Why Asia is the center of the world (again) | Parag Khanna | TEDxGateway

Asians don't think of themselves as Asian, but as the new Silk Roads re-emerge and propel Asia to the center of the world economy, Asians are rediscovering their greatness and forging a new Asian identity for the 21st century. Parag Khanna was born in India grew up in the UAE, USA, and Germany, and in recent years has lived in London and Singapore. He is an adventure traveler, scholar, and bestselling author of six books including The Second World, Connectography, and The Future is Asian. Parag is the founder and managing partner of FutureMap, a strategic advisory firm. He has appeared in major television and print media around the world, and has spoken at TED Global 2009, TED 2016, TEDxGateway, and other TED events. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@rudeboyses]

"Global History is written in English Language, by Western Scholars, and often with Euro-centrist prisms, theories, and analogies to predict countries' behavior, almost in a default way to Asia. Asia is the most diverse, heterogeneous region on planet Earth. So rather than conquer my neighbor and subjugate them and make them like me, which is almost a European thumbnail history of Europe. In Asia it's different, it's live and let live." - Dr. Parag Khanna

[@arthurlecomte8950]

RudeBoySes What about the Japanese Empire? Live and let live? What about the Mongols?

[@arthurlecomte8950]

Lawrence Ausan That merely depends on what the strategy of a conqueror. The Arabs are also asian right? They conquered the middle east and forced people to believe jn their God. And what about the Babylonians, the Assyrians? Furthermore the Dutch conquered Indonesia, but didn’t force Indonesians to believe in their God. To say that it’s merely an European thing is shallow thinking.

[@fadhly5192]

@@arthurlecomte8950 meh catholic and christs in indonesia are the products from colonialism through force . Thats the same thing with your logic earlier with islam.

[@annatar1266]

There is a concept that's becoming the foundation of the current colonisation 5.0 methods that is came from Asia. It's called Tributaries where kings of smaller countries paid some tribute to the Ruler of China or into the other big Empire such as one of the most famous empire in South East Asia, Singasari, Majapahit, as a mean of diplomatical subjugation. They are still free or independent to take care of their internal and external affairs as long as they recognise their overlord's superiority. And in return, the overlord will protect its tributaries from other big powers of the world.

[@askkedladd]

@@arthurlecomte8950 20th century japan adores the west so much, they learn everything from the west including western imperialism, the end of WWII is the end of this blind adoration, no more western imperialism in japan.

[@janetloh1905]

An educated way of promoting Asian growth and confidence.

[@tupolevi]

Yeah, if your company just needs a marketing chief only.

[@grubbybum3614]

@why name? yes, it seems as though he has financial incentive to promote China. Unfortunate, I used to enjoy his theories when he talked about maps and other concepts...

[@amosmajor3264]

I dont mean to be so offtopic but does any of you know of a tool to log back into an instagram account? I stupidly lost my account password. I would love any tricks you can offer me

[@erikbrooks2595]

@Amos Major instablaster :)

[@SrilankaChaneL]

Proud to be an Asian 🇱🇰✌🏻❤️👍🏻

[@tonysmith6967]

Srilanka is becoming Chinese colony. What's proud being in China or someone's colony?

[@charanawijesiri1128]

@@tonysmith6967 where do you hear this stuff? Lol. It's same as saying Mexico is becoming a US Colony.😂

[@uzochiokeke4328]

You are too small to even be noticed. Who cares about sri lanka?

[@crisdl2509]

@@uzochiokeke4328 you

[@crisdl2509]

@@uzochiokeke4328 if that county is too small to notice then how did u know theres a thing called Sri Lanka?

[@theatisgr]

Believe it or not, the song heard in 00:35 has also a Greek version: /watch?v=qhnrzbhsHeQ Back in the sixties, Greek bouzouki composers copied hundreds of Bollywood songs. No other European country has been influenced so much by Indian music as Greece!

[@BettathanEzra]

nice info mannnnn

[@ranjithmuresh2006]

Wow !

[@AdityaSharma-me6je]

Wow! Good to know that.

[@ghanvedsingh8946]

Hello friend i have Greek roots too

[@yliang1688]

YES, indeed, An educated way of promoting Asian growth and confidence.!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks.

