HEALTH
When Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, told the local South China Morning Post newspaper in 2018 that her busy schedule meant she slept only…
ANALYSIS
- by Christopher H Lim and Vincent Mack, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
INFRASTRUCTURE
As Japan readies to host the leaders of G20 nations on June 28-29 in Osaka, it has signaled its resolve to tackle an aspect of…
ANALYSIS
- by Motoko Aizawa, Observatory for Sustainable Infrastructure
REGIONALIZATION
Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan was speaking for the rest of Asia when he told a Washington, DC, audience last month that the protracted US-China…
ANALYSIS
- by Vasuki Shastry, Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs)
ECONOMY
It is no exaggeration to say that the escalation of the trade war has put the likelihood of a new global recession triggered by the…
ANALYSIS
- by George Magnus, China Centre, Oxford University, and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
GEOPOLITICS
When Narendra Modi was sworn in as prime minister of India in May 2014, among the guests at the ceremony was Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s prime…
ANALYSIS
- by Salil Tripathi, journalist and author, "The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy"
DIPLOMACY
Founded on the principle of the rule of law, the United States is largely governed by lawyers, though not as much as decades ago. The…
ANALYSIS
- by Zhiwu Chen, Asia Global Institute
TRADE
The US and China are in the middle of a tit-for-tat escalation of their year-long trade war. The first eight rounds of negotiations pushed the…
ANALYSIS
- by Zhiwu Chen, Asia Global Institute
ECONOMY
The election victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was extraordinary and unexpected. Opinion polling and recent state election…
ANALYSIS
- by Alan Rosling, ECube Investment Advisors; author, "Boom Country?: The New Wave of Indian Enterprise"
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