Speaking at the Singapore Management University (SMU) on Sept 22, Tharman highlighted four key insecurities.
The world is entering a period of profound global fragility and pessimism, brought on by a culmination of insecurity across geopolitics, energy, food, society and climate change, says Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who is also coordinating minister for social policies.
These are not due to temporary shocks, events or even bad actors, and the world will have to live with this structural fragility “for many years to come”, he warns.
