SINGAPORE AND ITS LEADERS, A MODEL FOR MANY A NATION
See what a leader should be like -- highly educated, strong, forthright, decisive, nationalistic, pragmatic and, yet, a visionary. PM Lee Hsien Loong, the present and the third Prime Minister of Singapore, is the illustrious son of an even more illustrious father, the first Prime Minister of Singapore and its founding father and architect, the great Lee Kuan Yew who remains to this day one of the great statesmen of the world and one who has an incisive understanding of China.
I exhort all to follow the history and development of Singapore so as to be fired up with hope and aspiration for the building up of our motherland, along our own lines, though. The sheer drive that these Singaporean leaders have and the way they have, despite Singapore being such a tiny country that is smaller than most major cities of the world and has hardly any natural resource to rely on, mobilised their people towards developing their country into a top first world one, has drawn the admiration of the whole world, but Singapore, despite such attainments, does not rest on its laurels and pushes on towards higher achievements. For, as Lee Kuan Yew has said, there is always the possibility of Singapore sliding down the ladder of development and ruining its past attainments through future inadvertence. Therefore, the motto of Singapore is to move on ever onward, maintaining a strict vigil on its present abiding state and possible future states.
Singapore is driven like a corporate house and is a capitalist state through and through that relies on profit generation for its survival in an unapologetic way and with a clear developmental conscience for its people. Singapore is a modern state that is completely non-racial and non-communal in attitudes, aspirations and executive action which has helped it to forge the bond of national unity across the cultural and community spectrum. In foreign affairs Singapore's policy is to maintain perfect amity with all its Malayan neighbours so as to keep its own domestic peace and communal harmony. All these things are worth pondering for us who also aim to build a strong nation but along our own civilisational line.
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