Every time Charlie Ross interrupted the man felt like a loss to humanity

it's almost 20years since this interview and there is still so much depth to this conversation. You can tell that every word that LKY spoke was with so much thought and weight. The breath of his understanding of geopolitics is ridiculous.

Hearing LKY is extraordinary, he is very careful with his words, at the same time he is very sensible, down to earth, no place for ego, very simple clear thinking. The gentleman is a pleasure to hear, no nonsense

Goodness! I have been listening to this man and I feel so unworthy to even make any comment even though it is all about admiration... This man is priceless!!

Time to time whenever I don’t understand geopolitics, I come back to this great mentor to update my understanding

Great Statesman, who is called Father of Singapore. Great example of Global Leader , who has great knowledge, articulate and clear understanding of any problems....He should have been made the UN Secretary General

Amazing, thank you for uploading

Singapore was very lucky to have this kind of legend who build Singapore with zero corruption Pakistan need the same

I have huge respect and admiration for LKY's forthrightness . He was great visionary. World needs more leader like him. His quick thinking has changed Singapore to a first world state.

A brilliant man. A competent host actually. To get the most out of the conversation from a very wise man over a very wide range of deep topic within a fixed time slot! So good!

Thank for uploading the video. Would be great if you could upload more videos of LKY.

The interview content would be much more informative if the host disrupted less. When you talk to LKY, the best thing you do is just listen to what he has to say. Making statements in front of him can only make the questioner look stupid.

The best interviews ever 😊

Around 30:00 when he envisioned China's future "... 2025...5 times GDP of Japan but still lagging behind in technology in next 50 or 100 years", watching it in 2023 just reminds me how much China has achieved in many areas (including technology) in the last two decades and how much the dynamics of global geopolitics have shifted in the last 3 years if not months that even Lee didn't dare foresee China coming to the center stage this early (with USA getting gradually sidelined in intl community and getting sucked into its own suicidal whirpool deeper still at the same time). Or he already saw it coming, but he was always a filial son of Confucian tradition (by his own definition in many occasions) and a miraculous survivor of Japanese imperialist brutality (also by his own account in many occasions in an all too forgiving manner) and said what he had to say, about China, and about Japan, to an American...

Boy you are so good. Miss you. Being listening to you for 20 years. 😢where are you or wath you do since the Me Too mouvement.❤

I love to listening to his talks

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Whether you agree with his views or not, one thing I admired Mr. Lee most is his forthrightness, he speaks his mind and did not pull any punches.

What a beautiful human being.need more educated legend like him in my country.

He is a doer no doubt about him. Put the people first then the family. Lee Kuan Yew the legend.

Solid Gold 👍 🙏

still spot on if you hear him talking about the world's situation today

IMHO the interviewer Charlie Rose did a terrible job... Lee Kuan Yew was a man with great experience and knowledge. In the interview, he brought in several items of knowledge as a way of introducing them. But as soon as he (LKY) introcued these items, the interviewer jumped in filling the 'body' of the topic! What a disgusting manner of interviewing someone with so much capability.

I lived in Singapore and appreciate the gratitude, respect and admiration Singaporeans have for this Great Leader. He was very measured in this interview since as we all know his criticism of American Imperialism has been second to none in SE Asia. SE Asia nations are ridden with ubber smart, hyper intelligent people who understand the devastating and destructive nature of US Imperialism and British colonialism.

People click on this video because they see the name of Lee Kwan Yew, and instead they hear the journalist, who cannot stop talking.

LKY very cleverly withheld his tongue on some very important perspectives of global politics in the interest of S'pore. .. Moreover, as it goes things can basically be somewhat at odds with his projections in 2050.

The man is amazing. Respect

I was told a rumor, that a lot of wealthy people, when they retire they go to Singapore.

He understands a thing or two about peaceful religion.

