Lawrence Wong
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281 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 19 Nov
Lawrence Wong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We want Singapore in Southeast Asia to last for a very long time.
That's my mission.
We are certainly in the midst of a great transition to a multipolar world, a post-American order and a multipolar world.
No one can tell how the transition will unfold, but there is no doubt it will be messy and unpredictable because America is stepping back from its role as global insurer, but there is no other country that's able to or willing
to fill the vacuum.
So we are in an uncomfortable position where the old rules do not apply anymore but the new ones have not been written and we must brace ourselves for more turbulence ahead.
So what are we to do in this environment?
I think we cannot afford to just wait for things to happen or hope somehow that things magically will fall in place.
We have to take actions now, plan now and start taking actions to invest together in tackling the problems of the global commons or in building new trade connections and keeping up the momentum of trade liberalization.
So that's something that Singapore is keen to do.
We can't do it alone, but we will do it with other like-minded countries.
The US may not be able or willing to join these plans now, but we have to press ahead.
And hopefully in time to come, they will come along as well.
But given the uncertainties and the unpredictabilities, we cannot just leave things to chance.
We have to start taking actions now to lay the foundations of the new multilateral architecture.
Yes.
We are because we believe what has happened in America is not just a temporary phenomenon.
It reflects broader change in political culture and also in American society itself.
A feeling that America has not benefited from the current global order that it had put in place and it is not prepared to do as much of the heavy lifting
to keep the order going.
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