Accord on Spy Plane Deepens US-Singapore Ties, Analysts Say

Singapore's agreement this month to host a spy plane for the United States marked a step forward in a decades-old alliance between the two countries, analysts say. The U.S. P-8 Poseidon aircraft deployed from Singapore for the first time between December 7 and December 14. Wang Dong, a professor of international relations at Peking University, said that step built upon decades of bilateral collaboration on defense and security concerns. “I think this is actually not sort of a...

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