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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->IN A wide-ranging speech, and a subsequent question-and-answer session, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew shared his views on his ties with the United States, the challenges facing a rising China, and the role that Singapore can play as the mainland continues to modernise.
'My connection with (the United States) began with a chance meeting with the former Assistant Secretary for East Asia William Bundy. He came to Singapore in 1966 and he had read one of my speeches in which I had said to my neighbours, 'please do not assume that the Americans will be in Vietnam forever, so let us put our houses in order or otherwise we'll be overrun by the communists.'
'He sought me out and he had the American ambassador invite me to dinner. He then sized me up and he said: 'Will you come and pay us a visit in Washington? And say what you have said here, on American television?'
'I said: 'Why of course. I'll say it anywhere in the world.'
'So he arranged a state visit for me to meet (then President) Lyndon Johnson, and all the Senate leaders and House of Representatives.
'I was interviewed on, I think, ABC by four interrogators who read up all I had said, and their final question was, 'If you believe that Americans should be in Vietnam, why don't you send your troops there?'
'So I said, I haven't got any troops yet.'
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->IN A wide-ranging speech, and a subsequent question-and-answer session, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew shared his views on his ties with the United States, the challenges facing a rising China, and the role that Singapore can play as the mainland continues to modernise.
'My connection with (the United States) began with a chance meeting with the former Assistant Secretary for East Asia William Bundy. He came to Singapore in 1966 and he had read one of my speeches in which I had said to my neighbours, 'please do not assume that the Americans will be in Vietnam forever, so let us put our houses in order or otherwise we'll be overrun by the communists.'
'He sought me out and he had the American ambassador invite me to dinner. He then sized me up and he said: 'Will you come and pay us a visit in Washington? And say what you have said here, on American television?'
'I said: 'Why of course. I'll say it anywhere in the world.'
'So he arranged a state visit for me to meet (then President) Lyndon Johnson, and all the Senate leaders and House of Representatives.
'I was interviewed on, I think, ABC by four interrogators who read up all I had said, and their final question was, 'If you believe that Americans should be in Vietnam, why don't you send your troops there?'
'So I said, I haven't got any troops yet.'
[email protected]
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