All Chinese are made fools. I have said before and will say it again:
Chinese blindly follow a leader, ANY leader.
(1)
(a) "toldo" says "这个不就是李光耀一向的观点？" That may be. But not the
title of the posting.
(b) "xiabailong" ("李光耀说的都是实话, 标题是记者乱发挥, 不是李的意思") and
"jiangyoun" ("李说的很中肯啊，也没看到说'联美日抗中'”) smell something but
stops there.
(2) This is what Zaobao reports.
李光耀接受日媒访问：后美国时代 再等30年. 联合早报, May 18, 2010.
http://www.zaobao.com/wencui/2010/05/taiwan100518g.shtml
Take notice that Zaobao and "shhyin's" original posting are verbatim, EXCEPT
the titles!
Naturally shhyin is a fraud and being sensational. And naturally all Chinese
get stirred up!
(3) However, 联合报 (United Daily News; Udn.com) of Taiwan does NOT have
such a report.
It is intriguing, isn't it?
(4) Some Chinese say domestic newspapers dare not re-publish the report.
This I do not know. However, one does. (Global Times aims at foreigners.
Besides, who knows if this--and other reports of that newspaper--a
subsidiary of People's Daily--is/was published WITHIN China.
李光耀称中国对亚太影响力30-50年后才可超越美国. 环球网, May 17, 2010.
http://world.huanqiu.com/roll/2010-05/818273.html
This report in Global Times has more content than that in Zaobao (pay heed
to the second and the last paragraphs of the former).
Nonetheless, the major difference is 环球网 cites "台湾'中央社.'”Correctly,
I may add. (You know, China likes to apply quotation marks to Taiwan's
agencies.)
(5) Here is the news report from Central News Agency of Taiwan.
康世人, 李光耀：30到50年內美國仍對亞太有影響力. 中央社, May 17, 2010.
http://www.cna.com.tw/ShowNews/Detail.aspx?pNewsID=201005170088&pType0=aOPL&pTypeSel=0
(6)
(a) At last, this is the English-language transcript of Asahi Shimbun, whose
original had been published in Japanese-language--that is what "vernacular"
means, which can be a noun or an adjective--Asahi (but its Japanese-
language web site, www.asahi.com, no longer carries it).
Interview with Lee Kuan Yew/ YOICHI FUNABASHI, Editor in Chief: Maintaining
balance of power in Asia requires U.S. engagement. Asahi (English), May 15,
2010.
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201005140485.html
("seventh installment of an interview series")
(b) Obviously Asahi interviews Mr. Lee once (and publishes it once), instead
of SEVEN times.
The proof is previous interviewees of the series are others.
Interview with Andrew Krepinevich/ YOICHI FUNABASHI, Editor in Chief: China'
s emergence sparks concerns for global military map. Asahi (English), May 8,
2010.
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201005070384.html