“The sole figure from Asia to rate high leadership status in Kissinger’s book is the late Lee Kuan Yew,” writes Tom Plate, LMU Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies. “This is striking when one considers who otherwise might have been asked to the podium to take a bow – Nehru? Mohammed Ali Jinnah? Kim Dae Jung? Yasuhiro Nakasone? Deng Xiaoping? Nonetheless, the choice of LKY is superb.”
Source: South China Morning Post
Asia Needs Leaders of the Calibre of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew to Navigate a Messy World