The strong relationship that Singapore has with China could not have come about if Chinese patriarch Deng Xiaoping had not told the Chinese to learn from Singapore and if he did not have a good relationship with Lee Kuan Yew, said Professor Zheng Yongnian.
But many things have happened since then to change that relationship.
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