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

Asian Values

28th September 2018 Leave a Comment

A quarter of a century ago, an 18-year-old American student living in Singapore was sentenced to six strokes of the cane for writing graffiti on cars and stealing road signs. The United States protested the sentence’s severity, arguing Michael Fay’s punishment was too harsh for a teenage prank with no violent crime committed. Fay’s case […]

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Pushback against China is on

27th September 2018 Leave a Comment

Humphrey Hawksley tells Beverley O’Connor some smaller countries are starting to push back against China when it comes to its South China Sea ambitions. […]

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A US-led Indo-Pacific alliance against China is an outdated idea

5th September 2018 Leave a Comment

The scheduled visit by the U.S. secretaries of defense and state to India on Sept. 6 highlights Washington’s latest attempt to create a strategic Asian alliance strong enough to counter the growing influence of China. But is the unformulated plan for a “free and open Indo-Pacific” — promoted by officials from President Donald Trump down […]

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Harrowing and beautiful Northeast India

11th July 2018 Leave a Comment

Sanjoy Hazarika is a frustrated and restless native of the tea-growing state of Assam, and a highly respected human rights activist who wrestled for years over how he should write a book about his homeland. The result is a captivating analysis of a critically important area, not only of India, but also of Asia and […]

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The West’s failure to reform threatens world order

28th June 2018 Leave a Comment

Two years ago, China and Russia issued a joint declaration with the aim of throwing out an open challenge to the current US-led world order. Coming after Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and a court ruling against Beijing’s claim to the South China Sea, the two governments announced bluntly in June 2016 that they would enhance […]

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Europe must resist the lure of Chinese money

12th June 2018 1 Comment

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

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

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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