ALL EYES ON WHETHER NEW SINGAPORE PRIME MINISTER WILL HAVE A BAPTISM OF FIRE WITH CHINA

ALL EYES ON WHETHER NEW SINGAPORE PRIME MINISTER WILL HAVE A BAPTISM OF FIRE WITH CHINA

 

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Mr Lawrence Wong will be steering the Republic through an increasingly complicated world. The Straits Times examines what lies ahead for Singapore’s ties with China.

BEIJING/SINGAPORE - When then Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made an unofficial visit to Taiwan a month before taking up the top job in Singapore in 2004, he unwittingly incurred the wrath of Beijing.

It abruptly called off a trip by then central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan to Singapore, delayed an invitation to a trade delegation to Chengdu led by then National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan, and scrapped a Singapore fair in Shanghai two weeks before it was due to open.

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