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...
by Kris Kong | Apr 7, 2018 | Books
The West’s two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline? In Kishore Mahbubani’s timely polemic, he argues...
by Kris Kong | Mar 4, 2018 | Media
CJME/CKOM · GORMLEY – ‘HAS THE WEST LOST IT’ – MARCH 4
by Kris Kong | Feb 4, 2018 | Book Reviews
The authors feel India should make the most of its historical link to the region In a major departure from the established practice of inviting the leader of any one country to our Republic Day ceremony, leaders of ten countries — Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia,...
