Tag: Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

Singapore’s Lee says understands TPP “politically difficult” in U.S. election year.

WASHINGTON, United States (Reuters) — Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, on a landmark visit to Washington D.C., said on Monday (August 01) he understands that the Obama administration’s efforts to push the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) have been “politically difficult” in an election year, but he hopes the focus will remain on the “bigger picture”. Loong will meet with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, when Obama is expected to extol the TPP trade deal […]