Recent years have seen the broadening of US-China tensions, highlighting a great-power competition in the 21st century. After an apparent impasse in the relationship, a recent US-China diplomatic meeting in Zurich, followed by an ice-breaking virtual trade talk, signals re-engagement between the two countries. As it was announced that a virtual summit between President Biden and President Xi has been set in motion by year-end, can we expect the veering of Sino-American relations in the near future?

“The final question will therefore not be whether America or China has won. It will be whether humanity has won,” says Kishore Mahbubani, in his renowned Has China won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy. Global issues like Covid-19 and climate change are calling for the reinvigoration of multilateralism, how can the world unite and make pragmatic developments in working towards a sustainable recovery?

In conjunction with the launch of the Chinese version of Has China won?, The Center for China and Globalization (CCG) is pleased to announce a virtual dialogue with its author, Kishore Mahbubani, to discuss the trends of globalization, the multi-polar international order and directions of US-China relations. Described by Foreign Policy as “the muse of the Asian century”, Mahbubani is a man of many titles, including Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS); former Singapore’s Ambassador to the UN; and Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School), NUS.