Manus came home, and Singapore couldn’t stop it

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by SEA: e27 / Vulcan Post at 14 Oct, 01:30 UTC

There is a particular kind of Southeast Asian optimism that treats Singapore like a geopolitical airlock. Walk in from Beijing or Shenzhen, shut the door behind you, register a Pte Ltd, and the pressure from home equalises. You are now a Singaporean company with “Chinese roots”, free to raise from…