by kris@corpus.sg | Jun 9, 2023 | About Kishore Mahbubani
If you want a glimpse into the future, come to Berlin and walk down Kurfürstendamm, the bustling avenue often described as the city’s Champs-Élysées. At one of the most prominent corners sits a new car showroom unlike any I have ever seen: sleek, elegant,...
by kris@corpus.sg | May 20, 2021 | About Kishore Mahbubani
A renowned Singaporean scholar on Thursday called on the United States to stop its geopolitical contest against China and said the only way to jumpstart the global economy reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic is cooperation between the world’s two largest...
by kris@corpus.sg | Jun 7, 2018 | About Kishore Mahbubani
Veteran diplomat and philosophical provocateur Kishore Mahbubani in his new book asks a question that has crossed many minds of late: “Has the West lost it?” If “it” is the dominant position of Europeans and North Americans in the world, then yes. The rest of the...
by kris@corpus.sg | May 30, 2018 | About Kishore Mahbubani
In the past half century, humanity has made extraordinary progress. This is unquestionable. This consists of more than higher incomes. It consists also of longer and better lives. We know this has happened. We also know why. But achievements bring new challenges....
by kris@corpus.sg | 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@corpus.sg | Jan 17, 2018 | About Kishore Mahbubani
The invitation extended to the leaders of the 10 ASEAN nations to be chief guests at the forthcoming Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi is a powerful signal of India’s increasing engagement with the region, but it must build on it and add substance, said Prof....
