SINGAPORE PERSPECTIVE

The Straits Times details the internal NATO debate on ending annual summits, a practice established after the Cold War to maintain political alliance cohesion. Singapore's analysis is sober and geopolitical: if NATO abandons regular summits, the entire transatlantic consultation mechanism weakens. CNA notes North Korea reaffirming support for Russia's 'sacred war' in Ukraine precisely as 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.