“What people mean by consultation is an imitation of what they see in America; pressure groups and lobby groups.. It's an unthinking adoption of Western practices of development without any pruning and modification to suit our circumstances.”

—  Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
1990s

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