联合早报警告潮汕电影《给阿嬷的情书》是统战，新加坡人照样抢光4800张票，文化乡愁为何压过政治警觉？新加坡华人坚持祖国是新加坡，马来西亚华人却喊中国是祖国，一部阿妈电影撕开海外华人身份认同的伤疤。

Despite Lianhe Zaobao warning that the Chaoshan-themed film Love Letter to Grandma was a tool of "United Front" work, Singaporeans snapped up all 4,800 tickets; why did cultural nostalgia override political vigilance? While Singaporean Chinese insist that Singapore is their motherland, Malaysian Chinese often proclaim China as theirs—a film about a grandmother has exposed the raw nerves of identity among the overseas Chinese diaspora. Will Singapore be next after Taiwan is reunified? Such scare tactics work because no one has clearly articulated China’s logic of "benevolent rule" (*wangdao*). Regarding the US military presence in Singapore, China’s true concern is not the Strait of Malacca itself, but rather that strategic "chokepoint" which could be expanded at any moment. US bases in Saudi Arabia failed to stop Houthi drone attacks; if Singapore ties its security entirely to the US, might it repeat that mistake? Amid the "Malacca Dilemma," the thorn in China-Singapore relations is not the Strait itself, but the US military base; trust needs to be rebuilt most urgently with a neighbor that cannot simply move away.