SINGAPORE PERSPECTIVE

The Straits Times provides detailed coverage of NATO's internal debate on ending annual summits, a practice established after the Cold War to maintain the alliance's political cohesion. Singapore's analysis is measured and geopolitical: if NATO abandons regular summits, the entire transatlantic consultation mechanism weakens. Channel NewsAsia notes that North Korea reaffirms support for Russia's 'sacred war' in Ukraine precisely when the West debates its own coherence. Singapore, which depends on stable international rules for its own model of existence, sees these signals as a deterioration of the liberal international order.