Also, Singapore's parliament is like China's parliment -- it approves everything the ruling leader (The Prime Minister) says. It looks like it's 'elected', but any one-party system is the same, no matter how the issues are decided (i.e if there are no real opposition party, then it's not a democracy)
The CCP is and has been studying the Singapore political system for a number of years now, precisely for this reason.
What Singapore has the China lacks is rule of law and the level of corruption. Rumsfeld has totally missed the point on this -- economic systems can be strong under a one party system as Singapore has clearly shown, but it will have issues if rule of law and corruption persists.
The majority party in Singapore is the Peoples Action Party which holds a 81 seat majority in the 84 seat Parliament. 47 MP ran unopposed. There are many opposition parties, but none get any traction with the population. The major opposition parties are the Workers Party, the Singapore Democratic Party, and the National Solidarity Party and the Singapore Peoples Party.
Isn't participating in an opposition party a capital offense in China?