2023 Pardee Center Janetos Distinguished Lecture: Amb. Kishore Mahbubani

As always Kishore Mahbubani shows that he is one of the greatest Asian scholars of our times! Excellent lecture and so very true!

THANK YOU, Pardee Center, for the courage to have such an esteemed diplomat as Kishore Mahbubani to address an American audience. Nearly none of the other institutions would dare to entertain any views that even slightly deviates from the mainstream anti-China rhetoric.

I have to salute to Pardee Center for providing the platform for Kishore Mahbubani whose lecture may not sound pleasant to American audience's ears. This kind of openness used to be the strength of the US, but the room for a healthy debate is less and less in the US.

I really wish for better China and India relationship 🇮🇳🇨🇳. As an Indian when I was doing master's in Germany I had many friends from China and other east Asians, they were wonderful people. In India they are very misunderstood. I hope it changes!!

Kishore is brilliant, clear, concise and polite as usual.

A HUGE fan of the great Kishore Mahbubani because unlike other "experts", he is honest!

The west doesn't understand China, that's for sure. The reasons are: 1. At the earliet stage, China was too weak and that made the west very arrogant, so they didn't even try much to understand China. 2. China was flexible to incorporate the western culture, econormic system etc., which led the west to believe China can be shaped to be a western-like country. But if one really study the Chinese, they will notice, China has since the beginning said it clearly they will learn the good from the west and discard the bad, they were never gonna totally turn themselves into a western society. Just like Kishore claims: China's thousands of years of culture backgound is deep deep rooted, you can't just change it like you wish. So the west's wish to change China has made themselves blind and.lead to more misunderstandings. 3.Because of the arrogance and ignorance, the west continue stubbornly to see China through their own lens, they educate their younger generations to continue and even push for more extreme misinterpretations of China, which lead to more and more and more misunderstanding. The west claims to have the free speech, but they only listen to themselves. They don't care what the Africans say, what the Latin Americans say, what the arabians say, and of course they don't have any patience to listen to the Chinese really. The Chinese people say something, they definitely won't believe a word, they interpret with the western.lens and emotionally over exaggerate on western media, which only lead to more misunderstandings. Relationship is a both sides thing. If one side never wanna understand the other, there won't be any understanding. I think the west didn't , don't and won't understand China, because there is no intention to do it.

From Venezuela with ❤️ to every Asian.

😀Always like to hear from the wisdom from Prof. Kishore.

Respect for Kishore Mahbubani!

Well said Prof Kishore Mahbubani

Listening to the lecture and the question/answer session after is so inspiring. Makes you want to get up and go to work immediately, with a focus on the good of the society at large. Thank you Amb. Mahbubani.

In today's world, where the lines between truth and falsehood can often become blurred, a great man like Kishore with clarity and honesty is a rare and valuable gem.

What a brilliant session by a very talented and rational man. Stay inspiring. Mr Kishore Mahbubani. 👌⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Has anyone EVER watched any dull moment in Amb. Kishore Mahbubani's lecture anywhere???

China, India, ASEAN and other countries in Asia have been very focused on economic development and want peace. The US on the other hand, is focused on wars, proxy wars, establishing military bases around the world such that it is grossly over stretched, all with the EU dutifully following along. In doing this, the US is solely focused on maintaining its hegemony around the globe. No surprise then that things have changed dramatically for these different continents, as the US and EU seem to have lost their way through wrong priorities and poor/mediocre leaders lacking in vision.

Really love Prof. Kishore Mahbubani's speeches. He always got the points. Thanks for his wisdom.

Excellent class and excellent questions congratulations.

Great lecture and fair view of China ❤

vow, amazing Professor, so deeply observatory!