Kishore Mahbubani: Western discourse on China is extremely distorted

Recently, Kishore Mahbubani, a former Singaporean diplomat and renowned scholar, noted in an interview that he is often seen as being overly optimistic about China – a perception he attributes to the deeply distorted view of China prevalent in the West, particularly in the United States. He emphasized that the U.S. has a tendency to demonize China in its public discourse, a narrative that is entirely disconnected from how the vast majority of countries around the world perceive China. Mahbubani pointed out that a simple observation of global attitudes reveals that most nations do not demonize China in the same way as American media and political rhetoric often do.