8 SEPTEMBER 2019 • 6:00AM
In 1965, Singapore went through its own “no-deal Brexit”: an ill-tempered split with the Malaysian federation. The smart money, back then, was on Malaysia. Foreign policy experts and FT columnists assured one another that the city-state was too small to make a success of independence.
In the event, 1965 was the beginning of Singapore’s take-off: the moment when, as its founding premier Lee Kuan Yew was later to put it, it “plugged into the international economic grid”.
I spent last week in Singapore, marvelling at its cloud-capp’d towers and gorgeous palaces. Free-marketers have always loved the place: a swampy equatorial island, dependent on imports even for its food, water and electricity,... ST.
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The Left's hatred of Singapore is based on anti-capitalist dogma, not evidence