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Trump's absence from Asian summits sends mixed signals to America's allies

IT was just a little under three months ago when US President Donald Trump accepted an invitation by President Halimah Yacob to make his inaugural state visit to Singapore in November.

That would have been the first such visit by an American president in over a decade, and would have also been his first official meeting with Madam Halimah. The state visit was also timed to coincide with Singapore's hosting of two high-level events - the annual US-Asean Summit and the East Asia Summit - which Mr Trump...

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