Singapore's Rules-Based Play: ASEAN, Middle Corridor, and the Global Investment Shield

Singapore is doubling down on its role as a neutral rules-based hub as global trade tensions rise. Law Minister Edwin Tong announced a bid to host a proposed Multilateral Investment Tribunal (MIT), a permanent body to adjudicate disputes between foreign investors and sovereign states, aiming to fix a system where more than half of all known treaty-based cases have been initiated in the last decade alone.

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