[@abbybayubag1345]

I love to be a part of one big Asian community. As a Filipino, I cant wish nothing more but the development and peaceful rise of our continent, we are peaceful trading nations for thousands of year until outsiders colonised most of us. China and India has been our powerful stewards long ago and wish that relationships will not be tainted by outside intervention. Let us show the world that we can take care our environment while embracing development.

[@BoycottChinaa]

That's an interesting take.. say, he seems like he is on the take! Elite capture.

[@orangekeita]

Well said. Quote Kishore "What make the West think that they know better what's good for us than ourselves?" Stop judging Asians with your White Supremacism.

[@grubbybum3614]

@@orangekeita oh please. Stop locking up millions of your own citizens in concentration camps because they follow a religion you don't like. Also, Tibet...

[@orangekeita]

@@grubbybum3614 Oh please ban the gun in US so that school kids will not worry about being shot to death at school. And let Scotland and North Ireland go independent please because they dont want the Brexit. So why should they have to be dragged down with England? Speaking of religion, Chinese have never tried to force religious beliefs onto others by invading other countries and killing the native people and destroying their own culture and forcing them to speak Western languages and believing in Catholic like what the white Imperialist had done with Africa and South America. And please tell Australia and Europe not to judge middle East refugees by their religious beliefs and rejecting muslims over Christians or Catholics. That's discrimination against different religions.

[@grubbybum3614]

@@orangekeita my heritage is Korean. I'm not bound by their guilt. Nice try though, but China is horrible

[@johnstone3496]

Very well organised speech and you did a great job to remind all us Asians who we really are. Stand up for our own futures and share our great cultures once again for a peaceful prosperous Asian century! Thanks!

[@samiuddinomer2538]

Alhamdulillah ☝️ I'm an Asian Indian Muslim 🇮🇳❤️

[@dev_peace_soul]

And soon gen alpha will not believe in alla mallla balla mujhe pasand hai roshogula 😶

[@samiuddinomer2538]

@@dev_peace_soul beef biryani ummm 😋👅

[@harishankar8977]

@@samiuddinomer2538 lol,nice way to deal with sangis.iam hindu btw...

[@samiuddinomer2538]

@@harishankar8977 we're not against hindus who are not against us 👍

[@rudrajeet814]

@@samiuddinomer2538 pork and alcohol is yummmm

[@pengms]

Great talk!

[@anuroop345]

Hey we are from Earth, the tiny blue planet. Remember that.

[@tommyfromwiibasketball6375]

Lol I thought I was from mar

[@pranabmallick01]

@@tommyfromwiibasketball6375 Lol

[@Qwertyuiop-bj8ry]

Thank you for reminding me 🌝

[@kf148yearsago2]

I dream of a United Asia. From Philippines

[@AdityaSharma-me6je]

Same. Love from India.

[@samarjk107]

Its not gonna happen. Chinese dont like indians indians dont like chinese n many more

[@uzochiokeke4328]

@@AdityaSharma-me6je india is not interested.

[@aryabhandkar9148]

Uzochi Okeke neighter is china

[@artamerican]

Well spoken

[@Shub428]

Really awesome ✌🏻✌🏻👌👌👌

[@Epicurean999]

I take immense pride in being INDIAN ASIAN🙌💞👑

[@rudeboyses]

i love you too. marry me?

[@citizenofnowhere7776]

That is silly. YmDid you gave any influence in your becoming an Indian?

[@uzochiokeke4328]

India is not culturally, genetically or linguistically connected to asia. Be proud of india, not asia.

[@blasttrash]

this is what the author in ted talk was saying. Again by differentiating ourselves u r missing the point. This is what westerners did to loot asia by divide and conquer.

[@blasttrash]

@High plains drifter someone needs geography lessons lmao.

[@odiapua1895]

Nyc video sir

[@jigimi7049]

LONG LIVE ASIA!

[@PapuaKini]

You are right. We should call ourselves Asian.

[@dyrectory_com]

Asia My Asian!

