Fareed Zakaria interviews Lee Hsien Loong, the Prime Minister of Singapore, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In part:
Fareed Zakaria: Do you think that the forces within China that are for that kind of a conciliatory approach versus a more hardline approach are gaining or losing strength right now?
Lee Hsien Loong: I think the generation which saw the war, the generation which experienced the Cultural Revolution will know the limits and will understand that the priority is to make sure that China is well internally, and not to push their weight around externally. The generation which grew up as China is prospering and rising, and is proud of so many things -- fast trains, Olympic games, cosmonauts (or astronauts, taikonauts) -- so many achievements, whether they will have the same balance and perspective is the 64,000 dollar question.
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