Singapore’s George Yeo on Southeast Asia’s Chinese diaspora, regional anti-Chinese sentiment, and Lee Kuan Yew’s US-China calculations

• The ex-foreign minister believes the relationship between China and Singapore’s Chinese diaspora will strengthen as Beijing’s influence in global politics and economics grows
• Singapore’s ‘Chinese-ness’ can be appealing to diaspora communities, but city state is conscious that Asean neighbours could view it as ‘an agent of China’, he adds