Strait of Peril: Oil Fires and Trade Tensions Test Singapore's Economic Resilience

Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong delivered a muscular defence of Singapore's trade architecture at the 2026 AmCham Regional Economic Conference, revealing that bilateral trade and Singapore's investments in the US now support roughly 350,000 American jobs. The US-Singapore FTA, in force since 2004, has produced a US$33 billion trade surplus for Washington — a fact that gives Singapore genuine diplomatic leverage. With 6,600 American companies based here and...