Parag Khanna, Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic global advisory firm. International bestselling author of six books, including Technocracy and Connectography. Keynote and TED speaker, as well as a regular on CNN - Home Page
CGTN America | 19 May 2019
On CGTN America's flagship interview program Full Frame, Dr. Parag Khanna sat down with anchor Mike Walter about his new book The Future is Asian. The discussed many aspects of the emerging Asian century including the rise of China, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the fourth wave of Asian economic growth.
Smithsonian Institution | 16 May 2019
In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Dr. Parag Khanna gave a lecture at the Smithsonian Institution's Dillon Ripley Center on the key messages from The Future is Asian, especially Asia's rising cultural impact around the world.
Read MoreBloomberg | 15 May 2019
Dr. Parag Khanna joined David Westin on Bloomberg's Balance of Power to discuss scenarios for how the US-China trade war will unfold as well as its implications for financial markets and Asian geopolitics.
Read MoreThe Hill | 14 May 2019
By Parag Khanna
Washington has descended into a rhetorical abyss in which credibility rests on shrill chanting about a “new Cold War” with little time devoted to serious thinking about how to wage it. A comprehensive and multidimensional strategy for the “new Cold War” must involve an integrated view of strategic military and economic domains.
Caspian Affairs | 14 May 2019
Dr. Parag Khanna spoke to Caspian Affairs about the role of infrastructure connectivity in shaping the the Caspian region, including both the eastward push from Europe and westward push by China, as well as the north-south corridors from Russia to India that comprise the new regional Silk Roads.
RICS World Built Environment Forum | 13 May 2019
Dr. Parag Khanna gave the opening keynote address at the RICS World Built Environment Forum 2019 in New York City, exploring trends in global infrastructure, urbanization, and smart cities -- and what these trends mean for the real estate and financial industries.
Read MoreMSNBC's Morning Joe | 13 May 2019
Parag Khanna joined Morning Joe to discuss the costs of the U.S. trade tariffs on China and the impact the tariffs are having on U.S. businesses and households. He explained China's strategies for moving up the value chain through the 'Made in China 2025' initiative and substitution of US imports from American allies.
Read MoreGlobal Citizenship Review | 14 May 2019
In this feature interview, Dr. Parag Khanna spoke to Global Citizenship Review about the growing influence of Asia on the world stage, and how global businesses need to wake up quickly to Asia’s next major growth wave that is now unfolding.
Read MoreProject Syndicate | 10 May 2019
By Parag Khanna
Asia’s emergence as the world’s geopolitical and economic center has lent global prestige to a new paradigm for achieving sustainable growth alongside social solidarity. With many other countries already studying the Asian playbook, the United States and Europe could benefit from doing the same.
Read MoreInvestment Company Institute | 2 May 2019
Dr. Parag Khanna gave a keynote address to the Investment Company Institute (ICI) during its annual membership meeting in Washington, D.C. followed by a Q&A session with Douglas Eu of Allianz. Khanna spoke about how the ongoing process of economic modernization and reform, and opening of financial sectors, that is making Asia an ever more important destination for investment.
Read MoreSavills | 2 May 2019
It might be easy to pinpoint disruptive global trends such as populism, urbanization and technology, but understanding them is more challenging as they play out so differently across the regions and cities of the world. In an age of global disruption, the definition of success is whatever works.
Read MoreWorld Affairs Council | 1 May 2019
At a breakfast session in Los Angeles jointly sponsored by the World Affairs Council, Asia Society, and RAND Corporation, Parag Khanna addressed the force of Asianization reshaping the world economy, society, and governance. The discussion was moderated by Rafiq Dossani of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy.
Read MorePolitico Magazine | 30 April 2019
By Parag Khanna
The fashionable position in Washington today is to dismiss the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a power play that won’t last—an attempt at neo-colonial debt trap diplomacy, in which China uses unpayable debts to control less powerful states, that is ultimately destined to collapse under the weight of financially spurious projects. On the other hand, there are also those who view BRI as a serious threat—a sign of China’s continued quest for global hegemony and the presence of a new “Cold War” between the U.S. and China. Either way, the U.S. position so far has been to shrug at China’s new initiative. In this, Washington is making a grave mistake.
Milken Global Conference | 29 April 2019
At the Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles, Dr. Parag Khanna moderated a panel on "The World Ahead" featuring Mr. Tung Chee-Hwa (Chairman of the Chinese Consultative People's Congress and former governor of Hong Kong), Mr. Stephen Schwarzman (Chairman of Blackstone), and Mr. Joseph Tsai (Vice Chairman of the Alibaba Group).
