Investment by China’s tech companies in Singapore has picked up considerable pace in recent months, with Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent all intending to anchor a presence in Singapore that can tap on Southeast Asia’s burgeoning consumer markets. The flurry of investment will inevitably – given growing discord between China and the United States – pose multifaceted challenges for Singapore’s policymakers, wrote Dr Shashi Jayakumar, Executive Coordinator, and Manoj Harjani, Research Fellow, both with the Future Issues and Technology research cluster at RSIS.

..Shashi Jayakumar is Executive Coordinator and Manoj Harjani a Research Fellow with the Future Issues and Technology research cluster, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU).