With the death of Singapore’s founding leader Lee Kuan Yew in
March 2015 and Chinese president Xi Jingping’s ongoing anticorruption
campaign, the international and Chinese media have been full of stories
about the interest of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership in
the “Singapore model” of good governance combined with authoritarian
rule. The official Chinese press has noted several “waves of Singapore
fever” since China’s “Great Reformer” Deng Xiaoping first visited the
Southeast Asian city-state in 1978.