Word: kuan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stress on U.S. alliances in the region. "Not a single friend and ally would join us in such a strategy," suggests a ranking Administration official. "We'd be all alone, and that would cause severe strains with Japan, South Korea, Australia and in Southeast Asia." Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, an astute analyst of the region, takes the point a step further: "The last thing Asia wants is containment. First, it will not succeed. Second, you will have absolutely no influence on how China and its attitudes develop: it will be hostile and xenophobic to the West, and that...
...speaks the same way that he does while being broadcasted. It relieves me that he doesn't have to put on an act on television contrary to who he actually is," said Kuan...
...KUAN YEW Singapore strongman wins settlement from Int'l Herald Trib for implying he's...litigious...
That is ultimately untenable in a world of instant communications that cross all frontiers. And in a global marketplace the notion that authoritarian rule can be combined with free enterprise-the notion might be called Lee Kuan Yewism, for Singapore's Godfather-cannot work indefinitely. The U.S. maintains that countries aspiring to membership in nato, in the European Union or in the wider community of developed nations must respect democracy, free enterprise and human rights. But Washington is notably passive in promoting freedom of the press...
...live--is largely destitute. Half of Vietnamese children suffer from chronic malnutrition. The country's remarkably high literacy levels-among communism's proudest accomplishments-have begun to decline, as teenagers race off to find jobs instead of staying in school. On a recent visit, Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a Hanoi favorite, complained that investment projects are "being held to ransom" by officials looking for payoffs. Harvard economist Dwight Perkins describes Vietnam as being in the "Twilight Zone," somewhere between a Stalinist command economy and a Western-style market economy, with only a hazy notion...