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Lee Kuan Yew One Man's View Of The World
Publisher :
Straits Times Press
Published Date : 2013/08
ISBN : 9789814342568
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In One Man’s View of the World,
Mr. Lee Kuan Yew draws on his wealth of experience and depth of insight
to offer his views on today’s world and what it might look like in
twenty years. In this broad-sweep narrative that takes in America,
China, Asia and Europe, he analyses their society, probes the psyche of
the people and draws his conclusions about their chances for survival
and just where they might land in the hierarchy of tomorrow’s balance of
power.
In spare, unflinching prose that eschews political correctness, he describes a China that remains obsessed with control from the centre on its way to an unstoppable rise, an America that will have to share its pre-eminence despite its never-say-die dynamism, and a Europe that struggles with the challenges of keeping its union intact. His candid and often startling views – on why Japan is closed to foreigners, why the Arab Spring won’t bring one man, one vote to the Middle East, and why preventing global warming is not going to be as fruitful as preparing for it – make this a fresh and gripping read. Mr. Lee completes the book by looking into the future of Singapore – his enduring concern – and by offering the reader a glimpse into his personal life and his view of death. The book is interspersed with a Q&A section in each chapter, gleaned from conversations he had with journalists from The Straits Times. http://www.kinokuniya.com/sg/index.php/fbs003?common_param=9789814342568 |