Friends or Foes? WIN-Win Partnership

Lessons learnt from Suzhou Industralised Park 
Originally, I assumed that since we are both Chinese, China's culture and Singapore-Chinese's culture would definitely be similar. However, the Suzhou Industralised Park Project made me think otherwise.
We follow more of the Western mindset which are: Content, Ends, Specificity, Formal Negotiation, Phase and Legal Contract. However, the mindset of China are: Process, Means, Generality, Prenegotiation and Post Negotiation Phases and Trust. The mindsets are somehow completely different. However, Singaporeans made assumptions of their understandings towards China's mindset and led to a poor impression they had on us. Had we put in the effort of getting to know about their mindsets instead of assuming, I am sure things would have been very different from what it is today.
Singapore also failed to cultivate a relationship between the Suzhou officials as they only interacted with the Beijing officials and Suzhou officials were offended.
However, I was glad that Singapore did not give up even though it did not turn out as planned. The government continued to organise more projects between both countries. Singapore also learnt a lesson, getting to know more about the mentality of China and I am sure the same mistakes would not be made in the future/on-going projects between both countries.

Sharing of development experiences
I definitely think that being a small island, Singapore should continue to share her development experiences with other countries. Compared many other countless countries, we are very small in size. We have to maintain good relationships between other countries, whether is it win-win, or WIN-win. If we become complacent and refuse to share our development experiences and advancement, other countries are always ready to replace our position, and we would soon lose a say in the world's matter. This way, we would go back to a third-world country as quickly as how we became a first-world one. Thus, we should maintain this crocodile & bird relationships between other countries so as to maintain our current position in the world.