[@samiuddinomer2538]

Alhamdulillah ☝️ I'm an Indian Muslim 🇮🇳❤️

[@blackjack9505]

Bravo

[@paulmaking1980]

Great talk from Parag Khanna! I love & respect him very much! What Parag is right! Asia is the future, Asia led by China, India, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea & other Asian powers is returning to global preeminence, that's a FACT! Backed by evidence through Asia's rising economic & demographic trends, America & the West, in general, must adapt or face becoming irrelevant in an Asian led world. Global political, economic, military & cultural power is shifting to Asia, it's inevitable & there is nothing America or the West can do about it to stop it. But the minds of the elites in the West like the politicians, the media, the analysts & the intellectuals continue to think they can still dominate & shape the world, well they are WRONG! In an Asian led world, the West must change & adapt to this new world or face being left behind & become irrelevant, while Asia continues to rise & advance! GO ASIA!

[@ohwell22]

You mean Chinese led world, not Asian led world. Despicable China wants to swallow Asia, starting with weak poor small countries, by stealing islands that never belonged to them. The Chinese enters weak countries by bribing corrupt politicians and steal the economy. Instead of leading Asia to unite like EU and adopt 1 currency to make it powerful to be reckon with by the West, they don't, instead they want to steal the entire economy of Asia for themselves.

[@georgethompson4080]

It's all on western technology and money.

[@hiddenblush]

im soo proud to be an asian.

[@bendyStraws3Lz]

Asia is so large and diverse you can not call all of this continents inhabitants same turks have almost nothing to do with koreans europe is less diverse so all can identify with that In asia there are many cultures, languages and writing systems that have developed independently What europe has enabled to rule the world in the 18th and 19th century was that all the small kingdoms were connected, new innovations and ideas could easily spread throughout the whole continent

[@RunhdeepS.Sandhu]

the subcontinent india alone is more diverse racially, culturally, linguistically than Europe never mind the rest of "asia"...The word "asia" makes no sense..its just a eurocentric term created by yte ppl to essentially lump the rest of the world minus Africa into one category with no consideration that a person from turkey, Iraq or nw India has absolutely very little in common to someone in Japan or Korea, china etc...

[@axelschroeder6657]

Excellent speech! What a great perspective, a powerful community. By working together you strenghten each other. As a European I think our continent should join you and together we will build a thriving Eurasia, the most dynamic economy and society our planet has ever seen. Together we will help Africa and Central/South America to develop as well. There is so much growth potential, we will make this planet a better place.

[@Utube1024]

That is why Ancient China call themselves Middle Kingdom.

[@yuzhaoguo]

Central Empire, to be more accurately translated

[@someernie6179]

Actually China is still called that way, literally.

[@marys.1361]

India was close to 1/3 to 1/2 of world GDP before the British came in.

[@tobacco118]

Ancient GDP study is based on population size, not real data.

[@jingli7206]

India was counted as hundreds countries before the British came in.

[@jingli7206]

@sakata gintoki But even today, India is still a more culturally and politically divided nation comparing other major nations such as US Russia Brazil and China.

[@alantan9863]

And 'advising' all the maharajahs in the process.

[@ahmedbokhari7048]

It was only 1/5.

[@Owleyes2019]

The United States of Asia (or USA) make USA great again.

[@ra8620]

😂 😂 😂 😂

[@mydad4332]

The United States of Africa (USA) make USA greater again

[@aneev609]

What?

[@rameshpersaud187]

THE TRUE COMMING REALITY. NOT SURPRISING ..HA ..HA .MAYGOD SAVE US

[@rameshpersaud187]

DO U REMEMBER DONALD THE NIGHTMARE IN AMERICAN POLITICS..AND THE HYPNOTIC BASKET OF DEPLORABLES IN D SENATE DO THEY EVER LOOK THEIR FAMILY IN THE EYE

[@prabhuthomas8770]

I am not Asian. I am Indian. That's it. I will let East Asians take the Asia title.

[@MrChohalia]

If it hadn't been for the name, I couldn't have guessed Indian, and I'm very used to Indians.

[@TheBollywoodCritic]

What would you have guessed? As in what country or race?

[@Sun-dk5zb]

I would have guessed White tbh, Greek

[@tobacco118]

Asia is too big and diverse to be considered as one entity like Europe. The people and culture of South Asia are vastly different from East Asia. In South Asia, India alone is more diverse than Europe. Then, you have Southeast Asians, West and Central Asians who are all different. The meaning of "Asian" is so broad, it's almost meaningless.

[@RunhdeepS.Sandhu]

the subcontinent india alone is more diverse racially, culturally, linguistically than Europe never mind the rest of "asia"...The word "asia" makes no sense..its just a eurocentric term created by yte ppl to essentially lump the rest of the world minus Africa into one category with no consideration that a person from turkey, Iraq or nw India has absolutely very little in common to someone in Japan or Korea, china etc...

