How the West can engage with China without overreacting

Since the cold war ended, the West has invested huge amounts of resources in efforts to induce political liberalisation in China, including through...

For the US, Huawei is the heart of darkness

Huawei has over the past two weeks stirred a hornet’s nest of controversy that has stripped the veil away from Donald Trump’s tariffs and revealed...

Prospects for US-China Relations in 2019

NEW YORK – Throughout 2018, much of Asia has been shaken by the new and increasingly unpredictable dynamics in Sino-American relations. One year...

Fascists? Communists? No one speaks for the yellow vests

Commentary. This is a popular protest that does not fly the flag of any party, because they are not willing to be ‘represented’ by any of them....

Egypt journalist detained in public loo, ‘beaten’ by police at Edinburgh Airport

At 4pm on Thursday 14 December Egyptian journalist AbdulRahman Ezz was prevented from boarding his flight to France from Edinburgh Airport where he...

The real reason Western media & CIA turned against Saudi MBS

Following the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, western media and various entities, including the CIA, appear to have...

Hacking the STEM Syllabus

SAN FRANCISCO – After a prolonged honeymoon for the digital economy, the dark side of the Internet, social media, and “Big Tech” has become...

Why Wong Kam-po is still more cherished than Sarah Lee

Cyclist Wong Kam-po never won an Olympic medal. Sarah Lee Wai-sze has, but the retired Wong is still rated better than his fellow rider in the eyes...

How Britain stole $45 trillion from India

There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India - as horrible as it may have been - was not of any major economic...

European investors’ confidence in Burma has tumbled, survey shows

THE number of European businesses losing confidence in Burma (Myanmar) has increased, a recent survey revealed, amid their concerns over how the...

From Haifa to Jerusalem

The most important political struggle in Israel over the past decade centers on the Jewish majority’s relations with the Arab community. With the...

Dissecting China’s volte-face on tiger, rhino protection

On Oct 28, 2018, China reversed a decades-old ban on the use of rhino horn and tiger parts for some medical and cultural purposes. Just under two...

How Asia’s leading low-cost carrier went from zero to digital hero

Malaysia's low-cost airline AirAsia was born with a desire to be digital-first — even though it wasn't a digital native to begin with. Bought for...

Making Climate Change Matter

PARIS – This has been a year of disruption and change, complete with escalating extreme weather events, the election of a climate-change denier...

How Putin and the Far Right Played the Paris Yellow Vests Protests

Russia didn’t trigger the Gilets Jaunes. But Putin and the far right want to see Paris burn and Europe weakened and divided, so they jumped at...

Anxieties about ‘new Malaysia’ go deeper than race

On December 8, in Malaysia’s biggest rally this year, 80,000 people gathered in Kuala Lumpur to protest against what many alleged were grave...

The surprisingly interesting psychology behind Japan’s train system

THE subtle working of Japan’s rail system may not be a topic that immediately whips you up into a flurry of excitement. But consider the billions...

Australia: Pell censorship shows there’s more than one way to gag the press

ONE of the biggest news stories in the world yesterday wasn’t reported to the very people who most needed to hear it. Australian Cardinal George...

The Great American Tax Heist Turns One

BERKELEY – It has now been one year since US President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans rammed their massive corporate tax cut through...

There's a Reason Why Washington would Draw Sunni States into a Military Gamble

In early November, Egypt hosted the largest international war games that the region has seen to date, codenamed Arab Shield 1. This military...

Yair Lapid, Israel’s Serial Protest Thief

Treat China like the bully it is

NEW DELHI – In clear reprisal for Canada’s U.S.-sought arrest of the Huawei founder’s daughter, China has detained two Canadians on charges...

Why Japan needs criminal justice reform

NEW YORK – Japan’s prosecutors recently threw the chairman of Nissan Motor Co., one of the country’s largest auto manufacturers, into a jail...

Turkey is indispensable to peace and stability in the region, prominent experts conclude

Turkey’s location in a strategic part of the world is a “blessing and a curse,” Professor Gülnur Aybet said this week at a major panel...

China and the US, 40 years on: it’s complicated, but they’re still talking

Forty years ago, on December 15, 1978, the world was stunned as American president Jimmy Carter and Chinese Communist Party chairman Hua Guofeng...

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Kelly a complete failure as chief of staff

Changing the chief of staff can sometimes make all the difference. Bill Clinton’s honeymoon, previously the worst in the modern era, gave way to...

Layla Shweikani and the Syrian women the world ignores

A Syrian family gathered in a mosque in the Illinois suburb of Willowbrook two weeks ago today. Supported by their friends and community members...

Terrorism and the crimes of the West

Commentary. Everywhere has become a battlefield. The terrorist attacks, such as this latest one in Strasbourg, can distract us from this pervasive...

¿Sirve la polarización para gobernar un país?

Siempre han existido, hasta en los regímenes más totalitarios de la historia, divisiones políticas. Sin embargo, el signo de nuestros días es...