Read MoreCNN | 6 April 2019
By Parag Khanna
It isn't too late for America to help shape Eurasia's future in this direction, but it would require a meaningful grand strategy of promoting multipolarity across the world's largest landmass rather than posing a false choice between America and China.
Read MoreChina Daily | 25 April 2019
By Andrew Moody
The Belt and Road Initiative is one of the most important projects in human history, according to Parag Khanna. The well-known public intellectual and author of the recent book The Future is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-first Century said it is difficult to play down the initiative's importance. "It is the largest coordinated infrastructure investment program in human history," he said.
Read MoreThe Atlantic | 25 April 2019
By Michael Schuman
“We live in a multipolar system. No smart country sides with only one power. Instead they play all the powers off each other to derive maximum benefit for themselves.” says Parag Khanna, author of the book The Future Is Asian.
Read MoreThe Straits Times | 25 April 2019
By Tan Dawn Wei
"We have seen how China is willing to roll with the punches, accommodate and adjust the scope or portfolio size of its projects in Pakistan, accept reduced costs in Malaysia, and an easing of the debt burden for Myanmar. All this demonstrates that China has not taken commercially or diplomatically punitive action when it could have," says Parag Khanna.
Read MoreThe Straits Times | 25 April 2019
By Olivia Ho
The Straits Times Book Club held its first double bill on Wednesday (April 24) with two non-fiction books on economics and international relations. ST associate editor Vikram Khanna took the stage with his new collection, Headwinds And Hazards: Economic Snapshots In An Age of Populism, alongside Indian-American global strategy advisor Parag Khanna, who spoke about his latest bestselling book, The Future Is Asian.
Read MoreHet Spectrum | 15 April 2019
Asia is where the future begins. Whether the benchmark is demography, geography or economy, Asia is the present, and without a doubt the future. Asia is the Future is a warning against the poor image the modern world has of Asia. Asia is entering a major new wave of growth, with India and Southeast Asia outpacing China, territorial disputes being pushed aside in favor of integration, and infrastructure investments laying the foundation for future progress.
Read MoreIl Tascabile | 10 April 2019
By Gabriele Santoro
Khanna descrive una regione multipolare con molte civiltà, che si evolvono perlopiù indipendentemente dalle politiche occidentali, ma sono in grado di coesistere costruttivamente le une con le altre. L’autore prospetta il ruolo della Cina, che non sarà quello di egemone asiatico o globale, ma di àncora orientale del megasistema asiatico ed eurasiatico. Entro il 2025, il volume del commercio tra Asia ed Europa è destinato a raggiungere i 2.500 miliardi di dollari, esattamente il doppio dell’attuale livello degli scambi tra Europa e Nord America e tra quest’ultima e l’Asia.
Read MoreSouth China Morning Post | 12 April 2019
Parag Khanna spoke to Elaine Ly of South China Morning Post about how Europe and the United States differ in their approaches to managing the rise of Asia and how Asia is growing together economically despite geopolitical differences.
Read MoreBBC Global Questions | 10 April 2019
Parag Khanna joined the BBC Global Questions panel in Hong Kong on the topic of China's place in the world. Hosted by Zeinab Badawi, the debate featured experts from the US and China discussing the trade war, Belt & Road, future of Hong Kong, and many other critical issues related to China's emergence on the world stage.
Read MoreIL Dubbio | 10 April 2019
By Orlando Trinchi
Si sta scrivendo un novo capitolo della storia globale proprio sotto i nostri occhi, uno in cui le civiltà asiatiche e occidentali, i continenti americano ed euraistico giocano tuti dei ruoli estremamente importanti. Interdipendenza e multipolarità: questa la doppia direttrice su cui si attesterebbe il nuovo ordine mondiale del XXI secolo, esemplato, dopo l'egemonia europea e americana dei secoli precedenti, sull'incontrovertibile ascesa dell'Asia, come argomentato nelle pagine del nuovo saggio di Parag Khanna.
Read MoreBillionaire | 8 April 2019
By Parag Khanna
Across the world, a new generation of visionary entrepreneurs is spreading knowledge and financial services into the palm of everyone’s hand. Connectivity is the pathway towards a new global Renaissance.
