How did he do it?

How did he do it?

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Embrace colonialism

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His country is in the best location possible for trade routes.
By the way, I've heard China wanted to build a canal in Thailand to bypass Singapore, what happened to it ?

he got lucky. he is no xiaoping

you don't need a canal to bypass singapore, there's a dozen indonesian straits you can sail through

>location
This is a cope and doesn't explain why Singapore became much more prosperous than Malaysia or Indonesia right next to it

by strict authoritarianism
Singapore and china are big fuck you's to delusional westerners who think one need political freedom and democracy in order to prosper

i have no idea

this, also singapore was already well-developed by the british even before independence
but those routes are longer

Corruption is the biggest obstacle to development.

malaysia and indonesia have much bigger populations

he turned the place into a family dynasty that worships him as some sort of a god. amos yee got sent to a mental institution just for criticising him (amos yee was later found to be a pedo as a refugee in the us, but that's not why he was institutionalised in singapore)

No , only reason is because it very small city state that easily to developed

So? A large population can develop just as fast. Worst Korea for example

He didn't. It was mostly the Indian officials and ministers that did most of the legwork. He just took credit.

worst korea is in a downward spiral. Literally wait 50 years

God he was so fucking based

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>Singapore is associated with LKY only in international sphere
lol what a miserable place

Singapore is incrediblely racist and homophobic

It just a autoritharian shithole larping as a first world

it lacks sovl
It want's to be like Paris or London or NYC without realizing what made those cities so vibrant

South Korea is pretty small compared to Indonesia and Malaysia, but you're right, it's not just location. More important is education. In this aspect South Korea had a massive advantage compared to Indonesia, even if they had similar development levels. In 1945, South Korea's literacy rate was 22%. For Indonesia, it was 5%. Other than education there are other factors like politics.

How is that a cope? The location of Singapore is the only reason it's wealthy, why do you think Britain created it in the first place? It's the perfect geographical location for a port in the region and has been ludicrously rich since its creation

I need sex

Because if it had bad governance, corruption, lack of rule of law, no property rights, it would be a shithole and ships would be stopping at a port in Malaysia or Indonesia instead

Why is Panama as poorly developed as its neighbors then?

Holy kino

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Panama is relatively richer compared to its neighbors

75% chinese

But still you shouldn't go full retard like kim and mao

>vibrant

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Geographic determinism is always the go to thirdoid/brown cope.

Mao was only bad coz he overstayed his welcome.

If he caught cancer and died by 1960, he would be considered on the same level as Qin Shi Huang (only soy confucianists hate him)

you merely adopted colonialism. We were born in it, molded by it. And now we shall revive it.
Yellow soldiers tearing down pride flags flogging queers and straightening up yuropeon sissys to beat on browns and blacks together

He's Chinese, therefore he understands how humans work

Panama is richer mate, look at their capital city, it looks like Singapore

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What about Egypt and the Suez?

The Suez can't beat the petrodollar

That's because they money launder for the world unironically