Singapore PM Warns of U.S.-China Miscalculation Over Taiwan
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- Tensions over Taiwan risk leading to a miscalculation between the U.S. and China as both nations step up activity around the island, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong warned. “We should be concerned,” Lee said Wednesday night in an interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum event in Singapore. “I don’t think it’s going to war overnight, but it is in a situation where you can have a mishap or a miscalculation and be in a very delicate situation,” he said.
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As someone who’s in a rare position of knowing both China and US well, he came across as authentic and insightful! Seems to have thought through all kinds of issues in depth and is not afraid to share.
Like father, like son.
Yes Singapore recognizes the importance of stability and managed relations between China and USA.
Too bad he doesnt a suitable son to continue the family line
Lee Kuan Yew said multiple times, including during his Harvard interview with Charlie Ross, that Singapore would never ever take sides in the conflicts between India and China, and China and the US.
I guess the thinking hasn't changed.
One of the few clear minded leader not mislead by popular misconception……..
@Duncan Donut Donut on what basis other than your hope for chaos in Asia
Truly his father's son,very sharp n wise;)May the good Lord bless him with good health(LKY's definitely)watching over him fr above
He’s very clever not to include Taiwan in his reply so he’s not dragged into China & Taiwan issue. He’s a politician!
He is the highest-ranked military general who surrounds himself with military generals.
Because in Asia we know the Chinese (I.e China) pays attention to everything spoken and ‘words’ can offend.
Love the background for this seminar or event!Very unassuming but suitable 4the occasion!Excellent*
He speaks like a LKY, insightful and deeply thought out. His views will be well respected. 30 years ago, no one would give a toss of what he says because Singapore was a backwater then, same with China at that time. Achievement and success bring great respect for any country; jealousy and envy will not make US a greater country. US is still a "preferred" to be the greatest country in the world due to its system of open government. There are however too many bad seeds within the country holding it back, which the country would do well to improve on.
Wise knowledgeable and deep understanding that actions have consequences
Singapore Prime Minister is another league ahead of others in Asian countries. Singapore is discussing about world politics while Malaysian PM are still embroiled in Race and Religion issue since day one after independence. Malaysia is like an ostrich that cannot fly while Singapore is already soaring up high. Ostrich like to bury its head in the sand.... oblivious to the constant dynamic world scene.
Majority of Malaysian politicians are too busy indulging in corruption and racism to be interested in world affairs... Lol
Good advice...as usual. I think the US should learn to work with others and worry less about being the only #1 Nation in the world.
Many Americans believe that they would rather start(including the proxy one they are fighting now) a war with China than lose🤔 that exalted number 1 title, financially it's inevitable but will it matter, China is building its millitary up quickly but it's also clearly a defensive millitary, but with this terrible war going on with Russia China is watching knowing that if Russia fails, China is next in the US /NATO sights, what a terrible thought, just the US /NATO unipolar world just4% US population and 10% their cronies, ruling the 86% not going to happen, 🤮🇺🇸🤮🇬🇧🤮🇮🇱
The world needs more Lee Hsien Loong ….. #worldpeace
SG seems to always have sensible-rational leaders, I'm always impressed how well spoken and thoughtful they are. I def can't say that about our leaders in the US.
The fact that China can still take an interest in joining a framework that America set up, even though it is implicitly designed to cut China out goes to show how deeply rational and intelligent the Chinese leadership really is. I think what PM Lee said in passing that Chinese leaders think about these things very carefully is missed by most of the western viewers. You are now dealing, as Kishore said, a highly rational, high intelligent leadership that is very very seldom given into emotional and pathological outbursts and stupid mistakes.
China is going to rise and overtake America because this crucial characteristics of Chinese leadership will enable them to make far less dumbass mistakes and focus their attention and all their effort in growing their country. America will "lose" as in losing their hegemony because its leadership is always going to waver between barely functional to utter disaster. Those mistakes will add up and they will compound and America will eventually find itself in an unenviable position that they screwed themselves into.
Excellent views, well expressed.
Yet the CCP continues to threaten to "Nuke" other countries regularly.
Everything rise and fall on leadership. John c Maxwell
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they are just weak not rational lol
Very thoughtful answers.
Measured and well reasonable politician . A breath of fresh air .
More like the air from the loo.
I’m watching 2 yrs later and this is fascinating! Thank you, this is very interesting. Thank you.
Very good chat
🙏❤️🙏👨🏻🎓👩🏻🎓📚📖 Thank you for making Singapore 🇸🇬
great again & again 👍🏽 👍🏽 👏 👏👏👏👏
Anglo empire has no country left to manipulate.
