Mr Lee optimistic over China’s development; He predicts next leader will seek to take country to higher level

14Jul11

Lee Kuan Yew opines on China and shares his views on eugenics again.  ST via LexisNexis: CHINA’S next helmsman, Mr Xi Jinping, may not have announced what he plans for the country, but he will seek a legacy as weighty as that of his four predecessors. And if one had to guess what the ‘Xi […]

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Tags: china, eugenics, futurechina, india, lee kuan yew, xi jinping

Review of Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation-Building project

16May09

SDP chief Chee Soon Juan reviews Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation (Amazon).  Wall Street Journal: The “Singapore Story” — the title of the first volume of founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s autobiography — is that a mandarinate elite built a bastion of political and economic success on twin pillars of good governance: […]

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Tags: chee soon juan, constructing singapore, discrimination, elitism, ethnicity, eugenics, fertility, michael barr, nation, race, sdp, zlatko skrbis

Playing cupid once more

01Nov08

Lee Kuan Yew speaks out on his theories of eugenics.  Singapore’s state media maintain an embarrassed silence, but Seah Chiang Nee at Malaysia’s Star is on the ball once again: SINGAPORE’S founding leader has revived a 25-year-old eugenics debate, by advocating assortative mating, or finding a spouse that is at one’s level. A long time […]

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Tags: eugenics, human capital summit, lee kuan yew, selective breeding