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Old 18-09-2021, 12:56 PM
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Anyone else thinks that the Govt has been recently conflating FTAs and FDIs with the free flow of foreign talent on the CECA issue? There is some relationship but not a strong one.

FTAs and FDIs are mainly structured for the free flow of goods , services and capital.

Japan and Korea have a plethora of FTAs and FDIs but their language and culture forms a natural barrier to the free flow of people.

Australia and New Zealand have a plethora of FTAs and FDIs but they regulate the flow of foreign workers stringently.

Attacking the PSP using FTAs and FDIs is just a cover for their failure or perhaps unwillingness to regulate the massive influx of foreign workers.

The government is fully aware about allowing a foreign worker OVERFLOW because it wants to hurriedly create a bigger and bigger economy to justify its bigger and bigger salaries. the saddest part of the Singapore model of success is that the ruling elites/ policy makers are not on the same boat as the commoners who toil 24/7 which includes us junior/senior assocs/SPs.

Like George Orwell wrote in the Animal Farm, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
I actually agree with part of your post.

This isn't race-baiting. We are looking at the degree of freedom in relation to the movement (and employment) of people.

While it is discriminatory, no country around the world provides for absolute freedom with regards to the movement and employment of foreigners, without more. Every state is entitled to impose conditions on the employment of foreigners for the benefit of its citizens.

I don't think he answered those questions or framed those issues well.
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