No country presents a greater challenge to the convictions of a life-long democrat than Singapore.
When I first visited in 1996, I concluded that Singapore had achieved what communism had promised and failed to deliver: it had told its people that, in return for giving up some freedom, the state would house them, educate their children, ensure they had jobs and give them a standard of living the west would envy.
Singapore had done all that while remaining safe and peaceful, in spite of having an ethnically mixed population with some history of violent strife. And it had achieved it all without having any natural resources.
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