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How tiny Bhutan deals with its demons

11th January 2024

The track climbed skyward in the thinning autumn Himalayan air, through low-hanging clouds and around hairpin bends with sweeping views over a valley of fields and rivers. So high we went that it seemed there could be nothing more except mountain wilderness. Then, came twangs of music from rustic instruments and around a corner we […]

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Hong Kong’s Tai O village offers political lessons

8th September 2023 Leave a Comment

Passing through Indonesia back in 2019, I asked a longtime friend why Southeast Asians were so quiet when it came to supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Once an anti-Suharto activist, now a businessman, he rolled his eyes at my naivete. “Hong Kong has had it too good for too long,” he said. “The rest of […]

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Global rules against cyberattacks must be updated

11th May 2021 Leave a Comment

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. […]

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Acclaimed Chinese-born writer tackles feminism and sex

3rd March 2021 Leave a Comment

I first met the Chinese writer Hong Ying many years ago in a fashionable bookstore in London’s upmarket Chelsea district. She was surrounded by literary stars and critics, looking a little tense, yet somehow pensive, elegant, patient. A blend of curiosity and bewilderment creased her face while, just beneath, there was an expression best described […]

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Asia could give UK the post-Brexit win it needs

9th January 2021 Leave a Comment

The United Kingdom’s full separation from the European Union, due to begin on Jan. 1, is bound to be bumpy. But by shining a spotlight on Asia, London could address accusations that its foreign policy is adrift while underpinning its interests in a region where it has a chance of early success. With care, the […]

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Europe must abandon muddled thinking about China

16th June 2020 1 Comment

With its unusually blunt warning to China, accusing it of exploiting COVID-19 to undermine European democracy, the EU has shown a long overdue change of mindset after years of jumbled, divisive and largely reactive policies in dealing with Beijing. The European Commission said that China, together with Russia, was responsible for an unprecedented wave of […]

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Taiwan holds lessons for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ dictatorships

30th October 2019 Leave a Comment

In 1979, not long after America’s Jan 1. recognition of Beijing’s Communist regime as the legitimate government of China, former U.S. President Richard Nixon returned to China and was feted as a hero for his groundbreaking visit to the Chinese capital in 1972. […]

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Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy is decreasing its reliance on China

9th October 2019 Leave a Comment

Long menaced by its larger neighbor, Taiwan’s efforts to shift away from its reliance on China by increasing trade instead with other regional partners are beginning to pay both economic and political dividends. Known as the New Southbound Policy, the government of President Tsai Ing-wen is encouraging and subsidizing Taiwanese companies to move out of […]

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In New York’s Chinatown, don’t mention politics

12th August 2019 Leave a Comment

The streets in New York’s Chinatown are narrow. Packed with humanity, loud conversations and small businesses — noodle restaurants, laundries and foot massage bars — they spill out the sounds and smells of East Asia. Some 100,000 people live in this part of Manhattan Island, which lies between fashionable Tribeca and the Lower East Side, […]

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How small nations can stand up to China

14th June 2019 Leave a Comment

Beijing and Moscow haven’t always seen eye to eye. But, assisted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s belligerence, they are putting aside old suspicions and finding new opportunities for cooperation. The vast expanse of the Arctic Ocean is a case in point. Among the most significant practical achievements of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia […]

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