Of the remarkable economic Success Stories of the last 50 years. If you want to find a place that has ridden the wave of globalization, well, this is it. But storm clouds are gathering over singapore. President trump is challenging assumptions about global free trade, Security Tensions are rising across east asia. I have an exclusive interview today with the Prime Minister of singapore, lee hsien loong. Is singapore feeling vulnerable . Prime minister lee hsien loong, welcome to hardtalk. Lets start with the International Political climate. Donald trump is now president of the United States. He talks about protectionism, he talks about ripping up trade deals that have been bad for america. How dangerous is this new Political Climate for singapore . We are watching it very carefully. We of all countries depend most heavily on trade, our Foreign Trade is 3. 5 times our gdp probably the highest in the world. We have free Trade Agreements with many countries, including the United States. W
Of the remarkable economic Success Stories of the last 50 years. If you want to find a place that has ridden the wave of globalization, well, this is it. But storm clouds are gathering over singapore. President trump is challenging assumptions about global free trade, Security Tensions are rising across east asia. I have an exclusive interview today with the Prime Minister of singapore, lee hsien loong. Is singapore feeling vulnerable . Prime minister lee hsien loong, welcome to hardtalk. Lets start with the International Political climate. Donald trump is now president of the United States. He talks about protectionism, he talks about ripping up trade deals that have been bad for america. How dangerous is this new Political Climate for singapore . We are watching it very carefully. We of all countries depend most heavily on trade, our Foreign Trade is 3. 5 times our gdp probably the highest in the world. We have free Trade Agreements with many countries, including the United States. W
or so. i was wrong today. i thought they would do at least six and then release another six tomorrow and be done with it because with the security tensions, i think they want to be done with all this as fast as they can. dana: an interesting point. they didn t go that direction. more opinions tomorrow and here to cover it for you. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. harris: as we continue with the breaking news now after a significant development as the nation s highest court has just handed gun owners a victory. it would allow more americans the right to carry concealed handguns in public spaces. of course, this started in the state of new york and as it got pushed through this process, gun owners continue to pick up victories. i m harris faulkner and are you in the faulkner focus . the u.s. supreme court s conservative majority tossed
are still going to be very tough. the question is whether they are perhaps, some small changes around the edges. the president is doing is because it was a good feeling between him and china. the commerce secretary is preparing for a trip to beijing where he plans to look at where the us must receive more trade like energy, agriculture. garrett tenney, thank you. the more this is bringing lieutenant colonel davis. how long do you think this will last? anything with lowering tensions with economic trade partners, lowers security tensions, is always a good thing. i noticed that the chinese state media today reported on this matter with very good terms and admittedly have this
triktry messages to continue during the olympics. that s what has annoyed some people in south korea. they don t want to see the olympics, something that s supposed to be a sporting event, hijacked by this kind of rhetoric on either side. having said that we can t say it enough, what it looked like here just a few weeks ago before this happened, and the security consequences, and security tensions around these olympics, everyone relieved that north korea is here, and still hoping that sooner or later the concentration, at least for a few weeks, will be on the games and not on the tensions on the korean peninsula. some signs of positivity for sure. but at the same time, there are protests, as well. paula, thank you so much for the reporting. we ll stay in touch with you, too. now keeping on the topic of north korea, despite tough u.n. sanctions in place against that country, north korea is still making millions of dollars, though they re doing it illegally. this according to a new u