When you had this zero-sum games between great powers, this was the day when European powers used to fight and go to war with each other. Yet unfortunately, it would be difficult to change the views of many Americans, because their strategic thinking is still stuck in the 19th and 20th centuries. should not engage in a contest for supremacy. Kishore Mahbubani: I’m glad you raised a very critical point that I made in my book: the U.S. seems to be preoccupied with retaining its global dominance. It seems that China has been doing so, but the U.S. were to focus on improving their peoples’ wellbeing, they would find no contradictions in their long-term strategies. This is an edited excerpt of the interview: Kishore Mahbubani (File photo)īeijing Review: In your book, you wrote that if both China and the U.S. In his book Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy, Mahbubani discusses his observations of China-U.S. must find areas for cooperation instead of confrontation, during an interview with Beijing Review reporter Wen Qing. Kishore Mahbubani, a distinguished fellow with the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, said that in this small, interdependent world where countries share many common interests and challenges, China and the U.S.
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