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If you want to blame other countries for their cheap labour then you're never going to succeed. And worse still, you're begrudging other countries for their success and expecting them to stand still for you. I don't need to listen to Jamus but you definitely ought to grow up.

The current PAP is just riding on past success and taking shortcuts whenever they can. I've no issue with taking shortcuts but you've got to build a strong foundation while doing it. Look at China. They take shortcuts by having joint partnerships with foreign companies which are much stronger than them. They subsequently learnt and improved to the extent that they're now able to hold their own internationally.

"Blaming" is your word, the usual sly playing with words of the 39%.

China's opening up is a fact, and factories leaving Singapore for cheaper labour there is a fact.

It is not blaming.  It's critical thinking, something that's obviously beyond you.

Your second para is hogwash, to which I shan't respond other than to say you don't write like someone who had worked in a high position in any company before. Your level of thinking is at the best of magnanimity junior executive.