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Singapore's Succession Problems Continue

Suspicions grow that Lee Hsien Loong is reluctant to let go of the reins

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Dec 01, 2021
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Nine months after it became apparent that Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s designated successor Heng Swee Keat was “incapable of operating beyond his talking points,” in the words of the political analyst Michael Barr of Flinders University in Adelaide, the People’s Action Party is still at sea in attempting to fi…

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