PM Lee said his aim was to understand how Mr Trump viewed ties with Singapore.
“I went in with an open mind,” PM Lee said. "I asked him when he was last in Singapore, he thought about it, he said perhaps about 10 years ago – I said it’s a long time I hope you come again."...
“I think we had a good discussion – I focused really on understanding how he looked at the relationship and on the broad issues and not on specific items. I think there’s time enough for specific items later on.”
For Mr Lee, Singapore's relationship with the United States was “a very broad and substantial one".
“And whichever is the administration, whoever is the president – these are interests we would like to push ahead and they would like to push ahead to.”
One interest that Singapore has been keen to push ahead with is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which President Trump took Washington out of.
Still, Mr Lee said that relations with the US were not strained, and that Singapore had to move on with countries still on board – a sentiment Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe echoed when he and Mr Lee met at the summit.
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“I went in with an open mind,” PM Lee said. "I asked him when he was last in Singapore, he thought about it, he said perhaps about 10 years ago – I said it’s a long time I hope you come again."...
“I think we had a good discussion – I focused really on understanding how he looked at the relationship and on the broad issues and not on specific items. I think there’s time enough for specific items later on.”
For Mr Lee, Singapore's relationship with the United States was “a very broad and substantial one".
“And whichever is the administration, whoever is the president – these are interests we would like to push ahead and they would like to push ahead to.”
One interest that Singapore has been keen to push ahead with is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which President Trump took Washington out of.
Still, Mr Lee said that relations with the US were not strained, and that Singapore had to move on with countries still on board – a sentiment Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe echoed when he and Mr Lee met at the summit.
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