Oxford Debate LIVE: Will Asia's Rise Lead to a New World Order?

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Published 2024-04-11
ZURICH, April 8, 2024 — In this live ‘Oxford Debate,’ participants are debating whether Asia’s rise will lead to a new world order. Arguing for the motion are Abigaël Vasselier, director for Policy and European Affairs at MERICS; and John Delury, historian and professor at Yonsei University. Arguing against the motion are Julia Ganter, programme director of International Affairs at Körber Foundation; and John Lee, director of consultancy at East West Futures. Asia Society Switzerland Executive Director Nico Luchsinger moderates the debate. (1 hr., 5 min.)

This event was hosted in collaboration with Impact Hub Zürich, foraus, and the Swiss Institute of International Studies.

All Comments (21)
  • @paulianas1782
    Civilization started in Asia. Asia embraced the rise of the West just fine. Why now when the curve goes back to Asia, there has to be any problem on the West?..
  • @rgg1642
    Classic British: Talking about rising without any speaker from India and China or Asia.
  • China and South East Asia nations except Pinoy will experience impressive economic performance. The Western involvement of the wars in Europe, and the Middle East will further deteriorate the Western economic performance.
  • @iScoopyPal
    The first speaker possesses critical thinking. She is informed and analyzes information coherently. The second speaker is a high school-level debater. She has no intellectual ability and is unable to connect the dots. The third speaker is a good backup for the first speaker. The last speaker is still living under a rock. He is clueless.
  • @sportsonwheelss
    The Chinese send their kids outside the country because their kids are not good enough to compete at home. It is 10 times easier to go to quality school aboard than quality school in China. If you haven't notice that the gold medalist and silver medalist on the math and science olympiads are consistently between the US and China. If you look at the picture between the two team, you can barely recognize which country they represent if it wasn't for the flag behind them.
  • @hehe-mq2bk
    Asia is the future. This is without a doubt. NVIDIA which has an Asian founder shows that asians are just as capable or even surpass whites in innovation and production... Asia will rule omce agian as it has for millenia... Our greatest driver will be tech, the majority of which will have A LOT of asians involved
  • @vanveakrin276
    Chinese increase in the use of robots will help the Chinese to increase productivity and AI will help to accelerate the improvement in future designs
  • @kindface
    After less than a minute into John Lee's opening remarks, I've had to switch off and out. Not sure how and where he's been spending his last 10-15 years but for him to speak of the "First World" still being in commanding lead in tech etc, you know where this discussion is heading when someone is so far out there bathed in delusion or denial.
  • @lisashung9442
    The Second Lady speaker: Africa is fast growing and will be more prosperous in future. However, its starting points are too far below Asian countries…….the governing system, living standards, education, infrastructure, tech…….nothing comparable to Asia…….the gap between these two at least 30 years apart.
  • @sunsun7762
    This is one of the worst debate I have ever seen, the opposing team is absolutely Clueless.
  • @juhantoon6524
    The 2 opponent speakers are arguing just like the US politicians and the Anglo Saxon news medias ie : twist and turn with no fact and even lying.
  • @user-sf6bq2gn4h
    Remember, divide and rule principle. By the British, it worked for them and it's still being used today.
  • @SilverforceX
    John Lee is still living in the 90s in his head. China has the lead in most technology fields these days.
  • @pcstar123
    This LEE throws around a lot of big terms and names which I doubt he even understood, I'm completely at a loss what he's talking about!
  • @vanveakrin276
    Chinese industrial output will move into high Value engineering products and the Chinese technicians will produce more high value products.. which will make Chinese output the leaders of the World industrial output..
  • @user-fo2uh4rm5c
    亞洲與中國現沒有太多和牛津聯繫,俗稱'关你屁事',自作多情。
  • @vincentleung7442
    Debating "Will" not "How"? These guys are seriously out of touch 😂
  • @Wwmmgg95554
    Kashor Mabubani is a senior singapore diplomatic and well-known academics expert on Asian rising. He said, "Last two hundred years of western domination is aspirations in the two thousand years human history. Rising Asian is returning historical normal.
  • @vincelamvision
    Greeting from TADETADE BLEND by VINCE KYLam. Thank you so much such an amazing conversation and great profound speaker. TQVM.