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...
by Kris Kong | 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 Kris Kong | 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...
by Kris Kong | Dec 26, 2019 | By Kishore Mahbubani
The international order has lagged dangerously behind shifting global power dynamics. If leaders do not start addressing the contradictions soon, the most likely result is crisis – or even conflict – and even more dangerous contradictions. SINGAPORE – The world turned...
by Kris Kong | Dec 8, 2019 | By Kishore Mahbubani
ASEAN should have begun to crack and fall apart from the strain of the rising geopolitical rivalries in Asia between the United States and China, if what critics say about its fragility were true. But ASEAN steadily marched through another difficult and challenging...
