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Today’s troubling times require leaders of a high calibre, such as that set by Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a US university professor wrote in a July 12 opinion piece. It was published in the South China Morning Po st and titled, “Asia needs leaders of the calibre of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew to navigate a messy world.” Professor Tom Plate, a longtime columnist with a focus on Asia and America, wrote that the Asia-Pacific region is seeing better leaders today, including New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern and Indonesia’s Joko Widodo, amid the backdrop of the failure of Sri...