{"product_id":"click-to-expand-not-so-little-red-dot-60-years-of-singapore-s-diplomacy","title":"Click to expand  Not So Little Red Dot: 60 Years of Singapore’s Diplomacy","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSingapore operates in a dangerous world — a world where\nmight is right, where the strong eat the weak, and where small countries are,\nall too often, expected to submit to a brutish order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis is the harsh reality that Singapore diplomats have\nfaced over the past 60 years of the nation’s independence. Yet, they have clung\nresolutely to the belief that Singapore has the right to determine its own\nfuture. Amid violence and volatility, generations of foreign service officers\nhave steadfastly advanced Singapore’s interests on the global stage — while\nremaining clear-sighted about the nature of the world we live in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has played a critical\nrole in charting Singapore’s path to prosperity through crisis and conflict.\nIronically, its work remains largely invisible to the public. \u003ci\u003eNot So\nLittle Red Dot: 60 Years of Singapore’s Diplomacy\u003c\/i\u003e is an attempt to\npeel back the curtain on six decades of foreign policy, and the men and women\nwho have made it possible. The book spotlights seven episodes largely from the\n21st century that illustrate key tenets of Singapore’s approach:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul style=\"margin-top:0cm\" type=\"disc\"\u003e\n \u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eRussia-Ukraine\n     War — Sovereignty\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eGaza\n     Crisis — Humanitarian Aid\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eVaccines\n     — Multilateralism\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTrump-Kim\n     Summit — Honest Broker\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePoints\n     of Agreement with Malaysia — Neighbourliness\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eASEAN\n     formation — Centrality of ASEAN\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eCOVID-19\n     evacuations — Consular Assistance\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eEach chapter offers an accessible reading experience by\nblending comics from veteran artist Cheah Sinann and prose written by a team of\nseven writers from The Nutgraf. The content and communications agency was\nbehind bestselling titles such as \u003ci\u003eThe First Fools: B-Sides of Lee Kuan\nYew’s A-Team\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eNot So Not So Little Red Dot: 60 Years of Singapore’s\nDiplomacy\u003c\/i\u003e is authorised by the MFA to celebrate its 60th anniversary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author and Illustrator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeh Shing Huei\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and author who\nhas written 13 books, including numerous No. 1 bestsellers in Singapore. They\ninclude \u003ci\u003eTall Order\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStanding Tall\u003c\/i\u003e, a pair of\nbiographies on former Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong; \u003ci\u003eNeither\nCivil Nor Servant: The Philip Yeo Story; The Last Fools: The Eight Immortals of\nLee Kuan Yew; The First Fools: B-Sides of Lee Kuan Yew’s A-Team; The Price of\nBeing Fair; and Strictly Business: The Kwek Leng Beng Story. \u003c\/i\u003eHis\nmaiden book, \u003ci\u003eWhen the Party Ends: China’s Leaps and Stumbles after the\nBeijing Olympics\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2016. It offers an\non-the-ground look at China and was cited in The New York Times, the BBC, the\nLos Angeles Times, and South China Morning Post among others. His books have\nsold more than 100,000 copies. He was a news editor and China bureau chief at\nThe Straits Times, and read politics at Columbia University in New York and the\nNational University of Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamantha Boh\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and author who has\nwritten extensively on sustainability and science, covering topics that range\nfrom climate change to biomedical breakthroughs. Her works have appeared across\nmultiple publications, including The Straits Times, South China Morning Post,\nand MyPaper. She was involved in the publication of the Ministry of\nSustainability and the Environment’s inaugural Zero Waste Masterplan in 2019.\nShe is a co-author of four No. 1 bestselling titles: The Last Fools, The First\nFools, The Price of Being Fair, and Lee Ek Tieng: The Green General of Lee Kuan\nYew. She is a communications graduate from the Nanyang Technological\nUniversity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePearl Lee \u003c\/b\u003eis a journalist and author whose work\non education, politics, and social issues has appeared in multiple\npublications, including The Straits Times and South China Morning Post, for\nmore than a decade. