China is seeking to co-opt its citizens, what with unemployment, low growth, thin fiscal stimulus and uncertain global conditions, under…
With WHO on shaky empirical and moral ground in its handling of Covid-19 information, Taiwan has taken off as the…
While South Korea has achieved exemplary success, it may have come at the cost of infringement of privacy—phone trails and…
Despite the beguiling tagline of Malaysia as ‘Simply Asia’, Malaysia’s political landscape sidelines Malaysian Indians and Malaysian Chinese. Malaysian politics…
Singapore, until now, has been successfully addressing the COVID-19 outbreak. It placed ‘citizens first’ ahead of political stability and economic…
Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, was long known for its car factories and the Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation…
China’s crisis illustrates that ‘top down’ is not a one-way street of fairy break-neck development but comes at a huge…
Irrespective of India’s Look East, US sanctions or UK sanctions in Myanmar, China has been out there in Myanmar, parked…
China’s manufactures will benefit, as will consumers reeling from high prices of pork, milk powder and supplements.
Taiwan’s electorate have spoken—not just on Hong Kong but also on China, and going forward, their own future.
It is not too late for China to reflect and understand the sanctity of the electoral process. Hongkongers have through…
The Sino-US trade war, Xinjiang leak, Hong Kong turmoil, Hong Kong election results, and on top of that both Houses…
TikTok has been downloaded 1.5 billion times globally on the App Store and Google Play, including 122 million times in…
Mahathir has used the electoral mandate and the pro-Mahathir wave to keel predecessor Najib’s pro-China policy into a more centrist…
Hong Kong protests run deep and go beyond just democratisation—a manifestation of the latent social and economic undercurrents
President Xi Jinping and Prime minister Narendra Modi have much in common—pragmatism, nationalism and marked shifts in foreign policy, but…
…With USS Ronald Reagan in the South China Sea, and Japan’s Defense White Paper 2019 calling out China as the…
The trade war, while economic in intent, has strong political undertones, and while the stakes are high for America, they…
