Divided world needs new ground rules so that global trade can continue apace: PM Lee


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BEIJING - Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has called for the setting of new ground rules so that global trade can continue without decoupling. This comes at a time when strategic competition between the United States and China is ratcheting up and countries are increasingly falling on one or the other side of the divide. Going ahead, he said, the playing field will be much less flat, with barriers and gaps, “and then we may end up on one side of the gulf or on the other. And that’s just the way the world is going to be”. He...