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Lee Kuan Yew on China: "It will do it its way."
Updated: AUGUST 30, 2022 16:09
Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of modern Singapore, was one of the few world leaders who had met with all generations of the Chinese leadership. It was in 1976 when he first led a delegation to China.
Over the following 39 years, he visited China on a regular basis, and met with and exchanged views with Chinese leaders from Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping, making a major contribution to promoting high-level engagement, political trust and economic cooperation between Singapore and China.
On December 18, 2018, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council awarded him the China Reform Friendship Medal. President Xi Jinping said that Mr. Lee Kuan Yew was an old friend of the Chinese people, and the founder, pioneer and promoter of China-Singapore relations.
Together, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and the elder generation of Chinese leaders set the course for China-Singapore relations. He had made significant contributions to deepening the friendship between the two peoples and expanding cooperation between the two countries.