Ambassador Chan Heng Chee is Ambassador-at-Large with Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She holds the appointment of Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities in the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
She was also Singapore's longest-serving ambassador to the US, serving in Washington from 1996 to 2012.
We talked about
- her experience in the US as an ambassador
- politics in the US and the intricacies of diplomacy
- working with Lee Kuan Yew
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00: US-Singapore Relations in the Early 90's
3:00: The Michael Fay Affair
5:40: Turning the American Media Around Towards A Favourable View of Singapore
9:33: How Chan Heng Chee Implemented On The Ground Diplomacy
11:50: Selling Dinner Tables for Lee Kuan Yew
16:45: America's Change from the 1990s
20:45: Working with Lee Kuan Yew
28:30: David Marshall and His Legacy
33:40: Aspirations for Singapore
36:30: Advice to Young Ambitious People
40:00: Three Books Every Single Person Should Read
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