SINGAPORE: US Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth on Saturday (Might 31) likened US President Donald Trump to Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
In a significant speech outlining US technique within the Asia-Pacific area, Mr Hegseth referred to each leaders as “historic males”.
“Just like the late prime minister, President Trump’s method is grounded in frequent sense and nationwide pursuits,” he stated on the Shangri-La Dialogue, which gathers key defence leaders from all over the world.
Mr Lee served as Singapore’s prime minister for 3 many years.
Mr Hegseth praised his “sage management and strategic imaginative and prescient”.
“That is what frequent sense insurance policies can obtain, and that is exactly what President Trump’s imaginative and prescient is all about.”
Mr Lee, who turned Singapore right into a high-tech industrial and monetary centre, stays extremely revered in Singapore greater than a decade after his dying.
