Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong arrives during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Labuan Bajo on May 10, 2023. SINGAPORE: Former diplomat Ashok Kumar Mirpuri began his United States posting the same year Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong started his social media accounts.
It’s not just hard foreign policy, it’s not just going into meetings, dealing with your counterpart … he connects all these things to Singaporeans.” “It is the cumulation of these modest, personal endeavours that have made a substantive, positive difference to bilateral relations under PM Lee’s leadership,” Mr Menon said.
They are to have peace in the world; to have an international order where countries respect and abide by international law; to establish a network of friends and allies with whom Singapore can work; to have a stable and secure Asia-Pacific region, especially Southeast Asia; and ultimately, to preserve Singapore's sovereignty and right to determine its future.
The Xi-Ma meeting was the first by leaders from both sides since China’s civil war ended in 1949. China and Taiwan had reportedly requested that Singapore facilitate the talks.As for the Trump-Kim summit, Singapore was chosen because of its security and neutrality, according to the US. Mr Lee said at the time that the S$20 million spent on logistics and security for the meeting was a price the Republic was willing to pay for a “very important operation”.
“We don’t enjoy capering about on the world stage just to cut a fine figure. We do it in order to defend our interests," he added. Mr Lee and then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a joint press conference in July 2017 at the Chancellery in Berlin. SIP, the first flagship project between the two governments, was established in 1994 to develop a model industrial township in China’s Jiangsu province. A few years later, the consortium was losing money and local officials had set up a rival industrial park nearby. Then-Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said Singapore might “bow out” of the project.
There were issues to be resolved, but not by “going to the streets” – and Mr Lee agreed, recalled Mr Chin. Singapore must “navigate carefully in this increasingly troubled landscape” but, “despite the dark clouds, the world still offers many opportunities for those who dare to seize them”, he said.
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