chinese even though they're 'ethnic chinese'.

Lee Kwan Yeo had specifically stated in his singapore independence declaration speech that 'singapore is not a Chinese nation'

There's great hypocrisy in that guy's "If China plays nice, we may even grow to like the country and its people, and not just their money". Those 'ethnic chinese' in SE asia stay there becos China was very poor might be until recently.

Individual chinese singaporeans who maintain good will towards china are individual cases.

Singapore is NOT a Chinese nation