High Commissioner to the UK rebuts Economist article on race relations in Singapore


Lim was responding to an article published on July 31, which said that Chinese chauvinism has deep roots in Singapore. - SCREENGRAB FROM THE ECONOMIST/WEBSITE

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): An Economist article on race relations and racial harmony in Singapore has drawn a rebuttal from Lim Thuan Kuan, Singapore's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

In a letter published on the magazine's website, Lim stated that readers of the article titled Imperfect Harmony would not have guessed that Singapore was born as an independent country precisely because its leaders refused to countenance a political arrangement based on the dominance of one race.

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