Lee Kuan Yew

(What, in your view, is wrong with the American system?) It is not my business to tell people what’s wrong with their system. It is my business to tell people not to foist their system indiscriminately on societies in which it will not work. (But you do not view the United States as a model for other countries?) As an East Asian looking at America, I find attractive and unattractive features. I like, for example, the free, easy and open relations between people regardless of social status, ethnicity or religion. And the things that I have always admired about America, as against the communist system, I still do: a certain … Continue reading Lee Kuan Yew