US leadership in rules-based international order vital: Heng Swee Keat

Washington

THE United States should continue to take the lead in setting global rules and maintaining the rules-based multilateral international order, said Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat in Washington on Monday.

South-east Asia also wants to see the US and China manage their relationship and not let their competition get out of hand, he said in a speech to the American foreign policy community at the Brookings Institution think-tank.