Eroding Multilateralism: Why Smaller Countries Must Stay Open The recent visit by Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong to Uzbekistan's Parliament has highlighted a pressing concern for smaller countries in today's increasingly complex global landscape.
As rivalries between major powers escalate, and trade dependencies become politicized, smaller nations face dwindling options for charting their own courses.
The rules based international order, which has provided smaller countries with protection and predictability since the Second World War and the Cold War, is slowly unraveling.