Goh Chok Tong

To drive home the point, on 9 August 1991, on National Day, Malaysia and Indonesia held a joint military exercise in Johor, very close to our borders.

Goh Chok Tong had just replaced Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister of Singapore.

And the exercise was clearly intended to test the mettle of our new leadership.

In the words of Billahari, just in the case we were too obtuse to get the message, the exercise was codenamed So how did this comparison of Singapore as Israel or Southeast Asia emerge? Singapore had an ethnic Chinese majority in a largely Malay-Muslim dominated region and they have had a story about Singapore as an alien implanted entity Furthermore, the Chinese business networks in Southeast Asia were already resented for the disproportionate share of the economy that they controlled feeding into an age-old narrative that Chinese were often the Jews

Do you remember? No, I can't remember.

Was it a mascot launched or something? No, Goh Chok Tong was a PM.

Ah, yes.

And during NDP, he actually... conducted a water parade and drank new water.

Which means treat it less as a security threat so that actual research can be done.

Okay.

But during this time, right, it started in 1998 when Goh Chok Tong and Matir met in Hanoi to discuss... all outstanding issues between Singapore and Malaysia.

So water, the KTM railway, CPF withdrawals, airspace.

That was the launch of the Great Singapore Workout.

Goh Chok Tong led the workout?

Yeah, Goh Chok Tong himself.

Oh,

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