[@SampadMohanty7]

@@RunhdeepS.Sandhu The diversity is the strenght. You are misreading the point that was made. Despite the diversity, Asia dominated world trade at more than 50% from 1AD to 1700AD (considering India and China alone). So your diversity being a minus point doesn't go well with the statistics of about 2 millenia.

[@SampadMohanty7]

The diversity is the strenght. You are misreading the point that was made. Despite the diversity, Asia dominated world trade at more than 50% from 1AD to 1700AD (considering India and China alone). So your diversity being a minus point doesn't go well with the statistics of about 2 millenia.

[@tobacco118]

@@SampadMohanty7 The point isn't abt strength or weakness of diversity, but that Asia is an artificial construct, historically it was never one entity whether political, cultural, racial or linguistic one. So there's no basis for it be one entity in the future. If you look at the map, Europe is actually the same landmass as West, Central and South Asia. And European have more intertwined history with West Asia (Middle East) than West Asia with East Asia, for instance. Ancient world economy before 1850 isn't based on real data, there was no data. Just a simplistic study based on estimated population size, more people = more GDP. But that's not relevant in modern industrialized age. Technology and productivity matters more than just population. Look up top most populated countries, most of them are underdeveloped poor countries.

[@ravitank9899]

Go ASIA

[@lexxxluethor1211]

👍👍👍

[@kayem3824]

Jaw dropping.

[@omaronn4093]

In North America they might think of East Asians and Southeast Asians as Asians, but in the United Kingdom, they think of South Asians as Asians.

[@footscorn]

No, not China, but what the UK calls south east Asia. We in Australia refer to Asians as Chinese, Indonesia, Japan etc. They are certainly not in the SE but in the north.

[@RunhdeepS.Sandhu]

yeah i think in the uk they call east asians *(Chinese Japanese rtc) Orientals..

[@k.r.s.s9013]

you are a Khatri from Punjab that is why you have such a dna mix, an average indian wouldn't be this diverse.

[@gshrdy5415]

Yes Khatris I think are most recent (maybe a thousand years) immigrants from central Asia.

[@rameshpersaud187]

U test them

[@iiookkhho333]

He's from Kanpur Uttar Pradesh

[@k.r.s.s9013]

​@@iiookkhho333 Khanna originate from Okara, Pakistan. His family must have settled in Kanpur. UP is full of Punjabi refugees.

[@rtry2072]

@@gshrdy5415no Jaats are the most recent immigrants. As they have up to 50% Steppe DNA and 40% Zagros

[@HouseOfMcLoughlin]

He has a very simplistic view.

[@onebitstory]

Chinese + Indi = Chindi....lolz ;)

[@rickypasion8668]

United Asia...

[@user-rp9ix2vc4s]

Asian Century started when Commodore Perry sail to isolationist archipelago in Pacific

[@yvonnehyatt8353]

KZbin: Zeitgeist Movement 🌌

[@vanya5566]

Asian identity. Great ideology. Go and speed up Eurasia!

[@meaningfulpeace]

Dear Mr. Khanna, In the maps that you displayed I did not see the island of Sri Lanka at the southern tip of India. Any reason why the existence of Sri Lanka was wiped off the map? MG

[@nyakwarObat]

Shangri la

[@tankman7347]

Must be a mistake , i think

[@sabinsaurav4924]

I didn’t see Nepal, too.

[@charanawijesiri1128]

Sri lanka is there. Look again. Even the cities Colombo and Kandy are shown in some maps

[@uzochiokeke4328]

Sri lanka is IRRELEVANT

[@eddyadityapradhan7960]

Haha loved the 1st bollywood clip from the 60s... nice Mr. Khanna

[@lifestory2223]

Proud to be Muslim, proud to be Asian-Indonesian.🌏

[@quantumballs1488]

Be proud of being human don't be proud of religion

[@xoho3462]

Proud to be non muslim indonesian

[@Jacobsoetsrto3211]

Islam make asian people backward. Iam ex moslem indonesian btw. Islam make Asian civilization backward. That make we get colonized by european.