Lee Hsien Loong is wise like his father, the great LKY. And real articulate or speaks and conveys in English clearly.
WHY DO WE HAVE TO ALWAYS HAVE TO AGREE WITH AMERICA 🇺🇸😕??!
Because they have 800 military bases around the world and if you disagree they will insist on bringing you freedum and demockracy, by bribing your millitary and corrupting weak politicians, the west=14%of the world's population think they rule the world and 86% are their serfs 🤮🤮🇺🇸🤮🇬🇧🤮🇬🇧🇮🇱
This is important events that highlight what have happened during trade war, pandemic. Singapore as neutral will held important to the ally and china to cooperate instead of competition Cold War. The world is big enough for every country to have win win situation.
Don't forget that Biden didn't invite Singapore to his "Democracy meeting" in December🤔🤔 but they fell into line when it came to sanctions against Russia along with Japan North Korea from Asia +Australia New Zealand Canada all Europe with their master the US, I thing some sort of threats were made, we will see🏴🏴🏴
Like father, like son! One of the greatest authorities on 🇨🇳-🇺🇲 relation!
How do we get insightful people like this to run for office in the US?
Keep.corpotate money out of elections
He may not last more than a year in office. Talk is cheap.
Never because they are evil 😈 the devil is their God
THERE ARE MANY GOOD MINDS IN THE US. BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE CORRUPT AND POWER HUNGRY, THEIR INTELLIGENCE IS MOSTLY SUPPRESSED. THE WORD 'RIGHTEOUS' HAS BEEN ERASED FROM THEIR MINDS.
@@Dragon-gl1rwone year on, he is still the PM of Singapore. The delete button is there.
Let no man deceive you
AMERICA MUST LEARN TO CO-EXIST WITH CHINA AND ASIA.
Dream On!
@ TARA TAN KITAOKA
While I agree fully that peaceful co-existance is the best for this globes future I would question your thinking who will have the superior power to determine how this peaceful co-existence will be organized.
And I clearly disagree your assumption China = Asia.
US not "must learn", but has already established with Asian states like Japan, South-Korea, Taiwan and others a way of co-existance to the advantage of everybody.
US is working on its relationship with India after the Soviet Union disappeared as its major challenge.
On the point of China US had decided 40/50 years ago to pop up China as a counter-balance for possible Soviet Union expansion. This decision became obsolete when the Soviet Union broke up and this decision broke when China challenged recently in stronger way its neighbor countries and decided to crack down Hongkong (Hongkong did represent much more what US hoped/expected China to develop to to continue/stay with its 40/50 years ago decision - on one side I can understand PM Loong excusing China's crack-down on Hongkong being a necessity for clear common rulership of all China, on the other side it is also clear that such "win" of communism over democracy has consequences and I feel many Asians have not yet understood how strong the more and more becoming clear consequences are).
US has decided to cut China from its easy access to ever advancing western technologies which was the solid fundament on which China was able to blossom up and this already taken cut decision leaves few chance for China to re-establish "full" access. After such hard decision I think the reality is not on US to learn how to co-exist with China, but rather on China to decide if it really thinks its fundamental position is so strong that it can win a may be not military challenge, but the system challenge communism versus democracy. Seeing China's ambigue behavior on the war Russia-Ukraine you can clearly see how difficult the situation for China is, having no real freedom to do what it wants (may be not even being full clear what it wants/is best for it) while compared to China US has a rather rock-solid position allowing it to go without major problems in whatever direction it wants to go.
Seeing no unity/alliance between China and Asia by heart but rather some open or hidden thinking of competition I would out of above points rather see the situation as:
After US cut China's access to advanced technology China must learn how to co-exist with not only the US, but US and all its allies emphasizing democracy and dominating the world of permanently advancing technology on which China alone has few chance to win/dominate, unless it is able to establish strong partners. China is trying to establish such partnerships for example in the form of BRICS, but currently I fail to see how China can succeed when all US allies support by heart (somehow pushed by the need for atomic protection) the US position and therefore work in US direction to contain China (see for example recent G7 summit in Germany where in addition India, Indonesia, South-Africa, Senegal and Argentina got invited, please note 2 of these 5 being member of BRICS).
He understands both East and West, China and the US, is articulate, expressive, and speaks his mind. He's a rare find.
Insightful comments.
Genetically all of the Taiwanese-Hans perfectly belong to the "Great Wall "DNA.
Abraham Lincoln: Right or wrong is my country .
I must show my respect to this wise leader
PM Lee forgot to raise the Cuban missile crisis during JFK era as an example
Singapore has always preferred and wish other countries to be doing as well or better than us.
