by Kris Kong | Apr 9, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
The coronavirus pandemic has underlined the importance of supporting multilateral organisations like the World Health Organisation, rather than progressively weakening them Humanity is supposed to be the most intelligent species on planet Earth. This species has just...
by Kris Kong | Apr 8, 2020 | Interviews
DER SPIEGEL: Professor Mahbubani, is the “Asian Century” going to end before it ever really got going? Mahbubani: Because of the coronavirus? No, the road to the Asian Century was always going to be a bumpy one. In 1997, even before this century began, we went through...
by Kris Kong | Mar 31, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
Behind “Has China Won?” (which it hasn’t) lurks a more important question: “Can America lose?” This question seems inconceivable. But future historians will be puzzled: a young republic, barely 250 years old, with one quarter the population of China, is taking on the...
by Kris Kong | Mar 20, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
The pandemic will change the world forever. We asked 12 leading global thinkers for their predictions. Like the fall of the Berlin Wall or the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the coronavirus pandemic is a world-shattering event whose far-ranging consequences we can only...
by Kris Kong | Mar 17, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
Kofi Annan, the late UN Secretary-General, often said the world was a “global village.” He was right. Our world has shrunk. The recent spread of COVID-19 worldwide, affecting both rich and developing countries, confirms that all 7.5 billion people of the...
