Singapore’s PM Wong Takes Office Warning of ‘More Violent’ World
- Wong replaces Lee Hsien Loong after his 20-year term as PM
- Cost of living, US-China tensions loom over Singapore’s future
Lawrence Wong was sworn in as the fourth prime minister of Singapore on Wednesday evening, leading a trade-dependent nation he warned would face turbulence from worsening geopolitical tensions.
The 51-year-old Harvard graduate takes office with rising concerns in the Southeast Asian nation over the cost of living, strained US-China ties and wars in the Mideast and Ukraine that have put Singapore’s economy in a delicate position.