Lee also said that chinese culture is vengeful and that the US should work at all costs to counter our rise, so him promoting chinese culture seems not so friendly anymore.
I am not sure about what Lee said exactly. Care to provide a link, and not just hearsay? At any rate - just as it goes without saying that the PRC's responsibility is first and foremost to her citizens, you will need to see that the PRC no longer has a monopoly over this so-called "Chinese culture". On second thought - it never did to begin with!
After 60 years of Bolshevism, the PRC hardly is a bastion of classic Chinese thinking, a fact which btw does not upset me terribly since I too "grew up under the red banner".
But what amuses me is reading about the sponsorship of various "Confucius Institutes" here and there ... sometimes one has to feel sorry for the CCP
When I first came to Canada, my folks had said to me that the South East Asian Chinese have retained far more "culture" than us mainlanders. I initially thought - how preposterous? Then slowly my own personal experiences largely validated this.
I am not sure whether Lee is "promoting Chinese Culture" and far be it from my intention to turn this into a debate on what constitutes "Chinese culture".
My sole point is, Lee could be promoting a version of "Chinese culture" that differs from the current bastardized version peddled by the CCP both internally and around the world.
BTW, I personally in fact see certain advantages to this "bastardized version" as opposed to the "classical version" - everything adapts, or else.
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