- Advertisement - Singapore — Whoever is chosen to be the next Prime Minister, this won’t make much difference in Singapore’s development plans because Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is likely to remain PM for several more years. That’s the view expressed in The Diplomat by Li Xirui and Dingding Chen, political observers familiar with China and Singapore. While Dingding is the president of the Intellisia Institute and professor of International Relations at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, Li is s a part-time research fellow at Intellisia Institute and a PhD student at S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.