Lee Kuan Yew (Between/Reuters)To be a nation, you have to have people ...Singapore (Reuters)-former Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew says, his country should receive a lot of migrants to improve birth rates are low.
Lee made the statement at a Campfire chat show hosted by Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore, Wednesday, along with Paul Volcker, the former Chairman of 85 years, the U.s. Federal Reserve (1979-1987).
He said Japan has undergone aging populations, but "they refused to take the migrants", as quoted from Xinhua.
"So I see a nation diminished half in 20 years, and if it still continues with the same policies, reduced to half again the next, and eventually, it will all be over!," he said.
"To be a nation, you have to have people and you have to have the young people to be stimulating the economy, and young people buy all the gadgets and meal-and if you don't have it, and if you refuse such migrants do Japan people, you will only dissolve into nothingness and I think before it comes, they can change the policy," said Lee.
Translator: Askan Krisna
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