China has managed to control ASEAN!

http://www.todayonline.com/world/mekong-countries-pledge-more-cooperation-demands-river-grow

China has managed to convince 5 ASEAN members to let China build 20 dams along Mekong river in exchange for resource sharing such as electricity generated by the dams through electrical grids which will be connected to these 5 countries.  Thus, China will be in charge of sharing the water & electricity among these 5 ASEAN members.

This has big implications for ASEAN as these 5 economies will be closely integrated with China's.  Furthermore, China will also implement its QRcode payment system in these countries to facilitate purchases for China tourists and local residents.  It is without any doubt that China will be able to exert its political powers and influences over these 5 ASEAN members and dilute Singapore's influences.  We took cognizant of such development in our previous posting below.

http://sg-stock.blogspot.sg/2017/12/china-is-forging-closer-relationships.html

China has made it very difficult for Singapore to oppose China in the ASEAN summit this year especially when SG is the chairman in 2018.

China is expected to win the KL-SG HSR because of its technological, economical and political prowess.  Please read our previous postings.

http://sg-stock.blogspot.sg/2017/09/why-is-china-so-blase-about-singapore.html

http://sg-stock.blogspot.sg/2017/09/who-will-win-kl-sg-hsr-project.html

If the KL-SG HSR is awarded to another country especially to Japan, China will not take this fiasco lying down lightly and deem this to be an anti-China move.  Therefore, China will definitely take revenge in the future as it has shown to possess great patience in implementing its strategic plans.