by Kris Kong | Apr 22, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani on the dawn of the Asian century The West’s incompetent response to the pandemic will hasten the power-shift to the east HISTORY HAS turned a corner. The era of Western domination is ending. The resurgence of Asia in world affairs and the global...
by Kris Kong | Apr 17, 2020 | Books
China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive geopolitical contest has begun. America prizes freedom; China values freedom from chaos....
by Kris Kong | Apr 16, 2020 | Interviews
While Donald Trump plays the Chinese threat card to re-mobilize his electorate, Beijing is stepping up propaganda operations to make people forget the origin of the virus and heal its image in the world Nothing is going well between the United States and China. In...
by Kris Kong | Apr 14, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
COVID-19 pandemic may accelerate America’s declining status with traditional allies, former diplomat says To understand the post-COVID-19 world that is coming, there is one important human statistic we must bear in mind: 330 million people live in the U.S.; 1.4...
by Kris Kong | Apr 10, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
At a dark moment of World War II, in August 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flew to Moscow to have dinner with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The ideological gap between them was far greater than the gap between the U.S. and China today. Yet...