Take, for example, the breakup of Singapore and Malaysia. On 9 August 1965, Lee Kwan Yew and Tunku Abdul Rahman shocked the people of their respective nations by announcing, separately and simultaneously, that Singapore and Malaysia had officially become two separate states as of that very day.
以星馬分家為例，一九六五年八月九日，在一般人萬分驚訝的反應中，李光耀和東姑拉曼同時告訴人民，從這一天起，新加坡和馬來西亞正式分為兩個國家。