![]() ![]() Some of his conclusions might seem a little surprising for those who are looking at it from a Western perspective, and there will be those that disagree. With Singapore’s self-declared neutrality in the growing clash between China and America and its allies, Kishore is perfectly placed to look at how the contest is playing out from an Asian point of view. He has recently written a book called Has China Won?. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute (ARI) here in Singapore, and a globally recognised thinker on China. He spent 33 years in the Singaporean Foreign Service, rising to be the President of the United Nations Security Council, and since 2004 has been in academia. ![]() To kick things off I’m delighted to publish an interview I recently did with one of South East Asia’s leading academics and diplomats, Kishore Mahbubani. Has China Won? An Interview with Kishore MahbubaniĪfter a brief hiatus from analysing China’s relationship with different parts of the world – last week I discussed the country’s impact on Western concepts of Cosmopolitanism, and the week before Alexander Wood and I examined Beijing’s global control of Rare Earths – this week we are starting a new mini-series on China and South East Asia. ![]()
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