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Recent reports by Humphrey Hawksley for the BBC, YaleGlobal Online, Asian Affairs, and  Nikkei Asian Review.

The Genius and Flaws of the Founder of Bangladesh

10th August 2020 Leave a Comment

Had he lived, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman would have turned 100 this year and proudly seen his daughter Sheikh Hasina at the helm of his country, navigating it impressively through the complexities of the 21st century. But Mujib survived barely four years from his independence victory in 1971 to his horrific assassination, together with most of […]

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Will China follow Japan’s 20th Century rise and end up destroyed? My interview with Iftikhar Gilani

13th July 2020 Leave a Comment

Dragon Fire, a novel by British author Humphrey Hawksley, written 20 years ago depicted a war erupting between China, India and Pakistan, drawing many other countries and then escalating into a nuclear catastrophe. In the wake of the recent India-China border standoff that resulted in the killing of 20 Indian soldiers, Hawksley, a former BBC […]

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A Divided World Struggles With Covid-19

7th July 2020 Leave a Comment

Crisis often helps to lift the fog of bureaucratic process and shows institutions in their true light. That has been the case with the World Health Organization, the leading arm of the United Nations to fight a global pandemic. The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the weakness not just of the WHO but other institutions. At […]

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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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US-China rivalry: Cold War 2

10th June 2020 Leave a Comment

David Foster hosted Humphrey on a TRT Roundtable discussion together with Clete Willems (Former US Trade Negotiator), Jean-Pierre Cabestan (Political Science Professor), and Sir Simon Fraser (Former Head of UK Diplomatic Service).

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India’s Red Corridor – Poulomi Basu’s visually gritty Centralia

9th May 2020 Leave a Comment

In Centralia, the writer and photographer Poulomi Basu gives us a panorama of Chhattisgarh, a little-known area of central India, through photographs, poetry, biographical portraits and snatches of dialogue. Chhattisgarh is one of the states that make up what is known as the Red Corridor, a region running up the east of India in which Maoist insurgents […]

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Set sail for the lost world of Nusantara

26th March 2020 Leave a Comment

Lost kingdoms, stunning scenery, incredible creatures and centuries of intertwined cultures and religions … Humphrey Hawksley discovers them all on Indonesia’s islands. […]

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Expelled from Sri Lanka, Death Threats in the Philippines and Cold War Espionage Thrillers

4th February 2020 Leave a Comment

Humphrey Hawksley’s work as a BBC foreign correspondent has taken him to crises on every continent. He has been expelled from Sri Lanka, had death threats from several extreme regimes and traced Graham Greene’s footsteps in Sierra Leone. His passion for borders has influenced his writing with the Cold War and espionage prominent themes in […]

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Ten of the World’s Most Enticing Borders

9th January 2020 Leave a Comment

Borders have always fascinated me. With just one step, you can cross culture, language, food, politics and much more. Some are tense. Some are awash with welcome. Sometimes, there’s the swipe of a biometric code. Sometimes, a creaking pole across a dusty road, miles from anywhere. Here is my random list of ten unusual borders, […]

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New narrative in the Indo-Pacific

7th January 2020 1 Comment

Europe’s navies are returning to Asia in a move that could either inflame or help keep tensions under control. Britain and France have deployed warships to the contested South China Sea and announced that more are on their way. For the West it is a natural culmination of Donald Trump’s trade war, the European Union […]

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Striking a balance

As Donald Trump was heading out of the White House, China’s Xinhua news agency did not mince its … [Read More...]

Asia could give UK the post-Brexit win it needs

The United Kingdom's full separation from the European Union, due to begin on Jan. 1, is bound to be … [Read More...]

Europe’s Cultural Curtain

David Foster hosted Humphrey on a TRT Roundtable discussion together with Marcin Zaborowski … [Read More...]

United States of Asia

Dust had barely settled on the American presidential election when 16Asian leaders signed a trade … [Read More...]

The Quad – Is this the alliance to check Chinese expansion?

David Foster hosted Humphrey on a TRT Roundtable discussion together with Jagannath Panda (Manohar … [Read More...]

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