Asean will be multiple-aligned: PM

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While everyone is focused on what one country does to the other, the fates of the two great powers will, at the end of the day, be determined by their own people, he said.

“Americans decide America’s future, Chinese people decide China’s future — that’s what it comes down to,” he said. “And it’s their actions, their agency, that determines domestic reforms, that determines the direction that these countries will take.”

On Southeast Asia, PM Wong said the region was once an arena for proxy wars, and does not want that to happen again.

“Asean will continue to be fiercely independent - not so much nonaligned, but multiplealigned, engaged with all the key players” and taking positions on issues based on their own national interest, he added.