Recently, Singapore** listed a pro-China businessman, the president of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce and the Kowloon Club, Chen Wenping, as a "politically influential person" under the "Prevention of Foreign Interference Act".
Thus Tan Boon Ping created a history in Southeast Asia, the first Singaporean ever to have foreign political influence in Singapore's official presence. The reason is simple, that is, no, it is according to the law.
Singapore's practice of this kind of law gives the same powers as the KGB to the Minister of the Interior.
For example, if he thinks that whoever is planning to engage in social **, or even who he thinks is about to engage in hostile information propaganda, the Home Minister can issue restrictions on the content of the account, instruct the media company, block the content of the account, and make the account unavailable in Singapore.
There is no need for a reason, just the decision of the Ministry of the Interior, which is called the Ministry of the Interior, which is actually a ministerial decision that you understand, can be implemented immediately. The British military intelligence service and the CIA of the United States have to call them experts when they see each other.
The practices of a department that is above the law often represent the true intentions of the de facto controller of a country. We don't know how Chen Wenping is suspected of being in a foreign country. This is mainly because it is up to the Minister of the Interior to say what this law says.
Tan Boon Ping does like to surf the Internet, and has published articles in mainstream Chinese** in Singapore, focusing on global politics and China's international status. In 2018, Tan Boon Ping called on Singaporeans to "not be misled by the prejudices of the West".
Whether the West is biased or not, we all know about the Aaron Bushnell incident, and we also know about Xinjiang cotton, Chen Wenping said in 2018 that the West is biased, and it is fine.
Now in 2024, Chen Wenping was suddenly caught as a bird. No matter how much you revisit the old things, you won't be able to settle accounts for six years.
Therefore, things have to be looked at together, Singapore's geographical location is indeed good, and collecting tolls can indeed ensure that everyone in Singapore has enough to eat.
But Singapore is not politically clean, the legal system is efficient, and the people are democratic. It's not about living a good life on American values. It is to ride against the wall, to be a refuge for international capital and politicians.
Now Singapore is dizzy, and the Minister of Defense has publicly stated that he wants to buy 8 American fifth-generation aircraft, explaining that it is because different fifth-generation aircraft have different advantages, and on the other hand, he is saying that it is due to the growing threat in the regionThere may be a big war in the next ten years, and the possibility of conflict is not zero, so it is necessary to prevent aggression.
Singapore's two neighbors, one is Malaysia and the other is Indonesia, and they are lying flat in the international community.
Side with the United States, bet that the United States will win, and use American rhetoric to exaggerate China's military threat is still a familiar old routine.
But Singapore can't understand why it's prosperous, and can't understand why it's prospering because it has ridden the wall between countries around the world and made a safe house, and without Lee Hsien Loong's political wisdom, he thinks that he is going to take sides, so we have to teach Singaporeans.
Singaporeans can drink water when they turn on the tap, turn on the switch and have a light, and go to the supermarket to buy food, which is all Malaysian food.
You said that if one day, Malaysia suddenly becomes a regional military power, dozens of cannons will be placed in the place where Singapore faces each other across the sea for three days, and if there is nothing to do, the coast guard will be engaged to check the ships entering and leaving Singapore, and when there is something wrong, the water and electricity supply in Singapore will be stopped and repaired.
How do you still have a good life in Singapore?
We cannot guarantee whether the newcomers will be able to do it, whether they will have the ability to govern independently, and whether they will lead the country into the ditch in the future.
Malaysia has bought my country's ** before, and it is very reasonable to buy something else in the future. After all, Singapore's purchase of American planes is Singapore's internal affair, and Malaysia's purchase of China** is also Malaysia's internal affair. There is nothing unreasonable.
Whether Singapore will continue to prosper in the future is not guaranteed. We can only guarantee that Singapore's bet on the United States will inevitably decline.
We can only see that Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said in an interview that Malaysia will not provoke China according to the requirements of the United States and the West, but will regard China as an important ally.