BOOK REVIEW: Asia Alone: The Dangerous Post-Crisis Divide from America by Simon Tay - Mohammad Cohen

Asia Times Online, 2 Oct 2010
Despite his pretensions of globalism and pan-Asianism, in the end, Tay's prescriptions and conclusions in Asia Alone reveal him as just another Singa-parrot, a well-educated, well-traveled one for sure (if you forget, he'll remind you). Tay is a bird of a feather with Lee Kuan Yew and a blatant proponent of Singapore's national interests while pretending (or assuming) they represent what's best for all of Asia. Singa-parrots function as an echo chamber for the only voice in Singapore that matters, repeating Lee's ideas so it appears that scores of other great minds have reached the same conclusions independently Full story