Book Talk with Kishore Mahbubani | Living The Asian Century

[@Truth433]

Singaporeans who grew up under the era of Lee Kuan Yew had an understanding of global politics due to his preaching and explanation to us all the time which most countries citizens are clueless, lucky of us to have such a father of a nation

[@craigrik2699]

Imagine Lee Kuan Yew living today. I don't believe any of these democratic neolibs nowadays would allow the 'iron' fist rule by Mr Yew. Hard line and iron fist rule needs to occur to raise up a country out of poverty, all the Asian tigers were ruled by an iron fist

[@donaldjoseph3903]

Not true..

[@chonglim561]

@@donaldjoseph3903 Which part of what was said is not true?

[@herta3286]

Prof. Kishore Mahbubani is one of my favorites. Never bored listening to this wise man. Very informative, very inspiring

[@geraldlim7473]

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[@geraldlim7473]

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[@geraldlim7473]

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[@oileengrace8228]

I could listen to Mr. Mahbubani all day, 24/7. Thank you for this video 🙏

[@GuyHappy-j7m]

Very very enjoyable, entertaining and above all enlightening address by such a learned scholar and diplomatic genius Kishore of Singapore👍👍👏👏

[@garrytan9521]

Prof. Kishore Mahbubani is always a brilliant and outstanding diplomat, lecturer of our Republic of Singapore. Every piece of his talks and presentations always draws tremendous knowledge and appreciation on today’s world matters and happenings. Our founding fathers LKY and Goh Keng Swee were wise enough to have got this Singapore son Kishore Mahbubani as a young man into our public and civil service till his semi-retirement of a professor ❤🎉😂.

[@ngugikaroki9335]

A global intellectual! He understands the world and its delicate balancing. He sees very far into the future and invites us to see the same. His deep understanding of ASIA and the West and the counsel he gives for the survival of mankind is crucial!

[@tonyhum3973]

1. A very inspiring and encouraging book for aspiring world leaders and government officers to reflect in the course of their service to their countries. 2. Much wisdom and experience have been shared by Prof Mabubhani despite the odds he faced in his relationship with people from all walks of lives. Some ‘teachers and mentors’ are resilient and strict while some are compassionate and understanding, depending on their own experiences in life.

[@kayipchan832]

Brilliant conversation

[@stewart4539]

True Fireside Conversation. Sparks emitting throughout. ❤

[@krishnakc9461]

In Kathmandu we are waiting your memoir Kishore. I have asked the bookshop owner to bring this book. Hoping to read this wonderful book from the wonderful intellectual .

[@philostreet781]

Through weird events, life showed Kishore his way to be the geopolitical experts today ❤ 12:33 There has never been accidents 14:05

[@kplim9873]

Brilliant speaker as well as moderator

[@ringotan5244]

Rock star geopolitics! Nice title! 👍👍👍

[@uchitnaing2992]

Professor Kishore Mahbubani is a worldwide welknown successful speaker and writer.His talks are always wide knowledge and attractive entertainment lovely.H E professor is not only a very excellent speaker and but also a current bright historian. Thanks.

[@mukeshshrestha2455]

Just great to listion you.... Happy for you that you have been in kathmandu Nepal too.

[@lluc9946]

Amazing stories! Always so refreshing to listen to Grandmasters!

[@denisechan5992]

There was the fourth founding father Toh Chin Chye. Having said that Krishore did work under him.

[@edz6013]

Long story short: When you have to pick a side, pick your OWN side.

[@Wecareus]

It probably frustrates Mr Chan a lot that HK has no been able to nurture leaders in geopolitics and brilliant statesmen like Singapore. KYL was so successful in Singapore because he loved Singapore and always worked for people's wellbeing. HK leaders could do the same, on one hand work for majority of the HK people and stand up against people who want HK 'dead' at the same time helps China to continue to be strong and thrive. LKY is of Cantonese origin so are most people in HK. If LKY could do it, people like Mr Chan could certainly do it too.

[@lienlaopei5682]

Nope, LKY is not of cantonese heritage. He is of Hakka heritage.

[@Wecareus]

@@lienlaopei5682 95% Hakkas originate from Canton province

[@stewart4539]

Hakkas are NOT Cantonese. Their language has affinities with both Cantonese, the language of the people of Guangdong province, and Mandarin, the language of much of northern and central China; many of the Hakka tongue’s initial sounds are a bridge between the two dialects. The name/word Hakka may have been derived from a Cantonese pronunciation of the Mandarin word kejia (“guest people”), which the northerners were called to distinguish them from the bendi, or natives. Alternately, it may have been a name the Hakka gave themselves when they migrated south. Having settled in South China in their own communities, the Hakka never became fully assimilated into the native population. The Hakkas were against the practices of feet binding. The Hakka were North Chinese, but they moved to South China (especially in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Guangxi provinces) during the fall of the Nan (Southern) Song Dynasty in the 1270.

