The State of Southeast Asia Survey 2025

Published: 3 Apr 2025

Author: Joanne Lin

This commentary draws on the perspectives of 242 respondents from Singapore who participated in the State of Southeast Asia 2025 Survey.

While most of Southeast Asia appears to be warming to the return of Donald Trump to the White House, Singapore appears to be an outlier, according to the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute’s State of Southeast Asia 2025 Survey (SSEA 2025). One of the US’ closest partners in the region since the end of World War II, Singapore – as represented by the SSEA 2025’s respondents – exhibited a clear decline in their trust in and optimism toward Washington’s role in Southeast Asia under Trump’s second administration.

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The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the official policy, position or view of IRSEA