How did Singapore overcome its security challenges? Flashcards

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How did Singapore overcome its security challenges?

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-introduce NS
-Home-grown Defence Industry.
-diplomatic ties with different countries.

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NS

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introduced ns.
initial resistance to National Service, gradually however, NS became an accepted way of life.

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Home-grown Defence Industry.

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1967, Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS) was established to produce ammunition and weapons

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grew bilateral relations with other counties

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influential countries such as the US and China, as well as countries with which it had tension with, such as Indonesia.

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Singapore joined regional and international organizations

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117th member of the United Nations in September 1965
became a founding member of ASEAN in 1967

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