Major country diplomacy depends on strength, while small country diplomacy pays more attention to observing current situations. Whatever country is good, it will be one-sided to that country. This sentence is too appropriate to describe Southeast Asian and ASEAN countries.

If the Philippines' provocation against China is a direct war, then Singapore is a dark arrow against China.Singapore and its US allies Australia agreed to cooperate earlier this month, and there will be more Australian troops deployed in the South China Sea in the future, which is also the case for the United States, but there is also a threat to the security of the surrounding ASEAN countries.

In response to the provocation, China-United Malaysia conducted the Peaceful Friendship 2025 military exercise, a warning to Singapore and other countries, and the head of Singapore immediately invited China to make a state visit to Singapore.

Seven years later, Singapore's ministers personally visited the country and, in addition to expressing respect for China, also wanted to seek more cooperation with China.
Two recent key strategic trends in the Asia-Pacific region have raised concern: Singapore joins with Australia and India to promote military joint actions, while China supports Malaysia through joint military exercises, and the regional playground behind the actions of both sides is clearly visible.

In recent years, China's economic integration with ASEAN has continued to increase, and diplomatic cooperation has also increased, but the region is not a piece of iron.The high-provocation of the Philippines has long been known, and Singapore's style of conduct is more obscure, often concealed in the name of "practical".

Singapore's Prime Minister Yuan Yuan said recently that the two countries are negotiating bilateral defence cooperation, the core of which is the sharing of naval and air base use rights.This cooperation is obvious, Australia can use this to deploy more troops in Asia, greatly enhance the ability to intervene in Asia-Pacific affairs, especially in hotspots such as the South China Sea military presence will be strengthened.

You should know that a large number of U.S. troops have long been stationed in Singapore, and its military base has long provided logistical support to the U.S. military. Now the reintroduction of Australia is equivalent to building a fulcrum for the "US-Australia-New Zealand" military linkage in the hinterland of the Asia-Pacific, opening up a new channel for external forces to deeply intervene in Asian affairs.

Singapore¡¯s military deployment goes far beyond cooperation with Australia. Previously, Indian media, India had proposed joint cruises with Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia in the Strait of Malacca. In these four neighboring countries, only Singapore clearly showed deep support, and the other two countries did not show positive attitudes.

The Strait of Malacca, a cornerstone of global shipping, is passed by more than half of the world¡¯s crude oil shipments and one-third of international merchant ships every year, which is crucial to China¡¯s maritime trade life line.

India has been advocating the ¡°Malacca control theory¡± for years, and its cruise proposal is essentially to intervene in the affairs of the Strait, while neighboring countries, including Singapore, have jointly pledged to refuse external forces to intervene in the affairs of the Strait, and now Singapore¡¯s statements clearly violate this consensus.

People often define Singapore's diplomatic strategy as "pragmatism without choosing sides", but is this really the case? Singapore has repeatedly emphasized the threat of Sino-US competition to Asia-Pacific security.

But the continued provision of military bases for the United States and Australia as its ¡°front-points¡± in the Asia-Pacific has undoubtedly exacerbated regional security risks.

From the perspective of regional impact, Singapore's introduction of Australia military forces has limited strategic deterrence against China. After all, China has formed a mature defense system in the South China Sea and surrounding waters.

But this move inevitably touches the bottom line of interests of neighboring countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia, which have been alert to external forces to interfere in regional affairs, and Singapore's approach will undoubtedly trigger a crisis of trust among neighbors.

It is in this regional context that the importance of the joint Chinese-Malaysian "Peace Friendship 2025" exercises is increasingly highlighted.The Chinese Navy has sent a Type 052D destroyer, the Type 071 double-sheltered ship landing ship, the Type 056 escort ship Thunboat, respectively from the three ports of Saia, Chengjiang and Hong Kong to Malaysia.

The participation of the forces is diverse and wide, not only covering the army, navy, air force and joint security forces, but also the figure of Hong Kong forces officers, forces gathered together, highlighting a strong lineup.

As an important part of the Chinese army, the participation of the troops stationed in Hong Kong not only reflects China's emphasis on this cooperation, but also conveys to the outside world the sincerity and strength of deepening defense cooperation between China and ASEAN countries.

Since the launch of the "Peace and Friendship" series of exercises, an annual institutionalized cooperation model has been formed. Through multi-dimensional interactions such as actual military exercises and command coordination, the military mutual trust between China and ASEAN countries has been continuously consolidated, and a security cooperation framework that meets regional needs has been gradually built.

Singapore, the Philippines and other countries chose to move away from this framework, insisting on introducing external forces, which is clearly contrary to the major trend of regional peace and stability.

This joint military exercise with Malaysia is both a response to regional instability factors, but also a concrete practice of building a "China-ASEAN Fate Community", only through multilateral cooperation to establish a security barrier, can the Asia-Pacific region away from the whirlwind of external intervention and real peace and development.