(This is a republication of the author's May 10, 2024 column, which inadvertently contained a factual error that is already corrected in this version. We apologize for the error. – Ed.)

ON May 15, Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will become the fourth prime minister (PM) of Singapore. He'll have to choose whose pair of shoes to fill — Lee Kuan Yew's (LKY), Goh Chok Tong's or Lee Hsien Loong's (LHL).

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