A very interesting discussion of China in the world and in relation to America by Robert Wright & Kishore Mahbubani

China and America (and Taiwan and Ukraine) | Robert Wright & Kishore Mahbubani | The Wright Show

0:58 Kishore’s diplomatic career and recent book, Has China Won?
2:27 Kishore: America is walking towards a cliff when it comes to handling China
12:10 Is the US making a Chinese invasion of Taiwan more likely?
20:51 China’s perception of the Uyghur situation
34:41 How anti-China sentiment in America increases Chinese nationalism
49:11 Diagnosing the degeneration of US-China relations since 2012
1:02:22 Bob: Has technology empowered the Chinese to petition their government?
1:10:28 Good news! China has no plans to export its political system
1:18:00 Assessing the threat Beijing poses to freedom in America
1:26:54 China’s view of the Ukraine invasion

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Kishore Mahbubani (Has China Won?). Recorded February 17, 2022 and March 22, 2022.

Mahbubani has just published The Asian 21st Century, which is available as a free download. I've downloaded but not read it.

About Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS):

Mr Mahbubani has been privileged to enjoy two distinct careers, in diplomacy (1971 to 2004) and in academia (2004 to 2019). He is a prolific writer who has spoken in many corners of the world.

In diplomacy, he was with the Singapore Foreign Service for 33 years (1971 to 2004). He had postings in Cambodia, Malaysia, Washington DC and New York, where he twice was Singapore’s Ambassador to the UN and served as President of the UN Security Council in January 2001 and May 2002. He was Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 1998. As a result of his excellent performance in his diplomatic career, he was conferred the Public Administration Medal (Gold) by the Singapore Government in 1998.

Mr Mahbubani joined academia in 2004, when he was appointed the Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School), NUS. He was Dean from 2004 to 2017, and a Professor in the Practice of Public Policy from 2006 to 2019. In April 2019, he was elected as an honorary international member to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which has honoured distinguished thinkers, including several of America’s founding fathers, since 1780.