Chitchat Why did LKY warn the Japs about China in 1973 but didn't warn his son?

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Kanasai! 1973 I am not even conceived yet! So psychic but never teach his son properly.

https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/c...YO05833_b.html

VISIT TO JAPAN OF SINGAPORE PRIME MINISTER
Date:1973 May 11, 07:11 (Friday)

1. SINGAPORE PRIME MINISTER LEE KUAN YEW PAID UNOFFICIAL VISIT
TO JAPAN FROM MAY 7 TO 14. VISIT WAS PROMPTED BY NAGASAKI
LAUNCHING OF LARGE BULK CARRIER BELONGING TO SINGAPORE INTERESTS,
BUT LEE ( ACCOMPANIED BY WIFE AND FOUR AIDES) ALSO SPENT FIVE DAYS
IN TOKYO WHERE HE HAD DINNER MEETING WITH PRIMIN TANAKA. AND FONMIN
OHIRA, CALLED ON FINMIN AICHI AND DEFENSE AGENCY DIRGEN MASUHARA,
AND MET WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF BUSINESS COMMUNITY.

2. EMBASSY ARRANGED VERY INFORMAL MEETING,/ WHICH LASTED ALMOST
TWICE AS LONG AS SCHEDULED FORTY- FIVE MINIUTES, BETWEEN LEE AND
AMBASSADOR AT LATTER' S RESIDENCE. MOST NOTEWORTHY POINT TO
EMERGE FROM STIMULATING, WIDE- RANGING CONVERSATION WAS THAT LEE SAID HE
HAD TOLD PRIMIN TANAKA THAT JAPAN MUST DO MORE TO PROTECT ITS FAR- FLUNG
SEALANES ESPECIALLY TO MIDDLE EAST ( TO WHICH TANAKA DID NOT
RESPOND BUT LOOKED QTE PENSIVE UNQTE). LEE SUGGESTED US AND
JAPAN MIGHT FORM JOINT NAVAL TASK FORCE, AS ALTERNATIVE TO
UNILATERAL JAPANESE ACTIONS WHICH WOULD ALARM SOUTHEAST ASIAN
NATIONS. LEE ALSO EXPRESSED VIEW THAT OVER NEXT 10 TO 15 YEARS
PRC WILL BE PREOCCUPIED WITH DOMESTIC CONCERNS BUT THEREAFTER
IT MAY WELL WISH TO EXERT GREATER INFLUENCE AND CONTROL OVER
SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS.
CONFIDENTIAL


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