He's dearly missed, and loved. Thank you, founding Father of Singapore 🇸🇬.

LKY was slowing down - but his mind was still sharp and full of wisdom.

@luvhonest463

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and this cannot be inherited nor trained. He was an in-borned leader.

@user-vw9mm7xt4h

2 жыл бұрын

》》》 A unified China is inevitable. But it must be under a democratic system with the consent of all ethnic groups. Otherwise, even the family cannot be integrated

@jean-pierrelanhingkwong7852

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-vw9mm7xt4h Hi ! What is wrong with our Mainland China ? Hong Kong is now slowly & gradually integrating into the Chinese model of Govt. We know as they know that the Western Democratic system is not adaptable or convenient to China & its culture or specificity. Greetings.

@user-vw9mm7xt4h

2 жыл бұрын

@@jean-pierrelanhingkwong7852 》》》 We know as they know that the Western Democratic system is not adaptable or convenient to China & its culture or specificity. This was Under the interpretation of the power of the CCP’s guns。 It's like pointing a knife at your girlfriend and say that Western romantic is not suitable for us, we are a natural match. same things with 64 happen.

@iYo420K

2 жыл бұрын

When one values reading & writing. “Books are whetstones to the mind”

Such a clear thinking and forward thinking man...

thank you very much sph razor... for your chosen questions...

I really miss Lee Kuan Yew

@ddream777

3 жыл бұрын

Missing him too here.

When my grandson asks me an example of a living legend, unhesitantly I mention Lee Kuan Yew. Despite my envy him his genius mind in uniting Singaporeans.

Mr. Lee Kuan Yew was really a great political leader full of wisdom!

GREAT MAN ,GREAT POLITICIAN !

Very wise and learned man.

Mr. Lee dressed with Chinese style out fit

@elbowinhandout

5 жыл бұрын

That is Manchurian, not quite "Chinese".

@leonidaslazos6828

3 жыл бұрын

@@elbowinhandout manchurian is chinese tho

@ttt9618

2 жыл бұрын

@@leonidaslazos6828 manchu people were different than han Chinese

One of the greatest visionaries world knew.

A true statesman, the only lawyer qualified to haven.

4:02 Why I Wrote The Bilingualism Book 5:34 Advice To Young Singaporeans If You Give Up Chinese You Lose Something Valuable 6:45 Self Confidence 7:57 English Is Must Chinese Is Also A Must 8:43 I Worry That Families Speak English

I like the idea of peaceful unification and Taiwanese initiate the process. It really depends on how China’s political system evolves.

@dz9446

Жыл бұрын

Unification means effect from both sides, not just one’s problem. How the unification process carries out depends on whether Taiwan side will officially call the shot of succession and many things. In fact, today Taiwan’s government is simply a puppet, they’ve handed their decision to the Americans. Such a pity.

@eddyesculpied86

6 ай бұрын

If Taiwan want to gain the best for them, they should initiate the unification. The fastest they do, the more they get. It's just a ticking bomb until Mainland get bigger dominance in many aspects, mainly economics, that made Taiwan had less choice other than reunification. When the time come, they must accept whatever the Mainland offer since they will face a harder situation. Whoever rules mainland, almost hundred percent they will not change their stance for unification, also their political system will not change. Taiwan will be still Taiwan even after the unification, but LKY analyzed that if they keep the status quo, its more likely for Taiwan to lose some of their "valueble" aspects of their lifes.

Lee Kuan Yew can speak english, mandarin, hokkien, malay, japanese, hakka. Every Singaporean know he can speak many languages

Mr Lee Kwan world needs leaders like you.

He was so right about the importance of speaking mandarin. I only speak mandarin to my daughter. Now at 8 years old, she is still struggling with the language and prefer to use English because of the school environment. Her Chinese teacher was surprised when I told her we never speak English at home. To new parents, the influence of English at school and local environment is so great you don't even have to worry a bit that your child will struggle. Focus on the mother tongue.

If you have watched LKY's interviews over the years, including the early interviews by US news media in the 60s, you can tell that he is deeply proud of his root. "I learned Japanese during Japanese occupation that's three and half years loss".

@AbdulAli-ku9he

2 жыл бұрын

Then why his ancestors left poor china and immigrate to others nations land? Stay in china and be proud of your country rather than copying western political system, education, and norms. Can you LKY's hypocricy?