[@winkstorm]

@@stewart4539interesting, I didn’t know this. Thanks for your enlightenment.

[@grouchypatch9185]

He was a Hakka.

[@dr.zschanel3671]

Psychologically Singaporeans are more sovereign and stand on themselves than Hongkongers. That's why they have a broader view of the world and their own interests. Singapore will never allow 4 oligarchs to monopolize their economy and control their policies.

[@termyfl2677]

That's because Hongkies were under British Rule before 1 July 1997

[@Thinkofwhat]

Let's hope Asia Society HKong may invites Prof. Richard Wolff for a talk I reckon:)

[@donaldjoseph3903]

Bring another brilliant Singapore ex diplomat. Mr Bilahari kausikan.

[@Time4Peace]

@@donaldjoseph3903 Seriously, this guy is an ardent China troll. He admitted himself that he's beholden to the US as a Fulbright scholar, who failed to get his PHD.

[@danielpaco2000]

The Singapore model can't be copied.

[@Gman979]

I prefer his former boss George Yeo who is privy to more nuance top tier details peppered with some exquisite insight and elegant delivery.

[@henryyip1]

read him closely and you will see a very insincere "peace maker" he is in fact encouraging usa to give as much trouble to China as possible . never trust him , fork tongue

[@Time4Peace]

​@@henryyip1Not true. Kishore wants US and China to coexist. Ride upon China's growth, not trying to sabotage China with dominance politics. It will not work for the reasons he gives.

[@audreygiamlayhoon]

GY is a wonderful thinker , there is always room for good speakers like him and Ambassador Kishore

[@gregwang8628]

One thing to take home is that one should never judge anyone else bcoz one would never know what the person has been through.

[@teogeorge2203]

For ASEAN to be cohesively in unity, she has to remove the weakest link, Philippines, which may be a hindrance to ASEAN's progress.

[@thomastan7511]

Nonsence

[@teogeorge2203]

@@thomastan7511 Yes, it's difficult because ASEAN members always wait and see but that's good for ASEAN who really don't need Philippines around creating problem which will affect trades and security cooperation.

[@donaldjoseph3903]

​@@teogeorge2203Philippines is an integral part of Asean..

[@teogeorge2203]

@@donaldjoseph3903 What integral did she plays? What ASEAN wants are contribution, productive, peace and security, not letting US into their homeland and stationed missiles there, endangered ASEAN instead.

[@donaldjoseph3903]

@@teogeorge2203 Philippines is one of the original 5 founding members of Asean. She has done Asean no harm..

[@termyfl2677]

Fruitful

[@lmyunxlee2005]

The best Khisore.. 🎉

[@Jackleong29]

Ronnie should avoid publicly downplaying the abilities of Hong Kong’s diplomats before seeking Kishore’s perspective on areas where Hong Kong’s diplomatic team can make improvements. Regardless of his role or influence within Hong Kong's diplomatic organization, he should first acknowledge the achievements of the current diplomatic team, then seek Kishore's advice on addressing any weaknesses. Talent exists everywhere, not only in Hong Kong; it’s often cultivated by the opportunities and environment surrounding it. The United States, for example, has many great talents because it provides the resources and environment to foster them, with many talents being immigrants who moved there to pursue growth.

[@Neuvari]

prof kishore please be my grandpa

[@StevenLiew-b4n]

The Mainland Chinese are already investing and anchoring in ASEAN Countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Burma but lesser in Vietnam.

[@Time4Peace]

Just curious. What incident was it that Bilahari kausikan had in China?

[@Simon4rings]

I think this was where a senior Chinese official talked down to Asian diplomats in a meeting. He mentioned it a few times in his various talks.

[@petervote7914]

@@Simon4rings what exactly was the incident? The 2010 Yang jiechi one? George Yeo said that it was minor incident and not an issue at all. Or is it some other incident?

[@Simon4rings]

@@petervote7914 Yes, it was the Yang Jiechi incident. Just because Minister George Yeo said it was minor, doesn't mean that Kausikan as the Permanent Secretary Foreign Affairs agreed 😝.

[@Time4Peace]

Bilahari would remember that incident for life as evidence for his Sinophobic view.

[@petervote7914]

@@Time4Peace He is anti China, anti Chinese b*stard.

[@sword7872]

Singaporeans are able to communicate well in English. So they do better in the western world than hongkongers who don't seem to have that ability to express themselves well in the English language. If they are really good leaders but can only communicate in Cantonese, most likely they will do very well in hk. Since hk is probably the only place where Cantonese is used officially, their leadership will only be useful in hk.

