[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]e’d like to entertain the notion that, with the historic 2018 Trump-Kim summit, Singapore’s going to cement its place as a nexus for matters of intercontinental importance. Perhaps one barometer of that is how frequent the most powerful man in the world – the President of the United States – visits. Yet that track record is not as illustrious as one may imagine. Here’s a roundup of the brief history the island-nation has had with POTUS.
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Jan 1992: George H.W. Bush
George Bush Sr. was the first U.S. President to ever visit Singapore. Here he is photographed sharing a joke at the Raffles Hotel lobby with then Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew and then National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. Mr Lee, who had known Mr Bush for many years, called on the President at the hotel in
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Nov 2006: George W. Bush
US President George W. Bush paid a visit to the Asian Civilizations Museum duing his visit to Singapore, 16 November, 2006. Bush was in Singapore for a two-day visit and also attended the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam. He also visited Indonesia before returning to the United States. President Bush tried his hand at playing the saron as he sat in with the Gamelan Ensemble.
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Nov 2006: George W. Bush
President Bush tried his hand at playing the saron as he sat in with the Gamelan Ensemble during a tour of the Asian Civilisations Museum.
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Nov 2009: Barack Obama
While not an official state visit, Obama attended one of Singapore’s highest-profile events to date. The island-nation hosted the 2009 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) meetings. In this photograph alone: (from left) then Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, then Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, former United States President Barack Obama, and current Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and then China’s President Hu Jintao.
