Lee Kuan Yew Reflects

For John, BLUF:  Lee Kuan Yew guided Singapore from birth as a nation state to democracy as a nation state.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Lee Kuan Yew:  Asia’s Confucianist Edmund Burke

Of course you have to know who Edmund Burke♠ was to appreciate this complement.

From the Blog Site The Diplomat we have a review of a book by Harvard Professors Graham Allison and Robert Blackwill

Lee Kuan Yew:  The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World came over the transom last spring.  As the title implies, Lee Kuan Yew is a volume of commentary from the Singaporean eminence griseon, well, most anything relating to politics and culture in the Indo-Pacific region.  That's an advantage of age (or so I hear): you can speak your mind.  To his credit, Lee speaks his mind in more elevated fashion than, ah, certain equally outspoken wise man this side of the Pacific.

Harvard professors Graham Allison and Robert Blackwill assemble a sample of Lee's interviews, speeches, and published writings.  They arrange the materials by theme, covering such topics as the futures of China, the United States, and India; future interactions likely to play out among Asian states, large and small; and the future of economic growth, globalization, and geopolitics.  Yep, future is the common denominator among the chapters.

If you were looking for someone who was a reflective practitioner from the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean area, you probably couldn't go better than Lee Kuan Yew.

PD-USGov-Military.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  British Politician who supported the American Revolution and opposed the French.  A man of keen insight, apparently.