>Both majority Han Chinese>Both city states>Both ruled by the British in a relatively detached manner for a similar length of time>Singapore starts in a worse position at the time of formation of the modern state, is essentially a malarial swamp surrounded by Muslims hostile to it>Yet today Singapore is much wealthier and has more diverse forms of income without artificially inflating it's wealth through financial servicesHong Kong is not exactly a poor country, but what historical factors produced such different outcomes?
Also I should have added>majority han chinese without the penalty of mainland rural IQ
>>18402517China. Both their takeover and the rise of Shenzhen dwarfing Hong Kong.
>>18402525All including Taiwan are majority Southern Chinese with high IQ strait merchant culture and Hakka-Hokkien rulling class and entrepreneur
>>18402517Singapore sits on the Strait of Malacca, making it one of the world's greatest shipping hubs.
Compare the rise and fall of Hong Kong Cinema before and after PR China annexed British Hong Kong.
Hong Kong benefited heavily by functioning as a "free" western window into the Sinosphere at large, but once Mainland China began exploding economically combined with the ever declining freedom in Hong Kong since the handover it's lost much of its competitive advantage. Singapore on the other hand benefits from having a key strategic location that isn't replaceable in the same way you can replace Hong Kong, and unlike Hong Kong has presided over remarkable sociopolitical stability since the 1970s
>>18402517Bumping this thread to mention that Singapore is a fucking shithole and the most hated country over at >>>/trv/
