Singapore revokes residency of US citizen, calls him an ‘agent’
singapore — Singapore said on Friday it had cancelled the permanent residence status of a professor at a prominent postgraduate school whom it identified as a US citizen and accused him of being an agent of influence for a foreign country.
The Ministry of Home Affairs said Huang Jing, a professor of US-China relations at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, “knowingly interacted with intelligence organisations and agents of the foreign country” with the aim of bringing about a change in the direction of Singapore’s foreign
Huang used his senior position in the LKySPP to deliberately and covertly advance the agenda of a foreign country at Singapore’s expense
policy. The ruling, which also applied to Huang’s wife, Shirley Yang Xiuping, means that if the couple leave Singapore they will not be able to re-enter.
Neither of the couple was immediately available for comment. The ministry identified the couple as US citizens but did not identify the country for whom Huang was
Singapore Ministry of home affairs
said to have been working. A US embassy spokesman in Singapore was not immediately available for comment. China’s foreign ministry said Beijing had no knowledge of Huang’s case. “We don’t understand the relevant situation,” the ministry said in a statement. “Huang used his senior position in the LKYSPP to deliberately and covertly advance the agenda of a foreign country at Singapore’s expense,” the ministry said.
“He did this in collaboration with foreign intelligence agents.”
The LKYSPP, named after modern Singapore’s founding father, is a postgraduate school of the National University of Singapore which it says “educates and trains the next generation of Asian policy-makers and leaders”.
A spokesperson for the university said it had suspended Huang without pay with immediate effect. — Reuters