成人快手

Former US Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Henry Kissinger, says his lifelong friend, Lee Kuan Yew, who has died at 91, viewed "international problems" with an "extraordinary intelligence".

As Singapore's founding prime minister, the Cambridge-educated Mr Yew presided over the country's transformation from a British colony to a global trading centre, and the two men first met in 1967.

"He was, after all, the mayor of a medium-sized city," says Dr Kissinger, 91. "Yet when Lee Kuan Yew travelled around the world, whether it was London, or Washington, or Beijing, he was a major interlocutor [for world leaders]."

"He was not at all a charmer. He was not a flatterer. He had developed his point of view. He would present it with great intelligence and eloquence - not in order to get you to do something specific, but to understand the nature of the world in which you were living."

This clip is from Up All Night on Monday 23 March 2015.