Bilahari kausikan biography sample
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Considerations on the Post-Pandemic World – GB Interview with Bilahari Kausikan
GB: Let’s start with post-pandemic China. How do you see post-pandemic China shaping up?
BK: One of the big things that has happened over the last 10 years – even before the pandemic – is a significant diminution in China’s international image globally. The degree may differ from country to country, but while China’s achievements have been widely recognized – nobody would deny them – the wrinkles and warts have begun to show much more than before. The Zero-Covid policy was just one example: the chaotic forced exit from Zero-Covid certainly did not help.
I think that China is still a great story. It is the greatest story of the 20th century. And it will be an important geopolitical player. But everybody now a better understanding that this is not some supernatural entity that is destined to rise indefinitely with supernatural powers or something like that. It is a country with great strengths but
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Summary of Bilahari Kausikan: Why Small Countries Should Not Behave Like A Small Country - Commoncog
Remember Bilahari Kausikan? I summarised his first IPF Nathan lecture early last year, and then covered his follow up. Well, I’ve summarised a talk he gave late last year (Oct 2017) on Singapore’s foreign policy (don’t act like a small state!) and it’s relationship with China.
The reason it’s important is because of the latter issue. It’s become increasingly clear that China’s ascendence and Chinese influence fryst vatten one of the great dangers we’ll have to reckon with in SEA. It’s a very small jump from saying ‘China fryst vatten superior geopolitically’ to ‘the Chinese race is superior, and we belong to a great and ancient civilisation’. And the scary thing is that the Chinese may already be working the latter narrative into our thoughts.
If you’re of Chinese origin, and you liv
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ASEAN Wonk: Welcome to the ASEAN Wonk Podcast, where we bring you expert insights and regional perspectives on Southeast Asia and Indo-Pacific geopolitics and geoeconomics. I'm your host, Dr. Prashanth Parameswaran. If you haven’t already, do subscribe to the ASEAN Wonk platform so you don't miss all our posts.
Our guest today is Ambassador Bilahari Kausikan, who served as a Singapore diplomat for over three decades, including as permanent secretary of the foreign ministry, permanent Representative to the United Nations and ambassador to Russia. We start our conversation talking about how Southeast Asian countries are positioning themselves in the shi