Singapore’s Gan Says Geopolitical Neutrality Not Possible

Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong said neutrality is not possible, highlighting the rising challenges for the city-state that has long sought to tread a diplomatic tightrope amid US-China trade tensions.

“If you try to be neutral and walk the middle road, the road is getting narrow and narrower, eventually you will be at a knife’s edge and you won’t be able to stand on it,” Gan said at a conference hosted by UBS Group AG in Singapore. “The key is we have to take sides, we have to take position, we have to do so based on principles.”