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Jun 2022
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K. Shanmugam: Will Singapore have to cho...

Bbc World Service
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Stephen Sackur speaks to K. Shanmugam, Singapore’s minister of home affairs. Economically open, socially conservative and highly politically controlled, Singapore has thrived in the era of globalisation, but could rising US/China tensions force it to take sides?

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