Has the West Lost It? Can Asia Save It? | Kishore Mahbubani

In Kishore Mahbubani’s view, global power is shifting from the West to the Rest-from Europe and North America to Asia and Africa. He argues that changes will be required both in the West and the Rest to manage the shift gracefully for long-term stability. The rest of the world has learned a great deal from the West. Now it is the West’s turn to learn and to dispel some of its myths about the new world order.
Singaporean diplomat and scholar Kishore Mahbubani served as his nation’s Ambassador to the United Nations and as President of the UN Security Council. He is a Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore where he was Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy from 2004 to 2017. His books include "Has the West Lost It?: A Provocation" (2018); "The ASEAN Miracle" (2017); "The Great Convergence" (2013); and "The New Asian Hemisphere" (2008).
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[@samvance40]

I wish he be advising the Indian and Chinese gov to get along with one another. He is in a unique position to do just that. Not only US-China relations, but also India-China

[@calvinteoh5660]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6HQdaCmfa2GaNU

[@Oldt-n4l]

Kishore Mahbubani’s famous quote: “American Plutocracy vs Chinese Meritocracy”

[@luqmanl5542]

Prof, it's an amazing speech. I heard what you said, "...future historian... ." You hantam the mat salleh without them realizing. You are the greatest diplomat

[@kko-punch7059]

That is global vision, wisdom for humanity. Unfortunately the US had chosen to abandon it because it wants to be the lone power of the world. Unilateralism is the dead end of prosperity. The market is beyond your boundaries. The Chinese knew it.

[@MrHistoryFan]

Kishore is a visionary and so inspirational. We should pay attention to his advices.

[@zacchew4232]

In short, arrogance is killing the west

[@spaduke]

Yeah, the face mask issue explained everything.

[@lizijian1212]

Interestingly, China was once killed by arrogance too, which lead to the century of humiliation. I guess that's the way history works.

[@zacchew4232]

@@lizijian1212 agreed w u. In short, arrogance will bring us down no matter what races w r

[@TheAkbark]

Arrogance always plays a part in the decline of a empire. History does not lie.

[@antoniogentile9235]

Spoiler 😂

[@Tbone913]

You ask yourself, "which country will be the first to extract co2 as a commercial resource?" The answer is super obvious

[@hungmanxxxx2462]

Amazing speaker, thinker, scholar.........pray for peace & prosperity for the WORLD! STOP the WARS USA & Western countries !!!!! The whole world can see what's been happening in the last 200 Years ....

[@marvinfok65]

Lee Kuan Yew had definitely leave his mark in history where a small city state had huge influence in the world especially for Asia. This man had the balls to say stuffs about America's plutocracy, political appointees and criticized Trump so badly right in America!

[@owenhoong88]

Mr Lee Kuan Yew used to critize American because of corruption.

[@alliesteamc3546]

Wise comments, makes sense, thanks!

[@mindretreatful]

Very enjoyed to listen to your speech and you have stated reality of the real happened in the world, the adjustment and realistically understood the world of transformation. What a wise idea! Thank you so much

[@shan5276]

It is really an excellent sharing with wisdom and sincerity. Thanks Kishore.

[@WebControlss]

好樣的！後世的人來看現在的歷史，一定會很有感覺。

[@masonchan9986]

Kishore tmd太了解中国，他可以当中国的代言人。他可以胜任

[@123HGW]

他比中国外交部都管用😂😂

[@chookyrobert973]

THE US ALWAYS FOREVER MADE MISTAKE, BECAUSE THE US NOT ALLOWA OTHER COUNTRY BETTER THAN THEM. ALL TIME BAD OF US IDEALOGY NEVER END.

[@brinthadevi3459]

I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH KISHORE DARLING💖💖💖

[@jeffery-r1l]

h clinton or bill clinton should be vice president of usa to get peace in world.

[@ribeirojorge5064]

The Virtuous Noble Lie of the West Demon Cracy as a Trap of the Ocult Agreement of Consent

[@hyeewang]

How to add the link based on the timestamp of the video

[@jeffery-r1l]

Australia should be like EU to go independently to be success.

