Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister... She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac... Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society. ✨ Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas. Book by Fook Kwang Han, Sumiko Tan, and Warren Fernandez, 1998.
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