Hardtalk: Kishore Mahbubani 1

[sam14450]

I have been in the west for almost forty years, this guy is pure genius, he is absolutely right,

sam

[wikct2]

Wow look at the subtitles on the screen saying 'CHINA TRAIN CRASH'...why it has to be there? BBC why you always acting so evil when you talk about China issues?

[jazzswing88]

He got it totally right, who is the west to criticise countries like china on their human rights. just like all those people walking with their ''free tibet'' flags during the olympics. You should walk with flags saying ''Free Guantanamo'' and ''Free Palestine'', and you should walk with it daily!! no they like barking at countries like China and Iran for what they are doing, while in the meantime, the U.S. and the rest of the west dont give a fuck about what they are doing themselfs.

[sgpquek]

just a fucking book seller. Typical singaporean elite... a singaporean

[wikct2]

@sgpquek Because he speaks the truth?

[peirce93]

i am a singaporean. and i absolutely disagree with the rubbish mahbubani is saying! singapore is not a full and functioning liberal democracy. all this talk about an asian model is just meant to provide an intellectual support for authoritarianism. i believe that rights are universal and fundamental. and for all the wrongs that the West have done, the development and progress of human rights and democracy owe a lot to the West. the West is not perfect, but it has gotten things right mostly

[danpt2000]

Western Society Created Marxist/Communist Thought, gave us WWI, and WWII, gave us the Atomic Bomb, Mustard Gas, Napalm, Heroin, Automatic weapons to better kill each other.

[peirce93]

@danpt2000 western society gave us democracy, liberalism, republicanism, the respect for the rule of law, religious freedom, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech

[inder19852000]

Western also gave the ideology of Nazism, Faschism and Communism. They mishandled the people in the form of slave trade and colonialism.

[danpt2000]

Saying that West was first to successfully implement Rule of Law is like saying Western Society invented Language, which is of course ridiculous. Where was western Rule of Law when British imported Opium to China against the wishes of Chinese gov't? Where was the West Rule of Law when Europeans exterminated Millions of Indigenous ppl for Land, Gold and Glory? Where was Wests Rule of Law in regards to Iraq, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay? The Western Sheep are blind to everything around them.

[DIXIEBOY68]

This mother fucker hardtalk keep talking about democracy, free speech, freedom to rally, bla bla bla. Please keep your western influence to yourself as we singaporean do with our vote have been wholeheartlly select this PAP government and we have all the freedom that we need , the good life, money, and very well taken care by the government and what the fuck does you know about democracy. We have our vote and we vote for the party so buzz off you mother fucker , go and teach your own govt

[kostasmiddle]

Singapore is not only lacking in democracy but it is a model of democracy for the rest of us. Please keep your propaganda to yourself Mr Sackur!

[peirce93]

@kostasmiddle singapore is in no way a model of democracy for the rest of the world. it takes a lot of naiveté, ignorance and plain intellectual dishonesty to even make the claim that singapore is a functioning democracy, let alone a model one

[peirce93]

@DIXIEBOY68 i hope you are enjoying yourself in this Brave New World

[KLguy133]

go back to India if you all love it so much .

hypocrite self racist bullshitters.

[leoteo87]

there is a westerday...

[arnotkaling]

he is talking out of his ass, there was no such thing as a country called India 2000 years ago so how could it have such a big economy when it didn't even exist? what a fake accent as well.

[unworldlything]

he is talking about the Hindu civilization.

German didn't exist until Bismarck united it. hahahahaha~

[rajpaliwal99]

iam sorry, u dont know any thing ,,,, what he is saying is right , go through the history books,,,,and u come to know....

[Xenthoid]

hes talking about indian civilization not a country call india..so you're in fact talking out of your ass

[shorberm]

What's fake about his accent? His parents fled Pakistan to India in the Partition, then moved to Singapore, where he was born. He sounds exactly like an upper middle to upper class Singaporean of Indian descent because his parents and he were probably educated in British schools, yet still retained something of a sub-continental clip. You've obviously never met many such people because they all sound like him.

[arnotkaling]

he does not have the proper singapore accent, people like Mahathir etc have that old, proper accent of Malaya. anyway he is not singaporean, but a paki refugee in our country.