[@uddhavpradhan3480]

This is one of the most prominent Indian - Origin propagandist for the BRI. As Indians, we shouldn't fall prey to this sinister Chinese propaganda

[@nazrulhussain2989]

No hate 😂

[@piyushdevnath293]

Proud asian

[@sinoroman]

the rise of samarkand

[@stevenqiu7885]

I just have one single question. Will we still evaluate a country with its GDP after 10 years?

[@erikeriks]

Probably not. The Russian think they're the best because they have the biggest country. The US thinks they're the best because they have the highest GDP. China thinks they're the best because they have the biggest influence over the world and its goods. None of them is the best, it's a matter of perspective and that might sound disappointing but it's true.

[@silvermeta2421]

@@erikeriks How does China have the biggest influence on the world?

[@Qwertyuiop-bj8ry]

@@silvermeta2421 Their culture and inventions (guns, paper, tea, gunpowder, printing, banknote, compass, etc) and most of the products today are made in china so yeah they are also becoming the world's leader

[@ashikkhan-uh2xo]

🇧🇩✊✊

[@steveliu1809]

You are 👍 openly speak out under the dominated power of westerners , the trends has been unfolding , India and China should have open mind to work together to shape the world.

[@MarkGast]

Six minutes in and he finally gets to the sales pitch. OBOR. Good luck with that.

[@Captain_MonsterFart]

Acronyms help no one understand what you are comminicating.

[@mitonaarea5856]

4:55 Here he implies that Japan industrialized in the second part of the 20th century. But Japan industrialized in the mid 19th century. People should know more about the meiji restoration.

[@agrajyadav2951]

was not that big a deal as post ww2 japan tho

[@mitonaarea5856]

@@agrajyadav2951 It wasn´t?? You know that world history could be very diffrent if the meiji restoration didn´t happen right??

[@johnnylazaro9302]

it is truly fun to live in Asia.

[@eyewitness8145]

huge audience for just ten minutes lecture? it's too short

[@nyakwarObat]

You are assuming he was the only one making a speech. Leave the assumptions alone

[@ArjunRajmp]

You know nothing about TEDx john snow.

[@tsewangrinzin2421]

Asia is just a geographical term and Asians had many meanings around the world. In Britain, Indians and fellow brown people were Asian. While in America, Chinese and East/South East Asians were known to be Asian. Better to use the term like East Asian, Indian Subcontinent & Middle Eastern as oppose to calling Indian, Chinese, Iranian or Indonesian as Asian.

[@lawrence18uk]

7:45 "Look around at Pakistan, Malasia, Myanmar - countries are cancelling their debt with China." Interesting!

[@keffinsg]

Yes, interesting that China is not sending gunboats to enforce their deals, nor orchestrating coups to get a more compliant "democratic" government.

[@Briannorton163]

Also, how will china overcome the population inversion that is now happening demograhpicaly.

[@JVJ_2000]

Explain.

[@MrRaj200]

I think you haven't heard of Geospatial bill in India. I don't know why you are showing the India map wrong, but please correct it.

[@stephenkinyua629]

i am asian

[@nyakwarObat]

😂😂😂aterere, kwanyu ni waku?

[@m.k.s.7417]

What if there was/were to be = "A PAN/UTD._ASIA!!"!!??

[@user-to2mx7vy6q]

btw Dubai are also in asia they are called middle east asia

[@Briannorton163]

How sill China supply/source its energy needs. Does China have the ability to project military power into the Middle East to ensure oil supplies?

[@keffinsg]

You are truly thinking like a Westerner....thinking in terms of Control, conquer, dominate etc etc.

[@someernie6179]

But the disrespect of democracy and freedom of speech and corruption are driving lots of Asian talents out of Asia, I can’t see a real Asian pride until one day we are free of those evils.

[@agrajyadav2951]

cry

[@kiankok84]

Good lord I feel pity to those who sit thru this talk. They got the understanding of Asia so wrong.

