Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong speaks during a live address to the nation in Singapore, June 23, 2020. (MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION OF SINGAPORE / HANDOUT VIA XINHUA)

SINGAPORE / BEIJING - Singapore hopes the United States can stabilize its relations with China, since Asia depends on stable US-China ties to have a "secure" and "predictable" environment, said Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Tuesday.

Lee made the remarks in an online interview hosted by Washington-based think tank Atlantic Council, The Straits Times reported on Wednesday.

Singapore hopes the US can stabilize its relations with China, since Asia depends on stable US-China ties to have a "secure" and "predictable" environment, Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong said

Lee also voiced hope that the coming US president, be it Republican or Democratic, can develop a bipartisan consensus on US-Asia relations so that the US foreign policy will be consistent and last beyond one administration.

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"If you can establish a stable, predictable policy with bipartisan consensus, I think it would be a great help to all your friends and partners who want to be able to depend on you and to rely on you, without the risk that one day the big power may suddenly decide its interests lie elsewhere," he said.

Meanwhile, Lee said that Singapore will not exclude Chinese tech-company Huawei from its 5G networks bidding process, although Huawei was not chosen this time round.

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"The bidders did not choose Huawei. But in some of the other aspects of the 5G networks, Huawei will be figured in, and in future bids I have no doubt it will be participating again," Lee said.

On Tuesday, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China will make firm and rational responses to US acts as the United States has been so blatant and unreasonable.    

Wang shared his view on China-US relationship during a phone conversation with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Wang said that the current China-US relationship has become a source of concern for many in the international community, adding that the fundamental reason is that a certain political faction in the United States, driven by the need to lift campaign prospects and maintain unipolar hegemony, are going all out to negate the history of China-US relations, suppress China on every front, provoke China on its core interests, attack the social system chosen by the Chinese people, and vilify the ruling party with inseparable links to the Chinese people.

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The US acts have forsaken the most basic sense of propriety in interactions between countries and breached the very bottom line of international norms, said Wang, adding that such behavior is stark power politics that can be captured by one word: hegemony, Xinhua reports from Beijing.