PM Lee on Singapore’s relations with the US and China | Interview with Lee Hsien Loong 

I literally was pissed at my earpiece for 5sec, turned off turned on and then saw this comment.

Hahahaah 😂

My left toe agree with you.

Omg I thought it was just me hehe

It has to be. China is the biggest threat in the region.

logically

The US can do the dirty work of keeping China off Spratly, Malaysian, Philippine and Vietnamese waters while Singapore's hands are clean.

Singapore uses mostly American military hardware.

Singapore military has nothing to do with China, it is 0. nothing to compare.

Not true….. if Singapore and US are strategic partnership, they will stand with US whole time….. the reason they say they don’t take side between 2 superpowers, already tell us the relationship between Singapore and US……

I believe that the Singaporean leadership has enough political wisdom to maintain a balance between China and the United States.

团结一切可以团结的力量啊，现在又不是热战。就算是德国、澳大利亚这种全方位盟友也跟中国有经贸往来。我们现在就是要稳住，欢迎一切合作，哪怕对方不是真心。

Surely you will choose higher tech weaponry right? Considered countries aside

我想你有些误会

@@TPDTND one can't avoid dealing with stupid people in one's life, let alone a country. Different people deal with stupid people, often with different results. of course, if the other person is smart, then you need more wisdom.

😂 I agree with u. In fact we SG should learn from both Russian and Israeli, expand our territory! We Singaporeans are must more hardworking than our neighbors countries, we deserve more land to benefit the all humankind.

@@HawkishMerlion1965 Yes. As the 20 units of F-35 jets will put Singapore air force in the “premier league”, or so claimed Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen. With that Singapore can tow behind the U.S. just like the other vassals, the U.K. and Australia. Singapore will become the mightiest country at least in South East Asia despite being a tiny island of 730 km². After all, Singapore’s friend, Israel is arguably the most powerful country in the Middle East. And Israel with a land area of 22,145 km² is only 30 times bigger.

But wait a minute. Did Pentagon just say that only half of its F-35 is mission capable? Hopefully, Singapore is given the “mission capable” one.

@HawkishMerlion1965 ？Are you crazy? Singapore is a small country among small countries. Don't think you can do anything with a little money.

@@yuejiang4601 To be fair, I think what ​​⁠​​⁠@HawkishMelon had said is “antiphrasis”? He is ostensibly saying the opposite of what he actually meant. But it is obvious what his true intention is.

​@@solaris5655整天瞎说。

​@@gflaubert3423is Singapore anti-genocidal too? Look at Gaza where the USA n Israel are committing blatant genocide in their so-called "international rule of law". Disgusting. Rest of the world aren't fools!

​@@solaris5655United states sees Singapore as just some dictatorship and wants it completely remade in their design. Singapore should be wary of America also.

国家大事让你们这些人废话连篇，找就亡国，别假厉害了！

@@TPDTNDthey are geographically far away enough that they are less than a threat compared to China. Besides there’s enough Chinese influence still in Singapore that will keep such a thing from happening. This tension between Chinese and Western influence is what Singapore has to carefully play with to maintain its sovereignty as a nation state.

And vice versa too actually

@@Alasterius41 sure, we are a team...singapore has leased an airbase in the USA, and US Navy has been used Singapore for services. Like Thailand, Singapore is one of American friends in the region.

@@rock3times What I mean by vice versa is “with China around, Singapore doesn’t fear America”. It works both ways for Singapore. China cannot take over Singapore with America around but neither can America take over Singapore (even if just ideologically) with China around. That is how Singapore maintains its absolute sovereignty..

😂😂😂 I agree PAP not comparable to it past. But currently no opposition party want to takeover as government, not even WP😂😂😂. I see other opposition party are more willingly to be government by forming opposition alliances , but WP only want to be opposition only.

Chinese nationalists agree with Tom Cotton. 🤦🏼‍♀️

😂🤣 u must be new to Singapore

Dude, in Singapore you also have the 1 party that rule for more than a decade.

@@Justin87878 So what , it's still been chosen by the people of their free will , most important is you have a choice unlike in China

@@yuantham7643 dude, that is an illusion of the free will...no matter who you vote, the pap is the only one that will govern

@@yuantham7643 the funniest logic I have ever seen lolz

@@qiangyou6694 Why and how it's funny

@martindawn934 No, we are not preventing competition. What we are preventing is Duds getting into Parliament. We don't want Chee Soon Juan or JB Jeyaretnam. They are not going to build the country. LKY

谢谢您，但是请您不要不把自己当外人。

@@luckyx69 有时候棋盘上的棋子应该知道自己的处境，知道中国人和新加坡人是怎么看你们的吗？

@@luckyx69 顺便告诉你，日本人说你们是合格的日本人，能看到日本人写下这种评论我真是为你们感到骄傲啊

你的说法已经让新加坡很不舒服。请不要和新加坡人说什么中华民族，什么不是外人。新加坡是多族裔国家，还有马来人和印度人，所以，作为一个国家，新加坡不是什么华夏民族，更和中国是外人，不是一家人，请不要套近乎了。

@@muomu 谢谢你，但是我不在乎你是怎么看

All dictator r bad.

it is most asean countries have been doing

​@@mabo9636 blind following blind

新加坡被称为"墙头草"是不恰当的。新加坡的外交政策基于务实主义,着眼于国家利益和地区稳定,不会简单地依据意识形态或族裔认同来选边站队。他们客观评估各方的政策和行为,权衡利弊得失,以灵活、平衡的策略在复杂的地缘政治环境中生存发展。 新加坡坚持国家主权、不干涉内政、和平解决争端等基本原则,积极倡导区域合作、互利共赢的发展模式。这反映了新加坡作为一个小国的现实处境和长远利益。 我们应该以更开放、包容的心态看待新加坡的外交立场,而非期待他们支持某一方、反对另一方。国与国之间的关系复杂多面,需要在合作中谋求共同利益,在竞争中管控分歧,避免对抗冲突。新加坡务实、灵活的平衡策略值得借鉴,有助于探索互利共赢、共同发展的道路。

​@solaris5655 where r u from?

