From Third World to First

I have often pondered what China would have looked like today had it been run by Lee Kuan Yew and not Mao Zedong. Lee has proven to be one of the most formidable, visionary and incorruptible Asian leaders of the century. He took a city-state with no natural resources and turned it into a sovereign state with a per capita GDP of over $20,000. His 31 years as prime minister were a testimony to hard work and the creation of a national identity. What if this same man could have had the whole of China as his canvas? It is one of the great what-ifs of 20^th century history.