imagination. more importantly, they are ready to spend
$$$$$$$$$.
On short term, I think that singapore can bank on IR and Banking /
Financial / Healthcare service to attract these rich people. But
these will only be temp measurements, we need some big global local
company like Shell in energy business, we hope to see some local
company like Bell in telecoms. More importantly, Singapore need to
explore the use of other methodologies to innovate the usage of
space in the country. This will enable singapore to have a much
great flexibility in building a strong high tech industrial base.
R&D lab and design centres are not enough, we should have
emulate the Taiwanese model for their semiconductor
industrial.
Singapore is now at the cross road of her history. As we celebrate
the 40th birthday, we face many tough challenges abroad and local
as well. Our people should remain calm, as we know lot of our issue
comes from the global economy. The strong country reserve and our
country spirts are our best bid to unite all people in singapore,
both singapore & foreigner, for a better future. We have to
treat each other with respect and on equal ground.