Read MoreHong Kong Economic Journal | 8 April 2019
中美貿易摩擦自去年年中顯著升級以來，不少只在內地設廠的中港企業，紛紛考慮於東盟國家增加生產設施。國際策略顧問公司FutureMap創辦人兼地緣政治學者Parag Khanna【圖】接受本報專訪時表示，過去10年間，中國勞動力成本不斷上漲，中港企業陸續轉移到越南、印尼及菲律賓等東南亞國家設廠，已成為行業趨勢，貿易爭拗無疑正加速企業相關部署，東盟國家可說是得益者。
Read MoreSingapore Tatler | 8 April 2019
By Hong Xinyi
Parag Khanna speaks to Hong Xinyi on why he's bullish about Asia, why he takes a markedly non-ideological approach to assessing the Asian landscape, and why Asians need to learn much more about each others' histories and societies.
Read MoreSouth China Morning Post | 2 April 2019
By Parag Khanna and Kishore Mahbubani
Parag Khanna and Kishore Mahbubani argue that while Italy's joining the Belt & Road has attracted criticism within Europe, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trip across Europe underscores the transatlantic divide over how to deal with rising Asian powers such as China.
Read More明報 | 1 April 2019
隨着亞洲經濟騰飛，不少評論早已指出，全球政經秩序的重心愈見由西方轉移到亞洲，尤其是中國會否取代美國的全球霸主地位，更往往是討論焦點。剛出版新書探討亞洲未來的美國國際關係評論家卡納上周接受本報訪問時稱，西方毋須過分放大中國威脅，因中國面對很多限制，以「一帶一路」倡議為例，中國雖然有戰略盤算，但長期發展的結果將會是受惠國家反過來間接削弱中國影響力，亞洲的未來會一如歷史般呈現「多極」的局面。
Read MoreCredit Suisse | 27 March 2019
Dr. Parag Khanna gave a keynote speech at Credit Suisse's flagship Asia Investment Conference in Hong Kong on the theme of "Disrupting Geography". He explored global trends in financial markets, trade, geopolitics, and infrastructure to explore the dynamics of competition and resilience in the global system.
Read MoreKrasnoyarsk Economic Forum | 29 March 2019
Dr. Parag Khanna gave the keynote speech at the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum preceded by the official opening by Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak. He lectured on how Russia can benefit from the rise of Asia and growing Eurasian trade. He also gave a lecture for students at Siberian Federal University.
Read MoreLondon Press Club | 6 March 2019
Parag Khanna speaks in-depth with David Selves about Brexit and its impact on Britain at the London Press Club’s “In Conversation” series.
Read MoreGeographical Magazine | 27 March 2019
By Chris Fitch
"It's clear that Parag Khanna has hit on a significant and noteworthy global shift. Like it or not, it's hard to oppose the idea that the future truly is Asian."
Read MoreSouth China Morning Post | 25 March 2019
By Chad Bray
Parag Khanna spoke to Chad Bray about how Europe and Southeast Asia stand to benefit from the US-China trade war. By not joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the US could be cut out of growing Eurasian trade.
Read MoreMillennium Post | 25 March 2019
By Kavya Dubey
Parag Khanna speaks to Kavya Dubey about the crystallization of Asia as a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Asia is the formidable stretch from the Mediterranean and the Red Seas across two-thirds of the Eurasian continent to the Pacific Ocean – encompassing fifty-three countries and close to five billion people – of which, only 1.5 billion are Chinese.
Read MoreIl Venerdi | 22 March 2019
by Massimiliano Panarari
Parag Khanna illustra alcune tesi controcorrente sul continente che sta conquistando I'egemonia economica sul Villaggio globale. A partire proprio dalla Belt and Road Initiave con sui la Cina si fa leader di un progetto di infrastrutturazione e rafforzamento della cooperazione dell'Eurasia.
Read MoreSwissRe | 21 March 2019
Dr. Parag Khanna presented the findings of his new book The Future is Asian to members of the global and Asia regional boards of SwissRe during their meeting in Singapore. The discussion focused on the major themes of regional trade patterns, demographic shifts, rise of services economies, and the geopolitics of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Read MoreThe Wire | 20 March 2019
The Silk Road is getting an $8 trillion upgrade. China’s Belt and Road initiative is setting up vast trade corridors, solidifying China’s status as a world superpower and leading to a future that is dominated by a unified Asia. Parag Khanna speaks to Annie Hastwell about the possibility that “The Future Is Asian.”
Read MoreParag Khanna, Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic global advisory firm. International bestselling author of six books, including Technocracy and Connectography. Keynote and TED speaker, as well as a regular on CNN.
Parag Khanna is Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm. He is the international bestselling author of six books, has traveled to most of the countries of the world, and holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. Read more.
With Ayesha Khanna. Published in 2012 by TED Books.