"The trouble is that the system requires someone like Lee Kuan Yew at the top — strict and charismatic, as Michael Barr, author of Singapore: A Modern History, told me. 'But no one who has that political skill would ever rise to the top today because that person would be regarded as a threat,' he said."
#FarahStockman, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/opinion/international-world/singapore-autocracy-democracy.html
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