Margaret Thatcher read all his speeches and said that he was never wrong. Richard Nixon called him "an outstanding global statesman"... Former Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew was a prominent figure in international politics. In this book, drawing on his wealth of experience and deep understanding of the essence of ongoing processes, he describes his vision of the modern world and gives a forecast for the next 20 years. Without condescending to any political correctness, sometimes surprising with the harshness of his judgments, Lee Kuan Yew describes China, which still firmly believes in the need for a strong center and is taking leaps and bounds along the path of development, the United States, which will have to share its place on the pedestal of world domination, Europe, which is trying with all its might to preserve the European Union, which is bursting at the seams. His frank and often shocking views on current issues—why the Arab Spring won't lead to democracy in the Middle East, why Japan remains closed to foreigners, and why it is wiser to start preparing for global warming than to try to prevent it—make this book simply useful, but also exciting reading.