Curious

There has been some interest in this article from Sept 2013 - 18 months or so ago: 

The Decline of Mother Tongue - Should we be worried?

Extract from the post:

In fact there is desire, if not pressure, for the PRC to assimilate into Singapore society by picking up English, and speaking more English.
So we have the interesting contradictory situation of wanting good Mandarin speakers to speak more English, while we want Singaporeans who don't speak Mandarin well, to improve their Mandarin... to speak to... whom?

 Is this an issue again?