Shanghaisst, 24 Sep 2011Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, who stepped down from the cabinet this year following the ruling People's Action Party's worst showing in post-independence elections, revealed recently that he considered Taiwan to have been independent since 1989.
Speaking at the recent Singapore Global Dialogue, the 88-year-old prefaced his statement by saying he didn't "see Taiwan being able to reshttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifist the pull of the mainland, with or without American help" and that there would "come a time when the Seventh Fleet cannot intervene because of Chinese aircraft carriers".
"China has always considered Taiwan as a part of China, and they want China to be reunified," Lee added. "The fact that Taiwan was independent from 1989 to the present does not make any difference." Full story
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