A comprehensive strategic partnership: PM Modi’s vsit to Singapore
Singapore in September 2024 was his second official visit to Singapore, the first being in 2016. Globally, there have been significant changes between 2016 and 2024, but this visit symbolised an enduring continuity in relations between India and Singapore over the last few decades. This visit was significant for the key reasons.
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Firstly, PM Modi’s visit to Singapore is an important part of India’s broader engagement with Southeast Asia. In the past three months, PM Modi has hosted the Prime Ministers of Vietnam and Malaysia in India as well as embarked on the first bilateral trip by an Indian Prime Minister to Brunei before heading to Singapore. At the start of his third term, PM Modi is demonstrating India’s continued commitment to its Act East Policy especially amid significant geo-political flux both globally and regionally. This renewed commitment signals India’s shared interests with Southeast Asian states in maintaining healthy relationships with a range of countries rather than exacerbating increasing zero-sum relationships between a growing number of states globally. Singapore has been the key state in Southeast in India’s engagement with Southeast in the post Cold War era and this role continues to serve both countries despite the changes that have taken place over that period.
Secondly, this visit and the resultant agreements signal a maturing