[@BobQuigley]

8 billion humans. Ability to travel anywhere anytime at 560 MPH. Machines translating most languages verbally and in writing in milliseconds. There is no west east north south.

[@friendlyamerican368]

Remember the story of The Tower of Babel? You may find it interesting if you haven't already explored it.

[@EnglishCad]

🇹🇼👍

[@JH-pt6ih]

What an example of selectively defining terms and manipulating numbers. Do you really think that in 2030 extreme poverty is going to be 0%? ZERO PERCENT?! Well, right now extreme poverty is defined as less than $1.90 per day so it is a pretty low bar to strive for. Think of some of the most abject poverty scenes you can think of and realize those people might be making more than $1.90 per day - good thing that "merely bad" poverty has been taken care of! The numbers he is quoting here are also from the National Intelligence Council - the group that provides numbers to politicians and has a vested interest in making the operations of the multitudinous intelligence agencies look good. And what about the coming boom in African population coupled with the declining arable and game producing land in the Sahel and the quite likely mass migration of peoples from that region? Of course you can easily go find some groups or individuals who will only look at the "great opportunity" in that and ignore the negative aspects (because hey, they are "optimists")! The "battlefield deaths" in "interstate wars" is another obvious manipulation. From a Human Security Brief (sounds impressive but we aren't told whose "Human Security Brief" we are referencing and multiple groups put them out), "battlefield deaths declined from 65, 000 per year in the 1950s to less than 2000 per year in this decade." Wait-a-second. The Korean War happened in the 1950s and saw 1.2 million military deaths and 2.5 million total deaths. Hmmm, divide that 1.2 million military deaths by 10 years for a decade and that 3 year conflict alone would work out to 120,000 military deaths per year (we can ignore the civilian deaths, because they just don't matter in the big scheme of things when "optimists" profess to make their point.) - and that's forgetting about the French Indochina war that started in the 40's and converted to the U.S. Vietnam War in 1955. Maybe it's those definitions - neither the Korean or Vietnam wars are "wars" from the US military point of view, so do you have to have an actual "war" to have a "battlefield"? And of course, as warfare has become more and more about airstrikes and missile and bombs - are those part of the battlefield? And what about interstate? Are Korea and Vietnam being classified as intrastate civil wars and thus excluded from "interstate" wars? Hmmm. So how do we compare that to today? A look at some world data sources and I see they list 104,000 battle deaths and 130,000 deaths from violent conflicts and one-sided violence (you know, those times when only one side can keep up their half of the "battlefield" requirement) in 2014. Why that's 234,000, or, let me do the math real quickly (234,000 - 2000 = 232,000), why that's a much bigger number than his nice, pleasant, "optimistic", number - and we still aren't worrying about civilian deaths due to disease, famine etc. associated with that violence. (Which is convenient, because we have also worked with definitions so that what was once called "siege warfare" has been redefined as "sanctions" and "embargoes" so we get to ignore those numbers, errr, I mean people). Gandhi got me to see some years ago that what people often call "pessimism" is really people who see more possibilities and believe things can be significantly better whereas "optimism" is often really just accepting what is and defeatism in the face of possibility. I'm beginning to think "optimism" is really just a euphemism for "indifference to others' suffering." But hey, you can make a comfortable living telling those people living secure and comfortable lives that everything is going to be hunky dory from here on out for everybody by which you really mean for them.

[@Tbone913]

Another thing, the whole 5000 year history in China or whatever; we all have a common ancestor somewhere way back, everyone has a "5000 year history". The force of the West that people are bitching about is just the overflow, it ain't even the real force. Focus on doing good for precisely and only yourself, and you'll do good for your family by extension, and produce a shitload of wealth too, that's just a fact.

[@greaterbayareahero1401]

Kishore is a true leader. Man who wears his heart on this sleeves and tells the truth as he sees it. He has nothing to prove and doing good for the world.

