Greater trade war danger is souring of Sino-US ties: PM Lee

Shanghai

THE greater danger from a US-China trade war is not just in higher tariffs or damage to trade, but the souring of Sino-US ties more broadly, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Thursday.

And Singapore and the region have to be prepared for this possibility, he added.

Such an outcome "would make it very difficult for all the countries in Asia who are trying very hard to become friends with both, or stay friends with both," he told Singapore reporters at the end of his five-day visit to China.

Mr Lee said th…