Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
Strong economy, based on knowledge skills leading to a well educated wealthy society. Compare that with other local economies that rely on oil wealth or minerals... those societies don't need knowledge and don't have a middle class as a result because they rely on primary goods and being sweatshops.
Singapore lives of it's airport, harbor and banking systems. All these parts are providing services to the countries around. Trade is made through Singapore since it's so easy to smuggle goods from there and the banks keeps all the corruption money with high secrecy. The threat against Singpore is that one day will the nations around get their act together and not need Singapore anymore......