泰国和马来西亚，以及该地区其他国家的政治领导人常常标榜新加坡国父和长期领导人、本月刚刚逝世的李光耀所创立的模式。
Political leaders in Thailand and Malaysia, and in other countries in the region, frequently tout the model pioneered by Singapore’s founder and longtime leader Lee Kuan Yew, who died this month.