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The View from Singapore
It is understandable that Australian leaders may feel insecure, even paranoid, about...
Asia’s Third Way: How ASEAN Survives—and Thrives—Amid Great-Power Competition | Foreign Affairs
Some memories never fade. Exactly forty years ago, in 1983, I called on the then-editor...
India can emerge as a third pole
The days of a unipolar world order are over, and we are on the cusp of a genuinely...
The World Cup of diplomacy has just kicked off
India, Indonesia and the United States will chair three key multilateral groupings in...
The Hard-Won Benefits of Soft Diplomacy
Culture matters for diplomacy, and Indonesian President Joko Widodo embodies the “soft”...
French President Emmanuel Macron’s embrace of diverse views offers hope for ‘true multilateralism’
I think I may have made President Emmanuel Macron blush a little. This happened at the...
What’s Next for Xi’s China?
The Western media have done Xi a great favor: they have bestowed upon him low...
A silver bullet for our hard times
Personal relations matter, and face-to-face meetings between leaders are more important...
Ukraine and the West’s quest for a perfect solution
There is no perfect solution for the Ukraine situation. So let Putin come to the G-20...
U.S. Grand Strategy After Ukraine: Washington’s Russia Policy Won’t Work in Asia
By Kishore Mahbubani, a distinguished fellow at the National University of Singapore’s...