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...
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 | 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...
