Chapter 1215: The Question of Position

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"Oh four". Fan Heng was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said in his heart that every country has a national spring whip pad from each country, so how can you start with a shameless tattoo?

Fan Wuxian pointed to the things on the Internet and explained to his father Fan Heng, "This thing is obviously for the Chinese, and on the surface it makes the Chinese feel better, but in fact it has no meaning at all, because English is the real official language of Singapore." ”

Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong responded to the Washington Post's call to "block China" and openly refused to visit China, causing a great uproar in world public opinion, in sharp contrast to the French Prime Minister and Indian Defense Minister, who visited China soon after.

After Goh Chok Tong returned, the "Lianhe Zaobao" forum triumphantly said: "Goh Chok Tong's move was praised and welcomed by Southeast Asian countries, and on 2 May, when Goh Chok Tong was interviewed by the media, he openly doubted China's ability to govern and declare that foreign capital should withdraw from China."

However, a few days later, the **Urgent Vanguard** in Taiwan gave up the tone of attacking China's big 6 and instead wished China the big 6 and Hong Kong to tide over the Canadian crisis as soon as possible. On the contrary, the Wall Street Journal of the United States published an article entitled "It is difficult to hide the aura of China's economy", which is in stark contrast to Goh Chok Tong.

At the ASEAN summit, Goh Chok Tong initially took the lead in refusing China's participation in the meeting, but without China's participation, the meeting would be meaningless, and later had to be "temporarily invited." China's participation also stipulates that ASEAN will meet first, and then China will be included in the second paragraph of the agenda.

Despite the low-profile treatment, the Chinese premier attended the meeting, where he proposed the establishment of a prevention fund. He also said that China is willing to donate $1.2 million.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong openly refused to provide the average small donation of 130,000 US dollars, and it was okay if he did not donate, and Goh Chok Tong went back and proudly proclaimed, saying that the leaders of other ASEAN countries at that time looked at his attitude, and it was he who took the lead in rejecting China's proposal. It's like you're a hero in Southeast Asia.

Singapore's high-profile anti-China ** at this time is not entirely unreasonable, because he is about to visit the United States to sign the new US Free Trade Treaty, and he needs to dress himself up as the bridgehead of the United States in Southeast Asia to fight for the most benefits.

During his visit to the United States, Goh Chok Tong praised the United States in a high-profile manner and hoped that the United States would play a leading role in the struggle to prevent and control Canada.

In China's struggle against China, Germany generously gave huge aid, France broke the world's blockade of China with actions when China was in domestic and foreign difficulties, India also took the initiative to break the international blockade and criticized excessive international media coverage, Japan offered to give assistance in funds, science and technology and equipment, South Korea symbolically provided emergency assistance to China, Britain provided five million dollars in aid, and the United States also promised to do its best to help China tide over the difficulties.

Singapore is the only country in the world that has been a high-profile critic of China, ridiculed and gloated.

Singapore said in a heartfelt way that it is because China has no freedom of press and speech, which has caused Singapore to be invaded by rivals, so Singapore certainly has reason to scold China.

But is there freedom of speech in Singapore? Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao forum has imposed a blanket ban on posts commenting on diplomatic relations between China and Singapore, including deletion and postal closures. Not to mention the freedom of the press in a small forum, Lianhe Zaobao has never criticized Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's dictator.

Singapore is actually a family-style dictatorship with a democratic halo on its head, no different from North Korea, Singapore's next generation leader is Lee Kuan Yew's son Lee Hsien Loong, which has long been predetermined, Goh Chok Tong is just one, just a transition, after all, Lee Hsien Loong is too young to hold his ground.

Calling from Singapore to China is more expensive than calling from the United States to China, because Singapore's telecommunications company is cut off by the Lee family. Lee Kuan Yew also once criticized him for the "untruthfulness" of the American media. Covering the Great Thunder, he fought a lawsuit with the American media, which is the first lawsuit between a leader of an exceptional country and the American media in the history of the United States.

In fact, Lee Kuan Yew did not understand the spirit of American law and the spirit of press freedom, and the US media did not need to guarantee 100 percent accuracy in reporting on public figures, because public figures have the hegemony of discourse and can defend themselves at any time.

Lee Kuan Yew's lawsuit with the media only shows his ignorance of the spirit of democracy and freedom.

"In fact, Singapore has always been the bridgehead of ****, in the past, Lee Kuan Yew started with the influence of Malaysian ** people, and after Singapore independence, he massacred ** people, closed Chinese schools, and banned Chinese speaking.

