Defining Ukraine war as battle between democracies and autocracies makes things more difficult: PM Lee


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SINGAPORE - Seeing the war in Ukraine as a battle between democracies and autocracies complicates the problem, and automatically puts Beijing in the wrong camp, making it untenable for China to denounce Russia, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said. If the conflict is instead defined as one about sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, "even China would not object to that, and would actually privately strongly support that", he said in a dialogue with the Wall Street Journal editorial board in New York on April 1 . The transcript of PM Lee's session, which took place during his visit to...