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SINGAPORE: United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reaffirmed strong Singapore-US ties during a call with Prime Minister Lawrence Wong <\/span>on Friday (May 29) ahead of this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s top security summit.<\/span><\/p>\n The call, held at the Istana, was attended by Minister for Defence Chan Chun Sing and Minister of State for Defence Desmond Choo, \u00a0the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) said.<\/p>\n Mr Hegseth is in Singapore from Friday to Saturday for the 23rd edition of the Shangri-La Dialogue.<\/p>\n During the call, Mr Wong and Mr Hegseth noted the 60th anniversary of Singapore-US diplomatic relations and reaffirmed “the mutually beneficial and longstanding bilateral defence partnership” between Singapore and the US, said MINDEF.<\/p>\n “They exchanged views on geopolitical developments and regional security issues, and reiterated their shared commitment to\u00a0regional peace, stability, and prosperity,” MINDEF added.<\/p>\n Mr Hegseth affirmed the US’ continued support for the Singapore Armed Forces’ (SAF) training in the US and Mr Wong highlighted Singapore’s longstanding support for the US’ presence in the region.<\/p>\n Separately, Mr Hegseth met his defence counterpart Mr Chan for lunch at Shangri-La Hotel on Friday afternoon, where they discussed global and regional security developments and how both countries can strengthen defence cooperation, said MINDEF.<\/p>\n Mr Chan also expressed appreciation for the US\u2019 longstanding support for the SAF training in the US, as well as for the SAF\u2019s technology access.<\/p>\n “Secretary Hegseth\u2019s visit underscores the strength of the bilateral defence partnership between Singapore and the US,” said MINDEF.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reaffirmed strong Singapore-US ties during a call with Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Friday (May 29) ahead of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--a54HXx-Q--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_3\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/05\/29\/mddi_photo_1.jpg?itok=_s6h63hB","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[800,349,555,3730,12376,17491,6727,13969,22,839,1209],"class_list":["post-56367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-ahead","tag-calls","tag-chief","tag-defence","tag-dialogue","tag-hegseth","tag-reaffirms","tag-shangrila","tag-singapore","tag-ties","tag-wong","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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