Bussard Ramjet
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Mao got bigger credit, since he laid down the foundation.
Without his nukes and rocket science as the legacy, Deng would have nothing to implement the reform, and the West could still easily dominate over us.
Didn't you Indians usually love to brag how China got humiliated in 1979?
1. It was not Mao's nuclear or rocket science. Mao was an illiterate who was rejected entry in Peking University thrice. Those accomplishments would have come without Mao, because the scientists that worked were the foreign Chinese Diaspora who came back to build China. Rather I would venture to say that had there been a more amicable result of the civil war, with a peaceful settlement, where Mao was more accomodating to the intellectuals and aristrocrats, more Chinese educated diaspora would have returned.
2. I am not a normal Indian
And anyone who dares to criticize LKY must first see his conditions of those times. Here was a man, who was an overseas Chinese malaysian who entered politics.
He wanted to build a modern state, after being thrown out of the union by Malay. He was abhorred by the Communists. Yes, he was abhorred by them. They were asking for the overthrow of all South Eastern Countries at that time, which were all monarchies or similar. He was surrounded by Malaysia, Indonesia and US/UK forces, and could have not in any way got help from China at that time. Not to say China or PRC at that time, would have wanted to establish a communist system there, which he intellectually knew would fail.
Also, asking for Communist help at that time would have invited an Indonesian invasion.
These were the situations in which he created the modern state of Singapore, literally from nothing!