Singapore and the nautical silk road

Pity that even having this for six weeks I had made so little progress reading it. It was an interesting story and not well known among us. From the little I could gather, I am reminded repeatedly how vulnerable Singapore was. Until 1965 it was always part of a larger suzerainty and unless we put in herculean and astute effort, that is where history, which even if it doesn't repeat will rhyme and take us toward. We might yet lose Singapore in a novel fashion through having so many foreigners here in a hurry we are transmogrified into a mammon worshiping global node. We have and will resist becoming part of any of our neighbors but we could end up losing ourselves by accident because we could not succeed with our identity intact. Well at least our leaders say it wasn't possible. Never occur to them we are as good as conquered with the SAF intact eh?

In the book you can't missed that China had often cast a long shadow over Nanyang and they have ambition to reprise that. As for Japan, beside World War II where were they?

As always we are guilty of procrastinating the important for the urgent. I must check out this book again from our library sometime.