AIDAN SMITH-FAGAN WRITES — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison met with his Singaporean counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong, in Singapore on June 10- marking the sixth Australia-Singapore Leaders’ Meeting, an annual conference between the two countries – and the first in-person meeting between Lee and Morrison since pandemic travel restrictions began. The two leaders struck a warm tone at the summit as they discussed Australia-Singapore travel, technology, and defense collaboration. Hovering in the background was the question of China, with which Australia of late has been finding so difficult to relate.
At a joint press conference, Lee and Morrison emphasized their intention to work on a Singapore-Australia COVID travel bubble. “We need to resume these people-to-people flows to maintain our close and excellent bilateral relationship,” Lee said. “It starts with mutual recognition of health and vaccination certificates, possibly in the digital form. When all the…