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

The current American administration could learn a lot from LKY…

Yes your right my lky

29:20 - 30:58 (his prediction came true)

17:55 The best and the brightest of Singapore goes into the government & the bureaucracy. "First we had to get the State going. Supposing we had had a weak government, and lots of bright young people running around making money. We would not have cohered as a nation and never have been. Before there must be a sense of common destiny - that we share a common obligation to each other. Otherwise, everybody for himself / why should I (if I'm a loser) be part of the game?" 19:40 The robustness of the American economy is its ability to meet unexpected challenges, adapt, downsize, change, revamp, revive, start new industries, flourish & move ahead - more than any other economy. He came to this view by studying Europe, Japan, and America (once the State & common destiny is established). He did not start out with this view, because he was brought up by the British and thought a certain amount of stability was needed (he was wrong. Margaret thatcher couldn't complete the job because she never got the unions around). 21:00 The Middleman is not productive, he's just parasitical - that's the Chinese feudal society 21:15 China is entrepreneurial, but the cream of the crop still goes into government. The difference between China is they have so many people that they can still have many leftover to go into entrepreneurship. 31:00 The rise of China & India 45:00 Live and let live attitude 40:00 Americans' have a consumption lifestyle causes the world to wonder how long we can preserve and protect the environment. 49:50 American's obsession with casualties makes the world feel as if, "only American lives are important." 52:30 Americans go in with noble, high minded objectives to bring democracy and change the nature of the society - that's not easy, and that's a long term goal.

Best

I immensely enjoy the wisdom of LKY and as much as I found Rose disruptive, his view represents the popular and often simplistic belief that LKY was able to address eloquently

Not audible!!

God is the best ever

LKY was a realist. ❤

Lee Hsien Loong

100 years equal to Japan technology?

For me was hard to understand, they speak in code .

Prophet

Was this before or after Charlie got nailed for boinking his secretary at work?

After watching multiple podcasts, it’s obvious the interviewer loves injecting/interrupting his beliefs on the guest

It makes me disappointed when watching this video, not because LKY performed badly but the impatient interviewer always interrupted his speech and asked questions piece-wisely. Before that I expect I could learn from LKY’s viewpoint how the world was going on and how he analysed the situation after 2000. Some of the questions asked by the interviewer are good but he didn’t give enough time to LKY to response thoroughly. I hope there are some more professional Interviews with LKY somewhere on KZfaq

It's impossible to overstate the importance of his conclusions about "Wahhabism" (which is an offensive term, but I digress), it is the formal spirit of politicized sharia that has been re-invigorated by Saudi and other Gulf-state money. It has been championed by the greatest scholars because it is the best funder of education. Frankly I think that with an inflation-based faith tax there could be an American countervailing trend from the tax given to Muslim American faith groups that could easily beat it and re-modernize (yes, re, it used to be modernized between the 40's-70's) Islamic culture and religious beliefs. It would really be extremely unexpensive, and that's if we don't add tax money to it besides as the arguments for religious neutrality of the state are far more pronounced than one would imagine, it just happens to be locked behind a Deist text wall from the enlightenment, which should be studied, especially a treatise on tolerance by Voltaire. One can grasp a lot of the beauty of that particularly advanced belief system in Thomas Paine's (the American founding father's) The Age of Reason. It is a singular book, most unwise to write at the time but its insights are absolutely timeless, like the notion of priestcraft, true theology etc.

Charlie Ross totally destroyed the interview with unnecessary interruptions! What is he doing?

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18:52 - democracy in a nutshell

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Why does Charlie talk so much! He is typical bad interviewer trying to put words in others mouth and interrupting continuosly. LKY is a class apart. Let him talk. people want to listen to him not you Charlie.

19:40 Abiliry To Meet Unexpected Challenges Adapt Downsize Change Revamp Revive Start New Industries And Flourish Move Ahead Ashkenzi Jew Level 1 And 2 20:00 Ability To Adapt To Changed Circumstances

The interviewer should talk less and keep his opinions to himself. The point was to get LKY view not his

Interviewer is annoying

Thanks God he was wrong about China. Though he knew about China he didn’t know about CCP

Shut up Charlie and Learn Something.

Forgot how bad an interviewer Charlie was Won't let guest speak for more than 15 seconds, especially a non native English speaker, is ridiculous Can really see how he was a sexual harasser. He clearly has a high opinion of himself to interrupt influential world leaders so

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie. 🤔. Me thinks you talk too much.

To many people in the West esp America they see LKY as a wiseman who is a deep thinker and one with a good understanding of the world. To Mahathir LKY is the little emperor of the tiny Middle Kingdom. To the Chinese after Deng Xiaoping LKY ideas of China are outdated and not so appreciated like in the West.

Whyte folk HATE hearing the Truth. Even Charlie boy

Why do we keep promoting this dictator?