Asian offer for new bases
NZPA-Reuter Singapore Singapore’s Foreign Minister, Wong Kang, Seng, said there would be a scramble among military powers if the United States pulled its military forces out of South-east Asia.
The vacuum left by its withdrawal from the region could be filled by the Soviet Union and possibly Japan, China and India. Non-communist countries should help the United States stay because its absence would be destabilising, Mr Wong said at the week-end on Singapore’s offer of military facilities to the United States.
Singapore said it made the offer to demonstrate to the Philippines that other countries were prepared to share the political burden of United States bases. The Clark air base and the Subic naval base in the Philippines are the largest American bases overseas. Their leases will expire in 1991. Manila has not yet decided on an extension.
The commander-in-chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, Admiral Huntington Hardisty, visited Singapore on Friday and Saturday to discuss the Singapore offer with The Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, and senior ministers.
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