Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore, is never at a loss of words. While it is a year old, this interview gives you a pretty decent look at how the 85 year-old, multi-lingual Chinese-descendant thinks.
Of note, his comments regarding Indonesia and YouTube are rather comical and germane.
If you watched the videos on China’s reforms, he was interviewed for the Commanding Heights series, in part because modern-day China emulated a number of the economic liberalizations after Singapore.