{"id":183957,"date":"2025-09-05T09:16:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/05\/the-price-of-prosperity-singapores-60-years-of-independence\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:16:44","slug":"the-price-of-prosperity-singapores-60-years-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/05\/the-price-of-prosperity-singapores-60-years-of-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"The price of prosperity: Singapore&rsquo;s 60 years of independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On August 9, 1965, Singapore became an independent city-state. Despite having no natural resources, it now rivals some of the world&rsquo;s greatest nations. The key to its success: a strategic port that&rsquo;s now one of the planet&rsquo;s busiest economic hubs, and attractive financial policies that have turned it into a magnet for foreign capital. But this prosperity comes at a political price.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 9, 1965, Singapore became an independent city-state. Despite having no natural resources, it now rivals some of the world&rsquo;s greatest nations. The key to its success: a strategic port that&rsquo;s now one of the planet&rsquo;s busiest economic hubs, and attractive financial policies that have turned it into a magnet for foreign capital. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-183957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}