China Woos Singapore, Malaysia, Spain in Diplomatic Gambit

Upgrade of Singapore-China ties risks Washington’s ire, says analyst

By: Toh Han Shih

With the US hosting an almost-simultaneous Summit for Democracy in Washington, DC to seek to coalesce a coalition against China, the prime ministers of Singapore, Malaysia, and Spain instead paid court to Chinese President Xi Jinping, who admonished them to reject a US bloc against China. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim came home …