Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong speaks at a virtual press conference following the general elections in Singapore July 11, 2020. — People's Action Party video image via Reuters
“On balance, I would say I much prefer Hong Kong doing well than to have people looking for places to go out of Hong Kong,” he told a virtual event of the Atlantic Council in Washington. China in June defied US warnings and imposed a national security law that bans subversion and other offenses in Hong Kong, which last year experienced massive and at times destructive pro-democracy demonstrations.
But Singapore, a close US ally with cordial relations across the region, has faced little international criticism. “But Covid-19 has taken us all by surprise and I think I have to see this through and hand over Singapore in good shape to good hands,” he said.
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