[@neilwalsh3977]

One of the most charismatic and brilliant speakers around. He is a magnetic speaker

[@askhan403]

Looks nuts to me

[@donaldjoseph3903]

Kishore is the darling of many China supporters.

[@stayprepared2388]

@@donaldjoseph3903 - a China lackey

[@QuietJugung]

37:45 US, please leave Asia in peace.

[@earlgibbs7083]

The European Renaissance would not have likely happened without the technological discoveries from Asia and the Middle East complemented by Western science. The book, Civilization - The West and the Rest depicts this specific happening.

[@vicolew]

china does not need any expensive think tanks,.,, they had 4000 years of case history to refer to

[@amineatmane6932]

4000 years eating bats

[@calvyncraven1141]

@@amineatmane6932 yup eat bats like you for lunch.

[@theliberalnationale5737]

@@amineatmane6932 raycsm

[@AerialFrameworks]

They have 200 years of US history to plagiarize. Unfortunately, you can’t plagiarize cutting edge innovation.

[@oentoengjahja712]

@@AerialFrameworks may you live in the mentality you have now until the end of your life, also have the chance to see the destruction of western imperialism! I mean, I wish you a long life and live in your ignorance, until the end of your life!

[@PC-oi8hk]

Just as a reminder to all, over 130 million Chinese travel out of China to travel overseas to western countries for weeks on holidays and yet make the conscience decision to then go back home to China. Over 100,000 students are educated in the west and yet make the conscience decision to go back to China to work. Over 100,000 Taiwanese nationals engineers work in China on their own free will because of the lack of opportunities in Taiwan.

[@meganfoxbf]

so many china citizens are entering USA illegally through the Mexicans borders everyday...escaped from china 2024

[@sabirsharif8767]

Respected Sir. Thanks for your efforts People like you make a world a better Place Thanks God Bless you

[@anglaycheng7629]

1q

[@蔡喆-y2d]

Fukuyama is Japan's final retaliation to the WEST, and he shot right through the heart.

[@killermachine6454]

Which book

[@GL-yt]

Lmaooooooo

[@PhiloSurfer]

@@killermachine6454 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man

[@bansrajmattai4548]

Crux of this wonderfully informed presentation: Democracy really boils down to plutocracy (rule of the rich), Chinese system based on merit (hence meritocracy). You decide which is of greater benefit for the people as a whole.

[@AerialFrameworks]

China’s system is a dictatorship with a supreme leader, not a meritocracy. Highly educated people who make less money have a seat at the table in America. Hence, the long now foundation.

[@humansarecrazybeing5730]

@@AerialFrameworks says the white guy? You guys are still a ring like your ancestors and it's in your gene to lie,steal , hypocrisy, ganging up on other non white countries and playing divide and rule policy since ancient times and which reached it's peak during colonial period 😂😂

[@oentoengjahja712]

@@AerialFrameworks Thank you for showing your ignorance in public

[@JZ-fi5pb]

It's so insightful & inspirational & knowledgeable. ASEAN is rising for sure but more importantly, that's really a good example to untangle "differences caused complexity"

[@user-zv6yb9oo1p]

West promotes right-left, right-wrong, good-evil... etc duality mentality whilst East unifies the polarities. They need one another to keep each checked and balanced in order for us, and I mean all of us tk strive and evolve into next era of human civilization.

[@killermachine6454]

?

[@AerialFrameworks]

Actually the polarity has been mostly fueled for bad actors. The vast majority of Americans believe in equality, freedom, and socialist ideals.

[@ptong226]

Thank you Kishore Mahbubani for your insights.🇸🇬♥️👍

[@beezibee]

Kishore is amazing.

[@ligeruser4]

The most moving thing that Kishore did was not the speech he gave... It was when he saw the interviewer's glass was empty and he refilled that glass with water before he refilled his... If we are to take one lesson from this clip, it can be summed up with that one act of his.

[@AerialFrameworks]

How does that one act guide any actions other than hospitality? It doesn’t conform to other situations, for instance, put your mask on before your child if the plane loses cabin pressure.

