Tag Archives: Lee Kuan Yew

Singapore’s Chinese-ness can be appealing to diaspora communities, but city state is conscious that Asean neighbours could view it as ‘an agent of China’’. Source link

The two Southeast Asian states were outliers in a poll in which 25,000 respondents from 19 countries held mostly unfavourable views of Beijing. Source link

The past fortnight has seen the downfall of Britain’s Boris Johnson and Sri Lanka’s Gotabaya Rajapaksa, as well as the assassination of Japan’s Shinzo Abe. The quality of Asia-Pacific leadership is rising, in part due to Lee setting the standard. Examples include New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern and Indonesia’s Joko Widodo. …