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All eyes on whether new Singapore PM will have a baptism of fire with China
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.
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How DPM Lawrence Wong navigates the rivalry between China and the US will be one of his biggest foreign policy challenges.
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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.
