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  • Series: Belfer Center Studies in International Security
  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: The MIT Press; Belfer Center Studies in International S edition (February 1, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0262019124
  • ISBN-13: 978-0262019125
  • Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.6 x 8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn Incredible Man with Excellent Insights
By Loyd Eskildson HALL OF FAME on February 26, 2013
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Singapore has an airport like a movie set and home ownership for 95% of citizens, science and math scores higher than Japan's. Singapore's per capita GNP is now higher than that of its colonizer, Great Britain. It has the world's busiest port, is the third-largest oil refiner, the lowest cost of health care of any developed nation, and has become a major center of global manufacturing and service. In 1965 it ranked economically with Chile, Argentina and Mexico, now its per capita GNP is 4- 5X theirs, exceeding that in America. Lee was prime minister from independence in 1959 until 1990, when he allowed his hand-picked successor and now his eldest son to succeed; he's still 'Senior Minister' with enormous influence. Nixon speculated that, had Lee lived in another time and another place, he might have 'attained the world stature of a Churchill, a Disraeli, or a Gladstone.'

On America, Lee likes the free and open argument about what is good or bad for society, and none of the secrecy and terror that's part of communist government. He also sees the focus on individual freedom as creating its leadership in innovation. Other parts are totally unacceptable - guns, drugs, violent crime, vagrancy, unbecoming behavior in public, symptoms of the breakdown of civil society. Freedom to have maximum enjoyment of one's freedoms can only exist in an ordered state - not contention and anarchy.

America has a vicious drug problem. To solve it, it goes around the world helping other anti-narcotic agencies try and stop the suppliers. And when provoked, its captures the president of Panama and puts him on trial. In Singapore, any policeman who sees someone behaving suspiciously leading him to suspect the person is under the influence of drugs can require that person to have his urine tested.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsInteresting man, but the format of this book limits its usefulness
By Mark Kline on February 23, 2013
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I am a student with a casual interest in emerging international markets such as those of China, India and Singapore. I purchased this book hoping to learn something useful pertaining to that area. This book is a compilation of Lee Kuan Yew's (henceforth LKY) thoughts pertaining to 9 topics: the future of China, the United States, US-China relations, India, Islamic Extremism, National Economic Growth, Geopolitics and Globalization, and Democracy.The final topic is "How Lee Kuan Yew Thinks."

This book's strengths are numerous. LKY is a personally interesting man with a lot of valuable experience leading Singapore. He has an unusual perspective, as Singapore's Prime Minister for 31 years. The topics chosen are generally of broad interest, such as the future of India, China, the US, etc. He also has a different perspective on the usefulness of democracy, which as an American reader I found interesting.

That being said, when this book misses, it really misses. For example, take this statement about the future of the US: "Multiculturalism will destroy America. There is a danger that large numbers of Mexicans and others from South and Central America will continue to come to the U.S. and spread their culture across the whole of the country. If they breed faster than the WASPs [white Anglo-Saxon Protestants] and are living with them, whose culture will prevail?" This view, that large numbers of lazy immigrants are going to change American culture to one of dependency, is one that LKY returns to several times, and I do not find it to be credible. However, because this book is just a compilation of quotes, it is of course impossible for him to defend his assertions. There is nothing for the reader to do except keep going.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThis man should be eligible for President of the USA.
By Ronald A. Madia on May 1, 2013
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Read this book in literally one evening before going to sleep. This man is truly a Grand Master. His insights into just about everything are so amazingly simple that most people do not realize it. It would be very smart for our politicians to read this book and heed his advice.
It is amazing how America and China have truly changed their thinking about their countries and their way of lift. We have literally switched place when running our countries as witnessed by our economies, although the USA really doesn't have an economy anymore. Our president gives no thought to our economy as we tumble down the black abyss. Meanwhile China is soaring. Their are many solid reasons why this is happening and Lee Kuan Yew points this out to us as well as how to get back on track. For Anyone interested in our country rebounding back to where America once was this is without a doubt a MUST READ!!!!!
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3.0 out of 5 starsSelected quotes, stitched together by ... someone
By Scott C. Locklin VINE VOICE on June 29, 2015
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I'm always in the market for more LKY. The problem with this book is simple: it is written like an interview where the late Minister Mentor answers topics of interest to policy types. The actual fact of the matter is, these are a bunch of out of context quotes taken from the public record and other books, stitched together out of order by the listed "editors" and presented to the reader as something it isn't.
Many of the quotes don't make sense as they are stitched together, as they were taken from things LKY said in different decades (a quick skim turns up 45 year gaps between sentences) in vastly different context. LKY seems to contradict himself at times ... because he says one thing in the 1960s, and another thing in 2011. This is, to put it mildly, preposterous. While it is genuine LKY for a sentence or two, you could pretty much make the man say anything you want with this type of editorial control. Sure, there are footnotes showing where the original statement was made, but most people won't notice them. The quotes on Iran seem particularly out of context. That issue was one which didn't come up often with LKY.
I'm not asserting malevolence in the editorial decisions, though it wouldn't surprise me
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5.0 out of 5 starsA master of Asia Insight

Great insight from Lee Kuan Yew on China, the USA, and the relationship going forward - truly genius thoughts!

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different viewpoint on the world around us. I need to read more about the man himself, but I enjoyed this

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This mAN IS THE Nearest thing to being a benevolent dictator

Published 8 months ago by Kenneth G. Fettig
5.0 out of 5 starsA Short, Highly Insightful Snapshot of the Asia-Pacific Region

This is a short but highly insightful book encapsulating Lee Kuan Yew's views on a number of topics relevant to anyone interested in the future of the Asia-Pacific region. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Chaitanya Ramachandran
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Fascinating collection of interviews that provide a roadmap for successful governance. Singapore's founder is rightly credited with taking a poor country with no resources into the... Read more

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