...The first thing he needs to prioritize under his leadership, the first thing, the number one thing, is diplomacy. There's some major issue with our management of geopolitics. Over the ten past years we have basically offended China, we have unilaterlly, in a way among the sotheast Asian states, decided to sanction Russia ...and the geopolitics has been changing to Russia's advantage ... So now Singapore has wasted huge opportunities to take advantage of the conflict in Ukraine, to go deep into investment in Russia..

...Indeed many younger Singaporeans, less respectful of hierarchy, want more fairness in terms of who shares in growth: they think that a country sitting on such gargantuan financial reserves should more generously support welfare. They also want politics to be more participatory rather than heavily directed from the top. At stake for Mr Wong, when he goes to the country, is not his (and the 4G's) formal mandate but rather < wipes tears > moral legitimacy....

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ASEAN (1967 FTA): BN, KH, ID, LA, MY, MM, PH, SG, TH, VN, TL
APEC (1989 FTA): CN, CN-hk, CN-tw, RU, ID, SG, VN, TH, PH, MX, PE, CL, BN, PG, MY, KR; US, AU, JP, NZ, CA
CP-TPP (2018 FTA): AU, BN, CA, CL (2022), JP, MY (2022), MX, NZ, PE (2021), SG, VN, UK (2023), CN*, CN-tw*, EC*, UY*, TH*, CR*, PH*, KR*