Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

With that, Vivian and the others left.

Emerging from the negotiation venue, Vivian cried as he complained to Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya:

"What a bunch of scoundrels!"

“Indeed.” Iwaya Takeshi agreed, stating that the negotiation skills of the Allied officers were practically nonexistent; they relied solely on force, lacking any understanding of diplomatic negotiation techniques such as yielding and retreating, or maintaining a balance of power. He added that if the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were to negotiate, they would surely persuade the Singaporeans to agree to a more tactful peace treaty with immense gratitude.

Vivian and others returned to Singapore.

At this time, two different rumors were circulating in Singapore.

Some people whispered among themselves:

"Li Xinghe's army is in South Vietnam. He has gathered more than 200,000 troops and intends to send the entire Singapore into a meat grinder until Singapore surrenders. It is said that he has also prepared 5 million Chinese high school and university graduates to flood the country. At that time, people of Malay and Indian descent will be doomed and beheaded if caught."

Some people also secretly spread the word:

"Malaysia is preparing to invade Singapore. If we don't stop resisting the coalition forces, we will be wiped out. The Malay army is determined to kill all of us Chinese. The most important thing now is to get the coalition warships stationed in Changi Harbour as soon as possible to deter the Malaysian army."

Both sides were secretly spreading rumors that Malays wanted to kill Chinese, and that Chinese wanted to exterminate Malays and Indians. Suddenly, ethnic conflict and the threat to lives became extremely complicated.

At this critical juncture, Singaporean authorities announced that "ethnic groups other than those of Chinese descent or identity may leave through customs, but must leave gradually within two days. Their assets will be acquired by the government at a discounted price."

Malays and Indians alike attempted to flee.

Upon arriving at customs, they discovered that their ID cards had to be cut up before they could leave, and once they left, they would be unable to return. For many who had painstakingly earned permanent residency in Singapore through undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral studies, this meant the annihilation of half their lives.

But considering their impending subsistence of eating excrement and the potential for ethnic retaliation, apart from a very few who craved luxury and stayed behind, the rest of the ethnic groups fled.

"Run away!"

The escape quickly turned into a rout, with hundreds of thousands of Malays and Indians fleeing into Malaysia across the bridge, infuriating the Malaysian government. However, due to insufficient administrative capacity, the government was unable to trace the whereabouts of these people for a time.

As ethnic groups gradually leave, and as Malaysia tightens its grip on them.

The Singapore government submitted its application to the United Nations for 'Singapore's accession to the Greater China Federation' a day later.

……

Tokyo.

Li Xinghe's office.

"Logistics Chief He Sili has arrived."

The door opened, and a mixed-race officer with a distinctive Mediterranean appearance entered.

This is a rare military officer of mixed Chinese and Greek descent. His father was a senior engineer who worked at a port leased by a Chinese company in Greece in his early years, and his mother was a local Greek widow. They ended up in bed together. After a few years, his term ended, and his father ran away, leaving his widow and orphan mother to grow up alone in Greece, like many stories of fatherless children. Later, Hosley went to the East to find his own history and started a cross-border trade business in Shanghai.

He later learned that his father had been married for a long time and had been in prison for several years for corruption in his company, making it difficult for him to pass the civil service exam. He was greatly disappointed in his father and went to work for Li Xinghe in the military logistics business. Later, he was recruited into the military and held a high-ranking administrative position.

"Hosley?"

"Yes, sir! I am He Sili, a fourth-term supplementary soldier of the Joint Forces Coastal Combat Brigade, currently serving as the logistics chief of the Second Division under the First Army."

He Sili saluted Li Xinghe.

As a supplementary soldier during the coastal combat brigade period, he had a pretty good track record, so he was promoted very quickly in recent years.

Li Xinghe smiled and waved his hand, saying:

"I've heard that you are very good at handling disputes among soldiers, especially various issues related to different ethnic groups and lifestyles."

"Yes."

Hosley saluted again.

"I'm considering appointing you to Singapore as its first Special Inspector, responsible for overseeing the rebuilding and restoration of the Singapore local government. You will be given a multinational fleet and tasked with reorganizing Singapore's existing three divisions. You will also be closely monitoring the local financial sector, encouraging them to increase their non-US dollar RMB-Japanese yen financial operations. It's a very demanding task."

"I will do my utmost."

Hosley's mind was blank. Before he could figure out what to do, he had already received his appointment letter to report to the Sin Chew Special Administrative Region.

"Go."

After He Sili left, Li Xinghe turned around and complained to Old Wang behind the curtain:

"This candidate is someone that satisfies all parties, right? China, Japan, and the United States, each have a way out."

