Apologies if this has been posted before. Worth a watch in the evening over a few drinks. Interestingly KJ seems much more at ease in an 'academic' type arena and even manages to be somewhat humorous. The Q&A is particularly eye-opening as neither seem to be able to quite hold up to aggressive questioning from one or two Yale faculty members. KJ reverts to type whilst surprisingly, CSJ for all his earlier bluster appears somewhat flustered when he is the one being attacked rather than doing the attacking. Apparently, no-one from WP was invited.
[video=youtube;PsWQKD4tPKk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsWQKD4tPKk[/video]
I was going to bring this up.
The political value of this meeting is pretty dubious to me. This goes beyond whacking the regime.
Yale wanting to set up a school in Singapore should be a good thing for Singapore as a whole. Not only for the PAP, but for everyone.
Yes, there will not be a lot of academic freedom compared to Yale, but it is a chance to evolve to a state where people can speak more freely and is generally good for democracy in Singapore.
What are those two clowns doing there? What's their standpoint? "hooray, let's whack the regime", or "Yale should pull the plug on the project" or "boo hoo hoo look at me I'm a victim of the government"? What the fuck.
Anyway, in a real democracy, you're going to have to be as good as those Yale professors when you're speaking in public. That's what real democracy means.