Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at NUS, in an excerpt from his book, “Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy”, discussed 10 areas that provoke questions the US should address, when formulating their long-term strategy on relations with China. The Sunday Times, 26 April 2020, Insight, pB8

Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, NUS opined that the coronavirus pandemic has underlined the importance of supporting multilateral organisations like the World Health Organisation, rather than progressively weakening them. The Straits Times, 9 April 2020, Opinion, pA19

Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow of the NUS Asia Research Institute, joined other global thought leaders in sharing their insights with Foreign Policy magazine on how the COVID19 pandemic will change the world.  

Prof Kishore Mahbubani has opined that Covid-19 outbreak is occurring at a time when global organisations, including the WHO, are weakened, making it imperative for world powers to step up. Just as they did for the global financial crisis, the US and China should convene a special G20 summit to form a coordinated response to

Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at Asia Research Institute, NUS, noted that the world order has not kept pace with some shifting economic dynamics and opined that if world leaders do not start addressing the contradictions plaguing the world order soon, the likely result is crisis and even more dangerous

An article by Drs Eric Kerr and Malini Sur about the lack of legal and policy frameworks for bushfire smoke. The Conversation online, 24 January 2020

Dr Nisha Mathew, joint Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute and Asia Research Institute at NUS wrote an op-ed piece about the protests in India against Modi government. South China Morning Post Online, 21 January 2020 A smiliar report was carried in: –  South China Morning Post, 22 January 2020, Page A8

Prof Kenneth Dean, Head of the Department of Chinese Studies, and Research Leader at Asia Research Institute, NUS, and Senior Research Fellow Dr Hue Guan Thye from Chinese Studies, are leading a research to establish a database of prominent Chinese personalities and the contributions they made to early Singapore from the 19th to 21st centuries.

The world turned a corner in 2019. The problem is that the world order didn’t turn with it. This disconnect could have disastrous consequences. The biggest global change has been the start of the “Asian century.” Today, Asia is home to three of the world’s top four economic powers (in purchasing power parity terms): China,

Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow from the Asia Research Institute at NUS opined that Asean’s culture of accommodation and pragmatism has proven to be a source of strength in a year marked by growing United States-China tensions. The Straits Times, Opinion pA29, 12 December 2019