@AjayKumar-er7up

2 жыл бұрын

Abdul Ali what a foolish statement! Do you know what’s hypocrisy? Then everyone should go back to their own lands. And that’s delusional, not reality.

@davidbilla8063

2 жыл бұрын

@@AbdulAli-ku9he if his family stayed in china perhaps he will definitely changed China Like Singapore model Freedom opens to World😁🤔

@AbdulAli-ku9he

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidbilla8063 They left and moved into other peoples land, and started copying western democracy, education, norms that is Chinese culture, b/c Chinese culture had nothing better to offer, no creativity, no ingenuity like the west. In china everything is copy, copy and copy. nothing modern from locals.

@davidbilla8063

2 жыл бұрын

@@AbdulAli-ku9he Except their worst taste on animals eating

still the best view as of now.

LKY's prediction on the relationships and outcome between China and Hong Kong, China and Taiwan more than a decade ago is being played now. A great Singapore leader, albeit the world, with foresight and wisdom

3:18 That is DOCTOR Lee.

legend ! now its 2023 what he predicted is mostly true . a man of focus did the best for his country. he might not be likable for some but time has proves that mr lee decision has make the most impact for singapore !

It seems it would not take long time anymore

LKY a very wise man with a visionary and clear understand of how to manage and maintain Singapore in the world stage . English is still the key to Singapore success not mandarin .

First time seeing Mr.Lee wearing a Mao suit❤

@dyfrigshandy

Жыл бұрын

Dictator scum

Thanos : I am inevitable

Lee of Taiwan vs. Lee of Singapore which one believes in democracy ... one Lee foresaw mighty land a return to one man rule ...

@Thiny1991

6 жыл бұрын

Wondering if lee could have foresaw the return to emperor one man rule something he had had tons of experience ....

@jimmychoo6341

6 жыл бұрын

It's best for Taiwanese to move to Okinawa. I think they should feel more accepted there.

@abdeenn3

5 жыл бұрын

Thiny1991 One thing you can not argue is both President Lee and Lee are HAKKA !

What’s wrong with the moderator? Let the old man finish!

Lee Kuan Yew is a visionary, a respected statesman, but he isn't some deity, he could be wrong, at least some of the times.

@fooksengloke3625

3 жыл бұрын

He was not wrong in his thinking but he could be selfish at times.

@marvelcomdc2070

3 жыл бұрын

...he admitted he was wrong with the Woman's Charter. But he couldn't revoke it, because by then women had came to power in many establishments and they certainly do not want it removed. Raised it up twice in a seminar at NUS.

@luvhonest463

2 жыл бұрын

@@marvelcomdc2070 oh..he admitted his mistake!? My respect for such honest leader, unlike current ones, die die also wont admit.

Already unified China

@MundaneThingsBackwards

2 жыл бұрын

Then what's the problem? Exactly. China is not unified, China will never be unified. Not unless the independent country of Taiwan takes its place as the rightful democratic leaders of a true Chinese republic, anyway.

Maybe Taiwan in a way, had changed China.

In spite of threatening rhetoric for military force to unify China, even outskirts like Taiwan, HK, Macau, by Xi Jinping, the wisdom is Patience and a modus vivendi. Chinese people are resilient and creative. We can seize the right moment -- carpe diem -- to act, regardless of political model/ideology. July 1, 2019

@limitlesssky3050

3 жыл бұрын

They said if Taiwan and HK ever declare independence, they will attack. But as long they still admit they are part of China or China part of them (no matter how stupid that idea is), the CCP will not attack them. I think it's a fair statement and rhetoric.

@naiyayika

3 жыл бұрын

The independence of Tibet is to come. Eventually it will. Absolute repression will not work.

@jonathanng138

3 жыл бұрын

Ye white people are resilient and creative too

@thomaszhang3101

2 жыл бұрын

@@naiyayika idk man, it seems to have worked for thousands of years.

@lisa.e5776

2 жыл бұрын

@@limitlesssky3050 Why do you think it's stupid? It's agreed and acknowledged by all countries in the world. Do you think all of them are stupid? My opinion it's you that is stupid.

Unified Korea?

