Manus came home, and Singapore couldn’t stop it

e27 - Oct 14, 2026

There is a particular kind of Southeast Asian optimism that treats Singapore like a geopolitical airlock. Walk in from Beijing or Shenzhen, shut the door behind you, register a Pte Ltd, and the pressure from home equalises. You are now a Singaporean company with “Chinese roots”, free to raise from Silicon Valley and sell to […] The post Manus came home, and Singapore couldn’t stop it appeared first on e27.

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