[@ushadeo3335]

Pakistan is not even in race

[@chestersabajo5527]

I love Asia

[@devondevon4366]

I have listened to him on other channels, where he discussed his book ' The future is Asian'. for him, asia will trade with each other and war will be absent since historically the region has lived peacefully. Let's hope so , but the US and other countries don't construct their foreign policy for Asia based only on history , but on human nature. And for them, humans are selfish, mistrustful of powerful countries, alliances between or among nations are temporary (and thus can be broken, so they could break the close relationship with russia and china anytime such as giving russia crimea and offering russia nato membership and promise not to expand nato before doing so,.. and thus it would be easier since russia would be suspicious of china rise. maybe they think china and russia might come apart (and russia moving closer to the US and others) without giving anything up (eg crimea). and that this might occur when russia observed china becoming stronger and testing advanced weapons (hypersonic)), and one cannot get 'unity' in such as diverse region as Asia (so they can always find alliances and break alliances)... If China, or indonesia or india become too strong, say china becomes too strong , they would form alliance with south korea, japan (even provide nation membership to these two countries) saudia arabi , isreael (giving them nato membership ) to deal with China's strength and if its continue to get stronger they might form closer alliance with additionals countries in the americas ( such as brazil, argentina, mexico etc by providing nato membership , free trade). and if india becomes strong, they might form closer alliance with pakistan, china, to keep it in check. The US and other countries design foreign policy based on human nature, and for them when people are powerful they could abuse that power given human nature (arrogance, etc) , so even if jamaica has no history of invading other countries in its region, but becomes powerful it might do so , so they prepare for the worse. let hope khanna is right and the region lives peacefully but many experts would think it is naive of him to think so given human nature : prejudice, cynicism, self centeredness, jealousy), so thinking that the 21 century will be the asian century since they live in the same region (and all have something in common ) is akin to thinking this century will be the human century ( or earth century ) and everyone on earth will live peacefully because they are all humans (or all live on earth). It will take more than just living next to each other( or living on same planet ) for people to live peacefully and in unity. Let's hope that is the case however though some might argue that countries living in close proximity to (as opposed those living far part or thousands of miles away such as the US vs asia) are more likely to have conflict involving border,s areas (spartly island, south china sea). they are also more likely to be mistrustful of their neighbor intent (if they see neighboring countries or a neighboring country testing weapons, military parade outside countries could exploit this mistrust and form alliance )or jealous (see skyscrapers, wealth, high speed train. and might blame this on the other country not playing by rules or obtaining this advantage unfairly) Other countries could exploit not only prejudice within countries but between or among countries, and side with countries or a country when it is their interest to do so, not necessarily because they are tolerant towards that country or care for it. It is akin to someone telling a person (or country) from group A ' you see person C (or country C) he/she doesn't like your group' when in fact they want person C (or country C ) not to like country A (or person A from Group A ) but use it just to divide and conquer. In other words, they would be mad if person C (from group C) likes person A from group A or country A. Humans could take advantage of division or create division even if they care about themselves and they could with whomever meets their interest for the moment. Then break and create new alliance , so today country A is their ally and in the future it is country C that becomes they ally and country A their enemies. In reality they really are not on anyone side, but form alliance by dividing and conquering. It is akin to country D , not liking country E, yet telling country E than country F doesn't like it when in fact it wants country F not to like Country E and would be mad if country F really likes country E.

[@nayanmalig]

LOL USA walks out of all agreements since inception - last month as swell a sin 1800 = ask the native Indians

[@_Wai_Wai_]

Nobody came here to read an essay.

[@tlewis6639]

Well said. The west and U.S cannot accept the rising of Asian countries. Will try hard to instigate, so divide and conquer.

[@citizenofnowhere7776]

You talk as if war was absent in Asia. Indian and China did not go to war because they were busy swallowing smaller regions. What's left is today's Southeast Asia.

[@spectator6964]

Let the dragons and tigers rise! Our century has come!

[@yc-hi8ou]

Thus guy will do anything to get some attention.

[@Plutomaniaa]

are we not gonna address how many of his punchlines didnt land???😢😢

[@monkeystudios1]

Asia has caught up to Europe, but I'm not sure if they'll be able to develop past it. Parts of Asia are already experiencing Post-Growth stage of an economy (the stage where the population begins aging, birth rates fall, so naturally, economy stagnates), a thing that took the Europeans centuries to reach (which they are also experiencing now). If Asian countries can innovate past the 2 major issues, Aging populations/Falling Birth rates and Climate Change, the next century will be Asian-dominated for sure, and Asia will become the next Europe, colonizing the World. If not, the future of Asia doesn't seem so bright.