@Xind0898

2 жыл бұрын

very hard, almost seems impossible

@technoswitch3296

2 жыл бұрын

Unlikely

@eddyesculpied86

6 ай бұрын

He said in his book that the North will be still like today, under the support from Russia and PRC. I think that LKY implied it's hard for Korea unification. Unlike Korea, Taiwan return to China is inevitable in many circumstances, although their people dont want it

To be fair to Lee, we have to respect his battle against the extremists between 1954 and 1962 He just made one error....and that was a major error.... It is the water supply agreement with malaysia in august 1962...singapore wanted a 100 year agreement and got it.... This agreement brought in a offensive defense policy. And this destablised south east asia for a long time...ie...53 years.. We have nothing else to say except to quote the words of a young tennis player....nobody is perfect..

@yijiun7553

Жыл бұрын

Care to elaborate?

@mirady9675

Жыл бұрын

@@yijiun7553 no need to. He is clearly not thinking straight. How can a water agreement between two countries destabilise a while region? It is ridiculous.

I really doubt it

@reis1185

Жыл бұрын

It's inevitable as KMT will win the next election and shall push for One China Policy

@dyfrigshandy

Жыл бұрын

​@@reis1185well that's one thing

Well this has aged well…. Not!

Should two nations, one is a Democracy another Dictatorship! SHOULD THEY JOIN by FORCE? Just because they speak the same language? This is about Peaples' democracy, and they lived separately for 75 yrs. as two nations, with diametrically opposite views of governing. People's right to elect govt. leaders, free speech, and fundamental human rights! Another dictatorial governing coming from thousands of years.

He did it consider the fact that alliances would form to counter the CCP and balance the power. If China wasn’t communist those alliances would find it hard to form as they wouldn’t have the same interests against the CCP.

@Xind0898

3 жыл бұрын

No one one the world would consider China as ACTUAL communist. The alliance will form regardless, if not communist they will find other reasons. The rise of China challenges west in the most direct way, so anti China alliance will always exist, maybe just in different versions

@mottscottison6943

3 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with being a communist? Do people even know what communism and socialism means nowadays except than in the picture the western propaganda has painted them? And don't you forget, Singapore's PAP is a socialist party, and the former USSR and China are socialist countries. No country in the modern history has actually reach communism. Communism is the goal, depends of the circumstances of the world, hence the existence of Communist Party, and socialism is just the stepping stone.

@Xind0898

3 жыл бұрын

@@mottscottison6943 The thing that is wrong with Communist is not its merit, but it had an established bad brand image in the western world. So if power were to pursue a friendly dialogue with a western power, then trying to minimise the communist brand would be advisable.

@mottscottison6943

3 жыл бұрын

@@Xind0898 Like what Yang Jiechi said iin Alaska just recently, China's or Communist brand name bad or not, is not just up to what the Western world has to say. You still have to listen to what the other 85% of world's population, which is the Global south. That will be a better, more balanced dialogue. But then with most people having access to just English/Western MSM, it will take some time before the voices of Global South can be heard more but I can see the changes start taking pace now thanks to the internet.

@Xind0898

3 жыл бұрын

@@mottscottison6943 Only China embraces communist value in name right now. Even in the global south, the majority consensus is that variability of the form of a free market economy is the desirable goal post to strive for. The Chinese elites in power all recognise this fact, and as a matter of fact, China has been run by the ruleset of a free economy very much abiding by capitalist regime. Of course, the communist value needs to be upheld in China at least in public speech realm because that is the political correctiveness, and to deny communist been a functional form of governance would be a political suicide in China.

Wish he was still alive to hear his commentary on Emperor Xi.

@ellashy6539

3 жыл бұрын

even if emperor Xi is dead Taiwan will always be part of China

@theuglykwan

3 жыл бұрын

@@ellashy6539 That sounds like when imperial Chinese dynasties that didn't control all of the territory but they would still claim it and even have officials that were responsible for areas not under their control. Remember when foreign powers took over parts of China but those parts were always part of China? I don't find much comfort in something being mine if I haven't had control of it all my life.

But his son don't buy it and is sucking up to US on Taiwan issue. Making Sg a trouble maker helper.

@bell-xk5dd

Жыл бұрын

Don’t type garbage here, you piece of shixt

It's sad that Singapore language is English.

@naguoning

2 жыл бұрын

Singapore has 4 official languages. The national anthem is in Malay. English is however a neutral language for Chinese, Indian and Malay Singaporeans as well as being useful as an international language. LKY understood this.

@bell-xk5dd

Жыл бұрын

What a stupid comment

@OldHunters

Жыл бұрын

How is it sad, when Its just being pragmatic?

poor old man. Taiwan? that never gonna happen

What is Honk Kong and Taiwan's I interest to join China?

