The US ambassador to Singapore, Anjani Sinha, has come under fire in the city state for asking businesses to make “substantially larger” financial contributions as his embassy plans for its July 4 celebrations, despite such fundraising being a standard annual practice of Washington’s diplomats.
Observers told This Week in Asia that while soliciting businesses for contributions was not new, it was the language used by the ambassador that drew outrage amid Washington’s more transactional foreign…
US ambassador to Singapore’s ‘substantially larger gifts’ call to mark July 4 rankles
