The gist of Lee Kuan Yew's philosophy : build up a strong economy first to acquire standing and strength and with the resultant spare resources, ,socio- political equations leveraged.His nation was small and had no natural resources,dependent on external source for most of its drinking water and even sand.It's defence aircraft were being parked in Australia !His only resource were people and he recognised that it's multi ethnicity gave him an unique mix of genes of hard work,innovation,commercial trading acumen.He in turn provided in martinet style ,the glue ,vision and direction.As a trading hub his nation was centric to the economy of most global nations and thus Singapore's well being was everyone's concern.Lee was a leader and humanist far ahead of his times ,steadfast and never doubted his convictions : leadership qualities that has no relevance to the size of a nation.
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