When Hong Kong returned to China, Singapore created public opinion everywhere, saying that Hong Kong was about to decline and that the financial center of East Asia should be transferred to Southeast Asia

In order to compete for the status of financial centers, Southeast Asian countries accelerated the implementation of financial liberalization and introduced foreign banks, which finally became the fuse of the Southeast Asian financial crisis.

If China hadn't resisted the pressure and pledged not to depreciate the renminbi, Southeast Asian countries would have been doomed long ago. ”

"All political parties in Hong Kong, whether left, center or right, are very disgusted with Lee Kuan Yew, and the Hong Kong media has lashed out at Lee Kuan Yew. Lee Kuan Yew went to Hong Kong to receive an honorary doctorate from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a group of university students ran to protest. Lee Kuan Yew sarcastically said that it would be the real courage if they dared to protest in Zhongnanhai, implying that China was nothing more than a dictatorship. Fan Wuxian said to his father, Fan Heng, "But what Singaporean dares to protest to Lee Kuan Yew?" Lee Kuan Yew did not forget to brag about himself, emphasizing that he was the elected leader of Singapore, but in Singapore's elections, the military police and national security officers can openly monitor the voters and scribble the ballots.

Fan Heng didn't express any opinion on this, and there were some things that really didn't need to be said too clearly.

However, in China, because of the long-term poor news, false reports, and the adoption of non-disclosure of some negative news, Chinese have a complete lack of understanding of certain countries, so there are many misunderstandings.

Objectively speaking, the Chinese's closeness to Singapore is really unfounded, just watching a few Singapore soap operas, intuitively think that Singaporeans are part of the Chinese, and even some simple-minded young people even think that Singapore should be a Chinese ocean-going agency.

In fact, if you had studied the history and formation of Singapore, you would not have thought about it.

In the early years, Singapore was a British colony located in Southeast Asia dominated by Chinese, which inevitably had colonial colors, and a small number of English-educated Chinese served the British colonial government and enjoyed relatively high living conditions, while most of the Chinese who could not speak English lived unsatisfactory, they just regarded Singapore as a place to make a living, and still identified themselves as Chinese.

Even some wealthy Chinese, because they do not receive English education and adhere to strong Chinese cultural traditions, their social status in Singapore is not high, and these people also identify themselves as Chinese, and until after the founding of Singapore in 1965, many older generation of Chinese still identify as Chinese.

This phenomenon continued until the 90s of the last century, when after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Singapore in 1990, the Chinese in Singapore gradually came to be accustomed to calling themselves Singaporeans.

It is impossible for there to be only one voice in a country, and there are also pro-China and pro-American factions in Singapore, but the government led by Lee Kuan Yew is hardcore pro-American, and the Chinese who yearn for China have been suppressed.

In the sixties of the last century, Nanyang University was brutally repressed against the pro-American Lee Kuan Yew government, and the university was closed, now renamed Nanyang Technological University, and later reopened.

In the 1997 Southeast Asian financial crisis, China took a highly responsible attitude to help them, fully embodying the demeanor of a great power and not staying out of the matter like the realism of the United States; therefore, the pro-China faction in Singapore once raised its head, Indonesia and Malaysia opened visas to China one after another, and the Philippines refused to allow US warships to be stationed.

In Singapore, the pro-China faction, represented by President Ong Teng Cheong, also hoped to move closer to China, but was once again suppressed by Lee Kuan Yew, and President Ong Teng Cheong subsequently stepped down.

In 1993, Singapore held its first presidential election, and Ong Teng Cheong won and became the elected president of Singapore. However, in 1999, he gave up running for the presidency due to health reasons, and Rapanadan, Singapore's ambassador-at-large and president of the institute, was declared president without an opponent qualified to challenge.

Subsequently, Wang Dingchang ended his six-year term as president and settled in the United States for medical treatment.

When Ong Teng Cheong died in hospital in February last year, a "family-assisted funeral" was held in Singapore instead of a formal state funeral, because President Ong Teng Cheong was not considered to be entitled to a state funeral because of a dispute between the National Reserve Fund and the People's Action Party (PAP) in his final term.

In fact, President Ong Teng Cheong's resignation was mainly due to the fact that he could not withstand the Lee Kuan Yew clique politically and was forced to leave the United States, which was not as simple as it seemed on the surface

Although there are many Chinese in Singapore who yearn for China and hope to get closer to China, Singapore's one-party dictatorship is even more serious than China's, which can be described as terrifying, and ordinary Chinese are also very helpless about this. There are no pop-ups