‘No nation can avoid engaging with US & China’-Bilahari Kausikan on global order, Ukraine war & more

At the third Atal Bihari Vajpayee memorial lecture, Singaporean diplomat Bilahari Kausikan said that countries like India may find it easier to navigate a new world order. He also said that no nation can avoid engaging with both US & China. Watch his full address: #ThePrintUncut
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[@krishnauday1]

Absolutely brilliant talk

[@NuestraPatriaGrande]

This is a great presentation that gives us the possible nuances of world order politics. The only concerns that grassroots movements would have that is different from the academic view is the dynamics of movements in world geopolitics. Movements usually go against established order in what the established order considers revolutionary or radical. The Established order usually will co-opt the movement and quash its “radical aspects” or destroy the movement violently. The third alternative is that the movement is victorious over the attempted “violent destruction” to become a movement or vanguard for the governance of a nation. This change from movement to “vanguard” does not change its revolutionary fervor in demanding change. In China a nationalistic movement of European educated youth constantly morphed into THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY. It was a mistake then to think of the Chinese movement as being strictly “communist” because these youths were constantly challenging one another on the basis of what we call “best practices” and what The Chinese people call confucianism. The movement party system found itself changing their "proletariat" into their peasants. Under Mao the Chinese Communist Party led China into industrialization and literacy as the necessary achievements to become “great again”. The party soon found itself steeped into what a Chinese should be. They reversed their Western thinking into finding their past CHINESE CULTURE and integrating it with modernity. Under Deng the party found the entrepreneurial success of the past which we call capitalism. Deng modified capitalism into State capitalism with entrepreneurial characteristics. Deng used the accomplishments of Mao to entice the West into a Confucian win-win proposition that The West exploited while allowing China to socialistically negotiate labor contracts that increased salaries for workers yearly and provided opportunities for Western technologies to be used by Chinese entrepreneurs and state owned companies. Corruption and pollution were the side-effects of Deng´s policies. The movement was challenged . Xi Jinping emerged to eradicate corruption to the core and institute policies for a clean air, water, and earth. Billionaires emerged to challenge the rest of the world and try to establish a power base over the MOVEMENT PARTY. Xi has recently made changes to make sure that capitalist billionaires do not control China. The Chinese movement is always morphing because it only exists while it represents and fulfills the needs and aspirations of the Chinese péople. Xi has the unprecedented challenge of establishing a universal health and social security system by using AI and robotics while avoiding a proxy war with the US over Taiwan. Singaporean diplomats are enlightened philosophers of the 21st century, as they are western educated thinkers with a touch of Confucius in their soul. But they fail to grasp the changing dynamic of a nation whose leadership has a grassroots movement tradition that is heavily steeped in Buddhism and Confucianism, as well as the lessons of Western Marxism/Leninism. THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT THE CHINESE SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE AND CULTURE IS DIFFERENT FROM THE NEOCOLONIALISM OF THE WEST. When China has the largest economy and an ever improving universal health and social security system, not will not replicate the tendencies of the West. China will be the balancing force to Western hegemony. With China a UN centered world order will become fairer and countries will have equality without being peer competitors of Western hegemony.

[@bladerunner2912]

What a great thorough analysis of the global state and its future. Singaporeans have never failed to unimpress. From their top leaders to their fellow diplomats all are extremely articulate.

[@hershpuri289]

Singapore is full of brilliant civil servants, ir scholars and politicians!!

[@henrywang5979]

fantastic speech, really learn a lot, thanks!

[@dandmello5283]

👍great. Thanks a lot to the printmedia team.. for Subject-wise and Independant Journalism... since the lovely 1980's

[@paddynair6446]

Always very realistic and accurate

[@salmanshaik1298]

Spitting facts like mad this man🔥🔥🔥

[@iridiumman3087]

Powerful analysis but put in simple words. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to increase their understanding of the current global scenario.

[@rolandlochli4492]

This was excellent. Realist thought at its best. Clear-sightedness in every single sentence.

[@tomygeorge656]

Excellent lecture

[@raghurampillarisetty7529]

Excellent lecture 👌👌

[@suppiahmurugesan8343]

Bharat must work like a Swiss precision watch, both for economic growth and in geopolitics. Political stability is an absolute necessity. Political opposition for the sake of opposition can be stifling and even be destructive for growth.

[@amlansarkar369]

Really good and interesting analysis

[@abhinavverma3406]

Brilliant lecture thoughfull talks

[@markhl4765]

Invaluable perspective of a seasoned (ex-)ambassador, not immediately bound by the inherent requirements of his national office nor deafening noise of recency bias. I can’t help but wonder if some of his cautionary lessons for China serve as presage for India’s global year and beyond.

[@hupseng714]

Excellent views of world’s geopolitical systems. Thanks.

[@micheal6803]

It's like he said what I think🤔

[@rajeshmadan5265]

A fine brain. A realist and clearly, unlike some other Singaporeans , not a China apologist.

[@winkstorm]

This is why Trump said our politicians are “not top of the line” people. I’m not aware any of them can think and articulate with such clarity and precision like this gentleman including Trump himself.