{"id":153396,"date":"2025-12-02T17:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153396"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:20:12","slug":"the-first-non-white-superpower-the-unspoken-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/02\/the-first-non-white-superpower-the-unspoken-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"The First &#8216;Non-White&#8217; Superpower: The Unspoken Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>World<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The First &#039;Non-White&#039; Superpower: The Unspoken Barrier (Episode 3)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sDRCQFlalNY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this deeply candid and philosophical talk, Kishore Mahbubani confronts the most uncomfortable truth in geopolitics: The West\u2019s struggle with China is not only about power \u2014 it\u2019s about psychology, race, and history. For the first time in 200 years, a non-Western, non-white civilization is rising to global leadership. And beneath the rhetoric of rules-based order\u201d and democracy vs autocracy,\u201d Mahbubani reveals the hidden anxiety shaping Western policy \u2014 the fear of losing cultural primacy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this talk, you\u2019ll learn: \ud83e\udde0 Why America\u2019s rivalry with China feels more emotional than strategic \u2694\ufe0f How the Yellow Peril\u201d myth still echoes in 21st-century geopolitics \ud83d\udcda Why the West struggles to accept that modernity is no longer exclusively Western \ud83c\udf10 How China\u2019s rise represents a fusion, not a clash, of civilizations \ud83e\udd1d Why the future depends on making the world safe for diversity,\u201d not uniformity Mahbubani draws from personal experience, colonial memory, and global history to ask the defining question of our century: Can the West accept equality \u2014 not just in power, but in civilization? His answer is hopeful: the world is big enough for both America and China, for Western democracy and Eastern meritocracy. But only if we dismantle the Unspoken Barrier \u2014 the belief that modernity must wear a Western face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World In this deeply candid and philosophical talk, Kishore Mahbubani confronts the most uncomfortable truth in geopolitics: The West\u2019s struggle with China is not only about power \u2014 it\u2019s about psychology, race, and history. For the first time in 200 years, a non-Western, non-white civilization is rising to global leadership. And beneath the rhetoric of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153400,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153396\/revisions\/153400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}