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Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia stand ready to become the next Asian financial centers (Singapore is already, and with a joint US Air Base in Paya Lebar, it’s the place to go...)

The Philippines pissed off any goodwill that pro-US previous administrations had with the Communist Chinese lapdog Dutae. These administrations worked hard (Nonoy, Ramos, Erap) to undo the damage the socialist Filipino senators did when they kicked the US out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paya_Lebar_Air_Base

I remember the Singapore Movie, Ah Boys to Men, the initial 15 minutes was a simulated attack against Singapore by unmistakable Chinese Communist forces.

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I heard a Chinese guy on YouTube whom I have been listening to almost every day as he gives talks on finance, economics and politics in China talk about that very question today. His verdict: Tokyo is already big and international enough, but English fluency there is very poor. Singapore doesn’t have that problem, but it is far away from Korea and Japan. Taipei is going to be always subject to CCP political risk, much like Hong Kong. He didn’t mention Seoul, but no other city in the region is sufficiently developed.

So he suggested Singapore and Tokyo will likely split the spoils.