[@oentoengjahja712]

@@AerialFrameworks I hope all western white people have the same mentality as you, so that the acceleration of the decline of western civilization will accelerate!

[@jonboy82]

So good. Thank you Kishore for your wisdom and deep understanding on such issues

[@qzhang25]

The question is whether western country politicians will listen to a diplomat from Singapore, I doubt. They are still living in the illusion of past.

[@Rose-zy7pn]

Kishore is a great gift to the world.

[@hungmanxxxx2462]

57:00 Europe can't think for itself!....it's a little puppy waiting for instruction from the US!

[@AerialFrameworks]

Countries don’t think, people think.

[@rimbaapi2515]

Kishore u are talking nonsense how much western country pay child labour in bangladesh indoa in knitting factory to make levise sold at very high proce world wide .how much western pay child labour in africa to work in cocoa plantaion for choclate factory in europe to make huge profit. Thes are two examples million more example. Westrrn countries take all raw material from east and south pay very little and make good and sell very expensive. Ur economic is hap hazard in ther of balance sheet

[@hungmanxxxx2462]

1:04:00 .....soooooooooooooo much wisdom!!!!! definitely China and India should work together!......just like 2000 years ago

[@matiasazali7793]

3 M is Minimalist Multilateral, As Jokowi has open a new planning capital city Indonesia Kutai, Facility of Autonomous Vehicle. Singapore has not used to maximal its short vehicle PDM or electric scooter. I am promoting Scooter for Delivery in Jakarta. Machiavelli

[@tancsun]

Great insight but honesty has a power very few people can handle.

[@fq6475]

Kishore is my favorite scholar, wisdom, visionary and honest

[@Spacerkari]

Very interesting presentation. Nice personal perspective.

[@killermachine6454]

Hi Kari 👋

[@Spacerkari]

@@killermachine6454 Hi Killer

[@victoews6842]

I often listen to Kishore, and in this speech delivered to an American audience he really explains the politics of the world. Thank you. With this type of wisdom spreading throughout the world, humanity has a chance.

[@Albert-of4pg]

Agree. I'd love to see the world works together and make advancement as a whole.

[@ribeirojorge5064]

Secularism is Not a Step Forward in Civilization Evolution but a Step Backwards But Secularism is One Step Backwards in order to Human Consciousness Give Three Steps Forward in Authentic Religiosity ❤️ 💚 💜

[@ribeirojorge5064]

The Universe is Not a Hierarchical Pyramid of Mathematic Quantities The Universe is a Holarchic Sphere of Spheres of Consciousness Qualities Timeless and Formless Consciousness Shines in the Form in Time ❤️ 💚 💜

[@ribeirojorge5064]

We make Justice when We Compare Vices with Vices and Virtues with Virtues And it reveals great Malicious Injustice to compare the Vices of an individual nation or culture with the Virtues of another individual nation or culture.

[@ribeirojorge5064]

The Ends Never Justify the Means !!! The Means Always Determine the Ends !!! Tirany is the Seed of its Own Destruction !!!

[@ribeirojorge5064]

When the Propagandist Begins to Believe His Own Propaganda You Are Doomed to Drown in Your Own Lies

[@ribeirojorge5064]

All and Each One of Us are the Truth of the Sipirit-in-Action And the Illusion of the Personal Translater of the Perception of Life

[@coldhead2130]

Such an insightful and forward looking presentation on how the west should react/response to the raising China/Asia has only 12K views and I believe less than 10% of these viewers are from US/EU. The recent speech by Pompeo in EU about the west is winning and Trump continues to blame China for the Covid have just shown how ignorant and arrogant the west remind to be. Unfortunately my view is that the crash of the West and the East will only be settled with a war, and the west will lose the war.

[@jennifer-oc6io]

Dear North america and Europe, pls learn to speak an eatern language instead of learning useless French, russian and european languages from your region , because if you wanna be truly international. you have to come to asia. Spanish and french isn't gonna carry you too far in obtaining global recogntion and jobs. Wake up west!

