The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Kishore Mahbubani reads as The Strategist because he navigates by historical pattern, not ideological loyalty. Schooled on Kennan and Kissinger and tempered by 33 years of active diplomacy, including a term presiding over the UN Security Council, he maps the structural shifts others resist naming: the West's eroding leverage, Asia's pragmatic coexistence model, China's rational self-interest.
“These problems must be addressed by capacity-building and infrastructure development within developing countries, with whatever international assistance is necessary, and by the elimination of trade barriers and protectionism in the developed countries.”
“Of the remainder, 12 major developing countries take 75 per cent of private FDI to the developing world, while 140 developing countries take a share of only 5 per cent. The poorest nations of the world therefore suffer not from too many connections with the wider world, but too few.”
“To conclude, please allow me to quote the Secretary-General once again: “In an increasingly globalized world, none of the critical issues we are dealing with can be resolved within a solely national framework.”
“The fact that tariffs on goods of developing countries are 30 per cent higher than the global average is truly a shocking statistic, and we are surprised that this has not been highlighted before in key forums. All this shows that the poor countries cannot afford any further restrictions on trade.”
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