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

Europe must resist the lure of Chinese money

12th June 2018 1 Comment

Energias de Portugal

The attempt by China’s Three Gorges to take control of Portugal’s energy group, Energias de Portugal, highlights Beijing’s accelerating campaign to invest in Europe — and a growing push from the European Union to hold back the financial onslaught. The state-owned conglomerate, which is already the largest EDP shareholder with a 23% stake, had its […]

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India’s role in reshaping the Commonwealth

5th June 2018 Leave a Comment

PM Modi with the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

After months of planning that required the most choreographed of diplomatic skills, Britain hosted a lavish visit in April for the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, followed by a summit for the 53-member Commonwealth, a large international grouping that comprises a bygone colonial power and those it had once colonised. At first glance, not much […]

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Is the Commonwealth still relevant?

27th April 2018 Leave a Comment

The Commonwealth comprises 53 nations and makes up a third of the world’s population. But what does it do and is it relevant? David Foster hosted Humphrey on a TRT Roundtable discussion together with Rita Payne of the Commonwealth Journalist Association, David Martin Jones of the School of Political Science and International Studies at Kings […]

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Russia and China Test Arctic Boundaries

8th March 2018

OSLO: In 2016, two seemingly unrelated incidents unfolded in remote and vulnerable parts of Europe. One view might suggest the events, efficiently swept away with quiet diplomacy, counted for little. Another considers the incidents as demonstrating Russia’s and China’s determination to test the outer boundaries of European and American resolve. There may be nothing new […]

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The Jaipur Literary Festival

6th March 2018

Full Circle bookshop

During avisit to the world renowned book event, Humphrey Hawksley finds a refreshing antidote to growing global concerns about threats to freedom of speech and thought For five days every January, hundreds of thousands converge on the elegant old Diggi Palace in Jaipur for the world’s biggest literary festival. A half-hour flight from Delhi, Jaipur […]

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The ‘Polar Silk Road’

16th February 2018

Xue Long

With a lot of fanfare, China has expanded its flagship Belt and Road Initiative to a vast swath of new territory far removed from the Middle Kingdom — the Arctic. A detailed white paper last month outlined plans for a “Polar Silk Road” that would link Asia to Europe across the frozen far north. As has […]

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Brexit Britain’s troubled quest to ‘Asianize’ the Commonwealth

6th December 2017 Leave a Comment

British Prime Minister Theresa May, right, and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi

As the U.K. reaches a critical phase in its negotiations to leave the European Union, Theresa May’s government is engaged in a desperate hunt for alternative partners. London has seized on the Commonwealth of Nations, formed out of the British Empire, as one way of strengthening its political and economic alliances outside the EU. On […]

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Democracy in Kurdistan and Catalonia

2nd November 2017

In the early 1990s, as remnants of the Berlin Wall were transformed into a tourist attraction, there was a near-unchallenged presumption that governance, through the democratic will of the people, would underpin our future. Germany, once divided by two opposing ideologies, united under the democratic banner and countries that had mostly lived under Soviet control […]

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Islamist radicalisation

20th October 2017

Humphrey Hawksley asks why Islamist radicalisation has impacted some countries more than others. When President George W Bush ordered troops into Afghanistan after the September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, the word ‘radicalisation’ was rarely, if ever, mentioned. Bush argued simply that terror was evil and needed to be stopped at source to […]

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Fast, Furious or Fake News

19th September 2017 Leave a Comment

LONDON: Disasters dominate the news agenda, with recent dystopian images of hurricanes raging in the Atlantic, earthquake-fractured streets in Mexico, apocalyptic flooding in South Asia and burning villages of Rohingya Muslims in scenes reminiscent of Cambodia’s killing fields. Advancing technology has changed how disasters are reported, but what attracts attention and how we react remain […]

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