Posts Tagged ‘conversations with lee kuan yew’
Tom Plate’s Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew: Some Wise Words for Dysfunctional Western Democracies
10Jun10
Tom Plate’s book gets negative reviews in Singapore, but a positive review in America. Huffington Post: When the history of the 21st century is written, Afghanistan will matter little. But the rise of China modeled on the pragmatic, soft-authoritarian template of Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore will be seen as the game changer of our time. […]
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An atypically critical state media review of Tom Plate’s new book on Lee Kuan Yew. Today: Mr Plate tries to get under the skin of this man during two interviews over a total of four hours, especially in the second part of his slim, soundbite of a book. The result is a 211-page rewind of […]
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