Well, there's a saying 时势造英雄. He himself say he was the product of the times, when Singapore suffered under the Japanese occupation.
When Singapore was kicked out of Malaysia, LKY led a newly independent country which was fragile and vulnerable to surrounding threats. He managed to prove himself in the time of crisis and turn the country around.
But like what his son said before, we mustn't expect another LKY to appear again in Singapore. Even if someone more capable than him appears, he wouldn't achieve as much as him unless Singapore falls into a national survival crisis again.
So Xi can't really be compared with Mao or Deng. China today isn't experiencing the same level of crisis during their times.
If he was really anti-China, he wouldn't have advised Deng to open up China when he visited Singapore.
Or send his right hand man Goh Keng Swee (the man who set up our sovereign wealth fund
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/new-...st-sovereign-funds.328675/page-6#post-9356530) to serve as an economic advisor in China.
Or provide administration training for 50,000 Chinese officials, including Xi himself.
Or continued to invest in China despite calls from Western sanctions after the Tiananmen incident.
Or spoke to two members of Bill Clinton's Cabinet and helped to break the impasse between the US and China on the issue of China entering the WTO.
But I guess since China has already become mighty and strong today, Singapore is just a lapdog of the US in the eyes of nationalistic Chinese.