by Kris Kong | Jun 23, 2015 | Articles, By Kishore Mahbubani
In our rapidly changing world, new global contradictions are emerging rapidly. Today, the biggest global contradiction is this: the demand for global leadership has never been greater but the supply seems to be diminishing. Why is the demand increasing? I use a simple...
by Kris Kong | Jun 13, 2015 | Articles, By Kishore Mahbubani
One of my recent big regrets is that I was unable to attend a single one of the five S R Nathan lectures delivered by Ho Kwon Ping as the first S R Nathan Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS). His lectures were brilliant. I wish I could have been there. I...
by Kris Kong | Jun 8, 2015 | Articles, By Kishore Mahbubani
2015 will be a year of global conferences: the Financing for Development (FfD) Conference in Addis Ababa in July, the UN Summit on the post-2015 development agenda in September and the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December. It is too early to tell whether...
by Kris Kong | May 29, 2015 | Articles, By Kishore Mahbubani
With Xi Jinping in charge, we now know what the new strong China looks like. With Narendra Modi in charge, we are finally getting glimpses of what the new strong India will look like. It will be a radically different India from the one that the world has got used to....
by Kris Kong | May 27, 2015 | About Kishore Mahbubani
Die Gründung des Staates Singapur vor fünfzig Jahren war für seine Bewohner kein Grund zum Feiern. Lee Kuan Yew, unter dem Singapur in den folgenden Jahrzehnten eine erstaunliche Aufstiegsgeschichte schreiben sollte, hatte in einer Föderation mit dem malaysischen...
by Kris Kong | May 23, 2015 | Articles, By Kishore Mahbubani
When great men die, great changes follow. Lee Kuan Yew, who has died aged 91, will undoubtedly go down as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. Will Singapore outlive him? Some may challenge his greatness. He ran only a tiny city-state. Many dismissed him...