[@JobayerJisan]

His wisdom 👌❤

[@大可-q1u]

Kishore Mahbubani 的建议，西方是绝对不会听见的，，，哈哈哈

[@DerekWong967]

死中国人

[@donaldjoseph3903]

歪主义干嘛要理他呢。。

[@josephyeo6966]

Would have been better if the interviewer is more knowledgeable and have a better understanding of what is happening in Asia.

[@ribeirojorge5064]

One Global Vision Multiple Local Governments ❤️ 💚 💜

[@phongy45]

Those M's a good lessons

[@flyerzy]

why US can build base overseas, but china can not ?

[@dunzhen]

Western hypocrisy. But Chinese wouldn't build base overseas anyway.

[@hullopillow4853]

Easy, I can even talk in place of the US: Because the US military function mainly to maintain world peace and safeguard others, while China's primary aim is to undermine others' sovereignty and compromise their freedom. Stand answer right out of US State Dept playbook.

[@calvyncraven1141]

@@hullopillow4853 BS. the US military bases is to ensure those countries that houses its bases are keep in line.

[@君不花]

​@@hullopillow4853😂😂😂😂😂😂 So your point is US Hegemony is pure Angel, despite the fact that US is looting the world and gaining the hegemony bonus through dollar😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉

[@DilSeRe987]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍

[@donaldjoseph3903]

Future historians would see that Kishore was wrong. 😢

[@bcquah3891]

Poverty is increasing in the US

[@issacf4416]

A lot of uncomfortable words spoken here.

[@grahamparker538]

all usa fault!!!!!!

[@sohlawrence7598]

Old news. Nobody listens to this fella now.

[@kkx7790]

not sure if any western people will actually take his advice/warning lol

[@AerialFrameworks]

I doubt it will be necessary.

[@Tbone913]

Sure we will. It is just not known in the papers here yet.

[@PC-oi8hk]

He is so smart

[@hungmanxxxx2462]

It’s a BITTER medicine indeed!!!!! ....yet it’s a medicine which needs to be taken.

[@javieryeo4032]

Start at 36:12 and you'll get it how we do not need a lot of western influence.

[@friendlyamerican368]

Vote for Justin Amash

[@DipakBose-bq1vv]

This book was written by General Xi

[@ranganathmahapatra740]

One democracy will do it and that is India

[@PG-le4lw]

DNA of a society matters ... USA people with mix society, want to help people of other nations, all feel settling in USA, .......China people one ethenicity, why we should help other society to grow, no one wish to move to settle in China ...

[@MostHigh777]

So let me understand this if I can. The West needs to share power.What power the West needs to share is not really specified or with who or why it's done or what benefit there would be from doing it. But whatever it is we need to share it. What a load of horse s***.

[@hullopillow4853]

Not really. The world is enjoying to see how the west can cling on to those powers.

[@MostHigh777]

