“(In) Shanghai, if you want some pork soup, you just turn on the tap.”

In an after dinner speech to US businessmen on 03 April 2013. https://www.yahoo.com/news/singapore-pm-draws-laughs-us-speech-112612634.html http://shanghaiist.com/2013/04/04/singapore_prime_minister_lee_hsien_loong_makes_jokes_about_china.php

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Prime Minister of Singapore 1952

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