Old Wang was relatively satisfied, but also had more concerns:

"This time, China and your government are going to establish an international trade clearing institution with a mutual credit line of trillions of yuan to yen. Of course, we must be extremely cautious. In fact, one trillion yuan is not enough to replace the US dollar. In a very short period of time, we may have to come up with several trillion yuan to replace a large share of the US dollar in the region. The economic impact of this is really too great."

While it's said to be worth trillions, it's actually a clearing institution that replenishes funds as needed. It also includes a basket of currencies such as digital yuan, stablecoins, Japanese yen, and Korean won, which form the basis for international trade clearing that is de-dollarized.

Li Xinghe then counted on his fingers in thought:

"If things continue like this, perhaps an Asian currency similar to the Euro will be officially launched in the future? It will be pegged to the Renminbi and used specifically for trade settlement in Northeast and Southeast Asia."

Once the Asian currency is promoted, Southeast Asian countries will basically be completely finished, becoming like the Balkans and Eastern Europe within the European Union, with no further capacity for development.

Therefore, it is estimated that Southeast Asian countries will continue to resist.

Old Wang neither confirmed nor denied it, but instead specifically mentioned Li Xinghe's current predicament:

"The quota given to the UK is roughly in the trillions, but the main direction of cooperation is to assist Chinese capital in quickly entering Europe and sweeping up the last valuable companies after the economic crisis. The UK is currently trying to sit on the fence, waiting for the crisis to end so it can harvest Europe with both dollars and yuan. But you have a huge flow of hundreds of billions of dollars from numerous American financial hyenas. It's really difficult for you to lock them down."

For most governments, facing this dollar boom would be a helpless situation; they'd just have to sit back and wait to die.

But Li Xinghe was the head of the army, and he looked very relaxed:

"I couldn't wait for the dollar to plummet, so I pushed for an orderly depreciation of the yen to offset the pressure of rapid appreciation. I also required all the financial institutions below to sell their dollar assets in advance to offset the potential financial risks. Moreover, I will then initiate special financial supervision, so that they can only use their money between China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Vietnam, and they can't go anywhere else."

You can leave if you want, but you'll have to pay up a layer of skin and flesh before you go.

Old Wang was speechless for a moment.

Indeed, the tactic of "closing the door to beat the dog" still works.

……

The siege of Singapore will be lifted on September 29, 2030.

This siege, which lasted for more than half a month, left Singapore without water and electricity, leaving it in dire straits. Many people even resorted to drinking sewage and seawater to survive due to thirst. Moreover, Singapore also rallied Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, and other countries to oppose the coalition forces. As a result, Vietnam was defeated in three days by Li Xinghe, which offended a large number of Southeast Asian countries.

For this reason, Singapore paid a very high price.

As the new military song played, the Singapore flag was taken down, and the flags of the United Army, China, Japan and South Korea were raised in turn. Hosley, the former logistics chief of the United Army division, was transferred to the position of the first special inspector and parachuted into this unfamiliar land.

Singapore's existing political landscape was instantly crushed and shattered by this sudden, overwhelming force.

Local party organizations such as the People's Action Party and the Labor Party were immediately dissolved, and a large number of political families instantly lost their political power, silently watching their party organizations and assets be sealed off and turned into the assets of the coalition forces.

The Lee Kuan Yew family faced the most awkward situation. Their family assets were seized and liquidated, and Lee Hsien Loong, Lawrence Wong, and others were even forcibly detained by the coalition forces.

Singapore’s financial exchanges were forced to connect to the CPTPP clearing bank system, beginning to gradually reduce the dominance of the US dollar in trading.

As a person of Chinese descent, Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan did not leave and stayed in Singapore to participate in the formation of the new government.

He gazed at the descending flag, expressing his inner感慨 (gǎnkǎi, deep emotion/reflection):

"The history of the Republic of Singapore has come to an end."

But He Sili and Hu Zhantian, who were standing nearby, said:

"No, it's just that the history of Lijiapo has come to an end."

"The history of the Sin Chew Special Administrative Region has begun."

Chapter 864: Territorial Disputes Are All There, But Osavance Is No Longer Needed (4700 words)

The era of Singapore has come to an end.

The era of Xingzhou City has begun.

The first wave of impact from the changing times was directed at the Lee Hsien Loong family, who had long maintained Singapore's authoritarian political system.

The coalition forces dispatched several South Korean soldiers who were fluent in Korean, Chinese, and English to surround several of the Lee family's villas and handcuff Lee Hsien Loong, Ho Ching, and their three sons.

They also arrested Lee Hsien Loong's brother, Lee Hsien Yang.

“I’m in the opposition, I’m his brother, why are you arresting me?” Lee Hsien Yang said, feeling very wronged. “I’m from the Singapore Labour Party, Lee Hsien Loong’s opposition, why are you arresting me?”

But nobody paid any attention to him.