Visionary
Funny guy. He said America had the ability to recover from what she does to itself.
He is clueless. America is finished. America is done.
No no. Not finished. Have to think far and have faith in life… especially singapore, which is small but we never think we r ‘finished’ before we even try!
@ 1000100 Ten
Yes, saying "America had the ability to recover from what she does to itself" is indeed funny.
One small yet important correction when listening to what is expressed around 4:00: I think he did not mean the past "America had" but rather the present AND future "America has".
Some examples how I see this funny sentence:
US has opened Japan by military force in 1853/54, but when Japan behaved in a way that was not acceptable by US (it expanded in a cruel way and to some extent challenged US) this problem one has to say US created for itself was corrected during 2nd world.
US has selected Donald Trump, but then it selected Joe Biden.
US made China blossom up in a way that I think can be compared to some extent to Japan more than 100 years ago, but when China acted in ways the US does not like same as with Japan before the 2nd world war in Pacific started, US pushed the break. I think many decisions on how to break have already been taken and they are in execution without normal people having got knowledge about these brake decisions or having noticed their initial and still to show up full effect. Japan decided to eliminate the US brake decisions by attacking Pearl Harbour, how China will decide on recent brake decisions needs still to be seen (as I see today's situation, while US has already take decisions and is in the execution phase China has internally not yet decided which way to go, rephrased, inside China fights are ongoing in which direction to proceed)
It is easy and seems to be logical to assume China will replace US as No.1 might on this globe extrapolating the past 40 years development into the future by scaling it with the population relation of 330:1.350. However, the rise of Europe to dominate the world has shown that technology is a key point and the location and control of technology evolution is not at all according to the speed of China's rise or 330:1.350 relation, but very much to the favour of US (western technology is not developed by US alone, but by US+Europe+Japan+South-Korea+Taiwan+...). Also in geostrategic military terms US has huge advantages with no nearby power that can or would dare to challenge it (US is protected by 2 huge oceans), while China has at its borders several powers that have their own will and either internally the technology/power to at least challenge China or an alliance structure that puts them in a clearly superior position.
Another future development is, that today China has a population of 1.350 million, but this will shrink in future. Vice versa all indication today is US population will expand, one reason lying inside US having a rapidly by immigration grown population, the other reason being that many people still like to enter US as immigrants and it just depends on US decisions how powerful this immigration flow continues (similarly China could allow immigration and if so the success will lie on the side who has to offer the more attractive situation for the smartest of the immigrants where I again think today this is clearly the US).
In conclusion, even though it sounds funny in the way he said above sentence, I think he is absolutely correct to state the similar matter in several other not funny ways starting around 3:00 and very explicitly at 3:47 where he states in a rearranged way "I think the assumption that US is a declining power that will get replaced by China is WRONG. China is clearly a power, but it is today not clear if China can find its position in a then less US dominated world or will either be forced to or by its own will stay outside".
DON'T UNDERESTIMATE AMERICA. THEY MAY HAVE THE CANCER OF THE CORRUPT POLITICIANS AND THE ULTRA RICH, BUT THEY ARE NOT DECREPIT YET. AT LEAST NOT IN THE NEXT 50 YEARS BRO.
@@friedhelmschroter8124 Some very valid comments!
Singapore must not allow any foreigner to become pm of singapore , there are many talented and capable singaporeans who are fit to become pm of singapore sych as Tan Soo Koon and many more .
Statesman of the world
As much as the chip drives the market,it is the market that supports chip development. Whether we in West like it or not, the main part of the market is China.
Between two ferns. Nice!
YES, THE EAST IS RISING.
❤
LKY: ''Only the wisest should rule" So, keep up the excellent job LHS...your late dad is smiling down at you!
Salute to MR. LEE I wish we had 10% of PM around the World like him. This world would be a better Place. That is the reason he rules for so many years...u do it with faith not with power which does not work any more..No Democratary or Dictatorships, but only being balaces in their visions for their Country and People.
U ARE THE KING NOT OF A COUNTRY BUT OF THE WORLD..
I wish we had a PM of the world , I would vote for U.. Thank you..
Can we test IQ for future world leaders before appointing them?
like mr Lee you are very good
What a blessing for Singapore to have such a wise PM 😊
If no tensions how to justified 705 billions spending? FY2021, the Department of Defense's discretionary budget authority is approximately $705.39 billion
A FAMOUS CHINESE PROVERD, AMERICA CANNOT STAND ON 2 BOATS.
Water issues with Malaysia are very important due to today's modern fresh water are medical production's to be considered.....bare in mine .......then Bukit Timah nature's resort are to be rainwater collectors as greater researchers too . ....
