by Kishore Mahbubani | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
by Kishore Mahbubani | Sep 20, 2020 | By Kishore Mahbubani
The writer, a distinguished fellow at the National University of Singapore, is author of ‘Has the West Lost It?’ and ‘Has China Won?’ Two decades into the 21st century, the main challenge it holds for the west has become clear: the return of China to centre...
