Ascendant Asia Highlights

As the rising powers of Asia gain ever greater economic and political clout, does their ascent pose challenges to long-established international institutions and to the overall global agenda? How might an empowered China or India, say, seek to re-shape the international agenda -- or might they offer an alternative paradigm to the western-originated system?

The Century Foundation and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung convened a roundtable to explore these questions, led off by:

- Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kwan Yew school of public policy at National University of Singapore, formerly Singapore's permanent representative to the United Nations, and most recently author of The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East

- James Traub, contributing writer for New York Times Magazine and author of The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the U.N. in the Era of American World Power

- Yvonne Terlingen, representative of Amnesty International to the United Nations.

Transcripts and full length video from this event are also on The Century Foundation website: http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=EV&pubid=216

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[Mojo1982]

Genghis Khan comment is a total red herring, and scaremongering. What do you expect from Asians? To accept Western domination for eternity? No doubt there will be tension and probably conflict between the West and Asia.

[usayank]

Does anyone think that if roles were reversed vis a vis China and America/The West that China would voluntarily give up its seat in the security council?

Excllent point right at the end of the video when the gentleman noted that the last time asia dominated the world was in the era of Gengis Khan and that he was not sure that it should be a model for the world today?

Beware of what you ask for, you just might get it.