Kishore Mahbubani: How the West can adapt to a rising Asia
كيشوري محبوباني: كيف للغرب أن يتكيف مع آسيا النامية
Through his books, diplomatic work and research, Kishore Mahbubani reenvisions global power dynamics through the lens of rising Asian economies. Full bio
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when China and India
the West chose to go to sleep?
to the failure of the West
that's obviously been created
I feel anguished by this,
is to try to help the West.
actually woke up the rest of the world.
اوقظوا بقية العالم
were always those of China and India.
كانوا دوماً الهند والصين
that Europe took off,
فقط سادت أوربا
a major historical aberration.
is that it was Western civilization
هو ان الحضارة الغربية
to successfully modernize,
من نجحوا في التمدن
to colonize and dominate the world.
و سيادة العالم
of Western wisdom
عطايا الحكمة الغربية
personally benefited
of humanity then,
when I went to school
was that of Western education.
traveled this journey
to a comfortable middle-class existence,
الطبقة الوسطى المريحة
about the impact of Western wisdom
مردود الحكمة الغربية
wisdom with the world.
that the West shared
invented by the West.
and civilizations.
embedded it is in Indian civilization.
ترسخها في الحضارة الهندية
that carried the art of reasoning
many major practical problems.
المشاكل العملية العظمى
this art of applied reasoning
revolutions transformed Asia.
الثوراث الصامتات اسيا
why so many Asian economies,
الاقتصاديات الآسيوية
of China and Vietnam,
in economic development,
absorbed and are implementing
from personal experience.
you see all throughout Asia today.
على طول آسيا اليوم
of the third revolution:
with the rest of the world,
of the West should have been
and adapt to this new world."
ونتكيف مع هذا العالم الجديد"
with two major events.
was the end of the Cold War.
was a great victory.
كان انتصارا عظيماً
without firing a shot.
دون اطلاق رصاصة واحدة
a great victory like this,
in a very famous essay
a very sophisticated message,
heard from this essay
that has to change and adapt.
of brain damage to the West
العقول في الغرب
when China and India were waking up
الصين والهند تستيقظان
a lot of shock and grief.
من الصدمة والحزن
the shock and grief
when 9/11 happened.
decided to invade Afghanistan
الولايات المتحدة غزو أفغانستان
the significance of another event
منظمة التجارة العالمية
called creative destruction.
بالتدمير الخلّاق
about new competitive policies,
في سياسات منافسة جديدة
of the bottom 50 percent --
over a 30-year period,
of Donald Trump in 2016,
دونالد ترامب في 2016
of the working classes,
to the rise of populism in Europe.
by the end of the Cold War and by 9/11?
بالحرب الباردة و 9/11
we face today is this:
adopt a new "three-m" strategy:
استراتيجية ميم ثلاثية جديدة
and Machiavellian.
Western domination has ended,
and interfere in the affairs
and spirits of Western societies.
معنويات المجتمعات الغربية
if it is left alone to do so.
اذا تركت وشأنها للقيام بذلك
because I come from a region,
لأنني أتيت من منطقة
as the Arab world.
بقدر العالم العربي
diverse continents on planet earth,
أكثر القارات تنوعا على كوكب الأرض
146 million Christians,
and Hinayana Buddhists --
and Confucianists and Hindus
والكونفوشيوسيين و الهندوس
be experiencing a clash of civilizations.
من الصراعات الحضارية
الشرقي لآسيا
and prosperous corners of planet earth
ازدهارا على كوكب الأرض
regional multilateral organization,
cannot solve all the problems.
بالحد الأدنى لن يحل المشكلة
that have to be dealt with:
they must be destroyed.
of the world's population --
88 percent of the world's population?
من تعداد العالم
with the remaining 88 percent.
من سكان العالم
the support of humanity?
with the UN can lead to success.
مع الامم المتحدة قد يقود للنجاح
President George W. Bush,
the senior Bush went to the UN
ذهب للأمم المتحدة
why we have to work with the UN.
interdependent, global village.
village counsel we have,
Kofi Annan said,
للأمم المتحدة كوفي أنان
my Machiavellian point.
who's often derided in the West,
Isaiah Berlin reminded us
was to promote virtue, not evil.
تعزيز الفضيلة لا الشر
the best way for the West
that the best way to constrain them
and multilateral norms,
متعددة الأطراف
with one final, big message.
Western societies have become.
المجتمعات الغربية متشائمة
that a great future lies ahead for them,
ينتظرهم في المستقبل
will not have better lives.
or the rest of the world.
a direct cultural connection
from Tehran to Tokyo.
من طهران إلى طوكيو
lives in this space,
يعيشون على هذه المساحة
to adopt a wiser strategy
استراتيجية أكثر حكمة
multilateral and Machiavellian,
متعددي الأطراف وميكافيليين
will be happy to work with the West.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kishore Mahbubani - Author, diplomat, academicThrough his books, diplomatic work and research, Kishore Mahbubani reenvisions global power dynamics through the lens of rising Asian economies.
Why you should listen
Kishore Mahbubani is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS) and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS. From 1984-1989 and 1998-2004, he was Singapore's Permanent Representative to the UN, and served twice as President of the UN Security Council during the second term.
Mahbubani is best known in the West as the author of Can Asians Think?, The Great Convergence (which was selected by the Financial Times as one of the best books of 2013) and Has the West Lost It?.
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