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| | TIME Asia Print Page: Lee Kuan Yew Reflects -- December 12, 2005 Vol. 166, No. 24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | LEE: My first reaction was to tell one of their think tanks, "It's a contradiction in terms; any rise is something that is startling." And they said, "What would you say?" I replied: "Peaceful renaissance, or evolution, or development." A recovery of ancient glory, an updating of a once great civilization. |
 | | A year ago, a Chinese leader in his 70s asked me, "Do you believe our position on peaceful rise?" I answered, "Yes, I do—but with one caveat." Your generation has been through the anti-Japanese war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the Gang of Four, and finally the Open Door policy. |
 | | TIME: You've resisted the idea that the last two generations of Chinese leadership were influenced by Singapore as a model. |
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