Artists make drawings by a pond outside the ArtScience Museum next to the city skyline in Singapore on Feb. 18, 2025. Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty ImagesCommentaryFor 30 years, one of the most comforting stories told in boardrooms, Davos panels, and foreign-policy salons was about China. Beijing had simply copied the “best model”: Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore, then scaled it up.
China Was Never Singapore at Scale
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