Okay I feel I need to clarify. Singaporeans are not stupid and most are aware of the tendency of Indian immigrants to take over companies. Singaporeans have also been complaining about Indian immigration for some time, including one opposition member of Parliament.
The problem is, as Hitomi mentioned, that the government is obviously trying to link this issue with local non-immigrant racial conflict so that criticism of immigration becomes a racial issue, which is strictly
. The ruling party has been trying to insinuate that since 2021 (see link). Whoever is that netizen from China, he unfortunately walked straight into the trap by raising it online, because now the ruling party can link the whole issue to "foreign interference", which is also another Out-of-Bounds subject in Singapore. These "OB markers" are widely accepted because they originate from major disasters in Singapore history and very few Singaporeans will agree to start debate subjects that are linked to them