Ambassador Chan Heng Chee on Diplomacy, Singapore-US Relations, Working with Lee Kuan Yew

Ambassador Chan Heng Chee is Ambassador-at-Large with Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She holds the appointment of Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities in the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
She was also Singapore's longest-serving ambassador to the US, serving in Washington from 1996 to 2012.
We talked about
- her experience in the US as an ambassador
- politics in the US and the intricacies of diplomacy
- working with Lee Kuan Yew
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00: US-Singapore Relations in the Early 90's
3:00: The Michael Fay Affair
5:40: Turning the American Media Around Towards A Favourable View of Singapore
9:33: How Chan Heng Chee Implemented On The Ground Diplomacy
11:50: Selling Dinner Tables for Lee Kuan Yew
16:45: America's Change from the 1990s
20:45: Working with Lee Kuan Yew
28:30: David Marshall and His Legacy
33:40: Aspirations for Singapore
36:30: Advice to Young Ambitious People
40:00: Three Books Every Single Person Should Read

[@ryoleong]

There is so much wisdom in Prof Chan. Fully agree with the need for a curious mind and to have a bigger mission outside ourselves. Singapore is blessed to have public servants like you. Thank you.

[@FrontRow65]

Thanks for your kind words! More videos incoming

[@mmmch7]

Amb Chan has the privilege of seeing the winds and waves of change over 16 years, across various administrations. Great questions in this interview! How tough it mustve been to edit this. Keep up the good work!

[@FrontRow65]

Thanks so much!

[@kennySg101]

Thanks for doing this interview and made it available in YT. We are lucky to have prof Chan in public service, she is one of our best diplomat.

[@user-gz4dq3dt9k]

amazing interviewee, already looking forward to future videos

[@vincentgoh7717]

Nice insightful interview... fully agree with the thoughts on work-life balance and finally, thanks for this and the good book suggestion..

[@FrontRow65]

@@vincentgoh7717 thanks Vincent for watching! Stay tuned for more

[@joegoh1968]

According to EU's Josep Borrell, Diplomacy is managing double standards. This is what he teachers his team and he was proud to share his "wisdom" with a group of University of Oxford students.

[@FrontRow65]

That's a neat way of thinking about it

[@WasLostButNowAmFound]

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[@kooisengchng5283]

I understand that there was no actual canning. A mock canning only. Michael was sent back to US with warnings not to say anything about it. Unfortunately he couldn’t keep his mouth shut and blabbed about the mock canning. SG govt reminded him that if he broke the agreement, he would be sent back to SG for real canning. That did the trick.

[@chom-je2ry]

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