Alphonsus Chong > Recent Status Updates

"there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men to truth. The first is Livy's way and the other is yours: and perhaps they are not irreconciliable."

While 'armoured hegemony' exists through various legal measures that can be enforced, it is the ideological leadership that the PAP has instituted through consensual rule, persuasion and co-optation that has been more effective and successful in ensuring PAP's political dominance and hegemony all these years.

The assumptions of [America's] virtue does not just rest on the claim that America has been a benign actor on the world stage... It also relies on the idea that the quality of life that the United States provides its citizens is the best in the world. In short. America is the greatest society in the world in improving the lives of its citizens.

Trump implied that the Chinese people have been fleecing the American people by enjoying massive trade surpluses. In reality, the American people have been fleecing the Chinese people because they have been paying for Chinese products with money printed on paper. Realistically, American should expect a reduction in their standard of living if they can no longer print money to pay for Chinese products.