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What Zelensky’s Oval Office spat has to do with Singapore’s foreign policy
Singapore’s diplomatic and military strengths are essential cards in hand for surviving in a might-is-right world.
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Now is certainly not the time for pacifism in defence, or for suggesting that Singapore’s adroitness in maintaining sound ties with both China and the US is misplaced.
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Even in today’s era of whiplash headlines, the events of Feb 28 – when Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky endured an Oval Office blow-up
US President Donald Trump and Vice-President J.D. Vance’s shabby treatment of Mr Zelensky may have been dismissed as “great television” in Mr Trump’s own words, but it also exposed a stark logic: When small states fall out of favour, they risk open chastisement or outright humiliation.
