SINGAPORE — Recent world events have resulted in a"geopolitical earthquake with potentially serious, if not grave, security
“Entrenched foundations have been shaken and assumptions about the world and region we live in, that we have accepted and taken almost for granted, are now tested,” he said. There was also the Cold War and the Korean War, he added. “People forget also there was a significant buildup on nuclear capabilities that occurred transatlantic and also with China. And the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.”
But those hopes of economic integration and building global commons have"all but evaporated", particularly after Russia invaded Ukraine, Dr Ng said. Asia is not immune to these changes, Dr Ng said. Already, alliances are reshaping and are being newly formed. “It’s a toxic milieu. And in that toxic milieu, unexpected consequences can precipitate as history teaches us.”