MM Lee: Ride on S'pore's reputation - Pls ask around

[ahbengsong]

I'm tired of LKY actually being a broken tape recorder. It seems that all he does these days is to repeat what he said in the 90s. And as for our reputation in China, I sum up in one word: Suzhou.

... you beat me to it... lky is past his prime... he is just a senile old man...

 

[Merl Haggard]

We do not want to heed anything the world's greatest scum has to say!

 

[The_Latest_H]

... you beat me to it... lky is past his prime... he is just a senile old man...

:p

Cheers, man

 

[snrcitizen]

PRC leaders will endorse his view and play along, knowing that his head will swell again and pour in more money in the next township.

It's already happening - eco-city in Tianjin. Wooden Goh was there recently while Lim Suay Suay was in Sichuan. You can write off the investments (our money) even before they are completed.

 

[Dan Now]

Ride on Reputation ?

You mean ride on the losses that the GLC have made in Suzhou ?

 

[angry_one]

Not many sinkees know this, but sinkapore is actually well regarded in china....except for those who have dealt with sinkees or come to sinkapore. To many chinks we are still modern, hardworking, refined and advanced. In fact, many of them revere LKY.....they tell me he is responsible for advising Deng Xiaoping to open up the economy and give them improved standards of living. And they are immensely proud of their new wealth.

 

[johnny333]

Some situation, it is better to say you are NOT Singaporean.

Yes, when I travel I am reluctant to admit I'm Sporean. PAP has done such a good PR job that I want to avoid the Spore stereotype

 

[The_Latest_H]

Not many sinkees know this, but sinkapore is actually well regarded in china....except for those who have dealt with sinkees or come to sinkapore. To many chinks we are still modern, hardworking, refined and advanced. In fact, many of them revere LKY.....they tell me he is responsible for advising Deng Xiaoping to open up the economy and give them improved standards of living. And they are immensely proud of their new wealth.

Well, I think they have reasons to pride themselves, and I do believe LKY did play a role. But in any case, perhaps Beijing has done it better than even the PAP to make the country better. Their system is still not what it should be, and there's a terrible gap in what laws have been passed and of those which are enforced uniformly without politics being involved. Still, there have been improvements, but at a very slow pace.

The chinese companies and nationals have been smarter though, and they are very street-wise compared to us- in part, because many of them are competing with western companies in a free and fair market overseas in Europe, North and South America, and in Africa. Singapore executives and public-servant-turned-executives are not as savvy because they have been operating in a monopoly system in Singapore- and when they ventured, they get eaten for breakfast often.