Nobody said Singapore must “align with China’s interests” just because it is ethnic Chinese-majority.
The point is simpler:
Do not benefit from China’s rise, profit from Chinese capital, trade, tourists, markets, and civilizational proximity, while hosting anti-China strategic theater and lecturing China to forget Japan’s crimes.
Singapore is not some innocent “tiny red dot” floating outside geopolitics.
It actively positions itself inside the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific architecture, it helps normalize India’s insertion into the anti-China containment framework, it hosts the Shangri-La Dialogue, where Western and allied security elites perform annual China-threat theater.
Then it acts shocked when Chinese people notice.
Please. If Singapore wants to behave like a cold strategic operator, fine.
But stop crying when Chinese people judge it like one.
China does not owe Singapore emotional protection just because it is ethnically Chinese-majority.
And Singapore should stop expecting to enjoy China’s development dividends while morally posturing against China’s historical memory and security interests.