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Letters | Where is Hong Kong’s Kishore Mahbubani?
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Recently, a video of Singaporean scholar Kishore Mahbubani answering a question about China made the rounds on Chinese social media. Mahbubani’s response, factual and logical, is an impressive, convincing rebuttal of the Anglo-Saxon media’s distorted perspective on the reality of China, and of American hypocrisy.
This is an incredible example of telling China’s story well, which President Xi Jinping has called for. It also raises the question: where is Hong Kong’s Kishore Mahbubani?
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Mahbubani was a diplomat who served as Singapore’s permanent representative to the United Nations and as president of the UN Security Council, before going on to a career in academia.
His response on China in the video was enlightening because he cited real examples, not only from his research but also from his professional experience.
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Hong Kong has plenty of scholars but the system does not afford them opportunities to gain diplomatic experience, like Mahbubani, to tell China’s story well.
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