Singapore's greatest value lies in its role as a bridge for multinational capital between China and the United States. As the Singaporean government increasingly aligns with the U.S.-led anti-China bloc, the financial, technological, and talent dividends it once attracted from China through its "Asian neutrality" strategy will vanish. The world will keep turning without Singapore—it will simply find another "neutral nation."
the greatest threat to Singapore far right is CECA
What do they think Trump has been trying to accomplish for 2 terms? What does he think Biden was trying to do with EU help? Plaza Accord 2.0 is what they'd have gotten if they won... but they did the opposite. Now they're just a bunch of losers sitting on the ground covered in their own blood dreaming about bear meat recipes they could have made if they'd beaten the bear instead of the other way around.
Their plan is to devalue their currency? Along with the US? To "re-shore manufacturing"? Lol, what? What other material resources do they have besides the potential to screw around with their currency? Do they have as many factories and industrial automation set up as China? Do they have as many roads and kms of rail transport set up as China? Do they have as many ports as China to ship out their goods? Do they have the last 50 years of accumulated manufacturing knowledge, iteration, continuous improvement and fine tuning as China? Do they think that simply pressing the "crater my currency value" button will put them on an equal footing with China overnight? Or it's even achievable within a decade? Isn't their entire strength based on the last 50 years of financialization of their economy which relies on a strong and stable currency? What in the hell are they thinking?? This is like trying to pivot your strategy near the end of the 4th quarter in a basketball game and you're down 50 points. LOL. It looks like the Chinese century is coming so much faster than I could have even imagined.
Non-zero chance that Tibetan exiles get ethnically cleansed by Hindus after the Dalai Lama dies. They really serve no purpose to the state without a unifying anti-China figurehead and at this point are just "Chinese" looking guests who have stayed too long and are hogging resources/land. At least the other NE Indians who look Sinitic claim they are Hindu.
Buddhism to Hinduism is like Christianity to Judaism. Despite being from the same source, the core beliefs are opposed to the original. B. R. Ambedkar mass converted loads of dalits to Buddhism to give the middle finger to Hinduism.