[shorberm]

Hence why I mentioned retaining the sub-continental clip.

How could he be a refugee if born in Singapore?

[S8608874F]

the thing about youtube is that it allows idiots like arnotkaling to have a forum so that for once in their miserable lives they would feel like thay have validated their existence. do some reading, perhaps you could start by googling the 'indus civilisation', then maybe, just maybe, you would realise that peoples and civilisations are not bound by the geographical circumscriptions of today.

[movieguy7589]

yes it was under emperor asoka around 300BC....u r talking out of your ass......

[KLguy133]

India the largest economy in the last 1800 years bar the last 200 ?? What a load of fucking bullshit.

This asshole is just another self hating Kundut riding on the backs of hard working Chinese.

Fuck off you . China and India and nothing alike !

And I hate his fucking voice - errr errrr errr like a little gay .

[arnotkaling]

agree, this guy is from India talking big in a Tamil nation Singapore. If he was living in India he would not be talking so much as India is full of poverty and human rights violations. China's economy is growing due to westerners wanting cheap goods whilst India's (south India) is growing due to IT and services

[KLguy133]

Bullshit India is a basket case and it has the most Aids in the whole world

[movieguy7589]

u mean the poisoned goods....by the way US is already banning a lot of their fake ass products...

[movieguy7589]

ur bullshit and a retard too....read a history book or do a google search.....do u know what google is?....lol...India had the world's largest economy from 1st to 15th century until the muslims and british came in and exploited it creating mass poverty for the local populace...and u right...India and China are nothing alike...China is a commie country and India is a democracy....Chinese make fake products and brands while India makes their own brands...so u right on that...chinese r shameless...

[KLguy133]

i have , nobody says anything about India except it's a basket case.

India is famous for Aids and fake degrees and cheapass call call centres where they have to fake their accents to stop whites from finding out that on the other side is a dirty shitskin.

Like mysore guy. LOL

[movieguy7589]

wow....look who's talking a descendant of a no eyes, no nose chink...haha...if India's education was that bad...why is ISB ranked amonst the top 20 business schools by Financial Times...or IIT as the best technical school in all of Asia...and who the fuck cares about yellow shit colored malay chinks and gooks anyway ...what's with your damn slanty eyes bitch...u can't even drive straight and think u know about India...go back to your hunting tribe....lol...

[KLguy133]

ha ha .

any nose is better than an Indian nose which looks like someone squated over you and shitted on your face.

You are the ones who look like walking turds, you coward hypocrite.

go back to your black hole you Aids carrier !

[movieguy7589]

is that the best u can do....malay shit....that's why other people always call you gooks and chinks....they can't tell u apart from other asians...cause u mongoloid freaks look ugly...falt noses, slanty eyes...do everyone a favor and get off the roads cause we all know u can't fucken drive...it's ur damn eyes....u don't even know your real heritage...wait who r u...a chink, khmer, indian, senoi, semang, arab....nahhh....u some shit colored malay shit...lol...

[kannappilly]

mass education originated in east. you stupid.

[bombaykitty]

Lol. That interviewer's quite arrogant isn't he?

[Dumbasssmartmouth]

@bombaykitty Yeah. Westerners think too highly of themselves. They are over anyways.

[ragavvendra]

@kannappilly Education systems as they exist today in Asia and everywhere else originated from the Prussian model of education. Mass education may be have been present in the east before the domination of the Prussian model of education, but education as it exists today DID in fact originate in the west, Prussia, more specifically.

[drukpamongol]

It is the historical rights of the Asian nations to be the sole superpower. The 200 years of western domination will end soon and the rightful powers of the world will return soon. Keep tight, Asian brother....soon or later whites will pay for their dids.

[corporalcharlie]

lol. Asia is so diverse, so there may be many superpowers that will fight each other and diminish their own power. What you just said does not make sense.

[Engior]

Kishore Mahbubani, an astonishing man.

[akshutjoshi2005]

i think Asian Union should be made and Kishore Mahbubani should be made the President.....................

hahahahhaaaaaa.... cant imagine how fucked up the west would be.................

[Pauloyih]

He is one of the few beacons that may shred more lights toward a future global peace with a meaningful engagement between East and West.

[icewine000000]

This is a great book by Kishore Mahbubani. I love it.