[Sg] - LHL responding to a question at a US forum about whether China would make a move on Taiwan over the next four years

[UltimaOnline]

Qi Xuan: This is a question about Taiwan. Hopefully it is not so spicy. Singapore has always been trying to keep peace and facilitate the dialogue between the two sides across the Taiwan Strait, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China, Taiwan. Do you view the possibility that the PRC using war to reunify with Taiwan will increase in the next Trump presidency, considering he is more flexible in negotiation? If so, how will Singapore react to try and keep peace between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, as she always did in history.

LHL: First of all, we have never tried to keep the peace. We have always prayed for peace. There is a big difference! It is beyond our powers. We wish both sides well. We are friends with both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and we hope that they will be able to have a stable, peaceful relationship, and any changes will happen peacefully and in a way which is acceptable to both sides. It has become more complicated over time. I do not know how it will evolve in the next four years, but this is a dynamic which has longer than a four-year horizon. And I do not believe the views which are sometimes expressed to say 2028, or some year like that, is crucial, and therefore something is about to happen in the next term of the US government.

https://www.pmo.gov.sg/Newsroom/SM-Lee-Hsien-Loong-Conversation-at-the-2024-Edwin-L-Godkin-Lecture

Lee, now a senior minister in the city state, was responding to a question at a forum in the United States. He was asked for his views on whether mainland China would be emboldened to make a move on Taiwan during Trump’s second term.

“I do not know how it will evolve in the next four years but this is a dynamic which has longer than a four-year horizon,” he said during a question and answer segment at the Harvard University’s John F Kennedy School of Government on Tuesday.

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/poli...lays-fears-taiwan-conflict-during-trumps-term

 

[glockman]

Trump always has a way of making Pinky look more ku niang than he already is.

 

[bigozt]

These Tiong foreign Leeporters are slimy with their IF questions, always trying to trip SG up and instigate Sg'reans to support one side. Already happening in Melbourne Sg expat community where split into two FB forums, one filled with 50 cent trolls and other remaining uniquely Sg'rean.

Well handled by Arse Loong on this one.

Fuck the Communists!

 

[oliverlee]

lopens his big mouth to stick his foot in.

 

[zhihau]

森林大了，什麼鳥都有。

 

[eatshitndie]

attack attack! sinkie economy will go into tailspin and property prices will plummet. rent will collapse, tourism disappears, travel vaporizes except for flights getting out of the region to arsetralia, nz, uk, canada, us. sg as a safe haven to park funds also impacted. many will jump. sg becums suicide hub.

 

[A Singaporean]

I am more interested in the collapse of Sickipoora.

 

[syed putra]

I am more interested in the collapse of Sickipoora.

Trying my best. I have upgraded from a pen knife to a bamboo pole.

 

[rotiprata]

These Tiong foreign Leeporters are slimy with their IF questions, always trying to trip SG up and instigate Sg'reans to support one side. Already happening in Melbourne Sg expat community where split into two FB forums, one filled with 50 cent trolls and other remaining uniquely Sg'rean.
Well handled by Arse Loong on this one.
Fuck the Communists!

War means death n destruction to all sides; we all saw what's happening in Gaza; Ukraine.
The Communists n the Taiwanese are not tat ignorant n dumb to fall into this trap