One Man's View of the World

LeeKuanYew 李光耀

Your generation has been through the anti-Japanese war, the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the Gang of Four, and now the Open Door policy. You know there are numerous pitfalls, and that for China to go up the escalator without mishap, you need stability internally, and peace externally. But you are inculcating enormous pride and patriotism in your young in a restored China. So much so that when they started demonstrating against the Japanese, they turned violent.