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

Democracy fights back

9th June 2022 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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If you want giant glaciers, wondrous wildlife and the adventure of a lifetime, Alaska is waiting for you

12th April 2022 Leave a Comment

Riding in a high-speed catamaran along an Alaskan fjord, the captain asked: ‘See that glacier ahead? How far away do you think it is?’ A dozen of us on a boat tour were travelling under a cloudless blue dome of a massive sky with ice floes knocking the hull and waterfalls tumbling down hillsides on […]

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Asian countries must restrain hawkish AUKUS parties

24th September 2021 Leave a Comment

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. […]

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Alaska’s growing global trade hub highlights booming US-Asian trade

14th September 2021 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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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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The Cat Warrior’s Feline Diplomacy

3rd May 2021 Leave a Comment

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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Clarity, communication… and caution

8th April 2021 Leave a Comment

As dust settled from last month’s discordant US-China summit in Alaska, the People’s Daily published two photographs side by side. One showed the 1901 Boxer Protocol meeting in which Western powers forced their way onto Chinese soil after quelling an anti-foreign uprising. China regards those sanctions imposed on the corrupt Qing dynasty as the beginning […]

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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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Striking a balance

3rd February 2021 Leave a Comment

As Donald Trump was heading out of the White House, China’s Xinhua news agency did not mince its words: ‘Good riddance to the current US administration and its final madness,’ it declared. President Xi Jinping has called for a ‘healthy and stable’ relationship with the Biden administration, one that upholds principles of ‘no conflict’ and […]

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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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The Iran war. How could it end?

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