Singapore's young challengers beg to differ posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006
In the last chapter of a long and successful career of nation-building, Lee seems to have little patience with critics who, in his view, see only part of the picture.
"You are not going to intimidate me, ever," he told a questioner at a recent meeting with foreign reporters.
"We're not going to allow foreign correspondents or foreign journalists or anybody else to tell us what to do," he added. "There are very few things that I do not know about Singapore politics, and there are very few things that you can tell me or any foreign correspondent can tell me about Singapore."
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/05/news/sing.php
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Speaking to his young questioners on television, Lee was at pains to describe some of the challenges Singapore had overcome on this racially mixed, resource-poor island. But his examples, dating from before they were born, may not have resonated with them.
In the last chapter of a long and successful career of nation-building, Lee seems to have little patience with critics who, in his view, see only part of the picture.
"You are not going to intimidate me, ever," he told a questioner at a recent meeting with foreign reporters.
"We're not going to allow foreign correspondents or foreign journalists or anybody else to tell us what to do," he added. "There are very few things that I do not know about Singapore politics, and there are very few things that you can tell me or any foreign correspondent can tell me about Singapore."
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/05/news/sing.php
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