A round-table discussion, titled ‘New norms? The role of the Indo-Pacific in a changing world’ broadcast on Monday 24th June, 2024. […]
Read MorePolitical economy: The genesis of uneven growth in Pakistan
A round-table discussion, titled ‘Political economy: The genesis of uneven growth in Pakistan’ broadcast on Monday 27th May, 2024. […]
Read MoreFaultlines in China’s internal economic policies
A studio discussion presented by The Democracy Forum titled ‘Faultlines in China’s internal economic policies’ broadcast on Monday 29 April, 2024. […]
Read MoreThe Power of Purpose: A Goldster Immersive
How an explorer, a novelist and a pilgrim conquer self-doubt and find common ground in purpose. […]
Read MoreWhy is the world courting Papua New Guinea?
Papua New Guinea is the kind of place most people have heard of, but would struggle to find on the map. So why is it suddenly attracting a significant amount of geopolitical attention and high profile visitors? […]
Read MoreDemocracy fights back
In a business district a couple of miles from Vilnius’ Medieval Old Town, an office block sign lists organisations and companies working there. Nestled between a company called BaltCap and the big accountancy firm Price water house Coopers is the Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania, a building which has lit a spark, pitting tiny Lithuania […]
Read MoreAsian countries must restrain hawkish AUKUS parties
Since leaving the European Union last year, the British government has decisively pursued two strands of policy that cement its tilt toward Asia. Without much fanfare, it has applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Japan-Australia led free-trade grouping with its market of half a billion people over 11 countries. […]
Read MoreAlaska’s growing global trade hub highlights booming US-Asian trade
For a few months last year, the prize for the busiest airport in the world slipped away from those great hubs of Atlanta, Hong Kong and London. The highest volume of air traffic flew in and out of the remote American city of Anchorage in southern Alaska, with a population of less than 300,000. Almost […]
Read MoreGlobal rules against cyberattacks must be updated
The cyberattack that shut down an American East Coast pipeline underlines a global security challenge that needs urgent attention. When ransom-seeking hackers breached the pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline last Friday, they claimed they were only after money. But their success and ease of operation exposed, yet again, the fragility of civilian infrastructure to hostile forces. […]
Read MoreThe Cat Warrior’s Feline Diplomacy
I first met Hsiao Bi-Khim on a sidewalk during Taiwan’s 2008 election campaign. Sitting on a low plastic yellow stool, wearing a stylish white trouser suit, she was stuffing leaflets into envelopes. An elderly couple came up and greeted her. She gave them a pile, set them to work, then turned her attention to my […]
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