Singapore Sees Asia as a Growth Favorite Amid Trade War Fears

  • Region’s solid growth seen providing buffer to global tensions
  • U.S.-China negotiations could yield ‘more level playing field’
Singapore’s Beh Swan Gin discusses what a potential trade war between China and the U.S. would mean for global trade.(Source: Bloomberg)
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Asia remains a growth favorite for businesses and investors even if tensions between the U.S. and China escalate into a full-blown trade war, according to Singapore’s Economic Development Board.

“Singapore is very fortunate, Asian countries in general are very fortunate because we are in the middle of a growth engine,” Beh Swan Gin, chairman of the EDB, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Haslinda Amin on Tuesday.