http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/china-s-rise-cannot-be-contained-singapore-defence-minister/3340990.html
Will this appease China? I think this is just a strategic tactic to redeem our seized tanks in Hong Kong. China government has changed its mentality towards Singapore and only will believe in what we do rather than what we say. Singapore had been saying that we wanted to be a neutral party and not side with any party but Singapore sided with USA over South China Sea under a spurious court ruling. Singapore asked China to respect the PCA ruling but didn't request Taiwan to accept the ruling against its Taiping island (no longer an island under PCA ruling). Singapore also didn't ask Australia to respect the PCA ruling in which East Timor won against Australia recently.
All these have made China look at Singapore as a less credible and prejudice country because Singapore voiced out its opinions selectively. No matter what, this will be a good start and we have to slowly gain the trust of China all over again.
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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/2-weeks-on-no-formal-reasons-given-for-detention-of-saf-vehicles/3345672.html
Look like China is not appeased by our latest public remarks about not containing China. SG has to do more to get back our tanks.
China is really angry with SG now. China returned US sea drone in a short span of time but had not returned back our tanks.
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