A recent video by the New York Times (NYT) featuring economist Li Shengwu used a false portrayal of Singapore to advance the American publication’s own agenda, said the Republic’s ambassador to the United States Lui Tuck Yew. Objecting to the opinion video titled How...
Economist Li Shengwu was featured in a recent opinion video by the New York Times titled How Tyranny Begins.A recent video by the New York Times featuring economist Li Shengwu used a false portrayal of Singapore to advance the American publication’s own agenda, said the Republic’s ambassador to the United States Lui Tuck Yew.
The NYT video, published on Jan 22, featured four people around the world who said they had been on the receiving end of political repression in their countries. One of them is Mr Li, an economics professor at Harvard University and the son of Mr Lee Hsien Yang – the brother of Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The others are from Hungary, Nicaragua and Russia.
Mr Lui noted that Mr Li “parlays his status as the grandson of Mr Lee Kuan Yew and lends himself to the Times to provide false analogies for US politics”. There are no outstanding charges against Mr Li, and he has not been under investigation for anything else since, said Mr Lui. “He is free to return to Singapore any time he wishes.”
The site of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew’s house at 38 Oxley Road has been mired in dispute among the Lee family. He noted a “befuddling but revealing correction” in the article, which stated that Mrs Lee “had given a contrived but ultimately untrue account of her role in the will”.“Like many others, the couple benefited from the system that Lee Kuan Yew helped build – in their case, more handsomely than most, given their abilities,” he said.
The article also stated that visitors noticed only SM Lee’s photos were displayed in the family home at 38 Oxley Road, and quoted Mr Lee Hsien Yang saying his elder brother “was the apple of my mother’s eye, and she had ambitions for him”.
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