SINGAPORE PERSPECTIVE

Singapore analyzes the negotiations with the lucidity of a city-state whose prosperity depends on global maritime routes. The Straits Times publishes two complementary angles: a portrait of a revamped and wary Iranian leadership ahead of talks, and the analysis that Iran can sustain six months of war but constraints will come from its population and China. This second angle is revealing: Singapore is one of the rare outlets to openly name China as a constraint on Iran, a fact most Western and Eastern coverage avoids. The city-state, a global logistics hub whose port depends on fluid international trade, reads Hormuz not as a Middle Eastern issue but as a direct threat to its own economic model.