There was a great emperor who made a great history of Japan was Meiji. Meiji was a great time of Japanese revolutions and transformations. His main idea was to “seek knowledge everywhere to empower the empire and change what was useless to be useful”. He opened Japan to the world by sending his ministers and students to learn everywhere and every skill, technology, military, philosophy, economy, industries, and the model of development from the west. It was the idea that what the modern society can do, Japan must catch up. Internally, he tried to reform the traditional and outdated system, passive ideas, and he hired experts from foreign countries to teach his people.
Japan became a great power capable of modernizing and catching up with the West and the United States, and many things changed dramatically. Now, let’s turn to the history of Singapore’s development. Lee Kuan Yew also opened his countries to foreign investment, sent ministers and students to learn abroad, bringing in skill and technology, focused on ministers’ and people’s capacity and discipline, and established Singapore as an international financial and technological hub. Lee also admired Deng Xiaoping as a great and genuine leader.
Lee said Deng went to visit him and they discussed the matter of development, and Deng did as he was told. He said to a public forum, “China, bring all the markets and let them compete among themselves, which requires Chinese workers, Chinese engineers, Chinese managers. At the end, they can do the final product over time. Every Moto-manufacturing cooperation in the world is in China, whether alone or in joint venture, and they have to employ Chinese. “Open up, I learn from you, I catch up, I innovate, and then I compete with you” Lee said Deng went down to the major cities and said, “Learn from abroad, but most of all, learn from Singapore, because it got a good system, good discipline, and it does it better than them.”.
