“Russia would be crazy to attack a NATO country”

Dusseldorf Sometimes a change of perspective helps to understand. Kishore Mahbubani, one of Asia’s most prominent geostrategists, has a different view of the West that contradicts many aspects of European and American self-perception.

The Handelsblatt spoke to the Düsseldorf diplomat about China’s divergent interests from Moscow, the strategic errors of the US and Europe, and Western arrogance. As abominable as the war in Ukraine is, according to Mahbubani, it will ultimately be at most a “footnote in the momentous conflict between the US and China for world domination.”