my links with my biggest trading partner, i think you will put them in a very difficult position. singapo singapore, we re not an ally. we re a close partner of the united states, but we also have our big e trading links with china. bigger than with the united states. what do you think the world of technology is going to look like if the united states continues on the path the trump administration is, which is banning huawei, fearing that there s going to be the chinese technology will have within it a kind of espionage component? will you end up with a bipolar world of two technology systems? it was heading in that direction. i think if you take this attitude, it cannot stop with huawei, because it s basically you don t trust them. and you have reason to doubt whether everything can be taken at face value. by the same token, they are unable to trust you. and they will ask why do we
addressed, i think it is very difficult to overcome the problems. are you surprised that the chinese government has not shut down the protests in hong kong using force? no, i don t think so. i think the chinese government i don t think the chinese government caused this to happen. i think that they are now confronted with this frog in their hands, and what do i do with it? i m comfortable. it s a problem, but if i do the wrong thing, i may make things a lot worse. i think they re very conscious of that. they hope hong kong is sorted out, but the chief executive has a very difficult task. singapore sits in a very uneasy situation. you are very close to china. your economy is increasingly influenced by china, and yet, you have been a very staunch american ally. how difficult is this trade war between the united states and china for you? we see that as a problem for us, but, in fact, it s a problem for the world. all of us have depended on
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they felt that there s been a push over the last 40 years to make it more like the united states and europe. so it would feel a bit like if you were potentially an american voter who had agreed to join with canada and mexico in a free trait agreeme trade agreement and suddenly you discovered there s a city outside your own country with its own parliament passing laws and telling you what to do. so to them it felt like an independence movement and like any independence movement ultimately people don t care too much about the economics. do you think we are entering into a world of greater nationalism, protectionism? ironically, in the british context, not protectionist. they re national radical free tradists. they want to open up to singapo singapore. they want deals with the united states. they want deals with china. they re sort of free market fundamentalists. they re not like donald trump. but i think what is like the
reporter: well, good morning, christi and victor. the white house still not responding to this activity in north korea. president trump sayin yesterday, as you mentioned that he would be surprised in a negative way if north korea were to resume its testing of missiles. recall that this administration has held up the pause in missile tests and nuclear tests and other provocative activity from north korea, as a top point of pride. as progress in itself from the president naes na president s inaugural summit in singapo singapore. the credibility of which is based on the facts that these tests have stopped. president s national security adviser john bolton said the talks are still open. the prospect of a third summit with kim jong-un was left up in the air after the president departed vietnam just over a