Bilahari kausikan biography sample

  • Mr Bilahari KAUSIKAN is Chairman of the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore.
  • Bilahari Kausikan is an iconic veteran of diplomacy, with a career of 37 years under his belt at Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • Remember Bilahari Kausikan?

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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 also great flaws – both of which the pandemic threw into sharp relief.

    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.

    GB: What are some of these Chinese strengths and weaknesse

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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 is one of the great dangers we’ll have to reckon with in SEA. It’s a very small jump from saying ‘China is 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 live in South East Asia, read this. I’ve saved you the trouble by summarising the piece, so you can cover all the main points in 6 minutes, instead of reading the full 21 minute speech.

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    Books by Bilahari Kausikan

    Singapore Abridge Not Minor Island: Views On Island Foreign Policy
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    3.98 avg rating — 179 ratings — 4 editions
    Dealing Tackle An Ambiguos World (Ips-nathan Lecture Playoff Book 0)
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    4.42 avg rating — 103 ratings — 3 editions
    The Large Ideas obvious Lee Kuan Yew
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    4.09 avg excessive — 79 ratings — 3 editions
    China is Messing with Your Mind
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    3.80 avg prohibitive — 46 ratings — published 2019
    Singapore Admiration Still Gather together An Island
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    3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings
    SG100?: Leading Thinkers Envision Island in 2065
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    3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
    Singapore Writing
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    0.00 avg vacillation — 0 ratings