People are popular, and this sentence is equally common in today's international relations. China now has a very big voice in the world, so some countries like to talk about China when they have nothing to do.
On October 15, in a speech at the U.S. National Monetary Fund headquarters, the president of Singapore publicly shouted to China that if China wants world peace, it must give up one thing.
What else has the president of Singapore said? what has China to give up?
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Forced to speak?
On October 15, Singapore’s President Shandaman made a controversial statement at the International Monetary Fund’s headquarters in Washington, where he told the world that if China really wants peace, it should not think of “complete self-sufficiency” and learn to be “interdependent” with the United States and Europe.
There is a different understanding of this word in the ears of different people, someone will feel like listening., don't you think this is just asking China to "tie itself up" and surrender obediently? The president of Singapore has become a "sounding board for the United States," but some people feel that this is just a small country that has no choice but to speak out in order to survive in the cracks of geopolitics.
But the most interesting thing is that Shandaman's voice just fell, and everyone thought about "self-sufficiency", Singapore itself is the global model, and even the country that grabbed these four words in its bones.
In fact, Shandaman's speech was more like a forced speech for the United States and Western countries, because the main people sitting in the audience were the United States and other Western countries. His words were extremely accurate, and he seemed to be urging the United States to learn to coexist with a powerful China, but it was still China that was really aimed at.
He cleverly linked China's technological development and the tensions in the Taiwan Sea, the two most sensitive problems in the West, suggesting that once the conflict broke out, it could evolve into a key issue between the United States and China, which actually accurately expresses America's current anxiety.
It is even more clever to choose the President of Singapore to say this, because in Singapore's political system, the role of the president is largely symbolic, and the real decision-making power lies in the hands of the Prime Minister and the cabinet, which leaves enough room for manoeuvre for this rather exciting remark.
If the outer rebound is too big, the phrase can be interpreted as “the president’s personal point of view” and does not represent Singapore’s official position, which both consolidates Singapore’s own credibility in the western camp and minimizes diplomatic risks.
The real calculation.
If the speech in the United States is for them in the United States, then Singapore's actions in the Strait of Malacca at its own doorstep are their real calculations. The narrow waterway of the Strait of Malacca is not only the economic lifeline of Singapore's survival, but also the energy artery through which more than 80% of China's imported oil must pass.
This is the intersection of the interests of both sides and, of course, the key site for geo-playing, Singapore remains neutral in speech and action, but is not ambiguous, just in September, Singapore's prime minister, Yuanxiang announced, inviting the Indian Navy to participate in the joint patrol of the Malacca Strait.
Everyone knows that there is a subtle competitive relationship between China and India, and this trick of "leading the wolf into the room" to balance China means far more than the so-called cooperation itself, Singapore is trying to draw India to balance China.
Of course, China is not sitting there.China also immediately announced that it will hold an unprecedented scale "Peace Friendship 2025" maritime and air joint military exercise with Malaysia, another key coastal country in the Strait of Malacca, with China saying that Malacca's security should be the country's own business in the region, and there is no time for external forces to intervene.
And the most ironic and most thoughtworthy is the foundation of Singapore itself, the country's persistence in "self-sufficiency" is derived from a deep-seated survival anxiety, which also constitutes the core story of its consensus on inner cohesion.
At that time, Singapore's water source was completely stuck in Malaysia's neck. In order to get rid of this dependence, they just launched the "Four Major Water Pipes" plan, frantically collected rainwater, desalinated seawater regardless of cost, and even treated sewage into drinkable "new water". Their goal is to achieve complete independence of water resources by 2045. Now Singapore's self-sufficiency rate has exceeded 60%.
Food is the same, a country that needs to import more than 9 percent of grain, how strong the sense of crisis can be imagined, so Singapore vigorously invested in urban agriculture, vertical agriculture, want to do everything possible to plant grain in the land, Singapore's series of operations is praised by the world as "high-perspective" and "not rain silk".
But when the same story happens in China, the whole world doesn't say so, they think that China's struggle to engage in independent control is filled with support, it is China's initiative to disconnect with the world, and Western countries' dual goals are truly manifest.
The dish in your own hands.
But exactly the opposite, China is completely forced out of passive defenseWhen a large number of technological enterprises such as Huawei and ZTE are included in the U.S. "entity list", the risk of chip cessation is always faced, and when the Dutch ASML companies are under pressure from the U.S. to restrict the export of high-end light engraving machines to China, China has to grow from the adversity.
That is why China wants to achieve 100% localization in some key areas at all costsThis is not to challenge anyone, but to not rely on others at critical moments. Now in many fields, China has even developed countermeasures, such as export controls on rare earths related technologies and products.
If we look at Singapore's "foresight" and China's "forced defense" together, we will find that both are using their own methods to deal with the vulnerability of external dependence. Shandaman's advice to China is actually tantamount to denying Singapore's own foundation for the country and exposing inequality in the international discourse system.
So just listen to Shandaman's remarks, President Shandaman outside mainly told Western countries to listen, but Prime Minister Huangxi quickly balanced in the domestic, he openly criticized the U.S. tariff policy in October, also said the world has entered the "post-American era", showing Singapore's neutrality and awareness.
Former Prime Minister Li Xianlong has long set the bottom line for relations with China, and he has made it clear that "the Taiwan issue is China's internal affairs", this red line no one wants to touch.
For China, understanding the complex survival philosophy of this set of small countries in the game of great powers is far more valuable than simply leaking emotions and criticizing its "double goals", and the ultimate response is actually simple, which is to maintain its own strategic determination, adhere to independent development and opening up to the outside world.
For example, the "Belt and Road" initiative benefits many countries, and China's annual grain output far exceeds the international warning line. China must firmly hold its rice bowl in its own hands. Only when China's strength is strong enough and its mind is open enough, the voice of the outside world will not pose a threat!
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