How they managed to become so successful?

How they managed to become so successful?

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literally just deciding to provide best opportunities for financial freedom and actually sticking with that plan.

How did no one in the entire region figure out this was the perfect geographical location for a major trading port?
That's the real question

>how is city state located in ideal spot for international trade so successful?
The British built harbour facilities and basic infrastructure, all they needed was to not fuck it up and offer good business legislation for companies to relocate there.

This is part of their success but don't explain everything

When Malaysia kicked them out and brits left, the country was Haiti tier with no money, poor uneducated people and risking a civil war due ethinic tensions

>This is part of their success but don't explain everything
It kinda explains, it brought lot of foreign investments.

whore for international corpos.

basically like those caribbean islands where shell companies all hide their taxes, except in asia

1. Benevolent dictatorship always was and always will be the best system.
2. Capitalism works, unlike the mental illness that is communism, you just need to properly regulate it.
3. Small countries are easier to manage effectively and are more immune to corruption.
4. Balancing between West and East and playing your cards right in international diplomacy is the key to a secure and prosperous existence. One should not make enemies when it can be avoided.

Han Chinese

Nay it wasn't anything like Haiti or else we would have never pulled ourselves out of our rut. It was the quite the prosperous city pre independence. And all that happened were riots nobody took up arms

Being strategically located, centrally planned yet capitalistic, and friendly to all wealthy countries.

This more or less

you will know the commie by the hateful scowling grimace he makes whenever he spots success and prosperity

Running a country like a corporation does in fact work

Just noticed, they kinda have a Switzerland shape...

I watched a bunch of documentaries about your leader, what a great man he was.
Reminds me of Salazar and Gaddafi, except they grew overly ambitious and eventually took the L, while he never did.

No way was lky not ambitious
We hope to expand this political way across the seas and by force we shall

If small countries are easier to manage, then why aren't everyone breaking up into small countries? The real question.
Obviously Singapore's location is very strategic, but is that enough?
Is size and effectiveness inherent tradeoff?

>Benevolent dictatorship always was and always will be the best system

The chances a greedy mf tooks the power is more than 99%, like you said here . Singapore had luck to have him as their dictator

Because you will have to rely on someone else for security, that's not a good thing.

I'm very jealous of them/

>Obviously Singapore's location is very strategic, but is that enough?
Yes

Planned economy.

>If small countries are easier to manage, then why aren't everyone breaking up into small countries?
Because the people at the top want the most amount of power