Big Ideas Of Lee Kuan Yew On China

Big Ideas of Lee Kaun Yew on China is a great book that you need to read to under stand China. Chinese leaders from Deng Xiaoping to the present president Xi Jinping have learned from Lee. Xi regards him as "our senior who has our respect". Lee also shared with Deng about "open the door to the world for foreign investment". Through his visits, dialogues with Chinese leaders from the top to down, and observations, Lee could be the best man who understood China's nature of strategic calculations. Lee said that "China has the intention to be the greatest power from the number # 1 in Asia and in the world when the time come and power grow, because it has the culture of over 4000 years old, 1.3 billion population, many of great talent-a huge and very talented pool to draw from, and "China wants to share the so co-equal to the United States". But he also argued that China "does not hurry to replace US" "it needs time to growth" "build up to catch up or overtake" and "does not want to bear burden and confront the US" and "China wants to be China and accepted as such, not as an honorary member of the West".