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Singapore’s Lee Advises Australia to Engage With China

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Singapore’s Lee Advises Australia to Engage With China

The past year has seen a chill descend over relations between Canberra and Beijing.

Singapore’s Lee Advises Australia to Engage With China

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison takes part in a press conference with Singapore’s Lee Hsien Loong in Singapore, June 10, 2021.

Credit: Twitter/Lee Hsien Loong

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has advised his Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, to engage more calmly and directly with China, amid a historically frosty spell in relations between Canberra and Beijing. Morrison made a brief stop in Singapore yesterday night for a meeting with Lee, en route to the G-7-plus meetings in Cornwall, where he will hold his first in-person meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden.

In addition to discussing the potential for a travel bubble between the two countries, and the creation of a mutually recognizable digital COVID-19 vaccine certificate, Lee said that he and Morrison discussed a number of issues related to China.

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