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father & son govt SGP for 1/2 century, world record.

The CCP succeeded in modernising China and lifting about 600 million peepur (Sauce: SgBuffet) out of poverty which is remarkable.  It took how many leaders to do that?  Let's count: Deng, Jiang, Hu, Bear.  Four leaders.  Mao is not in for obvious reasons - he left behind a broken China at the time of his death, even though he had 1976 - 1949 = 27 years.

China learned from Singapore.  Even its sijin was modeled after Singapore's CPF.  Shenzhen looks like Singapore, except for its big Chinese characters all around.  Deng used it as a test bed, and transformed what was a backyard of Hong Kong into a thriving city which has its own Stock Exchange.  If you are a Hokkien, perhaps you might be jealous that China didn't choose Xiamen or Quanzhou for its second Stocj Exchange lor..., and instead chose a city in Guangdong wor,

China's economic style is similar, free market but with some government controls.  So much of China's Econs is learned from Singapore following Deng's famous "Open up!  Learn from the outside world!  Especially Singapore!"

But China could not lift 98% of its peepur out of poverty like Singapore did, even under 4 leaders.  They sent thousands of Chinese civil servants of all levels here (paid by the Chinese if you extrapolate the ungrateful argument of the 39% who said that their $500 CDC vouchers are their money, not PAP's money).  Bear realized that a two-term office is too short for a country that's as big as China.  Strategic planning is a long-term business.  He wisely decided that he must continue his work into a third term, and his decision was supported by his comrades.

If LKY had only been allowed to be PM for two terms, and after that, it would be either CST or LTK's turn, we would be in deep shit.  If LHL was only allowed to be in office for ten years, and after that, it'd be RK's turn, we would become Malaysians again when Singapore would have to crawl to Malaysia and beg whoever happened to be the PM (they changed PMs very fast) to take us back.

Singapore's passport is now the most powerful in the world.  China gives us 30 days entry without VISA.  We created so many jobs that we could not even take up all of them, and could give jobs to foreigners....as many as 2.9 million (no typo error here).  For 22 years the first time, and 22 months the second, Mahathir could not even create good jobs for his citizens, otherwise, they would not be waking up at 4 am to come here to work.

What lesson do we take away from the 2 Ms, Mao and Mahathir?  It is that long years in government can be bad for the country.  What lesson do we learn from the 2Ls, LKY and LHL?  That long service can also be good for the country if the leader is smart, capable, honest (not corrupt), and loves his country.