US-Singapore Relations, 1965-1975 Year Published 2012 Lee Kuan Yew Centre for

Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities

in 1957 the Indonesian government declared that it had “absolute sovereignty” over all the waters lying within straight baselines drawn between the outermost islands of Indonesia

two of the founding editors

The grateful neighbours came to the unveiling of Ming’s invention and were delighted to see that he had built a machine that would serve as a helper for them

literally the South Seas

US-Singapore Relations, 1965-1975 Year Published 2012 Lee Kuan Yew Centre forDescription About the Author At the height of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, the foreign relations between the United States and Singapore demonstrated the interplay between Americas strategy of containment and Singapores efforts at a non aligned foreign policy. But there is a deeper story. American involvement in the Vietnam War not only held back the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, but also catalysed economic and strategic cooperation