by Kris Kong | May 30, 2018 | About Kishore Mahbubani
In the past half century, humanity has made extraordinary progress. This is unquestionable. This consists of more than higher incomes. It consists also of longer and better lives. We know this has happened. We also know why. But achievements bring new challenges....
by Kris Kong | May 22, 2018 | By Kishore Mahbubani
Against all odds, the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, has grown into one of the most viable and successful regional organizations in the world. By Kishore Mahbubani and Kristen Tang When the Organisation of African Unity decided to change...
by Kris Kong | May 15, 2018 | By Kishore Mahbubani
The world’s most important bilateral relationship – between the United States and China – is also one of its most inscrutable. Bedeviled by paradoxes, misperceptions, and mistrust, it is a relationship that has become a source of considerable uncertainty and,...
by Kris Kong | May 14, 2018 | By Kishore Mahbubani
Napoleon was only half-right when he warned more than two centuries ago that, “China is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.” China has woken up and is indeed shaking the world. But it is shaking the world gently. Why? Chinese...
by Kris Kong | May 4, 2018 | About Kishore Mahbubani
As a child in Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s, I had direct experience of the poverty that was prevalent throughout most of Asia in the period. When I started primary school, I was put on a special feeding program because I was undernourished. Our home had no flush...
