by Kishore Mahbubani | 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 Kishore Mahbubani | 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 Kishore Mahbubani | 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 Kishore Mahbubani | 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...
by Kishore Mahbubani | Jan 19, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
The Covid-19 outbreak is occurring at a time when global organisations, including the WHO, are weakened, making it imperative for world powers to step up Just as they did for the global financial crisis, the US and China should convene a special G20 summit to form a...
by Kishore Mahbubani | Jan 19, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
The world stands at one of its most important crossroads in human history. As we move inexorably away from the brief era of Western domination of human history, societies from the East and the West will have to find a new balance. And there are two clear paths that...
