Kishore Mahbubani: How the West can adapt to a rising Asia
קישור מחבובאני: כיצד יוכל המערב להסתגל לעלייתה של אסיה
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
שהמערב בחר ללכת לישון?
the West chose to go to sleep?
to the failure of the West
that's obviously been created
I feel anguished by this,
אני מרגיש מיוסר מכך
is to try to help the West.
לנסות לעזור למערב.
actually woke up the rest of the world.
למעשה העיר את שאר העולם.
were always those of China and India.
תמיד היו אלה של סין והודו.
that Europe took off,
שאירופה המריאה,
a major historical aberration.
סטייה היסטורית משמעותית.
is that it was Western civilization
היא שזו היתה התרבות המערבית
to successfully modernize,
שהצליח במודרניזציה,
to colonize and dominate the world.
לכבוש ולשלוט בעולם.
of Western wisdom
של חוכמה מערבית
personally benefited
of humanity then,
when I went to school
was that of Western education.
היתה זו של החינוך המערבי.
traveled this journey
חוויתי את המסע הזה
to a comfortable middle-class existence,
לקיום נוח של מעמד הביניים,
about the impact of Western wisdom
על ההשפעה של החוכמה המערבית
wisdom with the world.
that the West shared
invented by the West.
and civilizations.
embedded it is in Indian civilization.
הוא מוטבע בתרבות ההודית.
that carried the art of reasoning
many major practical problems.
this art of applied reasoning
האומנות הזו של הנמקה יישומית
revolutions transformed Asia.
שינו את אסיה.
why so many Asian economies,
מדוע כל כך הרבה כלכלות באסיה,
of China and Vietnam,
in economic development,
absorbed and are implementing
from personal experience.
you see all throughout Asia today.
שאתם רואים ברחבי אסיה כיום.
of the third revolution:
המהפכה השלישית:
with the rest of the world,
עם שאר העולם,
of the West should have been
של המערב היתה צריכה להיות
and adapt to this new world."
ולהתאים את עצמנו לעולם החדש הזה. "
with two major events.
בגלל שני אירועים מרכזיים.
was the end of the Cold War.
was a great victory.
without firing a shot.
בלי לירות.
a great victory like this,
כשיש לכם ניצחון נהדר כמו זה,
in a very famous essay
בחיבור מפורסם מאוד
a very sophisticated message,
heard from this essay
that has to change and adapt.
of brain damage to the West
when China and India were waking up
a lot of shock and grief.
the shock and grief
when 9/11 happened.
decided to invade Afghanistan
החליטה לפלוש לאפגניסטן
the significance of another event
called creative destruction.
about new competitive policies,
על מדיניות תחרותית חדשה,
of the bottom 50 percent --
over a 30-year period,
of Donald Trump in 2016,
של דונלד טראמפ בשנת 2016,
of the working classes,
to the rise of populism in Europe.
by the end of the Cold War and by 9/11?
הסיחו את דעת המערב?
we face today is this:
שאנו מתמודדים איתה היום היא:
adopt a new "three-m" strategy:
לאמץ אסטרטגיה חדשה "שלושה הממים'":
and Machiavellian.
Western domination has ended,
and interfere in the affairs
and spirits of Western societies.
והמורל של חברות מערביות.
if it is left alone to do so.
because I come from a region,
בגלל שאני בא מאזור,
as the Arab world.
diverse continents on planet earth,
היותר מגוונות בכדור הארץ
146 million Christians,
and Hinayana Buddhists --
and Confucianists and Hindus
וקונפוציאניסטים והינדים
be experiencing a clash of civilizations.
לחוות התנגשות של תרבויות.
and prosperous corners of planet earth
בכדור הארץ
regional multilateral organization,
cannot solve all the problems.
לא יכול לפתור את כל הבעיות.
that have to be dealt with:
they must be destroyed.
of the world's population --
88 percent of the world's population?
הנותרים מאוכלוסיית העולם?
with the remaining 88 percent.
the support of humanity?
with the UN can lead to success.
עם האו"ם יכולה להוביל להצלחה.
President George W. Bush,
the senior Bush went to the UN
שבוש האב הלך לאו"ם
why we have to work with the UN.
interdependent, global village.
זה בזה.
village counsel we have,
Kofi Annan said,
my Machiavellian point.
הנקודה המקיאוולית שלי.
who's often derided in the West,
שלעיתיםם קרובות מועד ללעג במערב,
Isaiah Berlin reminded us
ישעיהו ברלין הזכיר לנו
was to promote virtue, not evil.
היתה לקדם את המידות, לא את הרוע.
the best way for the West
that the best way to constrain them
and multilateral norms,
ונורמות רב-צדדיות,
with one final, big message.
עם מסר אחד אחרון וגדול.
Western societies have become.
חברות מערביות הפכו להיות.
that a great future lies ahead for them,
שעתיד גדול עומד לפניהם,
will not have better lives.
or the rest of the world.
a direct cultural connection
from Tehran to Tokyo.
lives in this space,
to adopt a wiser strategy
multilateral and Machiavellian,
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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