by Kishore Mahbubani | Aug 7, 2024 | Books
In this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouse. Growing up in poverty in the 1950s, Kishore Mahbubani expected to become a common textile salesman after...
by Kris Kong | Jan 4, 2022 | Books
We live in hugely paradoxical times. We will see greater change in the twenty-first century than we have in any previous human century. Huge leaps in science and technology, accompanied by huge economic and social advances in many societies around the world,...
by Kris Kong | Jan 4, 2022 | Books
(Updated 4 Jan 2022) This book poses the question that Singaporeans must wrestle with: can we survive as an independent city-state? Kishore Mahbubani believes that Singaporeans must always ask the question because constant reflection and self-examination should be a...
by Kris Kong | Apr 17, 2020 | Books
China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive geopolitical contest has begun. America prizes freedom; China values freedom from chaos....
by Kris Kong | Apr 7, 2018 | Books
The West’s two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline? In Kishore Mahbubani’s timely polemic, he argues...
by Kris Kong | Mar 12, 2017 | Books
The world’s largest continent stretches from Japan and Indonesia across central Asia to the Arab world. It is the spiritual focus of such great religions as Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism and Hinduism and home to nearly 60 percent of the earth’s...
