Taiwan remains Asia’s ‘most dangerous’ issue, former Singaporean diplomat warns

Asia remains shackled by “mental colonisation” despite accounting for over half the global population, a former UN Security Council president has said, while warning that Taiwan remains the region’s most dangerous flashpoint.
“The big mistake that Asians made after the end of colonial rule [is assuming] that the end of physical colonisation would automatically mean the end of mental colonisation,” veteran Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani told the inaugural Penang Peace Dialogue in Malaysia...