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fear over recession is over done.

uschina trade war means some manufacturing will find alternate places to manufacture.

singapore being small only need small part of this changes.

those industries that can be fully automated/robots with few engineers/tech is suitable. land wise we have a large area of industrial land like yew tee returning to sla on laease expiry. with the rail land returned this is now a continuous piece that can have good development. build high with motor access like those of logistic storage .

an entire village of manufacturing can be house in one high story building.

pharmaceutical can be made here. high quality , process control locals are here with the knowledge from the 80/90 eras manufacturing . no risk of stopping export due to local need as population is small.
good port facilities will help move products quickly.

look at yiwu, small place like singapore can also have many talent to design here small commodities. more auto/semi auto process to make us cost effective. some can also export/reexport. land cost is up to sla to managed. some use is better then grassland. waste land. no revenue.