How to Lose Friends and Alienate Your Allies
On March 8, US President Donald Trump defied sage economic advice and followed his political gut by signing tariffs on imported steel (25%) and aluminum […]
China
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 […]
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 […]
Going Against the Grain: Japan’s Choice of Self-Restraint
In much of the world, the political current has changed course from globalization towards nationalism. While military spending and sharp upticks in nationalism are not […]
Choosing Sides: The Former TPP
The largest trade deal in history died before it could live. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) took years to negotiate and the finished product was going […]
Making Waves: Vietnam’s rising power in ASEAN
All eyes are on Vietnam. A country that exactly two decades ago had 51% of its population living under the World Bank’s poverty line, now […]
Bracing for the Storm: Can China’s urban areas adapt to climate change?
Over the past 30 years, China has undergone an immense economic and social transformation. For centuries, China was predominately an agrarian society where the vast […]
Silence the Alarm: Why China’s AIIB is not a Trojan horse
The Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB) has been a lightening rod for western analysts, think-tanks and media that believe China represents a threat to […]
Deep Sea Mining: Diamond in the rough, or Pandora’s box?
Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, Tenzing Norgay, Edmund Hillary. All are names of explorers famous for reaching places considered unreachable. Peary reached the North Pole in […]
Global Leaders Warming Up To The Climate
In Paris on the 13th of December last year, after hours of waiting, good news arrived at the ministers’ debate chamber. Soon after, the […]