Kishore Mahbubani: Human Rights in Asia

There was a time when the West could lecture the rest of the world about human rights, but everything changed after Guantanamo, says Mahbubani. The West still remains the gold standard for democracy and human rights, but unless it is honest about torture, it has no right to lecture the rest of the world.
This is an excerpt from a Carnegie Council talk on February 28, 2008. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to http://www.carnegiecouncil.org

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[sjmeerkees]

great man, great intellectual

[Bostonking8]

Great eastern wisdom!!

[jossilv23]

good work.



[ryellon]

I'm curious whether or not his words echo the current situation in the Middle East. The falling countries all have diplomatic relations with the West. This is mostly notable in Libya, whose regime is falling after only a decade of relatively-normalised relations with Western countries. Yet Syria, Iran, and North Korea are showing little, if any sign of collapsing any time soon.

[wikct2]

He is totally right. But this is precisely the reason for US and Western powers to impose unreasonable ideology upon to China and other developing countries because they dont want to China to progress the way that make China strong and make China to be independent from the control of US and the West. That is why they do everything to accuse China baselessly and shamelessly.

[CanadianTuBaoZi]

need more open-minded people like him.

[Raksasa187]

Kishore Mahbubani = Pure Knowledge

[MORTified]

he sounds SIngaporean!

[zonicbonic]

i like how he speaks. he uses stiff upper lip! so cool! i need to learn it.

[GoodFellah69]

yeah he really did came with a answer i couldnt think off, perfect.