The Lky from the past was fiercely anti-west. He spoke out against US for bombing the shit out of North Vietnam, and trying to exert influence on Asia. (I guess he must have gotten bullied by angmors during his Cambridge days.) Imagine a PM from a tiny Asian country who feared nobody.. As a chinese he could out-argue an angmor in his own language. That time he was indeed a man to behold.
But he eventually lost the plot... and sold out the country to foreigners. That's why nobody should be so powerful for so long.