Herland Report: Edward Gibbon analysis: The Singaporean diplomat and author, Kishore Mahbubani, has said that the greatest failing in modern Western thought is the lack of a basic common moral understanding. This great cultural divide will sap and divide the West in the years ahead. Mahbubani argues that as a result of the Western ethical decline, the West has …
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Herland Report: Repeating the mistakes of the Roman Empire: As the world watches a crumbling America turning third world country, the geopolitical shift to the East seems inevitable. Without justice, governments are no more than a gangs of bandits, said St. Augustine. The West, once striving for Constitutional values such as an independent judiciary, anti-corruption, citizen’s rights, equality regardless of …
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Herland Report: China takeover and Western corruption: The West Has Lost Its Dominant Position: Veteran diplomat and philosophical provocateur Kishore Mahbubani in his new book asks a question that has crossed many minds of late: “Has the West lost it?” If “it” is the dominant position of Europeans and North Americans in the world, then yes. The rest of …
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Herland Report: China values freedom from chaos: The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable? These are the questions central to the distinguished Singaporean academic and diplomat, Kishore Mahbubahi in his book Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy. “A …
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Herland Report: The coronavirus crisis has enhanced the geopolitical contest between the US and China, said the distinguished Singaporean diplomat and academic, Dr. Kishore Mahbubani in an interview by Ankita Mukhopadhyay with DW News. Despite challenges, China has managed to keep its casualty figures from the virus relatively low compared to some Western countries. Dr. Kishore Mahbubani is a …
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