Core takeaway
Can China rise peacefully? In this classic 2020 debate, two of the world’s leading strategic thinkers, Kishore Mahbubani and John Mearsheimer, go head-to-head on the most important question of our time.
Mahbubani, arguing from an Asian perspective, makes the case for a peaceful rebalancing of world power. Mearsheimer, the ultimate realist, counters that a U.S.-China conflict is an inescapable tragedy, because in geopolitics, “security always trumps prosperity.”
Five years later, this powerful intellectual showdown is more relevant than ever. It’s an essential guide to the two fundamentally opposed worldviews that are shaping our future.
