February 8, 2015

"MR LEE HSIEN LOONG is Prime Minister of a small country with a big name and influence that should not be underestimated.

The city-state Singapore with its 5.4 million inhabitants might seem tiny next to the major Asian powers.

But as a traditional trade and transfer hub with excellent relations to all regions in the world and with Western thinking prevalent among its political elite, Singapore has always been arbiter, interpreter, and a microcosm for European and American projections of South-east Asia."

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