Trade or No Trade: China’s DPRK Dilemma
Nuclear weapons expert and founder of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), David Albright, recently published a damaging report about Shenyang Machine Tools […]
Month: June 2017
A Building Emergency: How Climate Change is threatening our Fragile Food System
Will the avocado be a sign of the past? This question is gaining increasing relevance as scientists begin debating the effect of climate change on […]
Coal Ash: A Worrying Trend for the Future
Over the past century, coal has been critical to industrialization, supplying the energy needed to power factories and contribute to economic growth. The cheap cost […]
“No Foreigners Allowed”: Discrimination Against Foreigners in South Korea
In 2016, it was reported that a 24-year-old US citizen living in South Korea, Megan Stuckey, was denied entry to a bar simply because she […]
Brain Drain in Putin’s Russia
In 2010, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”, a material […]
Saigon — The Broken Pearl that Mends
Located in the south of Vietnam, Saigon today has the atmosphere of a typical tropical city. One is likely to be first impressed, rather than […]
How Socialist Remnants Are Hurting Vietnam’s Legacy
During the mid-1980s, Vietnam was plunged into a profound socio-economic crisis. Against this backdrop, the shift away from a centrally planned economic model initiated in […]
Good Leader, Bad Leader: What Should We Learn From Today’s Monarchies?
A republic has been long considered the most suitable form of government for modern societies. In a republic, typically a representative democracy, the country is […]
Trickling Down? Reassessing Today’s Global Economy
They say it will trickle down. While globalization is an undeniable reality today, it is hard to pinpoint when it began. History is replete with […]
The Enemy of our Enemy is our Future Enemy
When peaceful protests against the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, began in 2011, they were met with violent oppression, which eventually led to the current civil […]