evidence: Regarding its geopolitics, Singapore’s traditional significance has become ever more important. Singapore is a small island city-state sitting at the bottom of the Malayan peninsula, the junction point between the South China Sea and Strait of Malacca, and in a wider sense between the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The Malacca Strait is a key trade route, the choke point between the Indian Ocean and East Asia/the Pacific. Energy supplies flowing through the Malacca Strait are of particular significance for Japan, India, and China.