by Kishore Mahbubani | May 16, 2026 | By Kishore Mahbubani
Western social science has made three metaphysical mistakes. The first was to assume that its laws and lessons were, like the physical sciences, universally applicable to all societies. Harvard Professor Theodore Levitt captured the prevailing zeitgeist well when he...
by Kishore Mahbubani | May 15, 2026 | Media
This week on Viewpoint Friday, we unpack the signals emerging from the US-China summit in Beijing from Xi Jinping’s direct invocation of the “Thucydides Trap” to the striking presence of American corporate leaders like Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and Jensen Huang in the room...
by Kishore Mahbubani | May 15, 2026 | Media
What happens when middle powers stop trusting the old global order? In this episode of The Focus, host John Bruni speaks with Kishore Mahbubani — one of the world’s leading geopolitical thinkers — about the growing fragmentation of the international system, the future...
by Kishore Mahbubani | May 15, 2026 | Interviews
Kishore Mahbubani: ‘China Can No Longer Be Stopped’ Trump’s Beijing visit underscores an East Asia specialist’s warning: Washington lacks a coherent long-term strategy on China. Illustration: Uli Knörzer for Bloomberg; Source Photo: Courtesy Kishore Mahbubani May 14,...
by Kishore Mahbubani | May 15, 2026 | Media
Beyond this week’s talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump, there’s an epic tale that has been unfolding for decades. It’s a battle to be the world’s number one power and a much bigger story than the latest meeting of these two men....
