https://www.todayonline.com/commentary/bicentennial-lets-take-more-nuanced-view-colonialism?fbclid=IwAR1SetTpFbc8DtZOJ06KyLySGOX2wDZgZcRl60d8qDlJ3iGHN_FT-MwfQrw …
Hysteria free analysis of Singapore by the Anglosphere guy.
@parallaxoptics @thespandrell @Outsideness
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"This means that in certain circumstances, Western colonisation can leave a positive legacy." Amen.
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A communist Chinese take-over of Malaysia. There wouldn't be an independent Singapore if that had happened.
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Not sure I agree with the first part of this analysis. Small business-hub states offer an exit option to their neighbors, which probably has significant influence. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @thespandrell and
... The Singapore flight option sets a limit to the degree Malaysia can abuse its ethnic Chinese business class, for example.
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... Plus, "Reform and Opening" in China and Vietnam happened in two coherent ethnostates. A Malaysia run explicitly by Chinese would almost certainly be too unstable for any similar kind of full-throttle economic liberalization.
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