Trade and security “are two faces of the same coin,” Ng said. Even with that outlook, Singapore is in “a better position,” he said, adding that “we buy more from the US than we sell.”
Singapore’s defence minister said the US under the Trump administration has become unpredictable on issues such as trade but added that the city-state should fare well given its strong security ties and positive trade balance with the world’s biggest economy.
“Now the US is seen as a great disruptor,” defence minister Ng Eng Hen said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Friday (Feb 14) on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. “There is certainly a level of unpredictability there that hasn’t been seen before — one hopes that doesn’t lead to instability.”
