ONE of Lee Kuan Yew’s strong legacies to Singapore was his vision some 30 years ago of a strong emerging China, and he prepared early for it.
In 1979, he launched the “Promote Mandarin” campaign to replace dialects, the common means of communication among the Chinese at the time. That was three years after he had made his first official visit to China.
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