Singapore has always maintained "equidistant diplomacy" with the two sides of the Taiwan Straits, but "Singapore and Taiwan are emotionally more close," says Hsu Penchin of the Department of Political Science at Singapore National University, "Communist China is a communist country, and the gap with Singapore's ideology is too great."
眾所周知，新加坡一向與海峽兩岸維持「等距外交」，但「新加坡和台灣在感情上比較接近」，任教於國立新加坡大學政治系的徐本欽博士指出：「中共是共產國家，和新加坡的意識型態差距太大。」