Lee Kuan Yew in 1970. Photo: Handout
China, friend or foe to Singapore? How a wily Lee Kuan Yew made it both in building his nation
- Beijing has largely been seen as a hindrance to the Singaporean statesman’s efforts to construct a country after World War II
- But a new paper by Taiwanese scholar Philip Liu argues Lee and China had a tacit understanding that pragmatic cooperation trumped ideological divides
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Lee Kuan Yew in 1970. Photo: Handout