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Asia, the West & Human Rights

Tuesday, 29 April 2008

In a HARDtalk interview shown on 28th April 2008, Stephen Sackur talks to Kishore Mahbubani, Former Singapore Ambassador to the UN

The United States is beset by economic woes with a credit crunch and recession looming. China on the other hand can still boast double digit growth and an orgy of construction. Is it time to acknowledge a fundamental shift in the balance of economic and political power from west to east? Kishore Mahbubani is a veteran Asian diplomat who has pinned his reputation on that very idea.