![]() In that capacity, Singapore is consistently principled, fiercely insistent on its own autonomy, an advocate for a rules-based order on which its status as an economic hub is built, and a masterful balancer between the United States and China. ![]() Its status as a majority ethnic Chinese democracy, security partner with the United States, and its position along the most important strait in the global economy, assure it an important role in the US-China contest. But that belies how Singapore’s geostrategic and symbolic importance, reputation for strong governance, and clear-eyed diplomacy have long earned it the respect and ability to play truth-teller to both Washington and Beijing. “Singapore has to take the world as it is it is too small to change it,” the city-state’s late founding father Lee Kuan Yew wrote. ![]() Review of Has China Won: the Chinese Challenge to American Primacy by Kishore Mahbubani. ![]()
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