JAKARTA - Singapore and China will continue to accelerate post-pandemic recovery, focusing on areas such as air travel and business.
In his opening remarks, Dr Balakrishnan said that the meeting was between “old friends” and that Singapore has long supported the development of Asean-China relations. “They reviewed the good progress in bilateral cooperation, including in the three government-to-government projects in Suzhou, Tianjin, and Chongqing, as well as the China-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City,” said the MFA.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are among the foreign leaders expected to be in Jakarta. The TAC is an Asean peace treaty, and is a prerequisite for more formal partnerships with the regional bloc.