US Envoy to Singapore Stirs 'Gift' Row, Pens Letter to Businesses Seeking Financial Contributions

[joemartini]

US Envoy to Singapore Stirs 'Gift' Row, Pens Letter to Businesses Seeking Financial Contributions​

 

[joemartini]

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/poli...ntially-larger-gifts-call-mark-july-4-rankles


Published: 6:12pm, 20 Jan 2026Updated: 10:54am, 21 Jan 2026

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 disbelief amid Washington’s more transactional foreign policy.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjani_Sinha


Early life and education
Sinha was born in India. He attended MGM Medical School and Delhi University.[4] He immigrated to the US in 1977 and worked in sports medicine.[1]

 

[Sikodolaukazzz]

I thought the Americans are the richest in the world and still begging for money.

You got any to give

 

[joemartini]

 

[VanDick]

No doubt that this filthy Ceca will seize a large portion of these ill-gotten contributions and put into his own greedy pockets.

 

[ftan42]

By exploiting Venezuela's oil resources, attempting to claim Greenland and later it rich resources, and much more countries that follow afterward.