I've listened to a few of this guy's speeches and I'm curious about a few things. First, his premise seems to be that Asia is rising and somehow everyone needs to get out of the way and bow down. I'm not really sure why I should do this, but it seems to be his implicit given. As an American, I really don't care the Asia is rising. I really care about my economic and political future and only care about Asia to the extent it is affected by that. So for instance, If Asia develops economically that's a good thing. But if Asia wants to do it stealing my intellectual property that's a bad thing. Next, there's somehow the presumption that the US is against Asia developing economically.This is really kind of odd because the US is the one that catalyzed Asia's economic development both by the systems of free global trade created and protected by the US since 1945 and by Nixon's opening to China 45 years ago. I just don't understand this premise or where it comes from. Third, There is the implicit demand that we in the West bow down to Asian traditions of centralized authority. If Asia wants to use authoritarian cultures I guess that's Asia's business but I don't see any reason at all why I should accommodate myself to this model. I view those societies as being very inferior to my own and the record really shows that they are both in terms of their productivity material and intellectual on a per capita basis. There are a number of other problems with his presentation. For instance, he gives statistics showing that as he claims the economic dominance of the West is a historical aberration. But he gives those figures on a gross basis not a per capita basis and so in effect they're useless. Then he shows the chart projecting what economic growth is going to be into the future and showing China passing the US. So? China has more people than the US of course it someday will pass the US.This does not affect me as an American unless China's per capita production passes that of the US which China is very very far from achieving. And then there is my big question which is that the professor makes one very significant intellectual mistake and one very significant omission. The mistake is he assumes static world development. In other words he assumes everything is going to be the way it is now into the future. But I'm curious, as AI and robotics develop the need for employment in manufacturing is going to disappear and with it the Asian model of growth through providing cheap labor for manufacturing. What will this mean for China and Asia? No one knows because he fails to address it at all. There are other questions like for instance can China forever rope itself off from the world in terms of the flow of information I kind of doubt it.as the flow of information sneaks into these authoritarian societies how will it change those societies How will it change the view of populations towards their life and how their government rules them? We don't know because it's never discussed or mentioned. finally the most glaring omission and the one that's most surprising to me in the fact that it's missing, What about the effects of the information age not only on Asia but on the world in general. I would say that the information age is probably a more significant event in world history than the Renaissance or the industrial revolution in that it calls on us to be a very different kind of person in a very different kind of society and it's making those demands very insistently and on a very rapid basis. None of this is mentioned which I find a major omission and a surprising omission. Finally and less importantly there is his plea for the United States to rely on the United Nations.like most Americans I find the United Nations to view a reflection of the rest of the world which is that it is a hypocritical largely impotent largely corrupt organization which is better off existing than not but which really doesn't represent my values and which I would never trust making important decisions about my future. So I know this guy is very popular but based on the three or four presentations I've watched on KZbin I'm wondering these things and wondering why he is so popular.

[@calvyncraven1141]

Watch this debate btw Kishore and John Mearsheimer and you will know what US elites are thinking. I have news for you. ITS EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what the American masses think. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJ_OdGp9jdJ_mtE

[@MostHigh777]

@aryaan shah Total number of patents is not a good figure, just like total number of academic papers is not a good figure. What accounts is important patents and important referred to academic papers.both of those categories are still massively dominated by the US.So once again we have another poster on KZbin who has no f****** idea what he's talking about.

[@Albert-of4pg]

​@@MostHigh777 I can't comprehand where you get this "bow down to authoritarianism" thing, it is clearly not expressed in the video. And also you have not pay attention to what Kishore said about China's meritocracy. As for GDP per capita, the highest country is Liechtenstein for $139,100, the second is Qatar for $124,500 and third is Monaco for $115,700. Why these countries don't matter as much as China and US in the world economy is something you need to think about. And as for the claim of US helping China to develop economically, there's no denying of that. However, it's more like a by-product of american companies enjoying the low labour cost to manufactore in China. And lastly, about the information age / AI thing, I don't have an answer on that, but I don't think you have an answer of its effect on average americans workers either. Fyi, automation has taken away 4 million manufactoring jobs in US.

[@Albert-of4pg]

Love to hear your reply. But my conclusion is you don't have a clue either.

[@MostHigh777]

@@Albert-of4pg Well time will tell won't it. So far the professor has been far off the mark.

[@btpennycook]

And how would he know he is so biased against the West

[@calvyncraven1141]

You think he is bias to the west because you refuse to accept the FACTS! That's all. Nothing more, nothing less

[@FromHere2Where]

I find this speaker guy annoying.

