by kishore.mahbubani@mahbubani.net | Nov 19, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
India is entering a geopolitical sweet spot. What does this mean? In a world crying out for a strong, independent voice to provide moral guidance to a troubled planet, the only realistic candidate is India. None of the three other obvious candidates – the United...
by kishore.mahbubani@mahbubani.net | Nov 10, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
THE first American president to enter my personal consciousness was John F. Kennedy. It wasn’t his stirring rhetoric that reached me as a child in Singapore. It was the news of his assassination. The sense of loss was globally palpable. History has been kind to him....
by kishore.mahbubani@mahbubani.net | Oct 21, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
The Chinese soldier who pushed the Indian Colonel Santosh Babu (who tragically died) and thereby triggered the violent clash between Chinese and Indian soldiers in mid-June 2020 should be court-martialed. Both sides suffered casualties, the worst since 1975. This one...
by kishore.mahbubani@mahbubani.net | Oct 1, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. This essay contains excerpts from his latest book Has China Won? (2020). You may follow him on Twitter @mahbubani_k. Is the United States of America...
by kishore.mahbubani@mahbubani.net | Sep 28, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
Throughout human history, wise men have warned of the dangers of plutocracy. In Plato’s Republic, Socrates warned of the dangers of selecting captains of ships by their wealth. Teddy Roosevelt also warned, “of all forms of tyranny, the least attractive and most vulgar...
by kishore.mahbubani@mahbubani.net | Sep 23, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
In 2000, I was the Singapore Ambassador to the United Nations when the UN General Assembly (UNGA) unveiled its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Kofi Annan was UN Secretary-General. Bill Clinton was US president. It was a time of great hope. Everyone believed that...
