&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium "WION World Pulse | 'I feel we are in a geopolitical Squid Game': Simon Wong, Singapore High Commissioner on West Asia war")
Simon Wong, High Commissioner of Singapore to India, expressed the reality of people across the globe since Covid pandemic as "one battle after another.” At WION World Pulse summit on Wednesday (Mar 18), he mentioned how world citizens are getting a shock due to the ongoing war in West Asia. From soaring petroleum prices to gas, it’s one shock after another. “Sometimes I feel we are in a geopolitical Squid Game. We see many new challenges that we are not in control of." He correlated the current situation to the popular Korean web series.
He also noted that Singapore prefers to see global scenarios that are normal and have a human-level pulse. “These days we are being electrically shocked.”
The country is trying to mitigate the effects of the ongoing war. And looking forward to the change in the new reality, he said, “We hope war goes off realms very soon, if not, we will get price and supply shocks.”
“We need to build our own resilience and be independent in sourcing critical minerals,” Wong added.
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Talking about Singapore-India ties, High Commissioner Wong said…
- We are trusted partners of India; we have just signed a comprehensive strategic partnership deal last year
- Our investment in the country is to the tune of 160 billion USD
- A key sector very relevant to us right now are green energy, and we are looking forward to exports from India
- India would do very well in the semiconductor and electronics space
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