[ergocoder]

It's hilarious that we think of Singapore as competing with China where China has 1000x more people.

Singapore is pretty impressive.

[woooooo]

Look at the map, all ocean travel between East Asia and India/Europe basically has to go past Singapore. They've been a trade and financial center with a substantial chinese population for a long time.

[miyuru]

> Look at the map, all ocean travel between East Asia and India/Europe basically has to go past Singapore.

Same can be said about Sri Lanka.

[charlieyu1]

China could only compete with Hong Kong after they crippled Hong Kong hard enough.

[badc0ffee]

Well, 230x.

[ergocoder]

well, ok, less impressive