Singapore's Foreign Minister said there used to be 400 flights linking Singapore and China a week, while there are just 56 now.
In their first meeting since Qin was promoted from ambassador to the United States to lead the Chinese Foreign Ministry in December, Dr Balakrishnan stressed Singapore’s desire to see flights and other connections return to how they were in pre-Covid-19 times.
Earlier in the day, Dr Balakrishnan also met Beijing party secretary Yin Li and was hosted to lunch by the Communist Party’s international liaison chief Liu Jianchao. In welcoming the Singapore delegation, Liu said Dr Balakrishnan is among the first senior officials to visit China after it had adjusted its Covid-19 policy.
Similarly, Yin recalled that the last time he met Dr Balakrishnan was two years ago in Fujian province at the height of the pandemic. “There were no handshakes and we were all wearing masks,” he said. He said the top request from these Singaporeans was to restore full connectivity between China and Singapore and for the free movement of students, businesspeople and tourists on both sides.
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