This week on Sinica, Kishore Mahbubani, who served as Singapore's UN Ambassador and has written extensively on ASEAN and the U.S.-China rift, returns to the show to discuss his recent essay in Foreign Affairs, and to advocate for the pragmatic approach that's held ASEAN together for over five decades of continuous peace and growing prosperity.
4:36 – Kishore talks about Macron’s state visit to China and the controversy around his comments in media interviews
8:53 – How the Ukraine War has highlighted divisions between the West and the Global South
11:45 – Pragmatism: is this a euphemism for amorality?
15:26 – ASEAN as a template for multipolarity
19:38 – Cultural relativism, moral absolutism, and the shift in the American intelligentsia
24:56 – How does ASEAN handle specific issues of U.S.-China tension?
29:12 – Investment and trade: China and ASEAN vs. U.S and ASEAN — guns and butter
40:04 – The Belt and Road Initiative and American attitudes toward it
44:10 – Kishore’s “three rules” for U.S. engagement with ASEAN
49:49 – China’s recent diplomatic efforts: Saudi-Iran, and the Ukraine War
52:34 – How receptive has the American strategic class been to Kishore’s ideas?
A complete transcript of this podcast is available at TheChinaProject.com.
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Kishore: John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
Kaiser: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
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