Just thought should me mentioned.
He basically created the "Chinese model" and it is being copied in a wide range of developing countries, so in that way he probably indirectly did more to prevent the spread of democracy than any other post-WW2 figure.
The success of this model in the growth of democracy reminds me of what a strong democracy China remains today.
Did you miss the word prevent?
ugh. I'm blind. Ignore this post.
IMO, Lee Kuan Yew's influence on China is overrated. Deng in the 1980s was looking to Singapore yes, but also to the United States, to Japan, to Hong Kong, to pretty much every capitalist country. But his commitment to authoritarianism was ironclad throughout and never depended on an external "model". His only model was to avoid the "chaos" of the Cultural Revolution from happening again, which he tragically associated with the student movements.
