So why you complain about Singapore not toeing to China The same argument can be applied to Singapore Their duty is for the security of Singapore citizen. At least the American provide Singapore with sophisticated weaponry to defend themselves. And implicit guarantee that any attack to Singapore will tripwire US response.
For You information There is no US base or defense treaty with US. Unlike Japan or South Korea. Singapore does not line up their foreign policy with US. Case in point after TAM all western countries, including Japan and South Korea boycott China and put economic embargo on China Singapore stood by China even LKY come out in open and said Deng did the right thing. Nobody ask China to intervene or send marine for OC. But there is humanitarian gesture that every big countries can make without damaging relation with SEA countries. China just fail in this respect. I understand that it was Jiang Zhemin administration and the bureaucracy at that time is not sophisticated. And news can easily censored before internet. But Chinese public did express their outrage. It will be different if it were to occur now. Xi spend 17 years in Fujian the home province of most SEA chinese.
Only after much prodding by then SAR Tung Chee Hwa finally China did issue meek statement condemning the riot But too little and too late. Tung Chee Hwa has to do because there are half million Chindo descendant in Hongkong. All those people who return to China to built new China but mistreated at Cultural revolution and at the end of CR were allowed to leave China and HOngkong is the only place that welcome them. Over the year they make up influential group in HOngkong.
Chin doing nothing show how impotent they are and will be subject to ridicule. If the same thing happened to white population say in Africa I have no doubt the US or GB will bomb them to Smithers
Complain? I was merely stating facts.
Singapore is ruled by a group of elites who fawn over anything Western, like the doctors who mindlessly regurgitate Western propaganda on covid vaccines. However, if you really believe the US will help Singapore in a fight, I've got a bridge to sell to you.
The West fights wars when it benefits the interests of their ruling Capitalist class, it's called Imperialism. They love to bomb countries that can't fight back, but against those that can, even backward little hamlets like North Korea, they will always be all bark and no bite. This is why Mao Zedong called Imperialists paper tigers.
In contrast, while China doesn't start fights, it will always finish them. Just ask India and Vietnam. Someone who can't understand why China isn't Imperialist like the West really should check their own moral compass. Unlike the US, China works within the legal framework of the UN, so instead of asking why China didn't intervene, you should be asking why the UN didn't intervene.