| ▲ | doctorpangloss 2 hours ago | |
Makes little sense. China is a cultural and diaspora behemoth. Completely apples to oranges comparison. What about countries similar to Singapore's size and wealth? An interesting thing to look at: how many US electeds are Singapore, Israel, Hong Kong or Taiwan 1st-generation heritage or born? I like this number because you cannot fake it (unlike so many things, like statistics reported by countries that are not free), you cannot buy an election or run a PR campaign to pretend you had a successful election, and it measures a real notion of power (something the CCP aspires to have): Singapore 0, China 9, Taiwan 11, Hong Kong 4, Israel 7. Anyway I don't really buy into this line of thinking but it is interesting to me to look at a place that isn't really free, like Singapore, and figure out how it affects me. | ||
| ▲ | chaostheory 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
"In 1992, Deng exhorted CCP cadres to “learn from the world, especially from Singapore”, touching off a “Singapore fever” in PRC political and academic circles." https://jamestown.org/fortnight-end-singapore-model/ https://muse.jhu.edu/article/607615/summary https://www.thinkchina.sg/politics/construction-singapore-mo... https://www.fairobserver.com/economics/china-and-its-mentor-... https://nationalinterest.org/feature/singapores-success-cont... https://www.fpri.org/article/2019/12/the-odd-couple-singapor... | ||