https://www.scmp.com/rss/502687/feed Philip Liu Hsiao-pong is a professor at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, and director of the International Master’s Programme in Asia-Pacific Studies at National Chengchi University in Taiwan en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com China has long been considered an obstacle to Singapore’s nation-building efforts of the post-war period. This is mainly because Beijing was suspected of using its ethnic links to encourage Singapore’s communist rebellions in the 1950s and 1960s as founding father Lee Kuan Yew was working towards establishing the city state. It has widely been believed that Lee and his People’s Action Party (PAP) wanted to create Singapore’s own multiracial national identity, and therefore downplayed overseas... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3035974/china-friend-or-foe-singapore-how-wily-lee-kuan-yew-made-it-both?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3035974/china-friend-or-foe-singapore-how-wily-lee-kuan-yew-made-it-both?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 03 Nov 2019 23:00:06 +0000