"Indo Pacific"

WASHINGTON - Singapore welcomes the United States' proposed economic plan for the Indo-Pacific and encourages greater Asean participation in it, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told top US officials and American business leaders in Washington on Thursday (May 12).

The disturbing developments in Afghanistan are understood to have figured prominently during the ‘2+2’ Inter-sessional meeting held at the official level between India and the United States.

ASEAN is being urged to make no concessions to China, especially over the contentious issue of the South China Sea, as the grouping pushes ahead with negotiations on a Code of Conduct (COC) to bind the parties.