How the West can adapt to a rising Asia | Kishore Mahbubani

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🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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As Asian economies and governments continue to gain power, the West needs to find ways to adapt to the new global order, says author and diplomat Kishore Mahbubani. In an insightful look at international politics, Mahbubani shares a three-part strategy that Western governments can use to recover power and improve relations with the rest of the world.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features author and public policy expert Kishore Mabubani, recorded live at TED 2019.
0:10.0	About 200 years ago, Napoleon famously warned. He said, let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.
0:28.7	Despite this early warning, the West chose to go to sleep at precisely the moment when China and India and the rest of Asia woke up.
0:43.1	Why did this happen? I'm here to address this great mystery. Now, what do I mean when I say
0:50.9	the West chose to go to sleep? Here I'm referring to the failure of the West
0:56.0	to react intelligently and thoughtfully to a new world environment that's obviously been created
1:04.0	by the return of Asia. As a friend of the West, I feel anguished by this. So my goal today is to try to help the West.
1:15.0	But I have to begin the story first by talking about how the West actually woke up the rest of the world.
1:24.0	Look at chart one.
1:26.5	From the year one to the year 1820,
1:31.3	the two largest economies of the world were always those of China and India.
1:38.3	So it's only in the last 200 years that Europe took off, followed by North America.
1:47.0	So the past 200 years of world history have therefore been a major historical aberration.
1:57.0	All aberrations come to a natural end,
2:01.6	and this is what we are seeing.
2:03.6	And if you look at chart two,
2:05.6	you'll see how quickly and how forcefully
2:10.6	China and India are coming back.
2:15.6	The big question is, who woke up China and India?
2:22.8	The only honest answer to this question is that it was Western civilization that did so.
2:30.3	We all know that the West was the first to successfully modernize, transform itself,
2:35.1	initially he used his power to colonize and dominate the world.
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