Insights | Whoever launches war will eventually pay the price, says Singaporean scholar Kishore Mahbubani

"I hope that one of the lessons we will learn from the Iran war is that no matter how powerful you are militarily, you still suffer consequences of wars," says Kishore Mahbubani, a renowned international scholar and Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, during the Boao Forum for Asia 2026 Annual Conference on Wednesday. (Lin Zhuowei)