@ellashy6539

3 жыл бұрын

Let me educate you as an Indian you don't know the will of the Chinese to take back that land all land belonging to the great Chinese

@phambinhan17

9 ай бұрын

The only reason that makes Taiwanese not want to join China is that China is not democratic. If the communist party collapsed, I'm sure every Taiwanese would love to join China. Hong Kong is already under Chinese army's control

if only LKY was alive to see xi jinping's china now

@bell-xk5dd

Жыл бұрын

He saw it already. He knew what China is capable of...with 1.4 billion people, that itself is a power, LKY saw it all...

@lebayhsok9557

Жыл бұрын

@@bell-xk5dd That's not what I meant. LKY said that China using force to unite Taiwan was not in China's interest but Chinese president Xi Jinping is threatening to use force to re unite Taiwan and is very aggressive about it. I bet LKY would be disappointed with China right now.

@bell-xk5dd

Жыл бұрын

@@lebayhsok9557 It hasn’t happened yet, Xi threatened to attack only if Taiwan dared to declare independence. Not even US dare to say that. Go figure.

@phambinhan17

9 ай бұрын

​@@lebayhsok9557 China is not as interested in Taiwan as South China Sea.

Will the stooges of Manuvadhi Brahmin's Sanskritization pay heed to his saner thought? * In India it should be translated into the one of Tamilnadu's formula of Mother-tongue plus English in every State. This is the best formula for a multi-national India to promote emotive integration.

@mskclasses8496

Жыл бұрын

Tell me will English remain the lingua franca after 500 years,1000 years, may be may be not,but let's suppose Portuguese, Spanish , arabic or Chinese becomes lingua franca what will indians do, speak Chinese in india!,we need a lingua franca in india especially to deal with Spanish , arabic and French speaking countries which are becoming important day to day,my take on language-let every state have their state language + one lingua Franca (not necessarily hindi)+one foreign language (not just English, those who want to do business with Spanish speaking countries will learn Spanish, some will learn Arabic to deal with arabic countries,so on)

@ramanraj6144

Жыл бұрын

What do you smoke?

Pbly Turned in his Grave watching Lee Family Saga … What Goes Around Comes Around …. KARMA…

Ukraine

A hero (Lee Kuan Yew) A Devil (Mao Zedong)

In his opinion. LKY keeps saying that the annexation of Taiwan back to mainland china is inevitable n no country can stop it. But Singapore warships indeed join war drills wt the USA n its Allies.

@AniMaTheEarth

2 жыл бұрын

If the CCP didn't keep using us as pawns in their game, we wouldn't care less.

@ladyofhalos

2 жыл бұрын

Singapore is not a treaty ally with the USA, just pointing this out lol. They conduct military exercises with a lot more countries than just “US and Co.”.

He may have been right for many thins but it seems like for this topic he was wrong. It seems like China is turning inward under Xi JinPing (cultural revolution 2.0?) where as Taiwan has become the freest and most democratic country in Asia with excellent handling of the WuHan virus, open internet and recently a return to high economic growth at a time when few countries have had net growth over the last few years (other than some natural resource lead ones like Australia which is really only because of commodity prices I think Taiwan is the only developed country to have net growth on a substantial level since the virus began). The desire of younger and middle aged Taiwanese is about equal to the desire of Singaporeans to be a part of Malaysia....

Militarily, Taiwan is like an unsinkable aircraft career. It is also an exemplary Asia democracy with robust technology and culture and ranking about 25th in terms of economic bodies in the world.

@mountainrasmuss9153

6 жыл бұрын

To refer to Taiwan as an aircraft carrier would be very isulting to me, if I was Taiwanese. Its a country, a people and a democracy with its own culture at best and a part of China "at worst". Would an American refer to Hawaii as a simple military asset? No, Never. I know it's a figure if speech, but does China and it's people really want Taiwan to unify her people, or for military purposes?

@richardteh2936

6 жыл бұрын

Steve Yang Taiwan needs China market and economic to grown America ask them to when Taiwan wanted to serve tie with China back in the 70th Taiwan agriculture excess their demand to the Japanese market they have to trade with China for mutual understanding their product are limited in Japan for consumption

@bruhman9168

6 жыл бұрын

Mountain Rasmuss - what's so insulting? People use comparisons to make others understand their points better.