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eReady, Set, Fiyah\u003c\/i\u003e, a\nchildren’s picture book on the Youth Olympic Games. She is also a co-author\nof \u003ci\u003eBoardroom Knockout: How Singapore’s Investor Watchdog Fights for\nMinority Shareholders, Behind the Mask: Our Healthcare Story,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe\nFirst Fools\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOne Havelock Square\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Best Hybrid\nBook prize at the Singapore Book Awards in 2021. She is a communications\ngraduate from the Nanyang Technological University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAaron Low\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and author who covers\neconomics, finance, and business. He is the author and editor of three books,\nincluding two No. 1 bestsellers \u003ci\u003eBehind The Banyan: Ho Kwon Ping on\nBuilding a Business Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBoardroom Knockout\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also\nco-authored bestselling titles \u003ci\u003eThe Last Fools\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe\nFirst Fools\u003c\/i\u003e. He writes on regional economics, business and politics in\nAsia, and was a deputy business editor at The Straits Times in Singapore,\noverseeing global financial markets. He is a graduate of the National\nUniversity of Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJaime Niam\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and author who covers\nhealthcare, arts and culture, and social affairs. She has co-authored several\nbooks, including chart-topper \u003ci\u003eBoardroom Knockout\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe\nFirst Fools\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also part of the team behind \u003ci\u003eThe COVID-19\nChronicles: Singapore’s Journey from Pandemia to Peri-Pandemic Limbo with the\nNUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBehind the Mask with the\nMinistry of Health; and Save \u0026amp; Sound: 70 Years of CPF, the Central\nProvident Fund’s 70th anniversary publication.\u003c\/i\u003e She is an English\nLiterature graduate from the National University of Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePuah Rui Xian\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and author who has\nco-written No. 1 bestsellers, including \u003ci\u003eThe First Fools\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe\nPrice of Being Fair\u003c\/i\u003e. The latter charts the ups and downs of a local\nsupermarket giant and spent 10 consecutive weeks on The Straits Times’\nBestseller List (non-fiction), winning the Popular Readers’ Choice Awards in\n2023. She was also part of the editorial team behind the Ministry of Manpower’s\nfirst official anniversary book, \u003ci\u003eCharting Our Path: 70 Years of Working\nTogether and Lessons for Tomorrow.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2022, her short film Teeter was\nreleased on Viddsee. She is an English Literature graduate from the National\nUniversity of Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDerek Wong\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and author who covers\nbusiness and property news. He is a co-author of four No. 1 bestselling\ntitles: \u003ci\u003eThe Last Fools, The First Fools, The Price of Being Fair, and\nBoardroom Knockout\u003c\/i\u003e. He was also part of the team that documented\nSingapore’s COVID-19 pandemic journey in \u003ci\u003eBehind The Mask\u003c\/i\u003e. He\npreviously reported at The Straits Times, where he covered property news, and\nwas also a sub-editor and breaking news reporter. He is a political science\ngraduate from the National University of Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCheah Sinann\u003c\/b\u003e is a former editorial cartoonist\nwith The Straits Times, where he drew a daily cartoon strip called \u003ci\u003eThe\nHouse of Lim\u003c\/i\u003e for close to 10 years, from the 1980s to the 1990s.\nToday, his daily strip titled \u003ci\u003eBudi and Saltie\u003c\/i\u003e appears in\nBrunei’s main daily, The Borneo Bulletin. The cartoon is about local wildlife\nand the environment, and was also published in The New Straits Times in\nMalaysia during the 2000s. As an illustrator, Cheah – or Sinann to his friends\n– has worked with renowned authors like Michael Chiang and Felix Cheong. In\nrecent years, he has delved into graphic novels, publishing \u003ci\u003eThe Bicycle\u003c\/i\u003e,\na book on the Japanese Occupation in Singapore, in 2014. It was followed\nby \u003ci\u003eTerumbu\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGoh Keng Swee: A Singaporean for All\nSeasons\u003c\/i\u003e, which were published in 2018 and 2023 respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PANSING DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44800069763279,"sku":"9789819443017","price":35.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_b8699e91-1dbc-4bbb-9582-53dffae81910.jpg?v=1777005086","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/click-to-expand-not-so-little-red-dot-60-years-of-singapore-s-diplomacy","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}