[@kashen1147]

I am Trinidadian but I'm of Indian decent

[@nothingkayo3220]

Chindian 🤣🤣🤣 we were always chindi

[@justlisten8173]

lol

[@piyushdevnath293]

😂

[@wush7985]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mistycloud4455]

A.G.I Will be man's last invention

[@yunzeetan7067]

China china china what about Russia ?

[@uzochiokeke4328]

Who?

[@thwb4661]

Russia is so 50s. China is more like an updated, richer version of Russia.

[@tstanmoysamanta]

Always good to hear this Chinsemouthpice

[@playnite2188]

What do u mean?

[@uzochiokeke4328]

@Aze Fan he is funded by a chinese company.

[@franksu9735]

Another environmental disaster

[@jianyuhua]

He doesn’t count Taiwan to China, thumbs down

[@boostftw123]

Taiwan is part of China, silly

[@DesiChilean]

@@boostftw123 Or china is part of Taiwan , just depends of what side of border u came frm. For now both are different ..

[@ashabenpatel7532]

You being bias cause you is indian

[@riteshvizz9786]

forget asia ,, lets be indian first.

[@lxjilyfe]

when someone always talk about Asia as a whole, I know he's an Indian. Wake up there is no Aisa, there is only China and BRI

[@douglassantet647]

So Russian is not Asian why am I not seeing the Russian empire?🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@coryplum5375]

Lots of Europeans normally don't recognize Russians as Europeans, and Asians definitely think Russians are not Asians.

[@douglassantet647]

@sakata gintoki so what your saying is that Russia should not own Siberia

[@alantan9863]

Russia joins council of Europe and other institutions. Of they decide to switch, we would welcome them with open arms.

[@tankman7347]

Russians are europeans with their country on Asian land

[@ardenkilikian7990]

One of the worst and unfounded ted talks ever

[@agrajyadav2951]

fear

[@healthymealthy775]

I used to like this guy...but this is a bit simplistic. The US Navy maintains the entire regional trade in South East Asia. The geopolitical rivals between India, China, Vietnam, Korea, Philippines, and Japan are significant and won't be overcome by holding hands. Xenophobia is huge in Vietnam and the Philipines against Chinese foreigners. India has fragmented ethnic and language barriers within its own country. I'm really shocked at how dumbed down Parag is making this speech; he's smarter than that.

[@kf148yearsago2]

You only see Sinophobia on Philippine mainstream media, that's sponsored by US anyway...and paid trolls and keyboard warriors on KZbin and social media comments, in reality Chinese, all foreigners are welcomed in my country Philippines

[@navegantezen5983]

You are jealous

[@healthymealthy775]

@@kf148yearsago2 Some people can't handle reality. I totally understand.

[@ericalexander2720]

I don't know why I find this guy annoying. 'Some' of his information is very good, but the rest is 'so' bad, that I feel he is insulting my intelligence.

[@prabhuthomas8770]

@Eric Alexander He is a 'global' student who looks at history through pie charts. His information is mostly 'so' bad.

[@ericalexander2720]

@@prabhuthomas8770 I don't know too much about him, but I think I will agree with you. How else could he get so many things wrong?

[@gshrdy5415]

Here he is supporting everything "Asian".

[@DesiChilean]

Yes , he was wrong at many points . but I got ,what he wanted to convey

[@ericalexander2720]

@@gshrdy5415 There is no problem with supporting everything 'Asian', but why so much 'misinformation'??

[@MyMrGreedy]

Arab Indian, wish they are Latin or Asian. Lol

[@RunhdeepS.Sandhu]

not really...

[@Plutomaniaa]

ok but who asked?

[@pippinpiggeldipi4144]

What a pseudo-intellectual! As if "Asia" was a thing! Which one is more arbitrary? The border between India and China or the border between Asia and Europe? This guy is just full of resentment... 👎

[@memesins5647]

Asia was and will be the centre of the world. West is a small part of the history. It took 150 years to bounce back from the disaster west has done to these countries.

[@user-tp1um5ib5c]

Sorry，i dont know what Asian is，Iam Chinese and always Chinese.

[@louiswu6300]

don't pretend to be not know about assian, every chinese know he is belongs to Assia.

[@nurealamsabbir1745]

@@louiswu6300 who said u that, chaina is a country from mars :D

[@anandpanchal5717]

Indian first.

