Singapore’s National Day rally is traditionally an opportunity for the prime minister to outline domestic policy plans, but Lawrence Wong this year used his first address to sound an uncharacteristically ominous tone.
“We have seen what happens in other countries when the broad middle falls behind,” said Wong, who took office in May as Singapore’s fourth prime minister and only the second not from the founding Lee family. “The centre does not hold. Societies begin to fracture and collapse.”
“Do not assume this cannot happen here,” he added. “It can — and it will — unless we take decisive actions to prevent it.”
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