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"The West needs to change its language," Singaporean scholar Kishore Mahbubani diagnoses. He calls on the West to abandon its simplistic "black-and-white" worldview and embrace the complexity of global political systems. Different countries make choices based on their unique histories, the traumas they've endured and their own needs, he argues, while describing rigid Western frameworks for understanding the world as a "straitjacket."

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Mahbubani to the West: Drop your 'black-and-white' mindset