Building Forward with Digital Agriculture

CAMBRIDGE/ROME – The COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping societies around the world, in part by accelerating the digital revolution that was already...

Egypt deserves better 

In August 2016 The Economist magazine published a leader article titled “The ruining of Egypt;” it spoke of a dangerous mix of repression and...

If you use social media to threaten to 'stab' someone, it’s not down to Facebook, Twitter or TikTok to save you from yourself

Facebook, Google, Twitter, TikTok and all those other tech behemoths hosting social-media platforms are facing an existential crisis, the outcome...

Annexation Apologists’ Most Misleading Claims – and How to Debunk Them

From Netanyahu to Kushner, apologists for Israel’s annexation of the West Bank are pushing word games, distraction and delay to make the morally...

UK denying Maduro access to Venezuelan gold is not only THEFT, it’s MURDER of London’s reputation as trusted financial center

It used to be “a thing” when I was growing up. “As safe as the Bank of England” was the acme of trustworthiness and security. But as Venezuela...

Why most Asian countries have not spoken out against Hong Kong’s national security law

Reaction from most Asian countries towards Hong Kong’s new national security law has been largely lukewarm if not downright muted, with the...

Internet holds the key to the post-coronavirus era

API Geo-economic Briefing is a series provided by the Asia Pacific Initiative, an independent think tank based in Tokyo. The series will look into...

The Global South as a Political Project

The Global South is a political project which faces several challenges and is permanently disputed by progressive and regressive forces in the...

Refrain from excessive demands

When economy contracts, workers should tighten belts, too Negotiations on next year's minimum wage have already missed the legal deadline, and the...

With Hollow Annexation Talk, Netanyahu Is Trading in the Land of Israel

Israel Needs a Professional, Honest Police Force, but That's Very Unlikely Under Netanyahu

Putinov hlasovací stroj

Tento slogan sa pravdepodobne vryl do pamäti každému, kto za minulého režimu pravidelne pochodoval v prvomájovom sprievode. No tým, ktorí...

Not your dad's North Koreans

By Jason Lim North Koreans of the "arduous march" generation ― those who starved to death in mid-1990s in quiet desperation while waiting in...

Great Battle of Korea Strait

By Kwon Yule-jung There were two very sad stories involving Korea in the last century: one was of the country's colonzation; and the other, the...

National security law cannot erase Hong Kong's political awakening

Demosisto may have disbanded and Nathan Law fled but struggle will continue for generations

Russia did it Again – Chasing the Bounty Hunters

Russia did it again. This time it’s paying to kill Americans. How criminal! Such things only Americans would do – Washington, the Pentagon,...

60th Anniversary of Japan-US Security Pact

This year celebrates an important anniversary for Japan–United States relations, giving us an opportunity to focus on their transformation with...

Don't look away now

The major coronavirus outbreak at a Tönnies meat processing plant has opened many people's eyes to abysmal working conditions at the site. The time...

The State of China’s Soft Power in 2020

China’s culture still has limited appeal, but as long as it is supported by economic assets and growth, its soft power is bound to attract.

The face of the fish

Do fish have faces? In one sense, the question is trivial. A 10-year-old would likely answer yes: after all, a fish has eyes, a mouth and what can...

Israel’s Experience Shows It Takes Just One Impressionable Person to Commit Murder

Pandemics, fear and discrimination: Are Japanese cities ready for life with COVID-19?

“Fear might be more harmful than the virus.” — Japanese Red Cross, April 21 There is nothing new about the tendency to look for scapegoats...

The United States Blues

A Biden Victory Could Reset Transatlantic Relations

NEW YORK – In his opening address to the European Council on Foreign Relations’ (ECFR) annual meeting, German Foreign Affairs Minister Heiko...

Exposing Jordan Peterson’s Barrage of Revisionist Falsehoods About Hitler, the Holocaust and Nazism

Jordan Peterson, YouTube psychology guru and right-wing cult figure, talks a lot about Hitler, WWII and Nazism – in lectures riddled with...

Instead of begging for government handouts, how about millionaire musicians bail out the industry themselves?

The coronavirus pandemic has lured many millionaires and billionaires out of their hidey-holes looking to build on their fortunes, and the latest...

Is there actually ANYTHING conservative about Boris Johnson’s Tories? From culture to the economy, they’re drifting ever leftwards

The Conservative Party appears to be increasingly in need of a name change. Devotees of the Guardian, New Statesman and lefty Twitter would have...

The Developing World Has an Alternative to Debt

US used media agency to covertly aid Hong Kong protesters, but tell us how ‘foreign meddling’ is a threat to ‘our democracy’

“US has been exposed for funding last year’s Hong Kong protests,” declared columnist Alex Lo in the South China Morning Post on Thursday. Lo...

All Eyes on Germany

Now ‘anti-racist protesters’ are desecrating statues of elk and mermaids, can we please just call them vandals?

The latest statues to fall victim to the marauding hordes in America and Europe include an elk and the Little Mermaid. A 120-year-old sculpture of...

Stop selling skin-whitening products, do not just change their names

Unilever, Johnson & Johnson and others have responsibility to fight colorism in Asia

Climate journalists’ treatment of Mike Shellenberger proves they’ve ditched reporting and become the climate-blasphemy police

It’s a well-worn trope these days that environmentalism has come to fill the God-shaped hole left in many a Western heart. They have their child...