[Festival of Ideas 2019] Are the US and China Doomed to Enmity?

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  @madmanjshum · 6 years ago

  Kishore is the pillar to a world making sense.

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• LO

  @Love.life.ashigzoya · 4 years ago

  So refreshing to hear Dr Kishore !

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• OW

  @ownsweettime · 6 years ago (edited)

  Kishore is pretty well known in China, as 马凯硕 ma3kai3shuo4. Always a pleasure to watch him speak, almost like watching some kind of performance.

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• HU

  @hungmanxxxx2462 · 5 years ago

  So much wisdom ..... Thank you Kishore!

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• WO

  @woodensurfer · 6 years ago (edited)

  Enmity is not the same as war; enmity really means China winning slowly without starting a war, with the US looking on and lamenting without starting a war.

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• WI

  @wildandwooly · 6 years ago

  A very good and thoughtful analysis by some unencumbered minds.

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• RO

  @RonzigtheWizard · 6 years ago

  America has always used war instead of diplomacy. War with their indigenous people, war with their neighbors to both the north and the south, war with Britain, war with itself, war with Iraq, proxy war with Syria, trade war with China, cold war with the USSR,  economic war with Russia, economic war with Venezuela, economic war with Iran, war with Vietnam, war with Korea, war with Spain, war with Panama, war with Nicaragua, war with Germany, war with Japan and on and on and on. It has never resorted to diplomacy when war is so enticing. Why would it not go to war with China? It's already saber rattling with Iran seeking an excuse to attack. It's already saber rattling with China seeking an excuse to attack.

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• NI

  @nilsingbo · 6 years ago

  Very interesting and clarifying  !

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• PA

  @paulmaking1980 · 6 years ago

  I deeply respect Kishore Mahbubani and his analysis on China & Asia's rise, China will overtake America & become no1 within a few years, backed by economic & demographic trends, but America refuses to accept it, instead America will do anything to maintain its dominance, but America can't stop China from overtaking America, its impossible, America has to change & adapt to this new world where Asia led by China will be the centre of world power.

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• MA

  @maxyogi · 6 years ago

  Really good discussion. Thank you.

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• JL

  @jlkh03 · 6 years ago

  Many countries&apos; leaders say they don&apos;t want to have to choose sides. But I wonder provocatively if this is even a scenario anymore? To quote Kishore: <br>- Most of the world&apos;s countries have joined BRI with China despite American challenges and lobbying <br>- In the example of the Indonesian university lecture hall, the clear majority of students today view China as the most important country in the world <br>- For Asian countries like Australia and Singapore, the current pressure to choose comes from straddling their Chinese economic relationship on one side but the American security relationship on another side, and these economic vs security relationships may be used diametrically against each other <br>- But if-or-when China&apos;s military-industrial complex eclipses America&apos;s, just as China&apos;s economy eclipses America&apos;s, countries may feel reduced need and pressure to be strategically ambivalent, American security challenge may reduce or withdraw from this contest, and whole set of economic and security relationships in the Asian system will be aligned<br>- Simply by not making a &quot;choice&quot; in the meantime, countries are in fact choosing a future they&apos;d be more comfortable in being in within Asia.

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• DE

  @denniscurry9641 · 6 years ago

  Kishore is our future east and west