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The Voice of Asia: Two Leaders Discuss the Coming Century Hardcover – January 1, 1996

by Shintaro Ishihara (Author), Mahathir Mohamad (Author)

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A provocative dialogue, transcribed from meetings and written exchanges between Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Japanese politician-author Shintaro Ishihara, The Voice of Asia gives unprecedented insight into what Ishihara calls "the paramount reality of the mid-1990s - the retreat of the West and the increasing dynamism of Asia." The book finds the pair in fundamental agreement. Mahathir claims that Japan provided the model for Malaysia's development; Ishihara urges his country to leave off deferring to the United States and return to the Asian fold. Can the West take up this challenge, or is the Asian era really at hand?
Here is a world-view as foreign to the Western reader as most Western values are to Asians. But as the balance of economic power slips inexorably toward the East, there is a greater need than ever to come to grips with the emerging Asian ethos. The Voice of Asia is the best briefing available.

Print length

159 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Kodansha USA Inc
Publication date

January 1, 1996
Dimensions

5.75 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches
ISBN-10

4770020430
ISBN-13

978-4770020437
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ALBERTO NAVARRO

THE VOICE OF ASIA.

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2022

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EXCELLENT SIX STARS!.
THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN IN 1995 BY TWO OUTSTANDING LEADERS : MAHATIR MOHAMAD, FORMER
PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA AND SHINTARO ISHIHARA, A JAPANESE NATIONALIST POLITICIAN,
I WOULD SAY THIS IS A FOLLOW UP OF THE BOOK BY ISHIHARA , THE JAPAN THAT CAN SAY NO.
THESE TWO LEADERS FIGURE IN MY TOP RANKING LIST OF THE POLITICAL LEADERS OF THE CURRENT
ERA; THIS BOOK GIVES US A MUCH NEEDED ASIAN PERSPECTIVE OF THE WORLD, FAR FROM THE
STRAITJACKET DOGMATISMS OF BOTH THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT THAT HAVE PERVADED IN THE WEST.
THE BOOK BASICALLY POINTS OUT THE HUBRISTIC AND SELFRIGHTEOUS ATTITUDES OF THE WEST,
WITH ITS HOLLOW RETHORIC OF "DEMOCRACY", "HUMAN RIGHTS", "FREE MARKET" AND "CIVIL SOCIETY", WHICH ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORS (AND ME TOO) ARE NOTHING BUT CODE WORDS
TO MEDDLE AND IMPOSE , BY MILITARY INVASIONS IN MANY CASES, THEIRS POLITICAL (DEMOCRACY) AND ECONOMICAL (UNBRIDLED CAPITALISM) SYSTEMS IN THE NON WESTERN WORLD ( ASIA.AFRICA,
THE MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA AND LATIN AMERICA)
MR ISHIHARA POINTS OUT THE FACT THAT THE COLD WAR WAS A COMPETITION OF TWO SUPERPOWERS
WITH TWO COMPETING IDEOLOGIES ( COMMUNISM AND LIBERAL CAPITALISM), TO SUBJUGATE AND PLUNDER THE THIRD WORLD.
BOTH LEADERS WARN THE EASTERN WORLD NOT TO COPY THE WESTERN MODELS, INSTEAD THEY
RECOMMEND TO DEVELOP THEIR COUNTRIES BY FOLLOW THE ASIAN WAY.
EVEN THOUGH THE BOOK DEALS WITH THE FAR EAST , IT PERFECTLY APPLIES TO LATIN AMERICA. WHICH AS ASIA, HAS BEEN TREATED WITH CONTEMPT BY THE WEST, THE EXPRESSION BACKYARD (PATIO TRASERO) COMES TO MY MIND, OF COURSE LATIN AMERICA SHOULD HAVE VERY GOOD
RELATIONS WITH THE WEST , BUT NOT PRETEND THAT IT ITS PART OF IT, WHICH IS NOT.
AS FOR THE WEST IT SHOULD MOVE ON AND ESCHEW ITS RETHORIC ON DEMOCRACY. FREE MARKET
AND HUMAN RIGHTS AND ACCEPT THE NON WESTERN WORLD AS IT IS.

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