[@petervote7914]

But Singapore Chinese cannot speak their dialect mother tongue and are unable to speak mandarin properly. They are turning to bananas like Lee Kuan Yew.

[@kennySg101]

HK takes great pride in their language and that is not going to change. In fact, more younger HK people chose to speak Cantonese I observe

[@petervote7914]

@@kennySg101 Cantonese is the mother tongue of HK people. Mandarin is NOT the mother tongue of Singapore Chinese. Singapore Chinese are mostly from southern min nan region of China. Min nan languages like Hokkien IS the mother tongue of Chinese Singaporeans. But Singapore govt policy is to destroy the mother tongue of Singapore Chinese and suppress it. PAP has been a total disaster for preservation of mother tongue languages of Singaporeans. This is due to Singapore being ruled by English speaking peranakan Baba like Harry Lee Kuan Yew.

[@kennySg101]

@@petervote7914 I can speak my dialect，English and mandarin. HK people chose to speak Cantonese. No right or wrong but should not neglect other languages especially English.

[@audreygiamlayhoon]

​@petervote7914 It's quite puzzling because the British ruled HK too. English was the administrative language under colonisation. I am old enough to recall that Singaporeans used to speak beautiful English (pre Phua Chu Kang).

[@kichia-lk4ql]

18:49 I am interested to know about Kausikan's incident. His bias and hostile sentiments towards china is quite apparent.

[@mmmelati]

Me too!

[@tatlerkongress]

👏👏👏

[@lilypang7590]

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[@penguinmit]

Asia Society needs a better camera.

[@luqmanl5542]

No one should be tortured by holding the mic. Modern tech. could be use

[@kshen7485]

Close red you turn to be red, close water you easily become wet. Once close the smart one you will be pulled upward definitely.

[@kshen7485]

The Hong Kong protests that began in 2019 actually only showed that Hong Kong's capitalist system has not improved or enhanced the lives of Hong Kong citizens. Of course there have been the complaints. How can a society where wealth and resources are monopolized by the 1% of the rich benefit the people? The West now is the same. Therefore, Hong Kong people are just like spoiled babies by the Chinese leaders of the mainland. Hong Kong people were wrongly targeted to mainland. What they should oppose is Hong Kong's capitalist system. The socialist mainland with one country and one system has made everyone's housing bigger and bigger, wages higher and higher, and life better and better... Capitalist Hong Kong has made Hong Kong people's living environment worse and worse, and they are stretched to the limit. For a long time, more than two million (nearly 50%) of Taiwan's elites have physically "climbed over the wall" and ran to the mainland to work and live happily. They have cast their best votes with their feet. How could they condescend to leave their happy homeland of "Asian democracy model" - Taiwan, just for such a small amount of money, and rush to the "ruthless and bloody" Communist "dictatorship" ruled area! ? The increasing development and progress of mainland society and people have completely destroyed the superiority and arrogance that Hong Kong and Taiwanese people used to have over mainlanders. Faced with the continuous prosperity of the mainland, those stubborn and brain colonized Hong Kong and Taiwanese people can only sigh in despair.

[@chinkayeok6117]

As usual, the Ronnie Chan we all knew so well 😂

[@Gary-i3d]

Never disappoints 😆

[@audreygiamlayhoon]

​@@Gary-i3dRonnie has a bombastic style, not endearing at all.

[@AnkitKumarsah-ib8zp]

India 🇮🇳china 🇨🇳friendship is biggest nightmare of west 😅...... Just imagine world's most 1nd 2nd countries get together almost 3 billion people😊feel tha power

[@joelngkm]

U can even remb drinking milk w 11 other schoolmates using a ladle, as a 6yo boy... Woo ya boh?... 😅 I dun doubt the scenario btw, jus curious abt remembering the exact numbers... 😂

[@audreygiamlayhoon]

I remember UNICEF milk from a large pot in the tuckshop

[@daning9764]

Distracted by the waiters running around in the foreground in the first half of the video. And for goodness sake, pls don't play with the handphone, Ronnie is a distraction.

[@spencergan4353]

What happened to Bilahari Kausikan in China? This was not reported in the media. But I always thought he was too much of a maverick specially on his views on China.

[@petervote7914]

If George Yeo was the foreign minister in 2016, Singapore wouldn't have gotten into dispute with China over the SAF issue in 2016. But George Yeo was voted out in 2011 as protest vote against PAP. I never imagined that Singapore foreign policy would fall into hands of ultra hardcore Sinophobes like Bilahari and cause conflicts with China in 2016.