@bruhman9168

6 жыл бұрын

Richard Teh - anyone who wants to rely on communist China to expand their market is going to be extremely disappointed later. South Korea experienced it firsthand. Hong Kong, a part of the PRC, is worse off as compared to the time they're still under British rule. Up till now, only western European countries and the USA aren't too much threatened by the communists.

@jonaspete

6 жыл бұрын

Taiwan look more like a westard and amerikkka cucked to me.

*Laughs in Taiwan with US missile launcher*

@maddoo23

3 жыл бұрын

Ohh you poor sod, Laughing in missile launchers..

@thomaszhang3101

2 жыл бұрын

A few dozen missile launcher to hit the vast area of mainland vs hundreds of mainland missile batteries with tens of thousands of missiles hitting targets concentrated on an island.

@tomato-v8x

23 күн бұрын

If you think Taiwan has any chance, even with foreign support, you are quite wrong 💀

Just as a unified China is inevitable, a breakup into several parts, like the former USSR, is also a possibility.

@killermachine6454

3 жыл бұрын

Get lost curry

@thedyingdaysofyoutube

3 жыл бұрын

Xi will be the last unelected ruler of China abd the CCP will die before he does.

@marcuslim5184

3 жыл бұрын

The fault line will be between the coastal provinces and the inland provinces, as they have huge gap in wealth and economic growth

@sadiqahmed4143

2 жыл бұрын

HEH CHINA WOULD REUNITE LIKE FOR LAST 2500 YEARS?

@phambinhan17

9 ай бұрын

Not as possible as you may think. China is quite a homogeneous country, with more than 90% of population being Han ethnic. Personally, i think the only region that can separate from China is Tibet (Xizang), because more than 80% of its population is Tibetan ethnic. But Tibetan have too small population compared to Han Chinese (3 million vs more than 1 billion) to be able to make a mess with China.

When he was still alive, Trump is not in office yet. I bet he will regret every word he say, after Trump aka Regan 2.0 in the office.

@trollmcclure2659

4 жыл бұрын

I bet you are now regretting every word you said, Trump trumped himself and US navy are hit by coronavirus, the USA can't even protect Taiwan currently

@user-zf1xj9xm6x

3 жыл бұрын

@@trollmcclure2659 so true, I actually prefer China over US for that reason

"A small island cannot change 1.3 billion Chinese" *Laughs in British* Is a history meme, not trying to laugh at the guy though - just the sentiment. Seems like he gave it the ol' college try though.

@mottscottison6943

3 жыл бұрын

Time has changed. The British used to have things that the colonized didn't have. Now the 1.4B strong China have things that most other countries don't have, bar the US. But even so, economically China has surpassed the US in PPP since 2014 and will be twice the size of US by 2030.

@bug5654

3 жыл бұрын

@@mottscottison6943 Purchasing Power Parity of a nonconvertible fixed currency backed by unauditable assets? Now that's a joke.

@mottscottison6943

3 жыл бұрын

@@bug5654 What's value to you maybe of different value to the others. If you think 30,000+ points in Dow Jones has better value than, say China's 70k HSR, then good on you.

@bug5654

3 жыл бұрын

@@mottscottison6943 USD seems to have a better value as a world currency as when the CCP tried to make the yuan the petroleum trading currency, they failed hard. It's almost as if no one trusts a currency manipulator's numbers -- including the CCP since they don't allow the RMB to convert to other currencies, lest competition show that it's worth is actually more on par with the Indian Rupee than the USD.

@helloworld5334

3 жыл бұрын

The British influence on China was mainly on industrial versus agricultural civilization. But as most countries have mastered modern technology, Britain no longer has this advantage. That is why Britain's is no longer known as the Sunset Empire, and British policy is moving toward self-isolation. Lee Kuan Yew's words clearly make sense in the current era when the world is viewed. Don't play little tricks of taking things out of context, you need to know that your intelligence can easily react in your words.

Why is a Singaporean politician commenting on the Two Chinas... this is really way outside of his scope of experience and expertise? It's like asking Sarah Palin to comment on whether or not the USSR should reform. It's an entirely pointless practice.

@anchored555

3 жыл бұрын

Ignoramus

@naguoning

2 жыл бұрын

Sarah Plain is an idiot. LKY was certainly not stupid. He did speak Chinese. I really doubt Palin would speak any foreign language.