Posts Tagged ‘myanmar’
More WikiLeaks about Lee’s foot-in-mouth syndrome, this time on Myanmar. Washington Post: Singapore statesman Lee Kuan Yew considered Myanmar’s junta leaders “stupid” and “dense,” according to classified U.S. documents released this week by WikiLeaks. The Singapore leader said dealing with Myanmar’s military regime was like “talking to dead people,” according to a confidential briefing on […]
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Lee Kuan Yew Watch 
Socialism or Free Markets? Consider Myanmar and Thailand
Lee Kuan Yew opines in Forbes: IN TERMS OF LAND area and population Myanmar and Thailand are close in size, and i n the 1960s both countries had similar rates of growth. But in 1962 Myanmar’s General Ne Win led a coup d’état, establishing a nominally socialist military government that followed an economic policy of autarky. […]
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Tags: burma, forbes, free trade, investment, lee kuan yew, Malaysia, myanmar