Posted on 08/23/2021 9:32:35 AM PDT by texas booster
SINGAPORE - Shortly after her arrival at the Istana on Monday (Aug 23), United States Vice-President Kamala Harris was presented with a spray of purple-pink orchids named in her honour.
The hybrid flowers – a trademark show of Singapore’s orchid diplomacy – came with an official “birth certificate”, which Ms Harris accepted with a laugh....
Joining PM Lee were Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean, Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong.
With Ms Harris were Charge d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Singapore Rafik Mansour, Chief of Staff to the Vice-President Tina Flournoy, Deputy National Security Adviser to the Vice-President Phil Gordon and Special Assistant to the President Edgard Kagan.
Topics discussed included the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, bilateral cooperation and regional developments.
America’s first female vice-president then paid a courtesy call on Singapore’s first female president, Madam Halimah Yacob....
Both women had a good and frank discussion, Madam Halimah said in a Facebook post.
(Excerpt) Read more at straitstimes.com ...
Meanwhile, Mr Lee was asked if the current situation in Afghanistan had changed Singapore’s calculus on how much it could rely on America as a regional partner. He was also asked about the conditions that would need to be met for quarantine-free travel from the US to become a reality.
But the pandemic meant that reporters – who would previously have addressed both leaders in person - spoke to them virtually, from a separate holding room in the Istana. These included journalists from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and several wire agencies, who had arrived with Ms Harris on Air Force Two.
The Vice-President later headed to Changi Naval Base, where she boarded littoral combat ship USS Tulsa, which had just completed a multilateral exercise with 20 countries, including Singapore.
Standing in the ship’s hangar bay against the backdrop of an American flag, she told the sailors of the importance of their work in defending a free and open Indo-Pacific.
“Our nation is stronger, and it is safer because of you,” she told them. “Because of your sacrifice, and because of your service.”
The Indo-Jamaican is not a natural born citizen.
In case you have a stronger stomach than I do.
But until the SC rules otherwise, she was (s)elected as part of the Dem ticket.
she boarded littoral combat ship USS Tulsa
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That will make her an instant expert in national defense and military affairs.
One gets the impression that the main job of Biden people is traveling around the world so they can play big shot to get the VIP treatment and photo opps
I’d rather get teeth pulled than salute that commie bitch.
and i’m sure the Tulsa is overjoyed...
Tulsa is a worthless “combat ship” and is commanded by a female WAVE officer.
They probably are.
The rumor that Kacklin’ Kameltoe is hinting at the 25th could trigger her assassination while she’s overseas.
Boarding the USS Tulsa give her another opportunity to bring up the Tulsa race riot of 1921 and condemn the USA as a systemically racist country,
Maybe VP Harris will chew gum, spray paint some cars, fly the LGBT flag, and stoke a dooby while she is in Singapore in order to raise awareness of their “backwards human rights record” ...
She got off the plane in Singapore; she giggled after a reporter asked her a question about Afghanistan.
What is wrong with this woman?
Littoral means it just goes along the coasts????
Let’s face it. . . she is another puppet getting her orders from those NWO players behind the scenes. Our nation repenting and returning to God is the only way out of this evil mess we find ourselves in. Anything else is an exercise in futility.
Note to Singapore: Call your colleagues in Taipei and ask them about American support.
“Look how presidential willie brown’s mattress looks!”
When on the USS Tulsa she will probably do like my old Ford transmission and blow a couple of seals
Perhaps it is a secret mission to check out the roofs of our embassies to see if they can support the landing of a chithook.
Or she’s just trying to put as much distance as possible between herself and the DC “brain-trust” that’s trying to solve Afghanistan.
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