NOVEMBER 1978.

The two rulers met at one table. Deng Xiaoping, leader of communist China, visited Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore, a Lilliputian country whose orientation is western capitalism.

On Lee, the meeting had a very deep impression. Deng started to occupy a special place in his heart. In an interview with Time magazine, last December, he unhesitatingly referred to the great leader of China as the person that he most admired all