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What's happening in the multipolar world?

Harish Pillay
November 02, 2022

What's happening in the multipolar world?

Harish Pillay

November 02, 2022
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  1. What’s in it for Asia, the technology landscape and our

    future What’s happening in the multipolar world? Harish Pillay Open Source Program Office APAC Red Hat [email protected] @harishpillay 1
  2. 11 Internet The Internet subsumed all writing, printing and added

    a many capabilities not obvious that it could happen
  3. 15 Internet The Internet showed the best of people along

    with the worst The Internet suggests how we can do better
  4. 18 It is about diversity of ideas, sharpening of thoughts

    and action - that there are more than one way to do things
  5. 24 Let's look at reality (or a perception of reality)

    in Asia today. We have a few groupings: • Central Asia • South Asia • South East Asia • East Asia
  6. 25 • From the conclusion of the WW2, Japan became

    an economic powerhouse. • Since about 1980, China started their economic trajectory • India started later and moving along well. • The Tigers: Singapore, Taiwan, S. Korea
  7. 28 • Tian Xia is a 3000 year old Chinese

    cultural notion that all of the geographical world is linked with the Chinese sovereign - equal and subservient.
  8. 29 • Tian Xia is a 3000 year old Chinese

    cultural notion that all of the geographical world is linked with the Chinese sovereign - equal and subservient. • The geographically closer to the Chinese emperor/sovereign, no matter how different the people "look", they are all part of the "all under heaven" or tian xia.
  9. 30 Understanding Tian Xia that would provide some context and

    would make sense about how the CCP thinks (2022 and beyond).
  10. 31 • Fast forward to the 1800s, the European nation

    states and later the United States were on a similar Tian Xia, except that this was done with a different set of objectives.
  11. 32 • Fast forward to the 1800s, the European nation

    states and later the United States were on a similar Tian Xia, except that this was done with a different set of objectives. • [oversimplifying] The influence of US/EU models were about empowering regions to be democratic (much later), not to be tributary states (did not always turn out that way), but to be sovereign entities on par with the US/EU.
  12. 33 • The Chinese Tian Xia and the EU/US models

    of hegemony are both happening in parallel as well as in conflict of these other.
  13. 34 • The Chinese Tian Xia and the EU/US models

    of hegemony are both happening in parallel as well as in conflict of these other. • This is both a good thing for Asia and technology for it gives diversity of ideas and finding ways around constraints pushes forward innovation. .
  14. 35 • The Chinese Tian Xia and the EU/US models

    of hegemony are both happening in parallel as well as in conflict of these other. • This is both a good thing for Asia and technology for it gives diversity of ideas and finding ways around constraints pushes forward innovation. • Yes, there WILL be conflicts (all forms: cyber, kinetic etc) and we must plan and prepare for it
  15. 36 • The Chinese Tian Xia and the EU/US models

    of hegemony are both happening in parallel as well as in conflict of these other. • This is both a good thing for Asia and technology for it gives diversity of ideas and finding ways around constraints pushes forward innovation. • Yes, there WILL be conflicts (all forms: cyber, kinetic etc) and we must plan and prepare for it • But we have a lot of the tools needed for that today.
  16. 37 • The Chinese Tian Xia and the EU/US models

    of hegemony are both happening in parallel as well as in conflict of these other. • This is both a good thing for Asia and technology for it gives diversity of ideas and finding ways around constraints pushes forward innovation. • Yes, there WILL be conflicts (all forms: cyber, kinetic etc) and we must plan and prepare for it • But we have a lot of the tools needed for that today.