Video library

Kishore Mahbubani EXPOSES America’s BIGGEST MISTAKES, Rise of Asia, 2026-10-21. A clip compiled by a third-party channel in which he lists the strategic mistakes he thinks America has made. The original talks are in this library.
Kishore Mahbubani: Closing Statement, The Munk Debates, 2019-05-09. Toronto, 2019. Why China is not a threat to the liberal international order and why the West should adapt to its rise. His side won the vote.
Kishore Mahbubani: pre-debate interview, The Munk Debates, 2019-05-29. Before the Munk Debate on China: why he thinks the West misreads China’s intentions.
Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir, Asia Society, 2024-10-08. His own climb from a poor Sindhi immigrant family, set beside Singapore’s and Asia’s rise from colonial poverty.
China Books Review: Kishore Mahbubani on Living the Asian Century, Asia Society, 2024-11-03. With Alec Ash: why Western readings of China’s global ambitions are badly distorted.
Book Talk with Kishore Mahbubani: Living the Asian Century, Asia Society Hong Kong, 2024-09-09. In conversation with Ronnie Chan on the memoir and the Asian renaissance.
Living the Asian Century: A Book Conversation with Kishore Mahbubani, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, 2025-02-12. With Sarang Shidore: why America should drop its zero-sum view of Asia and accept a multipolar world.
Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy, National Committee on US-China Relations, 2020-10-14. America entered the rivalry without a coherent long-term strategy while China plays a patient long game.
ERC Webinar: Has China Won? with Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Economic Research Council, 2020-07-29. To a British audience: the contest will be decided by economic and social performance, not military power.
Meet the Author: Has China Won?, City Reading@SG, 2021-05-30. Why the US-China contest is geopolitical rather than ideological.
Book launch: The Asian 21st Century, Center for China and Globalization, 2022-01-11. Asia’s return to the centre of the world economy is unstoppable despite the US-China rivalry.
Has the West Lost It? Lecture by Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 2018-06-26. The West must admit its dominance is ending if it wants to plan well for the long term.
Book launch: The ASEAN Miracle, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 2017-03-28. With co-author Jeffery Sng: how ASEAN kept the peace in a once war-torn Southeast Asia.
Is the Asian Century Really Coming? Pardee Center Janetos Lecture, Boston University Pardee Center, 2023-04-11. Asia’s economic return is already under way and the West must adjust.
A Declining West, a Rising East: Achieving a New Global Balance, HKU CCCW, 2025-08-28. The relative decline of the West calls for a more cooperative and balanced global order.
How Asia is rapidly overtaking the West, De Balie, 2018-04-14. In Amsterdam: Western dominance is over and Europe should adapt rather than resist.
Can ASEAN rewrite the rules of global peace?, TEDx Talks, 2024-08-08. ASEAN’s pragmatic consultation as a model for keeping the peace as power shifts.
The Surprising Twists and Turns in the US-China Relationship, NUS Society, 2026-03-12. A fireside chat on the recent swings in US-China relations and the decade ahead.
Davos 2019: Is the West Paralyzed?, World Economic Forum, 2019-02-10. Western democracies are stuck between globalisation and populism and must face their shrinking share of power.
Rise of the Asian Century, SALT iConnections Asia, 2022-12-07. With James Crabtree: geoeconomics is shifting to Asia and Western investors underrate China.
Building a Better International Order, Asian Peace Programme, 2025-04-08. With Trita Parsi and Sarang Shidore: how the Global South can build an order that serves it, including a reformed Security Council.
Reflections on the Future of Peace in Asia, with George Yeo, Asian Peace Programme, 2025-09-03. Can Asia’s rise stay peaceful? Why Asia’s pragmatic culture favours peace.
The West is an “emperor with no clothes”, Channel 4 News, 2026-02-05. With Krishnan Guru-Murthy: the West is complacent and the global order must adapt to Asia’s rise.
What keeps China from invading Taiwan? Fareed debates, CNN, 2026-05-27. On Fareed Zakaria GPS with Richard Haass: why China has strong reasons to avoid war over Taiwan.
Ex-diplomat Kishore Mahbubani discusses US-China relations, CNBC International, 2024-04-04. Before Janet Yellen’s China trip: both sides gain from steadier economic ties.
Geopolitics is “a very cruel business”, CNA, 2023-02-22. Geopolitical conflicts are rarely clean moral contests with one right side.
The Biggest Mistakes of the US, China, and ASEAN, Endgame with Gita Wirjawan, 2024-08-21. A long conversation on the strategic mistakes of all three and the weakening of multilateral institutions.
ASEAN Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, Endgame with Gita Wirjawan, 2020-12-02. ASEAN’s peace record, and how plutocracy is weakening America against China.
Why the Future Belongs to Asia and How the West Is Weakening the UN, Yah Lah But Podcast, 2024-08-17. A long podcast around the memoir: the future belongs to Asia while the West undermines the UN.
The Carney Moment: A Post-American World?, The Focus with Dr John Bruni, 2026-05-14. A post-American world is arriving and middle powers can help shape what replaces it.
On the US, China and the cost of great-power rivalry, Keith Yap, 2026-05-20. The Iran-Israel war, the UN and ASEAN: why US-China rivalry costs the whole world.
Why India should stop being protectionist and talk to adversaries like China, ThePrint, 2020-11-29. With Jyoti Malhotra: India erred by staying out of RCEP and should keep talking to its rivals.
“Chinese always think long-term”: Off The Cuff, ThePrint, 2022-05-10. With Shekhar Gupta: long-term thinking is China’s main advantage and India should learn it.
UNSC seat for India, the G7’s diminishing power, NDTV, 2024-10-22. India should take Britain’s permanent Security Council seat as the G7 loses relevance.
Why the UK should relinquish its permanent UNSC seat to India, Hindustan Times, 2024-09-03. The case, made to an Indian audience, for Britain to make way for India.
On US-China tensions, Trump’s Asia policy and India-China relations, India Today Global, 2025-03-18. India and China gain more from engaging each other than from rivalry.
Reimagining India: a conversation with Dean Kishore Mahbubani, McKinsey & Company, 2013-11-26. India should embrace globalisation and open competition to build world-class companies.

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