CONFIDENTIAL
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FROM:
DH Colvin
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South-East Asian Dept
DATE:
15 April 1991
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Sir J Coles
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FED
HKD
SCD
Mr Burns
PS/Lord Caithness
Private Secretary
bb LKY > view
HKC020/3
on 'Who Lot Ithe'
24 APR 1991
L
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LEE KUAN YEW
1 We recently arranged for Lord Fanshawe to call on Lee
Kuan Yew in Singapore on 8 April. Our High Commissioner has reported the call in some detail.
2 It was a conversation of unusual interest. The following points are amongst those worth noting:
a) LKY's views on Brunei are perceptive.
o)
on Hong Kong LKY thinks that we are unwise to quarrel with Peking over PADS. He also re-writes history by criticising our decision to embark on the negotiations which led to the Joint Declaration, having at the time and subsequently supported this approach;
c) Lord Fanshawe is convinced that LKY intends to become the elected President of Singapore;
d) he was also struck at how pro-American LKY remains, and how wary of the Japanese.
RH2AFK
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