Lee Hsien Loong is a Singaporean politician and former brigadier-general who has been serving as the third Prime Minister of Singapore and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party since 2004. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Teck Ghee division of Ang Mo Kio GRC since 1991,and previously Teck Ghee SMC between 1984 and 1991.
Jones Day is an American multinational law firm based in Washington,D.C. As of 2023,it is one of the largest law firms in the United States with 2,302 attorneys,and among the highest grossing in the world with revenues of $2.5 billion. Originally headquartered in Cleveland,Ohio,Jones Day ranks first in both M&A league tables and the 2017 U.S. Law Firm Brand Index. The firm has represented over half of the companies in the Fortune 500,including Goldman Sachs,General Motors,McDonald's,and Bridgestone. Jones Day has also represented former President Donald Trump.
Gary David Cohn is an American businessman and philanthropist who served as the 11th Director of the National Economic Council and chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2018. He managed the administration's economic policy agenda. Before serving in the White House,Cohn was president and COO of Goldman Sachs,where he worked for more than 25 years. Cohn was appointed vice-chairman of IBM on January 5,2021.
Lanny Jesse Davis is an American political operative,lawyer,consultant,lobbyist,author,and television commentator. He is the co-founder and partner of the law firm of Davis Goldberg &Galper PLLC,and co-founder and partner of the public relations firm Trident DMG. From 1996 to 1998,he served as a special counsel to President Bill Clinton,and was a spokesperson for the President and the White House on matters concerning campaign-finance investigations and other legal issues.
Emory University School of Law is the law school of Emory University and is part of the university's main campus in Druid Hills,Atlanta,Georgia. It was founded in 1916 and was the first law school in Georgia to be granted membership in the American Association of Law Schools.
The bilateral relations between the Republic of Singapore and the United States of America are positive. According to the U.S. Global Leadership Report,77% of Singaporeans approved of U.S. leadership under the Obama Administration in 2010,and while this approval rating decreased slightly down to 75% in 2011,it nonetheless remains one of the highest ratings of the U.S. for any surveyed country in the Asia-Pacific region.
Marc Lasry is an American billionaire businessman and private equity manager. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Avenue Capital Group. He was a co-owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks basketball team from 2014 to 2023.
Mark A. Weinberger is an American businessman. He is the former global Chairman and CEO of EY. Weinberger currently sits on several boards of directors,including those of Metlife,Johnson &Johnson Saudi Aramco. and JPMorgan Chase. Earlier in his career he has also held several posts in the public sector in Washington,D.C.,including time as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy.
Miriam Elizabeth Sapiro served as the Deputy Trade Representative under Ron Kirk and became the acting Trade Representative on May 23,2013. A former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution,Sapiro served as well in the State Department and on the National Security Council under Presidents Reagan,Bush and Clinton.
The future enlargement of the Eurasian Economic Union is theoretically open to any of the post-Soviet states and potentially any country of Europe or Asia. In order to accede,a state must fulfill certain economic and political requirements. Enlargement of the Eurasian Economic Union is also subject to the consent of all existing members and the candidate's adoption of existing EEU laws and implementing previous decisions made by the Eurasian Economic Commission. The present agenda of the enlargement of the Eurasian Economic Union is primarily focused on Tajikistan. Meanwhile,Moldova was granted Observer Status in April 2017,followed by Uzbekistan and Cuba in December 2020. The process of enlargement is referred to as Eurasian integration or Eurasianism. This term is also used to refer to the intensification of economic cooperation between Eurasian Economic Union member states.
North Korea–Singapore relations are bilateral relations between North Korea and Singapore.
William Francis Hagerty IV is an American politician,businessman,and diplomat serving as the junior United States senator from Tennessee since 2021. A member of the Republican Party,he served as the 30th United States ambassador to Japan from 2017 to 2019 under President Donald Trump.
Kelly Dawn Craft is an American businesswoman,politician,and former diplomat who served as the 30th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2019 to 2021 under President Donald Trump. She was confirmed as the US ambassador to the United Nations by the US Senate by a vote of 56–34,and was officially sworn in September 2019.
U.S. foreign policy during the presidency of Donald Trump (2017–2021) was noted for its unpredictability and reneging on prior international commitments,upending diplomatic conventions,embracing political and economic brinkmanship with most adversaries,and stronger relations with traditional allies. Trump's "America First" policy pursued nationalist foreign policy objectives and prioritized bilateral relations over multinational agreements. As president,Trump described himself as a nationalist while espousing views that have been characterized as isolationist,non-interventionist,and protectionist,although the "isolationist" label has been disputed,including by Trump himself,and periods of his political career have been described by the alternative term “semi-isolationist.”He personally praised some populist,neo-nationalist,illiberal,and authoritarian governments,while antagonizing others,even as administration diplomats nominally continued to pursue pro-democracy ideals abroad.
Chen Yidan,also known as Charles Chen,is a Chinese internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Tencent,founder of the Chen Yidan Charity Foundation,and founder of the Yidan Prize Foundation.
The 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit,commonly known as the Singapore Summit,was a summit meeting between North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump,held at the Capella Hotel,Sentosa,Singapore,on June 12,2018. It was the first-ever meeting between leaders of North Korea and the United States. They signed a joint statement,agreeing to security guarantees for North Korea,new peaceful relations,the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,recovery of soldiers' remains,and follow-up negotiations between high-level officials. Both leaders also met separately with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
An economic conflict between China and the United States has been ongoing since January 2018,when U.S. President Donald Trump began setting tariffs and other trade barriers on China with the goal of forcing it to make changes to what the U.S. says are longstanding unfair trade practices and intellectual property theft. The Trump administration stated that these practices may contribute to the U.S.–China trade deficit,and that the Chinese government requires transfer of American technology to China. In response to US trade measures,the Chinese government accused the Trump administration of engaging in nationalist protectionism and took retaliatory action. After the trade war escalated through 2019,in January 2020 the two sides reached a tense phase one agreement;it expired in December 2021 with China failing by a wide margin to reach its targets for U.S. imports to China. By the end of the Trump presidency,the trade war was widely characterized as a failure for the United States. His successor,Joe Biden,however,has kept the tariffs in place. In early 2024,the Trump presidential campaign was mulling a 60 percent tariff on Chinese goods.
The infrastructure policy of Donald Trump included ensuring U.S. energy independence,safeguarding the cybersecurity of the national power grid and other critical infrastructure,locking China out of the U.S. fifth-generation Internet market,and rolling back regulations to ease the process of planning and construction. While there were no major infrastructure spending packages,some individual policies and projects were advanced piecemeal,especially in rural areas.
