To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.

Democracy is a universal value

It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources of success of the Americans. And there is something that the world can learn from it and also be assisted by the United States along with Europe and the rest of the world. I really hope that this is an issue that engages the American public.

The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership.