Tommy Koh is ambassador-at-large at Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies and the National Heritage Board in Singapore. He has served as Singapore’s permanent representative to the United Nations and ambassador to Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
Some of my American and European friends were unsympathetic during the Asian financial crisis. A few even gloated over Asia’s misfortunes, displaying some of the West’s worst prejudices toward Asia. A decade later, fortunes have been reversed.
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