“He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.”

—  Lee Kuan Yew

Recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Straits Times, Aug 17, 2004
2000s

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