Big country vs small country
Taiwan you are not the only one living in Asia.Do not be crazy to be like Ukraine
بخصوص موضوع هونكونغ ، من الأفضل اتباع مبدأ دولة واحدة، مع نظامين إثنين. بخصوص تايوان. ينبغي تعزيز الثقة بين العملاقين للولايات المتحدة الأمريكية و الصين الشعبية، من خلال التواصل الجيد و احترام تام لاختيارات كل بلد فيما يخص سياسته الداخلية. العالم كله أصبح يشهد للصين مكانة رائدة على المسرح الجيو- السياسي الجغرافي العالمي. و الغرب بزعامة أمريكا، من مصلحتها الخضوع للأمر الواقع. هذا هو قانون اللعبة التاريخي... و كل محاولة لاعادة عقارب الساعة للوراء، نتيجتها ستكون الفشل الذريع
I hope all Singaporeans would take some time off their tictok or games to look at posting like this.
Great performance of low profile attitude
The people in the audience need to wear a mask but the people on the stage dont😂😂😂😂😂😂I guess it the ghost disease doesn't spread when seating on a stage!
Much as I lost a little respect for him because of the Oxley Road Saga as well as the way he deals with his political opponents,I have yet to see another leader who speaks well like him except for senior minister Tharman. Lawrence Wong is okay though.
I don't see an able leader among the ruling party and from the oppositions who could bring Singapore to the next level.
Lawrence Wing has stock answers for everything.
You can't judge him base on the:Oxley case,there's always the other sides b4 judging*Sometimes u got 2b tough/stern,2get things done!
China's rise needs to be peaceful and more so expansionist policies need to be curtailed ,so that other Asian nation's who are also rising like India can safeguard their national interests also. China and India the two Asian powers need to have brotherly relationship if this century has to be an Asian Century .
Build back broke!
That's right all roads lead to Obama
While I think Mr. Lee is a highly intelligent man. I find his constant pro-US views misguided. His evaluations seem more based on the past than the approaching future. The fact that he perpetuates the idea of more US increased expansion into the western pacific Asian region. Seems to be propagating the expansion of US hegemony.
Also his opinion that the US decline is far into the future is disconnected from reality. Even at the time of this video the US was already a deteriorating dysfunctional dystopian state.
The US is incapable of competing with China.
China has more young graduate degreed (350+ million) which is more the the US population. China has the most modern advanced infrastructure in the world while the US wallows in aging neglected infrastructure.
China produces and manufactures at a rate (speed) the US could never compete on.
Anyway my point being he seems to view things from the past rather than the present and future
The question to ask is, when a country falls, will they seek or even expect America to come to aid? also, should America stop aid funding to both developing and developed countries and stop focusing on world peace? Agree that APAC is rising significantly.
YERLERİN VE GÖKLERİN VE HERŞEYİN SAHİBİ YÜCE ALLAH CC
ALLAHTAN BAŞKA İLAH YOKTUR
ALLAH KATINDA HAK DİN İSLAMDIR
MUHAMMED ALAHIN RESULUDUR
GÜZEL İNSAN HUZUR ARIYORSAN HUZUR İSLAMDA
What he is talking about US has a naval base in Singapore. Singapore is US and Israel's agent in Southeast Asia nothing else.
Singapore let US ships dock. They also let other nations' ship dock there because Singapore is a natural harbor between East and West. Singapore may buy US weapons but it is not US's agent like Israel.
All America bases around the world will have to leave just a matter of time
Why he lie that china flew over Taiwan air defence zone?, lol if he tell the truth he will understand that Taiwan include area of mainland China as their air defense zone lol
Please listen carefully….He did say that China did not fly over Taiwan’s sovereign airspace to clarify the difference
YOU VIETNAMESE TRYING TO AGAINST CHINA TOO , BUT HAS NO UNDERSTANDING , VIETNAM ALSO BELONG AND PART OF CHINA TOO.
@@isthisme-ct9fe
Nope, China is part of USA. USA will re-unify with China and bring American values so Chinese people become good.
@@isthisme-ct9fe because they’re mr trumpet puppies
@@muthau5617 Vietnamese can’t trust , when they need China to help them fight USA they call China big brother , now they turn around biting China , they think America will help them .. b.s
LHL is no visionary leader his views are academic and shallow based on event unfolding at the present. There little substance and value of his views that can be beneficial to guide other nations.
we r western. we are unity.we are whole ..we are the people's.we have respect.but China don't have.
You grew up in a me me me society, they grew up in a we we we society. Just do the math. Sorry that you can't see the propagandas.