[@thekhanbrothersscotland3420]

Get a life you moron

[@Tbone913]

The West is not condescending to people, we are just focusing on doing better ourselves. It is not particularly relevant to us how other countries are doing, that is their own business. I have noticed that other some other countries, particularly in Africa, have a culture of dishonesty, poor respect for being on time, and trying to cheat people in deals (not negotiating in good faith between honest people). The lack of private property rights and lack of truthfulness in my opinion greatly affects trade and development (and by extension reputation), because people will avoid doing business with them. Therefore it comes across as punitive and superior when in reality people just don't want to be screwed by the bullshit from lazy people, poor quality products, badly delivered goods, unfulfilled promises et al. These are not problems that occur in the West, those people are quickly filtered down. If other countries focused energy on themselves and their own improvements, instead of sandbagging the West and cheating each other, they would catch up quickly. The West has a head start for these reasons and it will only continue to grow. This is the advice I'd give to any bum on the street, if I didn't have better things to do with my day, and they'd actually listen and work on implementing it.

[@tifawtasmon8796]

I really have mix feelings in one hand your first visit to china is 1980 means 2 year before even I born. in the other hand i think that you know a lot about east civilizations but maybe not enough about the western civilizations. i still believe that the western countries mainly USA and its allies still have a lot to give and still going to lead for long time. but honestly i learned a lot from you Kishore and as I said you have much experience and sure i need to learn more before giving my final opinion. by the way I watched few of your talks and repeating same stories and same words over and over, i am not sure if this normal or all other writers and thinkers do. in the End thank you so much Kishore; it is very interesting..

[@terencekwong3033]

Have you seen any of Martin Jacques talk. It was a YT recommendation, he's predicted the rise of China decades ago. Pretty insightful considering the vids are in the early 2000's.

[@j-mobi9209]

Maybe you should ask whether the rest of the world want the west to lead. It may surprised you BUT the answer is no because of incompetence. In the western world most of your own people are dissatisfied with YOUR own government, for example in France 80% of French think that their government is heading in the wrong direction, in USA the figure is around 70% and many western countries are in similar situations. So if even your own people don’t trust your own leadership to lead your own countries, why and how do you still think you can lead the world? Honestly that’s a very strange thought to have, to think your failing systems are best for the rest of the world. See this link, UK 2020 survey, see last chart of dissatisfaction with failing western countries government. Not sure if your country is on this list : www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/what-worries-world-october-2020

[@j-mobi9209]

He needs to repeat his messages for many western people who may be sleeping or who are not listening and has to be reminded. It’s like the bible or other important text, repetition is key 🔑 ... :)

[@yelenaangeleski3354]

We? So this bloke imagines himself a Westerner, not an Asian?

[@cscsp]

Kishore wrote two books, "Has the West Lost it" and "Have China Won". Reading between the covers, one can surmise that Kishore is the shit-stirrer, rousing the West to go East and destroy the Dragon, which is not 100% operational yet. For when the Dragon is fully operational, it will come and do terrible things to the West. These two books deserves" Shit-Stirrer Award" of 2020. Please, Kishore, the Planet is not only big enough for two superpowers; it can accommodate many more aspiring ones. You don't have to bring Racism and Religion into the discussion.

[@PhiloSurfer]

reading between the covers, but don't just focus on the covers. you have missed the key messages completely. try reading between the lines instead.

[@samjohn1754]

Now I’ve listened to this guy on a few occasions, and first I thought he’s just uninformed about new developments, but now I’m starting to think he has monitory gains from praising China. Like so many pseudo-intellectuals inside the media & educational systems. Not to mention, the UN. He undoubtedly is living in the past. He is still thinking about the good ol days at the beginning of this millennia when china just entered the WTO and the time of Jiang Zemin & Hu Jinto as presidents. But the last decade (esp after Xi Jinping) the CPP has turned into an absolute Shit-Hole which has non but only has one aim in sight. World Domination. And their main weapon against any country is to build a Trade Deficit. They do that by grossly manipulating their money supply and milking the working class in the name of 'inclusive Growth' (Which any democracy will not do). All the US & India trade and economic data is out in the open for the world to analyze and use. NO Chinese non-partisan economic data exists for anyone to analyse except the exchange rate of the yuan/USD (as china pegs its currency to USD). Because if they did, most Foreign investors will pull out in less than a week.

[@horizons3844]

he is a renowned diplomat from Singapore who has been a top official for over 30 years. He speaks for the government of Singapore and many of its people.