TOKYO — There is no decision yet on when exactly he will take over from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, but it is 'a matter of time', Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Thursday (May 25). This could happen 'before or after' the next general election, which must be held by 2025, added Mr Wong, who is also Finance...
There is no decision yet on when exactly he will take over from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, but it is "a matter of time", Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Thursday.TOKYO — There is no decision yet on when exactly he will take over from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, but it is "a matter of time", Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Thursday .
He has also been stepping up engagements overseas, he added, noting that he is in Japan for the second time in May. He had earlier attended the Group of Seven finance ministers' meeting in Niigata, with Singapore invited as a guest country. Mr Wong said that Singapore's two IRs — Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa — firmly put the Republic on the world-class entertainment map.
On Singapore's exclusion by the US from its summit, he said: "We are comfortable with who we are, and we really do not need external parties or external events to validate our status. External surveys, he noted, have shown how Singaporeans held a high level of trust in the Government and public agencies.
In any case, Mr Wong observed that the world is complex and "cannot be easily distilled into binary labels".Many countries do not appreciate having "external parties impose their values and their systems on them", he said.
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