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The West cannot imagine a world in which it isn’t the dominant power.
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Mahbubani’s Sindhi family was part of a small minority in the Singaporean melting pot.
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If living standards are high and risk of ethnic violence low, why not loosen press restrictions?
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Buying up U.S. currency was the smartest move China ever made, Mahbubani says.
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Should they be transparent to the world? To the citizens of their own countries?
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Wars, Mahbubani says, are a sunset industry.
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Everyone wants to be green, Mahbubani says. It just has to be done fairly.
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Only if you see the world through a 1945 lens, says Mahbubani.
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With the Asian model as an example, moderate Muslims can take a middle path to modernity, Mahbubani says.
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America shouldn’;t run away from new competition, Mahbubani says.
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America should stop seeing multi-lateralism as a threat to its power, Mahbubani says.
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His book, Mahbubani says, brings good news.
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Mahbubani says Asians have rejected the West as a cultural ideal.
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Give Asia time, Mahbubani says. Progress is coming.
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The U.S. has squandered its intellectual honesty, Mahbubani says.
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Why is the West becoming the most close-minded corner of the world, Mahbubani wonders?
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Mahbubani adapts the old East-West narrative.
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When looking at Asia, Mahbubani thinks its important to distinguish between inter and intrastate tensions.
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In the West, it has a cultural connotation, but in the East, Mahbubani says, it only means achieving material success.
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Because it works, Mahbubani says.