How Singapore is surviving and thriving between China and the United States

House. I'm Bronin Maddox, the director . I'm delighted, though not one bit surprised, to see an absolutely packed hall here tonight for this conversation with the senior minister of Singapore, Lee Cien Long . Very good to have you here . I'm going to leave it to Dr. Samir Puri who is director of our global governance and security center and we took him out of Singapore uh where he'd been living some years to to take up that role . I'm going to leave it him to give the senior minister a full introduction as such a lively and long parliamentary and ministerial career deserves . But as you know, 20 years prime minister and through some of the pivotal years and we're now coming to this point when so many countries, as we discussed on this stage, are trying to work out how to position themselves in the world, how [snorts] and find their own way through, find new alliances , and indeed how to find some resilience in all that . And we've been discussing even in our morning meeting um this morning uh the resilience that much of the world is finding despite the the shocks that keep coming at it . So these are some of the questions I suspect uh we're going to hear thoughts about uh this evening . But with that I'm going to get off the stage um and leave it to the two people on the stage . Very warm welcome . Thank you. . Great . [applause] Well, thank you very much, Bronwin . Welcome to all of you in the hall . Welcome to the many more joining us online as well . And of course to senior minister Lee Sin Lung . Welcome back to Chattam House . Um I'm going to tell you a bit about the event , then of course introduce our speaker . We're going to hear from senior minister uh with some opening comments . That'll be followed by before we open up to questions in the audience . We'll have plenty of time for questions in the audience by the way . So do get thinking about what you'd like to ask . Uh just on the event itself, this event is on the record . It's being recorded and it's being livereamed as well . It's being recorded and it's being livereamed as well . Please do tweet uh about this event if you like . Please do tweet uh about this event if you like