Lee in London: Engage Asian powers

24Sep08

Lee at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, with a veiled argument for trading with Asian countries regardless of how their regimes treat their people.  Straits Times: Second, adjust the ‘values-based’ approach to foreign relations. ‘The pursuit of ostensibly ‘moral’ policies towards certain countries in Asia… has become an impediment to substantive engagement,’ […]

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