Chinese privilege claim ‘entirely baseless’, says Singaporean PM Lee Hsien Loong

[UKBengali]

Who's going to repatriate European Americans?

That was a tactless comment.

Ethnic Chinese built Singapore into one of the most prosperous and safe states in the world.

They should be applauded for this and it was Malyasia's loss that they forced out Singpore back in 1965. With Singapore still in Malaysia for sure it would be a completely industrialised country years ago.

 

[Song Hong]

1900s vs 1600s in the 50s most people had only been there for a generation at most.

Also should the Han settlers be deported from Taiwan as well?
The native people there are Polynesian and not Chinese.

That is why the unwritten rule of thumb is anything before 1776, you can hold it. Anything after 1945, you cannot annex. 1776 is US independence.

Else every single country legitimacy is being call into question.

 

[Falconless]

Ethnic Chinese built Singapore into one of the most prosperous and safe states in the world.

Singapore was already the crown jewel in the empire due to it’s strategic location. All anyone had to do was maintain some semblance of law and order and any government or ethnic group would have prospered.

 

[beijingwalker]

That is why the unwritten rule of thumb is anything before 1776, you can hold it. Anything after 1945, you cannot annex. 1776 is US independence.

Else every single country legitimacy is being call into question.

Han Chinese were in Taiwan thousands of years earlier than Europeans in Americas.

 

[Song Hong]

Singapore was already the crown jewel in the empire due to it’s strategic location. All anyone had to do was maintain some semblance of law and order and any government or ethnic group would have prospered.

Also provided the rulers of the land let talent have their ways. Geographically, Malaysia and Indonesia are as good as Singapore. They cant make it.

 

[beijingwalker]

Singapore was already the crown jewel in the empire

I always thought this title belonged to India.

 

[Falconless]

Han Chinese were in Taiwan thousands of years earlier than Europeans in Americas.

Han settlement only began in the 1600s when the Ming Dynasty fled there.

 

[beijingwalker]

Also provided the rulers of the land let talent have their ways. Geographically, Malaysia and Indonesia are as good as Singapore. They cant make it.

Chinese still control the economy of both countries.

 

[Falconless]

Also provided the rulers of the land let talent have their ways. Geographically, Malaysia and Indonesia are as good as Singapore. They cant make it.

Singapore was the main base of the Royal Navy’s Far Eastern fleet, meaning it had a massive port and the associated infrastructure to service that port unlike Malaysia and Indonesia

 

[Song Hong]

Singapore was the main base of the Royal Navy’s Far Eastern fleet, meaning it had a massive port and the associated infrastructure to service that port unlike Malaysia and Indonesia

The entire Malaya was British colony and why dont they build all these elsewhere. Clearly there must be a reason.

 

[Falconless]

The entire Malaya was British colony and why dont they build all these elsewhere. Clearly there must be a reason.

Mere Jaan look at a map,google what the straits of Malacca are and then think why did the British invest so much in that island and why they removed the natives.

 

[Song Hong]

Mere Jaan look at a map,google what the straits of Malacca are and then think why did the British invest so much in that island and why they removed the natives.

They natives are not removed. Malays and Indians are flooding like nobody. It happens that immigrants of Chinese outpace others.

 

[Falconless]

They natives are not removed. Malays and Indians are flooding like nobody. It happens that immigrants of Chinese outpace others.

The Malays were native, why do you think the British brought in Chinese and Indians to displace them?

 

[Song Hong]

The Malays were native, why do you think the British brought in Chinese and Indians to displace them?

Most Malays in Malaysia are not even native there. Most are from Indonesia. And also Kelantan Kedah all belongs to Thailand, and going all the way back, they should be return to Thailand.

 

[beijingwalker]

Why ethic Chinese, as a marginal minority, dominate the economy of almost all ASEAN states?