Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris hold a joint news conference in Singapore, on Aug 23, 2021.Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has sounded the alarm over the ongoing public debate on whether US treaty allies South Korea and Japan should deploy or develop their own nuclear weapons.
“But if we only look at regional security from the perspective of individual nations, we may end up with an arms race, and an unstable outcome,” he said. “We should maximise the opportunities for countries to work and prosper together, and minimise the risk of tensions worsening into hostilities.” In a joint press conference on Saturday following talks with Biden, South Korea’s new president Yoon Suk-yeol said the US president “affirmed the ironclad US commitment to the defence of the Republic of Korea and substantive extended deterrence”.
“Such channels need to be worked out and established between the US and China, and between other countries which have disputes with each other,” he said.“If US-China relations continue on this path, it will lead to a further bifurcation of technology and splitting of supply chains or even worse unintended consequences.”
In a dialogue session with Shigesaburo Okumura, the editor-in-chief of Nikkei Asia, Lee also addressed questions about his ruling People’s Action Party’s recent decision to name Finance Minister Lawrence Wong as his eventual successor.
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