MM Lee says talent, hard work helped China create dazzling Olympics

By Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 10 October 2008 2013 hrs SINGAPORE: Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said China's staging of the recent Olympic Games has shown that its people are united, organised and back on their feet. Relating his experience at the Beijing Olympics in an editorial published in Petir, the People's Action Party's magazine, Mr Lee said China pulled out all the stops to make the Games a success. "The Chinese people have shown the world their potential to become an advanced civilisation in the 21st century, equal to any other nation in the West", he said. But success came with a price. Mr Lee said initial feedback showed that while many in Europe and America were impressed, they were also uneasy because China will no longer be easy for them to manage as in the past. To put the world at ease,... [read full story]