A Small Country's Foreign Policy Towards Powers

Singapore has enjoyed sound international reputation and status, played a certain important role in international stage that other small countries are extremely hard to gain as a small country , which resulted from that Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, the first Primer Minster of Singapore made diplomatic strategy to be equilibrant between powers according to the world and Southeast Asia situations, the comprehensive analysis of Independence and non-ally foreign policy and Singapore's comprehensive nation conditions. By the instruction of the strategic, Singapore has been trying to keep the good relations with world powers to obtain their assistance and support in economic and politic, relying mainly on the power of America and Japan to reach the balance of powers in Singapore and Southeast Asia, thus succeeding in maintaining the national security and independence, gaining the steady and fast economy growth. After cold war, the members of ASEAN came to realize that the Strategic is not only effective to Singapore but also to themselves and accepted it as the ASEAN diplomatic Strategic, which enables Singapore performance the strategic more smoothly.