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That makes constant and consistent communications all the more important. The government has to better explain the potential threats, the trade-offs required to overcome them, and what is at stake if we fail to do so \u2013 but also in a way that feels relevant to ordinary Singaporeans.<\/p>\n
This potentially is one of the hardest challenges for governments today. It requires government leaders to be adroit and adept at political communications and civic engagement, and for a high level of trust to be maintained with citizens.<\/p>\n
Communications have to be clear and transparent, without coming across as fear-mongering or partisan, especially in an increasingly contested political landscape. Nor can engagement simply mean asking citizens to accept every government decision, without room to question trade-offs and alternatives.<\/p>\n
At the same time, we Singaporeans have a duty to ourselves to be self-aware and vigilant, to stay up-to-date on current affairs and the factors that affect our country and the world as a whole, and to understand the steps Singapore is taking.<\/p>\n
This will only become more challenging in the years ahead, as the global and domestic environments continue to grow in complexity and complications.<\/p>\n
But guarding against complacency requires this of Singapore and Singaporeans.<\/p>\n
Nicholas Fang is a former journalist and Nominated Member of Parliament. He is founder and managing director of strategic consultancy Black Dot and a senior advisor for The Asia Group. He writes a monthly column for CNA.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n That makes constant and consistent communications all the more important. The government has to better explain the potential threats, the trade-offs required to overcome them,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--f29q_qM7--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/tdy-migration\/20200603_nlx_sg_skyline-2_1.jpg?itok=h1fNtONS","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1126,27622,3020,1567,209,6352],"class_list":["post-75861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-commentary","tag-complacency","tag-hidden","tag-risk","tag-singapores","tag-success","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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