US President Barack Obama (R) meets with Singapore' Lee Kuan Yew; he oversaw the separation of Singapore from the Federation of Malaysia in 1965 and its subsequent transformation from a relatively underdeveloped colonial outpost with no natural resources into a stable, First World Asian Tiger. He has remained one of the most influential political figures in South-East Asia.
AFP:WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama on Wednesday lauded Singapore's "legendary" founding father Lee Kuan Yew, as he sought advice ahead of his first trip to Asia since taking office.
Obama told reporters before a meeting with Lee that he was looking forward to hearing his views on the evolving situation in the region, before leaving on November 11 for a trip to Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea.
"This is one of the legendary figures of Asia in the 20th and 21st centuries," Obama said as he sat side-by-side with Lee in the Oval Office.
"He is somebody who helped to trigger the Asian economic miracle," Obama said, adding that Singapore had been an outstanding friend and ally of the United States for many years.
Lee Kuan Yew did not seem to see things that far. He only set his sight 20 years later.
He said all constituencies in Malaysia would be dominated by the Malays in 20 years' time, and the leadership in this country would value the Chinese population less and less.
The Chinese population would continue to slide, he added, not because of the pathetically low fertility rates among the Chinese in this country, but because those who could afford would have sent their children overseas, who would decide not to come back.
"And those migrating to Malaysia will be from Islamic states, making the country's Islamisation inclination more and more pronounced." read more HERE
,...............Meaningless and unnecessary squabbles, like the one currently taking place within MCA, will only serve to bog down the pace of the Chinese community further, blurring their vision of the clear and present danger.
What the Chinese community urgently needs right now is high-calibre and farsighted leadership, not one engrossed with endless infighting.
Chinese Malaysians cannot afford to go on this way, and wait helplessly for such a destiny to befall them.
They have to take the initiative to accentuate their own strengths and be in firm control of their own fates before they can divert such a predestination.
Which high-calibre and farsighted leader are we talking about among Chinese Malaysian???
0 comments:
Post a Comment