​@@deschan2246Nowadays a lot of ATB become you tubers and give comments on Singapore issues. 😂

你想多了。星國是從昂撒殖民地出身，然後又被該昂撒殖民地出身的馬來國家給驅逐出來分立的。只不過當地的人民的先祖是來自中國的多些罷了。其他的再説吧。

你想太多了。和中国人无关。

新加坡的成功和中国人没有半分钱关系。你们的满世界认亲戚的习惯，让很多人不舒服。

我们的成功与你们无关. 当我们独立时，中国没有站出来支持我们。以色列是第一个支持我们独立的国家。在我们建国初期，中国根本没有帮.

Singapore was founded by the Malays who are the native people of Singapore and not Chinese. In fact, the official language of Singapore is the Malay language and the national anthem is in the Malay language as well. Its success is the success of the multi racial society and not the Chinese.

Singapore is 75% Chinese, say this is no problem

@@yuejiang4601 oh so what the other 25% think doesn’t matter according to you? You think that’s ok? It’s like the US president saying America is a country of white Europeans.

@lostinmuzak The United States is an immigrant country, Singapore is not

@@yuejiang4601 hahahaha. All chinese came from China and so did the Indians. Not sure what you are saying. But you are still saying it’s ok for 25% of Singapore citizens to be insulted. My last comment on this. Thanks.

Nobody care if you are disappointed or not

@ArabicReja973 What is there to explain. The Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines help thousands of families to combat Covid. I am one of those families. Are you drunk when you made this posting?

Did Taiwan Chinese government ordered the fake vaccines? They must explain to the families of thousands of Covid victims.

As an Asian American, I support China over America. China has never racially discriminated against other Asians while the US is actively attacking Asians in America

@@ronsmith3523 have you seen how the Chinese behave in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar? 😂

I am English educated since young as I born in SG, I work and live in both America and Europe. I can confirm that Ang moh are mostly racists. As long u are not white skin u will be treated differently even u are western cultured since young. So I hope china rise even I have nothing to associate with china except same skin color.

I'm not from India it's old and wrong to generalize Asians in America. Asians are very diverse. For example Indian Americans are classified as Asians by the Official US Census Bureau and Pew Research. They are the richest and most educated ethnic group in the US earning more than double the US average across all groups including whites and Jews. They are the fastest growing Asian group in the United States. They're 1.2% of the population and they control 6 trillion US dollars of the economy according to Fortune magazine in December 2023. According to research done by Stanford University Professor Ilya Strebulev they are 34% of the unicorn startups and most were born in India, unicorns in the United States are valued at 1 billion USD, they're not just CEOs and 10% of academics in the top universities in America but entrepreneurs with no guanxi nor affirmative action bottom up, not top down from the government such as Blacks and Latinos. They don't have any connections with the Indian government. They are also active in social and public work representing different ethnic groups in the United States. They are less exclusive than the Chinese and other East Asians. And they are found in the media as well as in law and government many of them run tech firms as CEOs and they represent 40 % of medical doctors. They are also venture capitalists. So the stereotypes are very old in Singapore and Malaysia I notice that there is ethnocentricism amongst the Chinese in terms of renting and as well as promotion of Indians, people who have been born in these two countries for three generations. It's not just the Malays who discriminate. So please lets go by data and facts which are easily obtainable and can be verified by major news media such as CNBC, Bloomberg, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist and official US data plus academic journals. Singapore has Sanskrit roots in name meaning Lion City. Indian company investments in Singapore are valued at 60 billion USD according to the Confederation of Indian Industry. Not bad.

Well , in 1967, Singapore requested help from many countries for the Defence Military setup. Middle East Israel accepted and helped Singapore. Both India & Egypt refused to help Singapore Defence Military setup😢 . So naturally, Singaporean have different views on India & Egypt compare to the Israel.

Wrong man I'm a Singapore Chinese but I dun feel like fighting for china. So you might want to do that but you don't speak for all Chinese here. And i don't know about that Chinese law but you are certainly subject to Singapore law. That's a fact. Most Chinese here don't have extended families in China. Many in Malaysia, some in Indonesia maybe. Man, you must be new to Singapore.

Why on earth would China have conflict with Singapore unless Singapore drink too much US kool-aid like you did to look to pick up a fight with China

​@@loooongtimeago frog in well or plain ignorant?

@@deschan2246 decride yourself pretty well. I'll also add in delusional.

​@@solonavi3928 move on

He is a very competent leader who contributes to world peace and stability.

Thank you for being a bot of Endian government for the last 20 years, sir!

😂😂😂👍👍👍​@@directxxxx71

你算个几把