[@freezy7308]

Who came from a school

[@oneshot2028]

This guy is talking sentimental nonsense.

[@hhs1699]

Not Asia, but East Asia.

[@FrutigerAeroFan839]

In 2020, an estimated 2 billion Asians were members of the middle class and that number is set to increase to 3.5 billion by 2030.

[@FrutigerAeroFan839]

😂

[@jackxie3311]

TRUE ASIAN=CHINESE+JAPANESE+KOREAN

[@coolbuddydude1]

lol

[@kishoremandyam8245]

IN THAT CASE ISN'T INDIA THE CENTER OF ASIA DUDE? IF NOT YET ITLL BE UNDER THE UPCOMING DICTATOR, WHOLL MAKE INDIA NUMBER ONE AND THE WORLD LEADER FOR THE NEXT 1000 YEARS IF NOT 5000

[@prathameshdusane2619]

Bahubali will be a leader! xD

[@sanjaykrishnannair8153]

Dictatorships always die a brutal death and I dont want my country to become one.

[@tstanmoysamanta]

This speaker more in Chinese Block than India. Listen to his other lectures, he is always positive about China and very Negative about India.

[@kishoremandyam8245]

@@tstanmoysamanta I'm also very negative about India in the short term, until Modi/Yogi and Democracy is around, I see only huge depression , communalism and high likelihood of nuclear war even WW3. but its unfortunate that this maybe only way for Indians to wake up and get rid of democracy, which really is the biggest BRAINWASHING of the British Then the dictator will make India number one and solve all world problems and establish 1000 years peace, prosperity and Hinduism worldwide without force, just like the past glory days of India OBVIOUSLY THE SPEAKER CAN'T SEE THAT FAR, AS I CAN, BUT I KNOW IT ONLY FROM COMMON SENSE, no special dicta gyan

[@bapurv557]

@@tstanmoysamanta he has got his education from Western universities and western world is obsessed with China today . So you can get your answer . You need to be powerful to be counted .

[@chandrabhusansingh631]

Skip Pakistanis then only we can proudly say I am asian

[@fezzamanezza8415]

Because in the past everyone was poor and thus the place with the most people had the most economic activity. But then Europeans went all European and invented, revolutionised thinking and ideas etc and caused civilisation to advance immensely. And they were benevolent enough to share what they invented - thus the place with the most population is catching up again.

[@playnite2188]

"Invent" or steal

[@prashanthkumaryedla6998]

@@playnite2188 steal from whom? u do know that a lot of silicon valley people are Asians right? and china's shenzen region might become silicon valley of future though not sure. whoever invents it, humanity progresses

[@alibumaye5155]

I would argue it's the opposite way around. Whether Africa, Asia, Latin America, etc everyone lost when Europeans had their golden age.

[@fezzamanezza8415]

@@alibumaye5155 keep telling yourself that! Maybe if you stopped lying to yourselves youd get somewhere

[@fezzamanezza8415]

@@prashanthkumaryedla6998 i agree with your first comment. Well said

[@anonymous-ff5yj]

I thought he is an African

[@tobacco118]

Asia is too big and diverse to be considered as one entity like Europe. The people and culture of South Asia are vastly different from East Asia. In South Asia, India alone is more diverse than Europe. Then, you have Southeast Asians, West and Central Asians who are all different. The meaning of "Asian" is so broad, it's almost meaningless.

[@tobacco118]

@Kleco102 Historically there was never a pan-Asian concept, a term that was developed only in 20th century. Cultural exchange is not unique to Asia, but the world over. Christianity spread Middle East to Europe and America. Christianity and Islam too found their way to Asia, not just Confucianism and Buddhism. But religious belief and philosophy are more academic than practical in binding people and nation. One's ethnic culture takes precedence over philosophical belief: a Buddhist in Thailand would've more in common with Christian in his own country/region than a Buddhist far away in Korea. And national interest matters more than religious affilation. Islam preaches a common brotherhood, yet muslims worldwide fight one another over national/political differences. Europe union is possible becoz they were historically united under a common poltical entity, Greco-Roman empire. But that's not the case for Asia. You need to brush up your knowledge. AIIB is just another financial instituion like WB, a summit is a just conference. To this day, there isn't a South Asian union nor a East Asian one, much less a pan-Asian one. Get over your hallucination.

[@memesins5647]

Okay insecure kid