article_snippet: Leaders of other aspiring-to-develop nations, and even the U.S., should take pages from Lee Kuan Yew playbook to address current challenges.
article_snippet: We know many of Lee Kuan Yew's lessons on the role of government leadership in development because my co-authors and I asked Lee Kuan Yew directly two years ago to reflect on my co-authors and I -- points we captured in we book, Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World.
article_snippet: Lee Kuan Yew demanded of leaders both intellectual and moral superiority.
article_snippet: Fifth, which leaders did Lee Kuan Yew most admire?
article_snippet: From the recent past, Lee Kuan Yew focused on three: Charles de Gaulle, Deng Xiaoping, and Winston Churchill. "
article_snippet: De Gaulle, because Lee Kuan Yew had tremendous guts; Deng, because Lee Kuan Yew changed China from a broken-backed state, which would have imploded like the Soviet Union, into what it is today; and "Winston Churchill, because any other person would have given up.
article_snippet: On the current scene, the leader who impressed Lee Kuan Yew most was the new president of China, Xi Jinping.
article_snippet: As the leader who impressed him most said just before Xi took office: "I would put Lee Kuan Yew in Nelson Mandela's class of persons.
article_snippet: As China's leaders attempt to follow in Lee's footsteps in building a Mandarin-Leninist led nation that overtook the U.S. last year in GDP (measured by PPP) to become the world's largest economy, and democratic India seems poised to grow at rates that will compete with China, we can reflect on lessons from Lee Kuan Yew and place China bets.
highlights_snippet: Lee Kuan Yew lessons should prove instructive to other leaders in a time of great instability, writes Graham Allison .
  
highlights_snippet: Lee Kuan Yew passed on Lee Kuan Yew insights on the role of government leadership in development to Graham Allison .