[@kingfairobot1858]

that means hk govt should engage more u.s . leaders speaking for hk, engage more European leaders speaking for hk as well engaging Asean leaders. Only doing so by ourself, hk will develop an image of itself not an image under the care of China. That should make hk as hk .

[@seangaun]

Why should HK still glorifying these white leaders from west and 🇺🇸? Be your true self and confident! Never have the colonial mentality again thinking the white are the best! I find hongkies still cannot change their mentality leaning to white. In fact to prosper hong kong and Macau, it should scrap one country two system and absorbed into one country one system and compete like other provinces under China to move forward.

[@kennySg101]

The legal system is the advantage. Unfortunately, the population chose Cantonese over English unlike Singapore

[@anyone1200]

jUST lIKE .U.S FOR CHINESE STANDING FOR ELECTION. SAME COMMENT

[@phongy45]

So true , American hit Hong Kong to pull China doen ... But failed ...

[@SWandG]

Goodness that Ronnie guy had to distract with his mobile phone!

[@endeend1]

Nobody in HK or most Chinese universities, or parents in China encourage their kids to go into geopolitics because Statehood or the management of global politics is reserved for the CCP and elitist within it that go to select international relations training schools. It's not a pursuit "career" or path for a secure job or future like in rest of world, particularly Singapore.

[@cd7707a]

So funny Ronnie now has blood all bleeding out of his body. When was the last time you check the mirror.

[@phongy45]

Stop wars ...

[@lama5272]

Ronnie is missing a key difference between government leaders of HK and Singapore... HK is part of China, just like SZ, it needs administrators to run it smoothly... There is no need of politicians dealing with the various nations, that is in the hand of Beijing... 😊

[@petervote7914]

Someone mentioned that the incident with Bilahari was the infamous 2010 Yang jiechi comments on small countries. George Yeo was the Singapore foreign minister in 2010. Yang jiechi comments were directed at George Yeo. George Yeo in a later video said that he had no problems whatsoever with the comments and Yang was friendly and not hostile towards him or Singapore. If that is the case, why is Bilahari making a fuss about it? He is so extreme ultra hardcore Sinophobe, anti China anti Chinese that he is hell bent on making trouble for China using whatever pretexts and excuses? Why is a hardcore Sinophobe even working in Ministry of foreign affairs. Why? So many questions.

[@amunra5330]

IE for the world to progress the G7 needs to go away. lol

[@theodoreteo1408]

The question is what would China do if against all logical expectations the Biden/Harris regime, in order to salvage a potential landslide win by Trump, decides to push ahead with a Bill in the US Congress to recognize Taiwan as an independent sovereign state and proceed to establish diplomatic relationship with Taiwan and the rest of the West including all NATO countries including Australia, NZ, Japan, South Korea and India were to follow?

[@henryyip1]

Indian netizens condemned kishore mahbubani for instead of calling out the west for their crimes in India in the 200 years of colonialism, he SPITTED at them by calling it india's century of humiliation. Adding insults to injuries for the victim. WHY HAS KISHORE BECOME SO INHUMAN??

[@amunra5330]

How is the toilets in India?

[@ptan4120]

How did he spitted at the Indians for the statements you mentioned?

[@miang62]

He’s basically calling a spade a spade. It was indeed India’s century of humiliation. China acknowledged its own century of humiliation and it became a motivation for the Chinese rebuild China to what she is today

[@anyone1200]

THIS IS NOT TRUE

[@SWEELAWTUNG]

Court case in progress Judicial legal process. No talk

[@PseudoProphet]

China needs to move on from Xi, Russia from Putin and Europe from the US, then everything in the world would go back to Normal. 😊😊

[@Wecareus]

Stupid

[@kchew1000]

And the US need to be isolated and preferably broken up ...

[@stvdmc2011]

Normal as what...every country subservient to Uncle Sam? Or lab dogs of Uncle Sam like the other 4 anglo countries.

[@PseudoProphet]

@@kchew1000 US will automatically be cut to size if Europe becomes indipendent. Right now US also controls $ 20 trillion European economy as well. That's why it's so powerful. 😑😑

[@SharonZhang-w1t]

So America can rule the world and rob developing countries with their Gang of 7

[@salvatorepuliatti8578]

IL PROFESSORE È MOLTO SAGGIO ❤❤❤

[@AbrahamLincoln649]

Last questioner don't even know about chinese economy and undersatnd what GDP is calculated. So Hong kong business man just believe bullshit he said because he said he is a comentator consultant?

[@CMOP-c5h]

He is paid to hold sinophic views just the question before him. Needless to say it has been a long time since they last have a good long look in the mirror to understand who they are. The sad truth is China has a long history of people like this, good at talking down and looking down on their own people and eager to stick their noses up their masters' backside eventhough they don't fit the bill.