Wang Yukun Channel | Lee Kuan Yew: Prematurely raising its tail and confronting the United States would be the beginning of China’s misfortune!

Source: Chinese Star

Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao recently wrote: “Mr. Lee Kuan Yew (former Prime Minister of Singapore) predicted in 2006: China needs at least 30 to 50 years to bide its time, bury its head in hard work before it can truly rejuvenate. When China proposed the slogan of ‘peaceful rise’, he suggested changing it to ‘peaceful development’ to avoid stimulating other countries. He was quite confident in China’s cognitive attitude at the time, but warned that prematurely raising its tail and confronting the United States, he believed that would be the beginning of China’s misfortune, a subversive mistake.” Lee Kuan Yew is a politician with outstanding wisdom and foresight. Some commentators believe that Lee Kuan Yew’s greatest characteristic is pragmatism, playing both sides in great power competition, seizing the most favorable opportunities, and single-handedly creating the golden age of Singapore’s development, making it the only developed country in Southeast Asia.

During his lifetime, Lee Kuan Yew made many accurate judgments and predictions about China, the United States, and the world格局. Regarding the United States, he once analyzed that although the United States’ world hegemony is shaking, it has after all dominated the earth for more than seventy years, and has insurmountable advantages in the fields of military, technology, culture, etc. Other countries will inevitably be unable to replace it in a short period of time. In the foreseeable future, the United States will still maintain its international leading position.

Regarding China, Lee Kuan Yew once said, strong economic development is necessary, but it is not enough for China to become a world power. What China needs is intelligent development that can enable the country to create and master cutting-edge technology in all fields. Moreover, China knows clearly that the United States regards it as the only challenger. China needs a peaceful and stable domestic and international situation to become a modern country in 50 years or more.

Nearly 20 years have passed, and great changes have taken place between China and the United States and the world格局. Some of Lee Kuan Yew’s predictions and judgments have been fulfilled, and some have undergone new changes. However, it can be foreseen that in the long run, the United States will still remain strong. What we need to do is to remain humble, face the gap squarely, work hard, and make progress faster than our opponents. With the ebb and flow, we believe that we will eventually be able to achieve a comprehensive超越.

Spicy Comments:

1. Although it is just one person’s opinion, maybe the bystander sees clearly? Why not listen?

2. Singapore today brings out the great theory of the former national leader, is it a bit of a persuasion?

3. Small countries in the cracks know the way of survival best. No one hopes more than these small countries that the new and old “hegemons” can change positions peacefully?

4. Is it better to let the melon fall off the vine than to force it? If conditions permit.

Statement: Taken from the Internet, identify carefully

Lee Kuan Yew: By 2030, China’s strength will make the United States unable to intervene in the Taiwan Strait

Nowadays, people all over the world are flocking to China, and with China’s current development speed, its strength will become stronger and stronger.

——Lee Kuan Yew

Source: Global Network

February 15, 2008

　　Lee Kuan Yew pointed out that nowadays, people all over the world are flocking to China, and with China’s current development speed, its strength will become stronger and stronger.

　　The United States’ United Press International (UPI) published an article on February 2, which was an interview with Lee Kuan Yew, Senior Minister of the Singapore Cabinet, by Bo Shige, the special mission editor-in-chief of the agency. The article said that China has set a path of peaceful development, and at the current speed, its strength will become stronger and stronger. By 2030, the United States will not be able to intervene in the cross-strait issues of the Taiwan Strait because the cost is too high; China will raise its gross national product (GNP) to a level comparable to that of the United States within three or four decades, and its technological level will also be comparable to that of the United States.

　　Lee Kuan Yew believes that China has come to the conclusion that if it continues to take the path of peaceful development, does not try to enter areas where it can exert influence or challenge any existing powers such as the United States or Western Europe, but makes friends with everyone, including Japan, Russia, India and other countries, according to the rules of the World Trade Organization, of which it is now a member, its strength will become stronger and stronger, and it will raise its gross national product (GNP) to a level comparable to that of the United States within three or four decades.

　　China’s technological level will reach half of that of the United States. In another three to five decades, its gross national product will surpass that of the United States, and its technological level will also be comparable to that of the United States, because it has carefully studied the models of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, and found that the reason why these places are advanced is because they maintain contact with Western countries, which can absorb technology, knowledge and capital to develop export markets and cultivate an educated workforce.

　　Lee Kuan Yew said that he was deeply impressed by the TV documentary “The Rise of Great Powers” produced by China Central Television. It is an academic work studied by historians that does not contain communist ideology, analyzing the reasons for the rise of Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Britain, etc., and concluding that the key lies in technology, plus a government and people who unite and pursue growth.

　　As for whether the 21st century is China’s century, rather than America’s century. Lee Kuan Yew believes that this is not necessarily the case. At least Singapore will be willing to share this century with China, and by 2050, the world will be very different. Even by 2030, the United States will not be able to intervene in the cross-strait issues of the Taiwan Strait because the cost is too high.

　　In fact, according to the detection of the US military, China is strengthening its ability to prevent aircraft carriers, which is exactly what China hopes to achieve, that is, not to win, but to cause huge damage to the US military. It is warning the United States not to intervene, and if Taiwan declares independence, it will use the “Anti-Secession Law” to prevent it.

　　However, China is willing to let Taiwan maintain the status quo on cross-strait issues because it is in its interests. Taiwanese can go to the United States to learn new technologies, and then the old technologies will flow to the mainland. If the mainland takes back Taiwan, it will be equivalent to cutting off a path to learn US technology. Therefore, they are smart.

　　Lee Kuan Yew believes that compared to Taiwan, young people in Singapore today are also more willing to work in Shanghai. That is because the stupid Taiwan government cut off economic ties with the mainland, thinking that this could prevent the development of the mainland. However, people all over the world are flocking to China, and China is not in a hurry to develop. Anyway, with its current development speed, its strength will become stronger and stronger. (Global Network Editor Zhang Jiajun)