In the previous chapters, I have sketched how the Chinese political worldview and conceptions of Chinese uniqueness and exceptionalism are fleshed out through Chinese international relations theories (Chapter 2), the articulation of a Chinese national identity (Chapter 3), and the construction of its national image as different from the West (Chapter 4). In Chapter 5, I have examined the discourse surrounding the Belt and Road Initiative and identified some key themes that are salient to China's view of global order, while in Chapter 6, I have explored how China's national image is perceived by its neighbors (Vietnam and Indonesia) and analyzed the extent to which Chinese interests are being acknowledged and shared by those countries. Building on these ideas, this chapter examines the degree to which the Chinese worldview regarding domestic governance and international order – and the exceptionalism discourse surrounding it – is accepted by overseas Chinese communities. Specifically, I focus on the case of Singapore, a city-state whose majority population is ethnic Chinese and whose approach to governance has been closely studied by Chinese leaders in the past. Unlike Hong Kong and Macau, which fall under Beijing's rule, and Taiwan, which China claims sovereignty over, Singapore's sovereignty as a nation-state has never been questioned by Beijing (at least publicly) since its independence from Malaysia in 1965, despite the substantial presence of an ethnic Chinese community there.