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In early December, 2024, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) hosted a lucid dialogue entitled: “China in 2050 – Two Perspectives” . The...
After meeting Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris recently, US president-elect Donald Trump called for an immediate ceasefire in the...
Most of the world believes, today, that the Western use of the term, terrorism, is wilfully warped to advance a destructive political agenda. This...
The wide-ranging political views of the exceptional, international public intellectual, Noam Chomsky, have recently been searchingly assessed in...
In 1947, former British prime minister Winston Churchill famously observed that: “Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in...
Around 18 months ago, The Economist applied uncommon energy to advance the narrative that the US economy was in outstandingly good shape. Very...
The outcome in the recent US presidential election may yet push Taiwan in directions at variance with those advocated in a new article published in...
A very long line has been drawn between two dots: Israel and China, across what looks like a credibility chasm, by the vocal Australian Coalition...
One crucial policy initiative outlined by Hong Kong’s chief executive, John Lee Ka-chiu, in his latest annual Policy Address is the project to...
Michael Hirsh, a prominent columnist for Foreign Policy has just published an instructive review in that journal (partial paywall) of Bob...
The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) has just published “The Most Moral Army”- an excoriating review of Israel’s continuous reliance on deceitful...
America was once a marketplace leader in so many areas. Now the US faces a range of pivotal global markets focused on a greener future, dominated...
The bombing of the Basque town of Guernica, in Spain, in 1937 “heralded a terrible new age of warfare” that, almost 90 years later, remains...
History confirms how the present, destructive militaristic culture of the US-led Atlantic alliance stands on the shoulders of well over a thousand...
A recent article in the US journal Foreign Affairs, written by Daniel Mattingly of Yale University argues persuasively that: “China’s Soft Sell of...
Look at how favourably situated Australia is in the world. As the foundations were put in place for the Asian Century, most profoundly by China,...
In a recent significant article in the US journal, Foreign Policy, David E Rosenberg, the economics editor of Haaretz, clarifies how a minority of...
A recent, comprehensive social-media interview has provided an acute reminder of how hard it now is to imagine certain flagship, Western current...
Some US commentators are advocating a recalibration of America’s full-spectrum global posture, while others, including Condoleezza Rice,...
Stephen M Walt, Professor of International Relations at Harvard University, recently published an article in the leading US journal, Foreign...
Is China mired in economic misery while bogged down by old habits- or very successfully developing its exceptional manufacturing prowess as it...
An interesting new article in the prominent American journal, “Foreign Affairs”, by three academics from Georgetown University, argues that “...
A fundamental reality, which this stimulating book stresses, is how significant British interaction with China pre-dates the British takeover of...
The now-notorious AUKUS agreement was secretly conceived between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States prior to being publicly...