One by one, the soldiers sealed off their mansions and villas, confiscating everything inside and taking photos for documentation.

The Li family members were forced onto a delivery van:

“Old fools, if you had just given in earlier, you would be living a comfortable life in Hong Kong or Guangdong by now. We’re not going to send you to Hong Kong now.”

Lee Hsien Loong was shocked:

"Where?"

The soldier replied:

"Hokkaido Special Autonomous Region".

"what!"

Lee Hsien Loong collapsed to the ground, fainting from fright.

Although the Hokkaido Special Autonomous Region is still masquerading as an autonomous region, rumors occasionally circulate about what Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Ching-te are doing inside. Local Taiwanese have also largely realized that the DPP members who led them to escape have all been detained by Li Xinghe and are spending their days in jail.

Lee Hsien Loong will also have to sit in there and pay the price for his past anti-China remarks.

At this moment, the entire Li family trembled, realizing that they too would be spending their later years in prison. Ho Ching, former longtime chairman of Temasek Holdings, wiped away her tears.

"We're both surnamed Li, why can't you just let us go... Waaah..."

However, the soldier's answer was:

"Crying? Crying counts as time! Get out of here!"

No one sympathizes with the Li family, who have been maneuvering around the world's political landscape, and who have finally had their legs broken this time.

Soon, one after another, Singapore's political families were put on ships for detention, while local tycoons were in a state of constant fear, searching everywhere for people to help them, even openly going to the gates of military camps to offer money and beg for connections.

Lee Hsien Yang appealed his opposition stance again and was unexpectedly granted permission to remain as Lee Kuan Yew's guardian, but he must adhere to the Greater China Federation policy.

The Huang brothers, Singapore's second richest family, couldn't wait to kneel before the United Army flag and swear oaths to Li Xinghe's soldiers:

"This world doesn't need two suns! We will firmly support the Greater China Federation's path!"

All the wealthy individuals trapped in the siege of Singapore tacitly donated money to the Inspector General's Office.

Edward, the richest man in Singapore, donated $5 million to reimburse military expenses. The Huang brothers donated $2 million. Subsequently, dozens of wealthy individuals, including the couple who ran the hot pot restaurant, opened their wallets and contributed $25 billion to the coalition forces.

Not only in Singapore, but also in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, wealthy Chinese have generously donated another $30 billion in an effort to find new backers.

Furthermore, the acquisition of Singapore's huge financial market further expanded the coalition's economic power, and the military expenditure spent on beating Vietnam finally began to pay off.

Changi Harbour.

Watching the Li family leave in tears, Inspector He Sili scratched his head and asked Hu Zhantian beside him, "It seems that this country doesn't really welcome us."

The establishment of the Sin Chew Special Administrative Region triggered a series of chain reactions.

The ASEAN Organization sent people to ask whether Singapore is considered a country. It has clearly become a so-called provincial-level unit, like the Southern Bureau in Vietnam, which seems ambiguous, like a separatist force, yet slightly different.

Then we will have to terminate your membership, and please do not participate in our activities anymore.

To put it bluntly, although Vietnam was defeated, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and other countries were on tenterhooks. They wanted to expel Li Xinghe and prevent him from interfering in ASEAN affairs, but they didn't dare to openly resist, so they could only try to contain him covertly.

But Singapore's response was:

"A diplomatic delegation from the Greater China Federation will replace Singapore in participating in the ASEAN Meeting Charter. The agenda will remain unchanged thereafter. We will invite diplomatic delegations from China, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea to assist our work."

You want to kick us out? We're not leaving.

Not only will they not leave, they will continue to squeeze into your home and cause trouble.

Hu Zhantian said:

"He Yang and Zhang Xiaoqian did not come because of the issue of the troop deployment on Phu Quoc Island. Thailand and Cambodia are so scared because we are going to station the 2nd Naval Assault Brigade on Phu Quoc Island that they keep writing letters and sending people, hoping to reduce the number of troops stationed there."

Phu Quoc Island is located on the western side of the Mekong Delta, southeast of the Ream military base in Cambodia.

This island controls the entrance to the Gulf of Thailand. Deploying a naval assault brigade here would inevitably require the installation of air defense, anti-ship missiles, and surveillance radar. This is tantamount to treating Thailand and Cambodia as subservient subjects already in the hands of the coalition forces, completely disregarding them.

So both countries felt aggrieved and believed that things couldn't go on like this, and hoped to reach a military understanding with the coalition forces.

However, Zhang Xiaoqian and He Yang went to warn them that if they protested again, they would hollow out the mountain on Phu Quoc Island, install phased array radar on top, and place a ballistic missile launch base underneath.

During this period, territorial disputes in Southeast Asia had escalated to the point of being a powder keg.